JULY PLANET MINGLE

[save_the_souls]

Who: YOU. ME. EVERYONE.
Broadcast: IF YOU WANT
Action: YEAH!!!!!
When: July!

[Congratulations to the crews that did not get themselves blown up! Welcome to the Blue Planet, a planet full of charming islands and even less charming weather patterns! Are you going to take the time to enjoy the beach? Help out with the local Nunnilis population? Get caught in a storm with another person and have a rating boosting sexual tension moment? The world's your oyster!]

[Yeah in other words: ITS A MINGLE GET IN HERE]

[July Planet Info!]

Comments

[ino]

"German"? What is that?

[nextlineis]

Yeah, German. What? Is there no Germany where you're from?

[ino]

I ... don't think so? Is that the name of a place?

[nextlineis]

It's a country. They've uh... Well, they're government and military have some ideals I don't agree with at all and they practice a lot of questionable science.

But I wouldn't say your average German is a bad person necessarily.

[ino]

[ Lmao ... well, there's gotta be at least one of those in every world, doesn't there ... ]

So your uncle isn't German. And neither are you?

[nextlineis]

I guess you don't have England where you're from either? [His accent's usually a dead giveaway.] I'm English. And so is Uncle Speedwagon, but he's not really my uncle. He's just a family friend and been looking after my Granny Erina after my Grandpa Jonathan died.

[And consequently him after his parents died. Or so he thinks. Joseph still doesn't know the truth, whoops.]

[ino]

Oh! Allen is English, too. The way you talked seemed kind of familiar, but ...

[ You never know. Alternate worlds and universes, man. ]

There's no countries like that where I'm from. But I've been told the place that I'm from is a lot like an Earth country called "Japan".

[nextlineis]

[It's probably much better (and smarter) to never assume.]

Really? Japan's practically on the other side of the world. It belongs to a completely different continent than England, so I've never been.

But I have been to other countries in Europe and I've been to America.

[ino]

That far away, huh ... ?

Oh! I went to America a few times, too. And I went to France, I think that's in Europe, right?

[nextlineis]

[Joseph nods.]

And across the Channel from Francis the British Isles. That's where England is! Or supposed to be, I guess.

[ino]

Yeah, we never went there, for some reason ...

But none of that stuff is where I come from originally, anyways. The country I come from is called Fire Country.

[nextlineis]

Fire Country? Really?

[He doesn't mean to be rude, he just legitimately thinks she's pulling his leg.]

[ino]

[ She looks almost embarrassed when he says that. When they'd gone to her village in Paradisa, almost everyone had hated it, or thought it was dumb ....

So, she sound a bit irritable and defensive when she replies ]

Yes, really! Most of them are named after the elements.

[nextlineis]

[He holds his hands up reflexively because easy there, killer! He didn't mean anything by it. And he's bled enough for one day.]

I guess I was just expecting something a little more exotic sounding is all.

[ino]

[ She huffs. ]

Well, England isn't all that exotic sounding either. It's a land with English people in it.

[nextlineis]

[He stares at her blankly for a moment before rubbing his chin.]

Huh... Now that you mention it...

[He is the sharpest tool in the shed. What are you talking about?]

[ino]

... You really never noticed that?

[nextlineis]

Why would I?

[SHRUG.]

[ino]

Because it's totally obvious ...

[nextlineis]

Maybe to you, but that's where I'm from. I wouldn't think about it like that.

[ino]

I guess you did say you don't think at all.

[nextlineis]

You know, when you say it, you just make it sound like a bad thing.

[ino]

It definitely is. Using your brain is important, or you'll get early dementia.

[nextlineis]

I'm not a psychiatrist, but I'd bet anything that's not how that works.

[Not that he knows a whole lot about dementia to begin with let alone early dementia.]

[ino]

That's exactly how it works. If you don't use your brain actively, it goes to waste much faster and much earlier.

[ Pointedly: ]

And I am a psychiatrist.

[ Of sorts. It's easier to call it that than explain the mindwalking abilities. ]