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And yet he hasn't! Despite having had five years of awful days. Thus, cinnamon roll. To be protected at all costs.

“You really think we’re going to stop this guy… with cake?” “It’s his birthday, and he doesn’t have anyone else.”

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Yes, well, they're wrong. He's a cinnamon roll.

“You really think we’re going to stop this guy… with cake?” “It’s his birthday, and he doesn’t have anyone else.”

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#literally Gavrel#two ounces of kindness would fix the villain of the story (via @scleroticstatue)

🥺🥺🥺

Am. Trying.

“You really think we’re going to stop this guy… with cake?” “It’s his birthday, and he doesn’t have anyone else.”

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It sure worked for Morwen and her boys!

*shaking, covered in each other's blood* i'm so glad this experience could bring us closer together

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@scleroticstatue @exploding-the-wine-cellar Terrafell coded post!

*shaking, covered in each other's blood* i'm so glad this experience could bring us closer together

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It brings some vivid images from the helpdesk to mind for me...

#Still prefer the blender myself though#Puree those things and sling 'em out the door Fair. Morwen would like to sling her emotions out the door but alas, the emotions do not want to be slung at the moment.

I am rapidly coming to concur with you that Smol & Angry needs to be shaken firmly. I also think she needs a loving adult to firmly inform her that her pain is not an excuse to hurt other people.

I do not have the patience to be that adult. But if I get half a chance Imma sic A. T. on her. That way he can [redacted] two troublesome young females!

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More like with a computer that is trying to run Windows 11 on a CPU that was meant for Windows 7 and needs about eight more processing cores and a few extra GB of RAM to manage it.

I am rapidly coming to concur with you that Smol & Angry needs to be shaken firmly. I also think she needs a loving adult to firmly inform her that her pain is not an excuse to hurt other people.

I do not have the patience to be that adult. But if I get half a chance Imma sic A. T. on her. That way he can [redacted] two troublesome young females!

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Oh, Morwen has wanted to smack her around since their first meeting too, but she's been...powerfully motivated to be diplomatic by circumstances. And she really was trying very hard to be kind. Smol & Angry is on the verge of using up that tolerance, though. Hopefully Morwen can get to a private location and process Feelings for a long enough time to restore her self-control before this happens.

I am rapidly coming to concur with you that Smol & Angry needs to be shaken firmly. I also think she needs a loving adult to firmly inform her that her pain is not an excuse to hurt other people.

I do not have the patience to be that adult. But if I get half a chance Imma sic A. T. on her. That way he can [redacted] two troublesome young females!

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...is A.T. having random premonitions of chaos in my timeline?

VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: Well, look, I think Pete is a disrupter, and a lot of people don’t like that disruption, but Margaret that disruption is incredibly necessary. If you think about all of those bipartisan, massive votes, we have to ask ourselves, what did they get us? They got us a country where we fought many wars over the last 40 years, but haven’t won a war about as long as I’ve been alive. They’ve got us a military with a major recruitment crisis, a procurement price crisis that’s totally dysfunctional, where we buy airplanes for billions and billions of dollars, terrible cost overruns, the delivery dates are always delayed. So we need a big change. Now, admittedly, there are people who don’t like that big change, but it is necessary, and it’s explicitly what Donald J. Trump ran on and I think part of the reason why the American people elected him their 47th president.

MARGARET BRENNAN: So, the main objective is changing all of that?

^^ Me and Atticus last night. XD

You: everything is wrong

Atticus: so we're going to fix that?

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"What's wrong with your country?"

"Everything."

"So you mean, there are a lot of problems?"

