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expiationnet2025-01-02 03:50 pm
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Entry tags:
- !okcindr,
- arcane: caitlyn kiramman,
- arcane: ekko,
- arcane: heimerdinger,
- arcane: jayce talis,
- arcane: mel medarda,
- arcane: powder / jinx,
- arcane: viktor,
- blazblue: ragna the bloodedge,
- bungo stray dogs beast: ryuunosuke akuta,
- dragon age: neve gallus,
- final fantasy xiv: fandaniel,
- nier automata: a2,
- original: shigeru miyata,
- original: zekarion altius,
- pandora hearts: echo,
- person of interest: root,
- person of interest: sameen shaw,
- persona 3: mitsuru kirijo,
- spiderverse: gwen stacy,
- star trek aos: jim kirk,
- tasm: peter parker,
- x-men 97: morph,
- x-men 97: rogue
OKCINDR POST #5
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 January 2nd, characters randomly look back at their tablets to see the following:
This month, if players reset their profile, they will have a list of questions to answer:
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:
If you'd like to for shits and giggles, here's some notifications that may be used:
Name (@username) followed you
Name (@username) unfollowed you
Name (@username) blocked you
Have fun! Code credit.
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 January 2nd, 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 the maximum amount of sheep you have counted when trying to fall asleep?
- Is it harder to forgive yourself, or to forgive others?
- How strongly do you feel that the past defines a person?
- What is your dream?
- Why would an android's dream contain electric sheep? Are they particularly drawn to livestock animals?
- If you could return to one specific moment in your life, would you?
- How do you wake up from a dream?
- Please
- Wake up
- You must wake up
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 profileIf you'd like to for shits and giggles, here's some notifications that may be used:
Name (@username) followed you
Name (@username) unfollowed you
Name (@username) blocked you
Have fun! Code credit.
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[Could they just ask a librarian? Yes. Will they? God no. It won't be any fun like that. And now it seems like something they will be doing, for the fun part, so. He'll remember it.
But oh, Silco. Octavian doesn't outright roll his eyes, but he purses his lips and glances... aside... for a moment. That guy.]
Something else would be preferable.
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and oh, if that reaction doesn't almost make viktor laugh — in the absence of a real laugh, though, in its place is a huff of air and a raised brow, as if to say, yes indeed. ]
Our paths never crossed, [ he says, looking at the table. ] But I knew of him. He is from the Undercity, same as I. [ then, dryly, ] He doesn't like me much. He thinks I am a traitor, for having left to study and work in Piltover. I always meant for Hextech to help everyone, especially the people of Zaun...
[ but, with a twist of his mouth and disdain in his voice, ] The council held all our funding, so they dictated what we could do.
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For how much he talks about moving money around I imagine he would be the same.
[Moving money around and not much else, his tone suggests, because that's the overall impression he got. A control freak with money to push around.]
Pity that he thinks so little of you. For him. He is missing out. You are quite a find.
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[ and whether zaun is the better or the worse for it... well. he can't say. and in any case, he forgets about that when octavian keeps speaking; once again, the compliment makes him feel wrong-footed, and he blinks, opens his mouth, then closes it with a snap.
finally, with a wry twist of his lips, ]
You may be the only one who thinks so. [ jayce doesn't count; jayce is an outlier with a weird taste in friends.
and maybe, if he was smoother, he might say something like then i am glad you found me — but instead, he aims a small but sincere smile at octavian and says, ] But thank you. I could say the same about you.
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He doesn't say any of this, of course, but he frowns lightly until Viktor brings the subject back around to their mutual, hm, merits.]
You are a sensible man. I would be remiss to object. [hee hee, he is pretty cool and smart, isn't he,] And if you are right that only I think so...
[He shrugs; more Viktor quality time for him? Seems like it!!]
Then we two are the only ones with sense.
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this him is free to think that the way octavian accepts his returned compliment is very cute and charming — and the fact that he doesn't try to respond with the empty reassurances or platitudes most others would, a but that's not true or surely more people think that way; instead, he accepts viktor's words and yet finds a way to flip them inside out, shine a light on everyone else and say, look at them, they don't understand us, and that is fine because we understand each other.
quietly, he thinks that he is exceedingly lucky, to have been able to meet octavian.
out loud, he says, ] Was that under any doubt?
[ dryly said, in the tone of his deadpan jokes, in the way those jokes aren't actually jokes at all... because, ugh, people. ]
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And he has a few precious people, of course, and he cherishes them, but here is Viktor saying not in so many words that the rest of the people don't matter, that the two of them are enough. It's comforting.
As for his sass, good gracious,] Occasionally I consider dabbling in self-delusion.
[Pause for effect; three, two—] But not for very long. There are more engaging things to do.
