Question & Answer (For Candis)

[Cathaline]

You may answer any, all, or none of the following questions for any, all, or none of your candidates! If you already got personalised questions from me but you see some here that you didn't get and you like, feel free to chime in. Questions are written to be species-neutral; if you have a stands candidate no one should even know is an option, feel free to PM the answers. Actually feel free to PM them for any reason, privacy is always an option!


1. Your partner is bored to tears and suffering from an unpleasant fit of melancholy as a result. Only some kind of thrilling new experience can possibly cheer them up. Give between one and three options that you would suggest to make them feel better.

2. Your partner is a hoarder. A really, really bad hoarder. You return home to find that somebody's pet (yours, a friend's, a stray) has become trapped in the hoard and is screaming for help; it takes all day to dig them out, just barely in time. Clearly this situation cannot continue. What do you do about it?

3. Your partner wants to give you a gift. For some reason, their idea of a gift is to quietly gather/steal a bunch of mirrors and set them up in your room while you sleep. You wake up in a funhouse. Your partner was legitimately sincere, though, it's not supposed to be a horrorshow! How do you react?

4. Your partner has destroyed something you hold especially dear. They claim that it was flawed and that they had no other option. What is your reaction?

4b. A week later, you find an unidentified bone in the middle of your bed, and your partner says it is a present to replace the one you lost, which has been personally vetted for perfection. How do you react?

5. For some reason, you and your partner recently spent a month working at one of the southern Weyrs, where instead of living in cliff faces, they all live in sand-huts. Your partner, enamored of the sand-huts, builds one out of dirt in the Bowl and enlists their friends to move all your things in while you're busy. How do you react?

6. Your partner is kind of a creep, dude. You're on a date with someone you really like, and they quietly tell you, "It would take less than one minute for me to kill him/her if I cut that artery." YOU CREEP. What do you say in return? Do you react outwardly?

7. Oooh, you're in trouble. Someone has just complained to your superior that your partner beat them up because, in your partner's defensive words, they were "lookin' wrong at a lady." Said lady cannot be reached for comment. What do you do to correct the situation?

8. Your partner has just charged/flown into a rock because it was looking at them funny, and is meandering around, slightly concussed. Confused, they ask you where the bad man went. What do you do?

9. Congratulations, you scored a clutcher. Not so congratulations, your partner strolls away as soon as the eggs are laid, and when you remind her of her motherly duty, she expresses shock at the fact that eggs exist, horror at the idea that their mother abandoned them, and bafflement at the fact that you think /she/ laid them. Even though, you know. You watched her do it. What do you do?

10. You find your partner in a group of children. Aww, this is sweet. Then you hear what your partner is TELLING the children about ghosts and people with scissors for hands. The crechemothers are not happy about the nightmare epidemic in progress. What do you do?

11. Once again, your partner has been found someplace they should not be. Once again, you have people complaining that your partner somehow broke into their room and silently watched them when they thought they were alone. How can you stop this from happening?

12. Your partner is completely pacifistic. Not just technically, but actually - or so they claim, to the point where they will not train in combat or flamethrowers and do not appreciate you doing so either. How do you convince them to partake in vital lessons?

13. Unlucky thirteen: you get only three words or phrases to describe your character, to boil down the essence of their soul for me: one for their greatest flaw and one for their greatest strength, and one for their potential, i.e., the person they could grow into if all goes well, which let's be frank, it's not going to, blood for the blood god. GIVE ME THESE WORDS.

[birdi]

1.Thrilling new experiences just aren’t Inanna’s thing, pass xD

2. Put a stop to it. Now. Sure, they might be her partner, but Inanna doesn’t stand for that kind of troublesome behavior. She’ll have very little belief in this being an uncontrollable impulse or any of that psycho-babble, so she won’t believe her partner if they imply otherwise, but she’ll start hounding in on them and punish them if they continue doing so… which hopefully does not increase the pattern of behavior.

3. First, Inanna would wake up startled, not knowing exactly what was happening but not enjoying it. After calming down from her initial shock, she might not be able to conceal the fact that she’s angry a little bit, and might slip a few snappy remarks, but eventually she’ll get to a point where she at least appreciates the effort. But she’ll make them take all the mirrors back and apologize to whomever they stole them from.

4. Ok, my main problem here is that I just don’t think Inanna’s got anything close to a precious item, but for the sake of argument. I don’t think Inanna would stand for that. She’d probably be quite mad for a long while, not enough to stop working with/conversing with her partner entirely, but it would take some time and some effort to get things back to normal.

4b. That actually might make her laugh, though she’d be careful to check with the healers and make sure it isn’t a human bone or something before accepting the, ah, gift.

5. A lot of exasperation, though Inanna would likely tolerate it for a week before being like ‘ok, playtime over, back to the weyr, I’ve had enough sand trapped in my nethers to last me a lifetime…’

6. Inanna wouldn’t react outwardly, especially if she knew her partner was a creep already, but she would be disgusted. She’d probably remind them that, after that, it wouldn’t take the weyr too long to put her partner down once they found out, either—and she would help.

7. Inanna would probably think that if they were looking wrong at a lady, then her partner did right, and she’d be amused by that. However, she’d apologize upfront for their actions because a superior is a superior. (then she’d track down the lady in question, ask her for her side of things, and if the dude was being a creep, feed her partner a choice slab of meat. Depending on how long they’d been together/how well she knows/trusts her partner, Inanna might just skip asking and treat them anyway)

8. Inanna might laugh initially, because it’s funny, and they seem alright enough. Well. Alright is relative—alright enough, considering what they’ve just done and what they’re saying now. To simplify things, she’d probably just shrug and be like “you must’ve got ‘em, partner.”

9. “Well, why don’t you just sit right there, until the mother comes back, hm? Thataway they don’t get cold because they’ve been abandoned. Doesn’t that sound like a good idea, you’d be doin’ those babies a favor.”

10. Amusement at the partner’s creativity—hey, a few ghost tales never hurt kids, or don’t the crèchemothers pay any attention to what they rattle off to themselves? Inanna remembers quite a few tales of sunken ships and rafters like the exposed bones of giant monsters lost in the lull of the sea—but calls her partner away, regardless. They don’t want trouble. (and Inanna doesn’t want kids to start hanging around them, she sucks with kids)

11. Sit on them. Joking aside, Inanna would be irritated at all of this nonsense, but she’d probably start staying by her partner’s side and not letting them out of her sight. If they don’t listen to her, she’d try to get some kind of higher-ranking beastie to warn them off of it.

12. Initially bemused, Inanna would slowly become more and more irritated. She’d probably grab a flamethrower and point it at her partner—pacifist or not, when there is danger, there’s gotta be some kind of reaction, right? What if they are caught in the middle of threadfall accidentally, what’ll they do then? If THAT doesn’t work, she’d take them to where her folks raised her and point out that people rely on the services of dragons and whers, and that it isn’t about the individual’s wants/desires/beliefs, but the needs of the many.

13. ugh my choices for this are so boring here it goes
Greatest flaw: close-minded
Greatest strength: tough
Potential: reliable/support

[Ruin]

1. Your partner is bored to tears and suffering from an unpleasant fit of melancholy as a result. Only some kind of thrilling new experience can possibly cheer them up. Give between one and three options that you would suggest to make them feel better.

I'm sure my partner will never be bored again when Miraguel tries to coax us all into storming the seas in search of brave new worlds and gold, or something. In fact, I'm sure my partner will learn to never want to find life interesting again. Miraguel: a cure for every common need for an interesting life.

2. Your partner is a hoarder. A really, really bad hoarder. You return home to find that somebody's pet (yours, a friend's, a stray) has become trapped in the hoard and is screaming for help; it takes all day to dig them out, just barely in time. Clearly this situation cannot continue. What do you do about it?

Well, hoarding can be a lucrative fixation. You simply show your partner, or your Miraguel, that hoarding can turn a quick profit and be used to find even prettier things, and prettier women, or prettier horses, whatever it is that whomever it is, is into, get it?

3. Your partner wants to give you a gift. For some reason, their idea of a gift is to quietly gather/steal a bunch of mirrors and set them up in your room while you sleep. You wake up in a funhouse. Your partner was legitimately sincere, though, it's not supposed to be a horrorshow! How do you react?

Have you seen me lately? Have you ever laid eyes upon something as beautiful as I am? Look down at your clothing, that drab Pernese fair, now back at me, I am dressed in flowing blues and bright purples, now look over there, at that ugly hovel, now look there, at my beautifully decorated sea-side cave. You will never be me, but you can attempt to try.

4. Your partner has destroyed something you hold especially dear. They claim that it was flawed and that they had no other option. What is your reaction?

They were probably correct, more often than not evil can be hidden from those closest to the object. Still, these things must be replaced, so it is high time for a lesson on recompense and remorse.

4b. A week later, you find an unidentified bone in the middle of your bed, and your partner says it is a present to replace the one you lost, which has been personally vetted for perfection. How do you react?

I think I would have it plated with gold and mounted on the wall. Then I would show it to all who came to bask in my good looks and insanely sharp wit.

5. For some reason, you and your partner recently spent a month working at one of the southern Weyrs, where instead of living in cliff faces, they all live in sand-huts. Your partner, enamored of the sand-huts, builds one out of dirt in the Bowl and enlists their friends to move all your things in while you're busy. How do you react?

If only you could see my facial expression, which, by the way, is filled with horror. I will not live in dirt. Dirt is not good for my complexion. I would coax them out of the dirt by any means necessary, up to and including bribery, though I am quite persuasive I will remind you. There will be no dirt naps on my watch.

6. Your partner is kind of a creep, dude. You're on a date with someone you really like, and they quietly tell you, "It would take less than one minute for me to kill him/her if I cut that artery." YOU CREEP. What do you say in return? Do you react outwardly?

I would probably be too busy calculating just how much wealth Miraguel and I could remove from the horrified onlookers to dissuade such commentary. Common sense would probably prohibit the obviously murderous actions, but we all have our off days.

7. Oooh, you're in trouble. Someone has just complained to your superior that your partner beat them up because, in your partner's defensive words, they were "lookin' wrong at a lady." Said lady cannot be reached for comment. What do you do to correct the situation?

You know, there once was a woman in Telgar...Miraguel likes to defend women, this is typical, I would say in all likelihood there was no woman, but you never know. Women can be quite the little tempting golden queens eggs can't t hey? I suppose I would say, good on you champ, keep fighting the fight for that prime real estate.

8. Your partner has just charged/flown into a rock because it was looking at them funny, and is meandering around, slightly concussed. Confused, they ask you where the bad man went. What do you do?

I tell them the bad men ran away in terror and they did a good job. It isn't like they're going to get smarter, and I might as well accept brute strength as an even trade for intelligence. I am, quite intelligent enough for the both of us after all.

9. Congratulations, you scored a clutcher. Not so congratulations, your partner strolls away as soon as the eggs are laid, and when you remind her of her motherly duty, she expresses shock at the fact that eggs exist, horror at the idea that their mother abandoned them, and bafflement at the fact that you think /she/ laid them. Even though, you know. You watched her do it. What do you do?

Fry them and eat them? Are they edible? Sell them? Sell them is probably what I would do, I bet Miraguel could drum up a top notch price for them. Oh I can't? Well they are mine, aren't they, and possession is...well...oh look over there at that lovely cloud...

10. You find your partner in a group of children. Aww, this is sweet. Then you hear what your partner is TELLING the children about ghosts and people with scissors for hands. The crechemothers are not happy about the nightmare epidemic in progress. What do you do?

A bedtime story! Why, Miraguel and I are quite good at stories. So they like the one about the scissorhands do they? How about the fletcher assassins in the night, and the winged renegade soul-less dragon monsters that seek children for their feast! Yes...oh I have so many, this will be fun!

11. Once again, your partner has been found someplace they should not be. Once again, you have people complaining that your partner somehow broke into their room and silently watched them when they thought they were alone. How can you stop this from happening?

I'd tell them just to expect it. I've tried far too many turns to control Miraguel, what is, is what is. I could ask, but beyond that, well, to each their own. I mean, maybe they need looking after, or, actually, maybe they aren't the good sort of people everyone thinks they are. I would suggest they be taken under supervision because obviously something has to be wrong with them.

12. Your partner is completely pacifistic. Not just technically, but actually - or so they claim, to the point where they will not train in combat or flamethrowers and do not appreciate you doing so either. How do you convince them to partake in vital lessons?

Actually that's rather helpful for my sort of people. We like to please the public, and you can't exactly please the public with a murdermonster of anger, then again, the public tends to like civic duties and dead thread, so I suppose I would cajole them into helping with promises of lots of meat and scratches from the Holderchildren. Or something. It's a work in progress.

13. Unlucky thirteen: you get only three words or phrases to describe your character, to boil down the essence of their soul for me: one for their greatest flaw and one for their greatest strength, and one for their potential, i.e., the person they could grow into if all goes well, which let's be frank, it's not going to, blood for the blood god. GIVE ME THESE WORDS.

Reborn anti-hero redux.

Regards, Tukkarlio

[Raining]

1. Your partner is bored to tears and suffering from an unpleasant fit of melancholy as a result. Only some kind of thrilling new experience can possibly cheer them up. Give between one and three options that you would suggest to make them feel better.

Aleksandr; 'Sandr is a guy who is bored to tears often, though his small gang of pets keeps him mildly amused. He's sure taking Zo out for the day would probably break the spell. Or well if it were winter and he was sick of looking at him probably suggest the Pern's version of a Polar Bear swim. Mountain climbing sounds fun too. "Jump in, i'm sure its not that cold. Me? I wouldn't want to mi-- to take this moment from you. Trust me, you need this."

Riocard;"Please. You can't be that bored. :/" Riocard will probably force his partner to study with him. An afternoon with Riocard's book reading will probably force his partner to do anything else.

2. Your partner is a hoarder. A really, really bad hoarder. You return home to find that somebody's pet (yours, a friend's, a stray) has become trapped in the hoard and is screaming for help; it takes all day to dig them out, just barely in time. Clearly this situation cannot continue. What do you do about it?

Aleksandr; He'd be super exasperated, especially when nothing he could say could convince them otherwise. He'd worry about his pets, about other peoples pets and even his own partner. Before even considering asking for help, he'd still try to convince them that this way of life is dangerous. 'Sandr would be as patient as he could... hopefully that would be enough to help. Though if it got worse or something happened, he'd go straight to whoever was in charge and ask for help.

Riocard; He would try to keep his temper in check, try to appear understanding. But after all that digging to get someone else's pet out of there, he just wouldn't even try anymore. One he wanted things back to the way they were before... this, and two he doesn't care nor want to understand anything about 'hoarding'. So straight to someone else to deal with this mess -- looking at it makes his skin crawl and his temper rise stupidly.

3. Your partner wants to give you a gift. For some reason, their idea of a gift is to quietly gather/steal a bunch of mirrors and set them up in your room while you sleep. You wake up in a funhouse. Your partner was legitimately sincere, though, it's not supposed to be a horrorshow! How do you react?

Aleksandr; At first he would be jumping out of his skin as soon as he woke up, snapping at his partner as soon as he saw them. But after seeing that this... gift was actually supposed to be a gift -- he'd probably end up laughing. Well his partner is so freaking weird that he should have expected this, and... expect no less. "You, my friend, have the strangest tastes in gifts."

Riocard; He would be furious -- his partner should know that he shouldn't touch any of his things, let alone put more things in there! But after seeing the complete sincerity on his partners face... well he'd try and simmer his temper. "Fine... its fine" he'd say and just walk away hoping this mess would sort itself out.

4. Your partner has destroyed something you hold especially dear. They claim that it was flawed and that they had no other option. What is your reaction?

Aleksandr; "Are you fjdsk serious?! Why would you even think it was a good idea to completely destroy that?! You're crazy!" He would... explode at first. Then after a day or so.. after he's cooled down -- he'd try and act like nothing happened, because what's done is done. No amount of yelling, or whining will change anything, and well his partner looked sorry.

