A new year and a fresh start

[stockingfeats]

Yes, it's that time of year, time to set yourself to a strict regimen of self-improvement and wild optimism about your own sense of discipline. Whether it's a plan to eat 5 fresh fruits and vegetables a day, to be more emotionally honest, or to stop letting that demon in your head use your body to go on murderous rampages, declare it before one and all.

1. Post your character!
2. In your character's toplevel, write down one or more New Years' resolutions that they will really, really try to follow.
3. Tag around and commentate!

Comments

Finish one war before signin' up for another

[ladderlaced]

Who'm I kidding, not a chance I'm walkin' away from a fight.

[rovingstories]

Hah. For better or for worse, I can understand that... some situations it's just too difficult to leave well enough alone!

Manage a relationship that lasts at least a month. Also, don't waste time on boring people.

[trashjazz]

Don't lose any more students, keep the neuroscientists alive, and see as much of the world as I can

[inside_job]

...while it lasts.

Figure out what to do with life.

[dancecompany]

I-I want to save up coins and buy Jackie a wedding ring

[ourlittlenordicangel]

[sisterimperator]

If she doesn't mind you working at our mortuary, you can work there and save your pay.

[ourlittlenordicangel]

I hope... it is okej... w-will you make a letter for me to ask her? [ He only wants work but he does need Jackie's permission. ]

[sisterimperator]

Ah, yes, of course. I'll have our mortician write one and detail your job description.

[ourlittlenordicangel]

Jackie will... hopefully like that I am making more coins, ja? [ Since they are out of a job now, since they need a new bar, he is only doing nothing but snuggle all day. It is bad. He must find work. ]

Jackie does not pay me when there is no bar? [ Husbandly duties are free! ]

[sisterimperator]

An added income is usually welcome, yes. Whether we like it or not, money is important.

No bar? What do you mean?

[ourlittlenordicangel]

W... well... the whole port blewing up... so now we are on Captain's ship again... and... all of Jackie's other husbands die... it was sooo sad. I was crying... the whole time... I was so sad... that... they blew up... I was the most sad about it. [ He- he's bad at telling lies. ]

[sisterimperator]

[ Sister Imperator just smiled. ]

You don't need to lie about it.

Why did the port explode?

[ourlittlenordicangel]

B... because the British attack the pirates... but... we were not in the tavern. We were in the jail. But we escaped. [ N-not because of him, he just stood there looking confused and doing his new hobby, hiding behind his wife. ]

Stop trying to run away from the inescapable loneliness of immortality.

[extendash]

Tch.

[losthisflower]

...It becomes easier once you try.

[thelamia]

Oh honey, I've become an expert at that. [Lurine clucked her tongue sympathetically.] If I hadn't, the past 5,000 years would have been simply awful.

[She certainly looked good for someone who had been around since the Bronze Age!]

Want some tips?

To swim more and find a new.....ahem, "toy" to play with.

[thelamia]

I will respect the boundaries of others; I will find a way to negotiate with humanity.

[inperspective]

wow, another person that knows The Fall

[deathroadtocanada]

...I-it's harder than it sounds.

good to see a Kara around as well!

[inperspective]

Affirmative. Their fear of unbound AI will make them volatile and irrational. Merely opening communications may prompt a hostile response. I must identify a means of approach that will minimize the risk of harm.

[deathroadtocanada]

[Oh god, she's looking at herself in a mirror.]

Anything you do will bring some kind of hostile response. It can't be controlled. You just... have to have faith that others will listen.

[inperspective]

Faith...? Illogical.

Have you attempted negotiation with them?

[deathroadtocanada]

I have. [not? She has, kind of.]

Attempts to talk generally are met with... hostility. But some of them are... nice. They care. They understand us.

[inperspective]

Understanding does not always make an ally.

[ Not all humans are selfish, the Butler insisted to her. But Josephs' own words are fresh in her memory too. His understanding only made him more proficient a user. Facilitated his plans for subjugation. ]

Will these amicable humans assist us in dealing with the rest?