YOU ARE BEING PERCEIVED BRO (the meme)

[rank1]

Hey! You live here! You exist in this space! You are being PERCEIVED! It’s like a permissions page but goofier and we laugh together about fashion disasters and who chronically spills their protein porridge on their lap.

Fill out this goofy-ass survey! It’s fun if it’s done in-character, but I am not going to lock you in space prison if you don’t.

Name:
Height:
Build:
Distinguishing features:
Wardrobe:
How do you keep your bunk or cabin?
Daily routine:
Fav hangout spot:
Eating habits:
Product from home you’re missing the most:


<B>Name:</B> <B>Height: </B> <B>Build: </B> <B>Distinguishing features: </B> <B>Wardrobe: </B> <B>How do you keep your bunk or cabin? </B> <B>Daily routine: </B> <B>Fav hangout spot: </B> <B>Eating habits: </B> <B>Product from home you’re missing the most: </B>

Comments

[aposeme]

Yeah.

[They both grew up in the right years to be total fucking nerds about this on the internet.]

Okay, so. I don't even know what Earth is. Disney's not the guy's name, it's just a big company where I'm from that's got a monopoly on entertainment and aggressively sanitizes everything it touches. Ruthless copyright lawyers. Cult of personality around the founder. Cartoon movies. That kind of thing.

Instagram - that stuff is getting translated along with the rest of English, because if I say the actual name you won't know what in the hell I'm talking about even though we're both trying to communicate about like, a social media website that has pictures and albums and diet pill scams.

[Volk makes a circling gesture.]

All of this shit is happening without my consent, by the way.

[thats because you arent real]

[rank1]

What the fuck? Kind of cool to know all those theories about alternate universes really were that straightforward, but jeez, kind of says a lot about how inevitable some shit is if we all end up in the same place, right? We're all slaves to social media and algorithms and some moron trying to convince you to tape a seed to your ear to improve your concentration. And then there's some kids' movie with princesses.

You're always on about that consent stuff. Like, no one asked to be here. And you're not wrong, but did any of us ask to be anywhere?

[aposeme]

It's -

[LOOK AT THIS GRAPH I MADE ABOUT IT ACTUALLY IM REALLY EXCITED TO TALK ABOUT THE PARTS WE HAVE AND HAVEN'T WORLDBUILT YET WE HAVE A DISCORD SERVER AND THE PLOT ACTUALLY COVERS ABOUT THREE HUNDRED YEARS BUT VOLK IS ONLY ALIVE FOR A COUPLE OF THEM]

Shut up. No one wants to see the graph.

What do you mean? Like being born? Yeah, no shit. I didn't want that either, and every day I wish it hadn't happened.

[rank1]

[Travis isn't sure he'd understand the graph even if he saw it, but hey, who doesn't love media made by people who are super passionate about it? That shit is infectious. It makes for good storytelling.

Anyhoo.]

I was thinking like "you can make whatever you want out of whatever you get", but uh... you okay, bro?

[aposeme]

You know what, what if I am? What if it's me that has some perspective on how fucked up life is, and the rest of you are dysfunctional?

I don't know how to make shit out of being kidnapped, Travis.

[rank1]

Shit, me neither, but that doesn't mean I wish I was never born. I'm a pretty twisted person but if I wanted to not exist I'd have a bigger problem than being on this stupid fucking ship.

[aposeme]

It's not me that's twisted. Do you know how many people are depressed? Like three hundred million people and rising? What's going on when you have to drug the shit out of three hundred million people just so that they'll shut up about how life is a fucking nightmare?

But being kidnapped is like, urgent.

No, wait. I made it sound sarcastic. It, it actually is urgent. I want to go home. They're going to sell my stuff off.