Riocard; His reaction would be no different from Sandr's, except he'd attempt to keep the yelling to a minimum. WELL after telling his partner to get out, repeatedly... a little more than necessary. There's nothing he could do, its done... as irritated as he was it was just an object. He'd be more ashamed at himself at the emotional outburst because well, this is what he tries to keep under control.

4b. A week later, you find an unidentified bone in the middle of your bed, and your partner says it is a present to replace the one you lost, which has been personally vetted for perfection. How do you react?

Aleksandr; He would look at it for several seconds, raising a brow at his partner but a smile would break out on his face. No it didn't replace what was lost, but he was definitely amused. A week ago he'd still be furious, but he'd keep the unidentified bone... probably somewhere hidden. (maybe after asking someone if it was important?)

Riocard; "I don't nee- -sigh- thank you." he'd say after a minute or so trying to come to terms with a bone on his bed. Though when his partner wasn't looking he'd try and find some clever way of getting rid of the thing and hope his partner won't try and replace it.

5. For some reason, you and your partner recently spent a month working at one of the southern Weyrs, where instead of living in cliff faces, they all live in sand-huts. Your partner, enamored of the sand-huts, builds one out of dirt in the Bowl and enlists their friends to move all your things in while you're busy. How do you react?

Aleksandr; "Oh no, no. You can have fun out here in the sand hut, while I move all my things back up there." if they insisted he'd sigh heavily. "Fine fiiiine, one more night out here and that's it! I'm not spending my free time trying to get sand out of places it shouldn't be."

Riocard; "No. Absolutely not, you will find whoever helped you bring all this down, to put it back exactly how it was." he'd walk away, "and cleaned!"

6. Your partner is kind of a creep, dude. You're on a date with someone you really like, and they quietly tell you, "It would take less than one minute for me to kill him/her if I cut that artery." YOU CREEP. What do you say in return? Do you react outwardly?

Aleksandr; "And it will take less than a second for me to hit you if you don't bugger off. Now."

Riocard; Riocard... wouldn't even bother wasting energy responding. In fact he would ignore his partner all together and just get up and move.

7. Oooh, you're in trouble. Someone has just complained to your superior that your partner beat them up because, in your partner's defensive words, they were "lookin' wrong at a lady." Said lady cannot be reached for comment. What do you do to correct the situation?

Aleksandr; "I'm not even surprised." He would drag his partner with him to whoever was beat up, and force them to apologize. Aleksandr would probably apologize too because he forgot his partner's leash that day.

Riocard; He would just apologize for his partner and just take whatever punishment there was to save time. He didn't want any free time that day anyway :/.

8. Your partner has just charged/flown into a rock because it was looking at them funny, and is meandering around, slightly concussed. Confused, they ask you where the bad man went. What do you do?

Aleksandr; He would try his very best to not smile, and cover up any laughter with sudden coughing. When his partner turned on him and asked where the baddies went, WELL he'd definitely point them in the 'right' direction. He'd follow to make sure he/she didn't hurt themselves further though. Never pass up a good laugh.

Riocard; After his partner charged/ran into the rock all you would hear from Rio was a very loud face palm. When his partner spoke to him, that hand would drag slowly and painfully down the face it just... palmed and then attempt to compose himself. "You are ridiculous..." he would finally say and walk away.

9. Congratulations, you scored a clutcher. Not so congratulations, your partner strolls away as soon as the eggs are laid, and when you remind her of her motherly duty, she expresses shock at the fact that eggs exist, horror at the idea that their mother abandoned them, and bafflement at the fact that you think /she/ laid them. Even though, you know. You watched her do it. What do you do?

Aleksandr; He would play along, and act completely horrified along with his partner. After a while he would try and convince the unwilling mother to watch the eggs while he handled trying to find the 'real' mother (of course snickering behind his partner's back all the while).

Riocard; "You are utterly ridiculous..." he'd tell her exasperated rubbing his temples. If she was still completely baffled by her own eggs, he would tell her to stay with them until he came back with the mother. Until he found a more reasonable way to deal with this, or until she remembered that the pain in her backside was due to several eggs forcing their way out of it.

10. You find your partner in a group of children. Aww, this is sweet. Then you hear what your partner is TELLING the children about ghosts and people with scissors for hands. The crechemothers are not happy about the nightmare epidemic in progress. What do you do?

Aleksandr; Aleksandr is fond of jokes, but not involving scaring or scarring children in the process. "Nooo no! S/he's lying! That's not what happened..." and then proceed to adjust the real stories into a less gory/scary one.

Riocard; He would wander over attempting to be as pleasant as he could be, since it was a crowd.... and well listen to his partners story. What? It was interesting, and he did wonder where s/he learned these stories. If the Crechemother demanded that his partner stop, he would relent. He wasn't afraid of these stories when he was a child, he figured these children weren't either. BUT he would tell his partner to lay off, and tell a different one.

11. Once again, your partner has been found someplace they should not be. Once again, you have people complaining that your partner somehow broke into their room and silently watched them when they thought they were alone. How can you stop this from happening?

Aleksandr; Again he'd be completely unsurprised to hear this news. But he'd probably either never leave his partner's side, or well check in on him ever ten minutes. He has flits and they'd be more than willing to help him, straighten his partner out. Most likely irritate his partner to no end, maybe possibly deterring him away from having to deal with this sort of punishment.

Riocard; Ground his partner to their room. Riocard had reading to catch up on anyway, so this wouldn't be too much of an issue. Though he's not sure what would give first, his tolerance level or his partner pleading his case.

12. Your partner is completely pacifistic. Not just technically, but actually - or so they claim, to the point where they will not train in combat or flamethrowers and do not appreciate you doing so either. How do you convince them to partake in vital lessons?

Aleksandr; He end up telling his partner that being a pacifist will get people killed -- which is practically the opposite of what they will want happening he'd imagine. He'd be very adamant about this too, since he's not someone who would stand around doing nothing. Things would probably get a little heated.

Riocard; Riocard will urge his partner to learn these things because its what they have to do. After that... s/he can choose to be what they want but its better to be prepared than to be caught off guard and untrained.

13. Unlucky thirteen: you get only three words or phrases to describe your character, to boil down the essence of their soul for me: one for their greatest flaw and one for their greatest strength, and one for their potential, i.e., the person they could grow into if all goes well, which let's be frank, it's not going to, blood for the blood god. GIVE ME THESE WORDS.

Aleksandr; hard-headed, confident, reliable
Riocard; Mistrustful, knowledgeable, found himself

[lee]

Some of these are so short I'm sorry T.T I was writing them on my phone, and realized half-way through that it they were in second-person and I answered in third. I may edit. But these are roughly accurate.

1. Your partner is bored to tears and suffering from an unpleasant fit of melancholy as a result. Only some kind of thrilling new experience can possibly cheer them up. Give between one and three options that you would suggest to make them feel better.

Braele: the poor partner is screwed--Braele is by definition if not THE then certainly ONE of the most boring people on the planet of Pern. She doesn't really "get" boredom, so her response would be something along the lines of hard work and more chores--because it's just not possible to be bored when you're being useful and accomplishing things! She'd try and invent some word games or something...to do while they work.

Joshu: teach his partner to COOK! What could be more exciting and thrilling than the delicate blending of hitherto uncombined flavors? The satisfaction of a perfectly chopped tuber or a perfectly flaky pie crust?

Eithne: go find an adventure with them, of course! But, for their safety, not TOO adventurous...she'd enlist the help of some of the weyrfolk to build an scavenger hunt, probably, and express (with slight ‘tsk’ing) that one should never be bored if they are paying proper attention to their surroundings. THere are all kinds of delightful things to see and do.

2. Your partner is a hoarder. A really, really bad hoarder. You return home to find that somebody's pet (yours, a friend's, a stray) has become trapped in the hoard and is screaming for help; it takes all day to dig them out, just barely in time. Clearly this situation cannot continue. What do you do about it?

Braele: Be firm. If they want to keep a NEW thing, they have to get rid of an OLD thing. And if they won't chose, she'll choose for them (and they won't want that!), and threaten to have a creature that can go between LEAVE it there after the third failed warning (whether she goes through with the threat or not would depend on how much she senses it is a compulsion versus purposeful ignoring her).

Joshu: get helplessly buried in the hoard himself during the attempt to rescue the poor pet. Wonder, as he is smooshed under THINGS, why he came to the Weyr.

Eithne: start to pitch a fit, think better of it, calmly confront the dear darling and then make them give back everything. EVERYTHING. Then lay down rules about allowances (a shelf or two to start, MAYBE a closet if they behave in the future). Either they learn to handle and manage a FEW things, or they get NO things.

3. Your partner wants to give you a gift. For some reason, their idea of a gift is to quietly gather/steal a bunch of mirrors and set them up in your room while you sleep. You wake up in a funhouse. Your partner was legitimately sincere, though, it's not supposed to be a horrorshow! How do you react?

Braele: It's a bit ODD of a gift, and rather inconvenient for getting around the room, but it was well meant. She'll consider it a training regimen to successfully navigate (and, if it's a wher, warn them to cover the mirrors up with sheets or furs before the sun comes up and blinds them all)

Joshu: stare. Hopelessly. Horrifically confused, and a bit unnerved. Accidentally (or "accidentally") smack into one and cause a domino effect. Apologize profusely for breaking the gift.

Eithne: use them to model new dresses! And then, after a sufficiently "appreciative" time, try and hint that OTHER people would probably enjoy the gift...

4.) Your partner has destroyed something you hold especially dear. They claim that it was flawed and that they had no other option. What is your reaction? AND 4B.) A week later, you find an unidentified bone in the middle of your bed, and your partner says it is a present to replace the one you lost, which has been personally vetted for perfection. How do you react?

Braele: quiet anger, but would keep it mostly to herself. She WOULD share the hurt so they knew why she was upset. "Things" don't truly matter so much, but the thinking behind it would concern her, so she would try and point out "flawed" things that must be like that in order for everything to function properly. 4B: she would laugh (or do so internally so as not to offend), thank them, inquire as to whether or not anyone is going to be missing it, and if not, plonk it on a shelf or in a frame or something.
Joshu: would walk away in a nasty black fury so he wouldn't yell. Partner would probably get the silent treatment for a few candle marks so he wouldn't explode all over them. Eventually he'd calm down, mourn the loss, and let it go. 4B) use it as a soup base.
Eithne: would ask WHY, specifically (or what about) it was flawed, and go from there. 4B) CUDDLES for being a good sweet critter and bringing her presents. Even if....creepy, a bit?

5. For some reason, you and your partner recently spent a month working at one of the southern Weyrs, where instead of living in cliff faces, they all live in sand-huts. Your partner, enamored of the sand-huts, builds one out of dirt in the Bowl and enlists their friends to move all your things in while you're busy. How do you react?

Braele: humor them, to a point. Everything has to be moved back except maybe the secondhand pair of furs--for ONE sleepover night. Maybe two if they don't fight her about putting her stuff back.
Joshu: doesn't have many things, so what the heck. Will wonder of the creature is just homesick for the southern Weyrs and fret over it.
Eithne: loves said partner dearly, but no. Sand gets places it has no business being. All things back to home base, please and thanks and be quick about it. She'll help build the next one, but only with a promise of no-occupancy.

6. Your partner is kind of a creep, dude. You're on a date with someone you really like, and they quietly tell you, "It would take less than one minute for me to kill him/her if I cut that artery." YOU CREEP. What do you say in return? Do you react outwardly?

Braele: will respond with a mild-mannered threat of her own as to what she will do to THEM if they try, but be more amused than genuinely worried. Aside from a quick blink and twitch of the lips, not much of a reaction.

Joshu: would promptly choke on whatever he was drinking, splutter, and respond aloud in a terrified hiss, NO. Also will be amazed he managed to GET a date in the first place.

Eithne: would be terribly startled, which would show on her face, and then burst into quiet giggles. They only said that to be protective of her, right?

7. Oooh, you're in trouble. Someone has just complained to your superior that your partner beat them up because, in your partner's defensive words, they were "lookin' wrong at a lady." Said lady cannot be reached for comment. What do you do to correct the situation?

Braele: Solemnly promise it won’t happen again...without justification. Mildly inform partner that it’s best to let the other person/wher/creature/dragon start it, and they can finish it, and if the other person/wher/creature/dragon won’t start it, then her partner will just have to be sneakier about instigating.

Joshu: Shrug, decide whoever got beaten up probably deserved it, particularly if they were wussy enough to complain, but mildly inform partner that next time, please wait for him to assess the situation first, so they don’t get lousy chore duty.

Eithne: Wide-eyed innocence. HER partner? OH gosh no, they wouldn’t hurt a fly. The poor dear must have tripped or something and was just too embarrassed to admit it. They’ve always been jealous of her perfect sweet little angel, you know….

8. Your partner has just charged/flown into a rock because it was looking at them funny, and is meandering around, slightly concussed. Confused, they ask you where the bad man went. What do you do?

Braele "You got him dear, now let’s go find visit the nice [creature]healer…."

Joshu: Try very hard not to laugh. Try even harder not to point at another rock and say ‘over there’. Succeed, and proceed to fuss and mother hen until they are feeling somewhat less concussed.

Eithne: Panic that they may have seriously hurt themselves, inform them sternly that there was no bad guy, just a ROCK and they’ve gone and whalloped themselves upside the head with it...and are they okay?

9. Congratulations, you scored a clutcher. Not so congratulations, your partner strolls away as soon as the eggs are laid, and when you remind her of her motherly duty, she expresses shock at the fact that eggs exist, horror at the idea that their mother abandoned them, and bafflement at the fact that you think /she/ laid them. Even though, you know. You watched her do it. What do you do?

Braele: is not having any of that nonsense, thank you. Her partner WILL get back here, WILL mind those eggs, WILL stop acting like a ninny. After all, Braele has the memory of her laying the eggs, and she will share it through their bond accordingly and will not have this silliness.

Joshu: beg, plead, weep, eventually give up and sit around the darn eggs himself until his partner comes around. Or they hatch.

Eithne: try and reason with her partner, if she continues to insist, will sigh and hire (and or bribe, and or blackmail) a fighter into babysitting the eggs on her partner's behalf, under her own watchful eye to make sure they behave, and possibly ignore partner until they come back and take some responsibility.

10. You find your partner in a group of children. Aww, this is sweet. Then you hear what your partner is TELLING the children about ghosts and people with scissors for hands. The crechemothers are not happy about the nightmare epidemic in progress. What do you do?

Braele: would admire her partner’s creativity. and not entirely understand what the problem is. Once it’s explained, will dryly suggest her partner find a new audience for their tales…like the resident Goff Club that meets in the lower caverns.

Joshu: is perhaps a bit callous, but thinks it’s important for kids to be scared a little bit when they’re young--it helps them handle REALLY scary things later in life. And REALLY scary things happen. He would then joke about replacing his peg leg with a pair of scissors, and, if the crechemothers insist, ask his partner to tone it down a bit next time.

Eithne: Would be as raptly fascinated as the little children, and probably have nightmares herself, which would result in a strict ban on storytelling to the kids...but partner can still practice on her, if they want. Not that SHE would want them to, but she’d probably decide it would be good for them both--they get to exercise their creativity, she gets to work on her backbone a bit.

Once again, your partner has been found someplace they should not be. Once again, you have people complaining that your partner somehow broke into their room and silently watched them when they thought they were alone. How can you stop this from happening?

Braele: throw hands up in exasperation and ask WHY. She would then try and anticipate where they will go next, and be there waiting with a squirt bottle rolled up hide for nose-thwapping.

Joshu: Does not understand what is wrong with these creatures. Request to be transferred to a lone, miserable, hermit-dwelling on a mountaintop and the creature can stare at the wherries and then maybe everyone will be happy.

Eithne: Chide partner, and when that doesn’t work, resort to following THEM around staring, and staring, and staring, and staring….

