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maskormenace2015-06-17 08:54 pm
footnoting) wrote in maskormenace2015-06-17 08:54 pm
video.
Names, names, names.
[This is a girl who hasn't been seen on the network in-- well, in months, actually. But she's just lounging back in a chair, looking bored and disinterested, her fingers drumming against the arm of the couch.]
They're interesting things, aren't they? Out there for everyone to see, here. Unless you have the means and desire to keep them hidden. But then again, why would you? It seems to be a common theme here- that so many worlds view names as nothing more than a way to identify one person from another.
[The girl grins, and her lips stretch maybe a mite too far.]
But for some of us, there's power in names. True names. If you know how to wield it. So I wonder, just how many names have you managed to give me these last few months?
[Someone's a little pissed that a certain someone else went home. Which is why he's acting like a C list villain.]
[This is a girl who hasn't been seen on the network in-- well, in months, actually. But she's just lounging back in a chair, looking bored and disinterested, her fingers drumming against the arm of the couch.]
They're interesting things, aren't they? Out there for everyone to see, here. Unless you have the means and desire to keep them hidden. But then again, why would you? It seems to be a common theme here- that so many worlds view names as nothing more than a way to identify one person from another.
[The girl grins, and her lips stretch maybe a mite too far.]
But for some of us, there's power in names. True names. If you know how to wield it. So I wonder, just how many names have you managed to give me these last few months?
[Someone's a little pissed that a certain someone else went home. Which is why he's acting like a C list villain.]
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He considers this deeply for a moment. Hm. ]
...Well, I suppose that makes sense. [ Ironic from someone whose one and only name is Magicman doesn't really get it, but still. ] But I feel like I have a different kind of perspective on the concept of identity and doppelgangers, so you'll forgive me if the words don't hold that much weight.
[ It's kind of hard to be scared about the idea of someone being you when 1) you don't particularly care about yourself very much and 2) he already knows backups of himself exist and will be used if he ever 'dies'.
And also because 'everything that makes you you' takes on a different meaning when it's a string of code that's very hard to parse normally, because AIs. ]