The Reference Desk: La [Biography, Character/Player Updates]
August 26, 2010 - 4:58am — AlisonRobin
Most Recently: Back, briefly. Discord is Alison number zero three seven one if anyone wants to chatter. I'm trying to get pages working again after dropbox's policy change. I'm just hosting the files now where I host some other stuff.
Being that I am trash, there is now a La tumblr.
Spoken Name: La (humanuses); Archaeologist, Librarian, Researcher Age: Five; arrived in The Forest on Tuesday, August 24th, 2010. Sex, Gender: Female/Doe/Hind, moderately feminine. Irrelevant to character. Real Name:La's Pictograph can be seen in my avatar, with reduplicating circles and isosceles triangles, plus a strange little fifth mark on the side I can't explain. Click for most complete set of visual references, though still a WIP.
Physical Traits and Mannerisms of the Body La's facial structure is fairly typical for Endless Forest deer. She has wide set eyes, a broad nose, and a mostly lipless mouth. She would not be considered pretty by most standards. I never draw her face the same way twice because I'm quite quite faceblind even in real life, and how pretty La is has never affected her as a person. She is usually monochrome (though still a bit brown due to natural brown coloration underneath the spell colors) and tends to look drab in most light.
Four feet tall at the withers, she could look many humans in the eyes comfortably.
La's obsession with humans has caused hand-like marks to form in her pelt and antlers. La has hand shapes over her eyes, shoulders, and hips as well as in her antlers. La's fur is soft and floofy, good for cuddles. Her antlers do not shed but are also done growing for good (unless changed by magic, in which case it seems anything could happen). They are slightly flexible, as if made of stiff rubber, and no matter what spell is cast on her the tines will always be blunt. Sometimes they stick out farther than others or in other directions if she sleeps on them funny. When other spells are cast on her, she will always have hands visible on her somewhere, and her antlers will always have hand shapes to them regardless of shape, so on occasion you may see her wearing all kinds of spells.
Under the regular forest smells of grass, water, wood, dirt, and deer smell, La smells like a new book, and it's the hard cover edition, baby. She can speak softly and still be intelligible, and she can make her voice carry far without shouting. La can sound as strict as a librarian scolding someone for a late return or as kindly as a kindergarten teacher helping a student up on the playground after a fall.
La is often turned into other creatures, though she cannot change herself. She maintains her monochromatic coloration across any form that she takes thanks to the power of the Forest magic, and is black in the same places and white in the same places across different animals. When not a deer, her handprint shapes are replaced with hoofprint shapes to reflect where her heart really is. There are always hairless or featherless white circles where her antlers should be. She always maintains her voice and book-scent.
As a human, La's eyes are on exactly the same level as her eyes when she is a deer. She has short hair and the body structure of a healthy person who exercises regularly but mostly does cardio. She is otherwise very average in build. She resists the wearing of clothes except by necessity to be polite and stay warm. She has limited finger coordination and struggles with things like forks, doorknobs, and other fine motor tasks.
Personality, Emotions, and Philosophies La is a bookworm whose life has been all study with little opportunity to apply what she has learned. At one time she had dreams of being a widely respected researcher, but she has given up on that and now just wants to find kind deer to engage her in conversation because it's rare for anyone to read what she writes. She loves to share what she knows and learn new things, and she loves to talk. If you love to talk too, that's fine because she also loves to listen to your stories. La appreciates but has no talent for art. She is very laid-back about her beliefs and accepting of others' differences unless they are willfully ignorant or intentionally cruel.
The doe can be easily excitable but also easily frightened, and in stressful times her emotions can be all over the place. She isn't as playful now as she was as a fawn, but she still likes to watch play and occasionally join in. Her favorite game is running at others from the side and leaping over them. La absolutely loves being turned into other animals, and usually spends hours in a form. She likes the curiosity of fawns and the conversation and wisdom of older deer. Please assume in The Forest that she is chattering pleasantly (or listening when you chatter back if you like) when your deer is keeping her company. If you are a fawn she will do her best to give you a proper education even if she is playing with you.
Often, La is wrapped up in small details and has difficulty seeing The Forest for the trees, so to speak. She can very easily come across as dopey if the person speaking to her is not making the same connections that she is, or because La will often speak about things without providing adequate context, e.g. telling humans "I've been a squirrel before and..." or other things that wouldn't make sense to a layman.
Conversely, she can be extremely to the point, and her typical threat-response is with a wit and sharp tongue that only shows up when she may be in danger. La notices more than others think and usually knows if someone is a potential risk. She'll fight with her words by being precise and truthful, and that's usually enough--sticks and stones can break bones, but the pen is mightier than the sword. These are only last-minute tactics to diffuse a threat-situation though--if she's actually in trouble, she'll just sprint. If she has to, she will protect a fawn by being a meatshield (and has in the past been injured this way).
La is very pious towards The Twin Gods but has put time into learning about some human religions as well, mainly studying Christianity and assorted varieties of European paganism. La believes that the role of religion in a person's life should be palpable, and worships The Twin Gods because they are present and part of The Forest--she would likely lose her affection for them if they left for good and would perhaps worship the sun instead.
La has no inclination or intention of ever having a mate or romantic partner. She is oblivious to flirtation and will just think you're being weird if you try it with her. She thinks kissing is gross. She just wants friends.
If La put stock in astrology, she would be a Virgo (analytic and helpful) or a Gold Tiger (enthusiastic and brave).
When in human form, La doesn't eat meat even though she has the option. She believes that humans, as omnivores, should eat meat to respect their evolutionary heritage, but she does not because she comes from a line of herbivores, and her people are not meant to eat flesh.
La uses the word "people" to generically refer to deer, humans, and any other entity with a sense of self-identity. Typically when she says "deer" she refers specifically to her human-faced Endless Forest kin, not other kinds of deer or deer-like beings that live in The Endless Forest.
Story and Plot Elements, Pathways Forward La is not an especially exciting person, but exciting things happen to her and she tends to roll with the punches. Because of her insight into the human world, La uses the Gregorian Calendar to keep track of time.
La came to exist on August 24th, 2010. She acquired her book shortly thereafter, or it acquired her. She learned to read before she learned to speak and didn't speak until late September 2010.
Shortly after physical maturation in late September 2010, La became reclusive and mostly sequestered herself to focus on studies. She returned in late December 2013.
