Sandbox Discussions

[Ezra]

"Promise" is even a kinda sorta good cape name for a Master who constrains your behavior like that, in that she makes you "promise" to behave.

It at least makes more sense than "Promise" the portal creator, or "Promise" the invisible flier.

[Ezra]

I wondered why, in a world mostly not played by Alicorn, Cherish _was_ played by Alicorn. Then I remembered alts.

[Ezra]

If I'm learning correctly the genders in Working Two to Six, I think Kumi from MWF has a definite harret vibe. Though probably with different biology?

[MaggieoftheOwls]

I don't follow MWF so I couldn't say.

[DanielH]

Alicorn has spoken before about Cherish and her alts, though I don’t remember where. I quit reading Worm about halfway through the Slaughterhouse Nine recruitment arc, so I didn’t realize Cherish was part of that group until this thread. I would not have predicted it given the template. It doesn’t seem like somewhere the template would land by itself, but I can see it happening given the pull of Worm canon.

[Ezra]

Aurin says, "...Can you not tell who everybody is by looking at them?"

Like you're one to talk, Mr. Looks Exactly The Same As Every Other Gold Dragon In Your Male Line.

[Nemo]

Alicorn actually has a really plausible way for a Chelsea to end up joining the Slaughterhouse Nine. It even coincides nicely with canon, minus the bit about her family situation. But it's a recent invention, not part of the Doylist explanation for why there's a Chelsea in that group in the first place.
It probably isn't meant to be secret or anything, but I'll let her say it.

[Ezra]

Also, now imagining dragons' perfect sex selection if they had more than two choices. I'm imagining that you'd see a bias toward selecting genders matching one or the other parent, for line continuity reasons. Or maybe the genealogers would have to sit down and sort out once and for all what to do when the same face crops up in the same color again.

[MaggieoftheOwls]

To make things even more complicated, polyamory is a normal thing in Six Genders Land. While a child can only have two biological parents, it's not uncommon to have three or four or five parents total.

[DanielH]

And mixing in dragons cannot make things simpler.

What happens if a dragon transforms into a nice, ordinary Elcenian species with a non-2 number of sexes?