2 truths and a lie; daemon: janad

[bangitybang]

[it's an odd combination of motivations that has janus sharing today. sometimes a mangling of boundaries is a good way of setting them.]

2 TRUTHS AND A LIE
Preferred Alias: Alias here

1. I can deconstruct an Oreo perfectly. I can separate both chocolate halves and the icing into three separate parts.
2. I have a tattoo of Disney's Timon and Pumba.
3. When I fell out of love the first time, everything changed because I came to understand that nothing changes. I was sad for years. When the sadness started to go, it left in starts and stops. Those moments of relief weren't because I had healed. It was only because I had forgotten for a short time that I had lost him. Every time I remembered, I lost him again. Often this would happen when I was dreaming. My mind tried to make sense of this by making up worlds where I could have what I wanted. But there is no such world. There is this world, and it is good enough.

One Of These Is A Lie

Comments

[memoryguardian]

What is a Hunter?
Besides the given definition of the word, of course. And why does that mean you look like someone else?

Neither! I'd be Nala.
Bunnymund would be Timon and North would be Pumbaa. Jack is definitely Simba.
Manny would be Rhafiki.
And Sandy would have been Mufasa.

[ And Pitch Black would be Scar, but she's less inclined to talk about him in this moment. ]

[bangitybang]

Hunters in my world refer to an artificial race of beings created by a witch out of leyline energy. It is our duty to protect human beings and mythological creatures who do not harm them from the ones that would
The ones who hurt people, we hunt
But of course energy doesn't really have hands or legs and isn't capable of thinking, so the spell that makes us shapes us to look like other myths in the world, who are born at the same time
I was born to look like a harpy boy from South Africa. Unfortunately I made a mistake later in my life and I almost died, and they had to partially link me to someone else too
I know it's a bit confusing!


You're going to marry this 'Jack,' are you? What color are his feathers?

[memoryguardian]

I see! That's very fascinating.
I don't think my world has Hunters. Or if it does, I've never heard of them.
Are you allowed to meet the myths that you're shaped after? Do you have any sort of connection?
Is what happened to you - looking like one myth, then another - common?
(If I'm asking too many questions, just let me know!)

[ She is suddenly VERY grateful that this is text. Janus can't see the pink that flares across her cheeks. ]

Oh, no!
Nothing like that!
Jack isn't like me either. He was human before he became a Guardian so he still looks human now. Just like North.

[bangitybang]

Yes I went to school with the boy I looked like for awhile. My daimon, that is the word we used. We got along very well but we have different personalities
It is quite unusual to stop looking like one's daimon. I made a particularly foolish mistake, I'm afraid

As for Jack, I don't mean to judge you
Most of the myths in my world allow some interspecies marriage
I have thought about it myself once or twice.
You and Jack have nothing to be embarrassed about\

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[memoryguardian]

I'm sorry to hear that.
But we all make mistakes.
At least you lived and can learn from this one.

Oh, it's just
Not like that!
We're only good friends. And co-workers, besides.

[ She is a professional! Even if Jack does have very nice teeth. ... And very nice everything else, if she's being honest. ]

[bangitybang]

Yes, it's nothing I plan to repeat again.

Oh I see. That's very good too

[there is the peculiar urge to try to relate, in suspicion!! that she'd like more with jack than just co-workers, but janus has 23% tact these days. it can wait.]

I also have very beautiful and distracting co-workers

[so subtle.]

[memoryguardian]

I am glad to hear it.
Hopefully, I can help prevent any chance of it happening again too.

[ Is it that obvious? :') ]

Oh?
Is that so?
You'll have to tell me about them! And I'd be happy to tell you more about Jack and the others.

[bangitybang]

I would like that
Your people seem rather like my people. The kind with long legends and stories behind them
And complicated relationships with humans.
I'm glad you like humans mostly
It used to have quite lot of arguments and conflict with Myths who didn't

[memoryguardian]

They are!
The Sisters of Flight are... They were quite incredible.

I should hope I like humans!
My father was one.

[ Despite her avian apperance, she is a hybrid. Half-human. ]

[bangitybang]

[there is a surprised silence.]

You're serious? Your father was a human?

[memoryguardian]

Yes.
My father's name was Haroom.
He was a brave, kind-hearted human my mother fell in love with.

I definitely take after my mother in appearance, but they've told me I have my father's selflessness.