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30 Day Pandora Challenge!

2. When you joined, and why 

I joined in... February 2012, I think.  Doesn’t feel that long ago, tbh!  Like I said for Day 1, I don’t really know what grabbed me about Pandora and why I actually joined.  Up until then I had strictly RPed only on Harry Potter sites and hadn’t even considered the thought of a multi-fandom board.  I think what intrigued me was the fact that it was somewhere I could play characters from my favourite fandom (The Wheel of Time, of course).  The people were really nice from the get-go, too!

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30 Day Pandora Challenge

1. How you found Pandora.

I was on this pretty mediocre HP site, way back at the start of 2012.  I can’t even remember who I played on there; the whole thing sort of flitted into and out of my life really quickly.  Don’t even think the place lasted more than six months, if that.  I was looking through adverts and saw Pandora’s.  I’m not even sure what possessed me to look at it because I had never even ventured outside HP roleplay.  I don’t know why, but the site grabbed me as soon as I had a look around.  I joined pretty much straight away.

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Cullen: okay just be cool

Cullen: you didn't have to kill her

Cullen: it's no big deal

Female Mage Warden: we should get to know each other better :)

Cullen: INAPPROPRIATE

Cullen: *runs down the hall*

Cullen: fucking nailed it

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attending varian’s funeral

but wait

who is that

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I feel like sometimes Jaylah would still get sad once she’s in the academy and after when she finally gets to join the crew on the enterprise. 

She misses her family, she thinks about them every day. It hurts to think about them sometimes, it’s a whole that she can’t seem to fill. it makes her quiet and more withdrawn then she usually is. 

On those days the crew takes care of her.

Spock will come and sit with her, sitting so that their shoulders touch and they can sit together and bond over a shared mutual pain of loss. He speaks softly as he tells her about his mother. Sharing stories of his childhood and the warmth and love that she brought into it. Jaylah loves these stories and Spock usually allows her to rest her cheek against his shoulder as she listens. 

Uhura is always the most affectionate with her when she sees that slump in her shoulder. She’s always the first to wrap Jaylah up in an embrace and press a kiss to forehead and then her cheeks. The gentle touches are comforting and Jaylah always leans into them. Eventually she starts to seek them out even when she isn’t missing her family. Her skin always tingles with warmth after Uhura has touched it. 

Sulu likes to put her in good spirits by teaching her about the ships controls. He’ll move out of his chair so she can sit. He’s taught her everything mechanical about how to fly and he promises her that someday he’ll take her out so she can experience it for herself. She also makes a habit of asking about his daughter. Jaylah loves the way his face lights up when she does. 

Bones is someone who comforts her just by existing. She likes to sit with him while he works, she’ll eat dinner with him, she comes to stand by him when they are all on the bridge together. He’s pessimistic and grumpy half of the time, but he’s got a heart of gold and he’s kind and courageous and the southern drawl in her voice always puts her at ease. She also feels a surge of happiness every time he cares enough to drag her in for her med bay check ups every once in awhile. 

Scotty was easy to connect with from the beginning and she still feels bond with him. He had cared about her in the beginning, he had asked for her help and he does the same now. She’s good at engineering, she’s good at fixing things and sometimes if she notices she’s a little down and missing her family he’ll find extra things for her to help her with. Sometimes he lets her put on music that blasts through the entire enterprise for a bit. Everyone seems to enjoy it and it makes her laugh.

Chekov is someone she’s gotten pretty close with as well. He’s young and funny and he likes to twirl her around and share his food with her that he thinks she’ll like. Chekov makes the heaviness she feels lift with his laughter and and he’s always full of energy and life. He’s a little beacon of sunshine that everyone can’t help but gravitate towards. 

Kirk is always there for her in a variety of ways. He’s great for a hug, he’s a good listener and he’ll try and be whatever it is that she needs. Sometimes all she needs is a drink and to hear one of his wild stories, sometimes she just needs someone to sit with her and be there with her while she processes everything she’s lost and she does the same for him. 

The enterprise doesn’t fill the whole that her family left, but they fit into their own space in her heart. She loves them in a fierce way, she’s protects them and cares about them and they are all her family. 

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Yes, hello, I make rants through comedic drawings and references…

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The moment you realize Widow just called Tracer my love in French....

1) Lena’s look of betrayal like she expected better.

2) Lena’s fear because she knows what Amelie is capable of.

