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[abnormalizes]

[It's Evangeline! She's not wearing the flower she usually wears in her hair.]

Job searching seems to be a pretty popular topic here, so here's a related question: how do you write a resume and describe your skills and work experience without sounding violently unhinged?

Like I was thinking of applying to be a garbage collector, because I'm used to cleaning up dead bodies and have a high tolerance for bad smells from that. And at home 'experience with handling corpses' would be a perfectly reasonable thing to put on a job application, but I get the impression that it might be kind of a red flag here?

-Also, if you don't have any advice on that, then tell me which of these supernatural accessories says 'promising employee candidate' to you.

[She holds up a red flower with roots in one hand and a... headband of golden eyes? in the other. The look of the eyes might be familiar to people who read her last post.]

I could wear them both, and I usually would at home, but for a job interview I'm a little less concerned about power and a little more concerned about fashion.

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[abnormalizes]

That's probably the way to go. Experience working in noxious environments, something like that.

[roundandaround]

I guess you could say "my world is really scary" if they really wanna know, though. Maybe just not more than that?

[abnormalizes]

The resume form I've been working with wants me to list job positions and responsibilities and I don't know how to do that while still being vague and not scary.

[roundandaround]

Uh... are there normal kinds of stuff you did when no one died?

[abnormalizes]

I... worked with contained monsters to meet their needs and extract energy through work with them...?

[So no not really.]

[roundandaround]

That doesn't sound too bad...? But I guess people would ask about it then, though.

[abnormalizes]

It's one of those things where the more details you have, the worse it sounds. All the details are just... bad.

[roundandaround]

I actually have no idea how to deal with that at all... But I bet you can still do it anyway! They might understand if your world is scary!

[abnormalizes]

I hope so? The people-coming-from-other-worlds thing is pretty new, I'm not sure how the natives feel about it so far.

[roundandaround]

Hmm... I know in anime it usually means you're a cool special hero, but maybe they don't have the same idea here?

[abnormalizes]

There's a lot of us to be cool special heroes, we're too big for a superhero team I think.

[Definitely imagining sentai.]

[roundandaround]

[counterpoint]

But that's still what we came for, right? To save the magic and save the world!

[abnormalizes]

You're not wrong, but I don't feel very heroic? Like I didn't get a costume or anything.

[roundandaround]

Do you think they sell them here? Or we could make them? Like that magic armour workshop last month!

[abnormalizes]

Oh, that's not a bad idea! I just enchanted the protective gear I already have, but I could totally enchant a costume.

[roundandaround]

Yeah! Then we'd really feel like isekai protags, right? And that'll make us stronger, like some psychological thingy!

[abnormalizes]

Certainly couldn't hurt, anyway.

[Psychological benefits only go so far but she feels like saying that to Rinku would be mean.]

[roundandaround]

I'm gonna start! Where do you get costumes around here that look cool and heroic?

[abnormalizes]

It depends, can you sew at all?

[roundandaround]

Uhh... hmm... actually, I don't usually make our costumes at home or anything...

[abnormalizes]

That's probably the first step when it comes to getting really good costumes.

[roundandaround]

Do you think it's hard? I mean, people did it all the time in the olden days, right? But then again, now they don't, so maybe it is hard...

[abnormalizes]

Well, at home people sew things that protect you from, like, knives and stuff. So just sewing clothes that look nice is probably easy in comparison.

[Logic!]

[roundandaround]

Maybe! Oh, how do you make stuff that protects you from knives? Monsters are kind of like knives.

[abnormalizes]

Monsters do kind of have knives in their mouths. You'd have to ask a Tailor about the process though, high quality stuff is hard to get a hold of.

[also it's made from humans usually so like.]`