On Mardi Gras 2014 she encountered one of The Gods in orb form and saw a disco ball, and was also witness to an airplane flying over The Forest. Somehow, she was invisible to all other deer (but they were visible to her) and a motionless owldeer wore her pictogram at the ruins and several of La's friends later told her about the owldeer. (I even saw it myself on my partner's computer, looking between his screen and my own.) The owldeer's importance on La's life and story is yet unknown.
On March 11, 2014, La woke up with a skull stuck to her face that was impossible to remove. The story is recounted here with illustrations and it is ongoing. On March 15th, she again woke up with a skull but this time also with the rest of the skeleton that goes with the skull.
On Easter 2014 La ate the tree eggs and played with bubbles for the first time with Tanpopo and Twist. She wonders who sets up the candles, who lights them, and how they get to some of the places they get.
On May 4th, 2014, she was turned into a giant dove, thanks to the Glitch Skull's glitch magic. She spited it by enjoying herself. Later, on July 17th, 2014 the Glitch Skull tried a new approach and got rid of all of La's spells while she slept, but she's a tough cookie. La had fun running around naked for a while and even reverted to a fawnhood state. Then on the next day she woke up again as an adult with all of her spells returned to her. Called the Glitch Skull on its shenanigans and went naked anyway, even going so far as to be a fawn in order that her magic wouldn't stick. Allowed her magic to come back naturally by letting friends and strangers cover her with spells.
On July 29th, 2014 La went on an hour long meditation walk organized by Quad. It started at The Old Oak, which unnerved her, but she reasoned that nothing bad would happen if she was surrounded (and protected) by a herd of other deer. She was right--and making it to The Old Oak was the worst part. Meeting Quad there and finding him dancing made her feel better, though she still never went under the tree. The meditation walk was wonderfully soothing after that, and La stayed the entire time.
During October 2014 when many of the forest folk were rutting, The Glitch Skull became enormously active and has been casting spells on La almost non-stop. She has given up on trying to shake off these frustratingly resilient spells for now since new ones keep coming in hopes it would frustrate the Skull.
La celebrated her fourth birfday on August 24th 2014. A cake from The Endless Cake dimension (neighbor to The Endless Forest) appeared and she attempted to eat it but failed due to endlessness.
For Halloween Eve, October 30th, 2014, La met the Big Zombie Deer Velocity for the first time. Later, she met the god Auriea and nuzzled her. She was gifted with a green luchador mask. She followed her god to The Old Oak and fearlessly followed her inside of it--yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me--and followed her after that to De Drinkplaats. While a crowd of naked deer frolicked, La found Auriea and they stood together without magic, side by side. Screens.
La spent the end of 2014 and all of 2015 and 2016 mostly absent from the forest, focusing on her education. She misses her friends but feels a spiritual call to pursue knowledge.
On more than one occasion La has been able to travel outside The Endless Forest and she assumed a human body. Because of her pelt spell sticking to her human skin and the fact that she is a deer at heart with no true human skills, La has proven absolutely unable to pretend to be a normal human in any convincing way. Her trips there are either comedies of errors or very dangerous situations indeed.
And of course, there's always more being added.
Skills, Talents, and Accomplishments of Note La has nothing to separate her from other Deer except her hard work, diligence, and the ability to draw careful conclusions through analysis of facts. La is a polyglot, reading a mix of modern and dead languages relevant to western literature including Old, Middle, and Modern English, Norman, Modern French, Classical Greek, and Latin in addition to her native Deer language. Her pronunciation is imperfect for most and she has a Deer accent (whatever that sounds like). She is good at turning misfortune and failure into opportunities to learn. She thinks outside the box. I would also consider it a power that she does not experience the emotion of boredom--the closest thing she feels is sleepiness and she often ends up using an open book as a pillow.
Her second favorite place to sleep is under the slanted rock in The Playground, around (357,394), because a Kind Stranger kept her company there one night when she was a fawn and they were the only deer in The Forest. After that, she likes the mushroom ring nearest The Ruins and sleeps there whenever she wants to feel safest.
She often wanders around The Forest, especially if she sees a pictograph that she recognizes or is off investigating something. You may see her running around aimlessly and weaving through trees or performing figure eights--it probably means she is trying to look at every side of a thing, or she just feels like moving around. It's possible she is also looking for the exact, proper location of something.
The only place she will NOT go is into The Old Oak, as she believes that it is a well of bad things. She is willing to go near it if there are enough deer around her to keep her safe, but that's her limit. The one exception is when she followed Auriea inside, certain that her god would protect her.
Reasons to Not be Alone, Reasons to Smile La has no family and was born into the world without parents. The Book is her family.
La has many friends and acquaintances whom she enjoys and treasures. She looks for them in moments of awakeness and often tries to stir up activity if she sees them out and about--otherwise she'll usually join a cuddle puddle or just sit with them.
While accepting and loving of all those she knows, La can still be leery of strangers. Individuals who carry themselves in threatening ways, are armed in any sense, or have features typical of carnivores can make La nervous and she is less likely to approach and converse with them. In some but not all cases she considers the wearing of skulls and furs to be morbid and possibly offensive to her herbivore sensibilities, but tries not to judge the cultures of others. If she has heard rumors (i.e. if I read it in a biography) that a person is exceptionally aggressive and especially if they have killed someone before and that is widely known, La will avoid them peacefully but if approached will allow conversation.
La believes that by either magic or nature, deer that most closely resemble The Twin Gods (which is to say, true-blooded Endless Forest Deer with humanoid faces) are the most natural residents of The Forest, but she also believes that there is room for everyone in The Endless Forest and doesn't think that her gods would turn away any good-hearted asylum-seeker. She is usually pleasantly amused to see deer with inhuman faces, or even intelligent animals other than deer who have come to the Forest. She simply doesn't understand why anyone would want to come here, and is flattered.
Vipin- The first deer La ever met. Incredibly terrifying on his own, but he was sitting down at the time and that lessened La's fears. She quote-unquote sneaked over to him because her desire for company outweighed her fear of him and sat a few feet away. Later inched closer. Regards very kindly. Hasn't seen in a long time.
Flyleaf- One of the first deer La ever played with. An infinitely kind soul full of laughter and love, La is always happy to see Flyleaf and would do anything for him.
Ourania- One of the first deer La ever played with. Regards her very fondly. Hasn't seen in a long time.
Kind Stranger- La was often completely alone in The Forest as a fawn and on a dark and stormy night (in the 3.4 beta) she found only the Kind Stranger in the woods. She went to them very sadly and miserably and found comfort and shelter in their company under a mushroom and later underneath the slanted rock in The Playground. Hasn't seen them since and sometimes thinks maybe she imagined them.
