Pandora's Fox III

[folkie]

PANDORA'S FOX III

The application Pandora's Fox, last seen buzzing on everyone's relics in October, is back. It's about finding your Familiar bond or perhaps other kinds of bonds. It could be the start to finding your soul mate, a new family member, or other kind of someone special. The point is connection. While it's always available, it's gotten loud again.

As part of its return, the app has been rejiggered with questions old 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 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!

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

Alicent Hightower | house of the dragon | Familiar

[alovelyvoice]

Alicent Hightower
37 | Female | Familiar

My home in Folkmore is: a lovely little cottage in Willow.

I live with: my daughter, Helaena.

I've personalized it by: We have decorated and planted a garden.

I choose this home because: It felt quiet and charming.

If I could bring one person to Folkmore, it would be: I... [Written for her:] Rhaenyra.

Folkmore would be so much better if: Perhaps if there was more communication about what is meant by potential.

Every day, I make sure to: Light my candles.

I agree I should be a Familiar because: I have always tried to be of some sort of service to the realm.

If I became a Myth or Legend, I would be: I do not see that ever happening.

The most Familiar-like iteration of Thirteen is: I do not think I have met her in person.

I am proud that Familiars: Is there a trait that applies to all Familiars?

Reasons I would form a bond: I am not even sure what is meant by a bond, in this instance.

What I want from a bond: I suppose honesty is a good answer for this.

My dealbreakers are: I am not familiar with getting to have dealbreakers.

un: bahamut

[haveaflare]

Do you believe your service to the realm is what prompted Thirteen to form you as a Familiar?

[alovelyvoice]

That was what I was given to understand about the purpose of Familiars, yes. Am I incorrect?

[haveaflare]

Perhaps not, but mine own did not have a similar outcome.

Mayhap it is tied instead to motivation. Why do you endeavor to serve your realm?

[alovelyvoice]

Ah. Well, I would be no good in a fight, so that is probably a factor as well.

It was my duty to do so.

[haveaflare]

I see. Would you care to be useful in a fight?

Duty and desire are different things.

[alovelyvoice]

No, certainly not.

...Yes, that is true. There have been times it was duty and desire both to serve the realm, and times those two tracks... dovetailed, some. On the occasions I feel I was truly able to make some difference to people's lives, small or otherwise, I do take pleasure in having been able to achieve that, but there were also times the cost of service was bitter, and times of failure.

[haveaflare]

Such conviction.

As is the case in all terms of service, I fear. I wonder, then, at the difference between us, that you would be dubbed "Familiar" and I "Legend". Both of us are motivated by duty.

[He has a theory, but he's not sure how much of that long and arduous story he wants to recount in text and in so impersonal of a medium.]

Let me posit this instead: for all your dedication to duty, if those to whom you'd sworn loyalty proved themselves unworthy of the faith of the people they served, would you maintain your loyalty because it is your duty, or would you take what actions you might to spare the people their failure?

[alovelyvoice]

I have... had cause to draw blood from someone else once, in my life. I would prefer not to repeat the experience, I regret that it happened at all.

[That... is a good question, and her reply takes a few moments (and causes a little bit of a guilty spiral).]

I would like to display as much conviction in my reply to this, but I am afraid if I am honest that it depends. I think, and I would hope I am correct, that if it were a matter of members of the King's Council being proved unworthy, I would consider my duty to the people the Council serves above my duty to those members. My duty as a mother, though, I have placed above my duty to the people, selfish as that may be.

[haveaflare]

As you say.

[War seldom gives one the comfort of choice.]

I believe we may have found the difference. Who but I could have stood between the people and the corruption that had taken root in my brother? And so I did.

[alovelyvoice]

And you would do the same again?

[haveaflare]

That would depend, to be honest. If I could not foresee the consequences of action a second time, yes. I would. Were I to know what would transpire? No. The lives were not worth it.

[alovelyvoice]

I would choose differently about a number of things myself, if I had known where those decisions would lead. It can be quite a burden to live with, hindsight.

[haveaflare]

It can, but it can also serve to reaffirm your certainty.

[alovelyvoice]

That is true. I only wish that had been the more common occurrence, in my experience.

[haveaflare]

The past is a trap, and recounting it will not change its outcome. The future is not yet written, though. One can always do things differently.

[alovelyvoice]

You are correct. In my time in Folkmore so far, I have been doing things very differently. I do not know if it makes any substantial difference for anyone else, except perhaps my daughter, but I feel better about the sum of my choices.

[haveaflare]

That is all any can ask, and the truest form of change is the one made for oneself, not for the approval of others.

[alovelyvoice]

Not for the approval of others, perhaps, but I think sometimes changes made for the benefit of others can be equally true.

If perhaps a bit harder to stick to.

text - un: TheWitch

[survivingsister]

You have your daughter here with you? That is incredibly enviable. Why did you not "get" to have dealbreakers?

[alovelyvoice]

I do, and one of my sons, although he lives on his own. I have been lucky in that regard.

Ah, well, as the queen, it would be unthinkable if I played favorites or refused an audience to certain people.

[survivingsister]

It is normal for my people to have sons live apart from Mothers and daughters, is it not normal for yours?

My Mother was Clan Mother, I am her heir. It is smaller than Queenship; if we had such a title, I suppose that would be Mother Talzin, Of course, you must refuse audience to certain people - not all matters require your attention, this is why you delegate.

[alovelyvoice]

Not necessarily, no. Daughters are more likely to move away in adulthood, when they marry - but I wanted to keep my children close to me as much as I could, as long as I could. Sometimes they go to ward, but I only allowed that with my youngest.

Well, yes. But I mean among the people who are used to having access to their rulers. It would be an awful snub, especially as I married into the role, instead of being a member of the royal bloodline.

[survivingsister]

We lived nearly entirely apart, for the most part. Mothers, Sisters, daughters, and very young kits would live together, and Brothers and older male kits separately. Including mates, sometimes, it was up to the Nightsister if she wished her mate to live with her permanently or even if they stayed mated. No daughter ever imagined not living in the same place as their Mother and other Sisters. Some would send male kits to live with the other males almost immediately, others - more rarely - would keep them for a handful of years, especially if they were of high status and the kit seemed to have great potential. Generally, however, it was somewhere between.

What does your culture mean by 'to ward'?

Some people, and more commonly, some requests, deserve to be snubbed.