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notalenderThere's not so much to know about Arietty, really. She's from the BBC's 2011 adaptation of The Borrowers, and she's your average, fairly sheltered sixteen year old, suddenly unleashed on the world. She's arrogant and opinionated and out for adventure and love and all the other things she's only ever read about in books before. She's brave and can be very kind, and while she's not going to trust a single one of you all starting out, she'll be interested in making new friends soon enough. Really, she's a perfectly normal teenage girl.
Who's four inches tall.
Arietty is what's been described by since-discredited-and-disgraced-Professor Mildeye as Homo sapiens reductus, though she and her family call themselves Borrowers. Borrowers are tiny people who live in the walls and under the floorboards of the homes of full-sized people, or as the Borrowers call them, "human beans". Arietty herself hails all the way from under a grandfather clock in Hackney, where her parents still live. So don't be surprised if you're living with her and she sets herself up behind a vent or in a desk drawer or something. She won't take up too much space. You might not even realize she's there.
No, really. See, the most skilled of Borrowers have an innate sense about the beans around them, a sort of proximity warning that lets them know when they're about to be seen. For our purposes, I'm extending this to any sentient non-Borrower, so it'd also include aliens and gods and fairies and things. Maybe not squirrels. Poor Arietty's sense would just constantly be going nuts if we included them. The upshot of this is that, unless she's trapped out in the open, Arietty will not be seen unless she wants to be (or your character has some nifty ability that means she totally would, in which case, ping below!). But don't worry, just as soon as she's sure that people in Fandom aren't out to expose Borrower kind to the world and/or take her apart to see how she works, she'll be a right social butterfly.
Oh, and one more thing: Borrowers are scavengers. Rather than make their own supplies and tools, they gather up bits and pieces of things they don't think that beans will miss and adapt them to suit their own needs. This can include using socks as sleeping bags, postage stamps as wall art, or sewing needles as javelins. They regularly venture out into the world on "borrowing" expeditions to gather supplies, and they're really not super concerned with the bean those supplies might belong to. After all, Borrowers are all convinced that beans exist primarily to provide them with these scraps. Arietty won't hold this against your character -- after all, it's not his or her fault that they were born to an inferior species. But it does mean she could potentially steal some of your stuff. We're talking small objects, maybe a piece of candy, a stray lipstick, even a ring left out on a table. No one's specific stuff will be taken without OOC permission. For the most part, Arietty will be grabbing generic things that don't specifically belong to any player character. But if you'd like to have her snatch something from your character, that's awesome, and you can let me know below!
I think that's pretty much everything. Oh! I don't expect anyone else to bend over backwards to accommodate Arietty's size. She'll be finding ways to do that, herself. I'm envisioning a trained rat to run her to class or maybe a toy car or motorcycle or something to zip around the dorms in. . . . Anyway, she'll be making her own way to class and finding her own way to take notes and things. Working that stuff out is a big part of why I'm excited to play her, really.
tl;dr: Arietty is really probably much smaller than you, knows when you're coming, and wants to steal your stuff. But she's totally a nice person and will be your friend if you don't try to dissect or eat her!
Who's four inches tall.
Arietty is what's been described by since-discredited-and-disgraced-Professor Mildeye as Homo sapiens reductus, though she and her family call themselves Borrowers. Borrowers are tiny people who live in the walls and under the floorboards of the homes of full-sized people, or as the Borrowers call them, "human beans". Arietty herself hails all the way from under a grandfather clock in Hackney, where her parents still live. So don't be surprised if you're living with her and she sets herself up behind a vent or in a desk drawer or something. She won't take up too much space. You might not even realize she's there.
No, really. See, the most skilled of Borrowers have an innate sense about the beans around them, a sort of proximity warning that lets them know when they're about to be seen. For our purposes, I'm extending this to any sentient non-Borrower, so it'd also include aliens and gods and fairies and things. Maybe not squirrels. Poor Arietty's sense would just constantly be going nuts if we included them. The upshot of this is that, unless she's trapped out in the open, Arietty will not be seen unless she wants to be (or your character has some nifty ability that means she totally would, in which case, ping below!). But don't worry, just as soon as she's sure that people in Fandom aren't out to expose Borrower kind to the world and/or take her apart to see how she works, she'll be a right social butterfly.
Oh, and one more thing: Borrowers are scavengers. Rather than make their own supplies and tools, they gather up bits and pieces of things they don't think that beans will miss and adapt them to suit their own needs. This can include using socks as sleeping bags, postage stamps as wall art, or sewing needles as javelins. They regularly venture out into the world on "borrowing" expeditions to gather supplies, and they're really not super concerned with the bean those supplies might belong to. After all, Borrowers are all convinced that beans exist primarily to provide them with these scraps. Arietty won't hold this against your character -- after all, it's not his or her fault that they were born to an inferior species. But it does mean she could potentially steal some of your stuff. We're talking small objects, maybe a piece of candy, a stray lipstick, even a ring left out on a table. No one's specific stuff will be taken without OOC permission. For the most part, Arietty will be grabbing generic things that don't specifically belong to any player character. But if you'd like to have her snatch something from your character, that's awesome, and you can let me know below!
I think that's pretty much everything. Oh! I don't expect anyone else to bend over backwards to accommodate Arietty's size. She'll be finding ways to do that, herself. I'm envisioning a trained rat to run her to class or maybe a toy car or motorcycle or something to zip around the dorms in. . . . Anyway, she'll be making her own way to class and finding her own way to take notes and things. Working that stuff out is a big part of why I'm excited to play her, really.
tl;dr: Arietty is really probably much smaller than you, knows when you're coming, and wants to steal your stuff. But she's totally a nice person and will be your friend if you don't try to dissect or eat her!
I have things for Arietty to borrow
Date: 2012-06-21 07:59 pm (UTC)Re: I have things for Arietty to borrow
Date: 2012-06-21 10:26 pm (UTC)And it'd be easy to take from Sparks, too, since he mostly just leaves things sitting around. Half-used erasers, pencils, loose change, make-up, shoelaces, whatever. Go nuts!
Re: I have things for Arietty to borrow
Date: 2012-06-21 10:40 pm (UTC)Re: I have things for Arietty to borrow
Date: 2012-08-18 12:21 am (UTC)Re: I have things for Arietty to borrow
Date: 2012-08-18 01:58 am (UTC)Re: I have things for Arietty to borrow
Date: 2012-08-18 02:33 am (UTC)Now I'm picturing Arietty going into the tank trying to grab that little treasure box or whatever Karla's got stashed in there, and BAM!
Karla comes back twenty minutes later to find a Borrower tripping balls in her frog tank.
Good times.
Also, since they're special frogs, they eat jello and crickets. So don't be surprised if that's in there, too!
Re: I have things for Arietty to borrow
Date: 2012-08-18 04:09 am (UTC)