Eva has now tracked down the horse god in Breath of the Wild

[conuly]

This is a great relief. Previously, whenever her horse died she'd immediately kill herself before the game could save. Now she doesn't have to do that anymore! (No joke, once when she stranded a horse in a valley she spent ages trying to figure a way to rescue it. She was really upset! Eventually we googled and found out that stables will automatically retrieve a living horse no matter what dire peril you left it in. Truly, they're the real heroes of this game.)

Anyway, in order to show off the horse god's prowess she immediately set a horse on fire. Because she can do that now. No regrets!

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Comments

[divinemusings]

This is really good information to know before we really dive into that game.

[conuly]

YES. She was very attached to Nutmeg.

[rebeccmeister]

But note that the horse god does say you should still try and avoid killing the horses!

I like to run around and feed apples and carrots to all the horses I encounter.

[conuly]

And doggies, don't forget! (Though the gamemakers don't seem to have considered that we'd like to pat our good dogs after they bring us to buried treasure.)

[rebeccmeister]

You've been feeding meat to the dogs, right?

[conuly]

We've been crouching in front of the until they love us, then feeding them apples. Apples are just as effective and a heck of a lot more plentiful. Meat goes to make skewers to sell.

(Also, we've spent a lot of time IRL making comments along the lines of "Okay, Moonpie, I looked in your eyes and I fed you, so now you love me!" or "Listen, if you want that dog to come you have to look in his eyes until he loves you...." and so on.)

[rebeccmeister]

Hee hee! There will come a time when meat is plentiful enough that you won't mind giving it to the dogs. :^)

[conuly]

Unlike wolves, dogs aren't obligate carnivores. They'll eat apples and they'll LIKE THEM. (Truth in fiction with Finn!)

[gale_storm]

Naah, dogs are just playing us to believe they aren't obligate carnivores so they can slip into spots where they can grab a non-carnivorous snack and plead innocence because of their known carnivorous nature.

Okay, just having a bit of fun at dogs' expense because I've known enough dogs to realize that very very very few of them could plan much beyond where to nip off to so they can enjoy their snack!

[archangelbeth]

I am minded, regarding flaming horses, of the horse in Next Town Over:

http://www.nexttownover.net/?p=564

(...of the two main protagonists, neither one is good, but wow is there some lovely art.)

[conuly]

That is lovely!

[sporks5000.livejournal.com]

I remember your posts about her as a baby. It makes sense that they would eventually come to this.

[conuly]

She is a kind and a loving person.

[sporks5000.livejournal.com]

But only when it comes to people and things that actually exist and are capable of being receptive to kindness and lovingness....

...which is probably a good thing, now that I think about it. I wrote a short story once about a woman who became obsessed with farmville-like games because she empathized* too much with the fictional animals and plants within them. Little by little, her need to take care of these creatures was crowding out her real life and her ability to do her job... but if she didn't tend to them, they would DIE!

* I guess that this isn't REALLY empathy. It's not quite projecting either... Yeah, I do not have an appropriate word for the pseudo-empathy I'm trying to describe here, but I'm sure there is one.

[conuly]

When I was a kid, if I wanted two bags of chips I'd get the bag of chips I liked and also the bag of chips I didn't like as much because I didn't want the second flavor to feel rejected.

[sporks5000.livejournal.com]

When I was a kid, my favorite letter was "Q", because it didn't seem to be anyone else's favorite letter, and I didn't want it to feel unloved. My parents have audio recordings of me where one of them would passively mention the letter, and then you could hear me shout "Q! Hooray!" in the background.

[sporks5000.livejournal.com]

https://sporks5000.com/writing/Pony <- I found the story I was referencing and have posted it on my server.