3) Lena doing absolutely nothing to escape. Letting herself fall.

4) “Adieu cherie.”

5) Amelia probably said the exact same thing when she killed her husband.

6) Amelie for the third time that night deliberately not killing Lena when she could have.

7) Seriously Lena where’s your game? Amelie’s in your head isn’t she?

8) Lena’s stuck on Amelie and Amelie knows it.

9) If the spider’s only alive for the kill then why doesn’t Amelie kill Lena???

10) Amelia is stuck on Lena and Amelie doesn’t know it.

11) Send help I got on this ship by accident and it’s sailing off with me.

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I think one of the reasons I love Nynaeve so much is because her story didn’t go anywhere I initially expected. She’s introduced as the village witch and more than a bit troublesome to other characters, so I guess I initially got the idea that it was gonna be that trope where the village witch isn’t exactly evil but she isn’t good either and she uses the “good guys” entirely to her own petty ends and is portrayed as manipulative and ignorant of the ‘real magic.’ I didn’t expect her to actually be all that important. I thought she’d cause trouble and they’d have to deal with her and it’d be like ‘well we sure humiliated that pesky witch. she won’t bother us again.’

And then Nynaeve became a major character, joined a magic school, got the longest romance arc in the series, traveled the world, cured the incurable, discovered lost magic, and helped save the world.

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Rand: Guys I can’t find Mat

Talmanes: It’s cool, I got this

[Pulls out cup of dice and rolls onto table]

Mat: [bursting from croud] IS SOMEONE BLOODY DICING

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Who is Nynaeve al’Meara?

You go to a doctor for an injury. Your doctor is a very angry woman. Looks entirely too young to have been to med school and wears a braid every single day. She sees your injury and demands to know how it happened. You tell her, and she tells you every single thing you did wrong and every way you could have prevented it. She is visibly very pissed off at you, but she doesn’t curse at all. In fact, you even say a minor curse word, she’ll order you to never say it again. And you won’t.

She fixes you right there, and the whole time she just looks like she is about to explode in frustration. Not because she doesn’t know what to do. Oh, she knows exactly what to do. She’s just so pissed off at you for getting injured in the first place. In no time, you’re fixed and she is no less angry at you. She gives you everything you need to mend and you’re prescription just reads “Stop being an idiot”

That’s Nynaeve al’Meara

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Perfect fit.

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Tolkien Pressure 75/?

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The best kind of OTPs start with hostility and snarky remarks.

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Keira's 30 Day Pandora Challenge

Doing a couple more of these because I'm bored and don't have the patience for one a day.

2. When you joined and why.

I thiiiink the exact date was March 12th 2012.  Over two and a half years ago... Far, far longer than I've ever been on one site before!  I joined because - heck, I don't even honestly know why.  I think I was dissatisfied with all the small HP sites I joined that just popped up and faded away without leaving a trace.  I wanted somewhere that had already been established.  And the cross-fandom set up intrigued me, and since it allowed me a place to play characters from The Wheel of Time, I was up for it straight away!

3. First character you apped and why you chose them.

My very first character - and the one who has been arguably the most fun to play even including every character since - was Moghedien, from The Wheel of Time.  Even though I had so much fun with her and a huge summer plot, I still don't really know why I apped her.  I don't think there was a specific reason, or anything specific that drew me to her.  I wanted a WoT character, and I wanted to take one of the thirteen Chosen - the villains.  For some unknown reason I ended up settling on Moghedien, and never looked back!

4. First IC thread you were in (including if it was deleted when we moved to Jcink - describe it anyway!)

I don't really count the [i]very[/i] first thread I was in with Moghedien because it only got a couple of posts for some reason.  I tend to count the second as her first, which was with Eirlys' brilliant Feanor.  Moghedien unwisely chose him as a target to try and Compel into being her slave, and when he managed to break free it sparked an enmity that lasted until, pretty much, both of their deaths.  Couldn't really have asked for a better starting thread!

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Keira's 30 Day Pandora Challenge

1. How you found Pandora.

I was on this pretty mediocre HP site.  I can't even remember who I played on there; the whole thing sort of flitted into and out of my life really quickly.  Don't even think the place lasted more than six months, if that.  I was looking through adverts and saw Pandora's.  I'm not even sure what possessed me to look at it because I had never even ventured outside HP roleplay.  I don't know why, but the site grabbed me as soon as I had a look around.  I joined pretty much straight away.