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. ]

Comments

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[idolpro]

The bully that had bothered your daughter indirectly is now a pariah. More than that, your daughter seems to be affiliating herself with some unsavory folk - people who are pretty agreeable to listening to her, but people who would like to spend her money too. Leeches, in other words - not only that, but there's also talk about how your daughter is responsible for the bullying happening at school, now.

What do you do?

DECISION

[idolpro]

Re: DECISION

[calmthefoxdown]

[ So the obvious solution to this problem is... to have Dad Gold teach volleyball to other schools so that they can start up a volleyball league, giving their daughter an opportunity to make better, volleyball friends who do not care about money and only care about the purity of the sport. In addition, Princess Gold is encouraged to make friends with the bullied kid in her efforts to find better friends. ]

[ Also to address the shady friends, Princess Gold will have her allowance cut off, giving her more time to focus on sports, while also testing who her real friends are (loyals vs mutts). ]

[ Sports solve all problems. ]

Re: DECISION

[idolpro]

You start a volleyball league with the other neighboring schools in town. There aren't that many, but there are enough for a mini-tournament, with the 4 schools in the area. Princess Gold learns to make friends with people who don't care about money - only competition and blood (of the sport), and she even makes friends with the bullied kid! After all . . . that child is great as defense.

Your daughter has her allowance cut off. She doesn't seem to miss it much anyway, since she's too busy bathing in the blood of her enemies (in a sports way). Her older friends break off from her by roves - but they are too intimidated by her to really have any bad blood. She's. . . too scary. . .

Your daughter's temperament is snobby.

DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

[knightceties]

How do you teach someone to recognize freeloaders...

[calmthefoxdown]

[ How did things turn out like this... ]

[knightceties]

What do we do about the freeloaders? That's our money too, you know.

[unbr8kable]

Stop giving her money? Then the freeloaders'll go someplace else since she won't be financing them anymore.

[knightceties]

No, she's gotta learn how to deal with them herself. It's only going to get worse once she becomes princess, after all.

[unbr8kable]

But then she'll be able to see 'em for what they really are. You can't just tell somebody their friends are shitheads, they're not gonna just get new friends.

[calmthefoxdown]

What about reducing her allowance?

[unbr8kable]

I mean, she lives at home, I dunno what she needs money for anyway, but so long as it's enough that she can't just go around financing these other chumps.

How do we get her into a new crowd, come to think of it?

[calmthefoxdown]

Best way is for her to pick a new crowd, right?

[unbr8kable]

Yeah. But we see how well that worked out last time. So how do we stack the deck?

[calmthefoxdown]

... I'm not sure. I generally think people should figure out things for themselves.

[unbr8kable]

Even for our daughter? I would've figured you'd be softer at heart.

[knightceties]

Encourage her to make friends with responsible types, huh... Maybe we could tell her that she needs smart people around her when she becomes princess? Loyalty's not enough.

[unbr8kable]

Yeah, but if they're too smart, then they'll just take advantage of her. Loyalty's good, you just gotta know if it's true loyalty.

[knightceties]

I think we should do what Gold said and give her an allowance so she can learn how to manage money and also who she gives it to.

How do we teach her to find loyal and smart but not too smart lackeys? Who also don't ask for money too much?

[unbr8kable]

Maybe she should find some buddies that it's tougher to win over. If somebody's chomping at the bit to be your friend, then okay, but if you have to convince them to befriend you, they're probably gonna have a different perspective, right?

[knightceties]

We could tell her to make friends with the bullied kid?

[he says, as if the bullied kid's predicament isn't partly his fault,]

[unbr8kable]

Cynical, but it'd probably take care of the people bitching the kid's getting too bullied. If she can deal with 'im, why not?

[knightceties]

Okay~ So we'll give her an allowance, and suggest making friends with the bullied kid in order to put the rumors to rest? Should we see what she thinks?

[deicider]

[Cardigan is here now.]

That's a good idea.