#oops I out here exposing Kai's agab huh

[pythagoreanwhump]

Pick any 4 of the whumpee asks for any whumpee!

This got kinda long! Gonna put the questions up here and then the answers I’ll put under a cut.

🐶What’s the meaning of their name? How/why did you pick it? 🐼If you met them and they didn’t know you were the author, would you two get along? 🐗If they could say anything to whumper without getting punished, what would it be? 🐵If whumper could read their mind, how damned would whumpee be?

🐶What’s the meaning of their name? How/why did you pick it?

I wanted to answer this for Kai! The name Kai doesn't actually mean anything lmao, the meta reason is that I just randomly picked it and the in universe reason is that they just randomly picked it ksdjhfjskdf. But their kinda-deadname which they're perfectly fine with people knowing, and in fact they kept it as their middle name when they got a legal name change, is Miranda. They are okay with some people calling them that, but if you call them that without their permission they would absolutely throw hands, perhaps literally skdfj. Their Chinese name is 莫让, pronounced mò ràng, which is supposed to sound like Miranda but I can't remember whether I gave them the name Miranda or 莫让 first ksjdfhskjdf. I think it might've been Miranda, but in the story their family named them Miranda after their Chinese name. Miranda doesn't really have a meaning or anything honestly, but their Chinese name roughly translates to do-not-yield, because their family wanted them to be strong and assertive ig, but they do be very very stubborn skjfhskdf

🐼If you met them and they didn’t know you were the author, would you two get along?

Oh absolutely lmao. I mean they’re literally a self-insert character not just in a this-character-has-some-of-my-traits way but in a I-made-this-character-to-be-a-stand-in-for-myself-in-this-situation way. I think we would fight a LOT but in the end we’d get along well. ig a part of the ‘didn’t know you were the author’ part is to mean like, they don’t know I’m the architect of their suffering ksjfhsdkj but like tbh even if they did that would not be a dealbreaker for them ksj

🐗If they could say anything to whumper without getting punished, what would it be?

Hm, tbh Anastasia lets Kai say whatever to her lmao, and the VMD promotes a culture of honesty between subordinates and their commanding officers!! You shouldn’t punish them for speaking up! And even if they get punished for it Kai would say what they want to say anyway. Really the one thing they would want to say without consequences is to like,, call her out for being a Messed Up Possessive Fuck™ and like actually talk to her about her unrealistic and honestly kinda harmful belief/expectation for them to be exactly like her, and how she basically sees them as like an extension of her own dreams and ambitions and wants. The problem isn’t exactly punishments, they just don’t know how to approach the topic without being like hey so I’m actually a spy and since my early teens I have actively been trying to overthrow the government that you swore to protect and actually genuinely care about and support we’re not the same and yeah that’s not gonna go well skdjfh

🐵If whumper could read their mind, how damned would whumpee be?

oooooof yeah uh. See previous comment about uh being a spy kinda. Tbf I think Kai could make it work if they tried, but it would certainly be a terrible time for them. It had always been pretty effortless for them to lie to Anastasia but to have to hide their thoughts too? That would be Difficult lmao. And they would just Fucking Hate It, even the thought of someone being able to read their mind makes them uncomfortable.