amenon wrote: ↑Thu Jun 15, 2017 8:05 pmOh, come on! A reply from you, in a thread where I summoned you,
and it's not about what I summoned you about?
I'm gonna have to get a refund on these ritual candles.
amenon wrote: ↑Sat May 27, 2017 5:35 am
Also, youngTani still there. Love it! Can I get an avwolf appearance re: Encino Man?
*laugh* "Look up your Pauly Shore references from a year ago!"
For
the curious and befuddled:
avwolf wrote:See, this isn't "young Natani". This isn't a past Natani freed from a block of ice like some Encino Man. This "young Natani" is still our modern Natani, just a different aspect of her own personality. It's the sassy, take-charge, doesn't afraid of misogyny side of herself that Natani remembers best from her youth; when she was a proud woman-in-disguise in the Brotherhood, before her soul was shattered. This side of her has been strengthened, reinforced, and given voice by Natani's recent experiences: meeting a woman who leads a warrior nation. Watching a woman -- frightened, weak, and emotional -- give up her most treasured belonging and willingly sacrifice herself to buy people (who she barely knew!) a chance. This is the quiet voice in Natani's head that turned her background pink when she thought about confessing her feelings to Keith. And now that Zen's big brass man band isn't blaring, it's not such a quiet voice anymore. But this part of Natani has always been a part of Natani. Now Natani can't run from it and has to face it.
Clearly this voice in Natani's head has gotten rather less quiet.
This "other Natani" is still here, Natani's "mind's still fractured" (as Natani sees it), but I don't see anything here that would suggest that "youngTani" is
really a snapshot of Natani from the past or invalidate my supposition that this other voice in Natani's head, as much as Natani's conscious mind interprets it as something of an invader, is other than a part of our modern Natani. "Tell Keith he's cute" seems like something a modern voice for Natani would say (if he wasn't embarrassed to do so). Natani's past might compare Keith to other Keidran she'd fancied long ago, but for Natani's present, there is only Keith (well, possibly also Kat
). It might be an "other Natani," but it's not a past echo of Natani calling out into the future; it's a living, dynamic Natani of the modern day. YoungTani appears as Natani pictures that side of herself, as a memory, but that doesn't make this other voice just a memory.
Honestly, I wasn't struck with astonishment that this side of Natani was still around. Besides, this is a much, much funnier and less disruptive way to introduce Natani's continuing...synthesis than a pink-backgrounded panel of "I should tell him he's cute." I won't be surprised if Keith gets a dream about his father (with Alaric cameos!), as a way for
him to address his new understanding of his family and how it
frighteningly directly relates to Keith's own romantic choices. Natani goes to a mind forest and talks with sassy teenager Natani, Keith gets dreams about his father berating him (though I would expect
this dream will involve a lot less berating); it's how their individual minds deal with their experiences.