+ appointments

[strangelyliteral]

Please follow the format below:

- If it's a private journal ring: [ voice + date ] (i.e. [Voice - April 11])

- A private journal note: [ written + date ] -- of course, if it's just a note saying "lets meet here", it can progress to action quickly enough.

- A knock/planned meeting/continued thread/etc and so forth: [ action + date ]

Comments

[Malnosso World Catchall]

[yourfononsarewhack]

Who knows? [He says with an airy shrug.] Perhaps he intends to indulge in both pleasure and power.

[Malnosso World Catchall]

[strangelyliteral]

Could that be a taste of corruptness in our hero?

[Malnosso World Catchall]

[yourfononsarewhack]

Naturally, my dear. [Odd. That didn't come out as sarcastically as he had intended.] No one who calls themselves a hero is truly above corruption. It may be depressing, but it's still a fact.

[Malnosso World Catchall]

[strangelyliteral]

Well, it's nice to see a shred of reality in it for once.

[Malnosso World Catchall]

[yourfononsarewhack]

Isn't it? I feel that it actually makes the story more engaging.

[Malnosso World Catchall]

[strangelyliteral]

I mean, who knows how credible that farmboy really is.

[Malnosso World Catchall]

[yourfononsarewhack]

Unless we have access to his birth records, we can't even certify that he was truly born on a farm.

Of course, the princess's credibility shouldn't be above question either.

[It suddenly feels like setting up Guy and Natalia.]

[Malnosso World Catchall]

[strangelyliteral]

Oh? And what are you suggesting?

[Malnosso World Catchall]

[yourfononsarewhack]

Simply that there are many possible reasons for the princess to have been banished. Perhaps she's an imposter, or she attempted to assassinate her own parents in a ploy for power. In other words, standard politics.

[Malnosso World Catchall]

[strangelyliteral]

Interesting. And now we've found ourselves with far too many storyline possibilities that we've lost the plot.

[Malnosso World Catchall]

[yourfononsarewhack]

I know that I won't mourn it. The plots are always too flimsy and full of holes to truly hold my interest.

[He smirks and adjusts his glasses.]

When it comes to fiction, I can only enjoy the dissection of characters. After all, an inconsistent plot is dull and confusing. It's a reminder of how limited one's scope can be. But an inconsistent character... Well, that sounds like any real human. And that's intriguing in its own right.

[Malnosso World Catchall]

[strangelyliteral]

Human are strange like that. Sure, you have the ones determined to be stuck in their ways, but then you have the ones pushing through for change and having results happen.

[Malnosso World Catchall]

[yourfononsarewhack]

[It's like describing the way Asch and Luke ended up, at least back home. Jade's smile takes on a curious tint.]

Oh? You sound quite confident about that. Setting aside the princess, which category would you ascribe to yourself?

[Malnosso World Catchall]

[strangelyliteral]

What can I say? When you end up in a group of the mover-and-shaker types, you're probably there for a reason.