:: post five :: nouns ::

[child_proteus]

Okay, folks, it's dictionary time. I know some of y'all think I talk moon-speak, but whatever. I figure that with all of our different points of reference, at least one of you would possibly get my drift.

So, with that said....Anybody know what a changeling is?

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[distant_dragon]

I have absolutely no idea.

[child_proteus]

Great. Cause apparently. I'm one of them.

[distant_dragon]

Who told you that, out of curiosity?

[child_proteus]

It was a voice. In my memory. He said that I was a changeling. And then something about my anatomy...physiology. Part of me doesn't want to think about it. But I can't ignore it.

[twoninths]

I seem to remember some old legends in which fairies would steal human children and leave one of their own, the changeling, in its place to fool the parents.

Does that help?

VAGUE ARGENT IS VAGUE.

[child_proteus]

Oh god. Now that doesn't bode well at all. You seriously think...?

Besides, Argent, you know me better than the rest. Do I seem like a fairy to you? Don't answer that.

It is the best kind of Argent!

[twoninths]

Well, I hardly know what to think. I'm not supposed to be able to tell, am I?

There was supposed to be some way of diagnosing it, though. Let me see if I can remember... How's your appetite? Large? Small?

I think I will decline to comment.

EVERY KIND OF ARGENT IS THE BEST KIND OF ARGENT.

[child_proteus]

Well, in your legends are they meant to be evil? Man, I don't want to be evil...

Um. How is my appetite? I'd imagine...average for a growing boy? Actually, no, I take it back. I'd venture to say it's fairly large.

Very wise, Argent. Very wise indeed.

[unlostsoul]

Wait.

What?

[child_proteus]

A changeling? Ever heard of one? I'm kind of assuming that if I don't know what it is, that probably, you don't know either. No offense.

Argent says something about fairies. Which seems a little Shakespeare to me.

[unlostsoul]

Yeah, I'm drawing a blank too. Sorry!

You mean fairies with, like, wings and sparkles and stuff?

[child_proteus]

Yes. And I swear to you. I am so not a fairy.

At least, not in the Tinkerbell way.

[waxicarus]

Changeling? Is that the same as...shit I just had it and now it's gone.

What do you know about it?

[child_proteus]

I know, tell me about it, right? On the tip of your tongue, right on the edge and then -- poof -- gone. The bane of my existence, recently. Though, I'd imagine -- the bane of a lot of folks here.

So far, I've established that it has something to do with fairies. But Argent, our resident fairy-expert and all-around British guy, has ruled that no -- I am not a fairy thank god, and that it must have some other connotation than the one that he's familiar with. Other than that? I got nothing.

[waxicarus]

It's getting old really damn fast. But yeah I think everyone is having the same problem. It sucks.

Fairies. As in wings, and stealing children? Changeling sounded more like- ...something that makes me a bit paranoid. No idea why. Other than that, got nothing.

[child_proteus]

Am I the only one who's never heard of fairies stealing children? That's exactly what Argent said too. Wait...you're not British, are you?

And again with the creeping paranoia and suspicion! I admit, "changeling" isn't the sexiest word in the dictionary, but that's what the dude said. And I don't think I'm totally eeeevil.

[earth_uninstall]

Do you believe you come from the moon?

And no, the term changeling has no meaning to me.

[child_proteus]

I knew I shouldn't have mentioned moon-speak. Um, I don't actually think I come from the moon -- at least, I don't hope so. Where I'm from it's just another term for the way somebody talks. Like if they talk strange, they call it "moon-speak". It seems like a lot of people here have a different frame of reference, so some times the things I say come off as pretty strange.

Great. I didn't think so. But then again, it seems like nobody around here does.