IC Speed Dating Meme

[fairbrook]

IC Speed Dating Meme

Rules:
1. Post with your character by creating a "card" with your name, sex, and preferences.
2. Tag to others.
3. You supposedly only have seven minutes, but that's up to the muns how many comments. [To hell with that, let's not put a limit on how many comments]
4. Have fun.

Comments

[waterbearer]

Name: Kaldur'ahm
Sex: Male
Preferences: Not a supervillain. Not Team. Cassie, Artemis, why did you do this to me.

[noirant]

[ why do you have gills how do you pronounce the apostrophe in your name what team can it be any team can i touch your gills are you like a fish are you a fish person do you know the cricket guy

well he has some filters at least: ]

Have you ever been to one of these, before?

[waterbearer]

[ He gets questions like those a lot, and honestly wouldn't mind answering. He's used ot it enough. ]

Not in such... varied company.

[ LBR every time they did these sort of superhero mixers everybody was already dating everybody else so he just hung out near the punch and made sure the more underage of the group didn't get too drunk. ]

And you?

[noirant]

[ it’s really just a matter of time. why do you have gills might as well be flashing in lights above kaldur’s head every time felix looks at him.

felix waves an airy hand, with a laugh. it sounds like he means it. ]

This is my first soiree with trolls and wolves in attendance, I admit. [ if you have gills how are you breathing air??? ] But I don’t suppose that it can hurt anyone’s chances. Have you set your sights on any particular variables?

[waterbearer]

[ Those gills are fluttering right about now. They do that occasionally. ]

You are far more experienced in such thing than I, I confess. [ Kaldur offers a smile of his own, more reserved and amused. ]

As of yet, I have not set sights on anyone. To be honest, I am here at the behest of some dear friends of mine. I wouldn't have made it otherwise.

[ Honestly, Kaldur kind of wants to know why there were trolls and wolves, but that seems rude to ask. ]

And has anyone gathered here captured your interest? Or is there not enough 'variety'?

[ His lips quirk up close to laughing. ]

[bythewaves]

What team might that be?

[waterbearer]

If you were a member of it, you would know. It is simply known as 'The Team'. [ Super speshul club invites only. ]

And that is more a precaution to avoid command structure pressure, than anything else.

[bythewaves]

Something from your home, then? [ A shrug ] I suppose it might make it difficult in one sense, if relations were to develop within a small group - but might it not also strengthen ties?

[waterbearer]

[ sort of something from home that has migrated here and managed to adopt people along the way. ]

Relationships within or outside of the team are not discouraged. [ On the contrary, everyone but him totally has a date ] Rather, as leader, my entering into a relationship with any subordinate would be unwise.

[bythewaves]

Ah I see - yes, that might well be difficult, to balance the responsibilities of a leader with those of a lover. But that would be true even if you took a partner outside of your command structure no?

[waterbearer]

[ Kaldur is honestly surprised, he didn't expect to have to spell this part out. Was this S.O.P. for most military forces? ]

The conflict comes in that I am their direct superior. Any relationship with a subordinate would have to deal with that existing command structure. It is entirely too possible that pressuring to stay in the relationship might occur—whether intended or not, the stress that the disparity of being in an equal relationship has on the authority and the ability to command in a structure that does not reflect that level of equality, as well as the general complications that can result from being within a relationship being created or exacerbated by the existing command structure.

All of these exist outside of my or my teammate's ability to balance responsibilities.

[bythewaves]

[ Eh, you work around it. Brother, son, lover, best friend, cousin... you work around it ]

I can see how it would be difficult, although I would argue that it could be done, provided one remembered where the lines between duty and relationship lie. [ Says he who left his beloved brother to die for the sake of the rest of their people ] But I suppose it might be easier to simply not form those relationships, although one does not always have a choice.

[infiltraitor]

[ hey, she wasn't gonna join in, so she had to make SOMEONE suffer ]

[waterbearer]

[ Just you wait, Artemis. Just you wait. ]

[infiltraitor]

[waterbearer]

NO REGRETS JUST SUFFERING

[tough_love]

...I do not see what purpose this could serve. Anyone could simply make something up just to get what they wanted.

[THIS FORM OF COURTSHIP IS STUPID WHY IS NO ONE FIGHTING OR THROWING TABLES AROUND it's confusing to her poor Tetramandian brain]

ALL THE SUFFERING

[waterbearer]

It was not my desire or intention to be involved.

[ THIS IS STUPID BUT WOW THROWING TABLES THAT SOUNDS INTENSE ]

Unfortunately, I have friends.

DOUBLE THE SUFFERING, EVEN

[tough_love]

[IT'S WHAT SHE DO, BRO. IT'S WHAT SHE DO.]

If you have no intention to be involved, leave. Or at least inform me sooner that I am wasting my time.

[Four-eyed glare pointed your way at that, Kaldur. Double the eyes, double the anger. YOU SEEMED LIKE THE MOST PROMISING ONE HERE, STOP BEING LAME.]