DE: Dear Mun/Pup

[bjornwilde]

I woke up late and so am running out the door but before I go, a quick DE inspired by the dear_mun  comm:

Write a letter either as one of your pups to you or as you to a pup. And feel free to include characters you are thinking of playing. And while we're at it, feel free to comment on any of the letters either as a character or a mun. Guess that fourth wall isn't completely fixed yet.

[As always, if you have any ideas for DEs, feel free to leave them here.]

Comments

[boston_bruiser]

Yo. Dude. Just because I made out with Barlow for, like, five seconds doesn't give you the right to start thinking up death scenes for me.

For fuck's sake, numbnuts! I have new canon coming out in October! 'sides, the curse's in her head, anyway, and you could turn this into something really fuckin' profound if you just stop thinking of ways to kill me off. I mean, like, I dunno, redemption, forgiving yourself, forgiving your past, all that good shiiii...


...you're not listening, are you.

[bornuntotrouble]

So you've got a two-hundred page document in Word detailing every single aspect of Voodoo's backstory and every single plot idea you've thought of?

And you're waiting until his new canon comes out in October to actually go anywhere Millicanonically with him?

And the release date is still over two months away?

Here's a thought, kid. Dedicate your time and energy to playing out the canon that's already finished.

Wouldn't hurt to start up a plot document for me neither, I guess. And you could stand to get me out and playing some more. Maybe in the sandboxes.

You know, sometime before the sun explodes.

[ever_lovin]

Dear Mun;
I love the stuff you've managed to write outta canon to make me look like less a tool than the guys at Marvel. You've done a great job o' keepin' me me. An' I know the whole thing was kind intense fer ya so how's about we have some fun now? Ya know a little lighthearted adventure?

[crazyfurries]

Dear Ben,

How d'ya feel about taking a kid who doesn't get much quality time with his biological parents to a REAL NYC baseball game? Or is that too light for a light-hearted adventure?

PS: Your mun is awesome for how he handled the chop-job of the marvel writers.

[ever_lovin]

I think that can be arranged. In fact, I think that would be down right perfect.

PS: Hey mun, yer gonna have ta learn about Baseball now.

[bjornwilde]

Dear Newish Pup:
1) you know my roaster is full now right?
2) I have never fired a gun in my life and the sheer amount of knowledge about ballistics I would have to fake is staggering.
3) I still haven't figured out how you would see the vampires within Milliways. Weird Necromancers is likely my safest bet but it's still something I need to figure out.
4) I do love you, don't look at me like that. I'll get a sandbox post up soon, I swear.

[chime_ra_tilt]

Oi. Oi. You.

You say you still want me around, well how about letting me see the light of day once in a while? Hanging around in limbo while you play with your little baker and cat-thing isn't helping me get my human body back any quicker. I have more useful things I could be doing.

[sky_child]

Dear Link,











I...



.........


............

.?????/



WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM!?

Lovingly,
Your Mun

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Dear Mun-

It's okay.

No, really, it's okay.

Look, I know you're kind of thinking it's weird, but... okay, stop for a minute and think about who else you've got in here with me. You put a lot of effort into shaping and playing characters who're recognizably the products of their environments. You know that the society somebody grows up in shapes the way they think whether they like it or not. And you know that sometimes, you're going to play somebody from a very different society who thinks very differently from you. Not just in the Dr. Solus kind of way, where you've got a hyper-genius from a society of ninety percent male amphibian bipeds who sleep one hour out of twenty-five and live forty years at the most, either. That kind of thing you can write off as 'oh, aliens', and it's easy.

I grew up in a closed system, a surveillance society. I grew up somewhere I could always see the ceiling and where I was never more than twenty feet away from a wall. You've reflected that pretty well, I think. Thank you for making the effort. But that's only part of it, and I really think you're going to need to face up to the rest of it.