Gustiro- Present for the first time La was ever helpful, before she even learned to talk. Gustiro's antlers were stuck and La helped him get un-stuck. Gruff, but he is La's definition of traditional masculinity in deer. Regards very fondly and recently reunited with him.
Kheiron- The first deer that La feels took her seriously, and the first deer that she introduced to The Book. She wasn't talking yet, but La wanted to talk with him more than anyone else in her childhood. Loves his playful nature. Hasn't seen in a long time.
Vaq- An individual she met when he was a fawn. Watched him grow up and developed a strong friendship with him. His extremely extroverted playfulness and tricksiness is counter-balanced by her preference for quiet tricks. He clearly cares for her in return, but La knows that he sees everything about how she likes to study the world around her as heretical and bizarre and has told her that her study of glyphs in pictographs "ruins the magic." She disagrees.
Walter- Owes him gratitude for his patience with her in helping her gather together her magic. La is oblivious to his past. Has run into him again now that he is a fawn and recognizes him by his pictograph. Intends to be nurturing in any way she can.
Ben- Such an eternal source of love and kindness. La seeks out Ben's pictograph any time she can sense it and will cuddle with him and romp with him any chance she gets.
Nika- In La's opinion, the best traveling and adventuring partner that one can have. Nika's life experience and La's technical understandings mix well together. La also probably owes her some money for buying her human clothes. A source of comfort and reassurance and La firmly believes that Nika could kick anyone's butt.
Toya- A sweet and mysterious soul, definitely an artist. Has been pranked by her spells and always surprised to see the way that Toya's visage can change. Hasn't seen her in a while.
Jennie- A wonderful playmate. La is always amused by her antics and happy to see her, but unnerved to see her with a different pictograph lately. Hasn't played with too much recently.
Kio- Much like Ben, Kio is a well of neverending love. La is enticed by her otherworldliness and mystery and seeks her out for cuddles and romps at every opportunity.
Twist- A squirrel! La doesn't know her well and hasn't spent an immense amount of time in her company, but owes her her life.
Stitches- The character of a fraudulent player who lied to the community, so a complicated entry. But, regardless of the player, the character did exist and La did know him as a very sad fellow. Kept him company when possible to cheer him up and attended his wedding, though assumes it is dissolved with the character's absence.
Arcus- A fascinating chimeric person. La doesn't know her intensely well but enjoys her. Attended her wedding to Stitches.
Shahla- A tough gal. La aspires to be more like her in that regard. Enjoys her company quietly most times, sort of observing and admiring.
Peppino- Complicated. Distantly aware that he may have a crush on her that La will never ever want to nor be able to reciprocate. La fails to notice his advances and maintains a strictly platonic friendship, taking advantage of his know-how of elements of the human world that she fails to comprehend. He has saved her life.
Sunna'May- A shape-changer that La finds intriguing. Has played with her and been amazed by her magic in the past, really blown away by her. Wonders what her story is.
Adrien- A deer raised by rabbits. La would like to pick his brain more than she has been able to. Knows him to be a genuinely caring individual. Met him when trying to hatch The Nubbin.
Trout- A unicorn true to unicornness. Beautiful as nature and just as kind. Has experienced and seen Trout taking on burdens for others out of selflessness and was immensely proud when Trout began to talk.
Tanpopo- The sweetest little girl. La is deeply invested in her well-being and frightened for her since she hasn't seen her or Oduvanchik for a while. Intervened in the past to step between Oduvanchik and Tanpopo and keep them apart, seeing the demon as nothing but dangerous for the fawn, but was unable to keep them separated.
V- An anxious, self-conscious person. La wants her to feel good about herself.
Cian- A young boy with a big imagination that La adored. Loved to play make-believe with him and tell him stories. Watched him grow pretty fast, he was always big for his age. Hasn't seen him in a while.
Palila- A very sweet young thing that never really had time to blossom before her player was bullied off the site. What I saw on the forum wasn't pretty. PSA: It's never okay to bully a child, no matter what. Even if a kid does something bad, they are still a kid and they need to be taught, not insulted. Don't let a few jerks ruin stuff for you.
Isca- A very magical young thing that La met trying to hatch The Nubbin. Believes she will grow up right.
"Nubbin"- An alien! La is invested in its well-being but is scared to take a strictly parental role with it, so she got it a cow to provide it with food.
Oduvanchik- A straight up monster from another world that came out of The Old Oak. Terrifying. La would avoid him completely if he didn't hang around Tanpopo. Has clashed with and been injured by him.
La is always open to meeting new people of all kinds, but if you look scary it might be best if you initiate.
Artifacts for Museums and Other Acquisitions La isn't much of a hoarder and has a tenuous concept of ownership at best. For better or for worse she has learned from humans when reading about them. Her view of non-dangerous objects is that they are meant to be shared and kept in good condition, and is in love with the ideas of museums and libraries because they exemplify what she believes responsible ownership should look like. She will happily share and show off her acquisitions to people who would like to learn about them.
Green Luchador Mask cast on La by the God Auriea on October 30, 2014. Outside of The Book, La's most precious possession and symbol of her faith. Her Luchadora name is "La Cierva." A terrible joke.
Blanket from The Human World, gifted by Peppino - His parting gift to La after taking her to The Human World. She keeps it in her nest area near The Point of Origin and it is usually covered with dry grass and leaves. In warm weather she sits on it and in cold weather she uses her mouth to pull it over her and wear it kind of like a cape. She will not hesitate to share it with anyone in need.
Book of Fairy Tales from The Human World, gifted by Peppino - Peppino's other parting gift to La. She read it in a day. It is kept in a hidden room under The Ruins to avoid damaging it but she will happily share it any time she thinks someone would like it.
Shard of Alien Egg salvaged from The Nubbin's Egg - La helped hatch an alien, and after its birth she saved a few shards of the egg. The largest is about the size of her face. She wants to analyze it to learn what the superhard sparkling blue material is made of. She keeps them in one of the rooms under The Ruins and will show it to others.
Glitch Skull and Accompanying Skeleton - The skull and skeleton of a mysterious, unidentifiable, asymmetrical creature. These objects are connected to an entity that haunts La and inflicts glitches on her. She keeps it wrapped in burlap as a way to punish the object. Occasionally she takes them with her to meet others if she thinks that they might be able to help her understand what they are, but is generally not keen on showing them off because she views them as threat.
