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Post by Cass on Dec 28, 2011 13:09:44 GMT 10
NOMINEE FOR PROM QUEEN #1: THAYET1. Please tell us a bit about yourself?Well, I’m a working mother of six who has an investment in charities and human rights. And I’m Queen, but I consider myself to be one of the people. I just happen to have fantastic clothes, an endless bank account, and a personal army, but really, I’m just like you. 2. What is your greatest achievement?You did hear about all of my charity work? And human rights? Oh, and my army! I made that. However, my greatest achievement is my children. They’re gorgeous. I outdid myself with them. I’m beautiful, Jonathan’s handsome, and people don’t seem to realize what a risk it is to mix perfection. Very often, pretty parents end up with rather unfortunate children because they didn’t consider what combining their features would do. Why, I know a lovely woman with large doe eyes who married a man with lush lips, but their child inherited both and he’s rather fishy. I have to lie every time I see her. ‘I’m sure he’ll grow into them,’ stops working when they turn twenty-five. 3. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would you change and why?I need magic. Jonathan can keep his battle magery to himself, but I need a spell to give me more time to sleep. Beauty like this doesn’t survive through the ages by will and spa treatments alone. 4. If you could invite one person to dinner - dead, alive or fictional - who would you choose and why?I would love to have dinner with Queen Lianne and hear about Jonathan as a boy. Gary likes to tell stories, but I’m rather certain they’re exaggerated. Besides, every boy has at least one moment where he isn’t tearing through the castle and setting ugly tapestries on fire. 5. What do you think is the most pressing social issue of your time?There are so many issues I could call the ‘most pressing’, but really, the difference between our time and the generation before us is change. Women fight and inherit titles. The common folk have access to free education. Servants are being seen as citizens with rights equal to nobility. We are allies with the Yamani, the Copper Isles is under new rule, Immortals walk the earth, and our animals just about talk! Yes, change is the most pressing issue, and how we as a people deal with it.
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Post by Cass on Dec 28, 2011 13:10:55 GMT 10
NOMINEE FOR PROM QUEEN #2: TRISANA1. Please tell us a bit about yourself? Absolutely not. If you want me to play along with this posh peacock festival, you need to offer me more than this ridiculous scented invitation. What is that smell? It’s like someone dumped a vat of cheap perfume in a drum of spoiled vanilla. I’m a weather witch for your information. If these fumes infect my winds, I’ll crisp your hair. 2. What is your greatest achievement? Is this where I laud myself for becoming a mage before most people pop their first pimple? Or teaching my first student at fourteen? That is not my greatest achievement, by the way. I refuse to be blamed for the education of future mages. Their ignorance is not my problem. If they want to improve themselves, they can raid their own library. There, use that one. My library is very fetching and I’m quite proud of it. 3. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would you change and why? Patience. If I had more of it, this conversation wouldn’t be wreaking havoc on my blood pressure. 4. If you could invite one person to dinner - dead, alive or fictional - who would you choose and why? Fine, I’ll answer this one. I would like to find the greatest Wind Seer and demand to know why they never wrote down the important bits about the whole affair. It was plain selfish of them. 5. What do you think is the most pressing social issue of your time? People care more about what others are thinking about them than how they treat others. It’s a useless, impractical farce that’s infected every culture in the world. It wastes time, money, and feelings, and we’d all be better off if people cared more about the person next to them than winning some silly plastic crown.
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Post by Cass on Dec 28, 2011 13:12:49 GMT 10
NOMINEE FOR PROM QUEEN #3: OKHA1. Please tell us a bit about yourself?I am a woman in the fullest sense, not matter what trick the Crooked God played on my mother. I live for the stage and, as I am modest enough to admit it, my fans live for me. 2. What is your greatest achievement? I managed to work for the most noxious Rogue around while my man was trying to bury her sorry corpse in the mud without ending up a dangling marionette myself. I’m a strong girl, but there’s only so many hours in the day to spend peering over my shoulders. And, I was still the greatest entertainment this side of Corus. 3. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would you change and why?Oh, aren’t you a nosy one. I’ll admit, I have a choice or two, but I really think that sort of thing should stay between my man and me. It isn’t exactly ripe for polite conversation, no matter how cute you are. 4. If you could invite one person to dinner - dead, alive or fictional - who would you choose and why?Oh, this is quite a tickler, but I think I’d like to have a nice pot of tea with the Great Mother. Talk woman to woman about this world we live in. 5. What do you think is the most pressing social issue of your time?Do I look like I stick my nose where it doesn’t belong, love? I like it where it is, thank you. But, I can wish for a world more understanding of the truth of a person, instead of what their bones and flesh say.
