Wow.

[forgoodorforawesome]

So you go out to Red Lobster, by yourself, and you imagine me and the morphodite and one or two of the others in here sittin' at the table with you? And me poppin' the cap off the dudebro in the booth across the way?

What is it your girlfriend from Canada used to say? "Sad Muppet"?

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apologises profusely

[wingcadet]

I don't understand nearly any of the things you just said. Why would your mundane want to visit a sea-dwelling crustacean? Is it blessed in some way? Give it my regards.

You have nothing to apologize for, I assure you.

[forgoodorforawesome]

...okay, what's-his-butt tells me you are literally not of this Earth, so let me break it down for you like this: it's not a real lobster. It's a chain restaurant named for a lobster, and with a sculpted lobster on their sign. I wouldn't call it blessed exactly, but the guy's family has gotten into the habit of seafood Fridays, so he went there to get seafood. They do a mean lobster, obvs, but he's never been a fan, so he got salmon.

Now I, on the other hand...

[futamura_neo]

[A Japanese teenager elbows Strong Bad aside.] And he suddenly got a mental image of me sitting across the table from him, wanting to talk about the Center for Unusual Development turning down my application. It turned out each of us was more worried about how the other would take the rejection, and neither of us was particularly broken up in our own right.

omg

[wingcadet]

My mundane has begun spending long car rides thinking about how my brother would most irritate her family if he were confined to the back seat along with her. Does that count as a similar situation?

[He blinks.]

It's strange, how these mundanes can spend such a long time writing and worrying over applications and then if a rejection happens it is far easier to brush off than one would think. It seems mine has a lot in common with yours. There seems to be very little to worry about.

What's so OMG? Have "we" met? Is it CFUD?

[futamura_neo]

[...Or are you the fabled and prophesied "other person who'd heard of this canon before [you] encountered Néo"?]

Probably, yeah. More so depending on who your brother is, but I think you've got the idea.

Once upon a time, he would've taken it as a personal kick in the teeth, testicles, or some other body part that starts with a T in English. When he saw the rejection in his Gmail box, I felt his heart sinking and I got worried. Turned out he'd already recovered by the time we got to "talking" about it, though.

For his part, he was worried because he knows I want to play somewhere that isn't a Nexus, but I've gotten used to being an acquired taste.

hh noo i was just reacting to sudden japanese teenager :')

[wingcadet]

His name is Gabriel. My mundane seems to think his antics are amusing. Mentally applying them to her real life, doubly so.

Perhaps it is a testament to the human spirit that things like this can be gotten over so quickly.

I... don't know what a Nexus is, but you're probably lucky your mundane listens to your wishes. Many do not. [Like his. *Laughtrack.*]

So this is your first time being threadjacked, then? ^_^

[futamura_neo]

Any antics that can be described using the word "antics" are probably amusing to watch, as long as they're not happening to you.

Maybe. If nothing else, it's a testament to how well he's learned that this sort of thing doesn't reflect on him, or even on me — only on people's reactions to me.

This place is a Nexus. So's multiverse_nexus and the communities over at Livejournal that it inherited that title from. Those are the main places he sends me, or they were before the CFUD app.

hahah no but it was a surprise! uvu

[wingcadet]

They happen to me regularly. But yes, from an outside perspective I suppose you would call them amusing.

I see. I think I understand now. My apologies; I'm newer than the others in my headspace. And yet my mundane has already decided to send me somewhere. I don't care much for her rash decisionmaking.

Not the only surprise you're going to get O:>

[futamura_neo]

They do? You have my sympathies.

Welcome to being roleplayed. [Here's your accordion.] I'm Néo. [Bows Japanese-style, from the waist, hands at sides.] Who else is in there with you, if you don't mind me asking?

:o

[wingcadet]

Thank you. [what is sarcasm? he returns the bow after a moment, though] My name is Castiel.

...My mundane keeps a list. I'm unfamiliar with most of them, but I mentioned my brother Gabriel and the man named Mr. Novak is my vessel. I will not speak of Ed Zeddmore. He is what some might call a "tool". As for the others, I have not made it my business to bother them.

Is your shared space also this crowded?

Néo's sympathies were actually quite sincere. (1/2)

[futamura_neo]

...wow that's a lot of people. Heibon-san* has at least heard of all those series, but the only ones he really knows are Old Man Lorax's Secret Seed, My Little Pony and Bedknob and Broom**.

* Lit. "Mr. Ordinary"
** Semi-literal translations of the Japanese titles.

(2/2)

[futamura_neo]

No, it's not that crowded in here, but it's pretty busy. Besides me, there's Strong-san and his The Cheat, the Deliverator, a time-traveler, a mutant-supremacist, two shinigami (or a shinigami and a shibito, or a shiki and a shinigami), a dead teleporter, and a videogame bad guy. And some miscellaneous voices that don't have their own journals, but they kind of come and go. The only one that's really loud most of the time is from the same series as Kuchiki-san — a Captain Mayuri Kurotsuchi, if that means anything to you or to her.

We don't interact much, except sometimes the others bump into each other at milliways_bar. I tried out for it a while back, at their sandbox communities, but the results were... awkward.

[wingcadet]

[He nods, as if he understands any of it.] I believe my mundane recognises a few of the names on that list, if her amicable nodding is anything to go by.

I worry more about meeting others who know me in games than about those who are from other universes. Awkwardness I can afford to deal with. [Probably because it radiates off him constantly but hey.]

[futamura_neo]

I'm glad to hear it, and so's he. I expect Donighal-san, Mercer-san and Jennifer-san are among the ones she doesn't? They're from a TRPG* setting hardly anyone's heard of.

In this case, the awkwardness is my fault. Well, it's really his fault, but I agreed to it, even though I didn't really want to. You see...

[Néo drops her clothes to reveal "her" full glory.]

...I'm a hermaphrodite, and one of the other Milliways mundanes wanted to have his character study my sex organs. In explicit detail. After that, almost nobody else who played at Milliways wanted to play with me, and at least one player said they'd take all their characters and go home if I ever showed up. So that was that.

...I guess "awkward" isn't a strong enough word for that, ne? *^^*

* Tabletalk RPG. In Japan, if you just say "RPG" they assume you mean the console variety.

[wingcadet]

That is correct.

[Anyone else would probably be more surprised. As it is, Cas just kind of stands there looking mildly confused, probably for the wrong reasons.]

I see. [He does not. Dropping your pants so quickly only served to make him briefly reconsider what he knows about human clothing traditions. All the Milliways talk apparently flew over his head.] Perhaps you would be better suited to a different game. If your mundane truly wishes to send you to a game, I'm certain he will find somewhere more accepting.

[Somewhat awkwardly, with a glance around-] Please put your clothes back on.

[futamura_neo]

Maybe. I'm from a Japanese pornographic movie, so he's occasionally thought about sending me to a sex game. I've told him he shouldn't until he's actually had sex, and I mean the kind where other people are involved... but I'm starting to reconsider. At the very least, it'd be better than thegames, which he seriously contemplated once until I thwapped him in the head.

Sure. [Néo gets dressed.] I don't usually do that sort of thing, if I've gone to the trouble of wearing clothing in the first place. But it's one of those things I expect people have to see to believe. I'm male as of the end of my canon, but I know I look feminine, so I sometimes decide to end the fake ambiguity and replace it with the real ambiguity.