Human Clothes from The Human World, gifted by Nika - a bizarre but plain costume acquired at a human LARP gathering that makes La look out of place in any setting, strange human appearance aside. Made of cotton, is a brownish red. Outfit consists of a sleeveless shirt, chest wrap and a long skirt over shorts. La struggles to don and remove the clothes because she is inexperienced. Philosophically and because of deer habits, she might be happier as a nudist but understands the social importance of clothes. They conveniently vanish when she returns to The Endless Forest.
Old Books from under The Ruins. Nika showed La where they were. The books are mostly gospels and other copies of the bible.
Ruin Rock A piece of rubble from The Ruins with some lines on it. La doesn't know where it belongs but keeps it because she found it as a fawn. A squirrel stole it and La had nearly given up on finding it when the doe Jezara found it and brought it to her again!
La is always looking to acquire strange things, but she especially likes books, items of historical significance, items connected to mysteries, and of course useful things.
La found a large reddish book in The Ename Ruins when she was only a few days old. It imprinted to her and now bears her pictograph on the front cover. It is the doe's window into the human world and her sole companion on lonely nights. The book appears mysteriously when La wants it and vanishes when she stops paying attention to it. It can display whatever it desires (which is often but not always whatever La desires to learn about). Sometimes it will be a show-off and introduce itself with flashy, full-color illustrations. Occasionally it displays a level of prescience and an awareness of its surroundings, usually with the cheeky intention of causing La some mild chagrin. It leaves opinions and comments in footnotes but they are rarely longer than a word or so and often comedic and sassy. The book seems to have some level of dominion over other books as well and can move them the way it moves itself, but this is rarely necessary.
La's underlying scent of books is this book's way of marking its territory.
It has a fear of water, fire, and any vermin that might nibble its pages.
The book may loan itself out to deer other than La on its own whims. Let me know if you just want to interact with the book or want it to cameo/participate in a roleplay you're in, I'll be happy to come over there. It's unlikely to aid evil characters, however.
How I Play La in The Endless Forest La and I react to people much the same way and like to be friendly and happy and playful. We want to run around and play or maybe just sit with you and enjoy some good cuddles. We'll keep our distance and run off if you do something aggressive or angry in or out of character.
We try to prioritize new fawns and nameless deer because they need the most guidance and help. With my player insight I know they are new players; La sees fawns as babies needing guidance and she sees nameless deer as hapless tourists who have no idea what they're doing and who don't speak the local language.
I generally think of biographies I read on TEFc to represent rumors and chatter that La overhears in The Forest when talking to others, so she may have heard of your deer. Obviously La will only be aware of the most superficial things about your character. She's usually up to date on deaths and births because I imagine those are the kinds of things that she hears most from gossipy deer.
La and I will ignore trolls and OOC rudeness both in and out of character. Additionally, La won't be injured by anything that happens in the forest unless I get to talk about it ahead of time with players and we all agree to something, although that is highly unlikely because she is very much not a fighter and not likely to get into fights. If you just start wailing on her in The Forest, tough titty--your attacks mean nothing.
Please don't have bought pictograms interact with La. I'll do my best keep her away from them too so it will be no work for you, I know several of them by heart and will give you space and avoid affecting your play. I do not hate players who have done it as people because I'm not going to let that ruin friendships, but I am upset with the idea of buying pictograms and I think the best way to resolve this for myself and demonstrate that I intend to side with M&A on the issue is to avoid them peacefully in the game.
When I play the game, I play it windowed so if La fails to react to you it means I've tabbed away or something has happened around me and I have had to abandon my computer. Occasionally this means it's frozen up. In-character, if she ignores you, please assume that she isn't doing it to be rude and is just distracted or dopey. She wouldn't want to hurt feelings and I'd rather your character think she's dumb than mean. If I am slow to react or if I moo, I am on my laptop without hotkeys or I messed up when trying to hit them.
Alison Alison is a turd who can't be trusted to hang out enough with you lovely people. I've always kept the game on my mind though.
We finished the movie. Credit scene started, Callie goes, "What?" kind of desperately. I go, "This better not be a credit roll." and then it was a credit roll. ;_;
There's been shouting in the house about whether it was a good ending or a bad ending and what makes a good ending and I've sent myself to my room because anime's giving me feelings. I liked the art but I need to think about everything that happened after they got out of Incubators' trap.
And I never even heard of Song of Saya until I started dating him, but he like you read it when the English patch first came out. He got really into it and apparently the summary on wikipedia is his summary of it. I didn't play it until it got its English release and came to him in the mail (he'd preordered it three years previously) but by then I'd had everything spoiled for me. It had some story issues but I think most of that is the Nitro+ porn quota making them add stuff to the story that kind of derailed it in places. But it certainly wasn't a waste of my time.
You did see the epilogue though, right? Make sure you don't miss that. (; I could explain how I feel about it, but I'll let you collect your thoughts on it first.
If anything, I'll direct you to this. Apparently, on the DVD for the movie there's a bonus of the very first take they did of the final act of the movie, and it's...rather jarring. Homura sounds so different, it's kind of scary really. There parts where I wish they kept the original take, and parts where the second take was better. Overall, I think the end result was better.
Yeah...the sex does tie into the plot, but there are definitely parts where it was overdone. The one that sticks out to me the most is when Koji calls Fuminori, and Yo is giving Fuminori a blowjob during the call. A bit comical, but very out of place in the end. Overall, I think it's a pretty good story though. I like how there's no one "happy" ending. The "happiest" ending is bittersweet at best, with the emphasis on bitter.
AHH I missed the epilogue! I'll gather the troops tomorrow morning so we can watch it even though I want to now. We argued too much and all had to agree that we'd sit on it and get together to talk about our emotions tomorrow.
Normally we just watch comedies as a group, or movies that one of us hasn't seen and it's rare for there to be a group effort to sit down for something new like this with a lot of big feelings in it.
I'm digging my nails into the desk fighting against watching the epilogue but one of us is already asleep and we must act as a grouuuppp.
Granted, not too much happens in the epilogue, but it's still worth a watch if only for witnessing something I've wanted to have happen for a long time.
To me, it makes sense. When the movie first showed in theaters, it definitely split the fanbase, and it still is doing just that. I will say though that the people who claim Homura was out of character did not pay attention to anything she said or did at all, and simply took her at face value.
