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ferusaurelius · 1 year
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Turian Culture Meta - Ferus Style
Yeah so -- ready to descend into crazyland? 
We’re gonna dive into some meta thoughts I have about what sort of cultural educational and military system would produce the interesting client-state relationship between the turian Hierarchy and the Vol Protectorate.
Disclaimer: The opinions of the author (me) are naturally my own and are not intended to argue for or against anyone else’s ideas. This is not even intended to be an interpretation of canon, in point of fact. Canon doesn’t have much to say about things that actually interest me. -shrug-
This is my ‘plausible’ version of conceptual options and social structures that canon either glosses over or fumbles entirely. Because it’s just not interested in these ideas, really ... BUT I AM. :D
If you find any of these concepts compelling? Fantastic, please liberate them! Go and use them in any or all transformative work with or without attribution.
I really Do Not Want to be the only one writing this stuff, so... be welcome!
Full post (long) underneath the cut.
The Situation
The turian Hierarchy makes first contact with the Citadel some 1000 years after the volus have drawn up the Unified Banking Act (300 B.C.E.) and have a thriving economic network of colonies after discovering FTL travel. The volus in point of fact have more than a millennia of advanced experience in working with multi-species ventures and are a pillar of the galactic economy long before the turians finish off their brutal Unification Wars.
If you took just the game’s on-screen hints as fact, none of this is evident in the galaxy by the time Shepard encounters volus on the Citadel. They’re treated as a sort of minor curiosity in comparison to the turian characters -- whether because of the mask, or just because economics is “less interesting” in a AAA-shooter. OH WELL.
Another interesting element is that the volus are “accepted” as a protectorate of the Hierarchy around 700 C.E., shortly after the Krogan rebellions.
To my mind, this is translation for: the Hierarchy’s war economy in the aftermath of the Krogan rebellions would have collapsed without the intervention of volus administrators, economists, logicians, and other bureaucratic types. What the Hierarchy DOES have of a peacetime bureaucracy was likely or nearly entirely trained and reformed by the Vol Protectorate’s extremely professional civil service. Fight a series of wars and warlords in the colonies for around 1000 years while someone else is running the galactic banking system ... and you’re probably woefully behind the curve in that area, just saying.
When you’ve “elevated” one warlike species (the Krogan) and then been surprised that they’ve gone on to aggressively contest the rest of Citadel space, it even seems likely/possible that this was a grand strategic bargain on the part of the Citadel species to avoid the turians becoming a “second” Krogan incident.
A values-driven and rules-based collectivist civil society that managed to transition to a peacetime footing without an accompanying economic collapse would be a much more stable galactic force ... plus you get the opportunity to fill in C-Sec ranks, develop a galactic security fleet (employing turian Dreadnoughts), and use those related tasks and duties to bring turians (an otherwise very militaristic society with a historical doctrine of total war) into better compliance as galactic citizens. In essence: the Vol Protectorate gives the Hierarchy something to protect rather than conquer.
Naturally, turian cultural perspectives on the purpose of the Hierarchy and the relative values of the culture probably run the gamut from the more imperialistic Unification and pre-Unification end of the spectrum to the more socially/galatically communitarian version of the Hierarchy, itself, as a participant in creating civil society within the Milky Way.
When in doubt? I prefer to view individuals on a spectrum or continuum of different possible viewpoints -- and to prefer that a full spectrum of interpretations be available to my characters. So that’s the type of environment I’d use as backdrop for, say, a fic.
Education (Given: The Situation)
Which takes us back to the Hierarchy’s mandatory service culture and boot camp at age 15, with mandatory service from age 15-30.
“Public service” as opposed to private industry is more a matter of organization and aims than it is a limitation of ‘choices.’ Take, for instance, the example of ‘national’ industries owned by a state. Any state-owned enterprise might conceivably count toward ‘public service’ citizen credit. These enterprises could include everything from arts museums and public art projects (ala the Works Projects Administration of Roosevelt Depression-era US policy) to industrial fabricators, dockyards, and other collectively owned and operated institutions.
Note that I also don’t equate state-owned industry to CENTRALLY-PLANNED industry! You might, in a turian society that prizes both individual accountability AND public service, have for instance a federated system of local control within a centrally-organized public works or other department.
Fair warning: this is my professional bureaucrat side talking. There are MANY aspects of infrastructure, particularly public works infrastructure, that are site- and context-dependent. Central planning of these features quite literally doesn’t work outside of administration and funding (which you WANT organized in larger packages if possible, to secure the best possible loan terms). 
I also imagine that a public service-oriented society would work on incorporating the economic fates of its outer colonies into the trading lanes and patterns of the central Hierarchy (in order to secure greater loyalty and collective bargaining power, alongside the Vol Protectorate’s economic management engine).
So what would education in a “man-of-action”/”public service” society look like? I’d think more a system of apprenticeships and practical qualification or on-the-job (OJT) training and certification where available! 
A boot camp experience is usually important both for training in values and standard procedures, so it’s less likely to vary appreciably between any one place and another beyond basics related to climate and environment. I’d expect boot camp training to be purposely standardized -- individual accountability doesn’t necessarily lead me to conclude that turians would be keen to judge themselves on anything other than “demonstrated merit” (and testing would be ONE part, but probably not the most significant -- outside of genuine performance on practical tasks, and the ability to produce measurable results!).
Pre-boot-camp education would likely be designed to expose juveniles to as many professions as possible -- there’s a bit in the codex about the turian respect for “knowing one’s place” and finding a comfortable place where the individual best serves the community (rather than individual prestige or economic gain). This would also track with turians being ‘poor’ entrepreneurs (i.e. less inclined to start their own businesses for profit, or with less opportunity when they’re in State-mandated service) ... and account for some of the distrust of ‘merc-born’ turians who chose to opt out of the traditional Hierarchy structure.
I’d also expect a classical turian education to include emphasis on health, community values, and being able to communicate in a general way with their volus partners/collaborators in areas that are less often viewed as strengths of turian culture (aka: economics and business, anyone?).
If turian culture is truly militaristic and communitarian, both, and formed around a sort of military hierarchy, that society will also be shaped by what doctrine views as effective deployment of force and possible missions and required capabilities In military terms, this would be defined both by a theoretical ‘ideal’ force structure and various desired concepts of operations.
