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π—₯π—œπ—§π—” 🌟 𝗙𝗔π—₯π—₯ ([personal profile] farr) wrote in [community profile] ximilia2023-02-25 11:10 pm

video; un: rita.farr β€” aka SUPERHERO CODENAME ASSIGNMENTS

[ of course, rita sets up a visual because the starlet always wants to be seen (except when she doesn't). at the present time, she seems rather enthusiastic like she's fighting a proud grin, one that suggests she's ready to give herself a pat on the back at any moment. ]

Good evening, everyone! For those who don't know me, I am Rita Farr, your Team Morale Coordinator.

[ wait, who assigned her that position? ]

As you all well know, we have been joining mission after mission with the intention of collecting orbs to protect the world and save towns from devastation. In a way, you might say we're ... space-travelling superheroes!

And as any superhero would tell you, it's very important to have codenames for our mission. Obviously, we often obtain our very own undercover civilian names. But in the line of duty, when we're in the heat of the fight, we should just as well have assigned titles to continue preserving our identities.

As the Ximilia's Team Morale Coordinator β€” [ again, who voted her into that position? ] I took it upon myself to select carefully crafted codenames for each and every one of you.

[ she then holds up a sheet of paper, featuring a list of all of the orbers, each with another name printed beside them. ]

You will find this list posted in the Mess Hall. Please take a moment at your best convenience to study the list and memorize each of the names listed for future use. Though I worked very hard to select them β€” [ she clears her throat, brushing her hair back. ] I suppose that if you have any issue with the name chosen for you, we can discuss making possible changes. Though I don't see why anyone would want to.


XIMILIA'S SUPERHERO CODENAME CHECKLIST:

Clarke β€” VINCENT VAN GIRL
Finn β€” BEAR BOY
Kovacs β€” BLACK LUNG
Dante β€” PIZZA HUT
Rita β€” ELASTI-WOMAN
Chuuta β€” BEATS
Ziggy β€” STARDUST
Dimitri β€” BREAD MAN
Yuri β€” SIR SECRET
Kazuma β€” SWASHBUCKLER
Ryunosuke β€” SWORDMASTERSITTER
Yujin β€” STACHE DADDY
Alina β€” SUNSHINE
Aleksander β€” SHADOW
Mal β€” GUNSHOW
Yzak β€” SIA
Helen β€” BELLE
Marta β€” LOTUS
Joel β€” TIMESTOPPER
Daisy β€” SHAKE SENORA
Natasha β€” JANE FONDA
Shaun β€” BANGLE BABE
Yelena β€” NIGHT VISION
Gwen β€” DRUMSTICKS
Itachi β€” PUZZLER DOGSHIT MCGIVENS
Andy β€” ATHENA
Joe β€” ADONIS
Sabriel β€” MYSTIC MAGIC
Joric β€” MR BEAD
Newt β€” MONSTER MASH
Felix β€” ARMORMAN
Dr. McCoy β€” DR SPACE
Cassian β€” INCOGNITO
Jyn β€” CAUTIONETTE
Steve β€” BOMBER KID
Dean β€” KANSAS
LΓΊthien β€” SIREN
Minimus β€” ROBOFOX
Rodimus β€” ROBOROD
Nie Huaising β€” FAN MAN
Wei Wuxian β€” MR FLUTE
Rand β€” ROBIN HOOD
Yennefer β€” VIOLET
Zhao β€” CHEF BANDIT
Viveca β€” VIXEN
Degar β€” WONDERWALL


( please note that none of the above is to be taken seriously and is in good fun! though rita very much likes to believe she has team leader qualifications and is entirely in her right to make assignments. but she's very bad at selecting names so if some of it seems nonsensical, it's on brand. she went by what she knows or assumes or whatever she likes. )
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[personal profile] tochnyy 2023-02-27 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
i don't know it and pizza's not my thing.

plus, i've learned i do show off my guns.
[ just not his gun guns. ]
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[personal profile] tochnyy 2023-02-27 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[ at least he didn't start this so is an angel here! ]

😎πŸ’ͺ
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[personal profile] peasant 2023-02-27 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
🀫🀭🀐

[ breaking news: alina starkov could not be reached for comment on malyen oretsev's gun show. back to you, jim. ]
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[personal profile] homeostatic 2023-02-27 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, sure. On the other hand, we also have some who don't require any excuse to drive somethin' into the ground for the sake of their own childish amusement.

( well. less so now that certain folks are gone...

okay but now, constructively: )


...Rita and Yelena got to talking about small groups a bit ago. Might be worth getting her input on that again.
homeostatic: AH (290)

audio;

[personal profile] homeostatic 2023-02-27 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Names and titles hold a serious amount of cultural, emotional, or familial weight for some.

The crew's largely made up of folks from a similar cultural background, so anyone who isn't might be feeling outnumbered, and pressured to conform with somethin' they find uncomfortable, even disrespectful. Clashing and anger's gonna be inevitable.
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audio;

[personal profile] laviny 2023-02-27 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, yes, I also love to shit on people’s fun because of cultural differences and misunderstandings. And as a Russian it is definitely my right to do so because of how vastly misunderstood our culture is by everyone, especially the West. Thank you for the permission to be an asshole next time I feel like it.

[Because that’s all Itachi was doing. Being an asshole. She doesn’t even think he’d deny it.]
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[personal profile] deaddrop 2023-02-27 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Revisiting therapy now? This post has everything.

[With humor. Mostly.]

