FROM: @WEHFRIED || TO: @ALL (backdated like hell, aka before spiderland)

[gerechtigkeit]

Before Gallipoli, it was discussed that we should come up with aliases to call each other, and have backstories to speak of while there was downtime in the war. At the time, we knew the Regency was there, but they wouldn't be so visible. It was enough to not be asked too much by the natives of the time, and allowed us the conditions we needed to blend in as a unit of reinforcements that was beached at the wrong location.

The situation may be different here, but I'd suggest we come up with different aliases from before, considering we'll be facing the Regency out in the open. Using your actual name isn't suggested- it could cause problems and endanger the rest of this cell if you do so. Try to pick something you'll remember easily enough.

Feel free to suggest names and ideas for yourselves, or help others. The BCE has a list of them you can pick from. The sooner we can compile a list, the easier it will make it for all of us to recall while in the middle of the mission.

[Boy, talking like this is a reminder of speaking with soldiers before battles. That was a long time ago, and he's getting back into the hang of it. Also, guess who's bad at suggesting names? THIS GUY. Thankfully, the BCE has a posh name generator that can be found here.]

Comments

[lefthandfree]

I mean.

Are you trying to say you would rather look like a Franny?

I’m getting mixed signals here.

[whitehair]

yeah people tell me that a lot

idk, what do you wanna talk about

[whitehair]

boring

choose something so fake that it's obvious

[jailbirds]

lololololol think we can pimp you out?

someone should clean you with a lint roller
like a cat ㅇㅅㅇ

[lefthandfree]

[Unfortunately, Bucky here has no idea why he's being so curt with him now when their usual conversations tend to drift and flow all on their own. It's a jarring change. But through the hours of conversation they've had since meeting, it's slipped him by entirely that he never gave Henry his BCR username. So. Here we are. Bucky confused as to his rather close friend's suddenly cold disposition toward him when things have been fairly par for the course for them recently.

Well, with one small exception...]

I know it’s not. And you know it’s not too. I don’t get why you’re being so difficult right now.

Is something wrong? Is this because of the other night?

1/2

[handsomefoil]

[ Squints into the screen. Other night? What does that mean, who did he see the other night? Maybe it wasn't the exact other night, maybe it was two nights ago, maybe it was-- ]

Other night?

[lefthandfree]

Really? Sounds like you’re either too mean or too nice. Or both.

Dunno. You ready for the mission? [Small talk mode: engage.]

2/2

[handsomefoil]

[ Of course it's always when he first submits something that he realizes who it is. Without fail. Always makes shit awkward, whoops. He'll have to properly apologize to the guy. This was probably the only other person he could think of that he had an encounter with of any sensitive nature (though not really in his book), and there were only so many people he had those with. Not to mention he already knows Arthur's UN.

Then again, he had no idea this was James!! ]

My tone must've seemed very off-putting just now, didnt it.

I'll be honest
I thought you were a troll
So to speak
If you've caught up on any modern lingo, anyway
I'm sorry about that
Didn't realize it was you!

[whitehair]

have you even seen a gun before you dumbass

[whitehair]

it's a secret code

[lefthandfree]

[Well, the suspense probably could have killed him if it lasted long enough. Like. Y’know. If Henry never replied after that, which could very well have happened if he had somehow rubbed Henry the wrong way suddenly without realizing it (people are fickle after all). But it’s good that even though there was a wait anyway that the sudden succession of replies probably means he’s not in the doghouse or whatever.

Actually, the way Henry replies is kinda cute. Guy’s properly embarrassed, and Bucky can’t even think of when he’s even seen the guy even a little bit flustered. He smiles to himself as he replies.]

Sorry. I thought I’d mentioned my username to you before, but I guess I hadn’t. We talk about too much, haha.

That’s one of those people that just writes stuff to upset people, right? I dunno about you, but I’d like to hope nothing I said really bordered on that. I’m just teasing, y’know.

But, yeah, hey. It’s me, haha. Sorry for the mixup.

[reillumination]

You got it.

I'm certain you'll hear it in person. It'll take a while.

[ pride will hold them for a couple go-rounds, he's sure. it's bound to be more amusing that way too. ]

@BOARING | text

[lonelywar]

[This might actually be perceived as a "late response" to this thread, as it takes Ashitaka some time to decide whether or not he wished to share it. In the end, he decides he should do so.]

When I was a captive of the Regency, and when I was speaking to Kebuchet myself, I noticed that they seemed to know everything about me. Not only my name. Not only the circumstances of my life, but the events in the world that it tied into.
They knew everything.

In a moment of despair, I asked if this meant that our fighting was pointless, and I recalled what happened to Xici. Perhaps it was a mistake to do such a thing, but I was not thinking clearly at the time.
Kebechet said that the erasure of a single person from history was a violation of an accord the Regency had made. They did not seem to believe what I told them.

I am not so foolish to believe that Kebechet was telling me the truth. So do not enlighten me of this; I know.
But this is a different war to be fought than the one in Gallipoli and France. If I do not need to take on another name to blend in, I do not see the purpose in taking any other name but my own.
If it is only the Regency we worry about, they would see through it regardless.

I am unsure if their knowledge extends to everyone. I would be unable to speak to the wisdom of concealing your identity in the future. I only speak for myself, and for what I was told.

[He's never been very good for pretending anyway.]

[whitehair]

hell no I'm not ready

[faenthras]

Did the same thing happen last time?

[faenthras]

[ NO FUCK YOU. ]

How exactly is taking a fake name supposed to protect us?

[handsomefoil]

[ He's just not used to always being caught off-guard like this. He's mistaken people before in the past, especially when there was no face to match with a nonsensical username, but never over something like this. Whoops...

Alright, lets regain some composure here.]

Yeah thats right
I mean, it could've been taken as low key trolling at its worst
But trolling nonetheless if you were someone other than
well
you
So
Yes, I realize this now.

No worries.
So, why did they chose Bucket for you?
Do you know?

[faenthras]

Reasonable, of course.

[ / D O U B T. ]

[whitehair]

don't think so unless you wanna pay premiums on them getting their faces ripped off

If it works I'll do it

[whitehair]

I ain't gonna hang around with a person calling themselves vir-whatever

[reillumination]

Using your ears isn't the same as coming with me.
You seem like you were hoping I'd ask you.

@SWORDARTONLINE

[prizeneck]

i dont get it
in galipolli we had to be under an anzac disguise sure but
i thought here we were representing cost
how would them knowing our names be a danger

[jailbirds]

damn that's brutal!
you sound pretty badass haha

now where the fuck would we find a lint roller

[whitehair]

can't assume shit like that man

[whitehair]

nah not really

a droid?