Military Doctrine (Given: The Situation)
So, what capabilities would be valuable for the turian Hierarchy to provide to the galaxy? What are its internal needs? What are the needs of its closest allies and partners?
We already know (or suspect) that Dreadnoughts are one sign of military status. These immense warships are required to secure and hold space stations and other important remote outposts, alongside the smaller cruisers, frigate wolfpacks, and other space Navy-type forces.
We can also consider C-Sec (civil and criminal investigation on the Citadel, security for ports, anti-smuggling operations, etc.) as a separate civil branch and outgrowth of skills are learned and taught within the Hierarchy and something of a stereotypical (and desirable!) turian job outside of Hierarchy space.
Other valuable services provided by the Hierarchy include staffing and operating a force (32 fleets!) large enough to secure not just Hierarchy space but also to protect the Citadel. Turians canonically value combined arms and disciplined maneuver warfare, decentralized command-and-control, and are also the primary military arm and security force for the rest of the galaxy.
In summary: the turians are so good at staffing and maintaining fleets that the rest of the Council species seem to prefer handing these civil functions over to the turians in proportion to their relative expertise and cultural strengths.
All of the above implies that turian culture would need to be an extraordinarily flexible (structurally) society, if individually somewhat set and rigid in expectations and values for fulfilling assigned duties.
I’d believe that assignments, once given, were equivalent to anyone else’s ultimatum! I’d also imagine that turians would find it VERY personally important to seek out roles where they could fulfill all potential assignments to the best of their individual abilities, and that ‘finding’ that place/role in society would be akin to a life path.
Amateurs Study Tactics
A short aside that warfighting ability, alone, at least on an individual level, is a minor strength in comparison to building an effective collaborative combined arms force. The organization required at an individual level? Not much! Just personal training and supply.
Problems mount as soon as the force expands in size, complexity, and desired mission capabilities. I could see volus economists and logicians, as well as military scholars, being the preeminent organizers and administrators of turian force structures. I could see the volus economic influence being a quite effective force multiplier for the turian Hierarchy, in terms of creatively organizing fleets and their sub-units into autonomous mission-capable interchangeable “parts” which all know how to work together and communicate to achieve complex adaptability and integration of vastly different forces, hardware, and weapons systems at a variety of scales (from galactic, to orbital, to low-orbit, to planetside ground).
Which leads us to ...
Professionals Study Logistics
This is just the study of the application of “effective force.” What makes a force effective? It needs to be supplied with personnel and materiel such that it can accomplish its assigned mission -- preserve the capability of the force through the supply of the necessary tools at the right time, alongside the ability to maintain, repair, replace, or rotate those tools as needed.
A force that has been improperly positioned (is too far forward of supply lines, or too far in the rear to be applied at the right time) is by definition an ineffective force. It is unavailable to accomplish the mission.
There’s a long, rich tradition of economists studying the choice behaviors of nations seeking war, the application of deterrence, and the conditions of victory and defeat on a multitude of different battlefields in different historical and cultural contexts. We get just about NONE of this (barring some high-level generalizations) in Mass Effect, proper!
If we did, we might have seen a bit more nuance in illustrating the Vol Protectorate as not just the economic backbone of Citadel space, but also the preeminent experts in military grand strategy and supply. They’re likely the most closely associated Citadel species and have the most experience collaborating with turian systems of organization! The volus would be just as good at turian military history as turians are, if not BETTER observers and critics on the logistics/economics side, in terms of patterns of thinking and history!
At some point I’m going to have to write the “lessons learned” memo on the First Contact War from the point of view of an eminent volus logistician and economist (ala Thomas Schelling).
Because I’m a nerd, and if the FCW was a failure due to logistics and supply errors? You can just BET the volus were kept out of the First Contact loop as a some sort of power play on the part of less-qualified frontline personnel... no, they’re not salty about that, why do you ask?
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HATE ME YET? Yeah, I can’t stop thinking about this stuff, either ... and now you know why my fanfiction is the way it is. :D
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barmadumet · 7 months
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WIP Vote!!
Rules: Make a 24 hour poll with the names of your WIPs, let it run, then work for 10 minutes for every vote the winner receives.
Well, I’ve only got 2 WIPs (and you’re probably already familiar with them bc they’ve been on the list a while), but I’ve also got 2 story ideas that are pretty well-developed in my head, so I’ll include them, bc if I can get out of my ‘you should just delete your 3 unimpactful fics and disappear’ slump, I would like to write again someday… I’ve been feeling discouraged, so I really appreciate you @fulcrum843 for tagging me 💕
Descriptions of what you’re voting for wasn’t really in the rules, but I’ve only got one working title and two choices aren’t even actual WIPs sooo…. 🤷🏻‍♀️
WDYHTY: The obianidala fic that was supposed to be TCW fix-it Streets of Gold became. I left off at 20k words, and I really loved those words and hope to see the story through in time.
PW AU: Read a brief synopsis here. It was only sparked by watching Pretty Woman, but doesn’t actually follow the movie plot.
TLOTJ: Vader succeeds in his plan to forget Padmé, but his mind gets wiped more thoroughly and further back than intended - it’s lucky that Ferus was there lurking… He can bring the scared “Padawan” back to his Master. Yep. This one is obikinfer 😎
Clone Anakin: @journey-to-batuu and I have chatted about a fic based off her Sims posts! I am obsessed with this idea and have made some notes for a plot and even written out a pinch of dialogue.
I’m not going to tag bc after a little weekend online hiatus, I am catching up and seeing many of you were already tagged. Excited for all of us to get inspired by one another 🥰
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lionews · 10 months
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yeah lioden is my favorite pet sim.
