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shellphones2025-03-06 08:59 pm
withermarked) wrote in shellphones2025-03-06 08:59 pm
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Type: Video
Sender ID: WitherMarked (Faulkner)
To: Public
Subject: Introductions, and a question
Warnings: trans healthcare/unaffordability thereof, mild references to mood swings/mental health issues, reference to history in a cult
[The video takes a moment to come into focus, before you see a young man wearing an awkward, lopsided grin as he seems satisfied with figuring out what buttons to push. He has soft features, freckles, and messy blond curls in a cut that looks suspiciously like a grown-out mullet. He looks friendly, if more than a bit stressed and sleep deprived. When he speaks he has a notable rural-American accent.]
Hey, folks. Name's Faulkner, and I'm new around here. As you can... probably see, I'm still getting used to all this electronic message business.
You sure we don't have to offer up a hosanna to the Wirebitten Child to keep using this stuff?
[There seems to be some sheepish humour there, leaning into how much he's not from around here, but some genuine confusion, too. He doesn't really believe people don't owe some kind of a higher power for their fancy tech.]
Anyway, I've got a question. Tried askin' uh, a friend here, but they didn't know. Does anyone here take... testosterone? Do you have that kind of treatment, here?
[More genuine uncertainty: there's both more and less technology than he's used to. Beyond being a little awkward, he doesn't seem concerned one way or the other about outing himself.]
It's weird enough getting used to a brand new world—could do without missin' my shot, too.
[A pause. He really would rather avoid that—his mood is shaky enough as it is.]
At least... if I'm gonna be able to afford it? I don't know how these things work, here. Haven't exactly gotten signed up for insurance.
[And he doesn't exactly have the Parish of Tide and Flesh here, with 'uncle' Mason and all his less than above-board deals with local doctors and pharmacies, taking care of the kids who joined the Trawler-man's faith in a way said kids couldn't find anywhere else.]
Sender ID: WitherMarked (Faulkner)
To: Public
Subject: Introductions, and a question
Warnings: trans healthcare/unaffordability thereof, mild references to mood swings/mental health issues, reference to history in a cult
[The video takes a moment to come into focus, before you see a young man wearing an awkward, lopsided grin as he seems satisfied with figuring out what buttons to push. He has soft features, freckles, and messy blond curls in a cut that looks suspiciously like a grown-out mullet. He looks friendly, if more than a bit stressed and sleep deprived. When he speaks he has a notable rural-American accent.]
Hey, folks. Name's Faulkner, and I'm new around here. As you can... probably see, I'm still getting used to all this electronic message business.
You sure we don't have to offer up a hosanna to the Wirebitten Child to keep using this stuff?
[There seems to be some sheepish humour there, leaning into how much he's not from around here, but some genuine confusion, too. He doesn't really believe people don't owe some kind of a higher power for their fancy tech.]
Anyway, I've got a question. Tried askin' uh, a friend here, but they didn't know. Does anyone here take... testosterone? Do you have that kind of treatment, here?
[More genuine uncertainty: there's both more and less technology than he's used to. Beyond being a little awkward, he doesn't seem concerned one way or the other about outing himself.]
It's weird enough getting used to a brand new world—could do without missin' my shot, too.
[A pause. He really would rather avoid that—his mood is shaky enough as it is.]
At least... if I'm gonna be able to afford it? I don't know how these things work, here. Haven't exactly gotten signed up for insurance.
[And he doesn't exactly have the Parish of Tide and Flesh here, with 'uncle' Mason and all his less than above-board deals with local doctors and pharmacies, taking care of the kids who joined the Trawler-man's faith in a way said kids couldn't find anywhere else.]
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[Even if he's not necessarily convinced.]
Sounds like a good place to avoid, for now.
How long have you been here? You seem like you've really got the hang of things.
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spent about 2 winters here already
so it's been over a year
the first few weeks are tough. it's somewhere different, where the rules are all different. for better or worse.
but there is a freedom here too. travelling on the open sea, basking in the sun, and seeing all the beautiful things that grow on islands we come across. it really makes you feel like the future is yours for the taking!
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[It even sounds a little like something he said he wanted, a couple of times. When they put it that way. He doesn't want to get his hopes up... but it's not like there's much to go back to at home, even if he could.]
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so why not think about something you want to try? anything new you wanna experience?
if you've got an adventurer's soul
you'll never be bored here i can promise you that much, ha!
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Having new options is overwhelming, as much as he wanted to leave his old life, his old goals behind.
But he'd said, hadn't he, he'd said he was going to find somewhere to live by the water, and grow beautiful things—]
I'll have to think about that.
I suppose I have been on a few adventures in my time.
[That's one way to look at it. And no one to give any other version is here.]