fanmail + theme announcement!

[idolpro]

Who: You!
Where: Hotel Lobby!
When: Day 338

[ What?? Is it. . . fanmail time already????

It is! So there are many boxes scattered around, less like they're blocking the entrances and more like they're just blocking your walking path in general. Don't trip, there's a box! Look out, it's a box! What's in the sky!? . . . I dunno, that's not a box!? ]

Producers: It's starting to warm up, so let's warm things up!
Producers: Out with the old, in with the new! Novel and Romance are over, now it's ✨✨✨RECIPROCATION✨✨✨ and ✨✨✨DRESS-UP✨✨✨for you!
Producers: Did you get something nice? Pay it back, you fucking fucker!
Producers: Did you get something mean? Get thy vengeance sevenfold!
Producers: Oh, and make sure you look nice when you do it!
Producers: You won't get the extra points though ☆(・ω<)

[ OOC NOTE: WE'RE GONNA TRY SOMETHING NEW!

In the interest of making it easier to hide/separate NSFW content, we're asking players to put their NSFW fanmail reactions under a "cut". How does that work? Here's an example!

We've got a poll up on Discord about it; if it's too much effort or if there's something about it you super don't like, you don't have to do it, but for the sake of player comfort and happiness, if it's not too big of an ask, we'd like everyone's cooperation in trying this out. Thank you! ]

Comments

[1istheloneliest]

Another magic user, eh?

[he sounds intrigued]

My siblings do all have powers, but they have different powers from me.

[weenwoon]

Mm. I wish I could demonstrate any of my magic, but that is not feasible outside of dreams, perhaps. But if I ever get a suitable memory, I can show you!

Can I ask what powers Five and Sativa have? Apart from high alcohol tolerance, apparently.

[1istheloneliest]

If you'd be OK with showing me when you do I'd like to see that.

I don't think they'd mind if you knew? Five can jump through space and time. Sativa can communicate with the dead. There's more to both their powers, they're complex, but those are the truncated versions.

[rubs the back of his neck]

Yeah, somehow I'm the lightweight of the three of us, it's messed up.

[weenwoon]

[He makes an 'oooh' sound.]

My and Alexander's powers are closer to Sativa's, then... We can both perceive the flow of life force around us, including souls. In fact, Alexander once had to help free a trapped soul and send it on its way to the Underworld at my behest.

[That makes it sound like he was Alexander's boss, which is in fact the opposite of the truth, but language is flexible enough for him to get away with that phrasing.]

If it is any consolation, I too tend to be easily outdrunk by my friends. Five's made fun of my tolerance at one point, too.

[1istheloneliest]

You'd have to ask Sativa, I'm not sure it's exactly like that.

How is that possible, you would think our size would be an asset in that arena...

[weenwoon]

Sativa did seem quite fun when I spoke with him. I might ask him eventually.

But it is frustrating, is it not? Perhaps it's our more open personalities that somehow outweigh the sheer size advantage. I'm pretty certain Five could outdrink me even in his 13 year old body. That's got to be wrong, hasn't it?

[1istheloneliest]

He's a pretty open book.

It can be annoying. You might have picked up on something with the personality bit. [nods] I'm certain he could in either form.

[weenwoon]

Perhaps I could hold a survey to see if there is any correlation between personality and alcohol tolerance. I do need some points, after all.

[1istheloneliest]

That would definitely fit your unit's live themes. What do you need points for anyways?

[weenwoon]

Well, I have several dorm upgrade ideas, and I've started working on making gifts for my friends--raw materials are not that expensive, but it piles up quickly if you use different ones.

And I do always need more points for memories. Alexander and Cosmo are a little tight-lipped when it comes to my past, saying I have to witness it all myself.

[1istheloneliest]

I'm curious about what kind of gifts you make, that sounds nice.

Mm, that sounds frustrating. Five and Sativa both encourage me to buy my own memories, but they'll also tell me what they know if I press them about it.

[weenwoon]

[He brightens up at the question, holds up a finger and digs into a pocket to extract a short, thin metal rod. He holds it up in demonstration.]

