IC ANON MEME

[letsgolegion]

THE IC ANON MEME RULES AND INFO ✦ Everything must be from an IC in-world perspective. The meme is specifically a Legion fandom meme. UP citizens, Legion World Staff, and Legionnaires all have access to the meme. While this meme is in the meme comm, it is real in the game universe and all the Legionnaires and the public can see it ICly. Rather than other ic anon memes where characters post starters to the meme, this meme operates like real world memes like rpanons. ✦ There are 3 ways to post. When posting as non-Legionnaires, do it anon. When posting as Legionnaires that unwisely comment unanon, just do it logged in. If posting as Legionnaires going anon, do it logged in, but mark "anon" in the subject, so we know it's anon, but can have a laugh over which Legionnaires are secretly stanning or shitposting. ✦ Not necessarily a rule, but keep in mind that attitudes in the UP are different than our world. Most people are referred to generally as "people" or "sentients" instead of species-specific terms like "humans." Most racist, homophobic, transphobic, sexist, and other "ist" attitudes are now uncommon among most species in the UP. Many sexual orientations exist, polyamory and polygamy are considered acceptable, and gender identity is very flexible. Species-based xenophobia tends to be the bigger social ill and even with that, many are against it. The species that are most disliked and distrusted are Durlans, Daxamites, and Roboticans. If you want to use them for fun, common UP cursewords are on the Legion Basics page. ✦ Beyond sticking to those basics, don't worry about getting anything "wrong." It's a meme and people tend to say stupid things on memes. You can even make up fake species and planets and details about them. The UP is huge and has lots of planets and species not mentioned in the game info. ✦ You can pretend to write things from the POV of Legion staff sharing the deets on the Legionnaires. However, they wouldn't share tactical info on the Legionnaires that could get them hurt in battle, only juicy gossip. Also, if someone is writing from the POV of Legion staff and writes something about your character that your character doesn't actually do, keep in mind that half the time people make shit up. It'll just be false gossip. ✦ Try to keep anything that can't be put behind a link sfw. While you can write someone sharing the start of their steamy slash fanfic, try to keep it limited to just part of it. Linking to fanart as if it was made in universe is a-okay, but just make sure to put it under a link and warn if it it's nsfw. Please check character ages before posting any nsfw stuff to make sure they're over 18. ✦ Feel free to get really crazy. Fandom gets crazy and fandom is no different in the glorious robot future. There are normal posters, shitposters, trolls, rpf ficcers, stans, slashers, all the same things our time has. There are macros and gifs and ongoing fake memes you can make up. There will be a few preposted topics but you can make up new ones or just have anons create new topics or troll. ✦ The meme is generally modless and has no thread-freezing. Fandom plays it dangerous in the future and the ic mod rarely intervenes, though anons sometimes try to get them to. Anon comments can be deleted by the real mods at the request of players (like say if they made a formatting mistake and want to repost) but there should be no need to delete anything beyond that since it's all IC. ✦ This anon meme is set shortly after the events of "No Sanity Clause" and "Silent Horizon." Thanks to news drones catching part of the Joker's declaration, and thanks to press conferences by the UP government, several things that happened during "No Sanity Clause" are now public knowledge: the threat of Chronoblivion and that the Legion and UP government kept it secret, that the Joker is in Legion custody and will not be released to Takron Galtos (the prison planet), and that Blue Rose is dead and will be having a funeral soon on Shanghalla. What isn't publicly known: that the Joker said Brainic 5 wasn't guilty of the original Legion disappearing and that Chronoblivion's forces were, and that the Spectre appeared as Blue Rose died and gruesomely killed her murderer, Firefly (though the Carggites that saw him may reveal this anon). As for Silent Horizon, it's publicly known: that the star drive test was a dismal failure and that much of the Silent Horizon crew died, and that the Legion saved the Robotican crew members. However, the full extent of what happened is not publicly known. (That said, people may post as anon Legion World staff spilling the beans on what happened during the mission.)

Comments

OBLIGATORY BRAINIAC 5 HATE THREAD

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, it deserves its own thread anymore. Isn't he the Legion's tactical guy? Yet, all these horrible situations keep happening where the rookies keep getting thrown in and killed and traumatized.

Somebody needs to start poking their nose in so we can find out the truth and get enough evidence to get him arrested.

Re: OBLIGATORY BRAINIAC 5 HATE THREAD

[(Anonymous)]

the new legionnaires are all pretty mindless brainiac stans, if the meme's told us anything. he probably brainwashes them all on their way in.

ANON

[strangebargains]

Nope.

Re: ANON

[(Anonymous)]

either you're a stan, or you're a brainwashed legionnaire. either way, opinion discarded.

ANON

[strangebargains]

Or alternatively, you're an idiot.

Re: ANON

[(Anonymous)]

ooh what scintillating discourse you bring us, b5 wife!

Anon

[walkingballpit]

Are you insane? He doesn't brainwash us. If he brainwashed us, we'd probably all be quiet and leave the stupid meme alone. I'd certainly give him less shit on a daily basis.

Re: Anon

[(Anonymous)]

i don't think you know how brainwashing works.

Anon

[walkingballpit]

I don't think you know how Querl works.

Re: OBLIGATORY BRAINIAC 5 HATE THREAD

[rushing_by]

Brainy wasn't at fault for the original Legion going missing. Chronoblivion was. The Joker was spouting his mouth off while he though he had the upper hand on me, Freelancer, and Justin Time.

You've been spending this entire time blaming him for something he didn't do, even accidentally.