12.) Your partner is completely pacifistic. Not just technically, but actually - or so they claim, to the point where they will not train in combat or flamethrowers and do not appreciate you doing so either. How do you convince them to partake in vital lessons?

Braele: will be steadfastly on their side, if she believes they are sincere. Changing something so inherent to their being would be cruel. She'll stand firmly on her partner's side on the issue, and work with the folks in charge to develop alternate lessons that teach the same skills in a non-combative setting and scenario set, dreaming up alternate purposes for each skill, and trying to navigate a balance. If they won't fight, they won't fight, and Braele will not force them or allow them to be forced. (doesn't mean SHE won't fight though, and her partner will have to learn that if Braele is going to respect their choice, they have to in turn respect hers).

Joshu: fret. Worry. Possibly go on a hunger strike. Promise to not make them USE those skills, but plead with them to learn them anyway.

Eithne: well, that's that. Ask the folks in charge if they can transfer to a crafthall or something to learn something else, since there obviously won't be any thread-fighting or patrolling. And who wouldn't want the first Harper dragon/wher on Pern?

13.) Unlucky thirteen: you get only three words or phrases to describe your character, to boil down the essence of their soul for me: one for their greatest flaw and one for their greatest strength, and one for their potential, i.e., the person they could grow into if all goes well, which let's be frank, it's not going to, blood for the blood god. GIVE ME THESE WORDS.

BRAELE: boring, steady, balanced

JOSHU: Tempestuous, chef, PUT THAT THING BACK WHERE IT CAME FROM.

EITHNE: surface-deep relationships, practical dreamer, infinite

[princesal]

The following is for Otoatavatah

1. Your partner is bored to tears and suffering from an unpleasant fit of melancholy as a result. Only some kind of thrilling new experience can possibly cheer them up. Give between one and three options that you would suggest to make them feel better.

They'd be bored? How could they be bored? There is so much to look and see. Well, I guess I would... hmm... oh oh! We'd go and watch drills, and maybe spin around a bit, I mean watching the drills. We could also go to the lake and look for fish bones. Maybe we can go write our names on some rock, with another rock.

2. Your partner is a hoarder. A really, really bad hoarder. You return home to find that somebody's pet (yours, a friend's, a stray) has become trapped in the hoard and is screaming for help; it takes all day to dig them out, just barely in time. Clearly this situation cannot continue. What do you do about it?

Aww! There's nothing wrong with hoarding, we just have to organize it a bit better. That will look really nice! We could line half the walls of our weyr with their collection, and half with mine. It will look really great!

3. Your partner wants to give you a gift. For some reason, their idea of a gift is to quietly gather/steal a bunch of mirrors and set them up in your room while you sleep. You wake up in a funhouse. Your partner was legitimately sincere, though, it's not supposed to be a horrorshow! How do you react?

That sounds so much fun. I'm so glad they thought of it. I could spend all day looking through the mirrors. Maybe we could try and hide from each other. I would send a slate to my sister telling about what happened.

4. Your partner has destroyed something you hold especially dear. They claim that it was flawed and that they had no other option. What is your reaction?

I don't like this question very much. I don't think my partner would do that. If they did though, I would explain that that was mean, and that if they feel this way about something else, to try and find me first. But what happens in the past, can't be changed. I'd suggest we make something together to replace what was lost.

4b. A week later, you find an unidentified bone in the middle of your bed, and your partner says it is a present to replace the one you lost, which has been personally vetted for perfection. How do you react?

They found me a bone!? That's so nice! I bet it looks perfect! Maybe it will be a skull! I would love another nice big skull. How did they know that was my favorite thing? I love this idea.

5. For some reason, you and your partner recently spent a month working at one of the southern Weyrs, where instead of living in cliff faces, they all live in sand-huts. Your partner, enamored of the sand-huts, builds one out of dirt in the Bowl and enlists their friends to move all your things in while you're busy. How do you react?

As long as everyone else would be alright with it, and it wouldn't break apart, I think it'd be fascinating to live in a hut like that. My partner seems really smart and talented, and creative to think of something like this.

6. Your partner is kind of a creep, dude. You're on a date with someone you really like, and they quietly tell you, "It would take less than one minute for me to kill him/her if I cut that artery." YOU CREEP. What do you say in return? Do you react outwardly?

Oh! That's just them making a joke, they'd never actually do something like that. I'd let them know how funny they were by joking back that I get to keep the skeleton.

7. Oooh, you're in trouble. Someone has just complained to your superior that your partner beat them up because, in your partner's defensive words, they were "lookin' wrong at a lady." Said lady cannot be reached for comment. What do you do to correct the situation?

That doesn't sound anything like my partner. I'd immediately apologize, because even if they did not, I'd be worried about the other person. I'd want to go check on them at the Healers, and apologize in person. I'd ask that we listen to what happened in my partner's words, that way my superior would be able to hear both sides of the story. I'd offer to keep us both confined in the room until the lady in question was able to be reached, or contacted. It would only be right to accept punishment until the truth is revealed.

8. Your partner has just charged/flown into a rock because it was looking at them funny, and is meandering around, slightly concussed. Confused, they ask you where the bad man went. What do you do?

Oh, ow. I've been there and done that. It's never fun to knock you head that hard against something. I'd get someone to fetch a healer to give my partner a check over. During that time I'd ask them questions to keep them focused on me, and engaged, instead of going to sleep or concentrating on the 'bad man'.

9. Congratulations, you scored a clutcher. Not so congratulations, your partner strolls away as soon as the eggs are laid, and when you remind her of her motherly duty, she expresses shock at the fact that eggs exist, horror at the idea that their mother abandoned them, and bafflement at the fact that you think /she/ laid them. Even though, you know. You watched her do it. What do you do?

If she seemed genuinely startled and shocked that she was the one that laid them, I wouldn't push the subject. Instead I would explain that their mother got lost somewhere, and that we had a duty to take care of them together until she returned, if she ever did. I'd bring up the subject several more times that she did, in fact, lay them, but if she responds in same, I would let others know of the situation, so as to not upset her.

10. You find your partner in a group of children. Aww, this is sweet. Then you hear what your partner is TELLING the children about ghosts and people with scissors for hands. The crechemothers are not happy about the nightmare epidemic in progress. What do you do?

I tell them about dancing skeletons? Whoops, I mean, not that. I announce loudly that story time is over, and that it's time to play follow-the-leader, and I'm the leader. I would then suggest to my partner that they tell me those stories first, because I'd love to hear them, especially if they had skeletons and bugs in them. We could come up with some other ones for the children. Ones with princess dragons, and the knight dragons that defend them. Maybe we can go outside and be princesses and knights! That would be really fun! We could get some scrappy linens and make hats too, no wait, crowns! And then we'll go on an adventure, and we'd fight against bad monsters, and save everyone!

11. Once again, your partner has been found someplace they should not be. Once again, you have people complaining that your partner somehow broke into their room and silently watched them when they thought they were alone. How can you stop this from happening?

Maybe my partner is just worried about them, and is guarding them. I think we should ask my partner why they did this. Maybe they noticed something that no one else had yet. I think if we found out why my partner decided to guard these people, we can better determine how to stop this.

12. Your partner is completely pacifistic. Not just technically, but actually - or so they claim, to the point where they will not train in combat or flamethrowers and do not appreciate you doing so either. How do you convince them to partake in vital lessons?

I don't know. I mean, I don't like the idea of fighting against another person, but we learn how to things like flamethrowers, to protect other people. I think I'd want to talk to the weyrlingmaster, because I don't really know what I would do. Actually, I might ask someone else what to do first on some of these other questions too. Is that alright?

13. Unlucky thirteen: you get only three words or phrases to describe your character, to boil down the essence of their soul for me: one for their greatest flaw and one for their greatest strength, and one for their potential, i.e., the person they could grow into if all goes well, which let's be frank, it's not going to, blood for the blood god. GIVE ME THESE WORDS.

Flaw: Trusting
Strength: Optimistic
Potential: Encouraging

[Maggie]

This one is for Kaydian, I'm not done Tamarine and haven't started Idra yet.

1. Your partner is bored to tears and suffering from an unpleasant fit of melancholy as a result. Only some kind of thrilling new experience can possibly cheer them up. Give between one and three options that you would suggest to make them feel better.

Um, maybe I could organise a nice treasure hunt for them throughout the Weyr. We could explore all kinds of places and maybe we could race to see who completed the treasure hunt first! If not, if they’re really melancholy, maybe we could go and visit Yusk. She always makes me feel better, even if it’s not a thrilling experience. Or we could go and visit the crèche. The children are always exciting.

2. Your partner is a hoarder. A really, really bad hoarder. You return home to find that somebody's pet (yours, a friend's, a stray) has become trapped in the hoard and is screaming for help; it takes all day to dig them out, just barely in time. Clearly this situation cannot continue. What do you do about it?

I would organise their hoarde for them, of course. Living in an untidy Weyr is… unsanitary, but I wouldn’t want to deprive them of their things. I would categorise and clean it for them and allow them to fully enjoy their possessions.

3. Your partner wants to give you a gift. For some reason, their idea of a gift is to quietly gather/steal a bunch of mirrors and set them up in your room while you sleep. You wake up in a funhouse. Your partner was legitimately sincere, though, it's not supposed to be a horrorshow! How do you react?

My partner got me a gift! I would be startled when I woke up, but so, so touched and I would cherish the mirrors.

4. Your partner has destroyed something you hold especially dear. They claim that it was flawed and that they had no other option. What is your reaction?

It was obviously flawed if my partner chose to do that. I would probably be somewhat sad, but my partner is probably right.

4b. A week later, you find an unidentified bone in the middle of your bed, and your partner says it is a present to replace the one you lost, which has been personally vetted for perfection. How do you react?

My partner got me a gift! I will cherish it always and put it in a special display place. I don’t care what it is, it’s perfect.

5. For some reason, you and your partner recently spent a month working at one of the southern Weyrs, where instead of living in cliff faces, they all live in sand-huts. Your partner, enamored of the sand-huts, builds one out of dirt in the Bowl and enlists their friends to move all your things in while you're busy. How do you react?

Well as long as I can keep it tidy, I will live wherever my partner chooses to live. They are what is important to me.

6. Your partner is kind of a creep, dude. You're on a date with someone you really like, and they quietly tell you, "It would take less than one minute for me to kill him/her if I cut that artery." YOU CREEP. What do you say in return? Do you react outwardly?

I would be terrified! That’s an awful thing to say! I would probably have to excuse myself, I would be very upset and shocked. Then we would have to have a long discussion about how hurtful such words are.

7. Oooh, you're in trouble. Someone has just complained to your superior that your partner beat them up because, in your partner's defensive words, they were "lookin' wrong at a lady." Said lady cannot be reached for comment. What do you do to correct the situation?

Well, he did act out of good intentions, that does have to count a bit, right? But I would accept any punishment sent our way because fighting others is wrong. Still, I wouldn’t be too angry, I would try and work out with them what other alternatives there are to fighting.

8. Your partner has just charged/flown into a rock because it was looking at them funny, and is meandering around, slightly concussed. Confused, they ask you where the bad man went. What do you do?

Poor baby! I would immediately go to them and try to reassure them and get them to the healers! I would be very worried about them and make sure that they’re ok! I would reassure them that there was no bad man and that they were very, very safe.

9. Congratulations, you scored a clutcher. Not so congratulations, your partner strolls away as soon as the eggs are laid, and when you remind her of her motherly duty, she expresses shock at the fact that eggs exist, horror at the idea that their mother abandoned them, and bafflement at the fact that you think /she/ laid them. Even though, you know. You watched her do it. What do you do?

I would be very, very sad and upset. I would try to convince her to take care of them, even if she didn’t think they were hers. I might even ask Pretty to help her and show her how to take care of them.

10. You find your partner in a group of children. Aww, this is sweet. Then you hear what your partner is TELLING the children about ghosts and people with scissors for hands. The crechemothers are not happy about the nightmare epidemic in progress. What do you do?

Again, I would be horrified. I would immediately ask Pretty and Flare to keep an eye on them to make sure that they don’t go anywhere without permission. I would then apologise to the crèchemothers and take a few shifts in the crèche to care for the children and tell them good, hopeful stories.

11. Once again, your partner has been found someplace they should not be. Once again, you have people complaining that your partner somehow broke into their room and silently watched them when they thought they were alone. How can you stop this from happening?

Again, I would make sure that Flare and Pretty stalk them to make sure that they don’t go where they shouldn’t. Also, I would assure others that my partner was harmless, even if they were a little creepy sometimes.

12. Your partner is completely pacifistic. Not just technically, but actually - or so they claim, to the point where they will not train in combat or flamethrowers and do not appreciate you doing so either. How do you convince them to partake in vital lessons?

I would respect their choice, because I think that not fighting is good, but I might try and find some kind of role we could accomplish that would be more pacific but that would still let us participate in Threadfall. I would then talk privately with my Weyrlingmaster to try and plan out a strategy to make them see that the only right thing to do is to fight Thread.

13. Unlucky thirteen: you get only three words or phrases to describe your character, to boil down the essence of their soul for me: one for their greatest flaw and one for their greatest strength, and one for their potential, i.e., the person they could grow into if all goes well, which let's be frank, it's not going to, blood for the blood god. GIVE ME THESE WORDS.

Flaw: insecurity. Strength: meticulous. Potential: caretaker

[Maggie]

Here is Tamarine, Idra will probably come tomorrow since it's nearly 4AM.

1. Your partner is bored to tears and suffering from an unpleasant fit of melancholy as a result. Only some kind of thrilling new experience can possibly cheer them up. Give between one and three options that you would suggest to make them feel better.

I would go and secretly get a volunteer to go and pretend to be in distress. Then, with Paks and my partner, we would mount a rescue so that my partner could not only have an exciting time but also feel good about themselves. Also, it would be good training.

2. Your partner is a hoarder. A really, really bad hoarder. You return home to find that somebody's pet (yours, a friend's, a stray) has become trapped in the hoard and is screaming for help; it takes all day to dig them out, just barely in time. Clearly this situation cannot continue. What do you do about it?

I would make them pick 10 of their most valuable items and get rid of or store the rest. The situation could be very dangerous and I would rather not have a cave in in my own quarters. One time being trapped is more than enough.

3. Your partner wants to give you a gift. For some reason, their idea of a gift is to quietly gather/steal a bunch of mirrors and set them up in your room while you sleep. You wake up in a funhouse. Your partner was legitimately sincere, though, it's not supposed to be a horrorshow! How do you react?

What the shells. Seriously what the shells. Why? I mean the thought is sweet and all, but… I thought that bonding to weirdos ran in the OTHER side of my cousin’s family, not the one we shared.

4. Your partner has destroyed something you hold especially dear. They claim that it was flawed and that they had no other option. What is your reaction?

I would keep my cool and explain to them in no uncertain terms how upset I was about this and why their behaviour is hurtful and unacceptable. But I would also understand that whers (and dragons) do not think the same way we do and so they won’t necessarily understand why I’m upset, just that I’m upset.

4b. A week later, you find an unidentified bone in the middle of your bed, and your partner says it is a present to replace the one you lost, which has been personally vetted for perfection. How do you react?

Well, it’s definitely an effort, so I would accept the present as it is and thank them for it.

5. For some reason, you and your partner recently spent a month working at one of the southern Weyrs, where instead of living in cliff faces, they all live in sand-huts. Your partner, enamored of the sand-huts, builds one out of dirt in the Bowl and enlists their friends to move all your things in while you're busy. How do you react?

I would go make sure that the structure was sound and if it wasn’t, I would help them rebuild it so that it was. Then we would move in. It would be an adventure.

6. Your partner is kind of a creep, dude. You're on a date with someone you really like, and they quietly tell you, "It would take less than one minute for me to kill him/her if I cut that artery." YOU CREEP. What do you say in return? Do you react outwardly?

Outwardly, I would not react. Inwardly, I would probably brush it off. Unless they were actively attacking or insulting someone, what they say personally to me in our heads is none of anyone else’s business.

