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OOC Intros

Welcome, new players and old players with new characters! This is the OOC Introduction post, made specially as a gathering place to meet and greet and get to know each other and our characters! Please take a moment to introduce yourself. You may do it any way you like or, if you're a fan of structure, please feel free to use this handy dandy copy-paste:

<b>Player Name:</b> Whatever you want us to call you. <b>Contact:</b> Plurk, Discord, whatever it is you use. Don't forget to mention if it's OK for people to add you! <b>Pronouns:</b> Whatever they are, please include them so everyone can be respectful of who you are. <b>Other Characters?</b> Or are you so fresh they could sell you at the farmer's market? <b>Tell us about yourself:</b> Hobbies, favorite times to tag, pets, quirks, favorite times/styles to tag, anything you'd like us to know. <b>Character Name (Canon):</b> Character name (and what they're from!) <b>Tell us about them:</b> Give us a quick little introduction of your character, no more than a paragraph, to let us know a little about them. This will give people an idea of maybe how they can plot with their character and yours depending on potential interactions, but it also gives you a chance to gush about them to everyone. (We know you want to!) <b>Initial Ideas:</b> We know you're just getting started off here so you may not have any solid goals for where you want to go yet, but let us know if there's anything you're looking for to start off with! Types of CR, parts of the setting you want to play with, magic you want to have your character have a disaster with, whatever floats your boat. <b>Favorite YouTube Channel:</b> This section is going to change for each OOC intro, we just want to put something fun each time. :) Share your fave YouTubes with us today! <b>Anything else:</b> Permissions, opt-outs, shitposting, etc.

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[moonspiracy]

Player Name: Mari
Contact: playdespacito
Pronouns: She/her
Other Characters? n/a
Tell us about yourself: I'm Dutch, so when America sleeps and works, I am up and when America comes home to tag I am asleep. We are nothing but ships passing in the night... My hobbies are drawing, embroidery, selling my art in artist alleys at cons, traveling and playing too much gacha games (Fate / Grand Order, Granblue, Arknights and Genshin). I have 2 cats named Voi and Jaime and work fulltime at the billing department of a large security company.

Character Name (Canon): Cassius from Granblue Fantasy
Tell us about them: Cassius is that guy who over analyzes everything and bluntly points out how irrational and illogical you or your replies are, followed by an in depth explanation why that is. Whether it is a glazed apple you are eating, omurice vs. fried rice, the menu card in a restaurant, the illogical nature of your response, he will yap about it. Being raised in a society (the Moon) that puts rationality above anything else he (still) finds it difficult to embrace all that isn't rational (even though he tries and even though, at times, he gets why things aren't rational). Still, he tries to open up more and indulge himself in things that might not tick his 'logical boxes'. Despite the fact that being around him is similar to looking after a small child who wanders off every time and that he can be blunt and difficult from time to time, he is quite a nice guy and all he really wants is to shape his new life in a new world with good friends at his side.

Initial Ideas: Cassius is definitely the guy that will go out and do things so adventure buddies someone with a thick skin and lots of patience because he can be a certain way sometimes are definitely a plus. He is very goal-driven and has good tactical insight. I do want him to be a bit uncomfortable with magic at first since he's a soldier at heart (and he still finds it very illogical he has to be a wizard now). Even though he has made some improvement when it comes to 'listening to his heart' he still isn't the guy who you should go to and have emotional conversations with. He doesn't particularly like them so please, yes, drown him in emotions. Next to that I want him to discover more Wonders Of Friendship but also him learning things (fighting techniques, knitting, taking care of flowers etc, etc.). Also a big fan of negative CR.

Favorite YouTube Channel: Drawfee, where a bunch of artists draw funny things, MK, a gamer who streams comment-less playthroughs, IndieJames, who does what MK does but then with indie games, Mike Chen, who is very passionate about streetfood and I always get hungry from his videos and Cinema Sins, a breakdown of everything that's wrong with some movies.
Anything else:

[wuf]

MARI!!!!!!!!!

