The Tether

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The Tether App

During the night, everyone's phone or other network device has been updated with a new app - The Tether - intended for helping new arrivals find Tethers.

Unfortunately for those who don't want to participate, the prompt for the application will keep popping up on their screen until they fill out the mandatory fields and post their profile. If you don't want to participate, it might be best to fill in the blanks with prank answers!

Once posted, the app creates a profile that looks like this:

	The Witch
«		»
	Age: ageless Gender: female Interests: three interests About: 30 words or less
	base code by photosynthesis
	Tian
	« ✘ ✔ »

It is a simple swiping type app like many dating apps, swipe left to ignore a profile, swipe right to initiate an instant messenger conversation with the person in question on the app's proprietary chat program, complete with emojis!

NOTE: This meme is game canon.

The Code

<br><center><table style="width:300px;"><tr style="border-bottom:1px dashed #102651;"><td></td> <td style="padding:20px; padding-bottom:0; width:300px; font:38px Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; text-transform:uppercase; color:#102651; text-align:center; letter-spacing:2px; background-color:#ffffff; border-top-right-radius:50px; border-top-left-radius:50px;"><b>***CHARACTER NAME***</b></td> <td></td></tr> <tr><td style="font-size:70px; vertical-align:middle; text-align:right; padding:0; color:#102651;">«</td> <td style="background-color:#ffffff; padding:20px; padding-top:10px; padding-bottom:0; width:308px;"><img src="IMAGE - 300 PX OR LESS" style="border-radius:20px;"><br> </td> <td style="font-size:70px; vertical-align:middle; padding:0; color:#102651;">»</td></tr> <tr><td></td> <td style="background-color:#ffffff; font:12px arial; text-align:left; padding:10px;"><span style="color:#102651;"><b>Age:</b> character age</span> <span style="color:#102651;"><b>Gender:</b> character gender</span> <span style="color:#102651;"><b>Interests:</b> three interests</span> <span style="color:#102651;"><b>About:</b> 30 words or less</span> </td></tr> <tr><td></td> <td style="text-align:right; font-size:10px; background-color:#ffffff;"><font color="#102651">base code by</font> <a href="http://photosynthesis.dreamwidth.org/" style="color:#102651;">photosynthesis</td></tr> <raw-code><tr style="border-bottom:1px dashed #102651;"><td></td> <td style="background-color:#ffffff;font:24px Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; color:#102651; text-align:center;">PLANETARY ALIGNMENT</td> <td><td></tr><tr><td></td> <td style="border-bottom-right-radius:50px; border-bottom-left-radius:50px; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:center;"><table style="width:100%; font:30px Verdana;"><tr><td style="text-align:left;"> <span style="text-decoration:none; color:#102651;">« ✘</span></td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="text-decoration:none; color:#102651;">✔ »</span></td></tr> </table></td> <td></td></table></raw-code></center>

NAVIGATION

Comments

How often do you see me bother with html?

[heeroized]

Some people who know me would say I don't have a sense of humour.

[They'd be wrong of course, but.. still.]

when u have to XD

[songmother]

Some people who know me would say that about me as well.
They're usually the ones who lack perspective or resent me for being higher in a chain of command.
Their loss.

[voiceshrug.gif]

I should probably warn you what you're getting into if you were actually serious and didn't swipe the wrong direction by mistake.

Exactly. Unless it's for more gratuitous strikethroughs. :3

[heeroized]

Agreed.
If it's not their way, it must not be at all.

[Look, it's nothing personal he just needs someone from Tian and you seem adequate for the job.]

You are Tian. I am not.
There was no mistake.

[songmother]

( the tether makes it personal tho, and there are plenty of heba fish in the sea, so to speak. still, she isn't cruel )

I am aware. It is the deeply intrusive and intimate nature of tethering that was described that gives me reservation, no personal slight.

I don't imagine there are many here itching for centuries of traumatic memories and constant war flooding their thoughts and emotions.

[heeroized]

[To be fair there are twice the Hebas to Tians. There's not that many fish in the sea and so far he's narrowed it down to like.. 2-3 options. One he hasn't even talked to yet, just assigned her a 'similar to Relena if she was older' designation and moved on.]

It hasn't been centuries.
But I am familiar with constant war.

[It'll just be more of the same really. Only with magic instead of technology. How bad can it be?]

I thought I was done with lazy but alas, no

[songmother]

[Somewhere between lawful good and true neutral, she shrugs to herself. Fine, let the boy decide for himself. She’d committed people to a lifetime connection with her thoughts and feelings before. Sometimes it was the youngest ones that surprised you.]

I heard it’s reversible if you change your mind, though I am unsure what the effects are. Perhaps we’ll grow on each other.

It would be good to spend time together, if you had any preferences?

[What is “fun”? Hmm.]

I am never done with lazy : D Hakuna Matata for life~

[heeroized]

[Somewhere around there. Laws are.. not Heero's strong suit. The only moral compass he's particularly concerned about is his own.]

It is not a lifetime commitment. It's unsure how long we'll be on this planet.

[And why not the mature, dependable warmother? If he has to have a bond with someone he's not that familiar with, might as well go for the one with the best tactical advantage.]

It might be wise. I do not, no.

[He has no idea. His life here involves training, buying supplies, and then more training. What is fun? He isn't overly familiar with the concept. Supply runs either mean he's out of food entirely or maybe Eight finally conned him outside somehow.]

[songmother]

[She thought of the psychic links she had established before and how they were permanent and resulted in the person only living around eight mores years as wizened crones while she absorbed decades of their youth, feeling every thought and feeling the other had, no privacy or separation, no autonomy for them. But he would learn of that if they went through with this.

This one seemed to struggle to socialize. She wondered if it was his nature or due to life experience. Perhaps both. At least he wouldn’t bring a lot of noise to her own endless stream of flowing memories and overthinking.]

Do you like being in nature? I wouldn’t mind a sparring partner away from camp. This place is becoming demanding, I could use a quiet reprieve.

[There are so many very sociable people here, and youngsters, and apparently an entire swath of people with uncomfortable relations who came From Space. Admittedly, at home there was rank and file order and a lot of officers beneath her managing the hormones and chaos.]

Do you care for herbal teas?

[heeroized]

I am not very familiar with nature.

[Nature doesn't exist on colonies like it does on planets. Sure, he's spent time on Earth, but it wasn't say.. his most familiar place ever.]

I would benefit greatly from your experience in combat. I accept.

[Training by himself can only get him so far. So why would he turn down such an offer? He wouldn't.]

They are adequate for hydration and the properties of some are quite useful.

[Yeah, there's a reason a certain someone has asked if he's actually human or not.]