7. Oooh, you're in trouble. Someone has just complained to your superior that your partner beat them up because, in your partner's defensive words, they were "lookin' wrong at a lady." Said lady cannot be reached for comment. What do you do to correct the situation?

I would accept whatever punishment came our way and would then keep my partner occupied by training every spare moment to keep them tired and busy.

8. Your partner has just charged/flown into a rock because it was looking at them funny, and is meandering around, slightly concussed. Confused, they ask you where the bad man went. What do you do?

I would sigh, congratulate them on winning and then bring them to see the healers. Seriously. This is entirely my cousin’s family’s fault, I swear.

9. Congratulations, you scored a clutcher. Not so congratulations, your partner strolls away as soon as the eggs are laid, and when you remind her of her motherly duty, she expresses shock at the fact that eggs exist, horror at the idea that their mother abandoned them, and bafflement at the fact that you think /she/ laid them. Even though, you know. You watched her do it. What do you do?

Well, to be fair this does happen, sometimes and it’s sad and awful, but it’s also part of life. I would try and convince them to take care of them anyway or, bar that, see if another female would want to be the adoptive mommy. Then I would discuss with the alphahandler (or Weyrwoman) to see what could be done.

10. You find your partner in a group of children. Aww, this is sweet. Then you hear what your partner is TELLING the children about ghosts and people with scissors for hands. The crechemothers are not happy about the nightmare epidemic in progress. What do you do?

I would apologise. Then make sure that my partner meets the Goff Club so that they could have a more appropriate audience for their stories.

11. Once again, your partner has been found someplace they should not be. Once again, you have people complaining that your partner somehow broke into their room and silently watched them when they thought they were alone. How can you stop this from happening?

Again, what the shells? I would apologise. Then make my partner train harder so that they have less energy to think up pranks. Then I would try and devise some kind of warning system so they couldn’t sneak away from me.

12. Your partner is completely pacifistic. Not just technically, but actually - or so they claim, to the point where they will not train in combat or flamethrowers and do not appreciate you doing so either. How do you convince them to partake in vital lessons?

What? Why would they do that? I would probably concentrate on our rescue training first, then, while trying to find a good way to convince them that flamethrower exercises were vital to saving lives.

13. Unlucky thirteen: you get only three words or phrases to describe your character, to boil down the essence of their soul for me: one for their greatest flaw and one for their greatest strength, and one for their potential, i.e., the person they could grow into if all goes well, which let's be frank, it's not going to, blood for the blood god. GIVE ME THESE WORDS.

Flaw: Tunnel-vision Strength: Patience Potential: defender

[mopsy93]

1. Your partner is bored to tears and suffering from an unpleasant fit of melancholy as a result. Only some kind of thrilling new experience can possibly cheer them up. Give between one and three options that you would suggest to make them feel better.

Carissa would take her partner to explore the depths of the Lower Caverns even if they would probably get lost and have to call out for help.

2. Your partner is a hoarder. A really, really bad hoarder. You return home to find that somebody's pet (yours, a friend's, a stray) has become trapped in the hoard and is screaming for help; it takes all day to dig them out, just barely in time. Clearly this situation cannot continue. What do you do about it?

Carissa would convince her partner that they need to clean up because it’s a health hazard and she wouldn't allow a partner of hers to cause a health hazard.

3. Your partner wants to give you a gift. For some reason, their idea of a gift is to quietly gather/steal a bunch of mirrors and set them up in your room while you sleep. You wake up in a funhouse. Your partner was legitimately sincere, though, it's not supposed to be a horrorshow! How do you react?

After the initial surprise Carissa will quickly become annoyed with the situation though seeing her partner’s expression she does soften a bit though still says that it wasn’t a good idea to set up all those mirrors even if her partner thought it would.

4. Your partner has destroyed something you hold especially dear. They claim that it was flawed and that they had no other option. What is your reaction?

Carissa would probably be pretty annoyed with her partner for destroying something she held dear just because her partner perceived it to have imperfections.

4b. A week later, you find an unidentified bone in the middle of your bed, and your partner says it is a present to replace the one you lost, which has been personally vetted for perfection. How do you react?

Carissa would be even more annoyed with her partner for trying to replace something she held dear with a random bone. She would then convince her partner to take back the bone.

5. For some reason, you and your partner recently spent a month working at one of the southern Weyrs, where instead of living in cliff faces, they all live in sand-huts. Your partner, enamored of the sand-huts, builds one out of dirt in the Bowl and enlists their friends to move all your things in while you're busy. How do you react?

Carissa will probably stay at least one night in there just to humor her partner then convince her partner that it she misses living in a cavern. If the makeshift hut is poorly built, Carissa will forgo sleeping in it and go straight into convincing her partner that it would be better to leave the huts to the folk of the southern weyrs.

6. Your partner is kind of a creep, dude. You're on a date with someone you really like, and they quietly tell you, "It would take less than one minute for me to kill him/her if I cut that artery." YOU CREEP. What do you say in return? Do you react outwardly?

Carissa would react outwardly only after pulling her partner aside so the number of people overhearing would be minimized and then call them out on it.

7. Oooh, you're in trouble. Someone has just complained to your superior that your partner beat them up because, in your partner's defensive words, they were "lookin' wrong at a lady." Said lady cannot be reached for comment. What do you do to correct the situation?

After asking her partner if they did do what the man said they did and if it is true then Carissa would tell her partner that it is inappropriate to do that kind of thing. If not then Carissa would vehemently stand up for her partner against the man.

8. Your partner has just charged/flown into a rock because it was looking at them funny, and is meandering around, slightly concussed. Confused, they ask you where the bad man went. What do you do?

Carissa would tell her partner that they shouldn't worry and forget about the whole thing.

9. Congratulations, you scored a clutcher. Not so congratulations, your partner strolls away as soon as the eggs are laid, and when you remind her of her motherly duty, she expresses shock at the fact that eggs exist, horror at the idea that their mother abandoned them, and bafflement at the fact that you think /she/ laid them. Even though, you know. You watched her do it. What do you do?

Carissa would insist that the Dragon or wher did indeed lay the clutch until they agree, either that or Carissa would watch the eggs herself or get another more responsible Dragon or wher to watch them.

10. You find your partner in a group of children. Aww, this is sweet. Then you hear what your partner is TELLING the children about ghosts and people with scissors for hands. The crechemothers are not happy about the nightmare epidemic in progress. What do you do?

Carissa talk to her partner and would suggest that her partner should not tell such scary stories to young children.

11. Once again, your partner has been found someplace they should not be. Once again, you have people complaining that your partner somehow broke into their room and silently watched them when they thought they were alone. How can you stop this from happening?

Carissa would talk to her partner to see if these complaints are true, if it is true she would tell the partner that it is wrong and lists reasons why her partner should stop doing so. If not true, Carissa would complain to somebody in charge that people are spreading terrible rumours about her partner.

12. Your partner is completely pacifistic. Not just technically, but actually - or so they claim, to the point where they will not train in combat or flamethrowers and do not appreciate you doing so either. How do you convince them to partake in vital lessons?

Remind her partner that Thread doesn’t know or care about concepts like mercy or innocent bystanders. That if left to fall to the ground Thread will eat anything remotely organic in sight in less than a day no matter how much you try to reason with it.

13. Unlucky thirteen: you get only three words or phrases to describe your character, to boil down the essence of their soul for me: one for their greatest flaw and one for their greatest strength, and one for their potential, i.e., the person they could grow into if all goes well, which let's be frank, it's not going to, blood for the blood god. GIVE ME THESE WORDS.

Flaw: Blunt
Strength: Hard working
Potential: Honest confidant

[Chimera]

1. Your partner is bored to tears and suffering from an unpleasant fit of melancholy as a result. Only some kind of thrilling new experience can possibly cheer them up. Give between one and three options that you would suggest to make them feel better.
Lanorun: Chores. Hard work takes the mind off of worries, especially useless ones like boredom.

Dardranel: Wellll, a good race of course, to get some ichor and blood pumping! If not, we can have a nice talk where thoughts, insecurities, and wacky (but totally useful) inventions can be discussed!
Or if those two don’t work, it’s explore-the-most-dangerous-but-allowed-place-you-can time! Thrill always makes me feel better. Even if I get in, um, a little bit of trouble afterwards.

2. Your partner is a hoarder. A really, really bad hoarder. You return home to find that somebody's pet (yours, a friend's, a stray) has become trapped in the hoard and is screaming for help; it takes all day to dig them out, just barely in time. Clearly this situation cannot continue. What do you do about it?
Lanorun: I’d remove the hoard immediately and tell someone who can help - such as Nimara and Waroth. They’d scare or threaten the partner enough to drop that ridiculous habit.

Dardranel: I guess I’d be angry at the partner but probably attempt to reason with them! If the partner continues hoarding maybe I’d set up an elaborate plan to trap them without hurting them in their own hoard! That way they’ll get the error of their ways, I’m sure. Or if all else fails I’ll just give the hoard to someone else who has a hoard in the Weyr and make their day. Does that count as an act of random kindness?

3. Your partner wants to give you a gift. For some reason, their idea of a gift is to quietly gather/steal a bunch of mirrors and set them up in your room while you sleep. You wake up in a funhouse. Your partner was legitimately sincere, though, it's not supposed to be a horrorshow! How do you react?
Lanorun: Mirrors are not a good idea for a gift. I’d remove the mirrors immediately and make sure my partner helps clean them up and give them to someone who can use them. “Fun” privileges will be removed for my partner for some amount of time, depending on how they react when they are told it’s not a good gift.

Dardranel: I say thank you to partner for the good intentions! However, I’d get rid of the mirrors and set up an advanced agility course using them, somewhere in the Weyr Bowl. I can run fast through the very tricky mirror course! If I get really mad maybe I’d force the partner to run through it a few times. Or at least once, for them to do the full thing. Hopefully the mirrors wouldn’t crack and hurt the partner or something.

4. Your partner has destroyed something you hold especially dear. They claim that it was flawed and that they had no other option. What is your reaction?
Lanorun: Destroy something they hold especially dear, or pretend to but actually give it away to someone else. Forever. Also intimidate and question the partner if I was flawed - would they destroy and replace me? Apply this logic and they should be stammering and embarrassed. Also ask if there were any other options, though they claim they had no other.

Dardranel: Aww! I hope it’s not my gemstone from Wenth’s hatching. Other than that I don’t have anything really especially dear...My sister and mom are still especially dear to me, but they’re dead. I’d ask them why they couldn’t just give it away - maybe they thought it was dangerous? It’s still really mean to do, whatever the reason was, and I’d act mean but not too mean on purpose, as revenge. I honestly don’t really know what I’d do - maybe I’d tell someone who could help me tell the partner why they shouldn’t do that again, at least.

4b. A week later, you find an unidentified bone in the middle of your bed, and your partner says it is a present to replace the one you lost, which has been personally vetted for perfection. How do you react?
Lanorun: Investigate if there were any disappearances in the Weyr. Also I’d ask the partner to define what their definition of “perfection” is. Remove the bone and give it to someone in a position of power for further investigation and safekeeping - anonymously. Grumble at partner for the next few sevendays until they apologize for their ludicrous behavior.

Dardranel: Ick! Is it blue? Maybe it’s a wherry bone. If they killed someone I think they’d be caught? If it’s just from an animal or if they already found it somewhere, I’d keep it as a prized possession - who knows? Maybe it’s the evidence to solve a mystery and I’d be praised for keeping it.

5. For some reason, you and your partner recently spent a month working at one of the southern Weyrs, where instead of living in cliff faces, they all live in sand-huts. Your partner, enamored of the sand-huts, builds one out of dirt in the Bowl and enlists their friends to move all your things in while you're busy. How do you react?
Lanorun: First of all, what are these “friends” my partner has? They can’t be very good influences if they agree to move all our things in while I’m busy. I’d immediately remove all my things back to my actual room, and tell the partner that since they like sand-huts so much they will need to live in it from now on - without me. The partner would most likely apologize and be ashamed of themselves.

Dardranel: Well, living in rock all the time is kind of boring! If it’s not too stuffy and not too full of dust that can go into my lungs, I’d live in it for a while. That’s actually pretty cool!

6. Your partner is kind of a creep, dude. You're on a date with someone you really like, and they quietly tell you, "It would take less than one minute for me to kill him/her if I cut that artery." YOU CREEP. What do you say in return? Do you react outwardly?
Lanorun: I would not react outwardly. I also don’t really think there’s anyone I’d like enough to have a date with. I would also mentally threaten this partner what would happen if they dared to kill him or her and assign mandatory chores for us to do after the date.

Dardranel: I’d be very angry at them, I’d probably involuntarily react outwardly. But I wouldn’t tell the person I’m on a date with. I’d come up with something to teach the partner to not do that, but I don’t really know what at the moment. These things take time, y’know? They have to actually happen sometimes, for me to come up with what to do.


7. Oooh, you're in trouble. Someone has just complained to your superior that your partner beat them up because, in your partner's defensive words, they were "lookin' wrong at a lady." Said lady cannot be reached for comment. What do you do to correct the situation?
Lanorun: Investigate and question the complainer - if it’s their fault, the superior will need to be told again. In any case, I’d apologize to the superior, and force the partner to do chores with me all day. Have I mentioned those too much? My weyr-bred partner would have it easy, not knowing the life their partner lived - chores would do them a load of good, especially with all the troublemaking these imaginary partners are causing.

Dardranel: Say sorry and do whatever punishment/chores the superior might ask me to do! But I’d ask the “victim” what happened. Also, who said why that lady can’t be reached for comment? This survey uses too much stuff about “You can NEVER do this! It’s one-hundred percent that!” I think I could still find that lady and ask her what happened.

8. Your partner has just charged/flown into a rock because it was looking at them funny, and is meandering around, slightly concussed. Confused, they ask you where the bad man went. What do you do?
Lanorun: Go to the Healers’. Also investigate if there were any bad men lurking around. Also tell the Healers and a superior who can help, that there is something very wrong with my partner if it thinks a rock is looking at them funny. Is this one of those tan dragons? Is that what this pretend partner’s supposed to be?

Dardranel: I’d go get medical help! And I’d tell them that the bad man was gone and we’re safe. When they’re feeling better we can go search - maybe there is a bad man! What if he’s the same guy who poisoned the herdbeasts?

9. Congratulations, you scored a clutcher. Not so congratulations, your partner strolls away as soon as the eggs are laid, and when you remind her of her motherly duty, she expresses shock at the fact that eggs exist, horror at the idea that their mother abandoned them, and bafflement at the fact that you think /she/ laid them. Even though, you know. You watched her do it. What do you do?
Lanorun: Definitely a tan if it’s a dragon. Yup. Regardless of whose eggs the eggs are, as a clutcher her job is to take care of any clutch possible. If she doesn’t want to take care of them, there’s many other clutchers and fighters around who could help me keep the eggs alive. I’d tell my superiors about the clutcher. Maybe *they* can explain to her that they’re her eggs.

Dardranel: Well, she’s still a clutcher! I’m sure if I talked to her she’d still take care of them - I’d tell her that the clutchmother will be back - and when the eggs finally hatch and the babies call her “mother”, even if she doesn’t believe their hers, she’ll still think they’re her adopted babies. And she’ll love them anyways. Hopefully. Even if she’s really forgetful.

10. You find your partner in a group of children. Aww, this is sweet. Then you hear what your partner is TELLING the children about ghosts and people with scissors for hands. The crechemothers are not happy about the nightmare epidemic in progress. What do you do?
Lanorun: Make the partner apologize to the children and crecheworkers, and say that they’ll personally take care of the ghosts and scissor-handed people. It’s also very disrespectful to treat those with missing limbs as nightmare fuel. Joshu isn’t a ghoul because of his missing leg!

Dardranel: Those are cool creatures! I’d tell the kids they have nothing to fear, but when they grow up they can totally go hunt the creatures and keep defending Pern! Also isn’t stuff like ghosts still less scary than wiggling slimy rain that eats you alive? I’d rather be cut up by scissors or haunted by ghosts than that.

