[Console] (Video) ❅ The Fourth

[stonebird]

(Despite using the console in the Hotel's lobby, Alayne has made herself as comfortable as she would be in her room. She is sitting at a table with pieces of paper placed around her. Three drawings are easily visible: one is a large wolf, another is an equally large hound with a deformed (or injured) face and the last is a bird in a cage. She moves her pencil over the sketch of the bird, adding shadows.)

Choose an animal for yourself. Then think of the animal others would choose for you.

Are they the same?

(She switches to the sketch of the wolf, adding shading there - particularly around its neck.)

If not, why?

(Also, thanks to her lacking her hair dye, the whole of Tu Shanshu can now see that her hair is auburn.)

Comments

[stonebird]

The pictures have naught to do with the question. You can choose any animal to represent yourself.

[confirmationbias]

Oh, I just assumed- sorry.

[stonebird]

It was my mistake, I apologize. Would you like to choose another animal?

[confirmationbias]

[Did that mean the three animals this girl picked had a specific meaning to her? Those were some rather specific things then. Interesting]

The red fox.

I have no idea how others would perceive me - but then I choose the fox because they do not always appear as what they are.

[stonebird]

How do foxes hide their identity? (Their coats can change depending on the weather. Is that what she means?)

[confirmationbias]

[Oh, shoot, how do you explain this]

Foxes, in my culture, are seen as trickster spirits. Foxes can change shape, and if you ever see a person by themselves late at night or in remote places, they might be foxes in disguise.

[This is awkward, she didn't want to paint her people as a bunch of superstitious yokels, but...]

We don't really believe that, in general, but it's a very prominent part of our folklore.