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[oblige]

Good day, fellow Etrayans.

Concerning Antigone's warning regarding our real names, it occurs to me that we would benefit from collaborating on this front.

To that end, I wish to open discussion.

For those who have chosen a name, please respond with what you have selected, that we may know what to call you.

For those who have not, you may use this posting to discuss your ideas or invite suggestions from others.

As for myself, I shall be using "Lucien", the name of a character from a novel in my world.

Mission Names
Dion → Lucien
Antigone → Shadow
Dwayne → Harry M'Egg
Jayce → Prometheus
Sunday → Dominicus
Prompto → Vesper
Odin → Joss
Mayuko → Murasaki
Vax → Kalas
Clive → Crandall
Percival (Fredrickstein von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III) → Scanlan (Keylethus Pikegratia Taryon d’Shorthalt-Grogson, Heir to the Shattered Glory)
Samil → Whiskey
Noctgar → Navyth
Accelerator → Isuka
S.Rogers → Ruirthech
Nico → Slash Brightburn
Jason → Edmond
R.B. → Harker
Lady Vex'ahlia de Rolo → Velora
SquirrelPower → Sally Awesomelegs
Shinra → Evan
Emet-Selch → Eubulus
Vincent Valentine → Garm
Sciel → Céline
Vivi →
Gustave → Jean-Napoleon
Maelle → Esmé
Scott → James Bond / 007
Sleeper → Stevens
Joshua → Praeclarus
Zagreus → Dionysus
Gladio → Heliodorus
Apollo → Artemis
Dylan Brock → Reed Richards

Note: This list will remain available until the date of our deployment. At such time, it will be omitted as a precaution.

[ ooc: Free-for-all on responding to one another, of course. ]

Comments

[oblige]

As expected from a member of the book club.

What is it about, if I may ask?

[leastdramatic]

It's about a man who was greatly wronged and was supposed to be executed. He goes on a journey to exact revenge.

[oblige]

An avenger then, I see. I've read such tales. Oft they do not end well.

[leastdramatic]

Yup. Which is the whole point. At what point does it stop being about justice? What is one willing to sacrifice for revenge? There are a lot of different ways to answer those questions.

[oblige]

True indeed, especially when such answers may come down to perspective. One's righteous justice is another's senseless slaughter.

[leastdramatic]

Exactly. It's a lot of gray area and part of why it's a theme that gets revisited over and over again. It's compelling.

[oblige]

I expect that would hold true in a great many worlds, if not all that have literature. To explore the notion and examine it in that way is worthwhile.

[leastdramatic]

Yup. It's never black and white and everyone's got a different perspective. It's good stuff to think about while reading.

[oblige]

We are in agreement. Were more people to consider such things, it could do some genuine good.

[leastdramatic]

One of the many reasons why there's nothing wrong with being a bookworm. It helps you be a bit more worldly at least.

[oblige]

You've the right of it. I'd rather my world be larger than smaller.

For that matter, I feel it has been a great benefit being exposed to the ideas of other worlds.

[leastdramatic]

Same. It's a nice way to kill some time at least, especially in between missions.

[oblige]

Indeed, it does well to fill the time.

I've also decided to try my hand at writing, lest I exhaust the books that interest me.

[leastdramatic]

Ambitious. What're you writing about?

[oblige]

I thought to write a story about trust, in a sense. The protagonists are abruptly thrown into dire circumstance and need one another to move forward, yet they do not know one another, moreover coming from starkly different backgrounds.

Their joint venture thus begins as utilitarian and changes from there as they rely on each other and grow to see one another as more than necessity or convenience.

[leastdramatic]

A classic kind of storytelling. The key thing is making both characters compelling enough for the reader to want to follow them the entire journey.

[oblige]

Agreed. A greater story occurs around them, yet characters are the heart of a story. If one cares not what befalls them, they've no reason to continue reading.

[leastdramatic]

Exactly. Gotta be careful and not fall into the trap of being a little too love with your words when you write.

[oblige]

It wouldn't do to lose perspective. I'd only intended to write simply for the sake of doing so, for I had never had so much time as this, but others have expressed some interest in it. I shall have to see what their thoughts are and make corrections as necessary.

[leastdramatic]

What kind of work were you doing before?

[oblige]

I served as commander of the Holy Order of the Knights Dragoon.

[ Also a prince but that was less doing and more being. ]

[leastdramatic]

Fancy. You probably got a lot of experience to draw from then.

[oblige]

Mostly military and some politics. I do know quite a bit about dragons as well.

[leastdramatic]

Dragons are usually pretty fun to read about. That could be handy.

[oblige]

They're quite important to my homeland, so I've ample experience with them.

[ Plus the whole turning into one thing, but he doesn't think to mention it. ]