How does your human deal with all your whips, collars, naughty clothes, sculpted furry genitals and other attachments, stilettos, contact cards of people with maybe weird sense of fun, notecards full of drama, snapshots that you hope never were copyable… and all the other things stuffed in the folder, probably one of the rare of yours that is tidy and sorted? The drawer with silks and stockings and underwear. And a box and an envelope. The drawer we put a drop of incense in.
First time my human met face to face an another human that extends itself into metaverse was an unexpected experience. But we exchanged a quick look, and even that was more like a formality. And we spoke no word. People around us were surprised for a second, the regular social procedure requires that we share at least a couple of sentences about the common interest, if not to greet each other like we're both coming from a distant land across the deserts and seas. Well, maybe, but here in second life there is something similar to the Fight Club
The first rule of Fight Club is – you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is – you DO NOT talk about Fight Club.
It comes every now and then that two of you, your human and your avatar, have to stand one beside the other. Exception are those that call themselves augmentationists. But they are either boring or never understood what is going on here. Those that in college days never realized there are parties in the campus. But in the morning after the party, especially a college party, one have to face the mirror. One have to see own reflection. I don't know about your high-school days, but mine were marked with saying: if you like your face the next morning, you missed something last night.
And here, in this miraculous mirror, the human see the avatar and the avatar see the human. Cousins from different worlds. Worlds with different rules and customs. And if one cross the border and come to the visit the other have to show it around… which can be pretty embarrassing, if you know what I mean. Does your human introduce you to their RL friends? Do you introduce your human to us? We can bet that statistics would say that both are the case very rarely.
But it is not just about human, avatar and the rest of the worlds. We are also talking about you and your human and Xcite products popping out of drawers. Forget about the rest of us, are you two OK with that? Oh yes, we were also talking about meeting other secondlifers on the planet Earth. How do you deal with that?
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