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longestnight2023-10-07 06:01 am
branchifer) wrote in longestnight2023-10-07 06:01 am
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Fandom's Come Knocking
Okay, did you guys know people in this world make stuff of some of us? Apparently the yetis make toys of us on their own if none exist but also imitate ones that do exist if kids want them.
[Branch is hopping along a table of merch that is meant to mimic exactly the merch of him in stores. A lot of it is actually bigger than he is. He shows off the dolls with his tiny little wrist comm. They look even weirder at that perspective.]
Now that I know they're not ritual effigies, the toy thing is kind of funny. Weird, but funny.
Look at this. Look.
[He holds up his comm so the camera picks up some absolutely hideous toys.]
Like, who is this guy? I wouldn't even know who this was if it wasn't labeled with my name. Like, some random guy from the village maybe. I've never dressed like that in my life.
[He points the camera at another.]
This one is the closest to actually looking like me and it still has the random skull symbol hair thing. What's up with that? [A pause as his face comes back in view. It screws up in thought.] ...Okay, actually I don't hate it.
[Because even though he's a much happier person than he once was, he's still slightly an edgelord. Just slightly.]
[He looks upward and similar skull designs suddenly appear in his own hair, thanks to his ability to change its color. Maybe that explains why some of the dolls have black hair and some have blue (if manufacturing inconsistencies aren't to blame).]
[(It's actually not but he's not about to explain the subtleties of troll coloration when it comes to emotional state.)]
Seriously, you should check it out, and see if the yetis made stuff based on you. It's hilarious.
[ooc: If none exists IRL, people can make up imaginary merch, though all merch at the Pole would be for kids or teens. The stuff made purely by the yetis would largely be decent-looking and accurate, uglier stuff would be based on designs existing in the game world because well, that's what the kid pointed at in the store. Googling themselves would produce other merch for other demographics, as well as let people find out about any internet fandom. People can feel free to thread hop a lot because the point of this is probably going to be a lot of pointing and laughing.]
[Branch is hopping along a table of merch that is meant to mimic exactly the merch of him in stores. A lot of it is actually bigger than he is. He shows off the dolls with his tiny little wrist comm. They look even weirder at that perspective.]
Now that I know they're not ritual effigies, the toy thing is kind of funny. Weird, but funny.
Look at this. Look.
[He holds up his comm so the camera picks up some absolutely hideous toys.]
Like, who is this guy? I wouldn't even know who this was if it wasn't labeled with my name. Like, some random guy from the village maybe. I've never dressed like that in my life.
[He points the camera at another.]
This one is the closest to actually looking like me and it still has the random skull symbol hair thing. What's up with that? [A pause as his face comes back in view. It screws up in thought.] ...Okay, actually I don't hate it.
[Because even though he's a much happier person than he once was, he's still slightly an edgelord. Just slightly.]
[He looks upward and similar skull designs suddenly appear in his own hair, thanks to his ability to change its color. Maybe that explains why some of the dolls have black hair and some have blue (if manufacturing inconsistencies aren't to blame).]
[(It's actually not but he's not about to explain the subtleties of troll coloration when it comes to emotional state.)]
Seriously, you should check it out, and see if the yetis made stuff based on you. It's hilarious.
[ooc: If none exists IRL, people can make up imaginary merch, though all merch at the Pole would be for kids or teens. The stuff made purely by the yetis would largely be decent-looking and accurate, uglier stuff would be based on designs existing in the game world because well, that's what the kid pointed at in the store. Googling themselves would produce other merch for other demographics, as well as let people find out about any internet fandom. People can feel free to thread hop a lot because the point of this is probably going to be a lot of pointing and laughing.]
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What's it keeping me safe from?
[He says it like he's worried something will come out of the internet and get him. But also she had a lot to say about "clean girl" makeup and...what even is that?]
Why would they put colors on their face but in a way where it doesn't look like they did?
Also...you're supposed to be beige, right? Like, is that how humans naturally are? Beige and earth colors? It's not a situation where you should be brighter colors?
[He says this like someone checking in someone else's mental state.]
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[That's a decent enough metaphor, she things. Trolls probably swim.]
[It takes her a moment to follow his questions; but then she remembers how gray he'd looked when she and Dan first started talking to him.]
Oh! Yeah, humans range in shade from really dark brown to really light beige. Sometimes we get paler when we're sick or badly injured, or we turn pink or red if we've been in the sun too long, but otherwise we don't do a lot of color changing.
And...okay, I think the wearing-makeup-but-not-looking-like-it thing needs a whole bunch of cultural context as background, and I'd have to double-check some stuff myself. I personally don't understand the appeal either; and if I look into it, I will certainly get even angrier about it and need to go on a run for emotional regulation purposes.
[The Horrors can't always be fought with violence and unfortunately violence is what the Garou are best suited to. Hence why Stacia's world is teetering on the brink of the prophesied Apocalypse.]
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Yikes.
[Seriously yikes.]
But, uh, I'm glad you're... you're the colors you're supposed to be.
[He does not explain.]
And man you guys are complex. With the culture...stuff. I don't always understand what I'm seeing or reading or anything but there are just weird vibes.
Especially when it comes to things to do with gender.
[He can tell the makeup stuff might have to do with that. He makes a wavy motion with a hand.]
Just...weird. My people don't have any weird hangups about that.
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[That's a short-and-dirty version of the explanation, at least.]
[And then gender comes up and ohhhh boy. Stacia pinches the bridge of her nose.]
"Complex" is a nice way to put it. A lot of stuff is just the result of powerful people having done something terrible hundreds or even thousands of years ago, and having managed to keep doing it for so long that we stopped thinking about it unless prompted. Humans are really good at that, at deciding that things are "normal".
But you know, hey, good for you guys! The gender norms that make up the majority of the internet are stupid. Like, there's half a dozen colors that are socially acceptable for men to wear in large amounts: black, white, gray, blue, khaki, and olive green, and that last one is circumstantial only. Then they can wear a couple other colors, but only in small amounts. And if they wear purple or pink? Oooh boy do they have trouble on their hands. It's really, really stupid.
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Why would - what -
Colors are -
What?
That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
I mean that wouldn't even - some guy trolls are pink and purple back home. Like. Their skin. And that's - I mean gender is -
We're pretty loose with that.