I feel like I'm going to have to rewatch everything all over again and be looking for that sort of thing. It's rough... I was seeing her as obsessive and in love (though I did for a long time think it was platonic). There's that sort of "true love" type deal but I can never tell when it crosses into "deranged love" unless people do something insane. But I preferred Kyubey as a villain, a sort of bizarre and logical outside force to Homura as a villain because her motives are selfish.
Yep, an anime called Puella Magi Madoka Magica. I'm a big fan of animation but I mostly watch American (and sometimes French like Wakfu or Canadian like Ed, Edd, and Eddy) animation, but there are several Japanese ones that I like too. I'm just really, really picky about cartoons, but I do like them.
Ah.
Hi James!
Saw La again yesterday lol, left her alone tho. Didn't want to spoil her pretty outfit today, it looked nice where she was sat, like a painting.
A black and white painting maybe I always joke she looks like a soccer ball. I've only had her around the ruins the last few days because they're her favorite place to sleep and hang out and generally that's where her "home" is.
I'm hoping that the 7:30 AM class is a ruse by the professor to weed out the students who don't really want the class so he can boot them out and have more room for people who actually want to learn, and then we can meet at 10 or something. But I doubt that will happen.
And s'okay. Our other roommate got back from Colorado so we're gonna have to watch everything all over again to show him and get his opinion.
If only. Wish my early classes were like that. Instead, if we didn't like how early it was, we asked to get moved to a later class, only to find those were already filled.
Looking forward to hearing his opinion. Basically, for me, I feel a million different ways about it. In the end, the only solid thing I can say is that Homura is wrong.
Calc so far looks like it's gonna be reasonable. I'm doing more complex stuff than in high school because... I just really like math. I'm not good at it, I just like it. I haven't really hit my ceiling for it yet so I want to keep learning stuff until I can't do it anymore. Even though my study focus is supposed to be on storytelling.
Hey, I've been wondering about these fifth marks. Maybe a glitch in the picto generator? Because I've seen a few pictos now with added marks, including Jezara, though hers isn't as noticeable as yours.
I think it has to do with how the pictograms are generated. I think glyphs may be lined up left to right in four strips, and those slide left and right to different combinations. I think the fifth glyph happens when you catch a glimpse of a glyph to the left or right of one of the other ones in your picto. But that is only a guess.
Aww thank you, that's sweet of you to say. I leave her around the ruins to sleep and I leave the forest sounds on when I'm away from my desktop.
Right now I'm on the laptop and my desktop keeps mooing softly to me from across the room so something's probably happening in-forest and I should wake La up.
Been smashing since Friday. Quite enjoying it so far. Been only playing by myself, but I'm content with that.
Started doing the Classic runs, been using Fox for it. Except I got to Extra Spicy Master Hand vs Crazy Hand, and it basically turned into a "WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT? NO SRSLY - *DEAD"
Tried it about an hour ago with Sonic, got way farther with the Crazy Hand fight, but I got fucked by the Core. I'm guessing I shouldn't have been attacking it.
I've been calling that monster "MissingNo" since it bears a vague and distant resemblance and they've got other pokemon in the game already.
I made it through on 6.5 with Samus (my main because muh childhood) fighting that thing but I may soon go back and try it with Bowser or Ridley purple Charizard for some heavier hits.
I've been using Sonic and Fox as I generally prefer a sense of speed when it comes to the Hand fights. Of course, I'm using the customized ones that I made (whose speeds are docked in exchange for defense and power), but I like how they handle so far so I'll stick with them.
Lucario was my main in Brawl, while Pikachu was my main in Melee, but honestly, Fox is kind of sticking out here as my main, with Sonic not too far behind. But I still use Lucario frequently. Old habits die hard, and he feels a lot faster and smoother overall.
Been using Rosalina a bit too, and I quite like her. Plus, I need an ass kicking princess to balance out my boy troupe.
That Crazy Hand is a pain though. People on forums were talking about "something unexpected" and "good luck with Master Core," but I was taken completely by surprise when it happened. It's pretty damn cool though, even though it's tough to beat. Still not sure if it's better to sit and wait for Core to attack, or if you have to attack it. Attacking it seems to give you back health, but Sonic flew off the screen so quickly when it finally managed to attack back....
I got it down to the glowy little core and just stared wailing on it hopefully. Was able to smash it before it finally attacked me back, so I still don't know what that would look like.
I tend to favor characters with decent speed that can still hit hard. My customization usually aims for about Mario-level mobility and then a rough balance between attack and defense after that.
So how about I was playing Smash with the AI, and I picked Fox and turned all the items off, and set the opponent to random, and when I picked Final Destination I thought, "Wow wouldn't it be funny if it picked Fox," and then the randomizer gave me Fox.
Jezara strode aggressively over the blanket of gold and red, her hooves gently crushing the leaves beneath them. It was a comforting and pleasant sound. She had never ventured much into the New Forest, but today she wanted to walk there, wanted to know more about it. Jezara started at a squirrel who screeched and scurried up a tree, its thin branches bending with the weight and the wind. She watched it find its drey and saw it scrape around in it, apparently looking for something it had... lost? Jezara glanced around on the ground, shuffling in the leaves. She had probably scared the squirrel away, but she didn't want to look back for a simple squirrel. Her cloven hoof hit something hard, sending a tender twinge up her leg and rendering it temporarily lame. She tried her best to retrieve the object from the earth, before it sunk into it and was forgotten.
After a few minutes of hard work, Jezara had finally managed to pull the object, some sort of stone, from the damp mud. She was about to walk away and leave it, thinking it a silly rock, when she noticed something. There were symbols riddled across the pallid surface, swarming it with enchantments. Instantly Jezara felt a sort of curious fear in her chest. She prodded it with her good leg and confirmed its innocence. Picking it up, she carried on her aimless journey.
Reaching the Ruins, the only stone-built structure in the Forest, a doe caught her eye. She knew her... She knew this doe! But if only she could remember. Her name was not in her mind, but her voice clung to her like a fishing hook to a salmon. She gingerly approached the black and white ball, not wanting to wake her. Setting the stone down carefully, she called out confidently.
La's head jolted up from her book so fast she felt she'd given herself whiplash and there was a moment where her eyesight dimmed for lack of blood. No matter how hard she slept, there was always one ear open, so to speak, that was prepared to hear visitors and which waited for any sign of a conversation-to-be.
She got to her feet with some grunting and groaning and stretching of her back and legs and shook the ruin dust off of her right side. "Hello!" she replied to the owl-faced visitor. "How are you today?"