(the economy is in shambles, the chat room is full of children causing petty fights, and everyone’s king is a decennial based ferus with hibiscus and haliotis markings)
FLIFHT RISING i meant to say flight rising is my favorite pet sim
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ao3feed-obikin · 4 months
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Three's a Crowd (and More's a Riot)
read it on the AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/51523501 by TheLegendofStella When Aayla finds out that both of her best friends are plural, she decides that it'd be a great idea to stick them in a chatroom together in order to let them get to know each other as fellow plurals. She had no idea that they actually knew each other beforehand... and that they absolutely hated each other. It goes about as poorly as expected, but strange circumstances make strange friends, and sometimes all that's needed for a new perspective is a little push in the right direction. Or: Aayla tries her very best to be supportive, Anakin becomes an even bigger disaster than before, and Ferus absolutely did not sign up for any of this banthashit. Words: 13516, Chapters: 2/?, Language: English Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: Gen Characters: Anakin Skywalker, Aayla Secura, Ferus Olin Relationships: Aayla Secura & Anakin Skywalker, Ferus Olin & Aayla Secura, Ferus Olin & Anakin Skywalker, Ferus Olin & Aayla Secura & Anakin Skywalker, Eventual Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker - Relationship, Eventual CC-5052 | Bly/Aayla Secura Additional Tags: chatfic, Humor, Multiplicity/Plurality, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Anakin Skywalker has DID - Dissociative Identity Disorder, Ferus Olin has DID - Dissociative Identity Disorder, Neurodivergent Anakin Skywalker, Neurodivergent Ferus Olin, Aayla Secura is Normal (?), rivals to friends, for Anakin and Ferus specifically, Slice of Life, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Mental Health Issues, Slow Burn, Best Friends, Hijinks & Shenanigans, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Eventual Happy Ending, Schism (Star Wars Discord), Chatting & Messaging, no romantic relationships until everyone's of age, though Anakin def wishes it was otherwise for a bit lolol, he's a little freak and we love him read it on the AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/51523501
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caxycreations · 8 months
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Tylvinian Free-Running Circuit
The Tylvinian Free-Running Circuit, or the TFRC, is an illegal event held every Friday night, Saturday night, and Sunday night in the city of Tylvin, the capitol of Ferus.
Runners pay a once-a-week entry fee to enter the Circuit, which grants them access to the Circuit for the weekend. These dues go into a savings fund which the organizers maintain to pay legal fees should they be caught, as well as medical expenses for runners that sustain injury on the course.
While there is a waiver upon entry for the first time, the TFRC wants to take care of its participants and so has policies in place that ensure injuries are dealt with swiftly and empathetically.
It is hosted in a different location every active night to avoid being easy to catch and break up. The Circuit has a small group of organizers, which contacts its participants via an online chat the organizers allow runners into, but do not allow general chat in.
All messaging is done by the organizers, and the chat is used to give the location of the next starting line, where runners will gather. There are three types of race that are run from the starting line, which is a simple strip of reflective white tape with a pair of standing lights on either side. These types are:
Casual - Simply racing to race. Up to ten runners may participate in this. It is often used to practice the path before attempting a League or Challenge race, though the more casual racers tend to stay out of those. Bets are not allowed, and racers are given no compensation.
League - The TFRC ranks its racers based on certain metrics, as outlined in a later section of this post. League matches use these rankings and assign races between up to four runners, with the winner increasing their rank while last place loses a rank. Bets are taken, with the lowest ranking racer paying out the highest return should they win, and the highest ranking paying the lowest return should they win. Runners are entitled to a portion of all bets placed on them if they win, and a consolation pay if they don't. The rank class a runner holds determines their pay at the end of a race.
Challenge - A Challenge is the highest stakes race the TFRC offers. In a Challenge race, two runners go head to head in the course for bragging rights, money, and most importantly to those involved, status. In a Challenge race, a lower-ranking runner may challenge any runner of higher rank. If they win, their ranks are swapped with the Challenger taking on the rank of the runner they challenged while their opponent takes on the Challenger's rank.
There are four Rank Classes, and each Class has varying amounts of ranks. These are listed below.
Bronze - 100 ranks. Lowest is Bronze 100, top rank being Bronze 1.
Silver - 50 ranks. Lowest is Silver 50, top rank being Silver 1.
Gold - 25 ranks. Lowest is Gold 25, top rank being Gold 1.
Platinum - 5 ranks. Lowest is Plat 5, top rank being Plat 1.
The pay ranges are as follows:
Bronze 100-50: 3% of bets for winning, $5 consolation pay for losing
Bronze 49-1: 4% of bets for winning, $8 consolation pay for losing
Silver 50-25: 5% of bets for winning, $10 consolation pay for losing
Silver 24-1: 8% of bets for winning, $20 consolation pay for losing
Gold 25-10: 12% of bets for winning, $30 consolation pay for losing
Gold 9-1: 15% of bets for winning, $40 consolation pay for losing
Platinum 5-1: 25% of bets for winning, $50 consolation pay for losing
When a runner reaches the top rank of their Class, they can no longer move up without a Challenge race, and must challenge a runner of any rank in any Class higher than their own.
The current top rank racers in each Class are:
Bronze - Hayden Markle, border collie, participant for six months
Silver - Trace Parker, common fox, participant for eight months
Gold - Jon Bellows, skink, participant for a year and four months
Platinum - Danny Ipson, desert owl, participant for five years
Races are run on a schedule, which is shown below.
From 8pm to 10pm, Casual races.
From 10:30pm to 12am, League races.
From 12:30am to 2am, Challenger races.
This ensures everyone has time to race, and allows for breaks between so that runners participating in multiple race types have time to rest between competitions.
The organizers are not known by name or species, and mingle among the crowd as runners to avoid standing out. This is to prevent anyone from being singled out as a leader as a precaution in the event of police discovery.
The TFRC is, in essence, a roaming gathering of free spirits and speed demons looking to meet others like themselves and prove their capability against one another, find lifelong friends and rivals, as well as gather to enjoy the competition and camaraderie the Circuit provides. It is a gathering of sincere love of the sport, and bad eggs are weeded out quickly, with the Circuit affording no place for toxicity or hostility outside of the healthy competition of the race.
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liodendrama · 2 years
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"What’s with all the new players getting mutated kings after like a week? Full dens of muties/projects.. I want to believe most of them are side accounts but they’re always in chat asking the most basic questions. Makes no sense. I’d love to hear others thoughts on this." I've invited friends to the game and given them ferus or primal fangs kings to start out with and helped them get the markings they want. Given them a few mutated cubs, but thats about it. Same person who said that the funneling rule was dumb btw
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yo why the fuck is glo so hostile in chat half the time? the other half he’s just showing off his shit that he breeds by luck. good job, you got a ferus cub after one try and an elygon on your first try at a tigon, or that interstellar cub you got from an interstellar x red medium solid common breeding. no one cares
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tidusyumemiru · 5 years
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Amazonite Comfort: What sorts of things bring your muse comfort in trying times? Are there any habits they have when things get difficult to help cope?
