Child of Mine - Debate and Voting

[thelostmods]

Characters have reached the point in the narrative of Child of Mine where they have a decision to make. There is no particular mystery to solve in this world hop, no villains to fight, there is only a choice.

Will they support the Crone, the embodiment of Chaos, or the Boy, the embodiment of Order? Or will they have a third option to convince others with?

Story So Far

• Timeless is a small sliver of a larger world that was hidden and created to be a place of perfect order without time.
  
  
• The Boy created Timeless to rescue children away from the war-torn nations of Winternesse and Dorwynne.
  
  
• The Boy fears chaos and change and all the strife it has brought upon the inhabitants of the wider world. He thinks the only way to stop all that is to create his haven for only children, stopping them from aging to adults who bring war.
  
  
• The Crone is the Boy's twin sister. She holds no malice, only wishes to bring the natural chaos of the world to Timeless. She is unhappy her brother hid this place from her and believes it will stagnate without change.
  
  
• Most of the children in Timeless are content. The main NPCs Vixy, Drake, Colt, and Buck are all happy with the nature of Timeless as it is. They all faced various hardships in their lives.
  • Vixy suffered abuse and neglect within the factory she has lived for almost all her life.
    
  • Colt and Buck were in the same factory that Vixy was.
    
  • Drake was once a part of a child gang, forced to kill and scrap just to survive.
• The Wormies are a separate faction led by Katz who are tired of the lack of change and the timeless nature of this part of the world. Even with Katz suffering her own hardships--her parents were killed in bombings--she still craves something different, a return to time.

Voting for what the PCs want to do in this situation will end at 11:59 PM PST, 7/21/18 (EDIT) 7/23/18.

There is no Right answer to this question. The only limit on alternatives that characters can come up with is having children who want to leave Timeless come with them to the Meadous. Sorry! They will all have their own reasons for ICly wanting to stay in their own world and this is not feasible on an OOC-level. The discussions with the Crone and Boy remain ongoing! Feel free to tag-in if you have not, yet.

1. Questions
2. Debate
3. Voting

Comments

[termineur]

Once he hears about Zangetsu's proposal, Gabriel is going to push hard for that. He will argue that time and change is absolutely necessary for evolution and becoming a better, happier person. If anyone argues that, he will give (probably graphic and disturbing) examples from his own life.

But he will also say these kids have been through a lot, so if they need a 'break' for awhile, they should be allowed to have that. That would also give the Boy what he wanted- a way to protect these children from the worst parts of chaos that have been inflicted on them.

Gabriel wants the children to be able to decide individually for themselves if they want to want to grow up, and to be able to make that decision later if they want. If the Boy and the Crone don't agree to that, he will continue to argue for it- or at least a day every so often where the kids decide if they want to grow up or not. But he will grudgingly accept them all having to make the decision now, if that's the only option.

Edited to add: Gabriel would also argue that the choice to grow older and the choice to leave the island should be separate allowed decisions. Maybe Royce's idea of having a section of the island where time moves normally would work well with that?

[thewarningafter]

Stephen has presumably heard John's and UT's concerns about the children's ability to make long-term decisions while they're still children, and suggests that they do Gabriel's suggestion, but perhaps there should be a minimum age for the kids to age up to before they can decide that they want to go back out into the world as young adults.

[aibolition]

Zan would like to preface that he thinks this is stupid and that this isn't like drinking or getting a tattoo or something, but their lives, their world, and their time, and there's a reason they don't have adults making decisions for them. If they could know they wanted to leave before then they can understand the risks of going back.

That said, if they've really got to add this, then he's going campaign that the age shouldn't be too high. He is pretty sure that some of their group includes teenagers afterall and they're perfectly fine making lasting decisions with consequences. Maybe just not five year olds or something.

[termineur]

Gabriel agrees that the age shouldn't be too high. He'd argue somewhere around 14-ish, but hell if he knows. They shouldn't have to be full adults before they head back (especially if they decide they want to infiltrate those factories). He just wants them to have a couple years of 'aging experience' before they head back, personally.

[bywolves]

Royce is plus one-ing the "I think the age minimum is stupid" thing - he's pretty against it, not because he doesn't care about the kids (because he does) but because he thinks it's an unnecessary rule that takes away the kids' agency. If they want to go back, they should be able to make that decision whether it's a bad one or not - it's none of the Meadous-ers business.

He's concerned they're wrecking balling into this world and making permanent decisions for a bunch of kids they'll never see again, and then ollying out after interfering a whole bunch. If they really want to add the age thing then he'd be agreeable with it being a minimum of like, 13, but he's not a fan of that stipulation being added and would probably argue along the lines of just like "no, it isn't your decision to make, it's theirs"