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[lockon2urheart]

Well, this is something of a Christmas season miracle. I thought I was never gonna be able to access this place again. It's been far too long, although life was definitely quieter without the community interference. Y'know, actually, remind me again why I missed it...

Anyway, it's only a day or so from 2313 here, so it seems appropriate to ask the really hard-hitting question of the holiday: what's your New Year's Resolution this year? (Or hey, if that's too personal, what're you looking forward to in the year to come? We can all always use some positive thinking.)

((y'all can assume he was still like...contactable on email/phone/etc and still had all his memories and stuff, he just couldn't get on the comm because shut up, shut up is why. Let me know if there's anything he should have been aware of in terms of people telling him while he was gone. Replies may be from my phone thanks to a broken laptop so I apologise for any HTML/spelling screwups.))

Comments

[thekidsare0kay]

new year'2 re2olutiion?

jesus christo sollux don't spring that typing quirk on someone like that

[lockon2urheart]

Ah, a sort of promise you make to yourself at the start of the year, to change your life for the better. You don't have them on your world, then?

his quirk can't be tamed.

[thekidsare0kay]

oh, 2o liike at the begiinniing of the new 2olar 2weep, you look back at the 2hiitty turn2 your liife ha2 taken over the la2t 2weep and you re2olve that your liife won't be a2 fragrant or giigantiic a piile of hoofbea2t wa2te thii2 tiime?

it takes him an embarrassingly long time to work through it. he's an old man. give him a break.

[lockon2urheart]

Sounds about right. ...I think. Can't say I've ever heard a year called a - solar sweep, right? and I'm taking a wild guess with hoofbeast, but yeah, I think that's about the long and short of the attitude. It tends to be something more definite, though, like resolving to take up a sport or quit a bad habit, so that there's a goal to aim for.

Sollux is patient :3

[thekidsare0kay]

cool.
2o liike, then you're 2uppo2ed two tell other people about iit?
what happen2 iif you fuck up and don't fulfiill your re2olutiion?
liike, you're not culled or anythiing, ii'm gue22iing, 2iince thii2 ii2 a human tradiitiion.

just when he thinks he's getting the hang of it you throw more troll jargon at him damnit!!

[lockon2urheart]

Geez, if culling's what I think it is, your world takes its traditions seriously! No, there's no punishment for breaking your resolution, it's just a goal you set for yourself. You don't even have to tell anyone else what your resolution is, either, only if you think it'd encourage you to keep at it or they'd support you in it. It's supposed to be some self-motivation, more than anything else. The worst that happens is that you don't do whatever it was and you feel a bit guilty over it, that's all.

[thekidsare0kay]

troll2 take pretty much every opportuniity two kiill 2omeone who fuck2 up, two be hone2t.
well.
ii'm the kiing of feeliing guiilty, 2o maybe ii'll try iit.
not 2ure what ii 2hould re2olve two do, though.
not diie?

[lockon2urheart]

Your world sounds pretty harsh, no offense. Trolls... You're the ones with that hate-romance thing, right?

Not dying is always something you should aim for. Generally the resolution is to do something, though, if you want to be really true to the spirit. Mine is to beat my high score on a kind of flight simulator game, for example. Y'know, something to motivate you in the year - sorry, solar sweep - to come.

[thekidsare0kay]

um, yeah, we're the one2 wiith the hate-romance thiing.
and yeah, troll 2ociiety ii2 really har2h compared two human2, iit'2 ju2t a thiing, ii gue22.
we're adorabloodthiir2ty.

okay, 2o not NOT do 2omethiing, but actually do 2omethiing.
uhhhh.
how about iif ii re2olve two 2ave the world thii2 year?
ii2 that a thiing ii can do?

[structuraldefect]

It's New Years' for you?

[lockon2urheart]

Yeah, or at least close enough. It's not for you? Generally the community seems pretty good about having everyone on the same time of year.

[structuraldefect]

Then it appears I'm an exception.

