Pandora's Fox II

[folkie]

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 themselves—as 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!

Myths:
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Legends:
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Familiars:
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Comments

[bossyboiler]

[ She hadn't meant to write most of it. Now that it's out there she feels ashamed of herself. ]

They taste like sweet-glazed tofu with a hint of pork. A candied glaze is added and they are fried until the outsides are crispy but the insides soft. Its a hard dish to make, brains were usually studied and didn't end up at the grocer often. Hence wise it was a delicacy. One of the visiting lords of Hell threw a golden ball and there were every sort of delicacies imaginable. All of them horrible to think about now.

[fogsong]

Wow, Kate, you almost sold me on candied human brains there for a second. [ I mean, really, they... still sound good but she imagines any brain would taste the same. All of them horrible to think about now is the thing that catches Sharon's attention. ] I know it can't be easy to think back on all that, though. There are some things I've done that turn my stomach even knowing I wouldn't have done it any differently.

[bossyboiler]

Sounds yummy, right? [ Defeated sarcasm there. ] It's not easy. Even knowing that I was under a spell doesn't make it easy.

[fogsong]

[ Sharon knows what it's like to commit unspeakable deeds under the influence of something else. She uses it as a way to distance her guilt but it's never enough. ]

You just have to keep reminding yourself. It's like... In health class in high school, we were taught how to love ourselves—Yeah, it's just as lame as it sounds. But it was just... reminding yourself. Over and over.

"I'm beautiful" and "I deserve to be happy" and [ she trails off and the next ones are soft and quiet ] "It wasn't my fault"

[bossyboiler]

Yeah. I should do that. [ Just because she says she should do it, doesn't mean she will. It's not that easy, not for her. ]

Sharon? Are you okay? [ Because she notices Sharon's tone shift. ]

[fogsong]

[ Sharon knows Kate likely won't. That's why, maybe every couple of weeks, the woman will find a note under the door of her bakery. It's just little notes of affirmation. Reminders she's a good person. ]

—yeah. Yeah, of course. I just... I've been there. Done shit. Had shit done to me. Sometimes you forget you didn't deserve it and it wasn't your choice and it wasn't your fault.

[bossyboiler]

[ That's sweet of Sharon. Kate would definitely appreciate the notes of affirmation. ]

Do you need to talk about it?

[fogsong]

You sure you want to hear about it? [ The last thing she wants to do is add to Kate's plate of horrors. ]

[bossyboiler]

Only if you want to talk about it. Sometimes it's better out than in.

[fogsong]

It feels less about not wanting to and more about not knowing how. [ She swallows the growing lump in her throat. ] I survived being burned alive when I was a kid. The kind of shit people aren't... shouldn't be able to survive. They'd rushed me to the hospital. My memories are really fuzzy and washed out but there was this nurse. She only stood out because I could see the red of her jacket against all the white of the room.

[ This is clearly difficult to discuss because Sharon makes a soft, pained sound and then huffs. ] I had powers and everything I'd gone through and sent them out of control. One day, she was checking in on me and I... I hurt her. Even though she was only there to help, I hurt her.

I wanted everyone to hurt like I did.

[bossyboiler]

[ Oh, Sharon. ]

I think that, sometimes, when we've been hurt very badly, it's normal to want to lash out. It's not condonable but I think it is understandable.

[ Everyone in Folkmore is in dire need of therapy. ]

You were a kid. You shouldn't be so hard on yourself but I know that is easier said than done.

[fogsong]

[ Sharon wants to bite her tongue, wants to swallow whatever truth that is desperate for release, but finds it difficult. More and more, it feels like she's lying to people she cares about. ]

...I never let her go. I hurt her and I changed her and I never let her go until I got my revenge. I might've been a kid when it happened but she was with me for decades in that hospital room. Always bleeding. Always sobbing.

[bossyboiler]

Sharon, I'm so sorry that you go through that.

[fogsong]

You should feel sorry for the nurse. [ Hi, hello, yes, Sharon doesn't feel like she deserves that sympathy. ]

[bossyboiler]

Maybe but that nurse isn't here, it's just you that I'm concerned for.

[fogsong]

[ That leaves her quiet for a long moment. ] ...thanks, Kate.

[ She's touched, okay. ]

[bossyboiler]

You're welcome Sharon.

[ She means it too. She really is concerned and is there to listen if Sharon needs it. ]