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

[reillumination]

There's nothing substantial that can come off whatever mess that is. I'd sooner go with something like "Dante" or "Virgil." At least these names existed.

[ Beats him. He's from 1980s Japan. What is even a Cruella? Is it a kind of pastry or some stupid name that came to be after he was born? ]

[jailbirds]

lol "cruella"
sounds like you should be wearing stilettos and a dress with a thigh high slit

[reillumination]

Don't be an idiot. Take mine as seriously as you take yours.

[ shut up wow you don't know how good he'd look or not in that ]

[jailbirds]

haha what, you want a pretentious jp name too?
then go with ryuugamine or something
竜ヶ峰 the highest peak of dragon mountain
if fancy bullshit english names are supposed to be long, we can make long names w/ complicated kanji

[reillumination]

I can read it just fine. I grew up in Japan.

My father was an academic. Most of the Western names listed here don't even compare to the names I've seen scattered around his desk. "John Joseph Campbell" and "Thomas Randolph"? Yeah, it's only fair our names are just as flashy.

[jailbirds]

i can't even say those stupid names

ryuugamine probably works as a surname, like some kind of old blue blood family
and for a first name just
maybe 天皇??

[ tennou, emperor. ]

tennou ryuugamine, holy shit
i'd never fucking talk to a guy with a name like that

[reillumination]

It isn't worth the trouble anyway.

[ lbr satan's probably not a fan. ]

Yeah. I'll be taken as a typical human anyway in their hierarchy, so anything old blood like that should work.

[ wrong on that count. ]

I wouldn't talk to me either. It could be worse. I could have chosen 光源氏.

[ you know. hikaru genji. let's get real pretentious. ]

[jailbirds]

genji lololol

[ she's typing "wwwww" but it's getting kindly translated. ]

do your parents think they're being classy or are they just that unoriginal

[reillumination]

I'm not sure how that would sound out loud, but I'd guess it'd be hard for them to pronounce.

[ he's just assuming you've provided him another last name... what is "lololol"... help him. ]

If I had to make up a story about Genji's origins, I'd go with the former. Only the newly rich would name their child something like that.

[jailbirds]

omg it's laughter you ancient sack of bones
lololol = wwwwww = hahahaha
ꉂꉂ ( ˆᴗˆ ) like this. lolol

ohhhh i see, they're trying to sound more elite than they actually are
rookie mistake

[reillumination]

We don't use shit like that in the 80s.
But, considering how well time is working for us now, who knows how ancient I am anymore.

[ literally so old, ryo. ]

Alright. That makes sense. It figures you'd come up with some kind of shorthand.

Yeah. It's life imitating art. If we're going to use fake, "expensive" names we might as well make sure we create fake, "expensive" parents to give them.

[jailbirds]

ugh i didn't really want to think about parents
i guess i can just bullshit something that sounds like any private school alumni brat
blah blah stepped on people to climb their way to the top blah blah studied for a degree in backstabbing motherfucker
scientifically engineered for greatness lolol whatever

[reillumination]

It's easier to go shorter on the details anyway. It's harder to keep up a lie if you get too descriptive.

[ and his parents are dead, so that's fine. he gets it. ]

Considering their culture, I wonder if they already support a degree like that.

[bivariant]

It sounds like a name, unlike mine. But by all means.

[ cruella, not a cruller doughnut!! ]

"Virgil" sounds like it could cause an Aranean to choke. My vote is on that one.

[reillumination]

[ croissant?? mysterious. but, he likes the cut of your jib. ]

It probably is, unlike yours.
They really didn't leave you much to work with.

[ he says, as if he doesn't. ]

If I'm going with "Virgil," then you should pick something just as difficult if you haven't already. I'm sure I could come up with a few more with difficult sound groups.

[bivariant]

Had I a choice, I would simply go with my own name.

Can you elongate "Virgil" in any way? Add on a few more vowel-sounds? The Araneans have a consonant-heavy naming system, so I assume they may find flowing vowels an irritation. Small acts of rebellion, that could be also be used as leverage in some form.

[reillumination]

I think most of us would.

[ Not him, but that's because he's paranoid enough. ]

That's a fair question. Virgil was an ancient, Roman poet that Dante admired. His full name was "Publius Vergilius Maro." Counting up all the vowels, that's nine in total.

I think they'd struggle with that one, don't you? That one alone could give anyone a leg up.

[ haha get it leg ]

[bivariant]

I'd like it, but it is a foolish hill to die on. An alias is the least that we have been asked to endure, considering our etiquette lessons. Our attire. Our dueling. Our hygiene. This might be the only fun we'll have in our lives for a while.

So, yes. Vergilius Maro is a clever and wicked name to ask an Aranean to work with. That gives you -- a leg up on what?

[ please explain ]

[reillumination]

That's a good point. I don't have much time to play anymore, so maybe this will do good to remind me.

[ Everything's business these days. ]

I had another suggestion. Combining the two could make saying it even more pleasant.

[ There's a small pause. ]

Forget it. It's a joke. They have eight legs, right? If we're going to make sure to have leverage on the spiders, might as well metaphorically work with what they've got.

[bivariant]

How so? Virgiliusmaro?

[ she doesn't quite get how these names FUNCTION ]

So, they are technically the ones with a "leg up" on us. As they have six legs more than us. Excluding the two men who are part horse.

[reillumination]

No. It's something more like Vergilius Maro Ryuugamine or Tennou Vergilius Maro. Both sound about right.

[ he's in so much pain right now. but, at the same time... ]

It's true they have more legs, but two more horsemen and we'll have a full set for the end of this mission.

[bivariant]

Oh. The second, then.

[ he didn't ask for your opinion cheris omg ]

Is a full set of horse-men a requirement? I thought we were to preserve COST's alliance with the Araneans. Has it been amended? I do not know where to find two more horse-men, I'll have to search the library for this information.

[reillumination]

I'll take one vote for the second then.

[ it's fine. ]

Who knows? Even if we're planning to behave well for now, isn't it always better to have a backup plan we can unseal later?

[bivariant]

[ hmm.................. ]

That is what we're being asked for. Plans within plans, hidden within plans, behind false plans, surrounded by lies. It's all very complicated. Do you think you'll be able to keep up with it all?

[reillumination]

With enough motivation, even a mess like that can be kept.

[ he'd know that one, even if sometimes these plans aren't so much plans as they are last ditch and wild efforts. at least the primary secret is still stowed. ]