Cycle Worldbuilding Info

[Alicorn]

I guess you could pet a coral. It'd be a waste of time, it can't do anything you tell it to. You can't pet sapients.

[DanielH]

I was imagining you could control how fast the coral grew, and maybe sculpt the reef given enough time.

[atheistcanuck]

True corals are actually made up of entire colonies of critters, iirc.

[Alicorn]

Yeah, that'd be a ridiculous time investment.

[MaggieoftheOwls]

I bet you could find a Quendi who'd do it, if Quendi could be servantmakers.

[DanielH]

Yeah, that’s exactly what I thought when I came up with the coral reef idea. I originally thought of coral just because it was recently mentioned in glowfic to be Technically An Animal but wouldn’t usually be thought of as one, but then I realized there was a (very time consuming) use case.

What about plants that can move around, such as Venus flytraps and to a lesser extent sun-tracking flowers? My guess is “no”, but I wouldn’t be too surprised if it were possible.

[Kappa]

Do pets need to be able to hear verbal commands in order to respond to them?

[Alicorn]

No Venus flytrap pets.

And no, deaf animals can still be commanded as pets.

[DanielH]

Is the pattern Kib noticed about not getting things before age 4 an actual constraint or random chance? Either way could it be possible that between some pair of somebody's reincarnations there was a baby who died of exposure? I suppose that would lead to a suspiciously long time between death date and creche date, but not impossibly long depending on the weather in the two locations.

I also notice that Danibel is a name that seems to follow the naming schema of the place, but I can't think of any interesting thinks that the come out of one of their creche workers noticing this too. Unless they were both named that I guess.

[Alicorn]

He doesn't get things before age 4 because Aly didn't form any lasting memory that early.

It is entirely possible for a reincarnation chain to include dead babies but most babies do, since the invention of storks, get found.