I did. I'm presently getting my ducks in a row for the NERE Awakening Venue (which I'm running in two weeks or so), but I'm intending to scrounge some time to put together a decently-detailed e-mail regarding ideas for Cerannen's past ties with Eden and Edria.
I'm thinking your character would make an excellent goal for mine to attain to, so far as her work in fear is concerned. If she can make Cerannen act out of fear, then she's reached the top. Nothing would be out of her reach. I'mnot saying that's how it'll actually be, or that he'd even care or notice anything she tries, but that's her vision of things.
I'm likewise playing a Summer Court Beast, with the IC livejournal radiofreefae and the Wiki page here.
I figure we might make good friendly rivals, since the end goals we aim for seem to be similar enough for our characters to work together in a fight, but their views of what is important in life after the end of enslavement, and of what use their ties to humanity are, seem to me to be the kind of thing which fun petty squabbles could be made of. Nemo is not much of one to appreciate being "tested", to be sized up as equal or as prey, even though he is pretty high on the top of the food chain when it comes to such a struggle... and I imagine our paths would cross on the goals of undermining the influence of the Keepers, to the tune of an initial struggle as personalities clash... immediately put away to thwack the Fae-twisted thing that needed to be put down in a savage, bestial fashion, followed by mutual appreciation if not mutual understanding.
Of particular interest to me in this is the notion that Nemo has an idea of what's important in life - Cerannen doesn't. He doesn't think about what he wants; he just knows, and goes for it, and takes it if he can. There's no deep philosophy to him: women, food, drink, hunting, fighting, and, when need be, killing. His world is the sort of enviably simple place that high Wyrd and lowish Clarity creates in a Hunterheart's Hunterheart. He doesn't consciously appraise others as prey or rivals; it's simply in his nature, the same way that any predatory animal would do. To him, not to do so is an unthinkable as for a normal person to simply decide to stop breathing air.
Nemo's a Beast, but he tries to also be a man... now that he's back from Arcadia, he tries to recapture a life apart from that which he was made into. It's not so much a denial of his nature as it is an attempt to live up to a greater principle, to explain why what happened to him was "wrong", as that requires a concept of "right" instead of just an understanding of the "natural".
Moderate Wyrd, high Clarity... and a very different perspective behind why they do what they do. Nemo acts the way he acts because the man inside of him feels wronged and embraces his bestial nature to "right" it, while Cerannen just is.
Ah, okay. This starts to make some sense. Cerannen's (dim, instinctual, and highly subconscious) view on why what was done to him was wrong is because it hurt and made him desperate and afraid, which are states of being that no animal likes. Now, he wants to hurt those that hurt him, because a wounded predator fights back with fang and claw when it believes that it has a chance of winning.
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I figure we might make good friendly rivals, since the end goals we aim for seem to be similar enough for our characters to work together in a fight, but their views of what is important in life after the end of enslavement, and of what use their ties to humanity are, seem to me to be the kind of thing which fun petty squabbles could be made of. Nemo is not much of one to appreciate being "tested", to be sized up as equal or as prey, even though he is pretty high on the top of the food chain when it comes to such a struggle... and I imagine our paths would cross on the goals of undermining the influence of the Keepers, to the tune of an initial struggle as personalities clash... immediately put away to thwack the Fae-twisted thing that needed to be put down in a savage, bestial fashion, followed by mutual appreciation if not mutual understanding.
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Moderate Wyrd, high Clarity... and a very different perspective behind why they do what they do. Nemo acts the way he acts because the man inside of him feels wronged and embraces his bestial nature to "right" it, while Cerannen just is.
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