Some people just don't have the urge to be romantic, or to be physically intimate. That happens, that's normal. Dad mentioned that you got that a lot in the Vault, probably because of closed conditions making it really hard not to see the people around you as family members. Maybe you thought that'd go away once I got out onto the surface. It didn't. I'm still not interested in that. These things happen. But the thing is that I still want to do the right thing by- well, not my country, there isn't one any more, but by my people, I guess. The gene pool in Vault 101 was pretty small, and nobody could afford to stay out of it unless they had medical issues. The gene pool on the surface is bigger, but not particularly healthy- it doesn't help that people were being carried off by mutants or killed by raiders all the time. It's important to get married and have children, at replacement rate (given the hazards of surface life I'm thinking replacement rate is at least three children per adult woman's lifetime) or better. And I'm okay with that.

Fiction is full of cases where someone has to get married for a particular reason, or has to deal with a massive social expectation, and then runs into something that convinces them not to do it that way. I had to read the literary classics pretty much as much as you ever did. I've seen it over and over. I've seen the vids and the plays, too. I'm pretty sure it's impossible in Western literature for someone to enter into a marriage out of a sense of duty without either ending up miserably tragic, or running off with the passionate love of their lives and leaving the other party high and dry. But, you know... for an awful lot of human history, people didn't marry based on romance. And an awful lot of those people wound up pretty happy in the end. Not in a settle-for-the-best-of-a-bad-situation way, either. They wound up with pretty good deals, either by chance or by calculated arrangement.

I'm okay with this. I'm not incapable of romance, I'm just not interested in it, and I don't particularly want to try to be. If there are guys out there who're okay with that idea too, then go ahead and introduce me. There's nothing wrong with two adults coming to an agreement and winding up happy about it. Growing up in Vault 101 means that I got inculcated with certain values and expectations, and while I pushed a number of them away there are others that sank in and stayed with me. The idea that it was your duty to society to get married and have kids for the sake of the human race's future is one of those. It's not going away.

You're the one who wanted to play out the implications of someone from a genuinely weird post-nuclear society. Deal with those implications.

That being said, I think your idea involving what happens when I go back to the Pitt with the robots is completely insane, but I don't suppose you're going to listen to me on that front.

-Ellen

[no_vampires_plz]

Dear Mun,

Calm down.

Seriously. I know it sucks to have this freelance assignment dumped on you at the last minute, but you can handle it. It's not going to take as much time as your client thinks it will, and even if it does, the world won't come to an end if you can't roleplay for a while. Step back, go read something, and relax. You'll feel better, trust me.

Your faithful muse,
Twilight Sparkle

[badboybutterman]

dear mun,

remember me?

i would very much like to play again soemday.

i think it would be fun.

maybe other people would think it would be fun also.

too bad nicholas aint here no more or else it would be the most funnest thing ever but since he aint i guess you can do a reboot thingie and that would be OK too.

OK i think thats all.

cheers,
pc danny butterman

[afullmargin]

*gasp* (I would seriously fall out for some Danny - even without Nicholas.)

[psyched_you_out]

HI. JUST SAW THIS. LET'S RAP.

(... yes, that totally merited capslock. >.>)

[sparkinsam]

Listen, I'm flattered that you like me so much but I don't know what you think you're going to do with me. I don't even think you know what you're going to do with me.

There aren't a whole lot of people that find discussions about the weather interesting. Believe me, it's my life. I know.

[death_gone_mad]

Dear Mun,

Stop forcing me to play nice. I am the Queen of Badassery.

... stop giggling when I say that. Seriously. Stop. I will kill you in your sleep.

...

LEARN TO WRITE ACTION SCENES!

[luvs_yogurt]

(ooc: Because I live to be behind. No, really.)

Mun,

Look... I know we've been playing the same year of canon for a while now and you're scrambling to make things work without important principal cast...

But really? You're kind of killing me here. Eventually you're going to have to just bite the bullet and let me start finding out who burned me. No matter how many times I go to other worlds, no matter how many people I help - I will not rest until you know what happens.