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[fionnuisce]

WHO: Waver+open
WHERE: The network
WHEN: A couple days after the Zodiac post.
WHAT: Damage control on the wreckage of his life.
WARNINGS: None, any that come up will be in subject lines.

So now that I've started this year by exploding in grand fashion, let me try again with a slightly cooler head.

My title is Lord El-Melloi II. My real name is Waver Velvet. I prefer to be called 'Professor', as only my family and close associates use or even know me by that name. I've had my reasons for keeping it quiet, but most of them are largely irrelevant here.

I apologize if my reticence has made me a difficult individual to coexist with. It is not something that comes from a place of inherent distrust, least of all after half a year spent in this world.

[he's trying very hard to say he tolerates most of you]

And please stop concerning yourselves with my hypothetical romantic life.

Comments

[fionnuisce]

[hhhhgh]

If you're not comfortable with that, fine. I'm saying it's fine with me, that's all.

[escardos]

no, no! i mean, if that's what you want, then that's what i'll do!

[fionnuisce]

well

then that's settled, no extra nicknames required

[escardos]

if that was the case, you could have told me to just call you lord el melloi ii LOL

[fionnuisce]

Why would I do that? I hate when people call me that, at least outside of professional shit.

[escardos]

then why do you have the title? how many people call you that here?

[fionnuisce]

Because I do, and no one here uses it.

[escardos]

because you do? did you find it on the floor?

[fionnuisce]

It was given to me. I don't like talking about it.

[escardos]

that bad?

[fionnuisce]

Yes. There are some difficult memories tied up in this title, but it is mine all the same.

[escardos]

so is it better or worse than 'professor velveeta'

[fionnuisce]

I'm willing to rank them about evenly.

[severe trauma vs. cheese]

[escardos]

aw fine

(T_T)

[fionnuisce]

don't give me that, i don't want to be named after cheese

[escardos]

but i hear most people love cheese. it's a staple of modern western cuisine!

[fionnuisce]

that doesn't mean anyone wants to be named after it!

[escardos]

i'm sure someone's last name is cheddar!!!

[fionnuisce]

WELL MINE ISN'T, FLAT

[escardos]

that's right! you're waver velvet, an isekai protag!

[fionnuisce]

I despise that I have no argument for that.

[escardos]

exactly!

do you also teach here, waver?

[fionnuisce]

I teach chemistry at the university. It's not exactly magecraft, but it's something.

[escardos]

you must really like your job, then! i know that chemistry is kind of what happened after people thought that alchemy was impossible. chemistry vs alchemy, right?

what part? inorg or orgo? or maybe biochem? or maybe something else?

[ why is he so curious? it's a feeling flat hasn't felt in quite a bit. it's hard to admit it, but he can't help but find it fun to pry all this information out of this person that he supposedly met in another universe. ]

[fionnuisce]

Organic/inorganic chemistry and alchemy are similar enough that it isn't difficult, and I enjoy teaching. Not exactly qualified for much else as far as a career goes.