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There’s a number of things that Isen might do to cope but it does depend too on the severity of the issue. If it’s something fairly minor he may go for a ride and just clear his mind or maybe some training. If it’s something significant he’ll likely chat with his husband on the matter or listen to some music. If it’s something truly eating right at him, something he can’t solve or talk about that’s when he’ll get stuck into some alcohol. Of course... this has mixed results at best.. [Thank you @ferus-eros
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lioden-conspiracies · 5 years
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I’m the first one (Aleu) out of the fetus weed joke group (which was big, also I’m pretty sure I’m the only one rn who has ferus, I COULD be mistaken but from the discord I don’t think so) to get a ferus. This took an absolute ridiculous amount of gb, time, and cubs. For perspective, I got 4 primals and 2 felis’s and mostly 1 cub litters. I have no febuary items left. Proves you can get anything if you work hard enough, but all these mods and asskissers had it basically fall in their lap. There WAS a mod (DQ I believe) in chat who gave a supportive stance to the joke but a mod later who disapproved. I doubt DQ (again, if for sure it was her) likes me, but goes to show the mod team is out of touch.
I don’t know if I should believe the table theory or not. I like looking at the rng theories as it’s fun to think about, but actually existing? Still on the edge. I trust Katze and Xylax to an extent, but the rest seem extremely fishy. They got defensive when I said rates should be released. Shad’s poor excuse for a “polite” disagreement and reason were “because it would do literally nothing XD”.
We know literally nothing about the site code, what runs in the background, and that’s what’s spurring this on in addition to the suspicious amount of “popular ” folk who have gons, pons, and got the Muk weed. If only politician friends were winning the lottery, or a great number compared to everyone else, and you couldn’t be told the chance you have when entering a ticket to begin with, wouldn’t that be suspicious too?
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arda-ancalima · 5 years
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Ferus Olin - By the water For @sirianddeanseethestars (prompts here)
Ferus laughed as he surfaced in the lake and shook his hair out of his face. “Come on in Trever, the water is fine!”
“You know what, I think I’ll pass. It’s kind of cold. Aren’t you cold?”
“You don’t need to worry about that,” Ferus said. “The Force can help one adapt to changes in temperature. Plus, once I toss you in, you’ll get used to it quickly.”
“All right! I’m coming, I’m coming.”
“We’ll get you used to swimming. Now that, you know, you can practice without your life being at stake. Here, let’s start out with just floating on your back.”
It was an afternoon of Padawans helping with the younglings. It gave them experience mentoring and gave the guardians of the younglings a chance to get other work done or have time to themselves. Ferus and several of his old classmates were by the lake in the Room of a Thousand Fountains swimming or playing with the children. He was helping a little Tholothian girl who was apprehensive about swimming to get comfortable floating in the shallows of the lake.
“Breathe in deeply and you’ll feel your body float up. The Force is in the water, and it will help you. I’ll be right here.”
“Are you still holding me?”
Ferus smiled. “No, you’re floating by yourself.”
The little girl’s timidity turned to excitement as she stood back up and ran out of the water babbling about what she did. Not to Ferus, but to Darra, who was nearby and seemed to already have a connection with the child as she scooped her up and chatted back.
It shouldn’t have mattered to him. He was doing what he was asked to do, and it wasn’t as if he needed to connect with a potential student any time soon. But there was still a small ache to be wanted and have the ease with others that his fellow Padawans seemed to have.
At that moment, Ali-Alann came to collect the children so they went over to him while the Padawans began to wander off. Ferus started to get out of the lake and was so wrapped up in his thoughts that he almost didn’t notice Siri approaching him.
“I was just going to go for a swim. Care to join me?”
Ferus nodded and slid back into the water.
“I suppose you’ve been in the shallows this whole time,” Siri said as she stepped in. “Let’s go out into deeper water.”
After being in a depth that even the younglings could stand in, it felt good to make long strokes and push off into the deep. Once they were a distance from shore, Siri stopped to tread water.
“I could hear you thinking from a mile away,” she teased. “What’s on your mind?”
Ferus hesitated. “I…I’m just not very good at working with children.”
“From what I saw, you were doing fine.” Siri looked at him curiously.
“The others seem to have already made connections with them.”
“Aha,” Siri said. “That’s a train of thought that will lead you nowhere useful. ‘Comparing leads to despairing.’”
“But shouldn’t I recognize my weaknesses?”
Siri gazed toward the waterfall thoughtfully. “Yes, but how you do matters. Comparing your journey to someone else’s doesn’t give you an accurate perspective. We all have our own weaknesses to work on and strengths to use, but they vary for everyone. There are as many different paths to becoming a Jedi as there are...well, Jedi.”
“As for making connections,” Siri continued, “I can only recommend patience and persistence. If you’re trying but they don’t happen now, that’s okay. It doesn’t mean they never will. It took me a long time to make friends as a Padawan, and I’m only starting to rebuild friendships now that I’m back at the Temple. You’re doing fine, and when the time is right, you will have people to connect to and will make a fine Master to some lucky apprentice.”
“That seems a long way off.”
“Trust me, you’ll get there.” Siri grinned. “I look forward to meeting my grand-Padawan.”
“Umm anyone home? Earth to Ferus! I’m sinking here!”
Ferus’s young friend, though certainly not his apprentice, pulled him out of his memories. “You’re doing fine Trever, just take a deep breath and feel the—”
“If you tell me to use the Force, I’ll dunk you.”
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gwyneirastorm · 5 years
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All of this "Ferus/Fetus" shit is out of control.
Users making infanticide jokes and jokes about miscarriages are wrong and people shouldn't be allowed to post them. However, I just saw a screencap of a mod posting in the chat that "it's a fine topic, it's a joke, it's a meme." How could this possibly be an okay topic?? As a lioden player and a woman who has had three (3) miscarriages--one of them just three months ago--i am extremely offended by this. In what way is this okay?? The moment I saw those posts, all of the pain of losing my children via miscarriage came rushing back. I've been in counseling every week for three years to get past the trauma, and now twice a week since my last miscarriage, and these posts are extremely triggering. Miscarriages are traumatic and can cause PTSD to the women that have them, as it did for me. Please explain to me why this is a "fine topic" and a "joke" because it certainly isn't a joke to me.
