It's a bit awkward while she's on your back, but cat. It's important.
The exact moment when I decided that Aindriu was relatable.
Also: Interesting that the actual text of the update largely focuses on who these characters are, leaving things like what happened and what our goals are to be introduced in the text of the votes.
Birdsong Princess Style (Master): Contrary to the lessons of Dungeons and Dragons, druids are not responsible for dealing with animals and the natural world. Aindriu is good with animals, very much so, but that is completely unrelated to her actual druidic heritage and has more to do her father's work as a physician and riding enthusiast, and her maternal family's complete inability to resist cooing over cute animals and insatiable desire to pat soft fur/feathers leading to the determined exploration of the skills involved in getting to do.
Pfft. Alright, I like this. "I want to pet the cute things!" "But they're dangerous though." "But I want to pet theeeem!"
Wait.
Birdsong Princess Style (Master): Contrary to the lessons of Dungeons and Dragons, druids are not responsible for dealing with animals and the natural world. Aindriu is good with animals, very much so, but that is completely unrelated to her actual druidic heritage and has more to do her father's work as a physician and riding enthusiast, and her maternal family's complete inability to resist cooing over cute animals and insatiable desire to pat soft fur/feathers leading to the determined exploration of the skills involved in getting to do.
Aspect: Solar
Violet Wallflower Style (Practitioner): While being socially awkward and tending towards long periods of complete silence aren't exactly the strongest social combination, social invisibility can be very, very convenient at times. Aindriu has had her own parents forget her presence before.
Aspect: Air
Read Between the Lines Style (Expert): Bearer of an inveterate curiousity, Aindriu has always wanted to know what's going on since toddlerhood, forever loathe to go to sleep and miss out on what people are doing. Being also terminally shy and preferring not to bother people with an unending storm of 'why', she became very good at figuring out from very limited clues, with a mind capable of organizing and juggling very large quantities of information while keeping a firm organization between 'confirmed', 'attested', and 'speculated', and developing theories to chain those pieces of information together.
Aspect: Lunar
Petting cute things... Social invisibility... Perceptive...
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We're the know-it-all moe girl. Amazing.
[X] Go around the city, to one of the outlying farms - specifically, your family's. It's going to be ruined, but you can see a roundhouse rebuilt on the land, so they're probably still living there. Your mother was one of King Sgian's advisors, and she should be able to guide you around the current landscape of Dramasine.
The obvious choice. They'll know more than random people, and family will almost certainly be important characters, especially in a celtic-inspired slice of the setting, with the attendant clans.
[X] Enlighten Birdsong Princess Style.
The animals didn't survive the horrible song that killed Fallen Lapis any better than the people did. But there were some that, for whatever reason, couldn't hear it. And cavalry poured in to attack the survivors, when the song had ended. And Aindriu, always good with animals, got better, turning mounts against their masters, encouraging sicklebirds to do what should have been impossible, and recruiting deaf alley cats and sicklehounds whose ears had been covered into the absurd army that avenged their home and their humans.
[X] Learn Shining Icon Style.
Aindriu Exalted. She decided things had gone too far, and she stood up for what everyone's conscience was saying - that this was not acceptable, this way of waging war was abhorrent, and the great powers of Creation that had brought these ways to Pretannia weren't wanted. When someone dives down the path you desired with such force, it's natural to fall into their wake. And having been entrusted with leadership, Aindriu started to learn how to wield it - how to keep people going, how to bring out their best.
- - - Shining Icon Style (Solar): Someone always has to stand at the front. To lead the way, set an example, and prove to everyone that following their path was the right choice. Those who practice this style are good at this sort of leadership - they encourage their subordinates, earn the loyalty of those who follow them, and understand how to best use them.
Let's disney princess our way to an army of
monstrous predators cutiepie good boys!
