#PennedPossibilities 1133 Again: Did your MC attend school? What sort of education did they have?[Since @floofpaldi is recuperating tonight, I'm answering "again" for a different story and MC. I wanted to do a little world-building. 😋 —RS] The devil-girl is the young autistic daemon woman MC in Reluctant Runaway (planned). She attended public school through most of second grade with her best friend from infancy, but when he left (disappeared really) without telling her why, she became convinced he'd betrayed her. She got fed up with acting normal, masking her actions, accommodating her classmates' feelings, and having to suffer straining to interpret children's mercurial expressions, body language, and illogical reactions. She quit school. Her guardian approved. He immediately engaged scholastic tutors, crafters and artists, etiquette specialists, military instructors, and physical trainers to take residence at the estate, after which the devil-girl soon spent every… waking… moment learning or practicing or training, sometimes hosting mock state dinners or making the rounds of the tenant farms and mines on the lands she was to eventually superintend. She was destined to govern, so taking the opportunity to control her education made perfect sense and allowed him to disregard the devil-girl's late parents wishes that she be treated as a normal girl. Her parents had died heroes when she was five, earning them lands and responsibilities that that the highest powers passed on to their little girl, who would quit school when eight years old. What ran away the estate years later was extraordinary well educated, principled (though those principles were mutable), and quite dangerous. A true devil-girl. [Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.] #BoostingIsSharing #gender #fiction #writer #author #sf #sff #sciencefiction #writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers #RSdiscussion #RSstory #RSReluctanceStory