[lockon2urheart]

Huh. That does beg the question, when is it for you? I wonder if there's a reason you're on a different timeframe.

[structuraldefect]

If there's a reason, I wouldn't know it.

[lockon2urheart]

You do tend to get used to that here. It's all pretty unfathomable a lot of the time. Doesn't hurt to try and work out the pattern, though, I figure.

Oh, I'm Lockon, by the way. Forgot to introduce myself.

[structuraldefect]

No, I suppose it wouldn't.

Kotomine.

[video]

[scanningutterly]

[Lockon, being from the future, might recognize that he's looking at virtual reality rather than actual reality here.]

Why did you miss it?

[lockon2urheart]

[Lockon's not the most technological of the Meisters, but he's run enough VR sims to get the odd sense from the video that it's not quite reality. is that a jpeg artefact on your face orlando or did you forget to shave, etc. He's not 100% on it, though.]

Hah, well, viruses aside, I met a lot of very good friends on here. It's actually a pretty interesting social hub. I guess you could say it changed my life; I mean, how often do you get to talk to aliens and people from other worlds without it?

[scanningutterly]

[Orlando will never forget to shave because he'll never have to. It's a little more obvious in the way that movement lags, the way Orlando settles backwards.]

I'd have to say "never." [There's something of a smile, there.]

Welcome back, I guess.

[whatyougive]

2313?

[lockon2urheart]

Yeah, 24th Century here. My world seems to be a couple of centuries ahead of the majority, for some reason.

[jesus_is_gundam]

To eradicate war.

[pffffft, what cover identity?]

[lockon2urheart]

Lofty dream there for a student Setsuna! A peaceful world is always a good dream to work for, though. I tink theres an anti war demonstration group on campus you could check out.

[DAMNIT, SETSUNA WE HAVE A COVER TO MAINTAIN]

[jesus_is_gundam]

[Its not like he mentioned his Gundam. Yet.]

Its not a dream.

[video]

[croibhristeoir]

Did you lose access? I hadn't thought it that long since we last spoke...

[Things that are about to get awkward: This.]

[lockon2urheart]

Well, by my estimate I've been gone for what feels like a year at least, but...well, no offense, but are you sure we've met? You don't seem like the type who's easily forgotten.

[croibhristeoir]

...I would worry if the name of Diarmuid Ua Duibhne was that easily forgotten. But are you feeling alright? I am certain we've spoken before.

[not_that_lockon]

[ ... ahaha. hahahahaha. oh god Lyle needs a moment to laugh here because is this real life. ]

Diarmuid, meet my twin brother Neil. Neil, Diarmuid Ua Duibhne, and yes, he is that one.

[ and thus, Lyle saves Neil from the curse that has plagued the younger Dylandy twin his entire life. are you grateful for what a good brother he is Neil are you are you ]

[nonesodangerous]

This isn't one of those things where you're supposed to keep it a secret, is it?

[lockon2urheart]

Personal choice, really. There's a theory that telling people makes you more likely to follow through, but jury's still out on its effectiveness.

[nonesodangerous]

I think I might keep mine a secret, if it's all the same to you.

video;

[dulacaun]

[ ... definitely not lyle, just from the post; lyle hasn't been absent for any long stretch of time recently. so, twin brother? unfortunately, she had taken her helmet off before realising that it isn't actually lyle, and she forgets to put it back on before she responds, so neil gets the full headless experience. say hello to a living irish myth, lockon. ]

My resolution? I guess it would have to be... to get through the year with as few complications as I can. Unfortunately, something tells me that it's impossible.

Video

[lockon2urheart]

[...is her neck stump smoking wow there still is stuff out there that knocks him for six what in fuck]

[faintly]...Yeah, that's one that sounds much easier than it is.

[dulacaun]

I knew it... [ she folds her arms on the desk and slumps to one side. the smoke moves like she's sighing, but there's no sound. ] I should probably think of something more achievable, then. To stick close to my friends, maybe?

[not_that_lockon]

Our survey says Stockholm Syndrome.