Jezara felt surprised when the doe heard her. She must have still been slightly conscious, she thought. Jezara sniffed the air politely, then cleared her throat. "I am well. And you?" She replied. Glancing momentarily at the engraved stone, she noticed something. Sniffing the air again, then the stone, she smelt the same thing. Picking up the stone in her dexterous beak, she set it down closer to the black and white doe. The doe gave off a vibe of curiosity. Jezara began to like her already.
"Is this yours? I found it in the leaves below a squirrel nest."
(Ahh I love it! The best doodles always happen in class and this is no exception!!)
"I'm okay," La said, all perky and smiles now. She had something else to say, but her jaw dropped at the sight of the familiar rock.
"The rock!" She said, bouncing in place like a fawn on christmas. "Yes, I know this rock! I had it and then a squirrel thought it was a nut and stole it!" La ran in a quick circle around Jezara. "Ahh, I never thought I'd see that again!"
La pressed her cheek to Jezara's for a grateful nuzzle.
"Good," Jezara replied with a courteous grin. She bowed her head briefly in respect, but then noticed the other doe was looking at the stone.
Jezara smiled faintly at her reaction. Was it possible for a deer to be this excited? Perhaps it did belong to her, or she had found it somewhere. When Jezara heard the explanation, she laughed quietly a little. Some things had the funniest stories attatched, she thought. Like her dried lavender... And some things had not so cheerful tales to tell like her black cloth. Jezara stiffened when the doe came nearer and thanked her silently. Even though she had grown up with this kind of contact, it felt awkward somehow.
As she was curious, Jezara pondered at the stone some more. "Where did you find this?" She asked, softly but with a twinge of characteristic impatience. Jezara wasn't a fan of waiting. "The lines... Do you know what it is for?"
"I picked it up here in these ruins about four years ago," La said, and rolled the stone over onto a different side to show more of the hewn grooves on it. "I think it was part of the structure, since it has man-made marks in it from tools that nature didn't create. And that was why I liked it."
She inhaled and puffed up proudly. "It was the very first human artifact that I found."
Jezara listened to the doe, her ears gently swaying to pick up every change in pitch, every syllable, every tone. Her voice was like the Pond, Jezara thought. Quaint, interesting, and mysteriously alluring. She shook herself back into reality and nodded with understanding, peering at the stone cautiously as the doe flipped it over. "Human?" Jezara replied softly, but as if the word were tainted with some terrible... Something. "It doesn't look creature-made, you're right." Looking up at her, Jezara could see how much this doe liked collecting things that interested her. "Listen, I found something... You might like it. I'd have to try and find it, but it's rather strange," she said, becoming more excited. "Actually, it's quite a few things..."
La heard the call of adventure plainly in Jezara's voice and couldn't help but bounce slightly on her hooves. Today was the day to spend all of the energy that she kept when she slept.
"I would love to," La said. "Hang on, let me put this away. I need to make sure that the squirrel doesn't come back for it."
It was hard to tell if La spoke out of respect or dislike of the squirrel and whether she was genuinely nervous that it might return for the treasure or if she was making a joke. She bent down and picked the rock up delicately in her flat teeth and bounded to the pit and its connections to the basement structures of The Ename Ruins. She stashed the rock safely under some loose fabric--a blanket--and then jumped back to Jezara like a rocket. "Lead the way," she said with a polite bow.
Jezara watched the black and white deer with curiosity and amusement. Her energy was simply streaming off of her, and into everyone else. Jezara waited, restless, for the doe to return, and silently laughed at her dislike for this squirrel. "You ready?" She said, her eyes lighting up with happy informality. She began trotting carefully over the hammered ground, kicking up a little dust in certain places. She soon sped up though, and her love of racing kicked in. Laughing and smiling all the way, she galloped enthusiastically between the trees, stumbling a little once or twice but never slowing.
"So what's your name then?" Jezara asked breathlessly, when they had reached some trees near the Old Oak. She scratched around for her secret store in the piles of leaves. Once she found it, she carefully pulled out each object and laid them out on the ground so the doe could see them; the miniature granite Twin Gods statue, the black cloth, the lavender, and the shark tooth necklace.
My game crashed and left a fake La there for a while while I tried to get back on--I found you eventually I was surprised when I came back and saw the fake one still standing there.
The same happened with me, except my game was fine and it loaded up and I stood up, only to find myself suddenly on the ground again with a fake Jezara next to the real one. Also the fog wasn't showing up?
La shook her head to clear out her ears and the shake continued down her spine to her tail. "Definitely ready," she confirmed, and trotted at a comfortable pace behind.
She balked when she realized she had failed to give her name and then introduced herself properly: "I'm La," she said. "It's nice to meet you." She waited politely for the other's identity while she displayed her treasures.
La lowered her head to look at them and survey each in turn. "That looks like The Gods. Amazing, where did that come from? And cloth, lavender, and... a tooth?"
She looked more closely at the necklace. "From a... shark?"
Jezara bowed briefly, with a faint lower of the head, and took in the name, memorizing it. She then gave her name to the doe, La. "I am Jezara, and its nice to meet you too," she replied, keeping her full name to herself. She decided to be less formal. And this deer has only given a first name, Jezara thought, or maybe that was the whole identity? Pushing that aside, she focused on the objects. La seemed to be interested. Maybe it was the fact that some were human-made, Jezara thought again.
"The lavender I collected myself," she explained, nudging the bundle of dried plant with her front hoof. She quickly glanced up at the trees when a branch snapped, but returned to the four items. "I found the statue in the Ruins, if I remember correctly. And yes, that appears to be a shark tooth." Jezara only had a faint idea of what a shark was, but she knew what their teeth were like, at least.
"Did you know bones are the hardest parts of a shark's body, Jezara?" La asked. "They haven't got bones like we do." She looked at the point of the tooth and failed to fully imagine what it would be like to have bendy cartilage bones. "They're also way bigger than the koi in the pond. At least most of them are."
She stepped back from the items and then settled down onto her belly in the grass to get a better look at the little statue of the twin gods. "I think humans must have made this," La said. "Or someone magical."
"I did not," replied Jezara, her ears pricked and eyes wide, hoping to hear more fascinating facts. When she heard they were like koi, she nodded with understanding. Now she could picture them better.
