An OC on having a journal at all, mind chatting with her re: stupid usernames?

[hurt_comforting]

Very clever username, mundane. Very passive-aggressive of you. You couldn't possibly have one related to my actual duties in the Resistance?

And no jokes about how that is, in fact, the sum total of what I do there, that's a blatant li- well, an unfair exaggeration of what an Anchor does, let alone the only person in a base of thirteen very hungry teenage soldiers who thinks to keep records of how much food we have.

...I've just set myself up for a fat joke, haven't I? Refrain. Please. God, I'm a neurotic mess sometimes, making my own self-deprecating comments for you. This is what you mean when you describe "Anchor-think," isn't it?

Do as you wish, mundane, but at least try to pay attention to your classes instead of gallivanting off to god-knows-where you do muse-boxing with me. College is an opportunity that the Nightmare War forever denied me, and I'll not have you squander it on my account. Try not to get too distracted with me until you finish up more important things? Your classes, and the fangame that would give me an actual canon comes to mind.

"Muncest is not my kink." Hilarious. Face it, though, it's the only way I'll have an Anna or Joshua to talk with until you get the game out instead of, say, having me vent to Dear Mun. Have I gotten a bit too meta for you yet? Good. Shoo. I'm busy and so are you.

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[questionablewit]

I think I've heard of you. Meredith, is it?

Will tag back as long as my connection cooperates.

[hurt_comforting]

[This could be an older teenager speaking to her. It's far more likely she's an adult. Pardon her wariness; you know how seldom she sees adults.]

...that is my name, yes. And you are?

[questionablewit]

[It does sound like an adult, yes. It's okay, she knows enough to not take wariness personally, though she hasn't heard details of why there aren't any adults]

My name is Hawke. I'm a comrade of Anna Lin's.

[kamenriderdecade]

At the very least, it's a clever username.

My mun simply chose the name of my canon. Originality at its best.

[All the sarcasm.]

[birdhousesoul]

Anchor-think? I'm supposed to be learning more about that. Could do worse than to ask you.

[hurt_comforting]

['Comrade' is an interesting choice of words, and probably the best one for getting Meredith to open up. Incedentally, she closes her eyes to see a bird of prey, dual-wielding daggers. It's how she remembers names.]

That would place you in Anna's 'greater resistance,' then, Hawke?

[hurt_comforting]

My username is the sort of libel that stings all the more because it's accurate.

The sheer number of muses, with accounts or not, my mundane has from mine prevents simply naming me 'Bliss Stage.' Joshua's comes the closest to that: 'Mech Made of Love.'

[hurt_comforting]

I think you're talking about the actual nuts and bolts of an Anchor's duties, not the host of prerequisite psychological disorders needed to comtemplate being an Anchor. Interesting distinction, I know.

[Why so self-deprecating? Quod erat demonstrandum?]

[birdhousesoul]

All of the above, perhaps. I'm not too clear on psychology — haven't quite plowed through the assigned reading yet — but I understand it's key to this whole business.

[hurt_comforting]

[Have some bitter laughter, slowly ranging into genuine mirth and a sympathetic look.]

Most of us don't. May I have your name, and the reason for your keen interest in what it means to be an Anchor? I assume that you're from Anna's 'greater resistance,' whatever that is besides a way to keep us safe.

[questionablewit]

That's the run of it, yes. She's been teaching me to use various fighting machines.