11. Once again, your partner has been found someplace they should not be. Once again, you have people complaining that your partner somehow broke into their room and silently watched them when they thought they were alone. How can you stop this from happening?
Lanorun: It’s hard for me to sleep anyways. I am never going to let my eyes go off of my partner until they learn to stop that habit. And I’ll hire a useful firelizard - the *useful* kind, even if it’s not mine - to track my partner whenever I can’t. Who comes up with these questions anyways?

Dardranel: I’d go find out how they broke into their room! I’d come up with some way to stop it. Hopefully. Later. If it actually happens.

12. Your partner is completely pacifistic. Not just technically, but actually - or so they claim, to the point where they will not train in combat or flamethrowers and do not appreciate you doing so either. How do you convince them to partake in vital lessons?
Lanorun: Tell them what happens to those who don’t train in combat or flamethrowers. And show them, if possible. It’s also fair, after that creche incident. But I highly doubt there are whers or even dragons like that.

Dardranel: Well, I’d tell them that they’d get an awesome reward if they partake in the lessons! Such as not dying or getting hurt!

13. Unlucky thirteen: you get only three words or phrases to describe your character, to boil down the essence of their soul for me: one for their greatest flaw and one for their greatest strength, and one for their potential, i.e., the person they could grow into if all goes well, which let's be frank, it's not going to, blood for the blood god. GIVE ME THESE WORDS.
Lanorun: Flaw- Overprotective; Strength- Caring; Potential- Caretaker

Dardranel: Flaw- Reckless; Strength- Fast; Potential- Speed-based fighter

[Nia]

BONUS ROUND!

Hey guys, I'd appreciate it if you could answer a few more questions! Just a few. Feel free to just post your replies below this one as a new post if you've already answered the previous ones, or PM me or just answer both at the same time whatever. Just answer them.


1. Your partner is so impartial that they refuse to take any stance on a situation, and instead they arrogantly judge it from afar! Even when your partner does something wrong, they refuse to admit it, saying that their word is law and that they will take no other options. Your partner is also a bit of a stoic, so it's difficult to get any sort of emotion out of them, even guilt for their own wrongdoings. How do you deal with this?

2. Your partner is INCREDIBLY competitive. They want you to be competitive too! They absolutely will not stand for it if you can't beat them in a race, and intend to train you until you're up to their standards. Can you handle your partner's incredibly tough training regimen? If so, how? If not, why not?

3. Your partner prefers communicating with pictures and emotions rather than words, but they really like to listen to you talk and help you solve your problems. However, you're worried that they don't express their own feelings nearly enough. What do you do to try and convince them to open up to you?

4. Your partner is a MASSIVE flirt. Like, they can't stop flirting. However, one day, they're rejected so badly that they come to you and start crying about it and they get very defensive when you try and talk to them. What do you do to comfort them?


I REALIZE THIS IS A LITTLE LAST MINUTE but I just need a little bit more information on your Candidates. Thanks guys, I appreciate it!

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[Reky]

1. Your partner is bored to tears and suffering from an unpleasant fit of melancholy as a result. Only some kind of thrilling new experience can possibly cheer them up. Give between one and three options that you would suggest to make them feel better.

Inrahim: It's all too bad that our responsibilities have us so stagnant. A good trip, perhaps, to somewhere far away. A small hold, somewhere, where we can meet children. Children always love whers - they'll be so happy. Or else, maybe a swim around the coastline.

Risny: What? Bored? Oh, no! Isn't there any good intel around? There's no way I ran out of interesting new facts about people in the Weyr... we'll have to search harder! Go deeper! I bet we can find something really super juicy.

2. Your partner is a hoarder. A really, really bad hoarder. You return home to find that somebody's pet (yours, a friend's, a stray) has become trapped in the hoard and is screaming for help; it takes all day to dig them out, just barely in time. Clearly this situation cannot continue. What do you do about it?

Inrahim: Well, some guidelines would have to be set in place. It's wrong to have hoarded something living - maybe, only to hoard things that don't belong to anyone. Of course, if they accidentally got something of someone else's, they'd have to give it back and apologize. It's only right.

Risny: Uh, well, build a fence around it? To keep the stupid pets out. You know, Lagha was really asking for it. She's so stupid. "Don't climb into the crazy pile of stuff" is just common sense. There shouldn't have to be a fence, but... well, I guess there has to be now.

3. Your partner wants to give you a gift. For some reason, their idea of a gift is to quietly gather/steal a bunch of mirrors and set them up in your room while you sleep. You wake up in a funhouse. Your partner was legitimately sincere, though, it's not supposed to be a horrorshow! How do you react?

Inrahim: Well! That was a little bit of excitement, haha. No harm meant, though, and no harm done. I just got a little startled. Now, to see who's missing any mirrors...

Risny: Oh, I'd be so mad. That's so silly. They should've known it'd... like, mess with my head so much. That's not what I wanted to wake up to. I'll have to take it down somehow.

4. Your partner has destroyed something you hold especially dear. They claim that it was flawed and that they had no other option. What is your reaction?

Inrahim: Flawed? ... Oh. Well, I'd have to move on then, hey? It's destroyed; what's done is done. Although I'd remind them that it certainly isn't nice to wreck things that aren't theirs. They should have asked first, at least.

Risny: Faranth shine bright-- what a dimglow! They broke my thing! That's so rude, where am I supposed to get another one?

4b. A week later, you find an unidentified bone in the middle of your bed, and your partner says it is a present to replace the one you lost, which has been personally vetted for perfection. How do you react?

Inrahim: Haha! Well, that's odd - but kind, still. I'll keep the bone in the drawer of my bedside table. I think that would be a good, safe place.

Risny: Gross! A bone? It's probably got germs. That's so weird. Why would I want a bone?

5. For some reason, you and your partner recently spent a month working at one of the southern Weyrs, where instead of living in cliff faces, they all live in sand-huts. Your partner, enamored of the sand-huts, builds one out of dirt in the Bowl and enlists their friends to move all your things in while you're busy. How do you react?

Inrahim: Always full of surprises. If I could oblige, I would, but aren't we supposed to be in the wall of the mountain? I don't think it's within the rules to set up camp in the bowl. I may have to gently break it to them that we have to move back out... hm. Maybe we could make a sand nest in our actual home? A compromise, maybe.

Risny: Why'd they have to move my stuff? We can't stay in the middle of the sharding bowl! That's not... right! Or regular! We're supposed to be good and upstanding, not... digging up the bowl!

6. Your partner is kind of a creep, dude. You're on a date with someone you really like, and they quietly tell you, "It would take less than one minute for me to kill him/her if I cut that artery." YOU CREEP. What do you say in return? Do you react outwardly?

Inrahim: It wouldn't at all be fair to my date to react outwardly... they don't need to know. I'd tell my partner, "Well, that may be true, but you wouldn't truly kill them. That would be terrible and immoral." Still, it's a haunting thought... I know how it feels to die that way.

Risny: That's horrible! Oh, no, did I say that out loud? Oh... um, it's just something my partner said, don't worry about it, they're just being... gross...

7. Oooh, you're in trouble. Someone has just complained to your superior that your partner beat them up because, in your partner's defensive words, they were "lookin' wrong at a lady." Said lady cannot be reached for comment. What do you do to correct the situation?

Inrahim: Words are always better than violence. I would apologize for my partner's behavior, accept my punishment graciously, and really work on teaching my partner better ways to deal with their feelings. A chivalrous reason, true, but a bad way of going about it.

Risny: Why am I in trouble? It wasn't my fault, my partner did it. And you shouldn't look wrong at a lady, dimglow, that's so rude.

8. Your partner has just charged/flown into a rock because it was looking at them funny, and is meandering around, slightly concussed. Confused, they ask you where the bad man went. What do you do?

Inrahim: Well, I explain to them that they've run themself into a rock and hurt their head. The bad man was just a rock, and rocks can't look at anyone funny. I told the rock to stop being bad, though, so it won't be a problem, I rescued you - and then I'd take them to the healers right away.

Risny: Ahaha! You're so stupid! You bonked your head on a stupid rock, wow, haha. There's no bad man, silly, come on, we gotta fix your stupid head.

9. Congratulations, you scored a clutcher. Not so congratulations, your partner strolls away as soon as the eggs are laid, and when you remind her of her motherly duty, she expresses shock at the fact that eggs exist, horror at the idea that their mother abandoned them, and bafflement at the fact that you think /she/ laid them. Even though, you know. You watched her do it. What do you do?

Inrahim: Patience is key. Maybe I'll be able to convince her to adopt the eggs, if she really thinks they're not hers. I'll tell her they need her, since their mother abandoned them, which... is all true, in a way. Ah, my poor lady.

Risny: Oh, come on, what are you, a firelizard? I saw you lay them! Come on, just look after them, they're cute and round and stuff. I'll look after them, too.

10. You find your partner in a group of children. Aww, this is sweet. Then you hear what your partner is TELLING the children about ghosts and people with scissors for hands. The crechemothers are not happy about the nightmare epidemic in progress. What do you do?

Inrahim: Well, my partner needs to leave, evidently. Maybe I can smooth it over with the kids and give these stories a happy ending... The scissor-handed man makes beautiful clothes with his scissor hands? The ghosts like to tend the gardens? Maybe they fall in love in the end and live happily ever after, in... ghost land? Aha... ha.

Risny: Well, kids have nightmares anyways. If you protect them from everything they're just going to suck at being older kids. That's pretty creepy though, man, you gotta cut that out.

11. Once again, your partner has been found someplace they should not be. Once again, you have people complaining that your partner somehow broke into their room and silently watched them when they thought they were alone. How can you stop this from happening?

Inrahim: A leash would be so demeaning. Maybe if we slept right next to each other? And then I would know if they got up in the night, hopefully. Or perhaps I could train a firelizard or a tunnelsnake to watch for me.

Risny: Ughhh I have no idea what to do. Maybe just lock the door at night or something. Make sure they can't go sneaking around. I gotta make sure I get my sleep, though.

12. Your partner is completely pacifistic. Not just technically, but actually - or so they claim, to the point where they will not train in combat or flamethrowers and do not appreciate you doing so either. How do you convince them to partake in vital lessons?

Inrahim: This training is very important - you have to learn it to be able to protect the people of Pern. Sometimes, we have to do things we hate to do for the good of the people - it's our job. Trust me, I felt the same way. But you can't protect anyone if you don't have the means to do so. You can be as nonviolent as you like, but there's always going to be a wild wher or a thread infestation that doesn't care.

Risny: Hey, we gotta learn it, okay? Do you want to get eaten by thread? Or a wild wher? Or an assassin or something? How are you gonna fight them off if you suck at fighting? I'm gonna make you learn it.

13. Unlucky thirteen: you get only three words or phrases to describe your character, to boil down the essence of their soul for me: one for their greatest flaw and one for their greatest strength, and one for their potential, i.e., the person they could grow into if all goes well, which let's be frank, it's not going to, blood for the blood god. GIVE ME THESE WORDS.

Inrahim - self-doubt, selflessness, whole
Risny - insecurity, stubbornness, satisfied

ETA: BONUS Q'S
1. Your partner is so impartial that they refuse to take any stance on a situation, and instead they arrogantly judge it from afar! Even when your partner does something wrong, they refuse to admit it, saying that their word is law and that they will take no other options. Your partner is also a bit of a stoic, so it's difficult to get any sort of emotion out of them, even guilt for their own wrongdoings. How do you deal with this?

Inrahim: Well, they have no right to be so stubborn if they have no opinion. We live in a Weyr and the Weyr is governed by a set of rules and everyone must go by them. It's best for everyone that way. Somehow I'd have to lay it out in logic... examples of where the system succeeds. Maybe, eventually, they would at least see reason, even if they are so stoic.

Risny: Impossible. Wow. Okay. I don't know what I'm supposed to do with them! They're like a statue or something. I guess I can just explain them to everyone else? So they know that I can't do anything to help it? It's not my fault.

2. Your partner is INCREDIBLY competitive. They want you to be competitive too! They absolutely will not stand for it if you can't beat them in a race, and intend to train you until you're up to their standards. Can you handle your partner's incredibly tough training regimen? If so, how? If not, why not?

Inrahim: This sounds fun! Physical activity is so important. I'll gladly push myself for my partner. Their competitive streak is pretty entertaining, and encouraging. Let's go!

Risny: Okay, I will never ever ever beat you in a race. This is just a fact of life, alright? I bet I can beat you in something else, though, maybe. Something more brainy. Let's get into, uh, competitive... rhyming? Just please not racing.

3. Your partner prefers communicating with pictures and emotions rather than words, but they really like to listen to you talk and help you solve your problems. However, you're worried that they don't express their own feelings nearly enough. What do you do to try and convince them to open up to you?

Inrahim: I'm sure it's just a matter of time. I'll ask them about themself - they don't have to use words, after all. I can learn their language. A little push here and there... 'What do you think?' 'How was your swim?' Eventually we'll get there.

Risny: Well, I'll just make sure they know how much I want to know about them! I mean, I'm inside their head, but there's only so much I can tell from that! I love you and you're super interesting and I want to hear about you as much as you want to hear about me, okay? I mean, you know me, I talk all the time, but I promise I can listen.

4. Your partner is a MASSIVE flirt. Like, they can't stop flirting. However, one day, they're rejected so badly that they come to you and start crying about it and they get very defensive when you try and talk to them. What do you do to comfort them?

Inrahim: Haha. Well, I'd hold them until they felt better or felt like talking. No need to rush into it. I just want them to feel better first, and maybe later we can work on their... amorous abandon.

Risny: Oh, they... don't want to talk about it? What I'm I supposed to do? That's what I do, talk. That's all I really do, oh man, what do I do? Hey stop crying--

[Maggie]

Just for Kaydian atm, RL is being busy and he's the easiest voice in my head right now.

1. Your partner is so impartial that they refuse to take any stance on a situation, and instead they arrogantly judge it from afar! Even when your partner does something wrong, they refuse to admit it, saying that their word is law and that they will take no other options. Your partner is also a bit of a stoic, so it's difficult to get any sort of emotion out of them, even guilt for their own wrongdoings. How do you deal with this?

Well I do have enough emotions for both of us, his stoicism is actually a little reassuring.

2. Your partner is INCREDIBLY competitive. They want you to be competitive too! They absolutely will not stand for it if you can't beat them in a race, and intend to train you until you're up to their standards. Can you handle your partner's incredibly tough training regimen? If so, how? If not, why not?

I only like competition with myself. A training regimen could be good, as long as what we are mesuring is progress and not absolutes. I'm not smart and strong and confident like most dragon candidates, I would fail at any comparison and get more and more upset and anxious. But if it is a training regimen to make me better, where the measurement is how much I had improved compared to where I was, it might be very good for me.

3. Your partner prefers communicating with pictures and emotions rather than words, but they really like to listen to you talk and help you solve your problems. However, you're worried that they don't express their own feelings nearly enough. What do you do to try and convince them to open up to you?

Pictures and emotions are a perfectly valid form of communication! Words aren't always precice enough. If I felt that they weren't opening up, I would ask them open questions and use a mirroring technique (stating what they tell me in my own words to check in with them if I had understood correctly) to ensure that they feel heard and accepted.

4. Your partner is a MASSIVE flirt. Like, they can't stop flirting. However, one day, they're rejected so badly that they come to you and start crying about it and they get very defensive when you try and talk to them. What do you do to comfort them?

I would cuddle them and oil them and sing to them and if that didn't work, I might ask Yusk for advice since she is very good at comforting people.

[RavenSong]

1. Your partner is so impartial that they refuse to take any stance on a situation, and instead they arrogantly judge it from afar! Even when your partner does something wrong, they refuse to admit it, saying that their word is law and that they will take no other options. Your partner is also a bit of a stoic, so it's difficult to get any sort of emotion out of them, even guilt for their own wrongdoings. How do you deal with this?

