texted during the meeting, displaying as being from Nova Barnett

[petridish]

[Those who check the contact list may notice there is now only one Jane Shepard listed, but this user looks almost identical to her, just mad.]

Suggestions for ways to change your appearance? Long term but not as permanent as that asteroid's genetic modification, both things that can be done on the trip and recommendations for service providers for when we get back.

[All Nova's replies will also be in text unless otherwise specified.]

Comments

text

[nishizono]

are you going to be arrested?
this sounds very shady.

same

[petridish]

No, I'm just not interested in looking like my murderer.

[nishizono]

oh
then just kill them???
problem solved

[ there's a joke in there somewhere. ]

[petridish]

That's actually surprisingly difficult.

[She's tried it before!]

[nishizono]

then try harder.
if you're not succeeding you're not trying hard enough.
or you don't want it enough, but that's what losers are like.

[ if only it were that simple, right? ]

TEXT; YOU UNPRIVATING PIECE OF GARB

[squadgoals]

[holy hot fucking hell what now

talk about a sudden fucking migraine, this is definitely helping things]

I've never so much as laid a finger on you.

YOU STABBING PILE OF RUBBISH

[petridish]

No, you stabbed me! Among other things.

PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO THE NETWORK YOU LITERAL CHILD

[squadgoals]

Did I happen to have black holes instead of eyes?

[warandpeace]

A hairstyle change, a dye job, and a change of fashion usually can do it.

[You know what? This could be shady, or it could be someone trying to avoid a lifelong enemy so he's not going to judge too much and answer. He doesn't recognize the name, but he does know people that don't like looking like their killers (or their victims).]

I like sunglasses myself.

[petridish]

I don't want to change my style, but hair could work. I was looking at changing the color on the asteroid but couldn't decide.

[PRIVATE]
It's Shepard here. Nova now, if you want to update the Rescue Op files before we leave for Sawarga.

Sorry for the unplanned absence.

private.

[warandpeace]

Shepard? [If there was actual audio, she would hear concern. It seems odd she'd have to change her name and her whole appearance.]

What happened? Why do you have to look different from the other Shepard?

same until otherwise noted

[petridish]

[As per usual when someone shows a sign of giving a damn what happens to her, Nova is mildly confused. She'd think he'd be annoyed with her player being on hiatus absence.]

Nova.

She killed me, completely unprovoked. I'm done with looking like her.

[warandpeace]

Nova. Right.

[He's not. He couldn't be upset with anyone being missing, considering he was stabbed twice in the past two months. But he was lucky. He escaped death.]

It's a good name that suits you.

Did she have a shadow that attacked you or was it her?

She seems to have gotten into some pretty serious trouble lately. [Between what happened with the intermediaries during the Ingress hijacking and this...]

Text

[beautifulspaceraptor]

[ ...

That's-

Very sudden. ]

Echoing the recs for hair and fashion changes. Contacts are also easy to get.

[petridish]

Sticking things in my eyes?

[beautifulspaceraptor]

There are semi-permanent options where you can just direct print a breathable membrane onto your eyes. No sticking needed.

[petridish]

Huh. I wonder if they'll have them on Sawarga. Not sure we'll have enough time to find some on Kauto.

[toservelife]

[Aloy is trying to pay attention to what's happening, but not enough that the light blinking on her TAB doesn't catch her eye.]

you'd be surprised how many people won't recognise you just wearing clothes they're not used to [Take it from someone who sneaked into a city just wearing the same armour as them... But then, she's used to tribal wear.]

or just shave your hair

[petridish]

It's not that I'm trying not to be recognized, I'm trying to look less like someone else, and we already dress a little differently.

[Even as Nova's been trying to develop her own style, she's still been leaning towards convenience and ease of movement.]

Hair shaving could be nice and cool for the hot weather, but they don't seem to be saying much about the climate of this place.

[toservelife]

['Less like someone else'. Aloy's probably noticeable the next moment craning her neck to look around the big group - after her customary distraction by aliens and giant machines wears off, she...gives the attempt up as a bad job. There's too many people, and a good few are in helmets.]

a lot of people only shave part of their heads. that could work.

or just wear headdresses when it's cold
there's piercings or face paint too

[Dress up like a Carja, Nova, that's what she's saying.]

[petridish]

What kind of headdresses?

[Nova's mainly seen hats and helmets on humans, and has excluded alien fashion from consideration.]

text

[gentlemenpreferblondes]

theres an easy way to do it and hard way to do it.

[petridish]

Tell me both.

[gentlemenpreferblondes]

easy: get yourself glasses or pull a bag over your head.

hard: a makeover. get a new hairstyle, dying it is pretty good method. makeup but for that to really work you need to get invested

or plastic surgery

[petridish]

I wouldn't mind a new hairstyle. I have some makeup but I only know one way to use it. [Shepard's lipstick and eye makeup game is strong and it's the only game Nova knows.]