"No, I mean literally everything is wrong with my country. At the same time." *Morwen runs off to yell at a hedge*

VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: Well, look, I think Pete is a disrupter, and a lot of people don’t like that disruption, but Margaret that disruption is incredibly necessary. If you think about all of those bipartisan, massive votes, we have to ask ourselves, what did they get us? They got us a country where we fought many wars over the last 40 years, but haven’t won a war about as long as I’ve been alive. They’ve got us a military with a major recruitment crisis, a procurement price crisis that’s totally dysfunctional, where we buy airplanes for billions and billions of dollars, terrible cost overruns, the delivery dates are always delayed. So we need a big change. Now, admittedly, there are people who don’t like that big change, but it is necessary, and it’s explicitly what Donald J. Trump ran on and I think part of the reason why the American people elected him their 47th president.

MARGARET BRENNAN: So, the main objective is changing all of that?

^^ Me and Atticus last night. XD

You: everything is wrong

Atticus: so we're going to fix that?

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Morwen goes on a long rant about how every single person in the company has trauma and moreover you have choices in how you handle your pain, and you can allow it to turn you outward or inward, and it's not her fault that Smol & Angry turned inward and smacked away Morwen's attempts at showing her the way out, so she has no excuse for behaving like a donkey.

Fair enough, I guess? I don't know enough about him to really say more than that. I don't know who would be a good person to handle her, really. She needs a good smacking and a hug and a cry and a productive outlet that helps people, but I don't know in what order or in what proportions, nor how to give them to her.

I am rapidly coming to concur with you that Smol & Angry needs to be shaken firmly. I also think she needs a loving adult to firmly inform her that her pain is not an excuse to hurt other people.

I do not have the patience to be that adult. But if I get half a chance Imma sic A. T. on her. That way he can [redacted] two troublesome young females!

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MOOD.

VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: Well, look, I think Pete is a disrupter, and a lot of people don’t like that disruption, but Margaret that disruption is incredibly necessary. If you think about all of those bipartisan, massive votes, we have to ask ourselves, what did they get us? They got us a country where we fought many wars over the last 40 years, but haven’t won a war about as long as I’ve been alive. They’ve got us a military with a major recruitment crisis, a procurement price crisis that’s totally dysfunctional, where we buy airplanes for billions and billions of dollars, terrible cost overruns, the delivery dates are always delayed. So we need a big change. Now, admittedly, there are people who don’t like that big change, but it is necessary, and it’s explicitly what Donald J. Trump ran on and I think part of the reason why the American people elected him their 47th president.

MARGARET BRENNAN: So, the main objective is changing all of that?

^^ Me and Atticus last night. XD

You: everything is wrong

Atticus: so we're going to fix that?

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...oof.

My ideal at this point would be (6) but at this point, who knows what I'll get?

Convention of former portal fantasy protagonists, featuring:

Protagonist who was definitely traumatized, saw horrible things, did horrible things, came out of the other realm broken and angry that this happened to them

Protagonist who faced evils they could (with peril and hardship) surmount, learned positive truths about themselves and reality, and considers their adventure a blessing

Protagonist who's never gotten over having to come home at the end of their story

Protagonist who saw horrible things but also ultimately saved their family and maybe has some nightmares sometimes? But thinks they're basically fine. Stuff happens to everyone

Protagonist who had a lovely, non-perilous adventure and treasures it, no real darkness involved

Protagonist who is still visiting their other realm every weekend for barbecues and horseback lessons. What, like it's hard?

ALL of them are arguing about whether the others' Experiences are Valid. No consensus is in sight.

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*Morwen takes several deep breaths* *Morwen visibly loses the self-control battle* PAIN DOES NOT MAKE YOU SPECIAL YOU SELF-CENTERED LITTLE TWERP AND IF YOU KEEP ACTING LIKE YOU'RE THE CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT TRAUMA I'M GONNA SMACK YOU INTO NEXT WEEK

...sometimes? But that reaction is not all that reliable for me, because last time it happened I thought you were hinting that Furniture Man was evil and you were just being generally ominous.

I am rapidly coming to concur with you that Smol & Angry needs to be shaken firmly. I also think she needs a loving adult to firmly inform her that her pain is not an excuse to hurt other people.

I do not have the patience to be that adult. But if I get half a chance Imma sic A. T. on her. That way he can [redacted] two troublesome young females!

