audio; un: nenonen

[essenceborn]

[ the audio recording opens up with someone breathing heavily. Not the kind of panting that follows physical exercise, but an uneven, stuttered sort that belies disbelief. shock. ]


...It's tomorrow. It's tomorrow. Ohhh dip, oh dip, oh--heck. Dip. Dip dip diiip, it's really here. Ahahaha...ha...haha...ahhh... It didn't end. It didn't end and it didn't start over and the sky didn't melt and it's tomorrow...!

Please tell me you guys noticed--it's not just me noticing this right?? Someone answer me and tell me you noticed!


[ this may seem like a bit of an odd thing to post on the network but L I S T E N. When you've been trapped in a 13-day time loop for 186.604 years, Tomorrow^TM really matters. Nenonen's, like, ready to hyperventilate here SOMEONE CONFIRM THIS IS TOMORROW PLS?? ]

Comments

[roundandaround]

It's kind of like what we have here to post stuff and talk to each other! And you can do a million other things on it, too. I don't actually know anything about how it works, though, aside from electricity and stuff.

[essenceborn]

So the internet is a phone with computing functions on it? Interesting. I wonder if they have manuals or schematics. I'm not an engineer or anything, but it sounds like it would be fun to read.

[egomitochdavar]

Then the silence must have been all the louder for it.

[essenceborn]

It was kind of nice after a while. Like if they didn't scream maybe it wasn't so terrifying? I don't know.

[nugrass]

Aight, then, Nenette. I mean, I had other ideas - like Nené.
But "Nenette"'s gotta ring to it, right?

[Plus it's the kinda thing his grandmother would have come up with, but Nen doesn't get to hear that painfully saccharine thought.]

I think nicknames are important. Lets ya know what your friends think of ya, and it lets your friends know what you think o' them, too.
That's somethin' you can do now, since you outta that bullshit time loop research tower hellhole.

text; un: emissary

[emissarium]

Is the natural passage of time unusual in some way for you?

[roundandaround]

No, the internet is the internet! It's on computers too. Sorry, I don't know how to explain big technical things.

[essenceborn]

Not really. This is the first time I've made it to day fourteen.

[essenceborn]

It's okay. There's a lot of technical stuff I can't explain either. I can look it up in the archives later.

[essenceborn]

[ Oh no....Chipp that's cute?? ]

Hmmm... So you think of me like a Nenette or a Nené?

[ Nen doesn't know what those are, but they sound pleasant to the ears. Nen almost smiles at their phone. ]

I should come up with a nickname for you too then, shouldn't I.

[nugrass]

A nickname for me? Well... "Chipp" might be hard to use for that since it so short, but I wouldn't mind hearin' your ideas.

[And maybe someday Nen will get to hear Chipp's actual real name since that's much easier--
All this does make him realize something, though.]

- Actually, wait a sec. You a boy or a girl? Or a neither?
Or somethin' else entirely?
I'm tryin' real hard to get better 'bout that kinda thing, got folks back home with all sorts o' different answers to that question.

[Maybe not the most delicate way to ask that, but look. He's got the spirit.]

[essenceborn]

Really? Huh.

[ Nen's not sure they understand what Chipp means by "all sorts of answers" to that question, but they feel fine enough giving their own. ]

I'm neither. Maybe something else? It wasn't a big part of the research so I don't know for sure. We were all like that.

text; un: shigeru

[mysophobic]

Are you...okay? Of course, it's tomorrow. I haven't cleaned my kitchen or apartment yet. I never start the day without doing that first...

[essenceborn]

[ Shigeru.... Ugh, that's so mundane. Normal. It sounds like another day like any other day for him, and it probably is, and it's tomorrow. Nen drops their face into their bed with a scoff and a laugh. Only after a few moments do their lift their head and type a reply. ]

I'm fine. [ it's Fine ] Just haven't seen a tomorrow in a really long time. That's all.

text; un: cecilias

[outofoffice]

What were you expecting to end?


The world?

[essenceborn]

Is it weird if I say yes? Because yes. It's what usually happens before things go back to the beginning.

[outofoffice]

[ "Back to the beginning" . . . a samsara . . . ? ]

It seems being brought into a new world has spared you that fate.

[essenceborn]

[ that is aaaalmost right. More like a "we broke the world and the same thirteen days keep happening but each time it is Worse^TM ]

I think so. I really hope so. I am never going back if tomorrow keeps happening!

[emissarium]

Ever? That's... quite impressive. Though your own independent aging -- if you do, of course -- would suggest that it was never so simple to begin with.

Ah, my apologizes. I tend to get carried away.

[essenceborn]

No, it's okay. I don't mind. What did you mean by "independent aging"?

1/2;

[nugrass]

All o' ya were..? Guess that means you had some friends in that whole experiment nonsense, huh?
Hmm. Kinda puts a dent in the whole nickname thing. I been thinkin' in terms of a cute nickname for gals...

[There's some shuffling, or perhaps some audible scratching, as he thinks hard on this for a moment or so.]

- Oh! Wait! I got it!

video 2/2;

[nugrass]

[Yeah, he needs actual picture to go with the audio right now. But it's just Nenonen... he doesn't feel weird letting them see his face, even despite his low capability with emoting.]

See, thing is, French is pretty bad at keepin' things gendered. Even got a different kind of "the" dependin' on if a word is feminine or masculine.
Same goes with the words themselves and random shit like nicknames.

[He's got a sheet of paper now, and quickly scribbles some letters down. And once that's done, he holds it up to the camera.
On one side, in messy, chicken-scratch handwriting, is "NENET", while on the other is "NENETTE".]

Short one, here, that's how I spell it if you were a guy. The other one, longer one, that the spellin' if you were a girl.
But since you neither -

[Back down on the table so he can scribble out something else - once he's gotten it back up, his messy handwriting has added "NENETT" underneath it all.]

Mix the two, but at the same time, now it its own thing. Whatcha think?

[emissarium]

Well, one must assume you do not revert to your age of thirteen days ago or else you would never grow past infancy. Unless that is a concept that does not apply to you, in which case my observations are far from the mark.

[essenceborn]

Oh. No, that's right. I mean time hasn't been repeating forever or anything like that. It just started one day and I have no idea why. My body definitely hasn't aged at all since then. Before it started I was growing at the expected rate.

video

[essenceborn]

[ Well, if Chipp's turning on video it'd feel weird not to do the same--and it's just nicer to be able to see someone face-to-face when it's been a really, really, really long time since Nen's been able to do that (prior to now, of course). Chipp will get a view that makes it obvious Nen's lying on their stomach and staring down at the phone.

Their face may be a wee bit pale, but. It's tomorrow, okay, it was a Big Deal when they realized it. ]

French sounds weird. Why do they gives words genders? I thought that was for biological species. [ Having said that, though... ]

I like it. How do you pronounce it? Is it 'Nenet'? or 'Nenette'?