#orpheonflow

[eldritchlunch]

Nefren + vehicles

Nefren doesn’t own any vehicles; he lives in a big city with reasonably clean public transportation, and he can always ride on Anisto’s friendly murderwhale lusus if he wants to go visit him in the swamp.

[enterthedwelling]

Malhaut + games (table games; strategy, card games, board games, etc)

Malhaut hasn't really had any time to play games lately, but they are something he enjoys if he has suitable opponents; unskilled playmates tend to grate on him. By nature, he's a guy who likes a good challenge so long as the stakes aren't dangerously high (as in you won't see him putting all his money or somebody's left foot on the line during a game of monopoly).His favorite games are games that involve strategy and sometimes abstract thought, so a handful of good Earth equivalents might be chess, scrabble, pictionary, battleship, some of the more complex card games, etc.

[eldritchlunch]

Sototh + confections

Sototh has a bit of a sweet tooth, and usually has at least one or two sugary treats floating around in his sylladex. His favorite dessert is blueberry pie.

[anje-satvrnalis]

I hear tell that your character Amy is from a race of assholes but is in fact quite nice herself. Might I learn more about her?

Okay, first off; HI NEW FRIEND! [waves frantically]

Second; it’s pretty interesting that you ask this question, because it’s a sentiment I expressed quite some time ago (back when this was The Wonderwhirl and more of a comedy). And at the time, it certainly was true.

Now though… I’m not sure.

Are the Aunanneri assholes? Well… from our perspective? Yeah. As a culture, they value cold logic and pragmatism over emotion (or, in Aristotalian terms, logos over ethos/pathos) — which has an unfortunate tendency to evolve into cold-blooded brutality over common decency and the common viewpoint that showing any emotion is a sign of weakness. In addition, they have a highly classist, borderline-social-Darwinistic society with some seriously supremacist viewpoints. So yeah, life in the Aunnan does kind of suck. 

(Especially if you’re disabled. Then you’re probably dead.)

But to say they’re assholes is… really an oversimplification, I think. Every culture has something another might not agree with, but to them it’s simply the way things have been for gods-know-how-long, and things simply don’t change that easily. 

As for Amy; well, there was certainly an earlier version where she was a chipper wee thing full of boundless energy and enthusiasm for the world.

That was before I started seriously thinking about the effects a society like hers would have on a child. Especially someone who — for whatever reason — operates on a slightly different wavelength to everyone else.

I don’t think I would call Amy nice. Because really; she isn’t. She’s grouchy, withdrawn, anti-social, self-centred… not exactly pleasant, really.

But at the same time, she’s not a bad person. Let’s face it; girl’s got emotional issues out the wazoo, and it shows. She definitely has the capacity to be kind and open to others — it’s just that she needs to get through years of in-built barriers first.

And to be honest… either way, she’s stuck. To people in our world, she comes off as cold and dour. To people of the Aunnan, she came off as a rude, undisciplined little brat. 

Kind of a shitty situation all around, really.

Anyway. There’s your answer — or at least, a really long-winded attempt at one.

(and out of curiosity..where on earth did you hear this tell? i don’t think i’ve ever heard your name at all…)

[lava-princess]

nothing tastes as good as crit feels

Phi upon critting

[lava-princess]

SHIT PHI WE HAVEN'T BEEN DOING THE POKEMON THING FOR DECEMBER

[lava-princess]

You live in the fuckin asschaps of new york

phi

[lava-princess]

Now there goes the pants!!!

Phi