Video, UN: Bardicuncertainty [Backdated to the 8th]

[have_hat_will_travel]

[The woman in the video is recognizably Pidonus, in spite of one very obvious difference to those who know her. Yes, more obvious than the fox ears on her head.

It's the lack of her hat. And it feels weird to her.]

So, uh. Cordis moon. I guess this is a thing.

I've got fox tails and ears. And I can't shapeshift them off. That's. A thing I'm not used to. It's not like I used my shapeshifting much, I generally like my form, but having it suddenly restricted is kinda...

How do I word this? It's like there's a mental block on something that wasn't mentally blocking before. And it's like. It's harder to want to do stuff like this?

Also, uh, I think I'm hungry? That's really weird for me. And other desires I'm used to having under control?

This is very awkward to experience all at once.

... Anyone got any advice I haven't already likely heard?

Comments

[foolishjustice]

It's fucked up in a lot of ways, especially when it comes to personal expression and sexuality. I'm pretty sure it's mainly aimed toward controlling women, actually. It's just that media portraying all sympathetic women as disgusted by men they aren't dreaming of marrying showing sexual interest in them...tends to give the impression that only inconsiderate pigs would look at a woman they aren't dating like that.

[have_hat_will_travel]

... Yeah, uh, the negative effects of that are really obvious to me. That sounds like the kinda crap Asmodeus would devise to develop a system he has complete sway over.

[foolishjustice]

I'm guessing you mean the Prince of Hell, and not the Prismal criminal who was executed a couple months ago.

As far as I know, humans came up with it, but...the people in charge back home are assholes. It should really tell you all you need to know that successful men can casually talk about having mistresses, while a single mother doing her best after her kid's father abandoned her gets treated like shit.

[have_hat_will_travel]

... Didn't know about the criminal.

But... Yeah. That kinda crap seems definitely in his line.

It was fun tearing one of those systems a new one. Probably one of the highlights of my original quest...

[foolishjustice]

I'm not sure if I'll have a chance to do anything like that, but I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't love to rip that oppressive conformism and the sexist double standards out by the roots.

[have_hat_will_travel]

Yeah I get-

Wait, you recognized the name Asmodeus???

[foolishjustice]

I'm...passingly familiar with demonology, since the creatures I fight back home take forms from myth and legend. Asmodeus is one of the higher ranking figures mentioned in the Ars Goetia, which is a list of demonic figures.

I've never met anything that resembled popular depictions of him, though.

[have_hat_will_travel]

Haven't either. Glad of that, honestly.