Video | welcome, hallo, buenos días, ohayō, etc, etc! | UN: Newt

[groupiedrifter]

[Newt comes shuffling into view on the screen, holding a cup of coffee in his hand with a bag of what seems to be Sour Patch Kids harrowingly hanging out from beneath the pinky finger of the very same hand. Disheveled but more than happy to provide his services after dragging himself out of bed, he taps his knuckle on the chalkboard beside him — one that used to be Hermann Gottlieb's, may he rest in peace (in a not dead way — may he rest in peace on a beach or something while wholly alive and thriving).]

Noticed an influx of new and kinda-new faces over the last few days or weeks or whatever.

So here's my handy dandy welcome board! Recently updated, to keep with the times.

Read it over and get a feel for how this place goes; I'm gonna finish off this coffee before I take any questions.

[As he takes the world's most obnoxious-sounding sip and burns his tongue, here's the board in question:]



[And then, after a bit of time, he turns the board over to the other side:]



[No worries, current crew, if you can't get one of those introduction papers in person!

Because he's attached them in file format, too.]



[And in case you wanted a text format copy:

Name:
Age:
Birthday:
Favorite color:
Favorite food:
Favorite subject:
Favorite toy:
Favorite animal:
Favorite candy:
Favorite activity:
Favorite place:
Favorite book:
Favorite TV show:
Favorite movie:
I am good at:
I want to learn:
Least favorite subject:
Place I want to go:
If I could make one wish, it would be:
If I could have one superpower, it would be:
This is what I want my teacher to know about me:

(Have at it — threadjacking is encouraged).]

Comments

[laviny]

I can’t fly. I can make a plane fly. And it may be a rare skill in your world, but it is common enough where I’m from. People do it as a hobby.

[ravkas]

if you want to kill people, that's perfectly reasonable. i have my fair share of blood on my hands and i can't say i enjoy the feeling. but if you want to do something else, your options aren't limited unless you're dead. and you seem very much alive.
you can sell yourself short if you want, miss — you never told me your name — but i'd rather not.

[laviny]

Yelena Belova.

Are you giving me a pep talk?

[ravkas]

i'm fatalistically optimistic, unfortunately. the curse of my natural disposition.

[laviny]

With a network name like Sobachka I guess that checks out.

[Puppies are eternally optimistic, it’s true.]

[ravkas]

my mother gave me the nickname as a child. i suppose it was apparent even then.

[ it's preferable to think of it as optimism instead of mongrel for the bastard he is. ]

[laviny]

Children are usually optimistic until they have reason not to be.