Talk To Glowfic Characters

[alicornucopia]

So we've started answering comments in "How To Read Effulgence" in character, and that's not really the ideal platform for those conversations. This is! You may address characters here and we may opt to answer in character. You will get a kind of loosely "backstage" out-of-continuity version of the character (in continuity proper, you cannot talk to them, since you aren't there) and if you want them at a specific (past relative to where we're writing) point in time, feel free to specify (e.g. "Addy in 1932", "Shell in her box", "the Joker while committed", "Minus right after he woke up from turning", "the alethiometer on the subject of 1207").

Any glowfic author may use this thread to receive questions.

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Comments

[daniel_h]

Cam, you asked a tree about eating fruits, but did you actually talk to any fruits about it? I imagine that they might feel differently from the tree, although they might also be grass-level intelligent.

Secret, I have no questions for you at the moment, but I still need to tell you something. The user name I am using is a shortening of my true name. I do not remember whether orders work via writing or not, but I thought I should tell you that just in case.

(After the above paragraph, but separate from it to avoid the Queen learning about Secret) Queen, I know not your true name nor have I fed you. The situation is symmetrical; you have not fed me, your power does not extend to nonfairies, and my profile name is not clicking into place for you so it must be false. Despite this lack of ability for either of us to compel the other, I would request that you answer a question I have for you, and that you do it honestly. In the very beginning, you earned loyalty in addition to vassalage primarily be being kind instead of cruel. Over time, you gradually started using far more cruelty and far less kindness. Do you really prefer it this way? Even if your court had to shrink temporarily, might you prefer to switch back to kindness?

[lifes_sake]

The fruits are super stupid. Food, generally, is stupid; the difference is that some of it is stupid when it's growing and some of it has to be killed to become stupid.

[daniel_h]

I remembered it as only being processed food (like muffins or cookies) that was stupid. I’m glad fruits are too.

[alicornucopia]

Fear can be constant. I find that love cannot, or at least cannot be trusted to be. I will not buy comfort with intolerable danger. But I do not punish anyone who has made no intentional attempt and has no personal desire to harm me.

- the Queen

(OOC note: Secret doesn't prevent name clicking, just that being useful for anything. The Queen politely answered you anyway.)