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Pandora's Fox II
PANDORA'S FOX II
If you were here last June, do you remember that app that appeared on the relics then, Pandora's Fox? It's all about finding your Familiar bond. It's been available for people to use since every Star Child was forced to fill it out or have it filled out for them with its grand reveal. However, it's sat quietly in the background unobtrusive to those who didn't click to see what it was about.
Until now.
That's right, Pandora's Fox is back! (and with a makeover). The app has been rejiggered with old questions and new, including some specific to each Role! The app will buzz and open itself with a blank profile waiting to be filled out. Star Children can fill it out for themselvesβas long as they don't lie. This app will not allow Star Children to lie. Honesty is important in a Familiar bond. Star Children who lie may find that answer filled in a little too honestly and unable to be deleted. Anyone who waits too long to fill it in will find it answered for them!
Familiar bonds come in all different shapes and sizes, so find the right person for you!
This is game canon!
Forms for your characters!
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51 | Female | Myth
My favorite of these colors is:
theGreen, and that's a bit of irony for you.I live in: Exile, because it feels familiar. I'm more at home there now than I am in Willow, because Willow feels like an unearned reward. I can dip my toes in, but I can't dwell there.
I spend a lot of time in: Exile, Willow.
I choose these areas because: They feel both deserved and longed for.
Regions/locations I avoid: Most of them, but none on principle.
I avoid them because: Of my tendency to isolate, and to keep everything at a distance. If nothing gets close, then nothing can hurt. Which is actually bullshit, because it absolutely can hurt, and then one has the added "benefit" of being alone.
Reasons I would form a Familiar bond: If hell froze over, or if I felt I might be able to offer someone something besides misery. If I felt I could help them, or gods help me, came to give a shit.
What I want from a Familiar Bond: The chance to prove I might not be a whole-ass Abomination, and that maybe I don't have to be anyone's other, better half here.
I have these physical traits: Glowing veins and scars, smoke trails and sharp teeth.
How I would rule the world: Gently and from the shadows, burning out the rot from the inside, even if that rot was my own.
My favorite forms of self-care: Long baths, hair oil, fragrance, dancing naked under the stars with my hair down, working charms, patching people up.
My dealbreakers are: Anyone that would harm a child, cults, self righteous religious types.
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voice un: woodswitch
That could cut both ways, I 'spose. They're either all in favor, or they're lucky enough it isn't even a care they can call to mind. My money's on the latter.
[for them, but maybe not for you?]
Where do you fall?
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Wish that I could give you that luck, but what they say about wishin's often true. [can't. couldn't do it for myself, neither. hate every moment of it when i remember that's how it is..]
Born in doesn't quite cover me, but it's close enough I could claim it. Might. Is that code for 'does'? Because if it is, I might hold one, too. Never had much use for most gods either, not the ones that have names. They've done me no favors. [to put it politely, even though it does not sound as if it's mean politely.]
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[ And endless. All she can do is quiet it. Treat it like a monster she can keep in a box. ]
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You ever hear about a cult called the Order of Valtiel or the Brethren?
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knew a man once, too, and he could bleed the edge from everything and make the worst things sound like sunshine. misses him too, and that's ...well.]
First one's a no, but I've heard brethren used here and there. [it's not always bad, but it's been enough of a red flag that she doesn't like it.] You sound like you mean it less general and more ...Brethren, comma, The.
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[...that's true. and there are those she would wish so hard to see, and those she still checks the shadows for, now and then. sunlight, too. one in particular likes the light.]
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And I spent from about age 7 to 14 hiding from most safe everyone to try to stay safe. And took a trip into the Dark for a while.
And I'm a familiar. Technically, I'm also kinda a monk, though. Jedi doesn't translate well to every religious paradigm, in my experience.
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What kind of abilities are you talking about? [it sounds like she might just be addressing 'gardening', but she's actually curious about all three.] A strange commonality to have...
..well, hiding's not the grand adventure some people make it out to be, but it ain't all bad if you're good at it. [but. seven? no, that's far too young to have to be on the run. every reason she can think of is a bad path, too. so now there's an undercurrent of sadness there.] Seven years is a long time to get good at it. And seven is a very young age to have to start.
[sevens are lucky, often enough.]
For a while. Hmmm. It sounds like you came out the other side of it?
[possible with the dark she's familiar with, though not wise. then again, the same might be said of the green. it's not that cut and dry, but being a myth or a legend doesn't seem so clear cut either.]
A monk, you say? It's not quite what I'm thinking of when I read back what my own dealbreaker is, but it's in the ballpark somewhere. There's a lot of fineprint. [that thankfully was not elaborated on.]