Welcome to Avalon, KJ here, ofc. I have Razor who you know of, Louis, and also Hypnos from hades game. ♥♥♥

[flamekthunder]

/Eustace grumbles about having to babysit moonboy because Beatrix isn't here—

BUT YAAAAAAAAYYY I am excite /o/!!

also omg lunalu LMAO

[impostorsyndrome]

Oh man I only know of Cassius through RP osmosis (Kadoc has CR with a Beatrix in another game and they've talked about him) but I am so excited to get to play with one after that lol. Welcome!!

tw: suicide mention in anything else section

[borderoflife]

Player Name: Oggy
Contact: You can find me on Plurk at oliviousness, or DM this journal.
Pronouns: She/her
Other Characters? Robyn Goodfellowe (wolfhunted)
Tell us about yourself: I'm a big nerd about a lot of things, like anime, western cartoons, video games, books, obscure animal facts, etc. I've recently finished up my graduate degree and am currently job hunting, so I do have a little more free time to tag lately.

Character Name (Canon): Yuyuko Saigyouji (Touhou Project, aka those doujin bullet hell games that are all made by one guy and were a major source of memes in the 2000s)
Tell us about them: Yuyuko is a ghost! Or was, since she's now alive here, which will be very strange for her since she's been dead for over a thousand years. You wouldn't know that from first glance, though, since she's a very cheery and friendly person and more than a bit flighty. She tends to say bizarre things that don't make much sense and can be very preoccupied with food at times. However, she's a lot more intelligent and observant than she seems, and she just likes to hide it most of the time. Maybe being a ghost for so long has made her a bit loopy, or maybe she was always like that. Who knows with her.

She's also very familiar with the afterlife, since she actually does help with running part of it--she's officially the Ghost Princess of Hakugyokurou, and she lives in the Netherworld, which is where the spirits of the guiltless dead live until they reincarnate or achieve Nirvana and go to Heaven (in Touhou, the afterlife operates on the Buddhist model). She herself has the ability to manipulate death and departed souls, which she's had since she was alive, but she very rarely uses it. Here in Avalon, she'll have Death magic and Kinetic magic (since she was a ghost, of course).
Initial Ideas: No solid plans yet, but Yuyuko is pretty friendly so she'll be willing to interact with anyone who can put up with her also being kind of strange. Being a living human again after so long will take some getting used to for her, but if anything she'll treat it as an interesting new experience (and an excuse to eat more, maybe). She'll also take interest in anyone connected to ghosts or the afterlife.
Favorite YouTube Channel: Bad Lip Reading is always my go-to channel when I need some cheering up. Or if I want to listen to some absolute bangers with ridiculous lyrics.
Anything else: TW: Suicide mention below
Despite how cheerful Yuyuko is as a character, I feel I should mention that her backstory does involve suicide; when she was alive, she became terrified of her power over death and committed suicide because of it. Yuyuko will rarely bring this up, since it was so long ago and she's not keen on talking about it, but if it's something you don't want her to mention or if you aren't comfortable with tagging at all I'll be putting an opt-out on her permissions post.

Here's a shitpost to make up for that.

[yunxiguang]

Player Name: Michi
Contact: yumesukidesho, Discord: Michi#0171, feel free to add me on either!
Pronouns: She/her
Other Characters? Klaudia (Original Character)
Tell us about yourself: I'm a software programmer living the sweet EST life. I'm usually pretty fast with tagging, except when I disappear for work deadlines, but I always come back to pick things up eventually. I love playing video games and hiking, and I have a cat named Tori that I love a bunch. My plurk is mostly memes, talking about RP, and posting pictures from my hikes.

Character Name (Canon): Lan Sizhui (Chenqing Ling/The Untamed)
Tell us about them: Sizhui is a good boy. I can't emphasize that enough; he's like a boy scout and a mom-friend rolled into one. He's observant, thoughtful, studious, and mature--generally the one kid that gets put in charge of all the other rowdy kids. He's a little shy at times and won't always speak up for himself, but he's also friendly and understanding to others, especially if they're facing difficulties. He'll always choose diplomacy over violence so long as diplomacy is a viable option, but he's not afraid of taking a stand for others if it's needed. For those who are canonblind and don't mind spoilers, I have an info page for him here! His canonpoint is just prior to the series start.
Initial Ideas: I don't have any solid plans yet, except for being excited to have someone that's going to care about helping others and being diplomatic. He's definitely going to take it to heart that they're all here to save the worlds and restore magic. That's his responsibility now, no going back. He's also the type that gets along with everyone in some manner or another; so rowdy or nice, good or bad, I'd love to get him all kinds of CR!
Favorite YouTube Channel: I don't have any YouTube Channels, so I'll substitute my favorite Twitch Channels instead! Lately I've been watching a lot of Hafu and Kimi when they do their Among Us streams. They're both delightful to watch!
Anything else: I have a permission post here, if you need it! And remember:

[shiliu]

what a good boy, I'm so glad to see Sizhui here!

