META - Ghosts in the Machine

The Ghosts in the Machine: Parentheses, Brackets, and Braces

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([{Hello! We’re the Ghosts in the Machine, three somebodies inside this wiki! Nice to meet you! You can tell when we’re speaking, because these symbols will show up on either side of our words. When we talk in unison, both symbols will appear. And when all three of us talk together, our text is bold! Isn’t that fun?}])

(Hi! I’m Parentheses. I’m technically the oldest one here, but time’s weird inside The Machine. You’ll see me most frequently on character bios or story/plot related things.)

[Hello. My name’s Brackets. I guess I’m the middle child. I deal mostly with ENTITIES, magic, sci-fi, or other supernatural stuff. Nice to meet you.]

{Hi, I’m Braces, youngest of the Ghosts in the Machine. I mostly handle the ‘realistic’ stuff; I got this duty cause Parentheses and Brackets didn’t want it.}

Mental characteristics

Gender Identity

(Huh, this is an odd thing to include. I mean, I know humans and other real people have to fill this part out on the form, but why do we need to do this one?)

[It’s for accuracy’s sake. Also because we need to complete it or Admin’s going to get all Trussed Up.]

{Makes sense. So, uh, we don’t really have a traditional ‘gender identity’, we just kinda are. Hope that’s enough.}

Sexuality

{Uh, same thing here.}

(Wouldn’t we qualify as asexual though? At least I feel that way.)

[Shows how much you know about me, Parens.]

{Ugh. Right. Don’t go looking at Brackets’ search history. It’s for your own good, Parens. Or mine for that matter…}

Education

{Does ‘internet’ count?}

(I don’t see why not!)

Employment

[We’ve been ~employed~ as Ghosts in the Machine since the beginning. I think.]

Failures & Embarrassments

(OH NO, REDACTED all the way!)

{Why do you need to be such a killjoy? I’ll spill if you won’t! So, when we were processing the page for the Speculation, I went to talk to Robyn, right? Cause that guy is the loosest-lipped devotee of the serpent out there, right? Right! And so he was talking, but then he caught a glimpse of Brackets’ window and hi██████████

[NO. Don’t forget that I control most of the special characters.]

{Aw man.}

Current Status

Messing with you! Ha!

Age

Umm, we should be around as old as this wiki, which is, like, not very old right now

Pronouns

They/Them Please!

Gender

Unclear. After all, there’s three of us in here, and neither of us quite know yet.