text. anon.

[flightforfreedom]

[ With BB-8's help he scrambles his ID for this, but everyone else will show up with their usual IDs unless they have abilities to the otherwise. ]

so uh

does anyone else have a power that they don't use exactly so much as it just happens and when it happens it affects other people

i mean it affects me too but not the point

do you know how to control it? is there someone who can teach me?
bonus points for mind-based stuff - i'm not setting anything on fire in the literal sense
just the metaphorical one

before you suggest it, power dampeners aren't an option

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text; un: 160.41.202.189

[subroutined]

[ Green scrambles his ID by using a random IP, less so because he wants to stay anonymous and more because, well, when in Rome... ]

I've one. It happens whenever someone draws a weapon near me, whether it's to use against me or to use to defend me. The weapon gets turned into a toy.
It's either useful or frustrating, depending whose weapon it is.

[flightforfreedom]

that's

a weird one

but at least you aren't hurting anyone? potentially

you're still disarming you enemy in the same way you're disarming your friends

[subroutined]

It only works close up, though.
Doesn't do much against weapons like guns that are more than three metres away.

[flightforfreedom]

okay, significantly less useful




always keep your friends 3.1 metres away?

[subroutined]

I suppose that could work...

Sounds lonely, though.

[flightforfreedom]

yeah honestly sounds pretty hellish

maybe just in dangerous situations

i have no idea what the range on mine is - and just avoiding my friends forever really isn't an option either

[subroutined]

I just try to stay out of any fights.
I don't always have a choice, though.

What's yours do?

--> private

[flightforfreedom]

yeah this place doesn't make that easy

it uh...[ He doesn't really want to out himself here, so he switches to private. ]

it makes people say things they don't want to say

like really don't want to say

completely randomly

permaprivate

[subroutined]

Oh. Yes, I can see how that would make things uncomfortable.
You might end up learning things about people that you didn't want to know.
Or that they didn't want you to know.

[flightforfreedom]

yeah

already got that established

though it's the latter i'm most worried about

if my friends aren't telling me something they've probably got a good reason for it

[subroutined]

I wonder...

I wonder if there's someone here who can make people forget things.

That way your friends' secrets would be safe. You could just see this person and forget you ever heard it.

[flightforfreedom]

no

no absolutely not

i am not letting anyone in my head like that

sorry just

no

and that's assuming i even realised they didn't want to say it

[subroutined]

Oh.

[ He's said something wrong. Again. Stupid. ]

I'm sorry.

Forget I said it.

Or... Don't.

[ Since he doesn't seem to want to forget anything.

Green can't relate. There's a lot he'd like to forget. Sometimes he thinks about wiping certain things from his memory saves, but he doesn't have that kind of administrator permission. ]

I don't suppose you can warn people ahead of time?
Like "Hello, my name is [user], and before you say anything, just know that this might happen around me."

[flightforfreedom]

no it's fine
even a good idea

just can't do it.


i did warn them

don't think it helps

i don't think people think they have secrets or things they don't want to say, necessarily
sometimes we just don't say everything because it would be unnecessarily hurtful

but who's gonna go "you're right, guess we can't hang out anymore"

[subroutined]

Sometimes the things that don't get said are just as hurtful.

I know it might not seem like it, but I think I would rather know what someone really thinks than be told a lie over and over.
Or told nothing.

[ He can't help but think of Martha. ]

[flightforfreedom]

even if it meant you lost them

[subroutined]

If they left over something like that, were they really worth keeping?

[flightforfreedom]

'something like that' covers

covers a lot of things

sometimes knowing something just
changes things

[subroutined]

Things change a lot.
Things that don't change aren't right, or loved.

[ Androids don't change. ]

I don't think just because something changes, that means it's gone.

[flightforfreedom]

i would pretty emphatically disagree

the porter changes our lives every day
and they are definitely gone


i'm not saying things don't change
because they do

but forcing something to change when it doesn't need to and no one wants it to because of a stupid fucking power definitely isn't something anyone should have to deal with

[subroutined]

No. It isn't.

But you do anyway.

[flightforfreedom]

yeah



fuck

i know

hence the desperate network plea

[subroutined]

[ There's a pause before the next reply. Not a very long one, because Green thinks in microseconds. But none of the previous replies had any pause at all. So in comparison, it's ages. ]

I hope you find help.

And if you ever want someone who isn't afraid to talk to you, even if I might say something I don't want you to know.
You can talk to me.

[flightforfreedom]

thanks


though that might be difficult given that i have no idea who you are

un: Ash Starmer | Green Newman

[subroutined]

Oh, right.

[ He disconnects, and reconnects under his own access point. ]

My name is Green.