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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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[Time to see if she has lipsticks. Or maybe nail stickers.]
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...Except maybe Isaac, but he's in a class of his own.
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[Oh, Stacia barely knows Isaac at this point. That's weird. ]
Hey, sidebar: have you looked at any of your... stuff yet?
["Stuff" meaning any/all of the media made about her.]
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[Isaac is still mostly in friend-of-a-friend territory with Stacia, but they're starting to move toward actual friendship. He's teaching her spy stuff, at any rate. Which one might think would include deescalation, and yet!
She makes a face in answer to Elle's change of topic.]
I've poked at some of the early stuff, but I'm still deciding if I want to look at the things that haven't happened yet from my perspective. Why?
[She considers asking in a joking-not-joking way whether Elle is trying to keep something secret, but holds her tongue. There will be time for that later, if this gets weird in ways that require a back door out of them. For now, honest curiosity is just fine.]
locked to private until further notice
[Elle glances at the book sitting on her bedside table. She's opened it up a few times, but hasn't been able to stomach reading it.]
I haven't looked at it much either. It's-- difficult. To see yourself laid out like that.
I was just asking because, well, there's stuff that we could talk about. If you do. Or stuff you might have questions about, I don't know.
I doubt that I show up as a major part of anything for you, but I'm probably mentioned? And I know stuff. About stuff.
[Wow that's a fucking mess of a statement. She's absolutely bombing this and she knows it.]
So let me know if you do, I guess?
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[It's a little arch because hello, she's not stupid. Elle's a Bastet, of course she's keeping secrets; and Stacia's a Garou, it's inappropriate for her to press. But she relents pretty quickly.]
I'll let you know if I forge ahead. I know I only have a couple more months with Ace ahead of me back home, and that means a lot of stuff is going to change. But apparently I'm not dead when you're from, unless you've got a really good poker face; so that's nice.
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Thanks. I do appreciate how chill you've been, I know I'd be going up the wall in your position.
And yeah, not dead. I'm good, but I don't know if I'm that good.
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[To whit: real fuckin' bad. Turn on your location, Ragabash of the past, Stacia just wants to talk.]
It's always nice to get confirmation that I'm good at staying alive. Didn't know that was a skill I was going to need, but nice none the less.