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").

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Comments

[shoaling_souls]

Ariel, bats are kind of like mice with wings. In some languages they are called blind-mice and in other languages like French you call them bald-mice. Maybe a bat would know if mice like having wings.

[carillons]

I think you mean Hyacinthe. -Ariel

Bats are not mice; they are bats. And I don't know any bats who talk, so I can't ask them about mice anyway. -Hyacinthe

[shoaling_souls]

you're right, I did. Sorry about that. Where I live, most people consider bats to be a type of mouse. Not scholars maybe, but regular people think this, because our language calls them skin-mice, so we think of them as being a kind of mice. It's like how in English people consider sour cherries to be a type of cherry even though they flower at different times, the fruit is ripe at different times, and they taste differently.

Maybe if you could turn into a winged-mouse for a short period of time, get a feel for how the winged-mouse's brain feels about being a winged mouse?

[carillons]

I don't know if how I feel about being a winged mouse would be the same as how a winged mouse who isn't me would feel about it.

[shoaling_souls]

that's true too. i think...a regular mouse might not like it so much because a mouse feels safe when it can hide. many predators of mice attack from above, either because they are taller (like cats) or they have wings (like hawks). a regular mouse might be afraid out there in the open air with nothing to hide in. but if the mouse could fly very fast -- or if the mouse could change directions very quickly to avoid capture, then it might feel safe in the air, able to fly away from a cat or dodge a hawk. or if the mouse had a weapon that let it fight back against predators. maybe it should be able to become invisible when it is frightened so that it can escape predators. and a winged mouse who could also be invisble would probably not be frightened if it understood what being invisible meant.

but a winged mouse, the first of its species, without generations of fear and those instincts of needing to hide, a winged mouse who is safe in your home, that might be different. but if you didn't want to keep it but just meet it for a while, it would probably need that fear to keep it safe in the wild.

[carillons]

Maybe if I find someone who wants a winged mouse I will ask Maman to give them one.