IC ANON MEME

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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

[unrecovered]

My history with Epsilon or my friendship with York?

[goddamngrenades]

Yes.


Could you? Did you. And did it take long?

[unrecovered]

[He sighs. This isn't going to be easy to talk about or to hear.]

Delta, what you have to understand is that I didn't know Epsilon. For years, he was just the thing that ruined me. It wasn't until he talked with someone else - someone he didn't interface with - and started becoming his own person that I even started thinking of him as one. Forgiving him took years. [And he'd only managed it not too long before Epsilon' death. Go figure.]

But you and York aren't in the same situation. You've been partners for years, and I think he understands that you were pretty much brainwashed. It's going to take time before he can trust you again, but I think he will. The best thing you can do is give him some space and make an appointment with Dr. Ryk'rr.

[goddamngrenades]

...is there an option that does not involve speaking to the doctor?

He'll take that one, thanks.

[unrecovered]

No.

One, it's mandatory for everyone who was on the Silent Horizon, and that includes you. Two, you need it.

If it makes you feel better, I can come with you.

[goddamngrenades]

my status as an individual person is questionable.

[ Now is totally the time to play 'i'm a fragment and human rules aren't for AI' right? Right. ]

York will require it. I will not.

[unrecovered]

[Wrong.]

Okay, one? You can't have your cake and eat it too. You're either a person or you're not - you don't get to switch when it's convenient.

And two, York isn't the one who lost his goddamn mind all over his partner, outside influence or not. You want him to trust you again, you take the steps to fixing yourself. Refusing therapy is not a good way to earn his trust back.

[goddamngrenades]

It was a flaw in my programming, one I mean to isolate and correct- or if not correct, remove entirely.

[ He's totally got this figured out. ]
Talking with a therapist will not help.

[unrecovered]

[He hates doing this. He really hates doing this.]

Delta. Side effect of Epsilon's breakdown: I have all of his memories. Which means I have the Alpha's memories. Which means I have the Director's memories. You don't have flawed programming; you have trauma, and some of it's intentionally induced. You can't just program that away. And you don't know that talking with a therapist won't help, because you've never talked with a competent therapist.

Refusing help is not a good way to get York to trust you again.

[goddamngrenades]

then you have more need of it than I, you've always needed it, but have not attended yourself outside of instances where you were ordered to do so.

[unrecovered]

No shit. Everyone who went through Project Freelancer needs therapy, and you're not an exception!

But I was ordered to go, and I went. You've been ordered to go, and instead of doing it, you're sitting here arguing with me. You don't get to hold shit over my head right now, so quit trying.

[goddamngrenades]

...in my preoccupation with my current state and York's absence I may have not received that particular memo.

[ And there goes his moral high ground. ]

[unrecovered]

No kidding.

[Here is a link to Kid Q's briefing. Look at all the excuses you no longer have.]

Like I said: I'll go with you if you need me to.

[goddamngrenades]

I reserve the right to end the session if inquiries to irrelevant classified material are made.

[ Of course a lot of his shit is, unfortunately, relevant- but. ]

[unrecovered]

That's not my decision to make. Take it up with Kid Q and Dr. Ryk'rr.

^^^ Omnicom Conversation, whoops. >_> sorry anons

[goddamngrenades]

...That does not inspire confidence.

[unrecovered]

I don't make the rules. You know that.

[goddamngrenades]

None of us ever have.

[unrecovered]

That's what happens when you sign on to someone else's program.

[goddamngrenades]

I did not sign on. I simply agreed it'd be a good way for York to spend his time. Isolation does not suit him.