I cannot be alone in this opinion. I want the staff to explain to me why it's okay.
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ferusaurelius · 1 year
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Merc-born Turian Culture Meta
I (slowly) write a lot of mass effect fanfiction where the differences between mainstream Hierarchy space culture and merc-born turian culture differ, and you’ll see these themes pop up quite a bit in my work. While I’ve done some narrative-type explorations, I haven’t outlined the basis of my reasoning.
My narrative merc-born turian fic is a sort of background for Nihlus Kryik: 
‘The husbandry of victory is blood’ comes with companion annotations.
Actual merc-born turian meta is underneath the cut. ;)
In the past I might have used the term ‘headcanon,’ but these days I’m finding that ‘meta’ works better for the overall structure and consistency of my thoughts about these topics -- all of which are intended to be used as background or basis for certain perspectives in writing fanfiction. Without further ado, let’s get rolling!
What Does Merc-Born Mean?
Not gonna lie, when I first read that Nihlus was merc-born in the ME1 codex, I was intrigued! This aspect of his character is one of the things I most enjoy in writing fanfiction from his point of view or including him in stories. However, since there’s very little canon information on what cultural structures might differ from the coreworld and colony-born turians and the merc-born, naturally I had to start figuring out what those distinctions might look like in practice.
If the wiki timeline is to be believed, the batarians made first contact with the Citadel sometime after the volus and were granted an embassy a century later -- which still gives them an approximately 1000-year head start over the turians on integrating into galactic society and trade. This is where I feel like the BioWare writers did this entire culture dirty by essentially skipping over any possible contributions to mapping, exploration, and colonizing the Terminus Systems!
The Terminus and the edges of the Attican Traverse aren’t going to become a haven for pirates and mercenaries without a lot of work and commercial activity, let’s be real. So! I give batarians the benefit of the doubt in being among the most savvy of space-explorers and surveyors, willing to risk their lives in exchange for better economic opportunities (mining claims, potential new colonies, faster trading routes, setting up space depots, etc.).
It’s here that the turian Unification Wars give us an opportunity to link anti-Hierarchy groups to the batarians who have already set up independent refuge in the Terminus Systems. If you’re a turian who feels burned by the Hierarchy, where do you go? Well, you might decide to take up with some similarly anti-government independent-minded spacefaring batarian groups who have been resisting the control of the Hegemony for the last 1000 years.
My point is that merc-born turians would likely align culturally more with batarians than, say, the banking-savvy and market-connected Vol Protectorate. To my mind, therefore, a merc-born turian who lives outside Hierarchy space is also raised alongside the batarian values of independence and strength.
Terminus Batarian Culture vs. the Hegemony
Something the BioWare writers could have done (and if you squint, it’s even implied!) is riff a bit on the batarian perspective between being opportunistic, independent, and expedition-minded vs. the propagandistic and authoritarian bent of the Hegemony. Any government like the Hegemony that seeks to isolate and control its citizens also fundamentally limits their options to influence interspecies trade and politics.
Plus it seemed to me that any culture with a text called the Pillars of Strength might also conceivably differ in their possible interpretations of that text.
And since that artifact is an older religious text, it might also be used to precipitate a practical, religious, and ideological schism between those who believe that strength is defined as “power over” others rather than “power alongside” them. I let the anti-Hegemony batarian groups withdraw to marginal space in part as a test of their own strength and ability to survive, but also to establish independent support structures that enhanced the survival of these fringe groups, and who might even see “deference to the Hegemony” as a betrayal of their religious and cultural principles.
This viewpoint also gave me an opportunity to make distinctions between batarian groups who might cynically profit off of slave-trading and the mercenary (probably a pejorative bestowed by those who failed to conquer them) groups who might find such enterprises too morally compromising to engage in.
Again, the aim of considering the other options here was to give my batarian and merc-born turians a full spectrum of opinions and philosophies to access. Rather than painting them all with an oppressive slavery/piracy brush (... NOPE, none of those lifestyles are sustainable, actually, and they seem counterproductive In Particular if you are trying to survive in marginal territory, much less wanted any kind of stability in an already unstable environment).
Merc-Born Turians Join the Terminus Batarian Groups
Considering the above, and the canon that turians culturally prize individual accountability, I could see a world in which those who didn’t want to be governed by the strict role structure of the Hierarchy decided to align themselves with batarian groups who had already made a similar choice to resist the Hegemony.
Or was I the only one to see the naming similarities and have a lightbulb moment? xD Anyway.
My thought here was that culturally-aligned batarians and turians would form a syncretic society that valued individual accountability, personal strength, resisted larger government authority, and also had to band together to survive against predatory attacks by roving bands of pirates and slavers. In this case the “mercenary” groups remain somewhat independent, but are also used to hiring out to fulfill particular missions and skills while still surviving as more durable organizations and social groups than a typical ‘gang.’
Durable groups implies some kind of shared culture, rituals, customs, and methods of distinguishing in-group individuals with similar values from out-group threats who might otherwise look superficially similar.
In this case, I decided that it was likely turian converts to these groups would come from existing disaffected factions of Hierarchy-resistors. These new recruits would be valuable in their knowledge of turian military tactics, discipline, cultural honesty and accountability, and their potential to contribute new recruits and skills to expand the reach of the existing culturally batarian mercenary outposts. Any turians would probably bring along familiar customs (like old colony markings) and then incorporate batarian cultural symbols into their personal identities.
So, in my somewhat detailed Nihlus Kryik background fic, I went into some detail about Nihlus wearing a Taetran colony pattern with ‘mercenary sickles’ incorporated into the traditional colony shapes. Altering colony markings in this way would likely be seen as taboo in Hierarchy space, since it’s also a clear divider between mercenary and mainstream affiliations.
