[video]

[ownperson]

[ The woman on the video may look somewhat familiar; it's the shape of her face, the ice blue of her eyes, the blonde of her hair, her height. South and her brother aren't identical, of course, but the family resemblance is clearer than she'd like it to be.

(More than ever, these days; who wants to look in your own reflection and see your dead brother's features looking back at you?)

She's shoved the sleeves of her coveralls as far up her arms as she can get them, revealing a variety of tattoos up one of her muscled arms. There's hints of old purple dye in the front of her hair. Around her neck there's a puck, dangling from a chain, holding a chip of some kind.

She looks... pissed. ]

So this ████ing sucks donkey— [She blinks, then squints.] Oh for ████'s sake, I can't even ████ing swear? ████. ████. ████ing ████-████ ████████████.

[ There's a pause of a few seconds before South visibly decides to test this thing's limits. ]

████trumpet. Bull████. ████biscuit. Dip████. ████face. Jack███. Fuck██████— ha, ████ed that one up.

Ugh, whatever. My name's South. Yes, that's a ████ing codename, no, I'm not telling you my real name. Guess I'm stuck here with the rest of... whoever the hell you guys are. Which ████ing sucks.

[ Not that things didn't suck where she came from, but at least she was something resembling free and kind of in control of how much stuff sucked. Call her old fashioned, but she'd much rather ruin her own life than have someone else do it for her. ]

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[ownperson]

Thank ████. You never know with that ████, some people can be real nosy.

[fuckcable]

It’s not like noses are $&@?ing hard to break.

[ He’s only swearing to join in, so he sounds downright cheerful. ]

South’s better than a lotta codenames. I know a guy who goes by Egg.

[ownperson]

Damn right.

[ South snickers a little. ]

Egg? ████, that makes being named after a ████in' cardinal direction sound cool by comparison.

[ Not that her codename actually comes from the cardinal direction itself, but she's not looking to get called Dakota either if she can help it. She's South, just South. ]

[fuckcable]

[ Ric grins and sets the comm to float in front of him, waving a hand carelessly as he speaks. ]

In his defense, I think we’re running out of cool words, animals, and fake compound words that end with -man.

But it’s still $(;/ing Egg.

[ownperson]

I guess at least it's ████in'... unique? [ She snorts a laugh. ] That's one thing I definitely can't claim. Mine's part of a damn set.

[fuckcable]

A set?

[ Admittedly, he thinks codename sets are stupid, and he can't help rolling his eyes. He doesn't think anyone's ever made it work without stretching. ]

What, like North, South, East, West? How far do you take it?

[ownperson]

Oh, waaaaay further. [ The look on her face makes it clear she also considers it more than a little ridiculous. ] If only it were that ████in' simple.

South's technically only half of mine. There were like... fifty within the actual theme. Give or take.

[ Absolutely ridiculous, in fact. ]

[fuckcable]

Fifty? What the #%&@...

[ Ric is already mentally checking out on that and can’t think of anything he wants less than a recitation of code names. ]

You know what? South’s good enough. I’m Ric. Did someone show you all the normal *%}#? The cafeteria, bathrooms, infirmary?

[ownperson]

[ South snickers at the reaction. Yeah, that’s a good call. ]

Nah, not really. Did some rough exploring earlier [ aka she looked around a little whilst trying to hide from Washington, after which things went dramatically south and she just hunkered down somewhere to calm down ] but otherwise, I’ve seen basically ████ all.

[ She shrugs. She assumes it won’t be that hard to figure the basics at least, she’s lived on something big enough to be considered a moving city before. But, she also assumes this place will be weird somehow, because everything has been so far. ]