Azzira
Legacy Name: Taz.

~The Harvest Felis~

Wayward Son and Azzira have built a life of luxurious comfort. Their cozy cabin on Veta Lake is a well-balanced combination of woodsy and modern, combining warm tones of mahogany with sleek silver paneling that puts one in mind of films set on Atebus. The house is spacious enough that their three children never complain about one hogging the couch or taking up the best TV. Each has their own room filled with all the latest entertainment devices and family dinners at the hand-carved oak slab table are (almost) always harmonious.

Tonight, the family is playing Saggiopoly. Azzira's seemingly small stash of cash will be replenished within two turns when her unfortunate son lands on one of her properties stacked with a Saggi Hotel. There will be no anger or pouting, however. Son and Azzira have taught their children to be gracious losers. (Considering how much of the early game Azzira spent in Jollinette Jail, such self-control is well warranted.)

A collective grumble goes up when the phone in her office starts to ring but this, too, is good-natured. The children are proud of their mother's illustrious career and Son would never come between his wife and her creativity. He has his own abundance of muses that need to get out, ones that once had him traveling the world in search of a reason to settle down.

proved to be that reason.

She's pleased to hear from Gayle, one of her best customers over at Subetan Life Magazine. The pitch is simple enough - a magazine cover depicting the sun rising over the outskirts of Centropolis. Ideas are already whirling through Azzira's head. The last few rays of the setting sun burst through the picture window, leaving golden stripes on former award-winning covers that decorate the far wall. The bars of gold are still shining when Azzira kills the light and rejoins her family.

"Alright, gang. Who wants to take a mini-trip to Centropolis this weekend?"

The children cheer. They love the big city almost as much as their bi-annual camping trips to more obscure corners of Subeta. Son's easygoing smile is all the encouragement Azzira needs to start looking up hotel prices and family-friendly shows that are currently on the docket.

Their weekend is a whirlwind of fun events, family-friendly restaurants and snapshots of charmingly unusual sights. A textile booth set up by a neela tamer from the Sacred Lands. A manhole painted in a rainbow of colors. A streetlamp made to look like a leaping xotl. Azzira takes shots from multiple angles each time she finds a subject that interests her. You never know what alignment is going to spark the creative muse at a later date.

They return home laughing over their latest batch of memories, the kids all impersonating the ice-skating actors from the Subetan Fine Arts Ice Skating Rink. This week's show was Ruffies and Felis, a well-loved comedy with plenty of antics and hijinks for a young crowd.

As much as Azzira would love to get in on a rowdy game of Hungry Hungry Hippotus, she does need to get some work done. The cover's design comes together one abstract shape at a time until she's beaming at a rectangle done up in fiery shades of sunlight with black squares representing the windows of a skyscraper. A streetlight shaped roughly like a xotl shines down on a trio of glamorous singers, the lead story for this issue. Her minion Azriel (who has a rare eye for color) manipulates a tiny laptop with his own clever paws, dragging and dropping lines of text to create the finished product. (Azzira is all about graphic design - she has always felt a magazine looks better without all those distracting words but she respects her client's preferences as best she can.)

Content, she lets her eyes wander over the wall art. Always the first to catch her eye is the winter issue cover featuring Mama Mush, the one for which she won the prestigious Mag Mogul Award. Next is the cherry blossoms of Shengui Guo in bloom (a runner-up for the Subetan Design Contest) and the creepy red canyons of Darkside (another award winner - this one the Subetan Up-And-Coming Youth Artists Award).

Bursts of laughter in the kitchen bring her out of her musings. It's spaghetti night and Son will undoubtedly be making his famous blob meatballs.

~Credits~

Profile Code by: Ringo
Extra Code by: Yuzu
Story by: Pureflower
Edited by: Chrysariel
Overlay Recolor by: Necolasa
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Name by: Chrysariel
(Legacy name Taz.)