Day 1

[faintwaves]

Everyone naming their goats is making me wonder something...

Do you ever wonder about your own names? Like...where they came from?

I mean, I'm Scottish, but my last name is French. And I don't even know what Xion is supposed to be. Sometimes I wonder what my parents were even thinking when they called me that.

Comments

[bonafide_divinity]

Can I name your goat?

[faintwaves]

...Well...

You promise not to call it Wanker McGee?

[bonafide_divinity]

And that's the only condition?

[faintwaves]

...Vulgar things in general.

[WATCHIN' U.]

[bonafide_divinity]

Xion, I swear I would never even dream of giving your goat a vulgar name.

You have my word.

[Why? What could possibly go wrong?]

[faintwaves]

[Because she don't trust his family name, yo.]

You can name it then, I guess. But why do you want to name it in the first place?

[bonafide_divinity]

[What's not to like about his family name?]

Why wouldn't I want to name your goat?
If nobody gives it a name, it will be jealous of all the other goats. And sad.

You should name it Greg.

[faintwaves]

[Everything.]

I doubt goats have that sort of thought process.

[She's naive, but girl knows her animals.]

What if it's a girl?

[bonafide_divinity]

I don't know, Xion. I think goats are more sensitive than most people think.

And if it's a girl [pause] we'll just have to think of something else.

[faintwaves]

...

You don't think very far ahead for a Slytherin.

[bonafide_divinity]

Well, for a Hufflepuff... you haven't given much thought to your goat's emotional well being, have you?

[faintwaves]

Honesty and fair play doesn't relate to emotions or goats.

And suddenly you're an expert on animals? Mr. "I run screaming from the thought of taking care of even a flobberworm".

[bonafide_divinity]

No, but loyalty might.

And I did not run screaming from the idea of flobberworms. There was no room for Care of Magical Creatures.

[euuuggghh... Flobberworms]

[faintwaves]

...Right.

I'm only loyal to people I know and have earned it.

[Yeah she fully recognizes a guilt trip tactic when she sees it. Pick it up, man, she's had 15 years of it.]

We can call it Tulip if it's a girl.

[bonafide_divinity]

That sounds like very conditional loyalty, Xion.

[And kind of like how he operates. Weird. ]

And fine. It's Tulip if it's a girl and Greg if it's a boy.

[faintwaves]

Practical. Not conditional. Once you have it, you'll never lose it...

[This is a weird thing to talk about with a Slytherin. Time to change the subject!]

In that case, she'd be sort of named after you, you know?

[bonafide_divinity]

Wait.

Why would you name a female goat after me?

[faintwaves]

No, I just like tulips. It's a coincidence that it sounds like your name.

[bonafide_divinity]

Right.

Tulips are very nice. Tulip is a perfectly valid name for a female goat.