Team

[x-icarus.livejournal.com]

I joined the team as a trainee.

I don't want no dumb name and I ain't answering to anything else other than Jay.

Comments

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

Well, guess what, Jay? You get a name, and you get to answer to it. Because if you can't be a team player when it comes to something tiny like that it does not bode well for your progress.

[x-icarus.livejournal.com]

So it's mandatory to have a stupid name? That wasn't in the manuel.

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

It's mandatory to have a stupid name because I say it is.

[x-icarus.livejournal.com]

Because you say it is.

[x-blink.livejournal.com]

you're so cute, arguing.

it'll make whatever we pick SO MUCH BETTER.

[x-icarus.livejournal.com]

Oh whatever.

[x-emplate.livejournal.com]

You seem to be under the impression the acquisition of a ridiculous name is an option. As one formerly termed Goatsucker, I am sure with the greatest of affection, I can assure you this is not the case.

[x-icarus.livejournal.com]

Goatsucker? That's lame. I don't even wanna know why they called you that.

[x-emplate.livejournal.com]

Technically it was Chupacabra, but as that proved rather unwieldly it was invariably shortened, translated, or discarded entirely. Such are the perils of having a blood-related power and eliminating any terms of a parasitic nature.

You are rather a puzzler, however. Bluebird? Smurf? Bluey would of course work on two levels, though perhaps only for those persons of Australian extraction.

(And before you speak of unfairness, be appraised that Clarice was once known as Tinky Winky.)

[x-icarus.livejournal.com]

You know, I would have been okay wit this if someone told me ahead of time that this was a right of passage or something.

[x-blink.livejournal.com]

AND SHE LIKED IT!

[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

No one who isn't named 'Discharge' gets to talk about stupid trainee names. I still think I should get to change to 'Bondgirl' or heck 'Blondie'

[x-blink.livejournal.com]

I'm voting for Blueberry Muffin. Or maybe Chicken Boo.

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

Can we stop suggesting trainee names that I can't shorten into something less awful if I have to use them in front of someone I'm hoping will take the team seriously?

[x-blink.livejournal.com]

I WANT TINKY WINKY BACK!!!!!!

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

In retrospect it was fine, you know? We could shorten it to 'Tink', at least.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

We could call him Boo.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Oh, Joshua. When will you learn? The moment you said yes to Fearless Leader, it stopped being about what you want.

Me, I'm thinking something properly descriptive. Something that just screams "Hello world, I'm Joshua T. Guthrie, and this is what I am about."

Bearing that in mind:
-Daisy
-Petunia
-Periwinkle
-Bluebell
--corollary to the previous: Tinkerbell
-Gu3 (get it? Gu-thrie, Gu-THREE? Because you're the third one?)

[x-icarus.livejournal.com]

OKay. I can live with Gu3 cause thats smart and just like you to name that off.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

The others might be a bit more apt. You know. Soft, harmless, transient. Either way, I wouldn't write any of them in permanent marker. There's a wager going that you'll quit before your fifth full training run.

[x-icarus.livejournal.com]

Great. So not only is everyone making fun of me, they've got money on it.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Okay, lemee see if I can put this in terms that aren't gonna get you butt-hurt.

Half the reason we have goofy trainee names - and dude, they're goofy. It's not like anyone's gonna codename you "The Amazing Blue Cocksucker." - you know, excusing my fucking profanity - is so you get used to the idea that while you're a trainee, you listen and you learn and you're at the bottom of the totem pole. Of everyone, Marius and Laurie had the worst, I think. I mean, chupathingy's just impossible to say and Discharge is -gross-. (So's her codename!)

Yeah, they're stupid. Everyone knows they're stupid. it's kinda a measure of how much shit can you deal with when some flatscan assclown is calling you a mutie freak when you're trying to rescue his ass from a psycho? If you can't put up with the folks you're gonna be working with calling you Super Grover or whatever (BTW, Cyclops? I vote for Super Grover. He's blue, he flies, he's a muppet. It so fits) then you can't hack some asshole spitting in your face and calling you a genejoke.

It's something we all go through, and we all can say we sucked it up and dealt with it.

[x-icarus.livejournal.com]

I'm just saying, its different when it's coming from you guys, because you guys, I take things more personally. I get the why part. Iwas just in a bad mood last night and all blah about it. I should of assumed everyone'd be like 'oh if you can't hack it..' It drives me nuts, like I'm dealing with the high and mighty.

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, Guthrie - I think you're the first person ever to want to join the X-Men while being simultaneously convinced that we're all laughing at you. Yours is a rare and unique form of masochism.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Dude. We're gonna make fun of you. We're gonna give you shit. You know why? Because that's what we do to everyone. I give Forge shit for being short. I give Angel shit for her Supergirl undies. I give Marius shit for being MARIUS.

You hafta earn the right to say "Yeah, no more stupid nicknames, yo." Because right now, you have demonstrated all of crap. You've shown everyone that you can't take some ribbing from folks you know, you can't just suck it up and listen and do what you're told and you can't control your own temper.

Dude, if I can control my shit in the middle of a fish factory in Alaska full of brainwashed teenagers all pairing off to go make brainwashed babies to find Nate, I can tell you - STFU and learn to control your shit when we give you a stupid temporary codename.