When La mentioned the statue, Jezara stiffened. She didn't like that statue. Not because it was of the Twin Gods, but because she feared what it could have been made by - humans. She nodded again, slowly, when La guessed it was human-made. Humans were bad, bad creatures, who never see magic and are careless with their planet. She glared at the statue, cursing humans for worshipping the Deer Gods and not their own. Surely they have plenty to follow and love, thought Jezara, her eyes narrowing. She scuttled over and lay down beside La, then remembered something. "I know where I've seen you before, La," she announced. "Sleeping... At the Ruins. Is that where you live?"A handy thing to change the subject from humans, thought Jezara. But she couldn't help staring at the handprints on La. What did they mean?
The change of topic was no trouble for La, who flowed between subjects of interest more smoothly than a fish in water.
"I live in all The Forest," La said, "But The Ruins are my favorite place, and that's where I keep stuff I find. It's also the--and I'm using this phrase mathematically--the Point of Origin for the entire forest. It's not the center, because everywhere is the center of The Forest, but... when you sit in the right spot in The Ruins, you can just know that you're where everything started."
We finished the movie. Credit
There's been shouting in the house about whether it was a good ending or a bad ending and what makes a good ending and I've sent myself to my room because anime's giving me feelings. I liked the art but I need to think about everything that happened after they got out of Incubators' trap.
And I never even heard of Song of Saya until I started dating him, but he like you read it when the English patch first came out. He got really into it and apparently the summary on wikipedia is his summary of it. I didn't play it until it got its English release and came to him in the mail (he'd preordered it three years previously) but by then I'd had everything spoiled for me. It had some story issues but I think most of that is the Nitro+ porn quota making them add stuff to the story that kind of derailed it in places. But it certainly wasn't a waste of my time.
You did see the epilogue
If anything, I'll direct you to this. Apparently, on the DVD for the movie there's a bonus of the very first take they did of the final act of the movie, and it's...rather jarring. Homura sounds so different, it's kind of scary really. There parts where I wish they kept the original take, and parts where the second take was better. Overall, I think the end result was better.
Yeah...the sex does tie into the plot, but there are definitely parts where it was overdone. The one that sticks out to me the most is when Koji calls Fuminori, and Yo is giving Fuminori a blowjob during the call. A bit comical, but very out of place in the end. Overall, I think it's a pretty good story though. I like how there's no one "happy" ending. The "happiest" ending is bittersweet at best, with the emphasis on bitter.
AHH I missed the epilogue!
Normally we just watch comedies as a group, or movies that one of us hasn't seen and it's rare for there to be a group effort to sit down for something new like this with a lot of big feelings in it.
I'm digging my nails into the desk fighting against watching the epilogue but one of us is already asleep and we must act as a grouuuppp.
Granted, not too much happens
No. Crying about Magical
track *.*
Hi Melodi Mjrn I suppose
Mjrn I suppose that makes sense. Gotta have something to cry about here and there. I just never thought it would be Homura being the devil.
To me, it makes sense. When
I feel like I'm going to have
Um, are we talking about
Track^^
Yep, an anime called Puella
and Hi James
Ah. Hi James! Saw La again
Hi James!
Saw La again yesterday lol, left her alone tho. Didn't want to spoil her pretty outfit today, it looked nice where she was sat, like a painting.
A black and white painting
Class at 7:30am? Christ,
[e] I have not forgotten that reply you made about Homura, but it's hard to put my thoughts together on it lmao Sorry. )':
I'm hoping that the 7:30 AM
And s'okay. Our other roommate got back from Colorado so we're gonna have to watch everything all over again to show him and get his opinion.
If only. Wish my early
Looking forward to hearing his opinion. Basically, for me, I feel a million different ways about it. In the end, the only solid thing I can say is that Homura is wrong.
Yeah, Homura's not my bro
Calc so far looks like it's gonna be reasonable. I'm doing more complex stuff than in high school because... I just really like math. I'm not good at it, I just like it. I haven't really hit my ceiling for it yet so I want to keep learning stuff until I can't do it anymore. Even though my study focus is supposed to be on storytelling.
Hey, I've been wondering
I'm not sure what it is,
I think it has to do with how the pictograms are generated. I think glyphs may be lined up left to right in four strips, and those slide left and right to different combinations. I think the fifth glyph happens when you catch a glimpse of a glyph to the left or right of one of the other ones in your picto. But that is only a guess.
Hej I've been doodling in
I've been doodling in class, and I've come out with a cute sketchy thing. A gift for ya, when I get a chance to scan it
honorary levi 'u r in my herd
/smacked
New friends! This is a
This is a great day for La, she's all grins and sunshine right now.
I've seen your deer a few
So I'm going to track this~
Aww thank you, that's sweet
Right now I'm on the laptop and my desktop keeps mooing softly to me from across the room so something's probably happening in-forest and I should wake La up.
http://outofcontextdnd.tumblr
I figured you'd be someone who'd get a kick out of this.
Thank you for this
The best thing I ever ran was a oneshot based on Party Cat.
Been smashing since Friday.
Started doing the Classic runs, been using Fox for it. Except I got to Extra Spicy Master Hand vs Crazy Hand, and it basically turned into a "WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT? NO SRSLY - *DEAD"
Tried it about an hour ago with Sonic, got way farther with the Crazy Hand fight, but I got fucked by the Core. I'm guessing I shouldn't have been attacking it.
I've been calling that
I made it through on 6.5 with Samus (my main because muh childhood) fighting that thing but I may soon go back and try it with Bowser or
Ridleypurple Charizard for some heavier hits.I've been using Sonic and Fox
Lucario was my main in Brawl, while Pikachu was my main in Melee, but honestly, Fox is kind of sticking out here as my main, with Sonic not too far behind. But I still use Lucario frequently. Old habits die hard, and he feels a lot faster and smoother overall.
Been using Rosalina a bit too, and I quite like her. Plus, I need an ass kicking princess to balance out my boy troupe.
That Crazy Hand is a pain though. People on forums were talking about "something unexpected" and "good luck with Master Core," but I was taken completely by surprise when it happened. It's pretty damn cool though, even though it's tough to beat. Still not sure if it's better to sit and wait for Core to attack, or if you have to attack it. Attacking it seems to give you back health, but Sonic flew off the screen so quickly when it finally managed to attack back....
I got it down to the glowy
I tend to favor characters with decent speed that can still hit hard. My customization usually aims for about Mario-level mobility and then a rough balance between attack and defense after that.
Smash runs are the best.
So how about I was playing
Thought of you when it happened.
