kenoma | the yassification begins, voice

[oomfies]

[ Hello everybody, are you ready for the wildest thing to hit your brain this afternoon? It's Lottie! This time not giving in and resorting to text, and post giving herself the pep talk of her life to introduce this idea to all her fellow baddies™ (literally). ]

Hii! Hope I'm not interrupting anything by posting this since I know we're all busy adjusting. I'm Lottie Person, and I was thinking over some things about the war and all that stuff..

We really need to start working on our image. If we want to make sure people don't leave and join the other side, or think we're bad people, we have to rebrand. Thankfully, I'm pretty experienced in PR [ she isn't ] so I'm putting this thing together for the Regent.

Soo, send me your best selfie!

Thanks. TTYL!

[ Yes, you WILL hear a kissie sound at the end of this post. ]

Comments

[zauneyete]

[ He can shrug off the suggestion. He wondered if she heard something, but if others could hear, perhaps she's concerned about letting that one get out. It's logical.

He'll perhaps ask later. ]

Do I have to wear lipstick? [ Lottie, it's really hard to tell if he's joking or not in this moment. ]

[oomfies]

[ She forgets to stop astral projecting™ her feelings, much less her words, and he can hear the loud, delighted, laugh of surprise that leaves her lips. It'd make sense for him to have some, right? She's seen his makeup before.

..Was he wearing a natural lip that night? She can't remember, but she's curious - ]

Do you have some??

[zauneyete]

Do I look like they type that does?

[ It's a touch more sardonic. ] I don't wear lipstick, I'm afraid, so I might be lacking in the key element, if it's required.

[oomfies]

Your eyebrow looked pretty clean, I dunno!

[ There's a smile to her lips, easily heard and felt through the conversation. ]

Lucky for you, selfies don't require lipstick. All it needs is you, and a clean mirror. I just miss putting on colors like that, I guess..

[zauneyete]

One must look their best for the Regent, and I'm quite certain they wouldn't be pleased, if I hadn't drawn it in.

[ He's been doing it for seven or so years, it should be good at this point. ]

I'm surprised they don't have colors like that here. [ A pause. It's like he's thinking, trying to figure out how this works, before... Lottie gets a very begrudging image. ]

Like that?

[oomfies]

Yup! Just got it. [ The image, she means. Then she waits a moment to give ample time to make sure he knows she's not just glossing this over. Once she's ready, she continues with a confident: ] And yup. Just like that!

[ There are metaphorical, prideful, tears being shed at this moment. His first mentally projected selfie!! ]

Me too, though.. I think it's just the culture here. Everyone is so.. Alternative.

[zauneyete]

[ An uncontrolled ripple of confusion. Enjoy it now, Lottie, before he learns how to control his emotions here, too. ]

I'll take your word for it. I'm not one for fashion.

[ He says, dressing like a Piltie. ]

Please put me in a good light, in your little roster thing, hm?

[ It's the only time he's ever going to get a good review, he needs it. ]

[oomfies]

[ She is definitely enjoying it, if only because that was her three days ago trying to figure out how to mentally video chat, and now that she's moved past it (sort of) it's.. Endearing, seeing her same struggles mirrored onto someone else. ]

Want me to plug any key words for you?

[zauneyete]

Key words? Oh. [ A mental scoff, as if he's trying to brush it off. ]

Industrialist is what they normally call me, and it's...apt enough to apply, I suppose.

[oomfies]

[ Industrialist?? That's so vague! Still, nosy as ever, she doesn't stop there - ]

Who is 'they'?

[ is it the Haters™ silco.. it's okay you can tell lottie if it is ]

[zauneyete]

[ That's his secret, Lottie. Everyone is a Hater. ]

Oh, everyone, I suppose. I'm well known in Zaun. You could say I'm... rather infamous.

[oomfies]

How many followers do you have?

[zauneyete]

[ Followers? Well, that means something different to Silco than it does to Lottie. ]

The entire population of Zaun, I suppose.

[oomfies]

[ That.. Answers nothing and everything all at once!! Is Silco being evasive? Or does he have that much clout that numbers don't even matter anymore? Do industrialists even traditionally have clout? ]

You make Zaun [ i'm so sorry but lottie is definitely sounding this out real time ] sound pretty big..

[ She's trying to determine if Zaun is a countryside city or a city city.. She needs numbers Silco!! ]

[zauneyete]

[ They have clout when they're drug kingpins running the entire undercity. ]

It's quite large, yes. We're the undercity beneath Piltover -- and the entire reason they're able to call themselves the "city of progress" [ The tone is acid with its sarcasm ] is due to our industrial might and mines.

[ Just don't ask how rich Zaun is. ]

[oomfies]

Euugh.. Who names their city Piltover?

[ At least Zaun sounds kind of foreign and cool.. And, apparently, is full of mines? In this century?? ]

That doesn't even make any sense if that's their slogan..

[zauneyete]

[ Exactly!! ]

They named it that because they built on top of the River Pilt, supposedly. Although historically, they were the most wealthy of the nation of Zaun, after we had a rather large...devastation, decided that living underground was undesirable.

And so now, they own the both of us. I suppose technically we are called the undercity of Piltover, but... [ Boy, the disgust, it drips from his tone, and colors everything. ] Hopefully, not for long. I like to think we will be Zaun once again.

[oomfies]

[ Lottie can tell there is a lot of baggage going on here, and it isn't just from his tone. Even from his brief, concise, explanation it's plain to see that it's more personal than just history of a weird river town.

Although, she's a bit perplexed - didn't everyone's world's get destroyed?? She doesn't really have it in her to insist he can just say it's all Zaun now, and part of her isn't that invested to do it, either. But she still wants to show her support, so she settles on: ]

I support you being the change you want to see. Show those Piltover boys who's the boss!

[zauneyete]

Or women.

[ He said thinks, bluntly. ] One of them is on the other side, too. Nasty little creature, with all these ideas about how wrong it is to survive.

[ Disgusting. ]