Ookla of Colors

Most of the interactions I have had with boys I'm friends with have been with my brothers or cousins. Maybe that just means I've had a weird life. I'm trying to figure out the non-physical differences in how the interactions should be because the physical ones are obvious and nobody ever really talks about the mental/emotional/social/intellectual/whatever-other-not-physical-types-of differences in how the interactions should be. Should I tease him and talk to him and treat him and support him and encourage him and worry about his problems and try to help him and fight with him like I would one of my brothers? Or differently? If differently, how? In trying to understand this all it doesn't help that I kind of stunted my own social and emotional growth. That's probably why I need this help. (Oh also, this is specifically in regards to someone who likes spending time with me and probably knows I like spending time with him.)

Semi-awkward question I would really like an answer to: In the non-physical ways, how ought one treat someone they like* differently than they ought to** treat a sibling***?

Time travel! Clearly!

Part of why I'm going with just "Christians" is because we believe in Christ, just like the other Christian groups do, and I would rather emphasize that most-important similarity than emphasize all the different pieces that are different and that many others don't fully understand. Yes, there are things we believe differently from other Christian groups, but we all believe that Christ lived then and lives now, He loves us, He died for our sins, and because of Him we can live with God again. @Ookla the Silver (this isn't an RP, you don't have to speak in quote boxes.)

I'm pretty sure President Nelson said we shouldn't call ourselves "Latter-Day Saints" because it has the same problem "Mormons" did - it takes out the name of Christ. I'm going with Christians.

Rilla sat on the floor of the room she'd been hiding in all day, rocking back and forth, head in her hands, muttering to herself. "I don't know anything useful. I don't even know what's happening anymore. Onon was right, I misjudged Sirta. I just... I didn't know that was how it was supposed to work. Now what? What do I do, what do I do, what do I do? I have to think things through as well as I can before sunset. Onon... Onon's dead! The ghosts have taken him away! They were supposed to help him! They liked him. Is that why they took him? Think. Think! I don't know what to think." She reached for her notes, but they dissolved in her hands. "No. No! Now what? Am I useless? Just like that? No, I have to find some way to help. Rem. Rem? I don't think it's Rem. But if Rem's a Thug, not a Lurcher, shouldn't someone have said something about maybe not killing Sono based on Rem's claim? Why didn't Onon say something? He knew. Rem couldn't say something without giving the Spiked a clear opportunity, could he? No. The Spiked attacked him on the first day. They would have killed him if they knew they could for sure. Pending. Pending says he wasn't blessed by the mists, right? Yes, that's right. But so much can hide behind such a claim. What if he was blessed, and he claimed not to be so he could hide, invisible among us? I don't know anything, do I. Sirta. I think I trust Sirta. Onon trusted him, and he's trying. "Pending. I'm sorry. I just - don't know what else to do."

I don't have a BT ruleset yet. @Ashbringer?

Me three?

"Based on a short PM interaction and some of Sono's statements so far, he worries me a lot. The way he's acting doesn't fit with my Paradigm of How Most Villagers Act. It confuses and frustrates me, and I don't like it. He's played before. Yesterday he said he was a Lurcher when he really shouldn't have. Today he said, in front of everybody, that he used his one Lurcher charge - meaning if he's village, the Spiked know they don't have to worry about kill protection from him anymore. If he's Spiked, he claimed to have Lurched someone who wasn't attacked, meaning that we can't tell whether or not he ever had a charge, and he becomes free to use it on whoever he wants. Just now, he asked me in a letter what if he told me he lied about being a Lurcher. This feels, to me, a bit too noncommittal and convoluted for it to be a useful village move, *especially since he wasn't pressured into a roleclaim, he claimed in a way that seemed almost like a new person's mistake - which it shouldn't be, because he's seemingly had plenty of past lives." edit: "*especially since he wasn't pressured into either the role or the action claims and he claimed in a way that... "

"Sirta. I guess I'm going to have to throw out all the shiny new reads I gained based on Lord Pending's false claims. This has been informative though, so I'll not count the time as entirely wasted." Rilla went back to her reading.

I haven't watched it, but I've heard from some cousins that it's a bit of a mess. I think one good reason to watch it would be to laugh at how badly it was done.

"There is no evidence or claim that Pending is a Thug other than what Sirta has said about him. Is there anyone who says Pending's a thug with actual proof or a less-suspect role read on him? I'm not glued to my vote as it's still just my current best guess between two half-unknown options, but I would like a better reason to vote Pending than a blind trust in Sirta's honesty, especially when I see a 50/50 chance of Sirta being Spiked."

Rilla watched as the sun approached the horizon. Not much time left for her to say her piece. "Sirta, your whole argument as to why Pending's evil and you're not is literally 'I know I'm not evil. Let's go talk about other things now.' That's not very helpful, but it does reek of misdirection. You admitted that Pending correctly guessed your role. How likely was that? Additionally, Pending didn't have to claim that he saw your actions last night, but he did anyway, completely unprovoked. Finally, some of your reasoning confuses me. You marked Onon as village, and then put him in a hypothetical three-elim team, without listing a two-elim team option beside it, despite the fact that you admitted that would be possible."

Rilla pushed her glasses up onto her hair, briefly massaging the bridge of her nose. "Fair point. However, the past holds important information too, so I won't abandon my efforts entirely." She gathered up her papers and stepped out into the town square, finding a place to sit against a dying tree where she could keep an ear on things while she continued to read. The cat didn't follow. "I think that, based on Sono's slip with his role and his later comments on said slip, he's more likely to not be Spiked, though I'm not extremely certain about that. Onon, though, I'm sure he's with the village." And the ghosts like him. "I don't know anyone I'm suspicious of yet. Maybe I'm too focused on finding villagers instead of Spiked. Tell me, is it better to look for friends or enemies?" Edit: Rilla's turned towards Lord Pending as he made his claim and accusation, then sat pondering for several moments. She sat back against the tree once more, turning to her reading to try to find which of them she could trust.

Rilla sat in a hidden corner of the library, hunched over records of the previous days. Leaving for the harvest festival had caused her to miss so much! There were reports of odd, seemingly shared dreams of Spiked trying to murder everybody. There were also reports of Spiked actually trying to murder everybody. She checked, and this was probably real. The blood was not - it never was. The cat, though, might be. Focus. The words. She needed to finish reading this before another day passed her by.

Worry

How many siblings do you have? 0-2, 3-6, 7-9, 10+, or None of my business?

I would like to join as Rilla, the town stalker matchmaker who may or may not be sane.

But the hospital bills!

Tumultuous

Possibly date/ flirt with people of the general category you consider attractive (for me it's male young adults.)

I would also appreciate being memified

YOUR BOOKS CAN TALK??!??!??!?