Seph: I'd just apologize for their actions. Doesn't really seem like there's much else I could do, you know? I'd be able to understand them, I think, but others? Probably not. It'd be difficult, explaining my partner's insecurity and impartiality, but I could do it. Just apologizing would be the easiest thing to do.

Davalla: Oh, there would be options. They simply wouldn't realize it at first. They don't create the rules for the Weyr, others do. If they're wrong by those standards, they're wrong, and that's that. While I can appreciate their lack of emotion, lack of logic on their part certainly wouldn't be permitted. We would discuss it until they either acknowledged they were in the wrong or they promised not to do it again, if only to shut me up.

2. Your partner is INCREDIBLY competitive. They want you to be competitive too! They absolutely will not stand for it if you can't beat them in a race, and intend to train you until you're up to their standards. Can you handle your partner's incredibly tough training regimen? If so, how? If not, why not?

Seph: I'd be able to handle this. I'm a Herder. I'm used to lifting heavy weights and running alongside runners, and riding runners, and just... really anything physical. It'd be harder once they were bigger, but I'd do my best. But I'm sure by then I'd be up to their standards. *grins affably*

Davalla: This... would be difficult for me. I don't really care for the outdoors, and I'm not exactly what you'd call the -fittest-, given the circumstances of my upbringing. Thankfully it's changing now. *frowns* I would struggle, getting this creature, be they dragon or wher, to understand there are limits to what I can do.

3. Your partner prefers communicating with pictures and emotions rather than words, but they really like to listen to you talk and help you solve your problems. However, you're worried that they don't express their own feelings nearly enough. What do you do to try and convince them to open up to you?

Seph: Same way I get others to open up to me. I just ask how they feel. I... don't really know about any other way to do it. I guess if there's a different way to get my partner to open up I'd figure it out eventually, but it seems like asking outright would be the best way, you know?

Davalla: How intriguing. So they communicate rather like a firelizard? Hm. I think I would try to just talk, and ask for their input all the time, focused on how valuable their feelings are to me and how I want to know how they feel. How they feel would influence how I do things, after all.

4. Your partner is a MASSIVE flirt. Like, they can't stop flirting. However, one day, they're rejected so badly that they come to you and start crying about it and they get very defensive when you try and talk to them. What do you do to comfort them?

Seph: Oh wow. Okay... what I do depends on if they're male or female. If my partner's male, I'd just change the subject and distract him with some activity he likes until he's ready to talk. If my partner's female, she's getting cuddled until she's done crying and ready to talk.

Davalla: Oh that would be my luck, Impressing to such a wherrybrain. I suppose I would just sit in silence and pet their head until they're ready to talk, hiding my annoyance with their actions. There's no point prodding them to talk.

[Kiran]

1. Your partner is so impartial that they refuse to take any stance on a situation, and instead they arrogantly judge it from afar! Even when your partner does something wrong, they refuse to admit it, saying that their word is law and that they will take no other options. Your partner is also a bit of a stoic, so it's difficult to get any sort of emotion out of them, even guilt for their own wrongdoings. How do you deal with this?

Imber: Isn't making a judgement on the situation making a stance? Pointing that out might give my partner something to think about.

Jafari: No. No, no, no. Absolute judgement is not okay. I dealt with it from the Holdfolk when we were banished, and I refuse to have it in my partner. No thank you!

Kira: A taste of their own medicine back. When they sat back and judged something, I would look at them and make judgement on their judgement. If they said their word was law, I would reply that my word was law. So on and so forth. Eventually my partner would have to get frustrated and express some sort of emotion over the situation, and then I might get a better grasp on how to make them understand how unfair they were being.

2. Your partner is INCREDIBLY competitive. They want you to be competitive too! They absolutely will not stand for it if you can't beat them in a race, and intend to train you until you're up to their standards. Can you handle your partner's incredibly tough training regimen? If so, how? If not, why not?

Imber: I don't really like competition, but If it made my partner happy then I would really try. My partner isn't doing it to be mean or anything, simply... Wanting us to be in the best shape possible. And that certainly can't hurt. And when we are done, we can move onto other challenges.

Jafari: It would be tough, but my flit has already started their regimen for them. I've been waiting for a partner for so long, I want to be the best partner back for them. If that means I have to be up before dawn and up past dusk, I'll do it! They chose me after all, right? They think I'm worthy and can do it, so I can handle anything my partner throws my way! .... But once I beat them we are going to take a vacation.

Kira: My partner is also my responsibility, and being responsible for him means working with him to do this! Sheer force of will would probably what gets me through most of it, though. Maybe we could turn it into an exhibition, or get other pairs into training with us to make it more fun?

3. Your partner prefers communicating with pictures and emotions rather than words, but they really like to listen to you talk and help you solve your problems. However, you're worried that they don't express their own feelings nearly enough. What do you do to try and convince them to open up to you?

Imber: Why pressure my partner like that? It would likely only stress them out. I would simply let my partner know that when and if he ever needed to talk... or communicate... then I would be there for him, ready to listen. But I would make sure that at least once a month, we would have one on one time doing things that my partner liked to do so that he would have an opportunity to say something.

Jafari: A sit down with my partner to explain that I love him dearly, but really, truly worry for him and don't ever want him to feel like his own feelings are pushed aside. Especially when my partner is so fantastic about listening to other's problems.

Kira: I think that communicating back in pictures and emotions would help. It could be a game, fine-tuning our bond and really learning how my partner things and feels. Hopefully, I could lead it into a picture-and-emotion conversation about how they felt about things, a nightly ritual to make sure that my partner wasn't feeling neglected and could get out how he felt about things.

4. Your partner is a MASSIVE flirt. Like, they can't stop flirting. However, one day, they're rejected so badly that they come to you and start crying about it and they get very defensive when you try and talk to them. What do you do to comfort them?

Imber: I suppose that I would start a search for someone to flirt with my partner back, someone who is interested in them. Maybe set up a blind date? I think it would be nice if my partner was the one who was romanced this time around. And I'm sure my partner would be so flattered that their heartbreak would go away.

Jafari: I'd get together all our friends for a party. Parties are good fun, and my partner is bound to find someone new to flirt with at it, and forget all about the one who rejected them!

Kira: A big display of flowers or treats (or whatever they like most) and a shower of love and attention and affection when they wake up the next morning. The one who rejected them might not love them, but I do!

[birdi]

Inanna would not get along with that kind of thinking at all. Life is about choices, what you do defines you, any partner of hers who wants to feel smarter and better than the rest because they’re sitting on some kind of perch looking down their little snotty snout at somebody is about the worst sort of judgmental creature she’s ever had the displeasure to meet. She’d probably force him to make decisions. Not sure how, maybe that flamethrower would get involved somehow again… wow she’s really coming off quite violently xD she’d never actually do it. I think?

YES. Inanna would view that kind of challenge with hearts in her eyes. At the start, when their partner is young, she’d likely win, but then her partner would grow and suddenly ITS ON LIKE DONKEY KONG. At a point, bitten by the competitive bug (not that it took too much tbh) Inanna would start creating her own little challenges~ start going more and more into dangerous stunts~ WHO CAN SCALE THAT CLIFF FASTER WITHOUT ROPE AND NOT FALL OFF AND DIE SPLATTERED ON THE GROUND, GO GO GO!

Idk if Inanna’s really a feelings person and I KNOW she would have no clue what to do here at all. So.
She’d be blunt and gruff about it, like, buddy don’t be giving so much and taking so little—ya can lean on her, s’cool.

Oh my gawd, crybaby. Inanna would think, absentmindedly petting her partner. Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later.
"Man or woman up, already!" she would say, unsympathetically.

[lee]

1. Your partner is so impartial that they refuse to take any stance on a situation, and instead they arrogantly judge it from afar! Even when your partner does something wrong, they refuse to admit it, saying that their word is law and that they will take no other options. Your partner is also a bit of a stoic, so it's difficult to get any sort of emotion out of them, even guilt for their own wrongdoings. How do you deal with this?

BRAELE: I—huh. I suppose I never noticed this before but…but I’m quite the same, aren’t I? That’s a fairly startling revelation when it hits ya in the face, ain’t it? When ya finally notice? Pretty sobering, in fact. I’ll have t’think on it for awhile…but when it comes down to it, ya can’t really live like that. Like a…like a rock or a mountaintop just…bein’ weathered away without feelin any of it. We’re gonna have to work on that. I’m not even sure how to start, not yet, but I’ll think of something. We’ll, the pair of us…we’ll start small. And we’ll work on it. And we’ll…well, time’ll tell. But we’ll get better. We both will.

JOSHU: Don’t much see the problem with that. You ought to stand by your convictions. If you don’t, you’re no better than a weak-spined wherry.

EITHNE: Okay hotshot! If your word is law—then tell the sun to stay up, or the stars to not shine. Tell Thread not to fall, or your own eyes not to see. We all make judgments, it happens whether we want to or not, but the trick’s to accept that your judgment might be wrong. You have to give everything a chance. Well, except thread. It can go eat crackdust…Anyway. I guess we’re probably going to butt heads about this for some time, but I can be as stubborn as my partner, so no matter how long it takes, we’ll keep working on it! I guess the one thing I’m really worried about is how…even-keeled they are. Feeling, well it’s what keeps us grounded, you know? I know, I know, deep down they’ve got feelings about me, so, well, if I have to use those to get some others up to the surface, then that’s what we’ll do.

2. Your partner is INCREDIBLY competitive. They want you to be competitive too! They absolutely will not stand for it if you can't beat them in a race, and intend to train you until you're up to their standards. Can you handle your partner's incredibly tough training regimen? If so, how? If not, why not?

BRAELE: There’s not a thing wrong with workin’ hard, so yeah, I can handle any training regimen ya wanna throw at me. But sugar, there ain’t no real need to be fussin about everyone else all the time. You just worry about yourself fer a bit.

JOSHU Points to his one leg with a ferocious frown and says noooothing.

EITHNE: Let’s DO it! Go go go! I’m really not all that competitive, but being with someone who wants it so badly, it just might be kind of fun. Within reason, I mean. If they try and start to turn lunch into a who-can-eat-fastest game, we are going to start playing the who-doesn’t-get-dessert-because-they-are-in-trouble game.

3. Your partner prefers communicating with pictures and emotions rather than words, but they really like to listen to you talk and help you solve your problems. However, you're worried that they don't express their own feelings nearly enough. What do you do to try and convince them to open up to you?

BRAELE: I like the way they communicate. It’s…well it’s rather beautiful, isn’t it? And me, I’m pretty…well, without the pretense of blindness to one’s own faults, I’m more towards the plain and straightforward sort of things. If they don’t want to open up, I’m not going to force them. They should know I’m here if they get to that point, and if not, well, I’ll keep an eye on them just in case.

JOSHU: It’s a bit odd…havin someone listen? I’ve always tried to be that for the rest of my family. Not sure what I’d even say if someone asked me about my problems. Guess we’d probably wind up talking food. Be something to work on for both of us. As for the pictures, well, sort of like poetry, isn’t it? Everyone’s got their own way.

EITHNE: Oooh, no, I don’t want to talk—I oculd just sit here all day and ‘listen’ to them communicate. How they see things, and share them, it’s fascinating, isn’t it? And just beautiful. I guess I would worry that they’re not sharing much but…there’s gotta be a reason. I suppose I ought to figure that out first before I jump to conclusions. Maybe it just never occurred to them it was okay! Or they’re worried I might laugh at them, or judge them. Whatever the reason is, we’ll find it and figure it out. We’re partners…that’s how it works!

4. Your partner is a MASSIVE flirt. Like, they can't stop flirting. However, one day, they're rejected so badly that they come to you and start crying about it and they get very defensive when you try and talk to them. What do you do to comfort them?

BRAELE: I—wow. I always thought they were just, well, playing around with all the flirting. I mean, it was so constant. It didn’t occur to me they might be serious about it all, but this looks pretty serious. Part of me wants to tell them to suck it up, what did they expect after all that nonsense but…well, they’re hurting. So I’ll leave them be. Can’t say I understand what they’re going through in the least, so I’m completely okay with not talking. Maybe they’ll accept some…some awkward shoulder pats or something.

JOSHU: Hey there, it’ll be--…okay, so we’re not talking about this. Well, I’ve nursed enough of my sibs’ broken hearts to know that time’ll be the best for it. And in the meantime, there’s always good, hearty, filling food. When it doesn’t sting so bad, I’ll ask how they were rejected, so I can pass that data onto Nori for use against unwanted suitors—they ARE all unwanted, you know.

EITHNE D: Poor baby! Who would ever reject them?! Lots of snuggles and cuddles until they feel better, and then we’ll work out a plan together to absolutely woo the rejecter!

[Raining]

1. Your partner is so impartial that they refuse to take any stance on a situation, and instead they arrogantly judge it from afar! Even when your partner does something wrong, they refuse to admit it, saying that their word is law and that they will take no other options. Your partner is also a bit of a stoic, so it's difficult to get any sort of emotion out of them, even guilt for their own wrongdoings. How do you deal with this?

Aleksandr; Sandr is practically just as stubborn... and can sort of be arrogant at times. So to judge his partner would sort of label him as a slight hypocrite. But Sandr isn't stoic about anything (as hard as he tries), so any efforts into trying to talk some sense into his partner would definitely frustrate him to no end. Even if he sort of understood his partner's reasoning behind it, he'd have a hard time trying to do anything about it. Eventually he would end up responding with a "well that's the way things go" sort of mentality.

Riocard; Rio tries to be as stoic as possible about somethings, so unless its a something important to Riocard -- he won't really do much about it. Maybe he'd scoff at his partners arrogant attitude, but then again they wouldn't be much different.

2. Your partner is INCREDIBLY competitive. They want you to be competitive too! They absolutely will not stand for it if you can't beat them in a race, and intend to train you until you're up to their standards. Can you handle your partner's incredibly tough training regimen? If so, how? If not, why not?

Aleksandr; When Sandr isn't feeling particularly lazy, he would grin and meet the challenges head on with a fire in his eyes. He would do his best to keep up with his partner's rigorous training and whatever else until he's so worn down he can't walk. His partner no doubt knows the exact words to use to hit Sandr's pride and keep him moving. This young adult would find the training very entertaining -- keeps his mind engaged.

Riocard; Riocard on the other hand would stubbornly not put up with it. Sure he'll do the regular exercises required, but in no way is he entertaining his competitive partner with this training nonsense. If nothing will deter his partner's insistent competitive attitude, he would try another route -- challenge his partner to a race of a different kind. Knowledge. If his partner is as competitive as they say and act like they are, then they would never back down from this. Books, learning, retaining everything he's learned his is preferred exercises.

3. Your partner prefers communicating with pictures and emotions rather than words, but they really like to listen to you talk and help you solve your problems. However, you're worried that they don't express their own feelings nearly enough. What do you do to try and convince them to open up to you?

Aleksandr; Sandr would be patient, even though yes... he'd be worried that his partner didn't communicate with words like most others. He would let his partner know that he's definitely there for them if they ever needed to open up more. Though he would try and use his partner's love of helping him out to try and get his partner to talk more... or communicate more. Since it would really help Sandr to know that his partner is doing alright if opened up more.

Riocard; It would be hypocritical for Riocard to try and get his partner to open up more, when he himself practically avoids that all together. But since he's worried, he'd offer a deal... Riocard would try and open up to others more, if his partner was willing to open up to him? This would be an act he would be afraid to follow through... but his partner is important.

4. Your partner is a MASSIVE flirt. Like, they can't stop flirting. However, one day, they're rejected so badly that they come to you and start crying about it and they get very defensive when you try and talk to them. What do you do to comfort them?

Aleksandr; He would be sort of amused, but he would genuinely feel bad for his partner. His amusement would probably why his partner got so defensive. So he would change tact and tell his partner that even the best have their bad days, and to just keep doing what they do best -- being the best of course! How can they turn that down?

