I have a new mouse! His name is Stefan, he is white with black spots, and he is currently on the loose in the basement. He’s from the shelter, and not very tame at all, poor thing. This is his second escape. The first time, I got him back by putting his cage out on the floor, and he came back into it after a couple of days for food and water. Now though, he’s savvy to that trick. Poop evidence indicates he’s coming in for sustenance and wheel use, then leaving again. Smart little dude, eh?
Ramblings of a Creative Double Dipper is doing a spork on Merry Gentry: Seduced by Moonlight!
http://creativedoubledipper.blogspot.com/
While Dottie Smith and The Horned Doe are both sporking NiC!
http://eternaleve.wordpress.com/
http://tigergray.blogspot.com/
I tried to do a fic about the weretigers life post-SvS (aka post-Anita) but it didn’t really come along. Since I know some of you were as interested in various members of the tiger clans as I was, here’s what the idea was:
- The gold tigers go to live with the Red Clan in Seattle, as do Yiyu and Cynric
- Julia also leaves the White Clan to live with the Red, since she feels betrayed by her people for what they stood by and allowed Anita to do to her
- Padma reveals that, like the Harlequin, he’s been hiding a small colony of rare-color tigers of his own (including, gasp, POC ones among them!)
- Lucille and Maureen want to re-populate the near-extinct gold, blue, and black clans. While Lucille has no problem treating them like breeding stock the same way the Harlequin does, Maureen does take issue with it, and persuades Lucille to use more scientific means (probably calling on Ruthven for use of his labs again) with the project on the basis that it will work better that way anyway
- The sole other blue weretiger in the world is located and brought in for this. She has some relationship to Cynric, but it can’t be determined if she’s his mother, aunt, or sister. It is brought up she could be a combination of these, given the incest among the dwindling bloodlines that Anita hinted at once, and it is suggested that this incestuous tradition might be why Cynric was so accepting of fucking his mother-figure Anita (and how Anita is a shit for taking advantage of this on top of everything else)
- Since the golden tigers no longer need to be kept a secret, they can have active lives in the outside world instead of being cloistered away. Envy wants to get a job because she thinks it will be fun (the only reference for it she has being television) but she doesn’t have any sort of degree or even GED so her options are limited (I figure the Harlequin educated the tigers somewhat, but not much considering their whole purpose was to be bred like animals and given away like objects). Julia decides to help her out with her job search, and after Envy’s naivete with the world combined with being used to doing things in a more shifter-culture way (see: chasing down shop-lifters in tiger form) results in some wacky hijinx and hilarious mishaps, she ends up getting a job using her therian nose for a perfume company that wants to run a line of scents geared towards therians (to whom most perfumes probably smell terrible, or at least different from how humans smell them)
- Since Julia and Envy and, well, all of them are really lacking in canon personality, it was hard to write them but I tried to glean out what I could. From what little is in the text, I think they’re both supposed to be very feminine, as well as delicate despite their supernatural power. I see Julia’s femininity as more refined and princessy, Envy’s as more innocent (I think Envy is a lot more naive in general). They both come from isolationist backgrounds, but while Envy would have been totally cloistered away, Julia’s was simply probably sheltered in the way that most pureblood tigers are---interacting with the human world, but very much raised in their own. Eny’s sexual abuse at JC’s hands was also something she would have been trained from birth to accept, and was just another part of a lifetime of being treated as an object. Julia, on the other hand, would know completely how wrong what Anita did to her was, and it was possibly the first time she’d ever been treated that way (I’m going with the idea it was).
To get inspiration for them besides these bare bones, I turned to music. I had my mp3 player on shuffle, and decided that the first song it picked for my workout would be for Envy, and the last one would be for Julia. Eny got “I Like Giants” by Kimya Dawson, so I decided that she’s really psyched about immersing herself in the world and discovering just how HUGE it is, and in turn realizing how small she is. And she actually takes comfort in feeling dwarfed and insignificant, since a lifetime of being treated as this precious treasure and the hope of her species’ future has been a lot on her shoulders. For Julia, I got “Opheliac” by Emilie Autumn, so I decided that, since she can’t take revenge on Victor and Anita (I think I killed Victor in SvS, and Anita, while alive, sort of has the mark of Cain on her from Lucy and Maureen so no one like Julia kills her for her crimes and ruins the punishment that is living as a normal non-special person) she’s bitter towards her entire Clan for letting them do that to her, and, now that she’s away from the Clan and can’t take it out on them, takes it out on everyone except fellow victims. She’s also, as a product of a matriarchal society, hyper-aware of the sexism and double standards that the human world lives by, though I think this could probably be said of all Clan tigers, and blames that in part for what Anita did to her.
