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MY FRIENDS HAVE SAID THEY WOULD FAIN SEE, TOO...

Hello! It’s Misha again. Allow me to introduce you to Margaret Magnolia, one-time professor of Galar! She is much too old for this shit and has been ever since Leon and Sonia were kids. She might not be actively involved in research anymore, but she’ll check your Pokédex and talk with you over a cup of tea if you want. Just don’t mention a certain former league chairman in her presence, okay? Okay.

Rules: Write five scenarios where a muse could interact with yours, then tag five people!

Magnolia was involved in the beginning of the “modern” (read: Dynamax-using) league. Your muse can recognize her and ask her questions.

Your muse has a Pokemon-related problem and comes to Magnolia for help.

Magnolia goes to farmers’ markets, hipster tea shops, places like that. Your muse can start a conversation with her there, maybe commenting on something or asking for her help.

Your muse is getting into trouble/mischief and Magnolia steps in to stop them.

Someone asks her about what it was like knowing The Leon (and/or Sonia, and/or Gloria Victor and Hop, etc.)

the analyzing heart

narrative foil

Below the surface everyone is pretty complicated. Based on your answers, we think the following four traits are important strands in your personality:

TENDERNESS

You are not afraid of the sufferings and sorrows of other people, even when they are acted out in unappealing ways. Beneath even defensiveness and self-righteous behaviour, you know that deep down people need nurturing and consolation. One danger is being naive about people’s dark sides. But at your best you know you can be mean yourself, which helps you to sympathise. You bring strength and forgiveness where other people might panic.

NEEDINESS

Being affirmed and nurtured by others is a central requirement for you to feel safe. This means you can be slow to warm up to other people, which is difficult because what you most need from them is their warmth. Yet you know how to be vulnerable: to let down your defences and accept that you need another person. This lack of pretence is a valuable trait, and ultimately more endearing than the macho efforts others make to deny their childlike sides.

RATIONALITY

You like clarity and intelligent simplicity and you get frustrated at messy thinking. This can make you seem unreasonably pushy to some, but it is actually a virtue: you are motivated by a horror at pointless effort and a longing for precision and insight into how things and people work. Your ability to synthesise and bring order is essential in producing thinking which is truly helpful.

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