[sefirot]

Player Name: Nyan
Contact: coeurl Discord is: NyanCat#0001, feel free to add me on either
Pronouns: She/Her
Other Characters? None
Tell us about yourself: Technically Nyan is short for NyanCat, which is my username in Overwatch. Some streamers started referring to me as "Nyan" and it kinda stuck. With that said ...

I'm in eastern timezone and I tend to tag at night. My shift is kinda smack in the middle of the tag. Occasionally I'll sneak some tags on my phone at lunch, but not very often. As of this moment I'm writing this ony phone.

Let's see. I'm in a lot of fandoms from Sailor Moon to Star Wars and of course Final Fantasy. I play video games a lot. Mainly: Overwatch and Warframe. Occasionally: Genshin Impact, Star Wars The old Republic, FF14

Also I've recently rediscovered City of Heroes.

Character Name (Canon): Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII)
Tell us about them: He's a former war-hero super soldier who found out he's also the product of an experiment. As a result his mind broken and he decided he hates humanity altogether. He also developed a god-complex as well trying to actually become god at one point. He's post Advent Children so he's an angerball who is also rather obsessed with Cloud. For powers here he has kinetic and elemental so he can set everything Cloud loves on fire jk.
Initial Ideas: I have no real certain-set-in-stone plans yet, but I enjoy all sorts of CR. Sephiroth is actually very hard to provoke, so don't worry about anything happening if you wish to interact with him. He's not going to be very happy, but he never is so that's normal.
Favorite YouTube Channel: I usually listen to music or watch music videos on YouTube but I really enjoy JoCat
Anything else:

[hegemonwings]

i heard war hero super soldiers created by an experiment HELLO

[loyalbreed]

Player Name: Sheep
Contact: witchcess
Pronouns: She/they
Other Characters? Mona Megistus!
Tell us about yourself:
I already talked about myself before, whats good. Currently my fixation is danganronpa and komaeda is my boyfriend.

Character Name (Canon): Gawain ( Saber Gawain )
Tell us about them:
A knight extremely bound to the idea of loyalty, he knows what he is about. The extremes of his actions could even lead to him killing people mercilessly. Then again he is in history/legend a murderer tbh. Camelot singularity really expanded on that, and I am thankful for Nasu's legitmacy to contributing to Gawains actual historical canon. Regardless, he is actually extremely sweet, and holds family above all else. Despite the hell that his family has contributed to... Throughout Arthurian Legend. Or despite the fact Mordred is a traitor. He still treats them all very closely. To phrase blood runs thicker than water - literally.

He is extremely genuine and loves getting along with others. Gawain is the sort of dude you could stab or fight for fun, and beat the living hell out of him and he would think that it was a commendable battle. Smiling all the while. He is also someone where if your character is yandere - he would genuinely see nothing wrong with it. That is he is under moral obligation to cease you/stop you from harming others. So he will not just idle by if you are being poor to people around you. balblablalbla.

Initial Ideas:

GUESS WHO GOT GRINGOLET BACK< gawain. So hes gunna ride his horse around sengoku basara style up buildings - i mean. He is just gunna vibe he is very happy!

I have nothing to offer right now, you are welcome to drag me into anything. I love being dragged by my foot to the trash where I belong.
Favorite YouTube Channel: Richarddeb
Anything else: dabs

[beaumains]

the time has come

[impostorsyndrome]

HELLOOOOOO I was too bogged down in work this month to hit up the TDM which sucked, but I'm excited to see Gawain here!!

[fulgency]

Player Name: Crystal
Contact: rebreather - please make sure you either have who you are on your plurk profile somewhere or lmk if you're adding me!
Pronouns: They/She
Other Characters? N/A
Tell us about yourself: In terms of tags, I tend to be morning and/or night since I work in community mental health and that means those are legit the only times I am really free. If looking to add me on plurk, I do talk about rl stuff aside from RP! And post many pictures of my cats! Otherwise, it's the usual plurks about shit I'm watching or consuming media-wise (currently suffering through the back half of Game of Thrones aka they ran out of book material, f in the chat for me), food adventures (I'm doing fermentation and cooking new recipes as of late!), and my D&D sessions.

