text; un: thanatos

[inevitablerest]

WHO: Thanatos
WHERE: Libra app
WHEN: Assume this is before everything fully went to hell, so early Feb
WHAT: Old god is perplexed about emotes
WARNINGS: n/a

Why are there so many of these little pictures.

I understand their purpose but not the necessity of having such large numbers of them. Particularly food items.

And what is this.



[[ooc: I was informed the emoji breaks for some people so you get a screenshot instead but pls assume it was just the emoji posted]]

Comments

video | un: fashonti

[thaumewturge]

Oh, emotes or emoji? I think they're just to make expressing yourself easier on these programs, what with it being hard to tell tone and whatnot unless you use voice recordings. [Like Rhel.] The one you posted is of boba! Or bubble tea.

video;

[inevitablerest]

[Video is fine, though it does catch Thanatos looking a little bit ruffled. Could it be that he just woke up? There's something a bit off-kilter about him for a moment before he pushes a hand through his hair and straightens himself up. The apartment behind him is... drab, for lack of a better word.

Almost like no one really lives there.]

'Bubble tea'. That sounds unpleasant.

[thaumewturge]

Oh, not really--actually, one moment.

[She happens to have some right here so let her just bring that into view!]

The "bubbles" are the little black balls of tapioca. [Or at least she's assuming that's what the bubble part refers to?] Otherwise, it's simply a milk tea drink.

[inevitablerest]

[Ah, how convenient. Unfortunately, seeing it on the other side of a screen doesn't really do much to convey its apparent appeal, but he can at least see that it does not appear to just be... carbonated tea.]

Hm...

[That tiny spark of curiosity he's been trying to ignore since he got here is sputtering again.]

And these little balls add to the experience of drinking it?

[thaumewturge]

Oh, yes. They're rather chewy and so maybe not for everyone, but I've gotten to like them.

[inevitablerest]

['Chewy' tea is sounding about as appealing as 'carbonated' tea, really. Some of the things in this world really are just so strange.]

Hmph... [His eyes avert as he considers.]

I am not so juvenile as to say I dislike something before trying it.

[thaumewturge]

[Rhel has to bite back a grin because she never said he was! He did that on his own!]

You don't have to chew the pearls. You can drink the tea and it's perfectly fine on it's own.

un: noxxed

[sassery]

you use them to express yourself or your emotions

ok so it goes like this
these are emoji
✋🤣☠️🤷‍♀️
like those are the symbol emoji
then youve also got kaomoji
which is a type of emoji using japanese characters and grammar punctuations
(* ^ ω ^)
(≖､≖╬)
┬┴┬┴┤( ͡° ͜ʖ├┬┴┬┴
(((ง’ω’)و三 ง’ω’)ڡ≡　☆⌒ﾐ((x_x)
THEN you got people who just do simple emoji
:D
(;
:3c
;_;

its a lot but its also fun as hell to use tbh

[inevitablerest]

[He thinks about it.]

Why not simply use words to express yourself.

[... Sorry Nox, he kinda doesn't get it.]

[sassery]

i mean you can
a lot of people do
but its like
emojis can really tell how the person means to say them
oh cool 😃
vs
🙄 oh cool
same words
v different tones

[inevitablerest]

[So, Thanatos is old but he is by no means stupid. He does manage to understand what Nox is trying to tell him here... even if he still doesn't really see the use in it. But this is a more advanced world than the kind he's used to, and language will develop over time... why not to include things like that? Humans really are interesting.

So, after a couple of minutes of consideration, he decides on a wry response.]

🙄 I see.

Text; un: houndof

[lancernexttime]

Emojis. An interesting way of communication.

And the one you used... it's called boba tea. From what I heard it was a popular drink in some places.

[inevitablerest]

Someone has taken the time to show me this drink.

I don't yet understand its appeal.

text; un: hypnos

[verytired]

You can skip words and still get the message across. Like...

Doesn't 😴 still give you the same idea as "I'm sleepy"?

But really, they're just for the fun of it.

Oh, and that's boba tea. It's a treat that kind of is a drink that doubles as a snack.

[inevitablerest]

[Someone using that name would of course draw his attention immediately and Thanatos feels something tighten in his chest. Naturally, by now, he has heard about this... that some version of his twin brother is about in Kaisou with little memory of who and what he is, but he has not yet been able to decide how to approach the situation and as with most things where it would cause him emotional difficult to deal with it... he has been avoiding it.

And inevitably, the problem has come to him anyway.]

I'd been wondering when you might show up.

[verytired]

You were wondering about little old me?

I've been here for awhile. I mean in the city here, not on this thing here. Only a few months on this thing. It's been a little exciting.

But -- you'd be the first one who has been wondering.

[ He doesn't really get why or what it is meant to be referencing here, so he's going to of course joke a little. ]

[schoolingfish]

it's to make posts pretty and fun!

like this: 🐟🐶🦄🦐🦞🦀🌌🌕🥐

they're so pretty!

[inevitablerest]

How would you utilise any of those in a conversation?

[schoolingfish]

oh, that's easy! like this!

do you want to go swimming at the beach? 🏖️🐚🌊🐬🐟🐠🐡🪸

[inevitablerest]

Are the pictures not unnecessary once you have asked the question?

[schoolingfish]

they're so the other person thinks about all the fun stuff they'll get to see and do on the beach!