Character Inn is the eleventh installment of the casual Character Development Thread.
In a remote, mountainous region of Japan, in the middle of a large bamboo forest, there sits an inn. At first glance, it appears oddly traditional, and for the most part it is. However, a closer look around will reveal that it is surprisingly modern as well and offers everything a weary traveler could need. The inn's location is most unusual, but stranger still are its staff. Almost all of them are Youkai, the mythical and incredibly varied spirits of Japan. Some of them look fairly humanlike, others are more bestial, and still others are simply strange.
Appearances aside, this particular group is welcoming to any and all weary travelers that find their inn. Perhaps they'll even meet someone stranger then they are.
The thread can be found here
. It began in May of 2014 and ran for four months before petering out.
Character Inn contains examples of:
- Culture Clash: Havanar and Akiel have argued (though in a restrained way) about interspecies integration, which their respective home societies have very different opinions on.
- Funetik Aksent: The ravens that make up Unkindness seem to speak this way, possibly as a result of having beaks.
- Hot Springs Episode: Se apparently went with playing out all the blunt-force fanservice she could. Deliberately.
- "It" Is Dehumanizing: Steve's insistence on referring to Se and Rein as robots. Rein advises him never to interact with Bureau soldiers, as even the humans would consider that sufficiently racist as to be grounds for immediate violence.
- Juggling Dangerously: Sano juggled two daggers and a "largish knife" without touching the handles.
- No Ending: As is standard for the CDTs, the thread ended without any sort of actual conclusion, though its casual nature made this less of an issue. The subplot between Akiel, Nyris, and Havanar did get some mild closure, though, with the three of them all managing to be at ease at the same time for the first time in the thread.
- Not a Date: Havanar and Akiel's discussion/lunch in the bar, complete with Joan briefly acting as an accidental Third Wheel and Nyris teasing them about it. In this case, it's really not a date and everyone involved knows it; Nyris is just being a pest.
- Pronoun Trouble: The Unkindness. It, they (both singular and plural), she, he - they all fit some way or another.
- Show Within a Show: Sara, Gregory, and Se all went to see Ghostbusters (1984) at the inn's theater, complete with an argument about favorite characters that was slightly revealing of their personalities. The thread ended before the film got very far, though.
