DREAMNET #1

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DREAMNET

Welcome to DreamNet!
To assist you in your goal of making meaningful connections, once in a while, you'll be asked a fun question designed to spark conversation, with the opportunity to share your answers with fellow dreamers!

Today's question is...

What is a completely unnecessary hill that you are absolutely willing to die on?

Examples include things like "pineapple on pizza" or this dress DEFINITELY being white and gold.

Post this in a comment to answer!

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[delinquent_track]

You can't be a model forever, you know?! Just you wait until parts start sagging, widening and wrinklin'!

[maragiidyne]

what, of course i can... there are supermodels that are way old, you know! and i'm going to be one of the best! so even when i'm older, i'm going to be awesome! so there.

[delinquent_track]

Oh please. Give it a season, and they'll find someone with a 'fresher' face and there ends the short career of Ann Takamaki.

Do you know how hard it is to get that famous? It's practically impossible.

[maragiidyne]

oh, whatever. i'm already working hard to get on the top and replace mika, i've even got wayyy more callbacks than her lately!

and, like, what have *you* done lately? big, fat, N O T H I N G

[delinquent_track]

WHAT? I can't believe you're even asking me this!

You know what I've been doing, and... it was a lot more important than some silly job where you pose in front of a camera!

[maragiidyne]

this is my career, you jerk! it's not just some silly job.

( totally ignoring what he's been doing. )

[delinquent_track]

Oh come off it, who are you kiddin'? It's like the easiest job in the universe.

[All the intricacies he doesn't understand]

You know what guys are going to be doing when they look at your photos right? Have you even thought about that?

[maragiidyne]

what! it's not as easy as people think, you know! actually, you don't know because you're head is so far up your own ass, you wouldn't know what a hard day of work is like if you were actually paid to work one.

ugh, what the hell!? i'm not a model for pinups or something, you pervert! teen girls fashion magazines! that's my thing! or are you speaking from experience, skeeve-bag!?

[delinquent_track]

Are you serious?! It... might not have been a job, no.. but I've worked hard before! You think this body maintains itself?! Ok, so... heh.. no practical application for it, sure. Not after.. everything, but it counts!

Like it matters! Everyone has a fetish.

That's not what I meant at all!?

[... but he has totally checked Ann out before]

[maragiidyne]

yeah and you haven't been doing that "job" in like foreverrrrrr. the others are working to forge on their careers, like, you know, Mako-chan and Haru-chan! meanwhile, you're the best at eating ramen and running your mouth.

yeah, well my fetish is shaking bleach blonds until they're so dizzy, they can't move right now...

oh *bullshit*!

[delinquent_track]

You know what? It must be great having your life all planned out before you, but some of us don't have that luxury, ok? Oh man- those really are some of the only things I'm good at...

[Please excuse this bleached blond as he has a mild existential crisis. The Phantom thieves were... really the only thing he had going since the whole athletics thing was stopped short]

Huh? What was that? I think we've got a bad connection. Everything is coming through garbled.

[Yeah, that's believable when you don't alter your own message]

[maragiidyne]

what? no, come on, you're good at other things... ( oops, ann feels bad! ) you super helped me out at the gym! you could be, like, a personal trainer or like one of those dudes that help people feel awesome... ummm, oh! a motivational speaker!

...or you can just start running again, rebuild leg muscle and basically rub it in kamoshida's face that you're an awesome, badass...

( ryuji pls. )

ffs sakamoto this is text

[delinquent_track]

I don't know, sometimes I just get to thinking about things and ... ugh. Forget it. [Even someone who was usually so carefree, occasionally had his doubts] I can't believe there actually are people that just get paid to talk.. but hey both of those sound like I could work independently.. [Let's face it, he doesn't enjoy having an authority figure over him]

Oh I'm already planning on that. I'll show that bastard that he can't dictate the course of anyone's life anymore!

[He has strong opinions about said former PE Teacher]

Really? It never works like that? Huh.. well, you'd still have to find me first!

[maragiidyne]

lol well you're a pro at talking so it'd be right at your pace.

damn right he can't. lets not waste our breath on him though. or, like, our keystrokes.

( she, too, has strong opinions of that asshole.

...he has a point there, though. maaaan, she was winning! she glances up from her phone to look around as though by some miracle he'd be in view as her chin sets to the palm of her other hand but... blond, hunched over and loud... what the hell are the chances!? she gets up, flicking one of her pigtails and slowly, quietly approaches from behind. once close enough, she taps him on the shoulder-- )

You mean find you like this? Boo~

[delinquent_track]

Wasted enough time on that asshole to last a lifetime.

[It seemed like their conversation was wrapping up to him, so Ryuji was just tapping in a "later" when he felt something on his shoulder. Emitting a gasp, and jumping to his feet he whipped around to face her]

Gah! You shouldn't sneak up on people like that! Were you just standing behind me the whole time?!

[maragiidyne]

( she snerks. )

Just stealth-ing around like some mad pro! ( she smirks. ) But nah, not the whole time ... just right now, actually. Miss me? 'Course you did!

[delinquent_track]

Don't give yourself too much credit- with the way this place keeps changing it probably just warped you here when you were thinking about me.

[Does it work that way? Probably not]

And.. uh.. about that. Are we ever gonna talk about how effed up all of this is?

[maragiidyne]

Weird, I wonder if that's how it happened... Creepy.

( yeah, probably not the way it happens. she folds her arms and glances off with a shrug. )

Honestly, I thought it was some weird Meta-thing but that doesn't seem to be the case, huh? What do you think is happening here anyway? ( she sighs. ) I wish Ren or Morgana were here, they might manage to put two and two together faster than us.

[delinquent_track]

Got me, I don't get any of this.

[Per the uzhe]

That's what I thought too... [He rubbed one hand against the back of his neck] .. Like maybe somehow we screwed up, but that couldn't be it right? Ugh, but all of this is supposed to more of that collective consciousness crap, isn't it? I hate to admit it, but even I'd like to hear what that furball would say about this.

[maragiidyne]

Yeah, it does feel like that whole cognition of the people, type of thing. ( she waves her hands to emphasize. ) Ugh... man, this is going to make my head hurt if I try to figure it out... should we, like, look for signs of a palace or something?

( what do, sakamoto? gieb input pls. )

[delinquent_track]

Mine too. [He was never the ideas man of the group...] If this was really a palace though, wouldn't our clothes have changed?

[Look at this boy, he's trying to think]

Have you tried calling your Persona?

[.. then ruining that by saying confidential things outloud in the middle of everything]

[maragiidyne]

Well, only if we're seen as a threat, right? ( he's always been the one to say things out loud and at inconvenient times. after all, it was largely because of him that makoto found them out. but! they've both been talking about things out loud more than they should. she shakes her head. ) I haven't, you?

[delinquent_track]

[Ryuji emitted a groan]

Oh, you're right! I forgot that part. This trying to be the leader stuff is way harder than Ren makes it look.

[Lol, sure Ryuji. Like anyone thinks you're the leader]

No, I haven't, I was too busy freaking the hell out.

[maragiidyne]

Uhhh… who died and made you leader, exactly? ( scoffs. ) But no, it’s not that easy. Mostly cause I was freaking out, too… guess we can’t do that until we’re seen as a threat anyway, right? Damnit!

[delinquent_track]

Uh, noone but I'm the obvious choice, right? [He narrowed his gaze as he searched her face for an affirmative answer] I was literally the first person to join the thieves... well.. after Ren and Morgana.

It's not that I want to be leader, too much responsibility.

[Then a sigh later] So... we're just sitting ducks..