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Why revisit Victor like this?
Many of my "major" characters already have multiple ref sheets that emphasize different traits. Emmet, for example, is either a cagey inventor or an older, reserved tinkerer or he's a big guy who's considering crushing you. He's sort of all of these things at once. None of us wear just one face.
However, Victor has come to embody multiplicity. That's his literal story. Rather than a cat with nine lives, he's a cat who's... seven cats.
Each of these variations emerged at a distinct point in time, stuck around to the present day and retains the ability to "show his face" at any moment. Which Victor you're talking to can even change over the course of a conversation, and as Mina found out during her dealings with him, some are more amenable to conversation than others. Some are playful, others deceitful, some can seem downright civilized but nearly all have a tendency towards violence, seeing as most were born from violence.
Despite all that, there was a time when he was a naive young man—not necessarily a nice young man, but the weight of all those deadly sins had yet to shatter him.
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A_Lovelydog
Many of my "major" characters already have multiple ref sheets that emphasize different traits. Emmet, for example, is either a cagey inventor or an older, reserved tinkerer or he's a big guy who's considering crushing you. He's sort of all of these things at once. None of us wear just one face.
However, Victor has come to embody multiplicity. That's his literal story. Rather than a cat with nine lives, he's a cat who's... seven cats.
Each of these variations emerged at a distinct point in time, stuck around to the present day and retains the ability to "show his face" at any moment. Which Victor you're talking to can even change over the course of a conversation, and as Mina found out during her dealings with him, some are more amenable to conversation than others. Some are playful, others deceitful, some can seem downright civilized but nearly all have a tendency towards violence, seeing as most were born from violence.
Despite all that, there was a time when he was a naive young man—not necessarily a nice young man, but the weight of all those deadly sins had yet to shatter him.
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A_Lovelydog
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We all had to be naive young folk, at some point. Even those of us who become seven naive young folk.
Funny to think Dagskwerhe is as distant to my folk, as they are to us. To steal a "fun fact" normally reserved for Cleopatra, Kuveli was born closer to the invention of the smart phone than he was Dagskwerhe. Or, at least, I guess that's up for debate given the cat is... very slightly temporally challenged.
Funny to think Dagskwerhe is as distant to my folk, as they are to us. To steal a "fun fact" normally reserved for Cleopatra, Kuveli was born closer to the invention of the smart phone than he was Dagskwerhe. Or, at least, I guess that's up for debate given the cat is... very slightly temporally challenged.
I actually don't want to nail down exactly when Dagskwerhe hails from, which is why the number I've assigned to it has drifted over time. The internal reason for that is that it's a different world. While it follows our world's history in broad strokes, it obviously consists of many competing and cooperating convergently evolved sentient species and especially during "foundational" transitions ("dawn of civilization"-type events) we should not expect things to unfold in commensurate ways.
The external reason kind of relates to what you just touched on: we're dealing with massive spans of time before written records, but just because we find it hard to periodize events doesn't mean the world stops moving and tipping points stop happening.
For example, Dagskwerhe's people have noticed drastic climate shifts within living memory. There's a division emerging in their cultural memory between a new "before time" and "after time" (sadly they'll be a dead clade walking following this one). History was happening, but to us it's all a big taphonomically distorted blob. It reduces to a mere fantasy era.
But... that's how it goes with our personal "ancient histories", isn't it? Think back to when you were a little kid. From day to day you had specific worries, trials, triumphs. They were what you were all about. But those specificities are all faded now. Beyond recall. Passed into an era of your own legend.
The external reason kind of relates to what you just touched on: we're dealing with massive spans of time before written records, but just because we find it hard to periodize events doesn't mean the world stops moving and tipping points stop happening.
For example, Dagskwerhe's people have noticed drastic climate shifts within living memory. There's a division emerging in their cultural memory between a new "before time" and "after time" (sadly they'll be a dead clade walking following this one). History was happening, but to us it's all a big taphonomically distorted blob. It reduces to a mere fantasy era.
But... that's how it goes with our personal "ancient histories", isn't it? Think back to when you were a little kid. From day to day you had specific worries, trials, triumphs. They were what you were all about. But those specificities are all faded now. Beyond recall. Passed into an era of your own legend.
Entirely fair, and perhaps something I can pinch for my own setting. Insofar as I try not to worldbuild (far) into the future of it, because it doesn’t matter to my folks. Stories in the future of their world, however… well, maybe Kuveli’s Bronze Age descendant, Amynedd, is as factual as presented, or maybe it’s just one of an infinite number of things that could happen, but haven’t yet. Same with the archaeologists who find Kuveli and Atatu’s burial, or the equally likely possibility that their world just doesn’t go beyond the Mesolithic and Neolithic.
And, well, yeah world keeps turning. The age of ice might long enough ago, for my folk, to have become a piece of foundational myth, but to Atatu’s folk in the Mammoth Steppe the thaw is still ongoing. And that’s beside their world still recovering from a (relatively) brief and sudden drop in temperatures, a little ice age or, even, younger dryas if you will.
And, well, yeah world keeps turning. The age of ice might long enough ago, for my folk, to have become a piece of foundational myth, but to Atatu’s folk in the Mammoth Steppe the thaw is still ongoing. And that’s beside their world still recovering from a (relatively) brief and sudden drop in temperatures, a little ice age or, even, younger dryas if you will.
It's fake/tortured Proto-Indo-European. The word is ostensibly declined as a dual ablative. It's meant to mean "(by means of) two proud spears".
In-universe it's his "face name" that he received upon coming of age, and likely references having delivered the killing blow to something with his teeth. We've never learned his birth name. I may want to reserve that as a potential plot point.
In-universe it's his "face name" that he received upon coming of age, and likely references having delivered the killing blow to something with his teeth. We've never learned his birth name. I may want to reserve that as a potential plot point.
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