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[demetriandelibinaryboyfriends]

General audience dudebros with Hawk, sorry not sorry <3

do you ever just look at someone’s interpretation of a character and want to gently put your hands on their shoulders, look them kindly in the eyes and say you got it all wrong

[kxantares]

There are still many old, even "outdated" Katja instances. …somewhere. If you know, you probably know very well.

Katja is on mildly friendly terms with the massive flock of crows who sleep around Still Creek! Given that they fly with jets rather than flapping their wings at all, they can't really fly with the crows, but many crows seem to know that "the tiny airplane that yells human words" has access to Weird Human Information and is sometimes trying to convey that to them through how and where they fly.

The hard light on the "old" instances mentioned in 1 just wasn't in the form of hard light back then. Or something. Whatever the case is, depending on which "version" of Katja we're talking about, they all do have the whole "can neither die nor kill (at least in any meaningful way)" thing going on.

While they are definitely compatible with the cosmology in the fictional setting I've been working on for the past while, they're basically mutually exclusive with the entire plot I have in mind. (Specifically: the narrative I am thinking of involves the total, permanent end of capitalism on Earth happening in the early 22nd century, not through the help of any kind of physically impossible miracles or any deus ex machina. Purely through the determined, well-planned, and mostly long and boring work of average people forcing the world to be better. This isn't really a narrative that's compatible with "…and at some point in the 21st century, some rando acquired a functionally indeterminate degree of power and an supernaturally strong desire to use it helpfully".)

…and 3 means that there are some instances which otherwise aren't magical; some which require enriched nuclear fuel to function; some which just need such fuel for Not Magic™; and, in the case of any version 4.x instances, instances which have no need for it, but which can run on any fuel. Even natural uranium.

At least in ethical terms, they're almost a vegan. "but what about any meat they eat" They've probably conjured that based on prior experience and publicly-available data. "ok but what about—" I know what you're about to ask, and: that's also effectively vegan. There's consent; no one really dies in the end; so on.

After years of running an ambiguous, mysterious "business" out of their home (which was just an excuse for them to live in a warehouse on Granville Island), they now live right on Davie Street, very openly running a "business" where they give people free TFs. (They spend most of their time in this capacity handling their clients' various obligations while they're, well, unavailable.)

As much as Katja might joke about being "half cat", they're probably somewhere closer to… …actually, it's unclear how cat they are. They do not have what one would usually understand as a genome, and even if they did, it would probably involve nucleotide bases not found in terrestrial life. (Even the degree to which they use DNA whatsoever in their biological functioning is more or less discretionary and vibes-based on their part. Their physiology is whatever suits the circumstances best, in their opinion.)

One thing they like doing with their immense hearing range: whenever they're in the company of a self-identified audiophile, they'll periodically mention deficiencies in said person's audio setup that can't be heard by human ears. (After a bit of this ribbing, they usually fix those problems Somehow™.)

Probably the moment November 12th starts, Katja is likely going to turn their hair and beard white for the following day or so. (And then do the same on December 26th, because it's funnier than doing it on the right day.)

[hell-heron]

This is SUCH an interesting question, i love it, I actually voted Mace Tyrell and I'm not the only one so am very curious about who else... but I will be naughty and add commentary not in the tags to this because I have so many thoughts.

First thing is that, physically, a lot of these lords come with a big downgrade in how much Theon is able to be basically a ward simply because they're not very isolated and landlocked places, you can let your hostage have a relative taste of fun and freedom in your ass fortress in the middle of the woods that you can't in major ports. But I will not take that too much into account because it sort of changes everything in a way that's not really about the person and that's hard to make calls about without having seen it in the novels. So.

Tywin is obv the most popular and is probably third or second worst, sure, but there's something about the circumstance of Tywin that doesn't quite pinge me as the very worst for Theon specifically. The horror of Tywin's awfulness is that he is an evil man and the worst father in Westeros, but I have the feeling he would be very hands off with Theon and that he already has a child on whom he unleashes the worst. For me the ideal "worst" situation for Theon ultimately would not be the one in which he is trusted to the morally worse person, but one in which, as in canon, he experiences the strain he does in canon of yearning to be a part of a family he cannot be and developing divided loyalties and an identity crisis and feeling forced to accept his situation, as well as living with an objectively worse family.

