kenoma | the yassification begins, voice

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[ 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

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[Some of us may be skeptics but we're at least not skeptic assholes?? This still feels rather pointless, but it's not like it's some harmful or complicated suggestion that would really boggle down on resources. They've spoken before and Lottie admitted to not being great in combat, so it made sense for her to try doing things from a different angle. She deserves the benefit of the doubt, at the very least. That's why there's no need to be super dismissive or rude!

Ciel is not coping, her reasoning is perfectly sound.

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Approachable for anything? I'd try to answer questions and help in whatever ways I can. Whether it's learning how to fight, information about this world, or just sit down for a break and some small talk... All this can understandably be very overwhelming, but we can see each other through it.

[Like a senpai tutorial NPC, she really said she'd jive with that ~brand~ the most... Is she even doing this right,]

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Okayyy..

[ Oh god. She wants to be a tour guide. Suddenly everything makes sense, now (does it???). Ciel seems pretty confident in her reply, sounding like she already painted an image for herself and is dead set on it. So does she really need her help? What does Ciel even look like?? ]

So [ Lottie thinks intensely, trying to spin this in a way that isn't just "approachable", ] you want to be seen as someone people can lean on, is that it?

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[Yeah actually sending a pic over would probably be a helpful start... Too bad she's Taking This Seriously now, which actually just feels... kind of awkward, ngl? But since this is clearly important to one of their allies--!]

...Is that strange, given our circumstances?

[Being reincarnated into some fantasy world as demigods and enlisted to fight the war between the forces of hope and despair, and she wants to be ~dependable~ when she's just as new as everyone else. But it relates to projecting a good image and is thus relevant to the topic at hand, right?? On one hand, at least she's self-aware. On the other, she's very much getting more self-conscious the longer she thinks about this, and the sense of uncertainty can likely be picked up from the other side of the line. Hhh...]

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No, of course not!

[ Lottie understands the innate desire to be seen as useful™ and reliable™, even if she is literally the opposite of those two things.. It's partially why she's even putting effort into this because, well, she's getting kind of tired of just rolling around on her bed doing nothing all day. But still, ]

I guess I thought maybe you'd say something more personal..

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[There's... a short pause.]

I'm a bit curious about what you mean by that, but I'm also afraid to ask. Um, that is... If there's going to be more Aions after us, we'll probably have to explain to them the situation here and make them feel welcome. Thinking on it, that should be something your proposition of 'rebranding' would directly play into. I don't mind handling the explanation part, but I haven't thought about how to dress and present myself, other than be helpful and friendly. Is that the sort of thing you mean?

[inb4 she misunderstood again, but at least she's trying... (???)]