The "TELL ME SOMETHING YOU'VE PROBABLY TOLD PLENTY OF PEOPLE" meme

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Okay, the way this meme works is you comment with a question that can be answered by the characters. Examples: "Do you believe in true love? If not, how do you feel about love?" or "What's the craziest thing you've ever done?" Then other players will respond to the comment and answer the questions. The catch is you can answer the questions IC or OOC. So you can have the character either answer ICly or you can explain the character's viewpoint on the subject. Or you can answer both ways. For instance, you can have your character answer ICly, but elaborate on their viewpoint or state things they wouldn't say out loud. Entirely up to you.

Characters can respond to the answers and play things out like usual.

You can also add new questions. Just make sure you're not repeating something. (You might want to post questions anon-ly, so you don't get a million notifies from the answers).

I'm going to post a bunch of questions to start us off but if you have your own, go nuts!

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[governorkang]

It's a complicated thing, for my kind. We don't trust easily.

Our parents are metallic dragons; we were stolen away and warped with magic, to appear as we do. Our parents were unaware of what had happened to their children at first, being made to swear an oath not to interfere with Takhisis' plans and told that their eggs would be returned safely if they did so.

They, of course, found out the truth, and we fought on opposite sides of the war. A good number of the eggs were retrieved safely. Most of the dragons consider us to be perversions, and considered killing us a mercy. They continued to do so even after the war was over, up until they were forced into hiding from the Dragon Overlords.

There were some draconians created from the eggs of chromatic dragons, cousins of a sort. Those draconians refused to fight for Takhisis, and we were ordered to kill many of them. Their parents, as well, would kill them out of "mercy", and thought them to be embarrassments. Some of the metallic dragons served as mentors towards our cousins, further increasing the hostility between our two sides.

None of us that were created during the war, excepting the females, know for certain who our blood relatives are, draconian or dragon. Due to our violent upbringing, many of us males are uncomfortable calling each other "brother"; understandable, when we were forced to kill each other in order to get enough to eat. As for the females, they at least know who their draconian sisters are. There were only twenty, originally.

Our children, also, know who their siblings are, male and female. They also know who their parents are, and a few other various blood relatives.

Family is... a new concept for us, really. Many of us came to consider those in the units we served with to be as close as kin, and the regiment I was once the commander of regard the females as our own daughters after having raised them from hatching. Almost all of the females ended up choosing those males for their mates, as well.

Those of us that have a mate and/or children are fiercely protective; the discovery of females after forty years of thinking that we would be the first, and last, of our kind without even knowing how long our life spans are, means that they are our biggest hope. They're our future.

To me, they are also proof that we can do something other than destroy.

It's not common for us to become close enough to members of other races to consider them kin. We have a reputation, and the war is still fresh in most of Krynn's minds. The majority of us also don't really care much for mingling with the other races, preferring to stay in Teyr with our own kind. Humans have burned us before.

It does happen, though. Here on Stacy, I see Kaylee as a little sister of a sort. I also, with no disrespect intended towards Stoick or any intentions to replace him, see Hiccup as a son. By extension, Astrid is like a daughter.

I do miss my own children, and my mate Fonrar, and I hope that one day my two families will get to meet each other.