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2022

Friedrich was never known for his ability to be in a good mood. This eventually led to the collapse of his Inhumans team, which, with his attitude, he couldn't manage at all. But the collapse not only did not make him change his mind in the right direction, but spiraled him into new depths of misery and self-loathing.

It is not customary in the Loop to share one's real name. So much so, that in most regions finding out such things is deadly - and it has to do with superstitions. The superstitions go back to the very beginning of the Loop, when people still hoped to get out soon and even stopped fighting for a while. But out of nine people, there was only one who understood anything about the tech stuff. After all, it's no secret that engineers know something about the Machine - they own the discovery and explanation of errors, the creation of statistics that would later become the basis of the local "economy," the creation of the warning system, the invention of teleportation, half of spy's and medic's devices, and much more.
Pretty quickly this grew into the idea that with a real name you could find a person in the system and eliminate him forever. Not just kill him, but make him disappear. Make him unhappen.
Some believe that changing your real name regularly helps you avoid the elimination, because it becomes harder to know what your name is now. Some apply several nicknames: one for a close social circle, another for "work," a third as a code word for the enemy, and so on, the imagination is limitless. Some believe that it's possible to remove people in whole clonal branches.
Why wouldn't engineers demolish half the world's population in such a case? Well, they need to secretly control someone, hey're not stupid to leave themselves all alone.
How do turrets understand who to shoot and who not to shoot? Nobody understands but them. So they probably understand a lot more about the Machine than they want to tell.
And all these strange phenomena, like the teamswitch that seems to happen randomly, but not really? It's their work, for sure.
You can't fool us. They don't even use their own names, too - obviously for a reason.

This is where "calling names" literally becomes calling names, but still is as bad of a thing, if not worse. Because of this, the local culture has developed an intricate etiquette on how to address each other. Calling others by class, by prominent features, by nicknames, or just "you there" is polite enough and widespread. All of them are heavily labeled: by color, by teams, by factions and kinds, by classes, by preferred living places, you name it. Under no circumstances should you ask a person their name - it is not just gravely rude, but is literally a threat of annihilation too, for which you will be hounded and killed with relish. But asking "how may I call you" is the right thing to do, it's polite, and your partner will, likely, happily share what he's commonly called.

Fritz believes in this, too. Friedrich Hupfauer is his real name, and it is known to almost everyone who lives here. After his failure with the team, his condition has sunk to such depths that he no longer cares whether they remove him one day or not.

That doesn't stop him from continuing to be a serious threat to anyone who happens to be around him.

Description
2022

Friedrich was never known for his ability to be in a good mood. This eventually led to the collapse of his Inhumans team, which, with his attitude, he couldn't manage at all. But the collapse not only did not make him change his mind in the right direction, but spiraled him into new depths of misery and self-loathing.

It is not customary in the Loop to share one's real name. So much so, that in most regions finding out such things is deadly - and it has to do with superstitions. The superstitions go back to the very beginning of the Loop, when people still hoped to get out soon and even stopped fighting for a while. But out of nine people, there was only one who understood anything about the tech stuff. After all, it's no secret that engineers know something about the Machine - they own the discovery and explanation of errors, the creation of statistics that would later become the basis of the local "economy," the creation of the warning system, the invention of teleportation, half of spy's and medic's devices, and much more.
Pretty quickly this grew into the idea that with a real name you could find a person in the system and eliminate him forever. Not just kill him, but make him disappear. Make him unhappen.
Some believe that changing your real name regularly helps you avoid the elimination, because it becomes harder to know what your name is now. Some apply several nicknames: one for a close social circle, another for "work," a third as a code word for the enemy, and so on, the imagination is limitless. Some believe that it's possible to remove people in whole clonal branches.
Why wouldn't engineers demolish half the world's population in such a case? Well, they need to secretly control someone, hey're not stupid to leave themselves all alone.
How do turrets understand who to shoot and who not to shoot? Nobody understands but them. So they probably understand a lot more about the Machine than they want to tell.
And all these strange phenomena, like the teamswitch that seems to happen randomly, but not really? It's their work, for sure.
You can't fool us. They don't even use their own names, too - obviously for a reason.

This is where "calling names" literally becomes calling names, but still is as bad of a thing, if not worse. Because of this, the local culture has developed an intricate etiquette on how to address each other. Calling others by class, by prominent features, by nicknames, or just "you there" is polite enough and widespread. All of them are heavily labeled: by color, by teams, by factions and kinds, by classes, by preferred living places, you name it. Under no circumstances should you ask a person their name - it is not just gravely rude, but is literally a threat of annihilation too, for which you will be hounded and killed with relish. But asking "how may I call you" is the right thing to do, it's polite, and your partner will, likely, happily share what he's commonly called.

Fritz believes in this, too. Friedrich Hupfauer is his real name, and it is known to almost everyone who lives here. After his failure with the team, his condition has sunk to such depths that he no longer cares whether they remove him one day or not.

That doesn't stop him from continuing to be a serious threat to anyone who happens to be around him.