OKCINDR POST #4

[expiationmods]

Ever wanted to have CR with a character and wasn't sure how to get them to cross paths? Wanted a dating app so you can hook up with hot people? Wanted to just find friends because you're a lonely bastard?

With the update of the tablets and the apps, we now have a dating / friendship app called OKCINDR! Players can use it as they please for the two months that it's up -- just imagine that they're profiles to swipe right on and everything. The idea is to encourage CR that may be difficult to get with characters who may or may not be interested in events / posts / logs / other network posts.

So, on November 3rd, characters randomly look back at their tablets to see the following:

OKCINDR PROFILE RESET #4
PLEASE RESET PROFILE

This month, if players reset their profile, they will have a list of questions to answer:

What is forgiveness?
Can a criminal ever really be forgiven?
should you be forgiven?
Is a crime ever justified?
How do you justify your crime?
Can you forgive someone who's wronged you?

Players, of course, are able to ignore this message. However, if a character wouldn't fill it out but a player would like to participate... the profile mysteriously resets itself. There may even be responses sent from Character A to Character B without Character A actually doing anything, if you'd like! This is a completely opt-in scenario! But for players who would like to participate fill out the post:

network profile

Character_Name

@username

ABOUT_ME

CODING

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If you'd like to for shits and giggles, here's some notifications that may be used:

Name (@username) followed you

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Name (@username) unfollowed you

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Name (@username) blocked you

<lj-raw><div style="display:flex;align-items:center;font-family:tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:#333;"> <img src="ICON_URL" style="height:33px;width:33px;background:#587AC0;border-radius:100%;padding:2px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0 -8px 0 0;"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/Qu752sX.png" style="margin:0 5px -15px 0;height:17px;"> Name (@username) blocked you </div></lj-raw>

Have fun! Code credit.

Comments

[incorrigibles]

i'm not complaining, either. i like your house.

hey, if that's what you want, then... elevator music it is.

we have a board now? but sure, darling, you get a point. two, since i'm letting you win the love yous too [ otherwise he foresees them going through all possible multipliers and being here doing this tomorrow still ]

[coolerjunpei]

come on, it's pretty much our house. you're always there.

i wanted cool beats... guess it kind of got away from me.

junpei 2 | charles way more than 2
yeah, it's neck and neck.

[incorrigibles]

... right. i kind of like the sound of that.

oh hell, i forgot about the slogan. no, we'll find something cooler than elevator music, for sure, i promise

oi, you're selling yourself short here. not that we are counting, but if we were, you'd have way more points than just these two, you know that, yeah?

[coolerjunpei]

good. so do i.

[One moment to bask in the gay domesticity... annnd okay,]

okay okay. i won't go looking for smooth jazz, either.

and i know. buuuut...how many points would i have?

[incorrigibles]

[ yeah, he's taking a moment to smile softly at the screen — ]

good. i'll swing by once your shift is over, we can check the store on the way home

let's see, it's those two, one for the record player, one for taking gab out yesterday when i forgot... oh and then one per every time you've made me laugh so that's about a thousand.

one per every time you've laughed, too, cause it makes me want to kiss you every time. so let's round that around forty

so 1044?

[coolerjunpei]

it's a date.

[The saccharine urge to call every outing a date, happening live here. Teehee.]

i've definitely laughed more than 40 times... probably. i'm giving you twice as many points just because i said so, sooo take that.

[incorrigibles]

yeah ♡

[ the incredible department store date. which it will be because it's junpei and any outing with him is perfect. ]

hmm, maybe i was counting the times when you've really laughed, like proper out loud, yeah?

and "just because i said so", is it? hey now, i at least tried to give you some reasons

[coolerjunpei]

you don't need to keep count of that...

[It makes him feel - kind of mixed emotions, if he's being honest. Embarrassed in the most delighted way, because it's sweet even if he's not serious, and Junpei loves him even more for it; and also pointedly aware of what a low number that is? And it could be accurate... aha...

Hmm, something else to file away for later.]

well, you're tall and you can cook, soooo... [what's not to love!! okay, okay—] points for the birthday stuff that one time, of course, and how you're always a good listener, and some more points for every time you visit me at lunch. and you made me laugh at least 40 times. cool?

[incorrigibles]

i know.

[ and he doesn't, not really — not in any tangible way, anyway, if the way he forgets about the rest of the world every single time junpei laughs doesn't count... and yeah, he just picked a random number, but could it be close to the truth? maybe. and yet it just makes those times all the more precious. ]

you're just short, love

but i didn't mean

you didn't have to actually give reasons, yeah? that's not what i meant. you shouldn't give me more points for no reason at all, cause that just means you think you're doing worse at all of this, and that's just not true at all

[ leave it up to him to take all this entirely too seriously and be earnest about it — ]

you make me so fucking happy just by existing, you know that, right? there's nothing i need you to do, or be, or say. just being you is enough

[ iiiis this something he should be saying while junpei is at work, over the network, in full view of anyone who stumbles upon this conversation? probably not! does he care about any of that? not particularly, ]

[coolerjunpei]

[Ah, he's doing it again, there he goes... Junpei has half a mind to just reply with "+1000 points" every time Charles is like this from now on, but eh, maybe that would seem like he doesn't appreciate his earnestness, or take it seriously? That couldn't be farther from the truth, as evidenced by how he is getting emotional at the sandwich shop here in the middle of the day, goddamn it. Only that one regular has to witness him abruptly turn away from the counter to go stand facing the wall with his phone, at least.

But jeez, you try to do a funny bit, and your perfect boyfriend calls you out on your accidental self-deprecating, oops...]

i'm not short, i'm normal sized. you're a tree.

[That first, while he composes himself, jeez x2—]

i wasn't trying to

i mean, it's not for no reason, not for real. there's too many reasons.

[Far too many reasons, including this thing he's doing right now, as it were. Junpei types and backspaces and types and backspaces until he decides he can't do this thing over text while staring at the sandwich shop menu—really unpacking his issues, here? Like this? No, he can do that later when they're at home, maybe. If he must.]

but yeah, i know. you're gonna make me get all misty at work, man. i love you.

🎀

[incorrigibles]

[ first things first, as he's waiting for junpei to respond to the rest, ]

sure, that's what someone who's short would say

[ in the end, though, as much as charles feels warm over reading it's not for no reason, that's not what this is about; this is about that i know, this is about making absolutely sure and certain that junpei knows how much he's loved, every single second that he's alive, simply for being himself. ]

i love you too. i'd say sorry, but i'm really not.

you've an hour until your shift's done, yeah? i know i said i'd meet you when it's done but... well. don't really feel like waiting an hour. see you soon, sweetheart.

[ and he's going to do exactly as he says — head over, so they can spend his last hour of work holding hands and gazing at each other lovingly over the counter, before it's time for their department store date! ]