Character Name (Canon): Ozymandias (Fate/Grand Order)
Tell us about them: His titles are a paragraph long, so the short version: Yes, it's that guy who squared off with Moses and that guy that's better known as Ramesses the Great in Heroic Spirit form! Ozy is very loud and talks entirely too much, and there's no doubt he will come off as incredibly arrogant at first blush. But despite how full of himself he is, Ozy is actually very quick to invest in others as he always wants everyone to reach their full potential. Basically, he's here to be everyone's big brother/dad/mentor. He's also arguably a bit of a himbo despite being one of the canonically more powerful Servants. Big golden retriever energy here.
Initial Ideas: Like I said, Ozy is v quick to be everyone's big brother or dad. So, if you need/want someone to immediately start pushing your character to be their best selves, Ozy's not the worst possible choice! But even outside of that, Ozy is generally pretty easy to get along with and you have to really strive to get negative CR out of him??? Along the lines of magic, I went with elemental and siphoning, but I do plan on taking things on the slow side for him to learn because I like stripping powerful characters from their abilities and making 'em work for it. I do not have any super concrete plans though at this time and just seeing what opportunities present themselves!
Favorite YouTube Channel: I don't really watch stuff on YouTube consistently enough to say I have a favorite channel, tbh! I do enjoy Puppet History though and watch it when those episodes release. So, I guess by default, that means I really like Watcher. But really, I'm just here for Shane Madej's bullshit.
Anything else: I did let Ozy have his three sphinx awlad. Soooo... there's that!

[garyoutensei]

and thus

it begins

[impostorsyndrome]

OZYYYYYYY! like I mentioned above I felt really bad I was too busy to hit up all the FGOs on the TDM (or like, any of them) but I am still VERY excited to see you here and fascinated by the bizarre places this could go, ohoho

[moonspiracy]

I'm so happy you brought him in and we get to play together again! I really enjoyed the TDM thread with your Dany, but I definitely look forward to tag Ozy as well.

PS: your cats are great

[cameprepared]

Hey you. I'm shit at paying attention to things but yes, we need these two together. Claire is definitely a big sister type as well, and has Sherry around to look after. Plus she's read Shelly in school. Enough to know that poem anyway.

[nocts]

Player Name: Helena
Contact: Feel free to add me: WindsongWitch ; Discord: WindsongWitch#5422
Pronouns: She
Other Characters? Uenoyama Ritsuka from Given
Tell us about yourself: Drawing, reading, video games. I am currently busy with move to another country so I'm a bit slow on tags, BUT I usually try to tag in evening times (I'm from EU so it may seem sporadic)

Character Name (Canon): Noctis Lucis Caelum
Tell us about them: He's a prince :) That's it. Loves fishing, really loyal, sometimes quiet, likes video games and when people call him 'Noct' instead of 'prince'. He IS slowly coming to terms with his new title as a King, but he still prefers being Noct. Canon point: as he enters the crystal, but BEFORE the chat with Bahamut. So he's not gloomy and knowledge of his fate is not hanging over his head.
Initial Ideas: To be honest, no clue. I apped with him because I wanted to play him somewhere and I think this setting would fit him. But I do want him to make friends with Lady of the Lake because he'll be fishing there all the time.
Favorite YouTube Channel: ChilledChaos :D ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Anything else: Info Post - it has all kinds of stuff on it.

[notcethleann]

Flayn would love to be his fishing buddy! :D the more fishing buddies she has, the better, in her opinion.

[shotgunman]

BRUH

[tantailizing]

Yeees welcome...

... /slides a tomato

[yorhaberserker]

Player Name:Iason
Contact: I'm on Plurk, don't know how to link it/ Discord is Sheleeta #4577, ask first
Pronouns: she/her
Other Characters? N/A
Tell us about yourself: I like reading, cross-stitch, cosplaying, but a lot of that is eaten into with children. I usually tag later PST, but attempting to figure out the phone tagging thing.

