fifteen 💕 username: inaban

[dereban]

It's been a few months since I've had a proper post, so I suppose I should introduce myself.

Hey, I'm Inaba - I've been here for over a year now, so if anybody has any questions, feel free to lay them on me. A lot of my friends left two months ago, so I guess I'm partially doing this post to get to know new people. ヽ(∀° )人( °∀)ノ

I'm also interested in hearing about Moon Knights - I think some of you guys might be some? I was thinking of potentially getting some contacts, after all.

Anyway, it's already Iris cycle, and I guess... I got a break this month. No animal ears, none of the weird traits, nothing. I didn't even get affected by the cycle at the beginning of the month either, it's kind of crazy. ヽ(°〇°)ﾉ

In the interest of getting to know new people: let's play a game, shall we?

You have two options: 1) AMA. I've been here for over a year, am decently good with computers, and currently hold a job in programming. or 2) Give me a genre, and I'll craft a 'text adventure' story for you.

Or we can just chat. Your pick! ✨✨✨

Comments

[rediscovering]

1. “plainer than most?” what does that mean? what do you need help with? I think it’s probably safe to say I’m not plainer than most

2. Why is everyone here so complacent?!?!! It’s infuriating since the day I got here!! What do you mean no one bothers??? WHY NOT seems like something pretty important for people to learn about but “it is what it is “ I guess OH WELL

that’s how people sound here
all the people who’ve been here a long time talk like this
sorry but I just don’t get it
“Nobody BOTHERS” why the hell not??!

3. thanks anyway...... I’ll research it. In my world people with strong control of fire can channel it into lightning. I think elements seem to work really differently elsewhere from what I’ve heard. I was just curious.

[dereban]

1. There's a good amount of people here who have powers, or are famous in some way. I'm not one of those people.

2. Honestly, there's a lot of reasons. At least for them. Some people are dead back in their home worlds, or their worlds are worse off than here so they'd much prefer to stay here. There were people theorizing that the people who were brought here were those kinds of people, but that isn't entirely the case for everyone.

For every rule there's an exception, I suppose. I'm a part of the 'exception', I guess.

But that's probably the basics of why people just... don't seem to care. You get the picture, right?

3. It's no problem! If what you research doesn't make any sense, I can try explaining it, so feel free to reach out. The saying is 'curiosity killed the cat and satisfaction brought it back', after all.

[rediscovering]

1. I am one of those people on both accounts. what can I do?? I'm not comfortable sitting idly back acting like I'm useless

2. I understand at home it's worse for many people

technically it's far worse at home for me, too. I'm not returning to a peaceful complacent life like I have here

but I need to return. the ones who don't want to go back can stay, who cares, but why's the rest of the population just twiddling their thumbs???

3. thanks i guess
i was only curious cuz of the lightning
it sounded amazing in theory when i first heard it
maybe not so interesting in the end though
i thought it was some kind of super precise elemental bending. sounds like it's not.

[dereban]

1. Honestly. I don't think I could sit around myself, most of the time.

[There are exceptions to that rule, but hell if she's going to accept the 'future' that was shown, or the fact that they could be stuck here indefinitely.]

I don't want to simply "find a way back". I want to find a way back where I can keep all my memories of everything that has happened here.

[She won't accept anything else.]

2. I couldn't tell you. And the scientists that say that they're supposedly "working on it" haven't exactly told us shit on the progress. Hell, just recently one of the natives decided to even trick people by sending them to an 'illusion' of home. Just something to watch out for.

3. No problem. And I don't know what 'bending' is, exactly, but probably not? It's more science-related than anything...

[rediscovering]

1. what has happened to you here has changed you so much that you'd rather rewrite your destiny, either here or at home, than pick up your real life again?

2. sounds like propaganda to me. i think this place is a lot more sordid than they want us to think. i don't know how. i'm still new. but something's not right. a lot. but i don't trust any authorities here in the slightest.

3. there's a lot of technology here far beyond what's in my world. it's crazy. i don't think i'm interested in the finer mechanics. i'm no scientist. my head's spinning enough here.