Anything made of metal! Jewelry is the obvious choice, but I've made a chess box before and I'll be working on a motorcycle for Lily.

[He concentrates, and the metal rod in his hand seems to melt... before taking up the shape of a tiny figurine of Mr. Pennycrumb. Unfortunately he doesn't know what Hardy likes yet :'( ]

Reuse and Recycle, one of our abilities, allows us to manipulate the shape of processed metal. If there's anything you'd like me to make, I'm at your service!

[1istheloneliest]

[watching with some amusement but he also seems fairly impressed]

That's an unexpectedly pleasant use for a unit ability. Maybe I need to expand my thinking, I keep limiting powers as being important to combat or serious objectives.

I can't think of anything I need right now, but now I know who to call if I do.

[weenwoon]

[He chuckles, clearly pleased.]

I am on the opposite side, as it were - I've been struggling to think of how to adapt my unit abilities to combat! Then again, I do not know much about fighting in the first place, and our abilities are mainly meant for support and creation.

[...]

I did turn my headphones into a bomb at one point, though.

What powers does your unit have? I confess I am not too knowledgeable about others, apart from BARiTONES.

[1istheloneliest]

We'd be pretty screwed if everyone was built for combat so it's really a good thing.

[beat]

A bomb? Why??

WILD CITY mostly has animal based powers. Turning people into animals, taking on traits of our specific animal, and so on. Oh, we can run on walls and stuff with one power too.

[he fidgets for a second]

To be honest I haven't bought any of my abilities yet.

[weenwoon]

Well, Michael was quite insistent that we prove our unit's powers are "cool". That apparently mostly meant explosions and swords.

[He tilts his head curiously.]

Why haven't you bought any yet, if I may ask?

[1istheloneliest]

[a brief face palm]

Michael has very, uh, specific tastes.

[sighing]

I didn't get much of a say in what animal I "picked" when I got here and the animal I ended up with is one that I have... complicated feelings about. Since most of the abilities have to do with said animal I've been... resistant.

[weenwoon]

If you see a giant sword buried in a street nearby, that was me. Michael had me turn a lamppost into a sword.

[Ah, though. Levity is (thankfully?) unaware of negative connotations people can ascribe to different animals, so he has no idea what Hardy could mean - apart from, possibly, getting injured by one.]

Oh, I see... I do wish they would spare us some more agency in these things. Can... I ask why you feel uncomfortable about it or would you rather save the subject until we are closer?

[1istheloneliest]

[Levity no]

You don't have to indulge him...

[oof to burden this sweet person with his issues or not]

I mean, I wouldn't want to bother you.

[weenwoon]

[To be fair, Levity likes to do crimes too, so Michael was a good meeting for him.]

Hardtack... It's not a bother at all, and I asked you myself. But if you do not feel like talking about it, that's a different matter entirely.

[1istheloneliest]

[lets out a long exhale]

So... I got locked into a gorilla as my animal here. Ironically, back home when I almost died my evil father used an experimental treatment on me, which in turn healed me by giving me the arms and torso of a gorilla. I still have the skin and the scars here even though I'm more proportionally human.

[weenwoon]

[well that's fucked up!!! are there any mortals who aren't fucked up!!]

...Heavens. I'm so sorry, Hardtack. No wonder you feel uncomfortable about it...

[1istheloneliest]

[the Hargreeves should not be used as a litmus test for regular mortal things]

S'ok. At first I thought I was a monster but now I think even if that's true it's not so bad.

[weenwoon]

[to be fair the other mortals he knows are 1) Glory, 2) like, Absinthe.

That sounds like trauma processing to him, though! He knows about this!]

It does not make you a monster. But it is an unwelcome change, forced upon you rather brutally, and it is natural that you would reject it. But I'm glad to hear you're feeling even a little better nowadays.

[1istheloneliest]

[shrugs]

Nothing I can do about it and while I found all the attention weird initially it's nice to think that there are people here who might like me as I am.