Application: Petulia Gristle, Discworld

[pigwitch]

(With permission of Tiffany- and Nac Mac Feegle-muns

Comments

[teamseaslug]

"There's some zombies here, and one of them said she had sex with her demons." Osaka wrinkles her nose at the memory. "She was gross. Some of my friends and I are trying to get rid of the zombies, though." After a pause, she speaks again: "What's a pig trick? Is it like teaching them to play dead? Because you can just get bacon to do that."

[pigwitch]

"Um, it's a magic trick. That uses a pig," Petulia explained - or tried to. The pig trick was difficult to explain. "It is easier if the pig is well trained, though."

[teamseaslug]

"Is the pig your assistant?" She brightens up, smiling. "Do you dress it up, and that's why it needs to be well-trained?"

[pigwitch]

Petulia shook her head. "Um, I suppose you could dress it up, if you wanted to. But the trick, really... it makes a pig more piggish, I suppose. If you can do it, it shows you're, um, really good with pigs."

[teamseaslug]

"But it's already a pig. How can it be more of a pig?" There is a puzzle here, she is sure of it. It sounds like one of the riddles she's so fond of.

[pigwitch]

"Um, aren't there things that make you feel more like yourself than you usually do? If you're doing something you love, or you're around people that love you?" Petulia asked. "It's kind of like that."

Vote: Hufflepuff

[teamseaslug]

A beat, then two, and then Osaka's eyes widen in understanding. So this trick is making the pigs her friends! That's very nice of her. She knows she'd like to have friends if she were a pig. Then again, if she were going to be a pig, she'd rather be a dolphin, what with the kanji for dolphin being "sea pig."

"You should try it with dolphins, too, but there aren't any here. I'm voting you into Hufflepuff. I think you'll like it there."