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So far I haven't run any green bellkids in a culture with Valentine's Day.

Bellparents are both carefully neutral between the set of twins when it's present (and they act like a unit a lot anyway), but when there's a Soph, Charlie favors the Bell (for being more responsible) and Renée favors the Soph (for being more fun) - not a lot, just enough to notice. The set of three in Quinn has less of this favoring going on; Aleko is serving as a balancing factor.

We haven't run a whole lot of bellparents interacting with bellspawn so I'm not getting a clear read on favoritism that may exist there.

The Quinn Set are all... "very Charlie" type of people, which fits the circunstances.

I think that the original Dominique would be Charlie... not favorite, but he would think a little higher of her. I have no idea about the others.

Elspeth looks very balanced between the type of person that Charlie and Renée would like, a Elspeth-sibling could fare better or not, we would need to see it. In a bizarre transdimensional contest, I think that Elspeth might even win first place in grandkid favoritism purely for better "average" approval

Otherwise, I can't quite tell who among the other templates would fare well with either grandparent.

I've been kinda surprised by how rarely anyone gets a daemon for no special reason other than that they think they'd like one. I'd think there would be at least a couple templates that would tend to jump at it, given wishcoin magic to protect the daemons and make them tuck-away-able; Zeuses or Stevens seem like likely types (although granted Zeus and Nathaniel are the only relevant instances right now). I guess I'm just overestimating the general appeal of daemons?

Daemons are a huge commitment, a huge vulnerability that isn't completely patched by straightforward magic (both in terms of the discomfort of being away from them and if someone touches them - you can tuck them away, but you have to have some presence of mind to manage that), have no cultural context for most people (and most people those people will encounter), involve messing with your literal soul, etc. etc. Zeus might like one and he'd go get one if Harley suggested it, but he's not really feeling the lack. If Nathaniel got one so would Renata.

"Automatically tuck the daemon away immediately if anyone other than its person gets within a centimeter of it" seems like the sort of thing a wishcoin should be able to do - we've seen that sort of persistent if/then thing with at least one mars colony, and on a much larger scale to boot.

I don't think a wishcoin would let that work if the daemon and person were not in the same world (like how Shell Bell routinely leaves Tune home while out and about). I guess it'd work for someone who didn't separate.

I am curious: Bell's parents are always a Renée and a Charlie, but is it specified that Renée is always the mother and Charlie is always the father? Would it be possible to get a Bell as the offspring of a male!Renée and a female!Charlie? ((René and Charline? Renald and Charlotte?)

^Renato is also possible for male!Renée

Maybe we could have a sort of Amazon!Bell with two bio moms, I am certain no one in the peal would think this is unusual (by now)

Question, how far ahead do you work the template attractors things? Like, in the other thread you mentioned that Elspeth have a harder time dealing with "attached people" is that a template attractor? are we suppose to see more Jakes?

I think I already answered the thing about genderswapping the bellparents in the thread about bellparents specifically.

Template attractors are almost more something I discover than something I decide. I make one of somebody, and then it's time to make another, and I see what I have to do before they will agree to be there. I have no strong expectation of making more Jakes. "Has a hard time dealing with people who act like accessories" is a feature of Elspeth's personality, and personality features are sort of a different thing than template attractors per se the way I write them.

Oh! Indeed you did. Wish I'd found that thread when I was looking for places to post the question! Still, "I haven't felt like doing it" doesn't quite address what would happen if they were. Unless "I haven't felt like it" means "it is not a thing that happens"?