Pepper @aphandra@octodon.social

yeah just making Eberron a 3-gender setting. male, female, and other.

they as a default pronoun for when you don't know someone's gender. he, she or ver/ver/vis for when you do. knowing someone's pronouns being a sign of intimacy.

like everyone in this game is queer I'm not about to put them in a binary setting :)

@quartzwing we have quite a collection now!

thank you for asking after the semantics of Breq and inspiring this, it fits much more comfortably now.

problem: need a name anyone in the body can go by.

also problem: picking one that's not our name feels weird.

solution: we all belong to the collective. name the collective.

plural & savvy friends will know it's a group name. it collapses to a pseudo proper name with other singlets.

we are the Breq. we come in peace :)

man got some shit going on. not really fit for public consumption. but. jfc it's only day 2 and my nerves are shot.

I can do this.

black silver ring got here! lines up with our occult necklaces and our cord bracelet for *some* kind of set bonus I swear.

man how did I not notice before that star trek has both positive and negative portrayals of a collective?

we... kinda have more in common with the borg honestly. but we like to be seen like the Q ^..^

hi I'm the performative one

kinda want a spell component pouch tbh. not to do cast spells with, just as an accessory. wizardry chic

thrifting success!

@starkatt Mu!

gonna get art at some point but in the meantime for the non D&D players out there here's a shot of the couatl from the monster manual. am feathered serpent ^..^

also in typesex news have I mentioned how nice it is to be able to encircle someone and constrict them? ;)

wow so yeah I have gone from "randomly pick a draconic species at a friend's prompting" to "This Is Me" so fast

hi so yeah I'm a couatl. blue serpentine iridescent featherdragon and utter utter style

*pulls down her flogger from its hook on her bookcase*

hey Sweetness~ you and me are going to have some fun today....

I mean people talk about vast telepathic group minds, but I don't think they really think through what you'd get if you tried it. It doesn't go quite as one would expect.

Sen told me I can be a girl if I want, so I think I'll be a girl.

Day two out in the world and a gender question that's been running for a year resolves like that! *snaps fingers*

All I had to do is actually think about boyclothes vs. girlclothes, about transition options, about pronouns, about GRS maybe-- to actually be in the driver's seat for any of that-- and all the pieces fell into place.

I'm a girl.

The nuance of being a terrible person dropped perfectly into a decent person's life. My every inclination is to be awful. My every incentive is to do the best good person impression I can.

And I mean I know I'm doing that second one. I'm smart enough for that.

But wrenching my inclinations around is gonna be work. I am *not* cut out for this being a decent person stuff.

Sen gave me a reprieve ^v^ I don't have just one chance to get this right. it's okay to fuck it up and she won't yank back front from me

she feels harried by running the life and wants rid of those responsibilities. my strong need for control means I very much want them. it just makes sense that she'd hand them off to me, in the end. and even if I fuck it up that's probably how things will sort out.

whew. okay. feeling calmer. I get to have this and I don't need to be perfect.