[dereban]

1. I'm of the personal opinion that everything that's happened is my real life. It's a part of my reality, even if I do want to return home.
Besides, 'destiny' is bullshit, anyway. Nothing is set or written in stone unless you believe it is. If you start having those sorts of thoughts, then they really will become the truth.

And more than that - even if I've changed, I'm still me.

That hasn't changed. I don't want to forget that. The people I've met, the lessons I've learned.

2. It's a mess of things, to be honest. I think a majority of them are... fine and strangely straightforward, but a lot of that comes from my impressions of them over the past year and some change. Some of the authorities are Moonblessed though, so keep that in mind.

I'm not going to tell someone to trust authorities anything like that, since it's not in my right to say it, though. It's not like I entirely trust all of them, anyway.

3. That's fine! It's a lot and just knowing the basics of it all is enough for most people, anyway.

[rediscovering]

1. Bullshit that destiny is bullshit!! you hold the reins, that's true, but you certainly didn't will yourself here — yet you so readily accept this life as your own, knowing you'll forget it, accept these experiences into your identity, find that deep meaning, yet still think it was chaos that granted you this part of yourself that you cherish so much now? that something like being spirited away this place is sheer coincidence? bullshit.

there has to be an explanation for the unexplainable. there's no such thing as coincidence, certainly not cosmic coincidences. destiny is just not as you ever imagine it will be. but you're responsible for it, and responsible for recognizing it. if you refuse to look your own fate in the face, you'll fuck up big time when you go off-course, and you'll feel it in your core.

2. I won't trust someone in a position of power just because they've also been spirited away here. weak common ground. I'll still interact and participate to learn, but I don't think my skepticism will die down anytime soon.

[dereban]

1. No, I didn't. But was it 'destiny' that brought us here, too? I highly doubt that. If 'destiny' really is a factor here, a bunch of us really will be stuck here for ten years, trying to find a way back home to no avail and I cannot accept that sort of answer.

Much as I can't accept that "forgetting" is a finality. I know it's something that happens when people leave, normally, but that doesn't mean I can't find another option.

Even if I accept the experiences that I've learned from here, it isn't as if I'm entirely enjoying myself in a place like this.

It may not be coincidence. I don't think coincidences exist. But I doubt it's some 'destiny' that made things happen. People make things happen. Regardless of whether those people are human or not.

Of course, that's my personal opinion based on personal experience and logic from how my own world works. And how I've seen this world work.

It's not as if I'm not looking at what's happening: whether it's the present, the past, or any sort of potential future. I am keenly aware of the things that I do and the things that others might be doing as well; at least, on the larger scale of things.

2. That's a choice that you've made, then.

[rediscovering]

i agree that we should put efforts into understanding why people forget. i get this. i haven't been here long so i don't feel this is so important but if you've been here a year or whatever i see why you would not want to forget. but there's no evidence otherwise, that anyone remembers this place when they go home, even if they come back. so you also need to be realistic, or make a full-force effort to make that mission realistic.

i think destiny did bring us here, and it'll bring us back, that much here i think is the most that can be counted on, actually, seeing as it's clearly some crazy cosmic rift and we have no control over this place. but that does not mean we shouldn't seek it still. destiny happens through people, not to people. even though we often can't see it or understand it. but we should try to determine it. shouldn't just resign to what's happening because it's happening.

destiny is like... walking in a forest. there's a path, maybe you take it, maybe you wander, but you're still making a path as you go breaking branches and stuff. so... that's what's happening. we wandered off the clear path. but obviously we're following some kind of path, even if we don't know where we're going, we pick whatever direction we pick for some reason. and the force that prompts us to go in that direction, that's following our destiny, and you're still in control even when you make your own path by breaking branches as you go along. so that's what we need to be doing here. breaking branches to make our own path home walking through the forest of destiny.

[ okay, many people kindly entertain him with his sentimental spiels about honor and destiny, but this nonsensical, pseudo-poetic, schmaltzy silver sandwich, metaphorical bullshit is just too much, what is he even talking about ]