Hello everyone, I'm Jo and I am bringing all five feet of Blue Sargent as a new Warden. At 18 (she promises she's only a summer away from turning 19!) with strong feelings on morality and right vs wrong, and zero combat experience she is an
excellent choice to be a Warden.
About the canon: The Raven Cycle is a YA urban fairytale. If you haven't read it yet, I recommend it whole-heartedly. Unfortunately, Blue is taken from right at the end of her canon so there will be spoilers. (Let me know if you want me to avoid them in threads with you, but consider this your spoiler warning for her in general and this post specifically!)
About Blue: she is the only person in her immediate and extended (blood-relation not required) family who isn't some brand of psychic. She has a power, but it is largely useless to her; in essence, she is a walking battery/amplifier for the powers of others. Spirits get LOUD around her. And she can't hear a thing.
All of her life she has fought really hard not to want things she can't have and all of her life she has failed pretty miserable. At the time I am taking her from, she has found her true love and is on her way to a great adventure.
She's a little idealistic, quite judgmental, and a LOT motivated to graduate someone. Her wardening style is going to start out gentle and then grow up from there. (Let's talk about what kind of things your character needs and what you want to put them through. Blue won't be cruel for the sake of being cruel, but cruel to be kind is an
option.)
She is going to be pretty pumped about the starship stuff and she still has that teenage black/white view of morality (though one might argue there's a lot of actual grayscale being shoved into that sharp binary) so that should be fun. Ever been judged by a teenager? That's Blue for you. She can be prickly, argumentative, and quick to anger, but there's this softness to her. She grew up in good soil, water with lots of love and sometimes that just shines through.
C'mon. You know you want to let her help your character become a better person. Let's aim for forgiveness and making good choices!
About me: I work-from-work, and have been through like 75% of this pandemic. I am CST (CDT right now) and my cutoff for tagging on a weeknight is 9 PM 'cause have to get ready for bed. I married an elementary school teacher so our alarm goes off hella early in the morning!
I'm a slow tagger. Mostly because I haven't learned how to not tl;dr and it takes
time to knock out five paragraphs. I swear I am working on it. I tend to tag in order of which tags are the easiest for me to knock back; When I don't, I tend to get too blocked, and end up tagging nothing. So I am so sorry if you see me tagging out of order, that's just the only thing that works for me. Believe me, it's never you or your quality (sometimes the best tags are the ones I save for last just because I want to make sure I'm in a headspace to do them justice). Never feel bad if you have to drop threads or want to handwave CR. We're all adults here, as 17-year-old Gansey would say. We have work and real life obligations and we are
tired. I get it.
Feel free to add me (
peerpressure) on plurk for real time plotting. I don't often plurk about things but when I do it's mostly pet pictures, memes or work-whines I can't post to Facebook because I friended too many work people. Enticing, I know!
I am excited to start Blue off with the simulation and then have people get to know the real her after the fact once everyone is back on the Peregrine.