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red — sɐɔnן ʎqnɹ — once υpon a тιмe ([personal profile] eviscerates) wrote in [community profile] therookery2016-06-24 10:01 pm

voice; you're everything a big bad wolf could want.

FORM: sending crystal
SENDER: Ruby Lucas
RECIPIENT: open to anyone with a crystal
WHAT: a discussion of folklore and fairy tales
WHEN: cuurreennttt? current.
WHERE: Skyhold! She just got back from Orlais.
NOTES: Nothing particular comes to mind, potentially dark themes because fairy tales are terrible sometimes? Please chuck warnings in subtitles, if there's anything potentially triggering.



Hey, everyone. This is Ruby Lucas. This is going to possible devolve into discussions of fairy tales and folklore and all that kinda stuff, so if that's not your thing then... fair warning. I don't think there'll be anything urgent in here, Inquisition-wise.

So, basically I just wondered if there are any fairy tales and stories that you're really fond of, or that you connect with. Not just Thedosian ones, either, if you're a rifter I want to know. There's a lot of interesting stuff I've picked up about them, over the years. Some of them have a basis in... fact? Or reality, I guess, though maybe not always our own reality, if that makes sense.

Anyway, this is pretty whimsical. If anyone knows any versions of Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf, though, I'd be especially interested. Anything about wolves, generally, to be honest, werewolves included. Kind of my thing. Not... ( a hesitation, and her tone becomes a little more serious: ) Not so much the Boy Who Cried Wolf, though. I've heard a lot about that one.

Um, and for those of you that I've spoken to about that project, it's still in the works. Fear not, it will happen and it will be wicked awesome.
byblow: (47)

[personal profile] byblow 2016-06-26 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
That's--that sounds adorable.

[ Which is surprising. He generally expects everything to be terrible anymore. ]

Dane was an Alamarri hunter in--I suppose it would have been the Divine Age. Half of Ferelden says they're descended from him. One of the stories is that he killed a white hart and the werewolves came for him, and made him repay them for taking the hart from the woods by trading places with one of them for a year and a day.

After that he led a campaign against them, as it goes, and that's why they aren't so much of a problem anymore. When hearts are wagered, a fissure rent. I remember that part.
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[personal profile] byblow 2016-06-30 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
Tinker Bell, [ Alistair repeats, soundly faintly amused (in a sad, recently poisoned sort-of friend way) and not so faintly prompting. He doesn't have any room to judge, really, but please. Explain. ]

Yes, the first named age. Everything before it was Ancient and doesn't count. [ He's joking. ] And that's what they say. I wasn't there, you know. Maybe the werewolves just wanted to feed their families like anyone else.
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[personal profile] byblow 2016-07-13 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[ A pause. It's a disbelieving pause first, then a pause to review what he's said and wonder if any of it was offensive. He thinks not. Probably.

Which is frankly out of character and needs to be corrected. ]


You're a werewolf—now? Currently? You haven't growled once.
byblow: (47)

[personal profile] byblow 2016-07-14 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh! You're a shapeshifter.

[ Not a werewolf, just a fancy mage, sage nod. ]
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[personal profile] byblow 2016-07-14 01:01 pm (UTC)(link)
How much fur do you have right now?
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[personal profile] byblow 2016-07-14 01:23 pm (UTC)(link)
If you're a wolf all the time—

[ maybe fur is a touchy subject ]

Claws?
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[personal profile] byblow 2016-07-14 01:35 pm (UTC)(link)
... Was that a yes or no for the claws?

[ Jerk. But he's joking! Jerkily. ]

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[personal profile] byblow 2016-07-14 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Right. Got it.

[ He does not got it. He wants to quiz her on how the Wolf is always there if it is not, in fact, always there. But that sounds a bit like possession, and however relatively relaxed some people are, this is audible to a lot of people who are not relaxed at all. So maybe later. ]

One more question: what does "dude what the hell" mean?
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[personal profile] byblow 2016-07-24 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. Well, you can just call me an ass, it's fine. For a time when I was a boy I was convinced that was my name.

[ B) B) B) B) B) B) ]

Our werewolves are--well, they're always both, too, I suppose, but you can tell by looking. They walk upright half the time and sometimes they can talk around the growling, but there's always a lot of fur involved.