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that octavian is in the top three of that very list, here, isn't such a surprise.
and neither is the way that once again his quiet sense of humour sticks the landing perfectly, making viktor duck his head to hide his smile and a huff of air almost like a chuckle. ]
Yes, [ he says, with a little tilt of his head and another sip of his drink, ] Like this.
[ that isn't too much to say, is it? he hopes not. and then, a little more contemplative, ] I confess I've not taken much time to do other things than work in the past, eh, fifteen years? I never saw the point in it. There was always too much to do in the laboratory, equations that wouldn't simply solve themselves, equipment to build and test... but I find I don't mind this.
[ his lips quirk up slightly as he looks at octavian directly over the rim of his glass. ] Perhaps there are merits to stepping outside the laboratory.
wow cw this thread for shameless flirting
But the flattery, the flattery, yes. He shrugs, like, well! Isn't that something!]
I am sure you have heard it all as well. "Come and have drinks with us." "Come meet my interdepartmental friends." [He shakes his head; ugh, social people in academia. Let him rest. Woe,] I love my brother despite his incessant friend-making.
[Both true and for the bit, as he would spend fifteen years in a lab too, if given the choice. Or thirty, if not. Immaterial.]
Were I not so... [he nods down at himself, so brand new? A man desperate to touch everything he hasn't felt in decades? You know,] I would relish disappearing completely. Although I would not mind if someone like you came to visit.
by their standards or other people's? trick question, the answer is both
though the dryly delivered quotes make him make a face in turn, brows furrowed, his dislike for offers like that apparent simply from his expression. ugh indeed.
though first, ] I suppose everyone must have one flaw. [ about his brother; if octavian loves him and from what he knows of how they learned together, he must be a lovely person, aside from this slight downside of being over-friendly. anyway, ]
That sounds familiar, yes. Less the offers like that, [ because he never had someone who would have tried to drag him to meet new people, jayce had only ever gone out with people out of an incapability to say no, and that had petered out when he had the excuse of hextech, ] but we had to attend a number of events to try and secure funding, or because the Council required us there.
[ with a shrug, ] I stopped attending as soon as I could. They didn't care if I was there, anyway.
[ he lets out a sigh and takes another sip of the drink. and then says, at that last remark, his expression lighter, ] I am glad. I believe I should miss you otherwise.
shutting my eyes. yeah
[Ha ha. And actually true, but only because some people here can't help it if counting cards comes very naturally to them, can they? No!
In any case, ahem. He hums sympathetically; yes, the elbow-rubbing for publicity and so on, he knows that one. All of those are also terrible, but at least he'd had the buffer of his brother—and Hiram, but that's not pleasant drinking conversation.
Now, not attending stupid events, that's great conversation. He clinks his ice again in a way that is, somehow, a little more cheery.]
Had we run in the same academic circles, [play with him in this space,] I would have enjoyed abandoning the worst parties with you.
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I wager that that was for a reason. [ said lightly, with an accompanying raise of his brows, pointed.
and with the way he isn't bothering to hide his growing fondness for octavian, hasn't bothered with that for a while now, it perhaps is not that big of a surprise when he says, ] And I with you. Perhaps I would have accepted some invitations, then, if you'd been there.
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[Ha ha. Now, as far as their, hm, mutual thought experiment fantasy here about running away from parties, he's flattered. Think of all the footnotes they could write on people's papers in private.]
I could have lived with "perhaps." You would have been a highlight.
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[ in his wager, that is — no, it's a joke, still, and he doesn't expect a response to it all, entirely pleased to focus on the hypothetical of this world where they might have lived at the same time.
pleased, yes, in the kind of way that is half surprise and half something else, something that makes him look down almost sheepishly, like he isn't sure how to take the compliment and yet cherishes it dearly at the same time, not least for that it comes from octavian, specifically. ]
Really? [ again, not asked because he needs a response; it is mostly a huff of air, a quiet comment, as if his brain is still stuck on the possible truth of that and needs a moment. but when he has had it, ] So are you. Here, now, in this place.
[ not would have been, but are, because it's true. ]
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big gay datepleasant outing that Viktor pays for.That aside, oh, it's quite sweet and endearing the way Viktor reacts to compliments, isn't it? It is, and Octavian will make a note of that for later. Possibly during a card game, who can say.
He says,] Flatterer. [Which is true, and as he holds up a hand to preempt Viktor saying he's just being honest, also true is,] It is working. And I believe you.
[He is utterly charmed, for all that he's only a little capable of showing it. Being here imagining these scenarios where they're colleagues in the same world is proof enough, but just in case: it's working.]
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and it seems like his somewhat-impulsive comment hasn't made things worse; if anything, it is better, with that confirmation that his words are working.
and imagine that — he's never been particularly great with his words, or so he feels in any case, and yet somehow with octavian, finding the right thing to say feels... easier. ]
Good, [ is all he says in response, taking a sip of his drink; good that it's working, good that he believes him. ]