it's time to judge everyone

[thedarkbond]

IC HOT OR NOT
(get in here newbies you're invited too)
Through some miraculous meme happening, characters in the game will have 1-5 photos of themselves uploaded onto some imageboard type gallery. Even you, serious characters who wouldn't usually involve themselves with these kinds of shenanigans. Especially you.

1. Post your character, give a pic or two! Don't post anything too spicy (a.k.a. don't be nsfw, guys, that's for the game proper)
2. Character rate each other from 1 (not) to 10 (hot). Feel free to add additional commentary, this is a texting app, after all!
3. React ICly! Flirt, tease, or shit talk. It's all good.
4. If you're uncomfortable with "hot or not", you can substitute it to "cute or not". Nice or not? Maybe???
5. Have mercy on people with slow connections and make your photo embeds a reasonable size! Use the code below to link photos, and change the width number accordingly if your pic is a bit small (or still too big) at that size. There's also codes for uniform image sets here!
<img src="YOURURL" width=300>

Comments

[fractaljesus]

For what purpose?

[nosuchthingasnosuchthing]

Because you want to, of course!

[‘Cause Greed is assuming that Yaha does want to do that, and he is literally the most enabley enabler ever.]

[fractaljesus]

There is no objective benefit to be gained by displaying this body. It is not necessary. Acceptability is the priority.

[As a being that doesn't reproduce and thus lacks a reproductive drive, he doesn't see the point of being seen as attractive.]

[nosuchthingasnosuchthing]

Just acceptability?

Damn, that’s sad.

[Greed has never cared about being acceptable to anyone, beyond the bare minimum of it that he needs to be in order to get the stuff he wants.]

[The way he sees it, acceptability is overrated.]

[fractaljesus]

The rate of acceptability of ideas and concepts, yes. Conflict between visual and linguistic information will result in misunderstanding. I wish to avoid this.

[nosuchthingasnosuchthing]

So, you can’t wear a sexy outfit ‘cause it would make people misinterpret what you say?

Is that the plain Amestrian translation of your scientist speak?

[fractaljesus]

Yes.

[nosuchthingasnosuchthing]

Huh.

I know that I’ve never had any trouble conveying what I mean when I’m dressed up sexy.

[Admittedly, Greed has spent a lot of time trying to say sexy things in sexy clothing buuut... he’s also said non-sexual things in that kind of clothing and done alright.]

[Though that might be ‘cause he counts his usual outfit as “sexy.”]

[And often is dressed solely in skin-tight clothes in battle.]

[fractaljesus]

[The main difference here being that Greed likes being sexy and zaShunina doesn't see the point. There's no purpose in showing off his body when what he's advertising is so far removed.

He understands the concept of "sex sells", but sex is still a completely irrelevant concept to him, specifically.]

It is a difference in perception and priority. You dress in a sexually provocative manner because as a living being, sexuality is a relevant property to yourself. I do not share this property. To dress this body in a similar manner would result in a misconstruction of my personal priorities.

[nosuchthingasnosuchthing]

So, you don’t want sex ‘cause you’re not alive? How does that work?

[fractaljesus]

"Life" and "death" are concepts that refer to specific information states that only apply to physical entities. I am an anisotropic being--we have existed since before the nascence of these information states, and therefor the classification of "alive" cannot be applied.

This body is an artificial construct created to function as an interface with the universe. It is effectively human in terms of structure, but as anisotropic beings do not reproduce, sexual organs were considered superfluous, and this body was created without them.

[nosuchthingasnosuchthing]

Well, homunculi like me can’t reproduce either and yet I can - and will and wanna - get down anyway.

[fractaljesus]

Again, it is a matter of priorities.

[nosuchthingasnosuchthing]

Yeah.

And everyone has different ones.

[fractaljesus]

Correct. Which is why I don't dress "sexy."

[nosuchthingasnosuchthing]

Got it.