That would not, I think, happen in Casterly Rock: he would feel very uncomplicated hatred for the Lannisters, and hold himself distant as much as he could. There's also the fact that whether Theon would get along well or be able to even try to do so with Tyrion is a very important point here and we just can't know that, sadly, how it would develop from childhood when Theon is 10 and Tyrion is 15 and freshly broken up about Tysha - that would be very fun fanfic material. It's also dependent on politics - are the Greyjoys, in the span of Theon's boyhood, ever relevant again enough for Theon to be used politically? It's a lot that's up in the air, overall, it doesn't feel right to me

Stannis, similarly, would be quite a detached foster father with no sons available for Theon to bond with (though he might very well like Davos a lot), not conductive to the canon turmoil, just plain misery, but with a definitely less cruel person than Tywin: definitely in no way worst person material, though I imagine there would be a lot of fighting!

Jon Arryn clearly is doing something right as a foster father, but the Eyrie is also a very isolated place and probably the worst mismatch in all of Westeros culturally with both Theon as an ironborn child and with Theon as his natural personality seems to be, with its emphasis on chivalry and honor and solemnity. Would this be at the Eyrie or KL? In KL there's probably not too much of a difference than with Cersei and I think that's a good option for him

We just don't know too much about Hoster Tully - he's very average as a father and lord as far as we see him, and Edmure is a kind young man and may seek brotherhood with him, but there's a larger age difference there than with others I'm considering so would it really be divided loyalties material? He could meet Patrek earlier though <3

Renly is interesting and probably quite fun for Theon as he would effectively not have a foster father of any kind, but would be able to bond to a peer who is quite compatible with him in personality maybe? It has the potential of being among the best options or being very mediocre, depends on who is the actual adult calling the shots there...

The votes for Cersei baffle me: I think it would be actively the best situation for Theon. There. I said it. It's obviously a place he would find fun, he would have no bond whatsoever with the family technically holding captive but would have much more of a choice to seek out his own relationship in an active court in which there are probably also others that share his situation, he can, again, hate everyone involved uncomplicatedly. Robert and Cersei would have ZERO interest in making his life miserable or noticing him any way and Joff while not THAT much younger than Robb would definitely not be in his orbit at all. The downside is that, unlike might happen elsewhere, he's definitely not leaving the Red Keep even for hunting and such ever past a certain age, while say in Dragonstone or other by-the-sea but still not so cosmopolitan places he might have kept a bit more freedom to enjoy himself. But overall not worst place material.

So yeah I feel drawn to Mace as more awful than any outward asshole might be. He's the only other here who's a father of children Theon's age, moreso even than Ned, having a child Robb's age, one just a couple years older than Theon, and one reportedly very kind and fatherly son who'd be older and a role model, plus like a hundred various cousins.

The family is functional and nice to all appearences, there would be every reason for him to want to feel part of them and develop bonds of brotherhood with SOMEONE if not with Garlan specifically, the fashion and wealth and gallantry would appeal to him - except than in this more scheming and materialistic setting none of that would even come close to including him the way the Starks at least seemed to attempt, he would be looking in this sweet home he cannot fully belong to forever, knowing it's just until he's worth more dead than alive. Plus: it would sting so badly that this is also a family of three boys and one particularly doted upon girl, as a reminder of both the family he lost and the one he never really had because the Greyjoys could never aspire to this level of genuine affection; it would be a more fraught emotional experience for him to navigate this can-they-ever-be-my-brothers-or-not turmoil with older boys than it was with Robb, who at least was as a little brother a completely new type of relationship for him, while he already has traumatic experiences with older brothers; thirdly, the epitome of southron culture would hit with 100x the cultural clash that the North does, with all the disastrous consequences. I also want a fic about each of these now lol