Question Pegasus/Peggy

A new character from Phoenix Spiritus for Year 2... Let us know what you think and discuss her here...

A PK "Supergirl" and associated with STAR League Jr. I wonder if Lily will ask Hank to tutor her with her powers.

Her origin story reminds me of a friend of mine whose Super Hero RPG characters are all orphans.

Her name and bubbly personality seem to make her a natural for Wondercute, but she seems not into super cute stuff.

What, you don't think pegasi are cute?

I wonder if her origin story is going to stick with her as "simple" trauma, or if her minor isolation at Whateley from her adoptive sister and those teammates and her softball friends will lead her into mutant supremacy circles at school.

I mean, what happened is really, really horrible...and it was human supremacists who did it to her. And all the heroic role models she knows personally aren't going to include her because they're Juniors to her freshman (for good and rational reasons from their perspective).

They're not going to include her on their training team. That's not the same as excluding her from their friend group.

It's a DC Comics origin story, pretty much. I mean, how many DC heroes lost someone (or everyone) close to them at the beginning? 50%? More?

On a different note... the H1 dimbulbs managed a perfect *reverse* score: they killed every baseline human in the house (including themselves) and failed to kill any mutants. Somehow, I expect that their echo chambers will blame it on the mutant.

Arcanist Lupus wrote: They're not going to include her on their training team. That's not the same as excluding her from their friend group.

To be fair, I said "minor" isolation.

I'm not saying Ashley's logic isn't sound, it is, or that they won't each lunch together, or hang out, but there's some outstanding issues here that are hinted at being places where problems can grow from. Peggy just lost everyone. She has the same uniform as them, but isn't on their training team. She doesn't know anyone at Whateley right now, but will be automatically associated with a team she's not really a part of, and that team will be in the sims more often than not, without her.

That leaves Peggy vulnerable, because she's included by all appearances, but ends up being more of a mascot. You don't think some of the meaner students aren't going to point that out to her? She's in the position to be pitied, pandered to, belittled by the jerks looking to hurt others to push themselves up.

Not that Star League Jr. would actually do that to her intentionally. Even remotely. They just don't always think about the big picture or consequences of their actions.

Peggy seems cheery enough after getting to school, but the cabal has done pretty mean stuff to their characters...after they've already suffered and then arrived at Whateley.

To be fair though, she's not in much worse of a position than a sizable selection of other freshmen. A fair amount of the average story for them involves "Near enough everyone turned on me, either making me scared for my life or else actually running me out of town." For some of them, take Charge for example, that was being run out of town only to go to a situation that was even worse.

The connection to the juniors brings both benefits and drawbacks: Benefit of having some friends. Drawback of being a target of bullies picking on her for their actions, as you said.

Whether she'll be okay will kinda depend on whether she can make her own freshman friends, and keep the balance between them and her new sister.

I'm not going to say that Entire Family Murdered is different from Disowned by Entire Family, because it isn't when you get down to it.

But from my view, the issue is that it looks like Peggy is supported, and those who care for her think they're doing so, when she's somewhat sticking out there, ripe for varying degrees of abuse.

The opportunity is there. I worry for her, because she's very likeable.

Arcanist Lupus wrote: What, you don't think pegasi are cute?

Not when they are flying overhead.
Pigeons are bad enough...

Arcanist Lupus wrote: What, you don't think pegasi are cute?

Pigasus not only has plushies out, but has run for high office.

Plus nearly everyone loves Bacon!

Arcanist Lupus wrote: What, you don't think pegasi are cute?

Cuter than Unicorns. Pegasus won't gore you to death if you aren't pure (virgin).

NJM1564 wrote:

Arcanist Lupus wrote: What, you don't think pegasi are cute?

Cuter than Unicorns. Pegasus won't gore you to death if you aren't pure (virgin).

I seem to remember a story where the Pegasi were all carnivores.

I think you are thinking of a Morpheus non-Whateley story, an d the line was "Unicorns love children".

If you want Unicorns, you should go for Charlie Stross's Unicorns...

You mean Equoid ? That's the second most horrifying depiction of unicorns I know of.

Yep.
Charlie loved writing that, he doesn't like cute & cuddly mythological creatures.

I always enjoyed Bek's Horndog from his Foxglove stories.

Phoenix Spiritus wrote: I think you are thinking of a Morpheus non-Whateley story, an d the line was "Unicorns love children".

(the story in question is "Among the Val Kyr")