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@scleroticstatue and @exploding-the-wine-cellar I wonder which ones we’re gonna be…

Convention of former portal fantasy protagonists, featuring:

Protagonist who was definitely traumatized, saw horrible things, did horrible things, came out of the other realm broken and angry that this happened to them

Protagonist who faced evils they could (with peril and hardship) surmount, learned positive truths about themselves and reality, and considers their adventure a blessing

Protagonist who's never gotten over having to come home at the end of their story

Protagonist who saw horrible things but also ultimately saved their family and maybe has some nightmares sometimes? But thinks they're basically fine. Stuff happens to everyone

Protagonist who had a lovely, non-perilous adventure and treasures it, no real darkness involved

Protagonist who is still visiting their other realm every weekend for barbecues and horseback lessons. What, like it's hard?

ALL of them are arguing about whether the others' Experiences are Valid. No consensus is in sight.

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I don't either. Or the knowledge of psychology. Morwen is trying, but circumstances are not working in her favour right now.

If Smol & Angry persists in her current course of behaviour, Morwen might just snap and give her a modified version of the "EVERYONE'S GOT DEAD PEOPLE" rant from Guardians of the Galaxy. I'm not sure if this would be helpful or not, but I think it might be entertaining.

A.T. would probably be good with her. He's good at managing Atticus, after all, and Atticus is also a traumatized can of worms masquerading as a teenager doing an adult's job.

I am rapidly coming to concur with you that Smol & Angry needs to be shaken firmly. I also think she needs a loving adult to firmly inform her that her pain is not an excuse to hurt other people.

I do not have the patience to be that adult. But if I get half a chance Imma sic A. T. on her. That way he can [redacted] two troublesome young females!

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He has, idiocy notwithstanding. And while he's part of the current predicament, it's not exactly something any of us could have predicted, so I'm not really blaming him for it.

Alright, then, keep your secrets. ;-)

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Thus the lanky pile of limbs whenever he's dumped out of his chair. XD

(aww, shucks.)

*sighhh* It was a perfectly logical decision and he's a nice guy who saved all our butts by bringing along a healer!

Okay. The more I learn about Eliot Spencer the more he reminds me of Gavrel. Obviously they're not the same character, and they have plenty of differences, but there are a lot of similarities. The guilt. The determination to do something good even though they know it can't wipe out the past. The willingness to adopt at the drop of a hat, the fact that they're good with kids, the cooking, even. Was that deliberate? Or is that just a character archetype you like? (Valid, and it's one of my favourites.)

Unintentional, entirely. Some things were necessary for the character. I couldn't not have Gavrel cook; he's too ostracized to buy meals at the Cooks Guild every day. He's also only sane because he's a tamer, so he is predisposed to animals and small children. And, yes, the guilt, because everyone is guilty.

However, there are significant differences. Eliot is very secure in his physical body, to the point where he is very frequent in his, erm, fraternization. Gavrel, uh. Not so much. This extends beyond the dating world and into things like sports and even perception. Eliot likes people to underestimate him, while Gavrel projects confidence and strength and a coldness that belays the fact that he is very self-conscious, even though they are both competent. Gavrel isn't actually that interested in violence for violence's sake, even within the sports realm. The reason why he got into Terrafell wasn't for the combat, and his interests outside of it when he was in school are much closer to Sophie's.

I will correct one thing: Gavrel isn't determined to do good. His only purpose in life was to get home and the drive was steadily dwindling until it was crushed on July 6th. (Which is why he was so ready to devote every waking moment to Morwen's mission the minute she had one.) Gavrel does good, but he's not determined to, and it's certainly not to make the world better. Gavrel does good things because it's honestly never occurred to him that there are other options. It's not "do I do good or not?" It's "how does this (good) thing get done?" Even his Worst Decision was not based on willfully being bad, but on a lack of information and understanding. Some of that is because he doesn't value himself enough to consider the risks and benefits of that, but some of it is because he just doesn't have an abusive bone in his body.