May We Live In The Forest
~ Lady Eldaelen ~
.jpg - The Called
"But he is… he can't be Called! I will not accept that!"
"Do you want to challenge me?"
"No, of course not-"
"Are you prepared to Leave?"
"I would never-"
"Then you must stop this senseless arguing. As surely as we live in the Forest, this boy is called."
"But he's just a baby!"
"And yet, he is here among us now."
"Well… what are we supposed to do with one so tiny?"
"We were all once his kind, and though our womb now is the Forest, all creatures within are under our care. We will know what to do. As you said, he's just a baby."
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Huh. I honestly though my first Penny Arcade crossover would be the Nightlight x Call The Midwife nonsense I've been noodling on since that Thornwatch panel at the last official Prime. C'est là, I suppose.
I picked up a book on paper flowers, therapeutic and quite enjoyable for my maker soul that demands moderately simple yet appreciably polished immediate results. Cut paper, smoosh paper, sometimes paint paper, tape. The only downside to my particular book is that most of these blooms are freaking Doomfist-y in size. Like, I don't have a penchant for tiny things but, man, the standard flower is massive.
Anywho, whilst figuring out what to do with the sudden influx in flowers, I came upon flower crowns. That led to the Eyrewood and what color were those Daughters' flowers again? Whilst searching for that bit of trivia I happened across an interview by The Mary Sue that I hadn't seen before and was sucked in on a question about gender spectrum in the land. Stay with me here, for it is not dissimilar to the aforementioned Nightlight x Midwifery tangent I hit upon, that being a comment Mike made about wanting to see nuns fighting baddies in the Nightlight realm. You see, I had spent the past couple of weeks prior (during some marathon flower making, actually) rewatching a large chunk of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherood and the streams were subsequently crossed. Phantomrose96's tumblr is a wealth of amazing discourse on FMA musings and her oneshots are gold. One post in particular on Roy Mustang and his backstory leapt to mind (138223298012). If ever there was a boy more suited for flipping the narrative on what it means to be a Daughter, it would be him. For those here more for the Eyrewood, manga/Brotherhood Roy was raised by his aunt who ran a hostess bar. Later in his military career he used dates with his 'sisters' to pass intel around. Good stuff.
The rest fell into place too quickly to ignore.
Eyrewood lore comes from three demo games of Thornwatch, multiple PAX panels over the past few years, and the comics posted on PA's site. One of these days I'll get my hands on the Lookouts book. One of these days we'll have more Daughters canon.
FMA integration comes from both animes and the manga. Consider this your spoiler warning for all of it.
These chapters are going to be shorter than this write up, because what is this thought experiment anyway? I hope we're all down with random- that is all there is to see here, move along.
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