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[ironteen]

Seriously? After all that, you're just going to give up and leave me stranded in your head with nothing to do?

Thanks a lot. Really. You barely even tried. What am I supposed to do now?

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[no_stopping]

Mun not putting you anywhere fun?

[ironteen]

Mun not putting me anywhere period. She's managed to convince herself that since more people prefer the attractive, older, "live action" version of me from a different universe, no one will want to play with me.

[no_stopping]

Aw, that's not true. I'm sure. Just "assert your individuality" or some shit like that. Find a Dressing Room or something.

[ironteen]

I think a Dressing Room might be my only chance at this point.

[no_stopping]

Huh. My mun's helping start up a completely brand-new one, if that's any help? As an option.

[ironteen]

It's definitely something my mun will be keeping in mind.

[no_stopping]

Cool. I hope it'll be fun once things get going. I hear they have beaches.

[ironteen]

Beaches are always a good thing.

[no_stopping]

Except when the sand gets...

[Whispered dramatically with fake seriousness:] Everywhere.

[sandwormie]

Aw, really?

[ironteen]

For now, anyway. She's still got that place tucked away on her computer, she's just apparently prone to bouts of extreme nervousness. Lucky me, huh?

[sandwormie]

Um... I guess I have advice. Or a story? Whatever. No idea if it'd apply at all, but - don't get all huffy because I'm younger, all right? You would not believe how annoying that is.

[ironteen]

Nah, go for it. No huffiness, I swear.

[sandwormie]

Great!

...It's just, when she started out with me, my mun was afraid no one would tag me. She had me talk to my future-nephew - which is a weird thing, by the way - on dear_mun and said in the bracket-text she was applying, and didn't get any bracket-text back, and there was the plurk thing.

So when we did get in, she pretty much just had me reply to everything. I mean, it makes sense, I'm curious, I want to meet people and see new things. But still, heavy duty getting in there. And it's not polite, just not responding to comments; even if they've decided they don't like you, they're going to have to acknowledge it.

And it worked out pretty well. Get out enough, show your you-ness enough, and people will go with it! Different versions make things more interesting!

[ironteen]

It's a pretty good story. Inspiring. Maybe it'll even be enough to get her to actually try again sometime soon, thanks.

[sandwormie]

Worth a thought, right? Sometimes you have to risk people thinking you're a gimmick and not worth responding to get them to see you're not.

[ironteen]

That's pretty well put. I think I'll be trying not to underestimate younger people from now on.

[poorgirlsarcee]

I dunno, kinda think the younger version's more creative and would be more fun to try to out tech.

The older one gets... cranky and doesn't seem to remember what fun is like. [Don't mind Mira she's just cranky because her mun let her almost be vamp chow, let her get her hard suit busted up and she doesn't want to do anything but tinker today]

[ironteen]

As long as whoever's trying to out-tech me isn't doing it for the wrong reasons.

Someone who's a version of me doesn't remember what fun is like?

[To be fair, his own idea of fun can be pretty questionable at times.]

[poorgirlsarcee]

Naw, I'm more into just seeing if I can out tech you, besides going bad ain't fun.

[We're talking about someone who takes a complicated transforming bike apart just to time herself on putting it back together. She'd rather play with gears than anything else really.] I'm Mira.

[ironteen]

Tony, but I'm guessing you already knew that part if you're talking about a tech rivalry.

[The only person he's ever had a decent rivalry with has been his father, so it would certainly be an interesting change.]

[poorgirlsarcee]

I know who you are. My dorm mates idolized the older you back in college. I personally thought that you needed a little more of a challenge.

[ironteen]

You were probably right.

[poorgirlsarcee]

Glad you think so.

Though I might be cheating a little... I have some alien tech.

[ironteen]

I'd say that's slightly cheating.