expiationnet | 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:

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 profile

Character_Name

@username

ABOUT_ME

CODING

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		<b style="color:#587AC0;">Character_Name</b>
		<div style="color:#999;">@username</div>
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ABOUT_ME
 
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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

Name (@username) unfollowed you

Name (@username) blocked you

Have fun! Code credit.

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[ as much as he tries for it to be otherwise, his anger is an easy thing to set alight — he keeps it under a tight lid usually, but he can't help it, not when the many unfair things in the world are laid in front of him. not when it's about the suffering of those who shouldn't be suffering... especially when he thinks that the organisation created these androids — are essentially their parents, in a way of thinking, and then sought to destroy them —

yeah, it's no wonder he's angry. ]

well

don't think most people really know what they're supposed to do with their lives. so don't worry, you're in good company

i'd recommend starting from finding something that makes you happy. you know, something beyond just survival?

[Everyone felt like this? Even the humans here, she wants to ask. But she knows the answer. They were made in humanity's image, all. Why would the inner turmoil of a god's be different from its creation?

Still. It makes her feel oddly unsettled, like the earth beneath her feet is suddenly moving. After everything else, though... this was not such a terrible revelation.

But the rest of what he says troubles her further. Frightens her — happiness, to her, was just another thing that could be taken away without warning.]

something that makes me happy?
i don't know.
nothing's real, right? if whatever happiness here is fake
then what's the point of finding it?

Edited 2025-01-25 05:35 (UTC)

just because where we are is a construct doesn't mean this isn't real, does it? you feel, and you think, right? you experience emotions, right here, right now. you can be hurt. you can get angry. you can love someone.

how's that not real?

maybe this isn't, like, reality in the way that it is out there, in all the worlds... but we're living here, now. and any time you exist, happiness is always worth it.

[He's right. She did feel real, and unfortunately alive, when so many had died for her and because of her, someone weak and undeserving of life. She often wondered what No. 4 had seen in her to thank her for giving meaning to her life, and if she would ever see it in herself. She had not seen it yet. And she had not seen it in 2B either — their similarities made this impossible. Perhaps she never would.

But what was the alternative? Someone had decided she should live. So she had to. Even in this false-reality.]

worth it, huh.
i don't know.

[She was afraid to seek happiness for herself. It had ended in failure every single time. All she could do was try to guarantee that happiness happened for someone else.]

i'll think about it.

thank you.

[ he can tell that she is struggling with the concept — simply from her asking whether it even matters, to be happy... but this, too.

well. if he can inspire her to even think about it, just for a moment, then it'd be worth it. ]

anytime.

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