Granny Poppy, Princess of Knitting (FiD)

Starfox's Princess World

Faction Representative for the Guidance Collective

Granny is a small and aged princess who walks with the aid of her princess weapon, a wooden cane. She enjoys bright colours, and always incorporates at least one handknitted shawl or scarf into her outfit. She has a blunt no-nonsense way of speaking and does not appreciate being interrupted one little bit. As mentioned her princess weapon is a wooden cane, unspectacular in appearance, although any princess who has witnessed Granny Poppy get to whacking will give it the respect it deserves. Granny tends to keep out of fighting— can't be having with that sort of nonsense, not at her age—but when sufficiently riled she is a tiny terrifying force of nature.

Granny has been around forever, or at least that's how it feels. She's something of a presence at the Academy and showsup at a lot of parties, regardless of whether or not she was invited, so most princesses have a Granny Poppy story. It's only recently that she's started taking on frontier kingdoms, and although she takes the responsibility seriously she also treats it as something of a hobby. Back in her day, you see, the wild lands were WILD and the frontier was a FRONTIER and monsters were MONSTERS. You children don't know how easy you have it, what with these newfangled teleportation circles and whatnot. And so on.

Regarding the other factions, Granny gets along well enough with most of them, as long as they give her the respect she feels she's due. She looks favourably on the older and more established factions, the Royal Architects, the Silver Masks, the Scientific Promotion Society, the Universal Librarians. Princesses from more recently established factions such as the Luxury Seekers or the Wild Lands Protection Committee or Starlight Investigations have to work a lot harder to earn her respect.

Granny is not the most actively helpful faction rep, and can often seem more like just one more thing to deal with than any kind of support—constantly popping in for a cup of tea and getting riled at the lack of respect you young princesses show her. Her advice is almost always tragically outdated, and requests for help might have to be submitted multiple times before she actually gets around to putting them through. On the other hand, it's said that whenever a princess in one of Granny Poppy's kingdoms is truly in trouble, in her darkest hour, lost without hope, she'll hear a familiar voice saying something like "Now what's all this fuss and bother?" before Granny comes hobbling to the rescue.

Granny likes respect, fairies, properly made tea and cakes, familiar things, established traditions, solid craftsmanship, flowers, handcrafts, manners, yoghurt, and polite princesses who know their place.

Granny dislikes lemons, unfamiliar things, pointlessly confusing jibber-jabber, newfangled mumbo-jumbo, rudeness, uncouth behaviour, overly casual attitudes, spicy food, overly sweet sweets, stickiness, untidiness, unwashed faces, and princesses who talk back to her.