Chibi Siblings

So this thread kind of works in tandem with "Playing with Fire and other bad influences". We were talking about the possible mischief that the Desin might of got up to, which lead to LilacMajesty suggesting that maybe Desin had burned Anosanim ribbons in the past, made me remember an old MySpace post of Rini's and the creation of this thread. When your reading it, maybe you can guess what kind of trouble these rambunctious siblings and there cheeky cousins may have got up to.

This is without a doubt my favourite Rini post and I wanted to share with those of you who may not have seen it already. Oh, Matthew I hope its okay that I took this from Rini's page, if you need me to take it down I'll just leave the link instead. Anyways on with the post.

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Judicial matters
I was talking to some of my cousins today, and Dakeb brought up something that I'd almost forgotten about. I was pretty young when it happened, but back when we were kids, Selorin went through a phase. It must've been an early sign of his future, some part of his judicial nature coming out, but he used to sentence us.

Here's an example. I was about four, and Anosanim was five. Even back then, Anosanim loved ribbons, and he had a whole collection of them. Most of them, other people had given to him, because he was so cute; some of them, Talin had given to him, to make him happy. Anyway, so he had a whole lot of them, and they were bright and colorful and hidden, tucked in a cloak in the bottom of Talin's trunk. He thought that they'd be safe there, because Talin would never let anything happen to something that was important to Anosanim.

Naturally, I wanted them for myself, so I borrowed them. I wasn't going to do anything bad to them; I just wanted to, you know, have them for a while. They were pretty and bright, and it wasn't fair that they were all cooped up all of the time. Of course Selorin caught me, because I never get away with anything.
I was covered in ribbons, I'd tied them all over my hair and arms and legs, and I was putting one on each toe when Selorin found me. What'd he do? He judged me. He sentenced me. He found me guilty of stealing, and condemned me to three days of an early bedtime.

He was always doing that! When I stole Talin's blocks or pretty much destroyed Anosanim's paints (they'd originally been Talin's paints and Anosanim's blocks, but that lasted about two minutes), he sentenced me to stuff like no desserts for a week. I used to tell him that he wasn't Anosadum, and he had no right to condemn me to anything, but he said that it was his responsibility to take care of judicial matters because the pharaoh was too busy dealing with important things. No, seriously, Selorin was seven years old talking about "judicial matters." That's the kind of stuff I had to live with.

He did it to everybody. He sentenced all of us, our cousins, everyone our age he caught doing anything wrong. He'd send us to our rooms or make us take extra baths or tell us to do extra chores or order us to spend time in the closet.
The only person of our generation whom I know he didn't judge and condemn was Kudorin. Selorin never had the chance; Anosadum always got there first. Kudorin couldn't do anything wrong without being caught by our pharaoh mother. He couldn't get away with even the smallest lie; the words were barely out of his mouth before he was in trouble.

You're probably wondering why we let Selorin sentence us. We had to! Whenever we complained, Sanuk, our king father, would tell us to respect Selorin's wisdom and do as he said. His wisdom? He was seven years old! We all hated it, especially Remin, who was older. We did our best to get Selorin back; we tried hard to get him in trouble, to tell on him for the smallest offense, but it never worked. He always told on himself first. Even when no one knew that he'd done anything wrong, he'd walk right up and confess and apologize.
Whenever I visit his courtroom, I almost expect him to sentence the defendant to no desserts and an early bedtime.