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

[thorndergod]

I know myself and what I stand for. And so my question becomes if you do not know yourself, or do not wish to reveal what you know? It would not be difficult to come up with something frivolous or deflecting, but you are not choosing to do so.

[cozen]

[ He laughs, a little. ]

Where I am from, it is impolite to start a conversation by speaking of yourself, monsieur—but it is also not a question I will ever need to answer. As I understand it, many of you are warriors and adventurers. They might tell tales of you someday. If I live to see it, I will try to make sure everything is correctly spelled.

But if it pleases you, I can be the Bronze Nib.

[thorndergod]

[A writer. The question makes sense, then, and Thor's tone becomes very friendly.]

You could use a sobriquet when they speak of the historian who recorded all of this from the inside. Surely that is what a writer most wants, to be involved in history and to be known alongside it?

[cozen]

Not even a writer, I am afraid, but it is a good idea for someone who is.

[thorndergod]

Does Nib not refer to a pen?

[It couldn't be innuendo. No one would sell themselves as the bronze nib if so.]