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Post by Cass on Dec 28, 2011 13:15:35 GMT 10
NOMINEE FOR PROM QUEEN #4: CLARY1. Please tell us a bit about yourself?I’m a chewed up piece of leather in a uniform, but I still have my charms for a worn out ol’Dog. 2. What is your greatest achievement? I’ve a list of collars long enough to roll down the temple district twice and I’m rightly proud of my marriage to my fine lookin’ man, but they don’t hold a candle to my blanket. Say what you will of Rats and mud, embroidery is a stern task master. No matter how hard the day before, it wont finish up when you’re not looking. I decided to stitch a pretty little picture on our wedding bedding; just a few flowers, a tree, some butterflies. Monster took me two years and callouses to rival bull horns on my fingertips, but I finished it and it is every bit as lovely as I intended. 3. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would you change and why?I’m a preening doxy at heart, to be honest. I’d like to put myself back together if I could. I’ve lost a few bits and pieces over the years and I don’t like the idea I’m dropping a bit at a time. 4. If you could invite one person to dinner - dead, alive or fictional - who would you choose and why?I keep hearing I have this husband of mine around somewhere, but I haven’t rightly seen him. I’m starting to think it’s all a farce, pulling one over Old Clary. But, if some dashing carpenter might like to meet me for a bit to eat after my watch, I might be persuaded towards his way of thinking for another few years. 5. What do you think is the most pressing social issue of your time?What’s always the problem? Greed. It robs people, it hurts people, and it kills people. There’s not much worse in the world than that.
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Post by Cass on Dec 28, 2011 13:18:24 GMT 10
NOMINEE FOR PROM QUEEN #5: SANDRY1. Please tell us a bit about yourself? I am Sandrilene fa Toren, daughter of Count Mattin fer Toren and his countess, Amiliane fa Landreg. I am the great-niece of his grace, Duke Vedris of this realm of Emelan, and cousin of her Imperial Highness, Empress Berenene of the Namorn Empire. Though I’m afraid Berenene and I have suffered a recent bout of philosophical differences. I’m a strong supporter of the Winding Circle temple and spent several years there earning my own mastery in thread magic. 2. What is your greatest achievement? Surviving my first student. I’m afraid the realities of educational responsibility are so easy to imagine, but impossible to understand. I still wonder if there is something dreadfully important I forgot to tell him, but he has as good a nose for getting out of trouble as he does for finding it. 3. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would you change and why? I feel rather silly saying this, but I would love to be taller. Some days, I look up at my brother and wonder when he turned into a tree. Well, perhaps more of a shrub, really, but an unfairly spindly one either way. 4. If you could invite one person to dinner - dead, alive or fictional - who would you choose and why? I would have one more dinner with my parents. I would like for them to see who I’ve become. Perhaps I could ask if I was as they imagined I’d be. Though, really, I want to hear my mother trying to salvage my father’s stumbled jokes most of all. He never could remember the order. 5. What do you think is the most pressing social issue of your time? I feel the ruling class has forgotten that with their power comes a duty to the people. The power is not endless. It did not come from nothing fully formed. Power comes from the people so that those responsible can improve lives. Of course, all too often, those in power abuse their gift and starve out their people for their own vanities. That practice must come to an end.
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Post by Cass on Dec 28, 2011 13:34:02 GMT 10
NOMINEE FOR PROM QUEEN #6: KELADRY1. Please tell us a bit about yourself?My name is Keladry of Mindelan. I’m a knight of the realm. I oversee the refugee camp at New Hope. … Do you know why I’m here? Excuse me, one moment. I’m pretty sure I know who’s to blame from this. Just one moment. NEAL. 2. What is your greatest achievement? Ah, that was… quick? Right now, I feel I’ve taken great steps to stomp out identity theft and fraud in court functions. There was a rather duplicitous practice going on, I’m afraid. It seems a band of knights impersonated one of their fellows by threatening her – his! His servant to deliver a forged letter of Intent to Participate to the Prom Court judges under threat of sweet restrictions. It’s been resolved. 3. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would you change and why?I’m afraid I’m far too easily convinced by lunatics with hare-brained schemes. Owen starts crying, Lalasa pulls out the matching swatches for my victory gown, and I really have no choice but to forgive Neal for being an interfering old woman. It would make my life much easier if I would just remember why it’s a terrible idea. 4. If you could invite one person to dinner - dead, alive or fictional - who would you choose and why?King Jasson I. I feel we need to have some important words, he and I, about a woman’s capability and place in this world, and all this terrible confusion he has about our mental well-being existing in embroidery and childbirth. Dinner would take place on horseback, served with a side of lances and plate mail. 5. What do you think is the most pressing social issue of your time?The perception of servants as property under the laws of Tortall. They are human beings, same as any noble, and laws should be about people doing wrong to people, not about how inconvenienced a noble is that their servant missed the dinner party because a guest decided to lock them in a closet.
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Post by ubiquitous on Jan 16, 2012 22:00:26 GMT 10
These are great!! It's almost impossible to pick a favourite, but I think Tris's might just nudge ahead slightly.
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Post by Kypriotha on Jan 18, 2012 20:49:22 GMT 10
These are all wonderful - and the pictures are so perfect!
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