Riocard; After an attempt at an 'I told you so' and spurring a defensive reaction from his partner. Riocard would probably tell them that whoever shot them down, isn't worth their time -- no matter how 'beautiful their hide was'. Riocard isn't a flirt, so he would have a hard time sympathizing with his very flirty partner.

[Dragonwher]

1. Your partner is so impartial that they refuse to take any stance on a situation, and instead they arrogantly judge it from afar! Even when your partner does something wrong, they refuse to admit it, saying that their word is law and that they will take no other options. Your partner is also a bit of a stoic, so it's difficult to get any sort of emotion out of them, even guilt for their own wrongdoings. How do you deal with this?

Randiel: He would use his own stubborn bullheadedness to argue how wrong it is to judge others like that without accepting ones own faults till he was blue in the face. Needless to say PEOPLE like this give him a headache at times and he does try to avoid judging folks like this.


2. Your partner is INCREDIBLY competitive. They want you to be competitive too! They absolutely will not stand for it if you can't beat them in a race, and intend to train you until you're up to their standards. Can you handle your partner's incredibly tough training regimen? If so, how? If not, why not?

Randiel: if his partner isn't bullying OTHERS into this he'd do his best to take part. It might take a few tries to get to the level his partner wants but he'd see it as training to actually be good enough to take down a threat to the Weyr. Though he'd never admit he likes a lil competitiveness oh no...

3. Your partner prefers communicating with pictures and emotions rather than words, but they really like to listen to you talk and help you solve your problems. However, you're worried that they don't express their own feelings nearly enough. What do you do to try and convince them to open up to you?

Randiel: He'd be somewhat confused, but think at first that his partner was mimicking his flits since they communicate the same way for the most part. But when he sorted out that wasn't the case he'd try to gently get his partner to talk by first talking at them and asking repeatedly for a response in words because he's worried for them. If that didn't work he'd ignore 'asking for something' pictures until it was asked for in words. If his partner exhibits signs of distress at being ignored however he'd go back to trying to ask that his partner speak in words not images because its harder to figure out if bad happened with just pictures.

4. Your partner is a MASSIVE flirt. Like, they can't stop flirting. However, one day, they're rejected so badly that they come to you and start crying about it and they get very defensive when you try and talk to them. What do you do to comfort them?

Randiel: He'd sit and listen till they stopped crying on his shoulder figuratively. Then, he'd do his best to 'talk over' their defensiveness to point out the likely reason they got rejected hard. Then continue on to try and suggest ways to communicate with others that wouldn't be so...overbearing to other whers.

(I would have filled out Cath's list but fer the most part I answered her on a PM when she interviewed me before)

[Chimera]

1. Your partner is so impartial that they refuse to take any stance on a situation, and instead they arrogantly judge it from afar! Even when your partner does something wrong, they refuse to admit it, saying that their word is law and that they will take no other options. Your partner is also a bit of a stoic, so it's difficult to get any sort of emotion out of them, even guilt for their own wrongdoings. How do you deal with this?
Lanorun: Don't see much wrong with this. What wrong I do see is not feeling guilt for something that's your fault. I can deal with a stoic attitude, but not with irresponsibility.

Dardranel: So they say their word is law? Doesn't law have loopholes? If I question them about their law maybe my partner'll get confused and unsure about the specifics of their law, and maybe there'll be something in the law that contradicts another part, and...well, I'm not too sure myself. I'd work something out - they're a living thing, and part of my mind, after all!

2. Your partner is INCREDIBLY competitive. They want you to be competitive too! They absolutely will not stand for it if you can't beat them in a race, and intend to train you until you're up to their standards. Can you handle your partner's incredibly tough training regimen? If so, how? If not, why not?
Lanorun: I can handle it. Only if they live up to their own "incredibly tough training regimen" and all the standards they want me to reach too. I don't want any hypocrites.

Dardranel: Awesome! A race? I'd totally win it, and even if I couldn't I'd keep up with my partner and get up to their standards in record time. Man, do you even need to ask me about this? This is something I'm sure of.

3. Your partner prefers communicating with pictures and emotions rather than words, but they really like to listen to you talk and help you solve your problems. However, you're worried that they don't express their own feelings nearly enough. What do you do to try and convince them to open up to you?
Lanorun: As long as they communicate at all, that's far from the worst. Baby steps, simple questions, and patience would be needed for a partner like that to open up more, at least to me. Not everyone has to be extremely outgoing, after all, but I wouldn't want my own mindmate to hide their feelings and worries from me.

Dardranel: I'm usually the one who talks the most in a pair of people, so I wouldn't mind being that in a bond. But maybe if I try "flipping sides", by talking less, maybe they'll be inspired to speak a little more? I think it's fine if they're quiet and like communicating more like a flit, but still I'd try introducing them to nice, understanding, patient people to talk to for a start.

4. Your partner is a MASSIVE flirt. Like, they can't stop flirting. However, one day, they're rejected so badly that they come to you and start crying about it and they get very defensive when you try and talk to them. What do you do to comfort them?
Lanorun: I don't think they'd be a massive flirt with me as their partner. Flirting is the perfect way to gain needless worries, guilt, and meet suspicious people. What I'd do to comfort them, though? Tell them that the one who dumped them wasn't good enough for them, BUT. But...that they need to wean off of flirting, and if they really want to find love, then they have to get more time to slowly get to know someone, not hit on everything that moves.

Dardranel: Oh, wow. I'd just let them cry it out, and if they feel better enough we can go for a race...or even just a walk...They should stop flirting so much...I hate to say this, but I'd help them slow it down with the flirting?

[Zephyr]

1. Your partner is bored to tears and suffering from an unpleasant fit of melancholy as a result. Only some kind of thrilling new experience can possibly cheer them up. Give between one and three options that you would suggest to make them feel better.

Addy; MEETING NEW PEOPLE. Making friends and spending time with the friends that she has will never fail to make Addy feel better, and she’s sure that dragging her partner out to as many social situations as possible will help them perk right up. It’s the same thing she did with her sister, and it’s her personal experience that wallowing in misery isn’t going to help anything.

Ranthian; Ranthian knows how it feels to be down. He’s felt that way a lot recently, but the issue is no one but his partner would ever know. So, he thinks that being there for them would be the best way to make them feel better. Just to be there and support them.

2. Your partner is a hoarder. A really, really bad hoarder. You return home to find that somebody's pet (yours, a friend's, a stray) has become trapped in the hoard and is screaming for help; it takes all day to dig them out, just barely in time. Clearly this situation cannot continue. What do you do about it?

Adelaide; At first, she’d probably find the situation endlessly amusing, seeing as the poor pet isn’t her own, she probably has more room to feel amused than the person who actually owns the pet does. Unlike many other people, Addy probably wouldn’t have such a bad time digging said pet out, even so, she’d understand the need to not let it happen again, and when Addy wants something, she /knows/ how to be firm and she’d let it be known that it can’t happen again.

Ranthian; Ran would probably stand there and stare for a while until he realized that it was kinda important to get the pet out. He’d apologize to his partner while telling him that it wasn’t a great thing to hoard so much and would convince them to part with at least some of their stuff.

3. Your partner wants to give you a gift. For some reason, their idea of a gift is to quietly gather/steal a bunch of mirrors and set them up in your room while you sleep. You wake up in a funhouse. Your partner was legitimately sincere, though, it's not supposed to be a horrorshow! How do you react?

Addy; Adelaide would be completely over the moon. If there’s anyone who’d be able to appreciate such a gift, it’s the girl with the child like sense of wonder. She’d have a ball with the mirrors, and genuinely be able to appreciate them. Doesn’t mean that anyone else would be able to appreciate it, so after she had her fill, she’d probably apologize profusely and dismantle her partner’s gift.

Ranthian; Ranthian would probably be confused at first…very confused…and then just leave them because he wouldn’t even be in his room enough to bother to care.

4. Your partner has destroyed something you hold especially dear. They claim that it was flawed and that they had no other option. What is your reaction?

Adelaide; This is probably one of the few things that can rile Adelaide up. Like everything in her life, Adelaide is extremely passionate in her anger, and at first, she’d pretend that it didn’t bother her, while getting extremely passive aggressive until the subject is brought up…and if her partner showed no remorse whatsoever? It’s not something she’s just going to get over easily.

Ranthian ; He would yell at his partner, especially if they showed no remorse. If they destroyed it just because it wasn’t perfect to them. He’d try and explain that there are different versions of perfection and that while each person might define perfect differently, nothing is actually perfect and try to explain how important that item was to him.

4b. A week later, you find an unidentified bone in the middle of your bed, and your partner says it is a present to replace the one you lost, which has been personally vetted for perfection. How do you react?

Adelaide; She’d be upset, pretty damn upset, even if she sees the humor in the situation. She’d laugh a little bit, dispose of the bone, but wouldn’t forget about the thing her partner destroyed, depending on the sentimentality of the object in question.

Ranthian; While he would recognize the thought behind the gift, he’d either throw the bone away or put it away and never get it out again because it reminded him too much of what he lost.

5. For some reason, you and your partner recently spent a month working at one of the southern Weyrs, where instead of living in cliff faces, they all live in sand-huts. Your partner, enamored of the sand-huts, builds one out of dirt in the Bowl and enlists their friends to move all your things in while you're busy. How do you react?

Adelaide; She would most likely live in the hut until she was kicked out by someone of higher authority. Camping is so much fun! And she’d be endlessly amused by scaring other people ;;

Ranthian; He would sigh heavily and start to move his stuff back to his room by himself, because there’s no way he’d live outside in a dirt house when he could have a nice, soft bed.

6. Your partner is kind of a creep, dude. You're on a date with someone you really like, and they quietly tell you, "It would take less than one minute for me to kill him/her if I cut that artery." YOU CREEP. What do you say in return? Do you react outwardly?

Adelaide; She’d probably giggle a little bit and play along for a little while while relaying a toned down version of the events to her date, because she wouldn’t want to date someone who’s all serious all the time anyway.

Ranthian; He would probably be used to his partner’s eccentricities by now, so he wouldn’t be too shocked. He’d just end up ignoring his partner and then admonish them later when they were alone.

7. Oooh, you're in trouble. Someone has just complained to your superior that your partner beat them up because, in your partner's defensive words, they were "lookin' wrong at a lady." Said lady cannot be reached for comment. What do you do to correct the situation?

Adelaide; Addy would probably say that the other person deserved it and would be behind her partner a hundred percent, but for fairness, she’d probably attempt to get the story out of both sides and try to piece together what happened, because investigative journalism is fun! If it turns out her partner was in the wrong, she’d probably still be a little biased, but would persuade them to apologize.

Ranthian; Ranthian would force his partner to apologize to the person they beat up, because without evidence, it’s more trouble than it’s worth to take sides. And while the other person might have done something wrong, they didn’t beat his partner up.

8. Your partner has just charged/flown into a rock because it was looking at them funny, and is meandering around, slightly concussed. Confused, they ask you where the bad man went. What do you do?

Adelaide; Addy would laugh out loud at them, and play it off with them as no big deal and direct them to the healers to make sure that they were okay, because that was a hard hit.

Ranthian; Ranthian would laugh at them and then proceed to make sure that they were okay, by force if he needs too. It’d probably turn out pretty funny looking.

9. Congratulations, you scored a clutcher. Not so congratulations, your partner strolls away as soon as the eggs are laid, and when you remind her of her motherly duty, she expresses shock at the fact that eggs exist, horror at the idea that their mother abandoned them, and bafflement at the fact that you think /she/ laid them. Even though, you know. You watched her do it. What do you do?

Adelaide; She would play along, but attempt to persuade her partner to watch the eggs, and if that didn’t work, she’d watch them herself and bust her ass trying to make sure that the damn things remain healthy.

Ranthian; He would find someone with a clutcher to give him advice because this is not something he has any experience with, and he’d try and appeal to their sense of reason. ‘you laid those eggs, no one else did and if you don’t take care of them, they’ll die and that’s on you’

10. You find your partner in a group of children. Aww, this is sweet. Then you hear what your partner is TELLING the children about ghosts and people with scissors for hands. The crechemothers are not happy about the nightmare epidemic in progress. What do you do?

Adelaide; Addy would tell them to lighten up, because kids have to learn about this kind of stuff sooner or later. She’d be right in there with her partner, telling the kids the scary stories…and would probably end up being kicked out. Adelaide would make a terrible mother >>

Ranthian; He would advise his partner to tone down the stories, because he doesn’t really want all the checheworkers pissed at him, and if his partner continued, he’d drag them out bodily, glaring.

11. Once again, your partner has been found someplace they should not be. Once again, you have people complaining that your partner somehow broke into their room and silently watched them when they thought they were alone. How can you stop this from happening?

Adelaide; She would be extremely amused, but even Adelaide knows that it isn’t a good thing to break into someone else’s space, and she’d impart on her partner that while she might be used to being stared at like that, doesn’t mean someone else is and ask them how they’d like to be stared at like that.

Ranthian; He would scold his partner, and make them apologize to the person and then make them promise that they won’t do it anymore.

12. Your partner is completely pacifistic. Not just technically, but actually - or so they claim, to the point where they will not train in combat or flamethrowers and do not appreciate you doing so either. How do you convince them to partake in vital lessons?

Adelaide; She would attempt to coerce her partner into taking part, because peoples’ lives are no laughing matter, and the life of her partner is important to her. She’d never gorgive herself if her partner got themselves killed because they weren’t trained and she didn’t do anything to try and stop it.

Ranthian; He’d get pretty forceful, because he knows how important it is, not only for the dragons, but for the people of the weyr that every dragon/wher participate in the defense of the weyr. He wouldn’t take no for an answer and would have /no/ problems guilting his partner into it pretty heavily.

13. Unlucky thirteen: you get only three words or phrases to describe your character, to boil down the essence of their soul for me: one for their greatest flaw and one for their greatest strength, and one for their potential, i.e., the person they could grow into if all goes well, which let's be frank, it's not going to, blood for the blood god. GIVE ME THESE WORDS.

Adelaide; restless; friendly; passionate
Ranthian; Trust issues; loyal; ambitious

BONUS QUESTIONS

1. Your partner is so impartial that they refuse to take any stance on a situation, and instead they arrogantly judge it from afar! Even when your partner does something wrong, they refuse to admit it, saying that their word is law and that they will take no other options. Your partner is also a bit of a stoic, so it's difficult to get any sort of emotion out of them, even guilt for their own wrongdoings. How do you deal with this?[/i]

Adelaide; Addy would probably try and get them to see the error of their ways. She doesn’t take arrogance lightly, and this wouldn’t be excused just because it’s her partner. She probably wouldn’t have a good time with her partner, tell them that they’re wrong at every opportunity and eventually just refuse to deal with them.

Ranthian; He would roll his eyes at his partner and snort and basically agree to disagree, because at this point, it isn’t worth it to address, unless his partner is just blatantly being an ass, he’d take pleasure in proving them wrong.

2. Your partner is INCREDIBLY competitive. They want you to be competitive too! They absolutely will not stand for it if you can't beat them in a race, and intend to train you until you're up to their standards. Can you handle your partner's incredibly tough training regimen? If so, how? If not, why not?[/i]

Adelaide; Absolutely! Ade is an extremely physical person. Her restless energy seems to have no bounds, so she’d have the energy to spare to deal with a partner who’d want to train her. Not that it’d be an entirely pleasant experience for the partner, who’d have to deal with Adelaide not being able to take the excess training seriously and laughing at their seriousness a lot.

Ranthian; It wouldn’t bother him at all because Ran is a very physically fit person anyway and he takes great pride in making sure he’s fit and healthy at all times. He’d probably be the one dragging his partner out to train in the first place.

3. Your partner prefers communicating with pictures and emotions rather than words, but they really like to listen to you talk and help you solve your problems. However, you're worried that they don't express their own feelings nearly enough. What do you do to try and convince them to open up to you?

Adelaide; At first, she wouldn’t mind. She’d read her partner stories and talk to them constantly. She might make a game out if, trying to convince them that telling her their feelings would be a good thing. She’d appeal to their sense of reason and promise not to judge.