Character Name (Canon): A2 (NieR:Automata)
Tell us about them: She was part of the Pearl Harbor Descent Attack during the Fourteenth Machine War. As other units were being shot down by the machines she ended up being the leader, which she never felt confident enough to be, being a mediocre model. Out of the twelve androids that were deployed only four of them survived the initial descent. She quickly found out that Command wasn't going to help them with her repeated calls for reinforcements being denied and then communication blocked. Watching each of her remaining team mates die as well as the androids that had come prior she found out that her group was sent to die and their battle data to be used for newer, more efficient models. She is a caring person, but with the betrayal and being hunted as a deserter, her exterior has become harsher, a bit more prickly making her hard to approach.
Initial Ideas: Getting familiar with her new surroundings and trying to find a niche she could fill. She's not the most self-confident person under the rough exterior. Figure out how to use her magics and what the heck the familiar is for. I'm open to pretty much any CR since this is my first structured game on DW.
Favorite YouTube Channel: Don't really watch a lot of YouTube, being that I have to live with preschool shows day in and day out, but I do try to watch some of Kyle McCarley's play with me's.
Anything else: She pretty much has her shorts (hot pants), swords and camisole as her property, and the other black parts on her form is where her carriage is visible from her artificial flesh has been removed because lack of proper maintenance.

cw: FE3H spoilers built into her backstory; also mentions of war/genocide

[notcethleann]

Player Name: juli
Contact: theSSjuli add me if you like! just pm to let me know who you are first pls!
Pronouns: she/they
Other Characters? Zagreus (Hades game)
Tell us about yourself: I'm EST but my hours are a mess, so I tag kinda...whenever. I prefer prose but am good with whatever. I have two cats named Dante and Vergil, aaaand...idk I play a lot of video games. XD

Character Name (Canon): Flayn (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)
Tell us about them: Flayn looks like a teenager but is in fact over a thousand years old, because she's actually a dragon, although she's lost access to her dragon form. About a thousand years ago, she fought in a war beside the rest of her people, using her healing powers to exhaustion and nearly dying. She fell into a deep slumber for a thousand years to recover her strength. When she woke again, most of her people were long dead, leaving only Flayn, her father, and her aunt. She ended up fighting in the war that consumed all of Fodlan for five years before her side claimed victory (in the game route she's from, anyway). Despite her dark and lonely past, she's a cheerful and friendly (if sort of odd) young woman who now finally has the opportunity to take control of her own future; she loves her father dearly, but he's overbearing out of anxiety and fear for her safety, so she's more than ready to live her own life. She can sometimes come off as eerily mature for her apparent age, but in some ways she's still naive about the modern world.

Initial Ideas: Having been asleep for a millennium, then isolated from humanity, and then doted on by a very loving but very overprotective and meddlesome father, Flayn now wants nothing more than to see and experience everything the modern world has to offer, make tons of friends, and find True Love(TM) in as romantic a fashion as possible! So she will be ready and raring for CR with anyone and everyone, and I'd really like to do shippy stuff with her. I also can't wait to continue diving into the complicated feelings around her canonmates from different routes who are in Avalon! Other than that, if she participates in quests it'll be with someone else, not alone, and if there's any combat she'll act as a healer; she won't fight anymore unless she absolutely has to.

Also, she loves fish and fishing. Like, a lot. Like as much as you're thinking? Way more than that. She would be absolutely over the moon to have fishing buddies!

Favorite YouTube Channel: hmm I don't really watch anything regularly on youtube, but Smooth McGroove's a cappella video game music remixes are awesome.
Anything else: Permissions are in Flayn's journal!

Here, have a meme that perfectly summarizes the in-game C support between two of my muses. XD

[blahblahblah]

Player Name: Salsa
Contact: eternities; MaxSalsa#9974 on Discord, or I'm in the game server
Pronouns: he/him
Other Characters? Miku Kohinata (heartandsol)
Tell us about yourself: Hello, still Salsa and still working big-box retail on morning stock shifts, so I'm on a lot earlier than my US Mountain time zone would suggest. I spend way too much time on mobage, music games, and considering bad crossover ideas; I'm finally working my way through P5R, but I'm into Love Live and Bandori at the moment (and I'll be into D4DJ when it drops in English next week, I'm sure), and I've been convinced to pick Final Fantasy XIV back up after being gone since just after Shadowbringers dropped. I'm very behind on anime but I've been following Precure for way too long and I've got a bunch of things bookmarked. And I'm always up for hearing about strange new things, so. I'm glad to be here because there's always new stuff to learn about!