It might be more productive than this, you're right. I get the feeling one or two people might be feeling a little dogpiled.
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[personal profile] fungicidal 2023-02-27 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ An annoyed grunt. ]

Just someone who hates this damn earpiece. Carry on. [ don't listen to him ]
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video; un: qinghe

[personal profile] eschewings 2023-02-27 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[ on the video, short as it is, appears one (1) nie huaisang, smiling. ]

Lady Farr, a truly magnificent boost of morale, this! You really live up to your title. Something to be proud of, certainly.

[ he smiles throughout it all, almost childishly animated, fan waving in his hand; not a single word sounds insincere, or mocking. he may not be an actor by trade, but for ten years that was his career, and every single day the stakes were between life and death; one wrong expression, one wrong word, and his cover would have been blown. and so there is nothing here to betray him: if anything, it's him who is shown as silly in this — hasn't he looked at what others have said? or maybe he's just a bit thoughtless. that's probably it. the silly man who likes to paint and spends missions with birds rather than chasing the orbs; this is all that can be expected of him, really.

(it isn't easy, to make nie huaisang angry. but the title of the headshaker is wrapped around his shoulders, even now, and he bristles at the idea of another name so easily given, so devoid in meaning. he hears the annoyance in wei wuxian's tone, and thinks of the yiling patriarch, another title bestowed by the cultivation world that understands little and knows less.

in the end, huaisang is a nie to the core, and the nie temper is a biting thing. his brother's was always instant and sharp; his own is quieter, yet far more vicious.)
]
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[personal profile] blackfire 2023-02-27 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
( he suppresses a sigh. and then: οΌ‰

There are settings you can adjust. If you don't wish every errant thought to be transmitted, you could try a security partition to make all your comments locked initially, and you can unlock them if they were intended. As you become more proficient with the earpiece, you could curate it less.

( putting this private now literally because miss him with being publicly decent. not happening, thanks. οΌ‰
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[personal profile] homeostatic 2023-02-27 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Itachi was a shithead, but he was correct, and he was even right to be angry. How many of our film nights have contained anythin' but twenty-and-twenty-first century films made in America? How many of those cultural traditions are steeped into the fabric of this crew, that others are just expected to follow and be comfortable with?

How many Russian holidays have we even celebrated here? Ravkan? Chinese, Japanese... I dunno, Risan or Vulcan? What about clothing, music, cultural trappings; all of it? Why are we using the old Gregorian calendar, when we could just as soon be using Federation stardates?

Ms. Farr's a grown adult with, what. Sixty some-odd years on Itachi? And a world-renowned superhero, by her own account, and she has a little under – let's say half – a crew complement that understands where she's coming from the majority of the time.

She's not a bad person because she didn't know. It's admirable that she's tryin'. But this ain't the first time a culture clash has happened here. Might be better if, in the future, folks could approach these matters as a question rather than a statement.
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[personal profile] heroooic 2023-02-28 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Well THIS kid isn't amused. He's CONFUSED. And maybe feeling a little left out and embarrassed. Finn heaves a frustrated teenage sigh at Kazuma's words, relenting.]

I guess...
Edited 2023-02-28 00:18 (UTC)
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[personal profile] homeostatic 2023-02-28 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
What can I say, I'm a predictable son of a bitch.

( it's a testament to rita's character, that she could endure terrible things and still try to be positive for the sake of others, and he makes a mental note to reach out to her once tempers have cooled.

for now, )


So what is it like, being a real life superhero? My frame of reference is all holodramas and children's books.
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[personal profile] deaddrop 2023-02-28 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
[Natasha hums at that, already regretting that she outed herself on that. It's not exactly how she'd choose to self-identify.]

Do you want a real answer to that or a pithy one?
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[personal profile] laviny 2023-02-28 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
And yet here you are, an American, explaining cultural differences to me. Stop it. I’m not in the mood to be condescended to right now.
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[personal profile] locumstudentesquire 2023-02-28 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
The people on this crew are so,

[...He's at a loss for an appropriate adjective. The unfinished message goes through anyway.]
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[personal profile] homeostatic 2023-02-28 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
I'm a Federation citizen who happened to be born in North America, on United Earth. The America you're referring to ended sometime after World War III, in the middle of the post-atomic horror. A hundred and forty-eight years before I was born, when most of the continent was an irradiated ruin.

English isn't even my first language– Federation Standard is.
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[personal profile] karumic 2023-02-28 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
[Sorry, bud, truth is always more boring than a teenager's imagination :(]

Well, first of all, I don't run a gang, and Ryunosuke isn't an accountant. Where did you get that idea?
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[personal profile] laviny 2023-02-28 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, so why don’t you show us how to celebrate some of your futuristic space holidays?
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[personal profile] oiorpata 2023-02-28 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
Looking forward to it.
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[personal profile] kovach 2023-02-28 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
i like to keep things straight to the point
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[personal profile] kovach 2023-02-28 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
[ βœ“ read 10:49pm ]
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[personal profile] softshoes 2023-02-28 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
[HORNY?!?!? YEAH, KIDDO, THEY SURE ARE.]

In a tight-knit group, in an enclosed vessel, with little else to do? They are. I agree.
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[personal profile] locumstudentesquire 2023-02-28 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
[Actually, he was thinking more along the lines of 'shameless'? 'Lewd'? Something like that.

But Ryunosuke thinks he'd rather just drop this and never speak of it again, so.]


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[personal profile] softshoes 2023-02-28 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
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[The feeling is MUTUAL, so that's all he's got to offer in response.]

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