crystal.

[cozen]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Bastien
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: Fursona meme?
WHEN: Nowish
NOTES: Nah

Hello, my friends. And my total strangers.

[ Those are the only two options. Enemies are for other people. Unless someone considers anyone with an Orlesian accent—and not even a particularly noble one, from the vowels—to be an enemy. Or maybe anyone who sounds too pleasant on a Sunday morning. In that case: swords at dawn. ]

I was thinking about how many popular heroes have a sobriquet. The Black Fox, now the Black Hart. The Nightingale.

Now that I am saying them aloud, they are mostly animals.

Setting aside how arrogant it would be to give one to yourself. If you could choose a pretentious epithet for the history books, or one for your friends—

It does not have to be an animal.

[ Yes it does. ]

Comments

[hwaaaitsme]

An ornamental tool with no agency of its own?

[So much judgment.]

Such a bold choice, brother. Any lesser intellect might assume you had missed the point of this exercise.

[coquettish_trees]

[ please find attached: one (1) Orlesian giggle smothered into something nearby. ]

[thorndergod]

A gleaming symbol that is held aloft as we charge into battle, and wielded in the fray of it. I know you to be better at looking past the surface than this, brother. Why would you pretend to be this simple-minded?

Or did recent events disarm you that greatly?

[hwaaaitsme]

[Can you hear his pronounced eye-roll, Thor? Can you? Because damn is he rolling his eyes.]

Your symbolism is wanting, brother. And also lackluster. Why choose a hammer, a peasant's tool, when you could embrace the full force of abstraction and be a bolt of lightning or a great beast of battle? Are you Thor of the House of Hammers?

I would say that you are not often so lacking in creativity but that would be mostly a lie.

[Is this sniping because now Thor is being sloppy with personal issues in public? Yes it is.]

[thorndergod]

This is beneath us.

[Stop being an ass in front of the Southerners in public, Loki, sheesh.]