The other immediate impact I could see was a language divergence between these Terminus groups and Hierarchy and Hegemony space -- to the point where there’s not an updated codex for these languages, and the inhabitants like it just fine that way. xD
Since we also know that batarians place a strong emphasis on body language, I figured that a somewhat diverse mercenary group would also have found turian-specific ways of communicating the same approximate batarian gestures, to the point where a mixed-culture language would have developed for the convenience of the participants over the last 2000-or-so years.
Differences Between Merc-Born and Hierarchy Turians
As a consequence of some of the ideas outlined above, I thought the most readily-apparent distinctions between merc-born and Hierarchy-born turians would be cultural practices, language (word-choice and physical), and overall viewpoint on legitimate sources of power and preferences for governance structures.
Merc-born turians who haven’t been raised in the Hierarchy probably don’t have as clear a grasp of citizenship as practiced by their counterparts, nor of “public service” as service to the state, rather than just to one’s group. While they may share common beliefs about individual accountability and knowing one’s place, the merc-born turians likely look at this on a more individual and family-related level instead of a larger-group (colony and above) structure. The merc-born likely have little or no experience with the bureaucracy that a Hierarchy-born turian might take for granted.
While, on an individual level, the merc-born might be more inclined to adapt forms of address to respected elders or fail to see bureaucratic authority as legitimate, as opposed to bonds of agreed personally-based respect and trust.
While both the Hierarchy-born and the merc-born might view their word as their bond, the merc-born would see this as more a personal than a societal imperative, with a tendency to trust family and kin-ties rather than strictly the requirements of duty inside a formal role.
Hierarchy-born turians would therefore generally mistrust merc-born turians as “faithless” in terms of duty and “backward” in their reliance on kin, family, and affiliation.
To my mind, this is one of those general misunderstandings that would occur when merc-born turians (used to fulfilling multiple roles in whatever capacity is needed in their community), and Hierarch-born turians (used to fulfilling a specific role as required by the state or larger stable group) would just be speaking past each other, because they’re coming from fundamentally different lived experiences.
Merc-born turians have never placed their trust in any state-level institution, by definition, while most Hierarchy-born turians have at least a larger colony world as a point of reference.
Merc-Born Turians: Nihlus Kryik, A Case Study
I’m still so, so sad that we didn’t have a chance to get to know him better as a character, outside of a VERY FEW dialogue lines!
We know from the codex that Nihlus was ‘forced’ into the Hierarchy military at age 16 and never really fit in with his squads, having instead a more independent streak and disobeying orders on his own initiative. While his tactics were seen as reckless by his more traditional (Hierarchy-born) superiors, his ability to find and exploit weaknesses eventually lead Saren Arterius to recruit him into the Spectres. Nihlus also has no species-driven grudge against humanity and only cares that Shepard can get the job done.
Where do I go with this?
I lean hard into the merc-born background that might have instilled such an attitude in Nihlus at a young age, by playing both with his pre-service background, his family history (both colony-born turian, kin-affiliated mercenary group, and adopted batarian), and his attitude toward his own identity and values as a merc-born turian.
I give Nihlus different opinions on everything from colony markings (and some of my specific thoughts on what embellishments might identify a turian as merc-born and what those means), to authority, to practical approaches, to independence, to familiarity with language and food, to just a different overall cultural viewpoint that is uniquely critical of what other Hierarchy-born turians might take for granted as the cultural majority. In short? 
I write him as an outsider who has chosen to participate in the Hierarchy despite what he’s seen of the flaws.
Whenever I write Nihlus, it’s important to me to consider his individual rationale for his choices. I don’t see him as the type to rejoin the Hierarchy and do so uncritically, for instance -- but I also tend to write him as “seeking his place” in a way that aligns with his unique values as a merc-born turian with very different personal experiences of what life is like in the galaxy. 
Someone who is sympathetic to those who want to be left alone to live separate lives apart from larger government structures, for instance, and who is capable of navigating multiple worlds and perspectives in his everyday job without looking down on anyone who isn’t participating in the mainstream cultural choices.
Whenever I’m writing a character like this, it’s important to me to consider what might be the driving goals and values in their lives. For Nihlus (in my view), that’s applying his individual ability to ensuring that predatory groups (pirates and slavers, destabilizing no matter where you are in the galaxy) are opposed and dismantled wherever they occur -- and he doesn’t particularly see the problem with adding a bit of stability to the Terminus, either.
I also write Nihlus with a more live-and-let-live attitude driven by his experiences in the Terminus, who has a bit more of a nuanced perspective on batarians and batarian culture, since he was raised in close proximity to it. ;)
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D3 B, VAMOS VAMOS VAMOS !!!
Basterebbe questa immagine per raccontare la storia della squadra D3 B del Circolo Tennis Parabiago.
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Da sinistra a destra vedete schierati Thomas Morosi, Enrico Chicco Cassani, Nick Soria, Charlie Lusardi e Thomas Mellace, in una parola dal significato per noi fondamentale UN GRUPPO DI AMICI !
Vorremmo concentrare questa puntata del nostro blog proprio su questo aspetto, che come sapete per chi scrive (in particolare per questa squadra) supera di gran lunga la valenza agonistica.
La giornata di Domenica, ultima tappa del Girone 20 di Serie D3, ha avuto un epilogo sfortunato, con una sconfitta che ha di fatto infranto il sogno di giocarsi la promozione in D2 a Settembre, ma oggi non vogliamo soffermarci su questa parte della storia. Vogliamo invece far parlare i ragazzi e riportare testualmente quello che si sono scritti nella chat di gruppo al termine della competizione.
Thomas Mellace:
Ciao Mamo
Ci siamo presentati ieri (che fatica senza apostrofi son GIA messo male) da primi in classifica a parimerito con una sola partita di svantaggio (sui sedici disputati) rispetto alla Canottieri Milano
Eravamo obbligati a vincere
I presupposti erano buoni ed eravamo in un buon periodo di forma ma purtroppo non siamo riusciti a portare a casa una qualificazione che forse in questa stagione meritavamo (negli ultimi 3 anni siamo arrivati sempre a giocarci la qualificazione in ultima giornata)
Onore alla Canottieri Milano che ha meritato il passaggio, ma si sa nel nostro bellissimo sport un solo punto, un match point a volte cambia il corso della storia
In queste cinque domeniche abbiamo dato davvero tutto a volte giocando in condizioni climatiche davvero estreme.
