Parenthood: Llewella

[RPGPundit]

Ah Llewella. I have an aunt, slightly crazy, who when she was very young decided that she wanted nothing to do with my entire fucked up family and buggered off to Paris, where she has lived ever since in splendid isolation.  Its left her a little crazy, like I said, but its also made her the "cool" aunt who always understood you when you hated your parents or family and wanted to just take off somewhere.

Llewella is like that.  She's the "cool" aunt, the one who never grew up because she ran away; or the one who wisely dropped out of the family dysfunction. Either way, she's the one who gets you when you can't stand everyone else in the family. She's the one you only hear about as a kid, but she sends you letters and presents, and once or twice might have come to visit. Later, when you're done with school, you travel to Rebma to visit her and she shows you all the hip wonder of that city.

Thing is, I have a lot of trouble seeing Llewella as a mother.  The same thing that led her to leave Amber behind and flee to Rebma is what will pretty much make her an aunt and not a mom. Llewella is, at the end of the day, and however sensible it might have been for her own survival, a runner; she runs and hides from responsibilities.

Really cool aunt though.

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[Uncle Twitchy]

Is she? She sure bosses Merlin around. And for all her vaunted "staying out of the family squabbles" claims, she's one of the first to start throwing suspicions out about who killed Caine or imprisoned and stabbed Brand.

She's my main villain in my current campaign. I've even made her rank 1 in Psyche -- above even Fiona or Brand. Why not? There's so little about her that we know, other than the fact that she claims to want to stay out of everything, yet when she's there, she's in all the way to her elbows. I say it's an act.

[RPGPundit]

The family member who dropped out of the family is generally also the one who can badmouth the rest of the family the most openly; she's playing no game and thus has nothing to lose.

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[Uncle Twitchy]

Sure. That's the other reason why I like having her be the main overall villain -- she's been such a cypher, no one suspects her whatsoever. Of anything.