Character Name (Canon): Rita Mordio (Tales of Vesperia)
Tell us about them: A world-class researcher at fifteen, Rita is one of the foremost authorities in her world on magic and magitechnology. She's also quick to anger, a touch sadistic, and tends to shoot first and ask questions... well, no, that's what the rest of the party is for. Just shooting, then. She's prickly but gets intrigued by new ideas, and she takes a while to make friends but she latches on hard once she does. None of her skills from home are directly transferable, so she'll inititally be a little cross that she has to start from scratch again but she'll get over it. Eventually. Hopefully someone's been making fire-resistant clothing. Not counting her time traveling across Terca Lumireis with her party there, she's also something of a loner bordering on a shut-in, so. She may need new friends to be made by force.
Initial Ideas: Like I said, none of Rita's magic artes will transfer, and she can't really manipulate aer, particularly since she's coming from post-game and thus doesn't have her bodhi blastia for Reasons. (Yes, this game is going on 15 years old, but the Definitive Edition's still relatively recent, so she's got some late-game spoilers floating around.) So she's going to have to learn magic from scratch. She's got elemental and alchemy, since those are her strengths from home, although she'll be mad she can't hover like she could before. That mostly means she's going to end up working through her canon spell list again more or less by accident, as she tries to figure out what works - but she's a researcher at heart, so she's going end up wanting to do a lot of experimentation, and she'll appreciate help with that, or sharing information. She can also be talked into special projects, though: if you need someone to look into something and don't mind that she's going to be learning some of it from scratch, definitely ask Rita. She does really need new friends, too, but be prepared for her to be a little short and a little standoffish at first. She's a little suspicious of people who start out overly nice, but the fastest way to her heart is to science at her.
Favorite YouTube Channel: Do esports count? I'm happy Overwatch League and LCS are back in season, it gives me something to watch, and OWL is surprisingly hype this year. Rita would probably appreciate old slightly-memey classics relevant to her interests - is Will It Blend? still a thing?
Anything else: Would you believe I was going to try and plow through the first ten hours of Vesperia again to look for terrible memey Rita lines to cap? And I'm about an hour away from the one I wanted? A tragedy, truly. which means I can save more for CR memes down the line Uh, nothing much to worry about with Rita; she does have a few skeletons in her closet - mostly from growing up an orphan - but between not wanting to talk about them and not remembering the worst of what she's been through, it doesn't really come up.

[suiseinosenshi]

Player Name: Gummi
Contact: gummical, adding is fine!
Pronouns: She/her
Other Characters? None
Tell us about yourself: I'm Australian so I'm from the future for most people. I tag mostly at night because I work full time and have small child. I stream on Twitch a couple times a week, and I love board games, video games and fantasy novels.

Character Name (Canon): Ami Mizuno (better known as Sailor Mercury) from Sailor Moon!
Tell us about them: She's super smart, but quiet. She might come off as a little snobby, but that's just her shyness. She's come out of her shell more since becoming Sailor Mercury, but still has insecurities and it could take some time for her to open up to someone. She'll often have her nose in a book or be running analysis on her laptop. She can still take it easy and have fun, but she'll tut tut anyone not putting effort into their studies. (USAGI, LOOKING AT YOU.)

Initial Ideas: Honestly right now she'll just be finding her feet, figuring out what the hell happened to Usagi and Makoto and whatever this 'Cauldron' is they're talking about and then finding out AS MUCH info about this place as she can. And school. God forbid she misses out on school.
Favorite YouTube Channel: JackSepticEye, Philip DeFranco and Brad Mondo (what a random spread...)
Anything else: Don't mind comments that may sound sleep deprived because I probably am. Also, if you get a random as;ldf vnqawpoef hs in the middle of a comment, my 4yo has probably decided to play with the phone/keyboard...

[starshaper]

U-Usagi has just been busy studying about different worlds and all!! (Time to think about that and other excuses ICly...) Look, Ami, it's not mandatory here, so clearly she can avoid it and focus on fun things.... ;;;;;;;