None of this ever really made it into the fic because it didn't go too far, but that's now basically how I imagine them both and how I'll probably portray them in the future if I ever get any more fic actually done. Just thought I'd share!
Ramblings of a Creative Double Dipper is doing a spork on Merry Gentry: Seduced by Moonlight!
http://creativedoubledipper.blogspot.com/
While Dottie Smith and The Horned Doe are both sporking NiC!
http://eternaleve.wordpress.com/
http://tigergray.blogspot.com/
I tried to do a fic about the weretigers life post-SvS (aka post-Anita) but it didn’t really come along. Since I know some of you were as interested in various members of the tiger clans as I was, here’s what the idea was:
- The gold tigers go to live with the Red Clan in Seattle, as do Yiyu and Cynric
- Julia also leaves the White Clan to live with the Red, since she feels betrayed by her people for what they stood by and allowed Anita to do to her
- Padma reveals that, like the Harlequin, he’s been hiding a small colony of rare-color tigers of his own (including, gasp, POC ones among them!)
- Lucille and Maureen want to re-populate the near-extinct gold, blue, and black clans. While Lucille has no problem treating them like breeding stock the same way the Harlequin does, Maureen does take issue with it, and persuades Lucille to use more scientific means (probably calling on Ruthven for use of his labs again) with the project on the basis that it will work better that way anyway
- The sole other blue weretiger in the world is located and brought in for this. She has some relationship to Cynric, but it can’t be determined if she’s his mother, aunt, or sister. It is brought up she could be a combination of these, given the incest among the dwindling bloodlines that Anita hinted at once, and it is suggested that this incestuous tradition might be why Cynric was so accepting of fucking his mother-figure Anita (and how Anita is a shit for taking advantage of this on top of everything else)
- Since the golden tigers no longer need to be kept a secret, they can have active lives in the outside world instead of being cloistered away. Envy wants to get a job because she thinks it will be fun (the only reference for it she has being television) but she doesn’t have any sort of degree or even GED so her options are limited (I figure the Harlequin educated the tigers somewhat, but not much considering their whole purpose was to be bred like animals and given away like objects). Julia decides to help her out with her job search, and after Envy’s naivete with the world combined with being used to doing things in a more shifter-culture way (see: chasing down shop-lifters in tiger form) results in some wacky hijinx and hilarious mishaps, she ends up getting a job using her therian nose for a perfume company that wants to run a line of scents geared towards therians (to whom most perfumes probably smell terrible, or at least different from how humans smell them)
- Since Julia and Envy and, well, all of them are really lacking in canon personality, it was hard to write them but I tried to glean out what I could. From what little is in the text, I think they’re both supposed to be very feminine, as well as delicate despite their supernatural power. I see Julia’s femininity as more refined and princessy, Envy’s as more innocent (I think Envy is a lot more naive in general). They both come from isolationist backgrounds, but while Envy would have been totally cloistered away, Julia’s was simply probably sheltered in the way that most pureblood tigers are---interacting with the human world, but very much raised in their own. Eny’s sexual abuse at JC’s hands was also something she would have been trained from birth to accept, and was just another part of a lifetime of being treated as an object. Julia, on the other hand, would know completely how wrong what Anita did to her was, and it was possibly the first time she’d ever been treated that way (I’m going with the idea it was).
To get inspiration for them besides these bare bones, I turned to music. I had my mp3 player on shuffle, and decided that the first song it picked for my workout would be for Envy, and the last one would be for Julia. Eny got “I Like Giants” by Kimya Dawson, so I decided that she’s really psyched about immersing herself in the world and discovering just how HUGE it is, and in turn realizing how small she is. And she actually takes comfort in feeling dwarfed and insignificant, since a lifetime of being treated as this precious treasure and the hope of her species’ future has been a lot on her shoulders. For Julia, I got “Opheliac” by Emilie Autumn, so I decided that, since she can’t take revenge on Victor and Anita (I think I killed Victor in SvS, and Anita, while alive, sort of has the mark of Cain on her from Lucy and Maureen so no one like Julia kills her for her crimes and ruins the punishment that is living as a normal non-special person) she’s bitter towards her entire Clan for letting them do that to her, and, now that she’s away from the Clan and can’t take it out on them, takes it out on everyone except fellow victims. She’s also, as a product of a matriarchal society, hyper-aware of the sexism and double standards that the human world lives by, though I think this could probably be said of all Clan tigers, and blames that in part for what Anita did to her.
None of this ever really made it into the fic because it didn't go too far, but that's now basically how I imagine them both and how I'll probably portray them in the future if I ever get any more fic actually done. Just thought I'd share!