Re: OBLIGATORY BRAINIAC 5 HATE THREAD

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds like typical Brainiac 5 stan excuses and revisionism using a handy, unverifiable source.

Thanks for proving that you can't be trusted for the truth, Flash. I really wish we had XS back.

Re: OBLIGATORY BRAINIAC 5 HATE THREAD

[rushing_by]

If she's anything like me or Iris? She'd probably be saying the exact same things I am.

Re: OBLIGATORY BRAINIAC 5 HATE THREAD

[(Anonymous)]

No.

She's got gribbles.

Re: OBLIGATORY BRAINIAC 5 HATE THREAD

[rushing_by]

Humans don't have those.

Fine, believe what you want. You'd think the fact that the original Legionnaires that are left haven't bought into the "Brainy is evil" theory would count for something, but apparently not.

Re: OBLIGATORY BRAINIAC 5 HATE THREAD

[turntex]

hes telling the truth you handflapping waste of oxygen or whatever your particular species breathes
the clown was bragging about it like minutes before we shoved his ass in that fridge
freelancer might ever have a recording of it if they can retrieve it from his helmet but said helmet took a splash of acid straight to the faceplate so well see
but at this point im kneeling at my bedside every night praying they can salvage that shit just so you fuckers will shut up already
like jesus christ the hateboner yall have for this dude is unreal
the lot of you are so pitch for brainiac youre probably getting off on these hate threads
adding another redundant and unfounded comment with one hand while you frantically work the other between your legs or tentacles or whatever
moaning his fuckin name while you climax out of sheer spite
goddamn

Re: OBLIGATORY BRAINIAC 5 HATE THREAD

[(Anonymous)]

It's awful convenient that footage is gone.

Try harder, Legionnaire.

Re: OBLIGATORY BRAINIAC 5 HATE THREAD

[unrecovered]

[Recording, sans helmet because he doesn't currently have one, and boy does he look frustrated.]

The HUD stopped recording when it was damaged. Even if I can recover footage from the memory banks, it might not have that part.

Not that it matters. Even if we put it up, they'd just call it doctored footage or whatever the equivalent here is. There's no fucking way to make them happy, so why bother. Brainy know he's innocent, and so do we, and that's going to have to be enough.

[(Anonymous)]

do you cyber justin?? that was pretty hot. got any more for us?

Re: OBLIGATORY BRAINIAC 5 HATE THREAD

[(Anonymous)]

the stanning is coming from inside the space station!!

Re: OBLIGATORY BRAINIAC 5 HATE THREAD

[bachido]

I wasn't sure about the Anywhere machine, but using it to get this information would be putting it to good use, just to get all these people to stop spreading lies.

Re: OBLIGATORY BRAINIAC 5 HATE THREAD

[isthisapidge]

Guys, these people have made up their mind. They don't care about any evidence to the contrary. Leave it alone, it'll drive you less nuts.

Re: OBLIGATORY BRAINIAC 5 HATE THREAD

[(Anonymous)]

Or maybe we just know the truth.

Re: OBLIGATORY BRAINIAC 5 HATE THREAD

[(Anonymous)]

I know this is going to have endless hateposters, because hey, anonmeme, but...seriously?

Because I've been angry at him for what looked like some serious negligence. Andromeda meant a lot to my species. She was like the role model for us Daxamites learning to live in peace with the rest of the galaxy, so yeah, hearing that he created some machine that zapped the rest of the Legion too pissed me off, even if it was an accident.

But I also think all this stuff about how evil he is is way overblown and just plays into ancient prejudices we should let go. (Like seriously, the original Brainiac has been dead for over a thousand years, come on).

So if this Chrono-whatever DID interfere, that's a big sprocking deal and we need to rethink everything.

[googledox]

[Normally he doesn't go on the meme or if he does, he posts anon. In real life he tries to act as if he has no contact with the memes, no concern for how he's seen. It's a lie, naturally. He does care about the legacy he'd built for himself, something separate and wonderful compared to the legacy of his forebears, becoming tarnished. He'd been so proud of making it so the universe regarded the name "Brainiac" as a superhero name. Maybe if he ever had children someday, it'd actually be a title worth passing down.]

[So having all this hatred directed at him has been...unpleasant. Still, he hasn't felt the desire or need to defend himself before. Now... Now he knows it wasn't his fault. More importantly, now he knows he can get them back. The Joker had said that, after all. He'd said that best part of it all was making the whole galaxy think that the only one smart enough to get them back was the person responsible.]

It's been over a year, and this entire time, I've let the galaxy natter on without a word. It felt pointless to argue against it all when everyone was so set on hating me for...what I could only see as an actual mistake. I thought I'd erred. I thought I'd overlooked something and accidentally killed or dimensionally displaced my friends.

Seeing as I've met my ancestor via time travel and he was just as horrid to me as everyone else, I at least understood why my name carries so much fear with it. What I don't understand is how the entire UP seems to have suffered from some kind of collective amnesia event that's caused them to forget every single time I've tried to protect the innocent.

But I'm not here to complain. This is instead a preemptive "I told you so." Save it in your links-lists for later.

[After spending so long acting quiet and restrained and cowed by guilt, he's done. He's done acting -- and feeling -- like a kicked puppy.]

When I inevitably help bring the missing Legionnaires home from wherever Chronoblivion and his Heralds sent them, it'll save me the time and effort of saying it then, something I'll need because I'll most likely be far too busy saving your lives for the quintillionth time.

[walkingballpit]

Good.

But I think you should say it again when it happens.