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#WordWeavers Nov 3: What was your MC’s childhood like?
Jum: the usual—on my 6th birthday daddy built me a village with robot unicorns and hired in an entire orphanage to fill it. (Let's not get into the mass crucifixion of burning clowns that ended *that* happy occasion.) For my 12th he introduced me to my bride-to-be (a beautiful serial killer), then shipped me off to Space Eton. And for my 18th he gave me a starship and a wedding breakfast.
Nothing particularly unusual for a young viscount!
(Contd.)
Tabitha: at 16 I poisoned my third governess in a year (what can I say? I was bored) so pater sent me to Countess Vulch's finishing school to straighten me out. I was good: I didn't poison any of the other girls, or even steal from them (much). Then at 18 I ran away and joined a down-on-their-luck crime family rather than let the inquisition crucify me with the rest of my family. But I had the last laugh: by 24 I was running the business—bespoke bioweapons for the gentry.
@cstross Wow, those are interesting lives! I have two many questions about both of them, but I'll only ask one: did the governesses deserve to be poisoned? 😅
@AlinaLeonova Yes, but only by the standards of a spoiled noble brat. (Two of them survived, one didn't make it. They're not a patch on Tabitha's subsequent death toll, though.)
@cstross "only by the standards of a spoiled noble brat" — so the answer is no xd
@cstross i heard this in Mike Myers' Doctor Evil voice, just missing a testicle.
@cstross@wandering.shop Jukram in Godthief grew up in a poor family, and had to learn to steal to feed his family and neighbors when there was a famine and the priesthood refused to open the Temple granaries merely to feed poor people who couldn't do them favors in return. His parents died, and his sister disappeared, in the wake of the plague that followed hard on the heels of the famine. He swore that never again would that happen to anyone else if there was something he could do to prevent it, and became a thief stealing from those who wouldn't even miss it, to feed those who worked their fingers to the bone and still went hungry.
And this is why the goddess Jirilisandroval chose him as her Thief-Paladin...
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