Imeeji Idol Productions ([personal profile] idolpro) wrote2020-09-26 03:13 am

Princess Maker 1.5: future is now

[ When you insert the key and open the door, you'll find the room inside looks like the living room of a mansion. There are several doors, but one in particular stands out to you: it is ornately decorated, the very door's wood itself carved beautifully with gold etched in to make luxurious patterns depicting what looks like the sky and the wind blowing through the grasslands. Though the door is closed, you can see through it—as if it's somewhat transparent.

The room is painted baby blue and a gold-plated cradle sits in the room. Inside, a baby cries—high pitched and noisy. That child, your charge—you're her nursemaid, so you go to her and rock her to sleep. ]

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[ Slowly, the scene changes, fading in and out with various silent scenes—the baby sits up, trying to climb out of her cradle; a little toddler dressed prettily with expensive clothes beams pleasantly; a tantrum, thrown by the little girl who's distressed; the little girl holding a puppy, pleased as punch; then the wall becomes opaque. ]

[ In the middle of the open doorway, a young girl at the age of 11 sits on a chair, smiling at you. A long-haired, pure white cat is curled up beside her.

This is your little girl. you couldn't help spoiling her, honestly—after all, she's a noble too, and she should like to become a princess as well. She deserves it! But you also know, with how her family history has gone, she's going to have to work to get to the top. Still, you have faith in her—she's your girl, after all. Fortunately, when she goes to the Lost Continent, she won't be alone: you, as her longtime caretaker (her third parent, really, or her first, if you consider how her family's left her care entirely to you), may accompany her to her new school. You'll be her ally, her support, her greatest weapon; you'll be the one who determines her success . . . or her failure. ]

[ Of course, you're not the only one that thinks your charge deserves the world: Primrose Victory Bacon^3, one of the Queens of your Kingdom, hand-selected your employers' child. She doesn't have a child of her own to send to the Lost Continent—and even if she did, she would have her own inheritance battle to face within the Kingdom anyway—so she's selected theirs to sponsor. It's because of her that your charge will be able to go at all. That your child would catch the Queen's eye surely means the inheritance is as good as hers!

. . . Though, it's a little unsettling that the one rumored to be the Queen of Crime is your charge's sponsor! ]
mind_blown: (I like hard chances I might lose.)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] mind_blown 2020-09-27 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Y'know that's part of growing up, right, Intensity? Sometimes you tell kids when they're goin' wrong?

Granted, I wouldn't trust a damn person on this team with kids, but I'm just sayin'. You wanna treat her like your daughter, then you needa actually step up when things are goin' wrong.
bluescreenwhitedragon: ([DSOD] 008)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] bluescreenwhitedragon 2020-09-27 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Unfortunately, Intensity is the kind of parent who let his little brother start a taser gang when he was eight. ]

We did. We didn't want her to look down on people because they're of a lower class. She doesn't anymore. We didn't want her to make baseless accusations or apologize for things she didn't do. She doesn't do that either.

Yet you still say we've "created a monster" as if she hasn't been changing according to our tutelage.

If that's the case, maybe we should all look in a mirror first before condemning her.
mind_blown: (It won't be so bad)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] mind_blown 2020-09-27 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe we should.

Me though? Seen enough fuckup parents though to know that course correcting's better than just giving up.
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Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] bluescreenwhitedragon 2020-09-27 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a fine line between course correcting and micromanagement.

But if the rest of you see it as such a huge problem---

[Said with an eye roll as if he doesn't see it as a problem because he doesn't]

Then I'll leave the morality training to you.

But allude to her as a failure or a monster again, and you'll have me to contend with.
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Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] mind_blown 2020-09-27 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
See that's the thing...

I never did.

Got somethin' you wanna confess, Intensity?
bluescreenwhitedragon: ([--] Report!)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] bluescreenwhitedragon 2020-09-27 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Brat is neither a term of endearment nor a vote of confidence.

As for the other, then what monster were you referring to with "otherwise we've created a monster"?