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

[coquettish_trees]

She would not. I release her to hunt, after all. She is free in the sky each time, and once she has caught herself something she is free in the sky with a meal. If she had a desire to leave, I should think it would be then.

[ And it is the same with Alexandrie. For all that she chafes sometimes under the strictures that come with it, she would hardly choose to leave the safety and plenty she was born to. Espére comes back to the glove, and so does she. ]

Come spring, you may see for yourself, if you like.

[rathercommon]

[ She hesitates, trying to think through the ethical implications of all that. It is, unfortunately, all a bit too complicated - at least for this sort of conversation. So, a bit reluctantly: ]

Maybe. I'm not much of an animal person.

[coquettish_trees]

[ with wry humor: ]

Hawks are not overmuch a people animal. I imagine you shall get on quite well.

[rathercommon]

Then how come that's the animal you picked for yourself?

[coquettish_trees]

[ deeply amused: ] Why because my mysterious persona is terribly beautiful and terribly aloof and terribly beloved but widely known to be terribly dangerous. All shall desire her favor and simultaneously be despairing of acquiring it.

[rathercommon]

That is the least like-you thing I've ever heard.

[coquettish_trees]

[ Alexandrie laughs gaily.

It is almost a relief, to have changed enough to have such a description be unrecognizable. Kitty would have loathed her, then. ]

What is the most like-me thing you have ever heard?

[rathercommon]

I don't know. That's not really the sort of thing I keep track of.

[coquettish_trees]

I am devastated.

[ she doesn't sound devastated. ]

[rathercommon]

Oh, no you're not, don't even pretend.

[coquettish_trees]

[ cheerfully overwrought sigh ]

Ah, mon féroce blaireau, she is right.

I must insist you grant me an animal, however.

[rathercommon]

Oh. Erm -

[ She bites her lip, and thinks about the animals she knows. Having grown up in London, the list is relatively limited. Well - ]

A raven, I suppose?

[coquettish_trees]

A clever bird, and given to gossip. Accepted.

[rathercommon]

You don't get to accept or reject this, do you.

[coquettish_trees]

One may accept or reject anything! Whether or not that has any bearing on the truth at all is arguable.