I’m really curious, actually. Do you guys use Tumblr’s DM feature? How do you denote who’s talking? Do you just use the emoji sign-offs you use in your posts?What do the emojis mean, anyway? Why did you pick those in particular?
Hey there!
To be honest most of us don’t like the Tumblr DM feature very much; we prefer to talk over reblogs, asks, or in private on discord.
One reason is that those ways are easier to denote who is talking, as you guessed. Another reason being the frequency we switch making it hard to keep a conversation going outside of a single timeframe. Like, Harry will be DMing someone on Tuesday, then Toko will be around on Wednesday and not remember there was a conversation happening or it won’t be relevant to him if he does.
Discord makes it a lot easier to keep track of conversations and keep from forgetting about them, also pluralkit makes it easy for more than one of us to talk at a time on discord.
When we do use DMs (usually it’s Harry or Chris who does) we generally either say who is talking at the beginning of the conversation, or we don’t bother to say who’s talking specifically because it doesn’t matter to the conversation and we can all just mask under the name/account and speak as a system.
The emojis each represent a single, distinct member of the system without directly using the name of any of their kintypes/shifts. It’s like a symbol that represents them as a whole.
Each member of sinister system is fictionkin, and each of their kintypes is a past life that is a part of their whole, larger identity.
The emoji combinations are picked because they’re symbols that relate to that system member over multiple lives/shifts.
So for instance, I’m Nine. In my past lives I’ve been Sollux Captor, Carlos Oliveira, Mort Toyenbee, Ryuji Sakamoto, Aoi Asahina, etc. Those are all elements of myself that I might want to refer to individually for one reason or another. My emoji combo 🐸☠️ refers to my whole self, as all of me and none of my kintypes specifically.
🐸☠️ is the combo I picked because I have an association iny kintypes with frogs/toads and water, and ☠️ I picked for my association with death, piracy etc.
Toko is 😼🔪 because a lot of his kintypes are cat based or involve knives and stabbing!
Harry is 🌺😈 because the flower is beauty and grace and an association with flowers, and the imp face is for being a goblin!
Does that make sense anon? 😀 if you wanna ask more about specific members emojis you can go ahead!
–Nine
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