One Chance

[spittingfoxfire]

The rules to this in-character game are very simple:

* You have one chance...
                            * You reply & ask five questions about me
                                 (perhaps something you wouldn't normally or other-wised have asked)...
                            * I will grant one truthful answer

Comments

[shardofwinter]

1) What is the most difficult thing you've had to do to survive?
2) What is the most heartwarming thing anyone has ever done for you?
3) What is something most people will never know about you?
4) What is your biggest regret?
5) Have you ever seen a beard better groomed than mine?

[spittingfoxfire]

1.) Not worse but certainly hold high merit. In the winter, I had to take down and kill a stray cow, gut her and climb inside, devouring her from the inside, soaked in her residual warmth, while waiting for the worst snowstorm in Dakotas to blow over so I can move on

[shardofwinter]

Breathing in that must have been interesting. Coming out and trying not to have a blood soaked pelt freeze must have been interesting. Oh the things people do in Winter! I am rather sorry I missed that.

That is a very French peasant girl thing to do. They were very much like delicate little flowers. Less so these days.

Why would you dye your hair? White is a beautiful colour. Especially in Winter.

Because you move around so much?

The quality of a man’s beard should not be affected by his place in society.

[spittingfoxfire]

It stunk but it did allow me to outlast the storm. A quick bath before I came out and the fur did there rest. No, you're not. I barely like to remember that one if it weren't for the sweet sweet taste of cow.

They were, once upon a time. Fortunately, I don't have the opportunity to fairy-godmother very often now a days, but she was a true pleasure.

If and when you hair and beard goes white during Winter. Come find me and we'll have this conversation again.

Because I and they always moved around so much...

That true; however, too often history fashion and style dictates one's place in society. Though, the twenty-first century does seem to have made some positive strides toward equalizing matter, but Reynard, you do have the most fantastic beard of the modern age.

[shardofwinter]

It sounds like it would have been very funny to watch.

Being a fairy godmother is a task your people take on?

I’m pretty certain it only does that if it’s a particularly strong Winter. Even then, the change is nice.

Humans do surprisingly badly whenever moving and distance is involved.

That is a comfort to hear. I have worked so hard on it, after all.

[spittingfoxfire]

well, most things having to do with foxes are rather comical, especially when I do it. Regardless, no repeat performances will be occurring.

(What's with this "your people"?) I am behold to no man and don't tend towards charity, but when a genuine courtesy is lent to me, the debt is always repaid.

But I like your beard the way it is.

Modern technology wasn't around then and you do remember when it wasn't uncommon for someone to simply vanish without hide nor hair, but now, it would be almost unthinkable occurrence as most live eternally connected; however, I am not strictly speaking about my human friends.

[shardofwinter]

I'll be sure to keep an eye out, in case you change your mind.

(Animal spirits? Fox spirits? You're a little different from seasonal elementals.) That's very kind of you. Most humans won't do the same for each other.

It takes effort to keep it this well groomed, my dear.

Modern technology. It would be a convenience if it didn't keep breaking around me.

Questions from your Foxy friend....

[spittingfoxfire]

1.) Would you be willing to give up the title and role of Winter and return to being Reynard North mortal man once more?

2.) What's the most embarrassing thing ever done to you?

3.) I am going to go out on a limb that you were Catholic 17th French Musketeer so how do you find the centuries that have followed have fared?

4.) What is your biggest regret?

5.) Were you ever marriage or when was the last time you fell in love?

[shardofwinter]

1) No. Why would I give up the role of Winter? It’s part of my very nature, my very being. I don’t know what I’d do without it.

2) Done to me? Hm... Probably getting dragged to a charity event. It was a more recent thing and I’d been spending a lot of time alone before that. Completely lost touch with the modern world. They made me wear a suit. A proper suit. And then I may have indulged in a few too many drinks because it was a very different kind of ball to the ones I went to before. I woke up in a fairground with a couple of other strangers. Not sure how it ended up there, but the bits I heard were, indeed, embarrassing

[spittingfoxfire]

1) True, not have cold feet for a quarter of the year, I'd imagine.

2) Sounds like all the telltale signs of a very good after party to me. I am curious. What type of parties were you used to before then?

3) And this is exactly why I do not climb trees. That is troubling to be without a past, but if you can't turn behind you to reminisce then the future all that is left to forge. Do you have any fond memories?

4) In the sense that you find it difficult to connect with this current and changeable period in mortal existence or the reality that every one you know will inevitably grow old while you will continue on as you are? Both are equally challenging.

5) Does sound like she still warms your heart.

[shardofwinter]

My 'cold feet' are not a problem for me. I don't get bothered by the cold. It's the heat I worry about.

Ones that started off warm and crowded in a small place and ended cold and crowded in another small place. With more drinking. And possibly getting hurt.

Oh, plenty. Most I'm sure you wouldn't understand were good. Why don't you climb trees?

In the sense that I am not human, my priorities are not human, my world view is not human and yet I talk almost exclusively to humans. The conversation is skewed. Awkward at times.

She does. It's a terrible pity that I froze hers.