#mia corpseburn

[guildwarsstartrekskyrim]

Considering a retcon

I’m considering a retcon, and have spent this evening attempting to work through the ins and outs of this retcon.  This retcon involves Flintlock Burnfur, Shani Wennemein (and her siblings, of course), but also includes Grfiter and Mia.

For the most part, everything is still the same; Shani, Wren and Pania discover the burned out merchant wagon near Black Haven and discover that the bodies are charr.  One of the bodies was hiding a tiny cub, who would become Flintlock.  Shani takes Flintlock in, and adopts her.  They live in Fort Salma.

For Grifter, his story also stays the same, but changes somewhat.  He was 7 years old when Flame legion attacked his parents’ farm, his sire ordered him to take an infant Mia and get away from the farm as fast as he could, pointing the young charr to the west.  Now, sadly, instead of telling Grifter to head toward a norn settlement or a charr settlement, Grifter kept going.  Fear and worry was driving him based on what his father told him to do.

Here’s where things change, where the retcon kicks in.

Flintlock was never taken to the Black Citadel.  No covert ops to take humans into charr lands, no Black Riders that helped the fight against the Flame Legion.  So Flintlock lives in Fort Salma, and from time to time, she gets some much needed education in Lion’s Arch.  Grifter, being resourceful and needing to take care of his sister, manages to find food for her, but also travels way off course and finds himself in the Kessex Hills region as he’s ducking in and out of hiding.  He realises he’s in human lands and he’s a touch scared due to the fact that he’s heard the stories, so to speak.  But at Black Haven, three riders on horseback see him and Mia.

It takes some coaxing, but Shani manages to get Grifter to come out from his hiding spot, holding Mia protectively.  A bath and food for both Grifter and Mia proves to be the one thing that lets Grifter finally stop worrying.  A little more coaxing, and Shani manages to convince him to come with them to Fort Salma.  After all, Shani would tell him, Flintlock has been with the Wennemeins for several years now.

So instead of a traditional warband, Grifter and Mia become Flintlock’s brother and sister.  Through the tight knit family bonds that are created through Shani, Wren, Sywyn and Unia, the three charr find themselves a part of a big family.

So why exactly did I decide on this retcon?  A couple of reasons, but the big one that even tweaked me a bit was the one where humans were in charr lands and acted without any supervision.  I doubt that would happen while humans and charr were at war.  It would also be difficult for Shani to convince anyone to help her take Flintlock back to the Black Citadel.  And besides, there was a lot of things Shani and Unia could teach Flintlock, along with Grifter and Mia.

The other thing that sort of tweaked me a bit was how would Flintlock, Grifter and Mia stay with Unia in Claypool having never had that much exposure to such a family unit at an early age.  By taking Flintlock to the Black Citadel, she misses out on continued exposure and a family bond with Unia.  As for Grifter and Mia, there’d be no reason for a family bond with Unia outside of Flintlock.  Therefore, it would be easier for Flintlock, Grifter and Mia to all have grown up together and therefore become more connected with Unia, which would have the affect of all three charr calling Unia nana.

I wanted to bounce the idea around here and see what people thought of it before I go ahead and sort of make this the new standard for the three charr and the Wennemein family. Let me know what you think.

[pistols-and-pastries]

Set sails!

My muse is a pirate on the run from the law that just so happened to commandeer the boat your muse was napping in. From @luxelen and @gulmontjonty

While Mia was often times shy and quiet, she was incredibly observant.  For instance, since the three charr finished building and launched this boat, she knew where Flintlock kept all of the sweets in the galley, she knew where Grifter kept all of the parchment for writing down drafts and designs and she knew the combination locks to all of the doors throughout the ship.  And those doors that didn’t have combination locks and only had regular locks, she knew how to pick them.  A handy skill that her mother, Shani, taught her.

And being as small as she was, she could move around as quietly as a mouse (the actual kind of mouse, not the kind of mouse that was used as a slur against humans). With that, it meant that Mia could climb out of bed, get into her overcoat and make a midnight kitchen raid without Flintlock or Grifter ever knowing about it.

Besides, that’s where the ice cream chocolate creamcicles were stashed.

Mia’s stealthy ability also meant that the two people who had suddenly came aboard the ship and started arguing, albeit in a quiet manner, didn’t notice the small charr elementalist.

So there it was that Mia was first shaking Grifter awake and then Flintlock.  The two older charr groggily woke up.  Grifter looked out the window in the crew quarters to see the full moon shining brightly in the sky.  Flintlock rubbed her eyes and looked around for a moment as she tried to figure out just where she was and what time it was.

“It’s about midnight, I figure,” Grifter said as he looked back from the porthole.

“What’s goin’...” Flintlock began and then caught sight of Mia nibbling away on her freshly absconded ice cream treat.  “Mia, how did you get into the freezer, I had that locked.”

“I picked it,” She replied with a shrug and then added, “Luxelen an’ Monty are on the deck an’ I think they’re havin’ an argument.”

Both Flintlock and Grifter paused a moment.  They both attempted to figure out just how the two could have gotten on board the boat when they were anchored off the western coast of the lands that would be Elona.  They were sailing toward the Sandswept Isles, using an alternate route of travel that avoided all the dangers on land.  Orr was the only real exception, and that wasn’t nearly as difficult as it seemed as the Risen weren’t as organized now that Zhaitan was dead.

Flintlock and Grifter raced for the stairs that lead up to the main deck as Mia followed along behind them, still quietly nibbling on her ice cream treat.  Sure enough, there was Luxelen and Gulmonty arguing about something in as quiet a matter as one could have an argument.

“...most daft idea I’ve heard,” Monty said in a whispered shout as he was obviously trying to position himself in the argument.  “Joko’s phylactory is no where ta be found in Elona proper.  He’s gonna have it somewhere familiar, an’ b’sides we’ve no idea if he even has one!  An’ it’s a fool’s errand to try it anyway seein’ how all the Mordent Crescent is wise to what we did before!”

“Mordent Crescent be damned, they’re the fools.  Besides, Joko will want the object nearby in order to keep it safe,” Luxelen quickly countered.  “If we steal it, then we have a huge bargaining chip to use over him.”

“That’ll just piss ‘im off more!” Monty again argued. “We don’t just steal it, we destroy it right there.  IF it even exists...” Monty stopped as both he and Luxelen looked toward the three charr.

Before Flintlock or Grifter could say a word, it was Mia who piped up.  “Whatcha guys doin’?”

[pistols-and-pastries]

The members of the Burn Warband.  Flintlock Burnfur, Mia Corpseburn and Grifter Burnside.