I got an owl today from the Half-Blood Affairs Office saying that the Strettons don't want me back. Well that's not exactly what it said. It said that on consideration they felt that they did not have the time and resources to manage a foster child right now. So they're going to do another placement for me for summer but they don't know where yet. I wish I could go stay with Pansy but her mum's still not entirely well and I doubt it will work out.
I remember that Sally-Anne was originally with the Strettons as an Anne of Green Gables nod and that she was meant to have a progression of awful foster-families, but then (I think?) what happened was Naomi was too happy with the fully-realized Stretton family, and felt she had put much good effort into creating NPCs who had real voices and personalities, and so in the end she chose to contrive reasons Sally-Anne wound up staying with the Strettons all the time.
Which is lucky, because Jeremy wound up being a great NPC and then a great PC, and we had a grand time with Stretton-related stuff throughout the game. But it does make me wish we had had the space to tell about SOMEONE getting bounced around from foster home to foster home, even if it had just been an NPC that we heard about in passing. It strikes me that to put a PC in that position might have wound up being abuse porn instead of subtle storytelling, but it also might have offered us interesting windows on different aspects of the Protectorate.
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I remember that Sally-Anne was originally with the Strettons as an Anne of Green Gables nod and that she was meant to have a progression of awful foster-families, but then (I think?) what happened was Naomi was too happy with the fully-realized Stretton family, and felt she had put much good effort into creating NPCs who had real voices and personalities, and so in the end she chose to contrive reasons Sally-Anne wound up staying with the Strettons all the time.
Which is lucky, because Jeremy wound up being a great NPC and then a great PC, and we had a grand time with Stretton-related stuff throughout the game. But it does make me wish we had had the space to tell about SOMEONE getting bounced around from foster home to foster home, even if it had just been an NPC that we heard about in passing. It strikes me that to put a PC in that position might have wound up being abuse porn instead of subtle storytelling, but it also might have offered us interesting windows on different aspects of the Protectorate.