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[wotanon]

Who: Anyone!
Where: Anywhere
When: Day 449

Today's a day! What are you up to?

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[featherbeaned]

Mmmm.

[ settles in to lounge ]

The company's pretty good, too.

[doublefried]

I was just thinking the same thing!

1/2

[featherbeaned]

Aww, you're gonna make me blush!

[featherbeaned]

[ she sobers though ]

Which cranky feelings d'you wanna hear about? The relatable, "people ask way too much of me" nonsense, or the probably-still-relatable-honestly, "wow I'm sure glad this place hands out revives like candy because I've started to realise what I'm capable of when I feel pushed" drama?

[doublefried]

Let's start with the former and work our way through both.

[featherbeaned]

Okidokie.

Well.

[ give her a moment while she puts Words together ]

Turns out someone wants me to marry their kid to strengthen their bloodlines? And if I say no, they won't give back my feather, an actual literal part of my soul?

Aaaaaand one of my first thoughts at the time was, "Not a-fucking-gain". For the feather bit specifically, that is; the proposal was a new one.

[doublefried]

WOW. That's creepy on like four levels at once.

[featherbeaned]

At this point I honestly won't be shocked if I get back another memory and it's all, "Dragon 'Hero' Unisonya is so sick of everyone's bullshit she's turned 'villain'! Oops! Y'all fucked up!"

Like.

I don't care how much they think they need my feathers. If they try to keep them from me, I'm taking them.

[doublefried]

They're part of you, it's like, beyond entitled to try to use them as leverage against you.

[featherbeaned]

I don't get why they don't just ...

Ask for help?

It's that simple. I like helping!

... Still wouldn't marry their prince, though.

[doublefried]

I get the feeling they used bits of your soul as leverage because they knew 'please be part of our weird eugenics program' was an unreasonable ask.

[featherbeaned]

Uuuuuuughhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Wanna know the best bit?

[doublefried]

What's the best bit?

[featherbeaned]

A heavy implication that I might be the last full-blooded dragon to exist in my universe.

The folks doing the blackmailing are called the Vayad'ai. Their nobility and royal family were all into dragon-fucking way back when, and they've been trying to keep as much dragonishness in their bloodlines as they can. Kinda hard when nobody'd seen any dragons for centuries.

[doublefried]

Oof. That actually is rough. But maybe the dragons just stopped showing themselves to those people because they were rude and entitled?

[featherbeaned]

That's the hope.

[ Sighs, gently kicking her leggies over the side of the branch ]

I wonder who else has been trying to keep feathers from me...

[doublefried]

I hope nobody else! If we gotta, me and Azul can learn to worldhop and come help you get 'em back.

[featherbeaned]

Aww, thanks.

I'm prrrrrretty sure Regulus has one ... do you remember him? The little redhead from the guest event. He seems decent enough, though.

[doublefried]

Well, if you know where he is then I guess that's technically a feather accounted for...

[featherbeaned]

Hmm, good point! One down, shrug emoji to go.

[doublefried]

Will you know when you've got 'em all?

[featherbeaned]

I... I don't know, actually. Probably? [ Rubs over her heart ]

[doublefried]

Yeah, since they're your soul...

[featherbeaned]

Mmmmm ...

There's definitely a difference between the way I felt early on and how I felt later. Like.

[ HAND GESTURES ]

[doublefried]

Like when we get more memories back?