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It's...I feel the energy that flows through everything, living things, especially. It shows me things. What people are feeling, sometimes. The near future. With training, I've learned to direct it to do lots of things. And my teachers call that energy that binds everything the Force.
My first teacher - he gave me a name for the things I sensed. He took me in. Our crew became my new family. I'm doing pretty ok now.
But, ah. Before the Emperor came to power there were many traditions around the Force. And one of the oldest and biggest, was the Jedi Order. Jedi...serve? They're supposed to use their abilities to help people, and if you completed you training and wanted to remain part of the Order you took vows to decidate yourself to that service.
I wrote my own, since there isn't really an Order anymore.
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Your Emperor sure sounds like an Emperor. Also sounds like a real bastard if you don't mind my saying so. Anyone worth two shits usually finds themselves on the opposite side of that sort of person, but it's not always easy. Especially if they get their hooks in, and they always know how to hook. It's how they end up on the top of that bonepile in the first place.
It's good you found your people, even if it took some time. Not everyone gets that lucky.
Mmmm. I ...can't sense the future, at least not yet. [she can't. it won't be a thing.] It's more what's present, or sometimes what's past and training's been ...lacking. I think I'd be in a whole different world of hurt if I could feel what people felt. [she might have made ...different choices.]
The way you explain it doesn't sound...well, it doesn't set off my alarm bells, or raise my hackles. It sounds like there was some freedom to choose, and that's not real common with what I'm thinking of.
In my experience, the best vows are the ones you make on your own.
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Sometimes I see the present, yeah. There's another Jedi here, he touches things sometimes sees the past. That's just not really one of my gifts.
Yeah, I'm not going to say the Order was perfect - I doubt any group no matter how well-intentioned could be, especially one that has existed in various forms for thousands of years. But for me, at least, training was entirely a choice. And my teachers always taught me that my path was my own and that they couldn't hand me all the answers, all the time.
Can I ask - are you entirely self-taught, then?
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Depends on the gift. The Seeing? I wouldn't say I had any teaching at all; it was a sudden bit of business. I'm still working my way through. Had a little bit of guidance with the rest of it, but that was...
...short-lived. So, most ways you slice it it's a yes.
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(Abomination?) )
The fact a few of us have similar dealbreakers makes me worry. Sounds like a trend that exists in all kinds of worlds.
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[a soft sigh and a hmmph.]
If you find you worry yourself too much, I might have somethin' just for that.
[there's a tell, there, even if none observe it. her speech always falls back into a certain cadence where there's feeling of any kind involved.]
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( She's being cordial to everyone she meets, but simultaneously keeping a verrry close eye out. )
Something for it?
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For the worry. If it frays you at the edges. [it's not a perfect solution, but keeping night terrors (and day terrors) quiet is worth mentioning. taking fear out of the equation, even for a short time can do wonders. (and sometimes horrors).]
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But she hesitates at that, both parts wary and curious. In the end, of courseβ )
Colour me curious. What exactly do you have?
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Charms and such. But there's one in particular that takes all the edges off. Or maybe makes it so there's nothing but edge? Twenty four hours give or take, not a drop of fear so long as it's kept close.
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A smile tugs at the edges of her mouth at that, a little wry. She's a smidgen too dated to understand the "good for her" meme, but she absolutely feels the spirit. For now, she lets that smile be her answer there β and a knowing lift of brows. She's not opposed to any concepts of this woman knifing a cultist, that's for sure. )
You make them yourself? With magic? Is it difficult to do? ( woodswitch, the woman's bio up there says. Rose is drawn to it, to anything that feels like Sharon. She wants to learn and understand more. )
I'm sorry for the questions. Despite having a few run-ins with cultists, I'm not too used to things like magic, witchcraft. They happen in my world, but they're not the norm.
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Horse has already bolted, as they say ...no use shutting that barn door now. I would have called it a Gift, but magic's close enough to the truth, too. Took me a while to realize it's all just different words for the same thing. It's more common back home than I might have guessed, but it's not the [a moment as she adopts this new bit of wordplay:] ...'norm' there, either.
It's easy as pie for me, the making of the things, but it's the waiting that's harder. The concentration, the time that's needed. But I have more of that here than I know what to do with.
[she has other gifts she can't teach - but things like making cyphers, making tinctures, those may be bolstered by her gifts and her blood, they are not the great mysteries some might think they are.
she thinks it but doesn't say it aloud - she's too down in her own spiral for that yet, but: i could show you how to make your own.]