Hey!

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

We came up with a trainee name for Laurie!

It's totally late so I'll leave you in suspense. But I can be bribed.

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[x-storm.livejournal.com]

With all the team members out of commission right now there are plenty of open comms shifts... more than enough to go around.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

If Laurie murders me in my sleep, it's all your fault.

Jennie said PMS Lass and Laurie was all like. "EW. Why not go all the way to GROSS and call me Discharge" or something like that.

So it's totally her own fault.

[x-storm.livejournal.com]

...never did I think I would see the day I would wish for another 'Tinky Winky'.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

At least Laurie won't want to keep hers after she's in the black?

[x-storm.livejournal.com]

It does not sound as if she wants to keep it now.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

I don't want Beast Boy NOW and I'm stuck with it!

[x-wasp.livejournal.com]

But it's such a cute name for you!

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

I am not green. I do not turn into a monkey. I do not wear a really awful purple outfit.

I DO NOT TURN INTO A MONKEY.

[x-wasp.livejournal.com]

I didn't say you did any of that stuff.

It's still a cute name for you.

[x-emplate.livejournal.com]

Yes, and I have no desire to drink the blood of livestock, yet I remain Chipotle. Or whatever other horrific mispronounciation will cause enduring pain to our mutual flatmate.

Despair, Kyle. There is no justice here.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

This week's is Chilichurro. I'm running out of CH words that sound Mexican.

If you drink cow blood, do you turn into a cow?

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, what is the rationale behind code names, anyway? I'm not sold on the "protecting our identities" thing, since really, no matter what you call Juggernaut, he's kind of distinctive.

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

I don't know. Ask the Navy.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

The Navy also makes you stencil your name on your butt. I'm pretty sure my well-toned buttocks are distinctive enough.

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, it's less likely that we're going to be coordinating a rescue effort for 'Cable' than we are for 'Nathan' and it would suck to get the target mixed up with the teammate, right? Right.

[x-wasp.livejournal.com]

Are they now? ;)

[x-wasp.livejournal.com]

Clarice, too! She's kind of hard to miss. :)

[x-blink.livejournal.com]

one day I'll be recognized. that'll be a bad day.

[x-storm.livejournal.com]

There are several different explanations for the use of code names on the team.

1) Yes, Juggernaut is distinctive. However, some of our other teammates are less so. Using a code name may very well give them an edge in a situation where surprise is of the essence.

2) They contribute to a 'team' mindset and allow us to separate our 'normal' selves from our working selves. Some might argue this is not the healthiest course of action, but fighting forces have been using code names and other ways of designating members for as long as said forces have existed.

3) They're fun. You do not really think Cyclops was issued without a bit of tongue in cheekiness?

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

There is an interesting point there - so you're saying that while Ororo Munroe, school headmaster and horticulturist might balk at sending a lightning bolt down Magneto's spine, that Storm, leader of the X-Men, would find it easier?

I'm not sure I am altogether at ease with that particular dichotomy. At least when it comes to myself. I'm a firm believer in responsibility for my own actions - I'd prefer to think that who I am in uniform is the same as who I am behind the desk at school or work, or in my lab, or kick back playing foosball with my friends or lounging in the Tiki Tub.

I mean, I can see the tactical and strategic value of it. I just don't want to go down the road of thinking of myself in terms of another identity. That's too frighteningly similar to Magneto's mode of thinking.

[x-storm.livejournal.com]

Ororo Munroe and Storm have different priorities - the first would be concerned with the school and the students, while the second would have another set of concerns to follow. I do not think it is so much of an alter ego as a way to refocus oneself on the tasks at hand. What we are called to do as X-Men takes a different set of skills than what we do the rest of the time.

I do not think having a code name divulges one of responsibility - if anything, it heightens it. With the name comes standards, rules, and regulations, and it is important to remember that. While you are more than welcome to use whatever name you would like in either sphere, it is a helpful strategy for others. Or at least for me.

And as much as I hesitate to draw conclusions about the mind of a man I cannot begin to fathom, I wonder how Magneto thinks of himself, and if it would really change his actions all that much if he were to call himself merely Erik instead.

[x-sanfuaiyaa.livejournal.com]

Cognitive dissonance is healthy therapy. Or something.

I think we use them because we're superheroes, and superheroes have codenames. That's just the way things are done.

[x-blink.livejournal.com]

and you thought it wasn't a redeeming name!

[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

Bah! Bah I tell you. So making you eat my experimental cupcakes for that.

[x-wasp.livejournal.com]

I'm not calling her that! That's really disgusting.