princess maker - avante en garde

[idolpro]

[ 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, though immediately a nurse comes in to rock the child back 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 the age of 10 sits on a chair, smiling at you. a golden retriever 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 your history's 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. ]

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ROUND 1 MORAL DILEMMA

[idolpro]

1

[idolpro]

You find yourself in a moral dilemma. . . your daughter cursed out her teacher when they were scolding her, and stormed out. This behavior is not acceptable and her teacher seems to be incredibly offended by her insults and language. Your daughter feels it was only proper, being that her teacher was "getting on her case".

What do you do?

DECISION

[idolpro]

[knightceties]

- fire teacher and hire another one
- uphold plague bearer agreement with daughter; no contact until she's older, but in the meantime she can get, like, science books and things on them. whatever they are. Ace still doesn't know.
- if daughter ever seems to get annoyed with her teacher, remind her that when she's princess she can get revenge on annoying people, but she has to behave until then

[idolpro]

You fire the teacher - this is easy for you to do, as a noble; technically her teacher is from the school and not employed by you but the money and power you have means that monetary pressure is all you really need to arbitrarily ruin a person's life at the behest of your daughter's wishes, and this is absolutely a lesson she needed to learn here.

You buy science books on plague bearers; with this, you learn that plague bearers are those who carry the disease - often, plague bearers mutate into monsters or are deformed or otherwise clinically insane. Their sickness comes from the genetic mutation that makes them more Plague than Human, and the scary part about the disease is that, until the mutation occurs, you can't tell who is a carrier and who isn't. Most cases of the disease occur when the person is a child, however - hence why children are often not named until they're 10 years old, just at the cut off age for most cases of Plague. After all, why name something you're simply going to throw away?

Your daughter learns that she must behave - that is, she must endure hardship - until she becomes princess. When she does, she can take her vengeance.

Your daughter's temperament is fair.

Your daughter's morality is evil.

DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

[knightceties]

Hey...dear.

[did we ever name our daughter, oh well]

What did the teacher do?

[idolpro]

The girl tilts her head up and sniffs, haughtily crossing her arms.

"She was absolutely intolerable! Annoying! I don't have time to listen to her bumbling nonsense."

[knightceties]

What was she talking about?

[idolpro]

"Boring things. She says that I don't get to play with plague bearers, but I think they're entertaining! That teacher is dumb."

2

[idolpro]

You find yourself in a moral dilemma. . . your daughter confides to you she accidentally brought a toy of her classmate's home from school. She does think the right thing would be to give it back to her classmate, but her classmate doesn't even seem to care about the toy anyway, and your daughter has really grown attached to it. Unfortunately, it is not a toy that can be bought in stores anymore, as they are all handmade and the craftsman passed away a few years ago.

What do you do?

DECISION

[idolpro]

[knightceties]

Encourage daughter to ~follow her heart~ and return the toy. But also to use her negotiation skillz to offer to buy it from her classmate.

[idolpro]

Your daughter negotiates with the girl - and ends up spending quite a bit of money.

Just because she learned to haggle doesn't mean she has any idea of what money means relatively speaking, because she's a rich girl. . . But I mean, how much could a banana cost? Ten dollars?

Anyway, she learned that if she really wants something, she could just buy it. This girl is a winner.

Your daughter's temperament is fair.

Your daughter's morality is neutral.

DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

[calmthefoxdown]

Not telling the classmate could come back to haunt her later.

[knightceties]

If it's going to bother her to keep it, then she should give it back.

[calmthefoxdown]

If she wants it, she could offer a trade or a dollar value equivalent to how much it was in stores. If the classmate doesn't accept the offer, then that's the end of that.

3

[idolpro]

You find yourself in a moral dilemma. . . your daughter confides in you there is a bully in her class who is giving a hard time to a few of her classmates. She is unaffiliated with her bullied classmates, however it seems the teacher is not taking any action. She is thinking about taking on the bully herself, but the bully is also twice her size and much, much stronger than she is.

What do you do?

DECISION

[idolpro]

Re: DECISION

[calmthefoxdown]

[ These good boys decide to talk over with their daughter about how she should try talking with the teacher, and if that doesn't work, talking with the principal about what she's witnessing. In the meantime, making friends with the kids being bullied to show the bully that those kids aren't alone and bullying isn't appreciated. Size doesn't matter as much if there's a lot of people standing together. ]

[ Also making sure that she can defend herself if the bully starts to pick on her, if she needs to. Don't be the one to start a fight, but do be the one to finish it and all that. ]

[knightceties]

[Regardless of whether or not any of this works, Ace is going to try and figure out who the bully is and, when Gold and their daughter are busy (probably playing volleyball), disguise himself and waylay the bully in an isolated place to put the Fear of God in them, making liberal use of Living Forge to intimidate.

The general thrust of his threat is that the child has been mean to their classmates and that is not nice. And if they don't start being nicer than Ace is going to put all these magic knives to good use on the naughty child. The sharpness of said knives will be demonstrated on a chunk of hair or bookbag or basically something noticeable but that won't do any harm. This time.

Then he will let the bully go to see if they will mend their ways.

Let's see if doing this the nice way works.]

DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

[knightceties]

Ahaha, what a cute daughter we have... How nice to worry about her classmates like this.

[calmthefoxdown]

Maybe she should talk with the teacher, and if that doesn't work, talk with the principal?