Character questions time!
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blazingdarknessWhat's Kennedy's favorite place to be? (from Peri)
So, given her life circumstance she doesn't have a ton of freedom of movement, but I do think she gets taken to a lot of activities intended for her enrichment. She goes to museums, she has a lot of lessons that take place in various environments. I think she might do figure skating.
She fully accepts that her future self will be grateful for everything she's doing right now but she hasn't gotten to the stage where she's getting a lot of hedonistic enjoyment out of any of her activities yet, in part because she's too small to be really good them (except one*) and in part because they're selected for being cool eventually-sexy skills (in the sense of like, it's 'sexy' that Edward Cullen's hobby is playing piano; not literal attractive appeal per se) rather than anything she actually likes for what it is.
And to be clear, adult Chevrons get shedloads of enjoyment out of being really competent and having things to show off with and prove they're better than other people with! But Kennedy is baby. She doesn't really have a desire to put anyone else down yet; she hasn't developed a sexuality or really even any less-charged sadistic urges. Basically everything about her is running on teacher's pet energy. If she grew up uninterrupted by external forces she'd be grateful that she got to skip nearly all the embarrassing parts of childhood that a lot of her other geminis have to deal with the existence of.
But man, as is it's good that she's gonna get a chance to have a little fun, or do anything that she actually likes before the age of fourteen.**
All that to say, I don't think it's so much a specific place as a specific time block where she doesn't have anything else to do. It's not that she has coloring she does as lessons to build up motor control and then outside of them colors more creatively; it's not that she has singing lessons and then outside of them sings poorly but with more silliness. She likes to go for walks; she climbs on things (but stays very neat and tidy while doing it); she runs around a little. She generally knows her way around the places she goes but sometimes she has to ask a grownup for help and I think that's fun for her - children are safe in Verona, generally, and to the extent that they aren't, Chevrons are, and she carries her ID.
There's a thing where all her grownups don't condescend to her and basically treat her like a very short and somewhat incompetent adult who does whatever they tell her; but she really does enjoy being doted on and cooed at. (The adults don't see anything wrong with this because being cute and small and underestimatable is a perfectly respectable form of manipulation; and - they aren't entirely wrong about that? The adults also tend to like snuggles! They just get them from people they're drugging or otherwise performing a power dynamic with. And Chevrons don't manipulate each other so she doesn't get cuddles from them.) So there's probably a bakery where she spends her allowance, or a park with a gardener that she talks to, or any number of mundane situations and places with normal people in them, and though she wouldn't try to adjust her schedule to include more of that sort of thing on a less drastic scale than sneaking off to the side of the world - those are her favorites.
This didn't really end up being about the question per se but I will not apologize.
*Climbing! She doesn't have a ton of body weight to work against yet. When she showed up on the roof next to Cam's shuttle it was because she climbed the building's exterior, which was, oh, four or five stories tall. Granted, with an exterior with enough going on that it's certainly not the equivalent of the same feat on sheer brick.
**A spitball. I haven't nailed down what ages the most notable Chevrony traits usually start coming in at.
What four-elemental associations do shadows in general have? (also from Peri <3)
This one's fun! I'm just gonna roll for four of them off my drabbles randomizer and try to answer relatively concisely.
So, given her life circumstance she doesn't have a ton of freedom of movement, but I do think she gets taken to a lot of activities intended for her enrichment. She goes to museums, she has a lot of lessons that take place in various environments. I think she might do figure skating.
She fully accepts that her future self will be grateful for everything she's doing right now but she hasn't gotten to the stage where she's getting a lot of hedonistic enjoyment out of any of her activities yet, in part because she's too small to be really good them (except one*) and in part because they're selected for being cool eventually-sexy skills (in the sense of like, it's 'sexy' that Edward Cullen's hobby is playing piano; not literal attractive appeal per se) rather than anything she actually likes for what it is.
And to be clear, adult Chevrons get shedloads of enjoyment out of being really competent and having things to show off with and prove they're better than other people with! But Kennedy is baby. She doesn't really have a desire to put anyone else down yet; she hasn't developed a sexuality or really even any less-charged sadistic urges. Basically everything about her is running on teacher's pet energy. If she grew up uninterrupted by external forces she'd be grateful that she got to skip nearly all the embarrassing parts of childhood that a lot of her other geminis have to deal with the existence of.
But man, as is it's good that she's gonna get a chance to have a little fun, or do anything that she actually likes before the age of fourteen.**
All that to say, I don't think it's so much a specific place as a specific time block where she doesn't have anything else to do. It's not that she has coloring she does as lessons to build up motor control and then outside of them colors more creatively; it's not that she has singing lessons and then outside of them sings poorly but with more silliness. She likes to go for walks; she climbs on things (but stays very neat and tidy while doing it); she runs around a little. She generally knows her way around the places she goes but sometimes she has to ask a grownup for help and I think that's fun for her - children are safe in Verona, generally, and to the extent that they aren't, Chevrons are, and she carries her ID.
There's a thing where all her grownups don't condescend to her and basically treat her like a very short and somewhat incompetent adult who does whatever they tell her; but she really does enjoy being doted on and cooed at. (The adults don't see anything wrong with this because being cute and small and underestimatable is a perfectly respectable form of manipulation; and - they aren't entirely wrong about that? The adults also tend to like snuggles! They just get them from people they're drugging or otherwise performing a power dynamic with. And Chevrons don't manipulate each other so she doesn't get cuddles from them.) So there's probably a bakery where she spends her allowance, or a park with a gardener that she talks to, or any number of mundane situations and places with normal people in them, and though she wouldn't try to adjust her schedule to include more of that sort of thing on a less drastic scale than sneaking off to the side of the world - those are her favorites.
This didn't really end up being about the question per se but I will not apologize.
*Climbing! She doesn't have a ton of body weight to work against yet. When she showed up on the roof next to Cam's shuttle it was because she climbed the building's exterior, which was, oh, four or five stories tall. Granted, with an exterior with enough going on that it's certainly not the equivalent of the same feat on sheer brick.
**A spitball. I haven't nailed down what ages the most notable Chevrony traits usually start coming in at.
What four-elemental associations do shadows in general have? (also from Peri <3)
This one's fun! I'm just gonna roll for four of them off my drabbles randomizer and try to answer relatively concisely.
- Jadey (/Jida-Soup): Well, with Felicity on the brain I'm tempted to say water or earth, but let me look at everyone else. Mirkes is water, of course, given that he can make it holy; Seymour/Murray is plants which is.... I'm bad at four-element sorting haha. Water/earth still I think. Alfred might be fire? I feel like he's got a lot more fire/ice stuff going on than fits strictly in 4E. I can't tell whether Ceffil's air or if Raveria as a setting just feels synesthetically breezy to me. Hope's earth.
- Boft: Ooh, earth, I think, pretty straightforwardly? Mayyybe some air on the Sportacus side of things.
- Delilah: Ooh! I'm glad I used the less selective list for this; no one's met Delilah yet. Air! Especially the ones who are birds but not strictly because of that. Her deal is experiencing a drastic change of consciousness; she's the first bird uplift in Sangrade and eventually Citrelia; she's the first cat uplift in Astrocracy; she's the Bloudelake child that turns into Lornell 2; she's sometimes an android whether that's M3gan or KaYLa001 - she's the breath of life, a new spirit, toki pona kon. She's probably Sofia (of 'Adam and') in Alpha and Omega.
- Princess: Aw, Princess. I suppose earth for the stability and safety but if you're a fan of hearth-fires that's pretty good too.
