An Introduction

[aprilest.livejournal.com]

Mark here, giving you the intro to the Loftmates. Evie didn't feel like doing it - she's not having a very good day. (Good DAY? The girl's been having a bad MONTH! - April) We're seperate, but in the end, we're all Evie. (I never really thought about calling us a "we" until pretty recently... - Evie) So I guess we're all one person - not really multiple. Unless... Well, we saw something about gateways? Didn't get to look it up, yet.

We liked the description someone else gave of their situation - made sense. Everyone's mind is a house. Singles have one permanent resident, Multiples have more than one, and they were between - a way-house, as it were, people came in and stayed, sometimes for a day, a week, or long-term, but not really "permanent".

That's like us. (No, you think? - Fae) Most of us were, originally either characters for a story or THOUGHT to be characters for a story and thus used like such. But we're really not. We've moved in. Lots of characters don't actually move in. And there are sometimes different versions of us. It's a way-house, all of us but Evie are walk-ins. (But I've had walk-ins of some sort or another for as long as I can remember. - Evie) There's actually even a seperate group - the Pubbers, they live in a little pub called the Drown'd Duck. They used to talk to her a lot, when she didn't have any real life friends. They've pretty much quieted down, though. The pub's not really in Evie's head - it's just nearby, so they were always making visits. (Mark... when did I tell you all this? You are WAY too good at finding stuff out. - Evie)

Oh, yeah, and we like to interrupt each other - especially when writing or chatting - and tend to make comments on what anyone else is saying. (That's because it's FUN! - Evie&April)

Yes. So. It's definitely not multiple, but it's not single either. It's just... us. The Loftmates.

Comments

[asilvertear.livejournal.com]

...Hi.

-Ellen

[aprilest.livejournal.com]

Hi.

Sorry about the freakout...

-Evie

[asilvertear.livejournal.com]

Bah. Apologies = unnecessary. Not really your fault at all.

Hasn't been a good few weeks for her. And anything you did?

've probably done worse to her. And planned to.

-Ellen

[aprilest.livejournal.com]

Well then. Hope it gets better for her.

Nice to meet you, by the way. (Would you believe me if I told you you were kinda scary and that was a compliment? - Heather)

-Evie

[asilvertear.livejournal.com]

*slight laugh* I think we all do. ...Including Hope.

Same. Shall see you in the flesh -- or as in the flesh as one gets -- soon, yes? (Oh, I would and I would greatly appreciate it. I do try, you know.)

-Ellen

[aprilest.livejournal.com]

Ah, punnage.

And yes, in the flesh indeed! I'm excited as ... well, a very excited thing. Mark says I need to be more precise. I think he's silly.

-Evie

P.S. (from Heather) ... I like you, woman.

[asilvertear.livejournal.com]

The life-blood of the world -- no matter how much my twin'll try and disagree with you.

Precision is overrated.

-Ellen

(... From what I've read of you, I like you too.)

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

I think you meant gateway systems, didn't you?

These might help clear things up: people were probably talking about something like this.

http://www.astraeasweb.net/plural/glossary.html#gateway
http://www.astraeasweb.net/plural/faq.shtml#gateway

[aprilest.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much. This will definately help pin down what the heck we're trying to talk about.

hi and welcome

[submissives.livejournal.com]

"It's definitely not multiple, but it's not single either. It's just... us."

You might also want to check into the term "median". I believe its on the same site posted above.

~abby

Re: hi and welcome

[aprilest.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've put them on my favorites list for examination once I get some time.

[laurenthemself]

Oh my gods, you're the first system on here who is even remotely like us.

HUZZAH!

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

They sound almost exactly like sethrenn's setup, too...

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

More like atoa (Shaytar (http://www.bentspoons.com/Shaytar/)), since people who visit don't stay. Sethrenn have got a few who moved in and decided they liked it there.

[aprilest.livejournal.com]

Mark may have decided to stay... I'm not sure - he won't tell me any more than he won't even THINK about leaving while we still need him around.

But... yes, anyway. *follows links to other journals*

[laurenthemself]

Oh really? I haven't learned enough about sethrenn, in that case, although I do know the name. *redfaced*

[aprilest.livejournal.com]

Yeah? *grins* Well, it's nice to know we're not the oddballs, then, huh?

-April

[laurenthemself]

It's always nice to know that there are people with similarities to you.

Most of us were, originally either characters for a story or THOUGHT to be characters for a story and thus used like such. But we're really not. We've moved in.

I read that bit and went o_O OMFG! because that's exactly how most of my system turned up.

[aprilest.livejournal.com]

Wow, way cool. Emma is, I think, the only one who just... showed up. But I'm using her in a story I'm writing, anyway. She likes it. *grin*

[laurenthemself]

In my case, Jade, Sunny, Kyla and Miranda came from stories, and Jareth, Shiner, Larkspur and Liam spontaneously turned up out of nowhere, and now they're making story cameos because they're attention-seeking pests. *grins*

[aprilest.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Oh, god YES. Most of mine are drama queens to some extent (although Roger, Mark, and Topher protest any time I call them that). Actually, Mark's more the observant type... but he's still a little attention hog sometimes.

[laurenthemself]

Liam started out fairly normal, the only bizarre part being that he's the only male here. But then we got into National Novel Writing Month, and it seems like that's what he's here to do -- to think up plots and dialogue and characters and witty narrative in order to write fifty thousand words in a month. During November, I'm just a convenient body capable of using a computer!

Anyway, he started out just wanting to be inspirational, but now he's insisting on a cameo, and Jade jumped on that bandwagon as well, and Kyla's already in the novel, and I think sooner or later I'll have to write a novel about my headspace, because they all want to be stars!

[aprilest.livejournal.com]

I'm actually already writing about my crazy-kids. (Hey! I'm not crazy! -Mark) Er... anyway. My Nano is... well, it's Mark's story, through highschool and stuff. Pretty interesting, actually, I keep finding out new things about him.

And I know what you mean about the inspiration... last year, I had this one girl named Helen? And she moved in just before November, inspired me for a while, then insisted on being in the story, and once November was over... *shrugs* I don't mind, though - she kinda scared me. *laughs*

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

That's what I meant about sethrenn. It's how most of theirs did, too.

[draegonhawke.livejournal.com]

Hello!

[aprilest.livejournal.com]

Hi!

[jhonathand.livejournal.com]

Welcome,...


I see that you've gotten all the fan faire that more than a few Households and or Systems could give.

So I'll be blunt!

Like you, Like your Crew, Like how you write, Glad you use parenthasies.

Mind if we friend you,.?

It's just me and my 2 brothers here. we don't have anything listed in our Bio, but if you want I could give you more info. upon request,.

~M/Frost/Jake~

[aprilest.livejournal.com]

Absolutely! Friend away, none of us are too private or anything... (Are you kidding me? Have you met me, sweetheart? -Ali) Um... right. *shakes head* But we're very open to being friended.

I am rambling.

And, by the way? Love the bluntness.

-April (and Evie)

[jhonathand.livejournal.com]

Kewl.

Will get it done.

~M~

[ridetothesea.livejournal.com]

Hello. :)