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Darkside Hazuki
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What would your fighter pilot call-sign be?
I'm bored, so here's a totally wild topic I've put way too much effort into for my fellow Fable lovers. Yeehaw.
THE SCENARIO!: After you-don't-even-want-to-know-how-much-training, you've just become an F-16 pilot in the Air Force! Conglaturations! That wild blue yonder is all yours... except you don't have a call-sign yet, and all self-respecting fighter pilots need call-signs. Your CO approaches you and does a wonderful job at feigning concern for your dilemma, and he asks you if you have any suggestions in that delightful tone COs use when they're talking to someone they could step on and not even notice.
Deftly, you tactfully reply, "I'd like to be called Deathknell Ace of Spades, sir!" Because we all know that's the first thing that hit your mind when you saw the topic title.
Your CO stares at you with an expression one might have seconds before they're struck with the world's worst case of dysentery, before he asks you what the punchline is. While you stand there looking severely embarrassed and humiliated, he lays down the holy, cardinal rules of call-sign acquisition:
(1) You probably won't like it.
(2) If you don't already have one, you will be assigned one by your "buddies."
(3) If you complain and moan about it, you'll be given an even worse one.
And how exactly do you go about getting a call-sign? Do something stupid or have it fit with your last name. Obvious examples: "Crash" or Lieutenant Jason "Cheese" Kraft. Sometimes it's based on a physical appearance thing, like "Carrot"-- a red hair thing. After you've earned the respect of your buddies, you're likely to get a better call-sign, but for now, you are the lowest form of life on earth, and thus you shall be granted a totally ridiculous call-sign.
One of your new wingmates, Geoff "Camel" Tow, stops fantasizing about your girlfriend for a second to mention how he saw you kicking the crap out of chickens in Fable 2 the night before. Your CO considers this and suggests the call-sign "Chicken," or maybe "Buckaw."
Now, for the sake of getting some interesting replies, let's say you utterly abhor the idea of having to have that call-sign. It's an open invitation for your wingmates to continuously ask you to flap your arms and cluck, or if your F-16 can do so, or if you've laid any eggs lately, or hell only knows what else. It is the worst possible name you could have, as far as you're concerned.
But the CO is already thinking about assigning it to you! You've got to hurry and regale him with some other tidbit about yourself--some embarrassing blunder you've been through, or some idiotic way your name could be used to insult yourself, or some absurd-but-unique aspect of yourself or your personality that everyone who meets you would be sickened at! Anything at all that could be used to give you a different call-sign. Lieutenant Tow is already insulting the very word "discrete" by flapping his arms and grinning at you.
If you need suggestions, look here and you'll get a better idea of how call-signs are "issued": http://www.f-16.net/callsigns.html
What would mine be? Probably "Pickle." My last name is Dillingham. Personally, I'd prefer "Chicken" or "Buckaw" to that, but I have to play along too, now, don't I? Either that, or it'd be something like "Boots" because I wear cowboy boots, or "Gouf," because I'm just nerdy enough to have a picture of a Gouf from Gundam on my wall.
Now, hurry and tell the CO your suggestions (and why) before everyone starts playing Chicken Kickin' with YOU.
I'm bored, so here's a totally wild topic I've put way too much effort into for my fellow Fable lovers. Yeehaw.
THE SCENARIO!: After you-don't-even-want-to-know-how-much-training, you've just become an F-16 pilot in the Air Force! Conglaturations! That wild blue yonder is all yours... except you don't have a call-sign yet, and all self-respecting fighter pilots need call-signs. Your CO approaches you and does a wonderful job at feigning concern for your dilemma, and he asks you if you have any suggestions in that delightful tone COs use when they're talking to someone they could step on and not even notice.
Deftly, you tactfully reply, "I'd like to be called Deathknell Ace of Spades, sir!" Because we all know that's the first thing that hit your mind when you saw the topic title.
Your CO stares at you with an expression one might have seconds before they're struck with the world's worst case of dysentery, before he asks you what the punchline is. While you stand there looking severely embarrassed and humiliated, he lays down the holy, cardinal rules of call-sign acquisition:
(1) You probably won't like it.
(2) If you don't already have one, you will be assigned one by your "buddies."
(3) If you complain and moan about it, you'll be given an even worse one.
And how exactly do you go about getting a call-sign? Do something stupid or have it fit with your last name. Obvious examples: "Crash" or Lieutenant Jason "Cheese" Kraft. Sometimes it's based on a physical appearance thing, like "Carrot"-- a red hair thing. After you've earned the respect of your buddies, you're likely to get a better call-sign, but for now, you are the lowest form of life on earth, and thus you shall be granted a totally ridiculous call-sign.
One of your new wingmates, Geoff "Camel" Tow, stops fantasizing about your girlfriend for a second to mention how he saw you kicking the crap out of chickens in Fable 2 the night before. Your CO considers this and suggests the call-sign "Chicken," or maybe "Buckaw."
Now, for the sake of getting some interesting replies, let's say you utterly abhor the idea of having to have that call-sign. It's an open invitation for your wingmates to continuously ask you to flap your arms and cluck, or if your F-16 can do so, or if you've laid any eggs lately, or hell only knows what else. It is the worst possible name you could have, as far as you're concerned.
But the CO is already thinking about assigning it to you! You've got to hurry and regale him with some other tidbit about yourself--some embarrassing blunder you've been through, or some idiotic way your name could be used to insult yourself, or some absurd-but-unique aspect of yourself or your personality that everyone who meets you would be sickened at! Anything at all that could be used to give you a different call-sign. Lieutenant Tow is already insulting the very word "discrete" by flapping his arms and grinning at you.
If you need suggestions, look here and you'll get a better idea of how call-signs are "issued": http://www.f-16.net/callsigns.html
What would mine be? Probably "Pickle." My last name is Dillingham. Personally, I'd prefer "Chicken" or "Buckaw" to that, but I have to play along too, now, don't I? Either that, or it'd be something like "Boots" because I wear cowboy boots, or "Gouf," because I'm just nerdy enough to have a picture of a Gouf from Gundam on my wall.
Now, hurry and tell the CO your suggestions (and why) before everyone starts playing Chicken Kickin' with YOU.