Ranthian; He isn’t so good with subtle signs of emotion and feeling, so he’d be pretty adamant that his partner talk more to him, because how does he know what they want or how they’re feeling if they don’t actually tell him.

4. Your partner is a MASSIVE flirt. Like, they can't stop flirting. However, one day, they're rejected so badly that they come to you and start crying about it and they get very defensive when you try and talk to them. What do you do to comfort them?

Adelaide; She would just be there. What else are you supposed to do when the person you care about the most has a broken heart? She would be there through the defensiveness and the anger and wouldn’t budge, even when her partner was pissed at her until they came around.

Ranthian; He wouldn’t push it, because he knows he sucks at feelings and comforting people. Emotionally constipated is a good phrase for the kid, and if his partner doesn’t want to talk about it, then he won’t. Not unless it starts to become a bigger problem than it starts out originally.

[kireon]

Kira is in YOLOville and might have gotten too much sleep SO HERE GOES FOR THE FUNSIES.

Q1: Kairhi has enough tricks up her sleeve to keep her partner busy even if she's asleep! Thrilling new experiences include cliff diving, scary stories in the dark followed by a game of hide-and-find, and bravery challenges (who can sneak up on Damask and plant a pebble on her tail tips without getting caught? Answer: Nobody, but it'll be fun trying even if someone gets an awesome scar for it in return! Absolute worst case scenario? Kairhi enlists the help of her best friend and twin, Mairhi, and their ne'erdo well friend, Dizzy to help get into shenanigans.

Jaed's solution for boredom induced melancholy is to go find somewhere new the partner hasn't been and explore- even if he's seen it a hundred times himself. This could be anything from exploring some of the unoccupied weyrs in Dalibor- mysterious, who might use those when there is not permanent occupant?- to teaching his partner how to swim and open shells of pearl containing mussels and oysters. Worse to worse, he may beg a ride to Southern and show his partner how pretty his homeland is.

Q2: Kairhi's solution is simple; convince her partner that it's time to help others start hoards of their own, because some of the stuff just doesn't work for them anymore and it's time to do the right thing and help someone else's collection get started. If that doesn't work, she'll bargain and debate until she gets her way about things and they'll start a collection of one thing- under the agreement that items older than x turns will be circulated out into treasure piles to be hidden for new generations to find.

Jaed's solution is to quietly tell his partner of the time where a cave-in happened to a friend of a friend of his and how too much stuff in one place means it's dangerous and could cost someone their lives. To put it home, he'd ask if having the stuff is more important than their own safety- if it fell and almost killed someone else's friend, what would happen to either of them if they wound up trapped and almost suffocated? To ease the harsh reality though, he'd totally agree to help sort and give things away, or set up a little place somewhere else that they could go look at it for memory's sake.

Q3: Kairhi wakes up and starts dancing in the mirrors. This is the best thing ever- they just have to go put the mirrors back where they came from- or set them up in the cooridors in the lower caverns, wouldn't that be an awesome thing to do?

Jaed wakes up, stares at the multiple reflections of himself and pulls the blankets back up over his head. Clearly, he's drunk, hungover or has the worst fever ever. Or all three. Hint: All three.

Q4a: After crying, Kairhi would explain that some items, and all people and bondeds, are inheriantly flawed and that it's the person who receives the item's job to make it look absolutely wonderful as a result and to take care of it. She'd also ask if her partner would be rid of her if they found her too flawed too.

Jaed would go for a long swim to burn off temper, and coming back would invite his partner to come with him for a walk and explain how flawed items are actually better than perfect ones; everyone wants perfect things, and thus it doesn't make it special. Flawed things are unique because they hold the giver's feelings and best efforts in in its creation/discovery. He'd also add that there's nothing in the world that's unflawed in some way or another, and that's why perfection doesn't exist in anything but someone's mind.

Q4b. While it will never replace that which was lost, Kairhi will accept it as an apology and hug her partner. It's not the same, and never will be, but it's the thought behind it that counts.

Jaed will kinda smile, shake his head a bit and just quietly accept the gift. It may not be displayed or hidden the way the other one would be, but it's an important gift nonetheless, and may very well be the partner's way of saying sorry- even if they didn't really understand what he'd been trying to tell them.

Q5. Kairhi calls it camping and gives it an actual shot until she ends up catching a cold, and then says it might be a great summer weyr instead.

Jaed kind of facepalms and tries to reason with his partner. Worst case scenario, he tries to find some sort of happy medium, even if it's building a tiny makeshift hut for them to rest in during the summer seasons.

Q6. Kairhi, "It takes less than one minute for me to go Between and never come out again, so what's your point?" She'd not react outwardly though, minus a slight narrowing of her eyes- until she and her partner got home, anyway. And then the scoldings begin.

Jaed would just go slack jawed and splutter at first, before asking, rather incredulously, why they even brought that up in the first place. Which would also probably ruin the date he's only barely managed to get. Of course, if it's a diving date, the partner might have done it a-purpose to get him a kiss... though half-drowning the partner is probably not the best method of helping. Partner; next time, don't help me on my date. Please. Mouth to Mouth is not the same as a kiss.

Q7. Kairhi would ask for a detailed description of the situation, pictures if possible of the look involved, and would either back her partner 500%, or would apologize to the superior, scold her partner, and make him/her apologize even if it took all sorts of threats/promises to make it happen. (She would, however, find the lady being unreachable mighty suspicious.)

Jaed would facepalm and wonder why trouble seems to fall into his life at this constant rate and apologize, profusely, to his superior, haul partner away and sit down to have a talk about Boundaries and when they should and should not be crossed- even if it's got a Lady involved.

Q8. Kairhi would seek help for her partner immediately, first of all, and then report to a wherhandler and her superior to get a team to go investigate- as long as she and partner could be there too, of course, they saw it first after all!

Jaed would wonder what the crap was wrong with his partner, ask them to show him what they saw and reassure said partner that he'd do something about it if they got treatment. He'd also probably peer into the rocky area to go ahead and take a quick look for himself to see if he can see anything.

Q9. Kairhi congratulates her partner and shows her the whole scene and will keep doing so until partner either gives in and admits to it/gets it... or convinces said partner that they were given charge of the eggs and have to see it through to the very end.

Jaed is going HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN TO ME, MADE MY MISTAKES GOT NOWHERE TO RUN on the inside and quickly contacts another clutcher to help him convince his partner to stay on the sands and tend the eggs even if she doesn't believe they're hers.

Q10. Kairhi doesn't really do much other than a quick grin at the crechemothers, interrupts the story at the very end and adds that the story is what happens to naughty children who don't obey their crechemothers/leaders and then flees into the wind with her partner, knowing she will be issued a permaban on the creche.

Jaed quickly steps in and starts easing the horror parts with funnier ones to make it less scary. ("The ghost with shears for hands reached for the nearest child, paused just above the child's head, and just as they were about to snap the blades closed and said, "Oh, drat, those are curls, not woolbeast wool! Brush your hair next time, and I won't make that mistake!"")

Q11. Kairhi starts making penalty games every time they get caught, and it'll be something the partner really, really hates. If that doesn't sway it, well, clearly they haven't been exercising enough or being kept busy, so it's totally time for even MORE lessons!

Jaed continues being the master of apologizing, and will punish his partner every time they do it by not allowing them to do something they love, or each time they get caught, they have to do something he wants that they find boring or otherwise uninteresting for a whole day.

Q12. Kairhi asks what's more important; peace or peoples' lives when Thread falls. Thread will hurt them and doesn't want to be friends or make peace with them, so they have to do something about it before it gets hurt. Self-defense, she'll explain, is how she'll be strong enough to step in if someone needs to be protected and the people threatening them don't want to talk and just wanna hurt people.

Jaed's tactic is to explain flamethrower lessons as being work he can do in case his partner is injured and can't flame, that way they're working even more closely as a team. As for combat, he'd point out that learning how to use one's body correctly in combat will also make it easier to learn how to avoid killing someone by accident, and can instead learn how to get someone without hurting them permanently. (This would probably end in a struggle for a balance between, weapon training would probably have to be done on the sly or when partner was asleep- or otherwise have blunted edges/things that can be used to disable without causing permanent harm.)

Q13. Kairhi, Flaw: Headstrong., Strength: Tenaciousness, and Potential: Diplomat[/b]

Jaedrellyn, Flaw: Aimless, Strength: Patient, Potential: Unlimited[/i]

BONUS ROUND[/u][/i]

BQ1. Kairhi will be the emotional outlet for the both of them, adding her opinions, arguments and the like into the mix until their partner does finally give an opinion one way or another. If she agrees with it? That's the way she'll set her opinion and that's it. If she doesn't, she'll use their arguments against her own to find an answer that way and go with it- even if they don't necessarily approve. As for the emotional side, again, she'll take care of that and gradually coax it out of them- even the biggest stoic has a warm heart in there somewhere, it just takes time!

Jaed will listen to the judgements and come to his own conclusion. There may be debates between them, but once his own mind is made up, he will go through with it. As for the stoic, he's kinda okay with that, though the guilt aspect will have to be worked on quite a bit- and he'll take his time to help coach and teach his parner in that regard.

BQ2. Kairhi: CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. She will have NO issue keeping up with her partner, and it might even be good for her. WEAR THAT GIRL OUT, SOMEBODY.

Jaed might be more of a challenge to his partner than they think, and is the type who is pretty tricky when he wants to be- especially if it means said partner needs to be taken down a peg or two with the competativeness. He'd tolerate it until it got to be too much, and then he'd put a stop to it right quick by turning the tables in an unexpected way.

BQ3. Kairhi would dedicate a night specifically for their partner to have feelings. ONLY their feelings, not her own, not anybody elses, their feelings. Once her partner was comfortable with one night, she'd go for two, and then keep going until they were either mutually/equally sharing feels, or they were alternating days to make it fair to the both of them.

Jaed would do very similar to Kairhi, though he'd be a little more... shy? About it. He'd mention to his partner that he appreciates their taking the time to listen, but he wants to hear more about them, their feelings and opinions on things in their own words. He appreciates the pictures, and the emotions too, but he'd like to hear their voice more often too.

BQ4. Kairhi lets her partner cry it out and goes to fetch special treats to get said partner through the night/next few days. Broken hearts are so the worst, and she's seen a lot, same as her sister. So she knows what to do in those situations, the tears gotta come first, the mad comes next, and then they feast on treats and have pity parties until they're having too much fun with the party to even be sad anymore.

Jaed tells them to get ready to go, even if they're being a wherrybutt about it, and they'll go to Southern in his favorite secret spots and tell his partner a story of his first heartbreak and they can have sads over delicious tropical things and gorgeous scenery together until they have to go back. They will come back after duties are done until his partner feels a lot better/has their eye on a new love.[/size]

[Maggie]

IDRA, FINALLY

1. Your partner is bored to tears and suffering from an unpleasant fit of melancholy as a result. Only some kind of thrilling new experience can possibly cheer them up. Give between one and three options that you would suggest to make them feel better.

I would probably take them out of the Weyr for a few days on our own adventure. We could live autonomously for a few days and I could teach them to be independent of anyone in the Weyr. If that was not an option, I would devise a scheme for us to better our position and let them help. Of course they would be an integral part of not only the planning, but also the application. Learning the patience to implement a long-term plan and the anticipation of the reward should help the melancholy.

2. Your partner is a hoarder. A really, really bad hoarder. You return home to find that somebody's pet (yours, a friend's, a stray) has become trapped in the hoard and is screaming for help; it takes all day to dig them out, just barely in time. Clearly this situation cannot continue. What do you do about it?

It would not be tolerated. The hoard would be disposed of or moved forthwith.

3. Your partner wants to give you a gift. For some reason, their idea of a gift is to quietly gather/steal a bunch of mirrors and set them up in your room while you sleep. You wake up in a funhouse. Your partner was legitimately sincere, though, it's not supposed to be a horrorshow! How do you react?

Despite the initial surprise, I would be pleased. the stealth and cunning required to implement such a plan without waking me up is remarkable. They would not stay out indefinitely, but at least some mirrors would be kept in order to commemorate that success.

4. Your partner has destroyed something you hold especially dear. They claim that it was flawed and that they had no other option. What is your reaction?

I would be infuriated and would cease speaking to them and withhold any touch or mark of affection that wasn’t absolutely necessary for my partner’s health.

4b. A week later, you find an unidentified bone in the middle of your bed, and your partner says it is a present to replace the one you lost, which has been personally vetted for perfection. How do you react?

I would soften marginally. The attempt is a good start. However I would not start talking to them again until a more appropriate present had been acquired and offered to me.

5. For some reason, you and your partner recently spent a month working at one of the southern Weyrs, where instead of living in cliff faces, they all live in sand-huts. Your partner, enamored of the sand-huts, builds one out of dirt in the Bowl and enlists their friends to move all your things in while you're busy. How do you react?

No. They may live there if they wish, but I spent enough time in misery as a Holdless person, I will remain in the comfort of my Weyr thank you very much.

6. Your partner is kind of a creep, dude. You're on a date with someone you really like, and they quietly tell you, "It would take less than one minute for me to kill him/her if I cut that artery." YOU CREEP. What do you say in return? Do you react outwardly?

Outwardly, I will not react apart from maybe a little smile. Inwardly, I will agree with them and ask them to elaborate.

7. Oooh, you're in trouble. Someone has just complained to your superior that your partner beat them up because, in your partner's defensive words, they were "lookin' wrong at a lady." Said lady cannot be reached for comment. What do you do to correct the situation?

I don’t. My partner was being chivalrous, no matter how misplaced the action was. I would find a way to explain this to my superior in order to get out of trouble.

8. Your partner has just charged/flown into a rock because it was looking at them funny, and is meandering around, slightly concussed. Confused, they ask you where the bad man went. What do you do?

I would probably tell them where the bad man went and lead them around on a wild wherry hunt for a few hours. Concussed people shouldn’t be lying down and falling asleep, so this will keep them occupied and active. Also, it would be hilarious for me.

9. Congratulations, you scored a clutcher. Not so congratulations, your partner strolls away as soon as the eggs are laid, and when you remind her of her motherly duty, she expresses shock at the fact that eggs exist, horror at the idea that their mother abandoned them, and bafflement at the fact that you think /she/ laid them. Even though, you know. You watched her do it. What do you do?

I would explain to her the importance of any eggs to the Weyr and talk her into caring for them. If she is really too wherrybrained to acknowledge that they need to be cared for, they will die and her idiocy will not be passed on.

10. You find your partner in a group of children. Aww, this is sweet. Then you hear what your partner is TELLING the children about ghosts and people with scissors for hands. The crechemothers are not happy about the nightmare epidemic in progress. What do you do?

I would apologise, but I probably was the one providing them with the stories. If the crèchemothers are incapable of keeping my partner away from their wards, it is their own fault that the children are having nightmares and they deserve to deal with the consequences.

11. Once again, your partner has been found someplace they should not be. Once again, you have people complaining that your partner somehow broke into their room and silently watched them when they thought they were alone. How can you stop this from happening?

I would structure my partner’s life better so that they did not have so much leisure time as to be able to cause such distress.

12. Your partner is completely pacifistic. Not just technically, but actually - or so they claim, to the point where they will not train in combat or flamethrowers and do not appreciate you doing so either. How do you convince them to partake in vital lessons?

I would explain the lessons to my partner in such a way to reframe them so that they did not seem violent. I would also participate in the lessons without them until they came around. If that didn’t work, I would simply kill small things in front of them, force them to hunt their own food and even possibly injure myself in front of them if that’s what it takes. We will not be held back by their stupid morals.

13. Unlucky thirteen: you get only three words or phrases to describe your character, to boil down the essence of their soul for me: one for their greatest flaw and one for their greatest strength, and one for their potential, i.e., the person they could grow into if all goes well, which let's be frank, it's not going to, blood for the blood god. GIVE ME THESE WORDS.

Her strength is intelligence, her weakness is pride, her potential is endless