Canon: Codex Alera

[student_of_impossibility]

Hello, mun.

You've got this obsessive drive to get more people from home at both games I'm in. I'd love it--but stop overreacting.

Secondly, the Port: I would be happier Kitai there. The high-pitched noises about wishing my father were there are hurting my ears, though.

What's your phrase? Chill out? Do it now. Please.

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[talentsgirl]

...so my mun is flailing at seeing you here - something about 'mutual authors' and 'squee' and I've learned it's better just to give in at this point.

Hi, I'm Molly.

[student_of_impossibility]

...So my mun is complaining that I'm incapable of puppy-dog-eyes because the situation calls for it? I don't understand.

Nice to meet you. I'm Tavi.

[talentsgirl]

Muns, right? And they think we're the confusing ones...

...so. [She pauses a bit here, trying to figure out why her mun is so excited.] Tavi. Not as in Riki-Tiki?

[student_of_impossibility]

...What is Riki-Tiki?

[talentsgirl]

Uh, Riki-Tiki-Tavi. [Not from Earth then, OK, Molly.] He was a hero in a story... he was a mongoose who defeated two snakes and defended a child in a garden.

[And animals taking on the form of people is not the strangest thing she's seen in this place.]

So I'm guessing not.

[student_of_impossibility]

A mongoose? [ He sounds intensely interested. ]

[talentsgirl]

Let me guess - no mongooses where you're from? [...mongeese? mongooses? Mrr.]

[student_of_impossibility]

None that I am aware of. Possibly elsewhere on the planet.

What are they?

[talentsgirl]

[In which Molly wonders where her social acumen went, that she just compared this random and attractive stranger to a rodent. Way to go, Molly Carpenter. You're usually much better than this.]

I'm not exactly a mongoose expert. I just know the story. In the cartoon, it looked kind of like a ferret.

[...]

It's a really good story.

[student_of_impossibility]

[ Tavi is totally oblivious to the fact that he's attractive. ]

Huh.

...But this still doesn't explain the muns squeeing.

[ Rubs his ear ruefully. ]

[talentsgirl]

Well, my first guess was a bust.

[She could keep going, but...]

Your turn.

[student_of_impossibility]

Well I know why mine is squeeing.

She apparently squees when she's frustrated by having almost no one who plays other Alerans and desperately wants to find some for plotting.

Your mun I can't explain, though.

[talentsgirl]

I'm not sure anyone can explain her.

[Casual insults to those more powerful than you: It's the Dresden way.]

So - Aleran? Alera, then? That's where you're from?

[student_of_impossibility]

If you framed the question the right way...

[ Casual confidence in confronting something far more powerful than you, and possibly winning: it's the... okay, the Tavi way, at least. ]

Yes.

[talentsgirl]

...yeah, not ringing any bells here.

[She tilts her head in consideration.]

I guess I could try asking. But it might be one of those Things.

[student_of_impossibility]

'Those Things'?

[talentsgirl]

Yeah, like why they take you from a certain point in your timeline and not later... give me a sec.

[She will now ask.]

[student_of_impossibility]

I mostly understand the timeline whys, I think--we talked it through.

The mun just has this bizarre twitch about trying to find other Alerans.

[talentsgirl]

...the best I'm getting is that "she's a fan."

[Molly shakes her head.]

And you'd rather your mun didn't find them?

[student_of_impossibility]

Great furies, no-- it's the opposite.

She's pretty much constantly wishing for more Alerans, right now at the place where I'm the only one.

[talentsgirl]

What's the place like, where you are?

[student_of_impossibility]

It's a "yanked by inadequately explained means to a horrific place" scenario. Monsters come out of the darkness, slaving company, experimentation company, corruption, and everyone either has or develops superpowers or magic of some kind.