Just Prompts: Fairy Tales (9/26 -- 10/9)

[clockwork_doc]

What’s your favorite Fairy Tale? Why?

Anyone who knows me knows I take a very dim view of faeries and the like these days. They’re NOT how they’re portrayed in most of these stories. If a Fae takes a liking to you, what you want to do is run. Not that it’ll help. . . .

Of course, given that I’m stuck in an alternate reality, perhaps I’m being unfair. Anyone want to give me examples of more pleasant, Disney-like Fae?

(And if you must know, as a child I was fond of “Sleeping Beauty.” I always wondered if someone could really sleep a hundred years without aging. Makes me wonder now if some Fae tried it)

Comments

[metody-green.livejournal.com]

I wish I could show my family this place. But I don't think they'd understand, and I think they'd be afraid of me after.

[clockwork-doc.livejournal.com]

That's too bad. I'm sorry.

[metody-green.livejournal.com]

There are worse things to bear. :D I shouldn't complain. Besides - at least I am here. I'm much happier now that I've found this place!

[clockwork-doc.livejournal.com]

Very true. And yeah, finding the Nexus was good for me too. It's nice to have someplace to go when Chicago gets too crazy.

[metody-green.livejournal.com]

I have to admit, your version of Chicago sounds spectacularly strange to me.

[clockwork-doc.livejournal.com]

It is. We've got angels and demons and all sorts of supernatural people. Though it's technically not my Chicago -- I fell through a Rift in time and space into it. Yes, we have those too.

[metody-green.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I've got this theory that the Nexus is where various universes are linked, and it attatches usually at Earth, USA, 2008 - that's when and where quite a few people are. I wonder if you've got the Chicago version of the join. I haven't seen so many angels and demons in the Nexus.

Or I could be full of it.

[clockwork-doc.livejournal.com]

I don't know. The angels and demons seem to be natural to this world -- they're human subspecies, change when they're 16. It could explain the Rift, maybe. People from all sorts of different universes fall through it into Chicago (and other places in this world, possibly. I don't know.) I wouldn't be surprised if a significant number of the population in this city now is displaced wanderers.

[metody-green.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's pretty different from the Nexus - here, people seem to wander in and out, though a fair number are actually trapped. I've met a few natives, but they seem to be an eclectic mix of human and other creatures.

How does the city's infrastructure handle so many lost people?

[clockwork-doc.livejournal.com]

I noticed that. I was glad not to be stuck somewhere else. Though I feel for those who are.

I honestly don't really know. There's this one hotel, the Conrad, that's run by angels and takes in Wanderers. There's a secret basement that contains rooms and houses almost everyone. There's also the Main Gauche, which is a similar complex run by demons. Don't ask me where they get the money -- I know the Conrad takes in regular guests, but the Gauche is foreign to me.

[metody-green.livejournal.com]

Ah - are you hidden from the general population of the city, then?

Demons sound terrifying.

[clockwork-doc.livejournal.com]

Pretty much so. I think there's a general consensus there would be some sort of panic if people knew about us.

From what I've heard, it depends on the demon. Some of them have actually done nice things, like help cure a plague. On the flip side, some angels act like complete bastards. It's all very complicated.

[metody-green.livejournal.com]

A stream of otherworldly people? I can see how that'd cause a panic. I keep quiet about what I can do for similar reasons.

So it isn't as if they're purely good or purely evil?

[clockwork-doc.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Especially given the Rift changes all of us on the way through. That's how I got my weather powers.

Not really. From what I hear, angels are driven to do good and demons to do evil, but they're still just people. Demons can help people, angels can hurt people. It's really just one big complicated mess.

[metody-green.livejournal.com]

Ah, you mentioned that once.

That sounds rather difficult to deal with, given the normal expectation that the angels would do good. Do they have powers as well?

[clockwork-doc.livejournal.com]

It is, it is. Especially since one of the angels wasn't exactly fond of Wanderers. She's gone now, and the current infastructure seems more friendly, but still. . . .

Yes, they have powers -- wings and greater strength and speed are the common ones to angels and demons. After that it depends on what kind of angel or demon they are. There's quite the range.

[metody-green.livejournal.com]

Goodness.

I had no idea that there was a variety to them. I never paid much attention to the more organized big-God religions.

[clockwork-doc.livejournal.com]

Me either. Learning about these kind was a bit of a shock. Though apparently they're not the kind to serve any God or Devil. Like I said, human subspecies. (Makes your head hurt after a while, doesn't it?)

[metody-green.livejournal.com]

Urgh, yeah. So it's a case of something being named after another thing it superficially resembles?

[clockwork-doc.livejournal.com]

Something like that, I suppose. Makes about as much sense as anything else.

[metody-green.livejournal.com]

Ha, sense. These places seem designed to send logic whimpering into a cave.

[clockwork-doc.livejournal.com]

Exactly! Logic has no place in these worlds.

[metody-green.livejournal.com]

I manage to turn myself blue from eating a pepper. One of my friends suggest the best way to undo it would be eating a nonLOLed pepper.

It worked.

God.

[clockwork-doc.livejournal.com]

Life is just full of surprises.

[metody-green.livejournal.com]

Yes. Stupid, stupid surprises.