note 001 :: as the day we were born

[nobodysheroine]

Well.

The naked as a jaybird part I get - since that’s how birth works in real life. In fact, I get the goo part too (no explanation necessary, I’d hope). But can somebody, please clue me in as to what the cheer-up-emo-kid with the ridiculous sword has anything to do with being reborn? I can't tell if it's supposed to be metaphorical, ironic, or

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[twoninths]

I am sad to inform you that the young man with the sword is, boringly enough, meant for entirely practical purposes and is no way intended to represent anything. Occasionally, he actually finds it necessary to put that sword to use. Though, infrequently.

Allow me to welcome you to Edensphere, oh mysterious writer of curious Americana. I am Argent and while this is not real life, it is, perhaps, something like it. Most days, at least.

[nobodysheroine]

What I don't get is this. If you're going to take a job that entails greeting people -- re: playing at being the welcoming party -- make sure you're a people person. You know, the kind of person who likes people. Like the kind you're being paid to greet. If you're going to scowl through the whole affair, might as well get a job at the local burger shack flipping patties in the back for minimum wage.

Argent, huh? What, as in French? you're not French are you? your handwriting doesn't seem too French Don't tell me we have Frenchmen here too. egads, they're everywhere.

What do you mean this isn't real life? Life is -- isn't it? No ways around that.

[twoninths]

Ah, now to be fair to my charmingly grouchy friend, his role, as I understand it, is in fact one part supervisory and one part making sure that both new-borns and cocoons are kept safe from the unbalanced and aggressive individuals we have running about. There are others who are actually there to greet, and they are, in my experience, quite pleasant, but for Drake, this is something of side-job.

Why, yes, Argent is French, though I myself am not. Perhaps, if you have heard of France, you have heard of the small island nation which I hail from? England? Does this strike a chord? We do, I believe, have one Frenchman wondering about. Or, at minimum, someone inclined to burst into French at intervals. They do get into everything, don't they?

That, good Ran, is a very long and potentially metaphysical discussion. Perhaps not entirely suited to one's first day, hm? And modesty requires me to admit that I am not precisely the resident expert on the matter either.

[nobodysheroine]

Ah ha. So it's not so much that he is, quite possibly, the worst man for the job, but rather that he has a different job altogether. One that involves "unbalanced and aggressive individuals"? Charming, but much more up his alley. Especially given the sword.

Oh, so you're British. That explains some of it. Don't worry, I won't hold it against you. At least, not yet. Ah, a lone Frenchman. Sounds all wind-swept and romantic in theory, but I'd imagine is not so much in practice. At least, when there's only one of him, he loses all ability to swarm.

Oh don't worry about me, Argent. Metaphysics I can handle. It's the annoying girl down the hall that keeps shrieking occasionally about the squirrels and how they are hairy that will undoubtedly be the end of me.

[earth_uninstall]

Are you referring to Drake? It's his job to oversee the Hall of Beginnings and greet anyone who hatches on his watch. There's nothing more to it than that.

[nobodysheroine]

Yup, that was his name. Are all of Drake's co-workers as chipper and howdy-do, neighbor as he is? Cause if so, this place has seriously got to rethink their PR strategies.

[earth_uninstall]

That doesn't sound like him; while he can be friendly, he's not that obnoxiously upbeat.

[nobodysheroine]

Ah, and so, the inability to express sarcasm over these things rears its ugly head quickly and swiftly.

I was joking.

[limelight_slash]

Wait... a guy with a flaming sword? Who the heck is that?

Well... I don't suppose he made a mockery of your hair did he? I can't help it if mine is just the way it is.

[nobodysheroine]

Ah, it's an allusion. To the Bible. And the fall of Man. There isn't literally a guy with a flaming sword anywhere near here. You do realize that, right?

Listen, if this guy name a mockery of my hair, it'd be the pot calling the kettle black. Why, is there something up with your hair?

[limelight_slash]

Black, red and spikey without any... without me doing anything.

[nobodysheroine]

If it makes you feel better, mine's purple.

[novagravitation]

Oooohh, when I was born, I never though about the possibility of the 'sphere being a giant movie.

W-We're at least part comedy for sure!

--Hi!

[nobodysheroine]

Yeah, unfortunately all of us bit players seem to have forgotten the plot. Part comedy I think I can deal with. No promises about holding back on the running commentary, though. Doesn't help that these journals pretty much scream, "I'm a soapbox, stand on me."

Hey there. If you haven't guessed already, I'm new. I'm also Ran. And you are...?

[novagravitation]

Aw, it can't be as all bad as that sounds!

M-maybe...maybe there isn't supposed to be a plot?

Maybe we're in choose your own adventure! But then I'd want to skip ahead--

Hi Ran! New Ran? My name is Nova! Resident baker's assistant?

STARS MAKE RAN THINK OF KAROLINA (another runaway)

[nobodysheroine]

Nova. That's a pretty name. Very celestial. Like stars. Something warm. Does it have a meaning?

Ah, see now choose your own adventure I can get behind fully. The last thing I think we all need is some pushy director behind the camera trying to call all of the shots.

Baker's assistant sounds like a pretty neat job. Speaking of which, I'm now in the market for one, which is the last thing I want to think about right now. Do you know if there's an official place to start, sort of like a temp agency? Or is it every capitalist dog for himself?

[nobodysheroine]

He wasn't so much annoying as just, not what I'd expect from the Edensphere welcoming committee.

Wow, when you put it that way. Edensphere sounds just like high school.

[nobodysheroine]

Oh, somebody with people skills. Maybe somebody who can bring a little levity into what is otherwise a completely world-shattering, identity-shaking existential moment.

Well, comment still stands. Whether it's the dumb jocks laughing or just life in general -- it still reminds me of high school.