Merry (Snow White)

( Snow was with a young man when Talia contacts her and tells her that Princess Danielle's stepsister locked her out and there's a bloody assassination attempt going on and dammit, Snow, help me unlock the door so we don't have a dead princess! )

What Merry Learns
-- Snow can see her own reflection, so she might conclude she's in her mid twenties. This obviously happened before she, Dani and Talia went charging into Fairyland, but not much. She might conclude that the mermaid memory happened years later -- except Dani and Talia look the same (mostly), while Snow looks years older. Mysterious.
-- Princess. Damn. Also Ermillina is an awful, awful name and even if she hadn't had a nickname in canon, she'd stick to Merry.
-- Medical skills. Snow can now perform basic first aid.
-- Can now analyze magic by traces left on objects. She could probably tell who cast a spell, if they aren't trying to hide it. She probably can't tell Judge magic, besides that it wasn't a blank.
-- Well... shit. What the serious fuck happened in my past? Mom and I tried to kill one another, and Roland dies saving me and... I hate the world.
-- Coping mechanism in place: joking around and making light of serious situations. She'll be less inclined to do this with Badger or Lulu or Quartz, because the Monoceros can tell if she's lying, and Lulu strikes her as not caring. Even then, she might not mention it.

Also, Snow is going to go pester Badger for Snow White and Sleeping Beauty and maybe the one about stepsisters. Even if they aren't helpful, part of her wants to know what kinds of stories are being told about her, since Dani knows the story too.

I need to stop roleplaying and write, so...

Give me a character of yours and a canon of mine, and I will write a short scene of your character as if they were born in that world and/or granted a Sabra wish to have a life anywhere else.

Current Sabra canons are Lilith's Brood (Akin's), Dragaera* (Tazendra's), and Princess books (Snow White). Past include Slayers (Zel's), Digimon Adventure (Tailmon's), and the Marla Mason books (um... Marla's).

I'll do question meme and general fic meme too.

* Here you can specify if you want me to try to pick a Dragaeran House for your character, or just have them run around as an Easterner (normal human) or a cat-centaur or I don't even know...

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What Merry Learned
-- Flirting? Yeah, well, it's fun and also hilarious, but aren't I married...?
-- Distracting pastry eating.
-- More magic: she knew ice and light pretty well, but the mental influence and senses are going to be new. She'll be able to see and hear magic, and also use magic to make people (with bracers down) see and hear things that aren't there.
-- Man, magic lets me do some fun things. Can you say prank war?
-- Beatrice is in trouble. Snow also would remember Talia had a magic gift of grace that was the 'help' Talia meant.
-- I'm a mermaid undine! Via magic! I need to try more shapeshifting!
-- Dammit, Mom! Why were you jealous of your own daughter?

Honestly, this memory has a lot of goofing off to cover stress, so Merry might take that up again. And also trying to turn herself into things. Because that's a safe thing to do.

So, several things...

This is Snow's second Bad Game. And it kind of destroyed one of her coping mechanisms.

See, Snow lies a lot in canon; basically she pretends to be a happy, perky person because it's easier than dealing with things. Her friends actually worm their way beneath that, no matter how much she tried to keep them out.

At first, Merry was that way on her own. But, between Badger's pessimism and Razzy's guilt over Merry's first bad game, Merry began to feel like she needed to stay that way to make sure everything was okay. Basically to protect the tinies/newbies on Bunnycorn and her jaded teammates: look confident and happy and badass sorceress. And, well, it was all she could do to keep June calm during the game.

The badass sorceress thing is critical since she pretty much allied herself with Mirror to avoid being defenseless in games; not for herself, but because others would try to protect her. So, having her magic failing to save June was a pretty bad blow, even if it did help Badger not feel like he was in total pain when they had to jab him with needles.

However, her teammates took one look at Snow's 'I totally got this, guys' and pretty much did the 'no, you don't' -- don't try to lie to a lawyer and a detective. So, she'll probably be more honest with them about things, rather than trying to bluff her way through.

On the other hand? Totally going to be ruthless, since she figured out that Monoceros -- well, Badger and Quartz -- can't be. So, Snow takes one step towards being a ruthless evil sorceress. At least Snow's Mom would never care about anyone besides herself, so Snow still has her love for her friends to keep her from going totally off the deep end? On the other hand... well, once she remembers mind magic, there may be problems. Thank goodness for bracers.

She totally gets why she sounded like such a martyr in her message to herself: she probably came to Sabra to protect her friends from something, and her friends probably think 'amnesia murdercave' is a terrible idea.

So, since Tazendra actually kind of enjoyed Haunted's game (Dzurlords, go figure) and Akin is currently dealing with revulsion of killing someone, I'm gonna SotU on Merry.

So, Merry picked a good time to wake up, in the sense that she got several days of Lack of Trauma. ( Of course, it never lasts... )

Since it's going around, and I haven't done this for a while...

Question meme! I play Merry/Snow, Honor/Tazendra and Akin. You guys can also ask about Zel, Marla or Tailmon if you really wanted to.

Memory 2: Worst Rescue Attempt Ever

( They were camping in Fairytown, and Snow had been up early, using her mirrors to scry for Danielle's stepsisters and a darkling fairy.  )

What Happened
This is something Snow's mentioned several times in the books, but we never get a flashback. So...

( mirror, mirror... )

What Snow Learns
-- She has a lover. He's older than her, and they met when he was paid to kill her...
-- ... because her mother wants her dead out of jealousy. Seriously? Seriously?
-- Some domestic skills. Snow describes her time here as pretty much caring for their cabin in the woods and practicing spells while Roland does his woodsman thing. And also being a couple in love.
-- No specific magic, but remembering that she could use it. She wouldn't have her choker yet, but later on, it's mentioned that Snow's mother had to transform herself because Snow would have sensed an illusion. So at least she'll now be sensitive to magic used around her.

Until she remembers Roland gets killed by her mother (or possibly remembers later in life that he's just not there), she'll probably cut down on the flirting under the belief she has someone back home. Or at least keep it to flirting and dirty jokes, rather than acting on it.

A lot of the context for 'so my mom tried to kill me...' will depend on how her team takes it. Because, damn. She'll also be helping Badger a lot with whatever.

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Oh, so in progress... also YES to Ophi Minigame memories.

* Wanted memories

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Character Name: Snow White
Unit: Monoceros
Age: Snow is in her early 20s, but looks to be in her mid to late 30s.
Height: Slightly shorter than average?
Weight: Slender, but with enough fat for curves.
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Black, but starting to gray
Appearance: Really is pretty damn good looking for a human. Fair skin that is starting to wrinkle.

( Magic! )