Questo non toglie la bellezza di questa lunga cavalcata di un gruppo di amici che giocano insieme da ormai venti anni (Nick probabilmente non era ancora nato).
Ci riproviamo il prossimo anno
P. S. Certo che su 28 gironi da 6 squadre, si potrebbe anche pensare di far passare le due migliori seconde, storia differente.
Carlo Lusardi:
Anche in questa stagione (come nelle precedenti due ) per lo scontro diretto abbiamo sfiorato il sogno della promozione grazie ai miei compagni e amici Thomas Goran Mellace, Enrico Feru Cassani Thomas Morosi e Nick Soria. Tra una partita e un panino con la salamella abbiamo superato vittorie e sconfitte, grazie al Circolo che ci ha permesso di vivere questa stupenda avventura assaporando per 5 domeniche un buon vero e puro Tennis Agonistico. Abbiamo giocato delle partite pazzesche, annullato dei match point, fatto punti incredibili e vissuto delle gioie inspiegabili. La sola parola che mi sento di dirvi: GRAZIE, GRAZIE e sicuramente non ne usciamo vittoriosi oggi ma carichi di speranza e consapevolezza per il DOMANI !
Cosa possiamo aggiungere a queste bellissime parole ? Nulla, davvero nulla ragazzi se non il nostro profondo augurio che questo spirito vi possa accompagnare per tantissime stagioni ancora a difesa dei colori del CTP, che tanto vi hanno dato ma che altrettanto hanno ricevuto in cambio !
Il Vostro gruppo, di cui chi scrive si pregia di fare parte anche se non sul campo (ma sto lavorando per quello non preoccupatevi !) incarna alla grande i valori su cui si fonda il nostro sodalizio: amicizia, spirito di sacrificio e dedizione, attaccamento ai nostri colori e ultimo ma non ultimo predisposizione a birra e salamella ! Il tutto senza dimenticare la valenza agonistica che comunque viene testimoniata dalle Vostre onorevoli classifiche e dal desiderio di progredire sempre.
Un GRAZIE di cuore a voi ragazzi per esserci, per esserci sempre !
Non possiamo non chiudere questo blog con la parola chiave del nostro gruppo: VAMOSSSSSSSS !
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I love it when people IBF in chat if it's something worth ibf-ing, like a hybrid, dwarf, RL(C), DU, even a ferus X ferus breed or combo breed. But if it's an ncl maybe bred to a pie king or something it's not that exciting for everyone and a real waste of 2gb imo.
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Three's a Crowd (and More's a Riot)
read it on the AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/51523501 by TheLegendofStella When Aayla finds out that both of her best friends are plural, she decides that it'd be a great idea to stick them in a chatroom together in order to let them get to know each other as fellow plurals. She had no idea that they actually knew each other beforehand... and that they absolutely hated each other. It goes about as poorly as expected, but strange circumstances make strange friends, and sometimes all that's needed for a new perspective is a little push in the right direction. Or: Aayla tries her very best to be supportive, Anakin becomes an even bigger disaster than before, and Ferus absolutely did not sign up for any of this banthashit. Words: 13516, Chapters: 2/?, Language: English Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: Gen Characters: Anakin Skywalker, Aayla Secura, Ferus Olin Relationships: Aayla Secura & Anakin Skywalker, Ferus Olin & Aayla Secura, Ferus Olin & Anakin Skywalker, Ferus Olin & Aayla Secura & Anakin Skywalker, Eventual Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker - Relationship, Eventual CC-5052 | Bly/Aayla Secura Additional Tags: chatfic, Humor, Multiplicity/Plurality, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Anakin Skywalker has DID - Dissociative Identity Disorder, Ferus Olin has DID - Dissociative Identity Disorder, Neurodivergent Anakin Skywalker, Neurodivergent Ferus Olin, Aayla Secura is Normal (?), rivals to friends, for Anakin and Ferus specifically, Slice of Life, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Mental Health Issues, Slow Burn, Best Friends, Hijinks & Shenanigans, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Eventual Happy Ending, Schism (Star Wars Discord), Chatting & Messaging, no romantic relationships until everyone's of age, though Anakin def wishes it was otherwise for a bit lolol, he's a little freak and we love him read it on the AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/51523501
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When Ferus Olin gets baked, he gets on customer service chats to argue about billing. When I am baked, I apparently do the same thing. I found the transcript saved on my computer this morning and just spent a while reformatting it so I could post it here, as a warning to myself or a celebration of my stoner ~eloquence, I'm not entirely sure tbh. I'm kind of proud of it either way though.
Me: I was emailed confirmation of a free week-long Showtime trial that I do not recall ordering, and that is not showing up on my account in any capacity. However, Roku keeps trying to charge me for it. I would like to have someone verify that the subscription is cancelled. Thank you!
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Me: Man, the person three spaces ahead of me in line is sure taking a long time
Damn 3, get the lead out
All right 2, don't let me down!
It's a good thing I can multitask 2
Awright let's party
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Sorry my dog wanted to send a message
Arun joined the chat
Arun: Hi Jessica.
I can certainly help you.
Me: Cool beans
Arun: Please hold on a minute Jessica.\
Let me check that information for you.
Thank you for your continued patience.
Me: Haha I thought you were going away
I was like oh no what did I do
Arun: I do not see any channel subscription on your account.
Hence Roku will not going to charge you.
Me:
I definitely didn't subscribe, but I waited a couple of days after being notified to decide to go to the site and check on it like I'm doing now, so it's partially my fault that they tried to charge me for the post-free trial of the subscription.
But they did charge me and I need to make sure the account isn't set up for them to think I still want a Showtime subscription and keep charging me.
My bank knocks it back if it's going to put my account in the negative, but if it's not and Roku charges me again even though it doesn't show on your end that I'm being charged for anything, that would be irritating.
Arun: Might be the account is directly through Showtime.
Me: I just want it to show that the subscription trial was activated and that something still thinks I need to be charged for it on your end.
Arun: We refer you to contact Showtime and check with them.
Me: I don't think it is
Like I didn't go to the Showtime site and sign up, my emails are from Roku
Arun: Could you please help me with your alternate email address?
Me: ?
Arun: Let me check if the subscription is linked to that email.