May I roleplay? Jezara
Jezara strode aggressively over the blanket of gold and red, her hooves gently crushing the leaves beneath them. It was a comforting and pleasant sound. She had never ventured much into the New Forest, but today she wanted to walk there, wanted to know more about it. Jezara started at a squirrel who screeched and scurried up a tree, its thin branches bending with the weight and the wind. She watched it find its drey and saw it scrape around in it, apparently looking for something it had... lost? Jezara glanced around on the ground, shuffling in the leaves. She had probably scared the squirrel away, but she didn't want to look back for a simple squirrel. Her cloven hoof hit something hard, sending a tender twinge up her leg and rendering it temporarily lame. She tried her best to retrieve the object from the earth, before it sunk into it and was forgotten.
After a few minutes of hard work, Jezara had finally managed to pull the object, some sort of stone, from the damp mud. She was about to walk away and leave it, thinking it a silly rock, when she noticed something. There were symbols riddled across the pallid surface, swarming it with enchantments. Instantly Jezara felt a sort of curious fear in her chest. She prodded it with her good leg and confirmed its innocence. Picking it up, she carried on her aimless journey.
Reaching the Ruins, the only stone-built structure in the Forest, a doe caught her eye. She knew her... She knew this doe! But if only she could remember. Her name was not in her mind, but her voice clung to her like a fishing hook to a salmon. She gingerly approached the black and white ball, not wanting to wake her. Setting the stone down carefully, she called out confidently.
"Hello?"
La's head jolted up from her
She got to her feet with some grunting and groaning and stretching of her back and legs and shook the ruin dust off of her right side. "Hello!" she replied to the owl-faced visitor. "How are you today?"
Jezara felt surprised when
"Is this yours? I found it in the leaves below a squirrel nest."
I... Made a thing. For you. A
A birfday present for La. And you of course.
Its of Jezara sat next to La in the Ruins the first time Jezzy saw her.
I need to stop drawing in class.
(Ahh I love it! The best
"I'm okay," La said, all perky and smiles now. She had something else to say, but her jaw dropped at the sight of the familiar rock.
"The rock!" She said, bouncing in place like a fawn on christmas. "Yes, I know this rock! I had it and then a squirrel thought it was a nut and stole it!" La ran in a quick circle around Jezara. "Ahh, I never thought I'd see that again!"
La pressed her cheek to Jezara's for a grateful nuzzle.
"Good," Jezara replied with a
Jezara smiled faintly at her reaction. Was it possible for a deer to be this excited? Perhaps it did belong to her, or she had found it somewhere. When Jezara heard the explanation, she laughed quietly a little. Some things had the funniest stories attatched, she thought. Like her dried lavender... And some things had not so cheerful tales to tell like her black cloth. Jezara stiffened when the doe came nearer and thanked her silently. Even though she had grown up with this kind of contact, it felt awkward somehow.
As she was curious, Jezara pondered at the stone some more. "Where did you find this?" She asked, softly but with a twinge of characteristic impatience. Jezara wasn't a fan of waiting. "The lines... Do you know what it is for?"
(whoop, sorry for slow
"I picked it up here in these ruins about four years ago," La said, and rolled the stone over onto a different side to show more of the hewn grooves on it. "I think it was part of the structure, since it has man-made marks in it from tools that nature didn't create. And that was why I liked it."
She inhaled and puffed up proudly. "It was the very first human artifact that I found."
Jezara listened to the doe,
La heard the call of
"I would love to," La said. "Hang on, let me put this away. I need to make sure that the squirrel doesn't come back for it."
It was hard to tell if La spoke out of respect or dislike of the squirrel and whether she was genuinely nervous that it might return for the treasure or if she was making a joke. She bent down and picked the rock up delicately in her flat teeth and bounded to the pit and its connections to the basement structures of The Ename Ruins. She stashed the rock safely under some loose fabric--a blanket--and then jumped back to Jezara like a rocket. "Lead the way," she said with a polite bow.
Jezara watched the black and
"So what's your name then?" Jezara asked breathlessly, when they had reached some trees near the Old Oak. She scratched around for her secret store in the piles of leaves. Once she found it, she carefully pulled out each object and laid them out on the ground so the doe could see them; the miniature granite Twin Gods statue, the black cloth, the lavender, and the shark tooth necklace.
Sorry for popping in here but
I am with you and there is no Fog , but the Red flowers are still falling .
My game crashed and left a
^ bloop The same happened
The same happened with me, except my game was fine and it loaded up and I stood up, only to find myself suddenly on the ground again with a fake Jezara next to the real one. Also the fog wasn't showing up?
La shook her head to clear
She balked when she realized she had failed to give her name and then introduced herself properly: "I'm La," she said. "It's nice to meet you." She waited politely for the other's identity while she displayed her treasures.
La lowered her head to look at them and survey each in turn. "That looks like The Gods. Amazing, where did that come from? And cloth, lavender, and... a tooth?"
She looked more closely at the necklace. "From a... shark?"
Jezara bowed briefly, with a
"The lavender I collected myself," she explained, nudging the bundle of dried plant with her front hoof. She quickly glanced up at the trees when a branch snapped, but returned to the four items. "I found the statue in the Ruins, if I remember correctly. And yes, that appears to be a shark tooth." Jezara only had a faint idea of what a shark was, but she knew what their teeth were like, at least.
"Did you know bones are the
She stepped back from the items and then settled down onto her belly in the grass to get a better look at the little statue of the twin gods. "I think humans must have made this," La said. "Or someone magical."
"I did not," replied Jezara,
When La mentioned the statue, Jezara stiffened. She didn't like that statue. Not because it was of the Twin Gods, but because she feared what it could have been made by - humans. She nodded again, slowly, when La guessed it was human-made. Humans were bad, bad creatures, who never see magic and are careless with their planet. She glared at the statue, cursing humans for worshipping the Deer Gods and not their own. Surely they have plenty to follow and love, thought Jezara, her eyes narrowing. She scuttled over and lay down beside La, then remembered something. "I know where I've seen you before, La," she announced. "Sleeping... At the Ruins. Is that where you live?"A handy thing to change the subject from humans, thought Jezara. But she couldn't help staring at the handprints on La. What did they mean?
The change of topic was no
"I live in all The Forest," La said, "But The Ruins are my favorite place, and that's where I keep stuff I find. It's also the--and I'm using this phrase mathematically--the Point of Origin for the entire forest. It's not the center, because everywhere is the center of The Forest, but... when you sit in the right spot in The Ruins, you can just know that you're where everything started."