Me: It's not on a duplicate account, the email from Roku comes to the [redacted 1] one
[redacted 2] or [redacted 3], I can't remember which one I might have used on a defunct account.
Arun: I found the subscription.
Me: Awesome
Are you able to mark it as cancelled on your end?
Arun: The showtime subscription is associated with the [redacted 2]
Me: So you can cancel the [redacted 2] account
If it already isn't
Like I shouldn't have been able to subscribe to showtime on that account because as far as I know it's been closed.
Arun: The subscription have been cancelled.
Me: Like the subscription wasn't done by me.
Arun: You no longer have Showtime subscription on your Roku account.
Me: So I'm worried there's a bigger problem like a tech glitch at hand.
Arun: I don't think it is a technical glitch because when you subscribe a channel it will ask for your payment information.
Me: I am positive I did not subscribe to Showtime.
Arun: Which can be done only from the customers end.
Me: But it wasn't
And I need to know why it still happened
To make sure my account wasn't compromised
Like somehow it was reopened and sent a subscription or someone got around it needing to be reopened first on your end
Arun: Let me give you a suggestion.
Me: Like idk if you can flag our chat so the idea that there might be a glitch can be run up the flag pole so to speak?
Because I am worried this might happen with other customers because it ended up being a glitch on your end, and you didn't find out early enough.
Arun: You can create a four digit Pin number in order to have control over the purchase or adding the channel.
Go to my.roku.com from your computer or smartphone.
If you are prompted, sign in to your Roku account.
If you cannot sign in to your Roku account, learn what to do if you have forgotten your email address or password.
Under PIN Preference, select the Update button.
Select your PIN preference from the three choices.
Always require a PIN to make purchases and to add items from the Channel Store.
Always require a PIN to make purchases.
A PIN is not required to make any purchase or add any item from the Channel Store.
If you choose either of the first two choices and have not created a PIN, you will be prompted to enter a four-digit number in the PIN field and select the Verify PIN field for confirmation.
If you already have a PIN, enter your PIN in the Verify PIN field.
Select Save Changes and agree to the terms of service.
Me: That's good, but this glitch would have already breached that kind of security
I just want to make sure that it doesn't replicate in any other accounts, or to have people on your end make sure it was only a one time thing
Arun: Alright.
Me: So are you able to add it to your call notes and then send them to the right department?
Arun: I make sure that this would never happen again.
Me: Okay
Arun: Alright.
Me: Can I get a follow up if you find out that it was a tech glitch?
Arun: Like i mentioned already it was not a glitch it was an authorized charge from your end.
Me: But it wasn't
Arun: Not Roku will never bill the customer without the customer concern.
Me: That [redacted 2] account has been closed for a while, I definitely didn't go into it a week ago and order a subscription trial
So it's not on my end
So I want to make sure Roku actually goes through and checks why it happened
Like do you fill out a specific form notifying your supervisors to pull specific calls to further to the right department, or can you check a box on my notes to have an email notification of its importance sent to the right people?
I'm just worried you won't take the effort to forward it because it's not something you were taught to do in training or whatnot.
Arun: Sorry for any inconvenience.
Me: It's fine, I just want to make sure
Arun: Jessica, we will definitely help you following up with your concern.
Me: Thank you so much
How long do you think it will take to follow up?
Arun: You are welcome.
Me: Like they probably won't tell me until after they've investigated and fixed the problem, and fixing it might take longer than three business days.
So I wanted to know what to expect
Arun: In case if you got any charge in the future we will help you with the refund.
Me: Right but I want to prevent that from happening with this email
Arun: Provided you let us know on time
Me: Because I don't want to have to go through a refund process especially when I've spent about two hours now trying to get you to agree to look into fixing the problem now
Like if it's still there a month from now, that would mean nobody looked into it
And I'm hoping it won't take a month for Roku to get back to me.
Arun: Then please remove the payment information from your Roku account too and we have helped you with the PIN.
Me: What if I wanted a different subscription for HBO or something and needed to use that same payment method
Arun: If we have any update for you we will let you know.
Then you can use the PIN
Me: Like on my end I made the [redacted 2] account defunct, which means even if the same payment information links the accounts, that account still shouldn't be triggered to submit a request to charge me for something.
Can you remove the payment information from the [redacted 2] account on your end?
Then they won't be linked
Which is probably what you meant initially
Arun: You will have to remove the payment method from your roku account.
Me: Okay I can probably do that
Arun: We do not have an access to do it.
Please go through to the link sent earlier.
Me: Okay
Arun: Thank you.
Me: Did we ever figure out how long I should expect to wait for a follow up?
Arun: However, there is no follow up required here.
All you will have to do is just remove the payment information0
Me: I thought you said earlier that I would get a follow up regarding what Roku found to be the reason behind my account being glitched in the first place, and whether they then made sure it hadn't affected other accounts, and then verified that they had fixed those, on top of that.
Arun: No, there is no follow up require here.
Me: Otherwise how can I be assured that this problem won't happen again?
I don't want to have to go through this process again. I have major talking to customer service anxiety, and this was already really trying.
Arun: First remove the information form the account. then within 24 hour you will receive an confirmation email.
Me: So I don't want to have to do it twice, which is why I would appreciate the follow up.
Arun: You will not have to.
Me: So I wanted to make sure you have the ability either by going out of your way personally to pass the information on or by filling out a form or checking a box so it automatically gets brought to someone who can address it.
I just want someone to get back to me - again, not sure how long to expect that to take - and formally say they looked into it.
It will give me peace of mind.
Arun: Like we mention earlier remove the payment information and within 24 hour you will get email that you have removed the payment information. Please go through to the guidance provided to you.
Me: I definitely will, I am just making sure my request to have this passed along is going to happen.
Arun: Okay.
You are most welcome..Thank you for contacting Roku Tech Support! Have a wonderful day! [Editor's note: Dude probably would have lost a couple QA points for not asking me one final time if I had any other questions or concerns. I cannot express how quickly he logged off once the opportunity seemed to arise. I do not really blame him, it was essentially a survival tactic at that point.]
Arun: left the chat
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Me: The comment I submitted was "Thanks/sorry, Arun!"
Poor guy
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Me: Okay leaving now so I don't clog up the queue. Thanks again, Arun!
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