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# Symbol Childhood Home
1 Moon The place appeared dreary
and dark, regardless of the
family’s disposition.
2 Sun It was a bright, apparently
cheerful place to outsiders,
regardless of your actual
family relationships.
3 Sword Had a gym, dojo, basement
with exercise equipment, or
similar training area.
4 Shield Contained a secret or safe
space, like a panic room or
a crawlspace only you knew
about.
5 Target While you were living there,
it was a place your parents
or elder siblings brought
their friends often as a
gathering or party space.
6 Tower There was an area or room
you were never allowed in,
and you still have never
been there.
7 Crown The home was an historical
or otherwise ancient
building.
8 Heart You and your friends spent
a lot of time in your house.
9 Skull Older relatives moved in
with your family at some
point, bringing change (good
or bad).
10 Wand The place was and is full of
odd nooks, corners,
artifacts, collections, and so
on, and as a child you had
no understanding of their
actual value or purpose.
Room-mate Current Home (House,
spaceship, etc)
Is awake in your shared Power is often an issue,
home (or awake and flickering or even dying
out) all night; sleeps all regularly--or similarly irksome
day. maintenance issues.
Is annoyingly cheerful A place of warmth and
at all times. coziness, at least in part, for
those you call family.
Always exercising, Sometimes, your family and
eating friends suffer from in-fighting
protein-supplement and drama.
meals, and generally a
fitness nut.
Is very, very protective A place of safety and a source
of their space and of independence, at least in
property. part.
Always brings their Other people, probably
work home with them, enemies, are looking for it
and never just “turns (trying to find out your
off.” address, etc).
Constantly locked in Because of its nature or
their room, rarely location, it is somewhat
emerging. Have they isolating.
ever come out?
Imposes arbitrary and Grants you some kind of
dictatorial rules on your authority (over tenants, local
shared space. farmland, etc).
Brings an endless This particular home is more
succession of lovers (or special to you than it would
large groups of friends) otherwise be, for reasons of
home. personal history, symbology,
or similar.
Has a dark sense of Something about it is fearful,
humor, and sometimes dangerous, or otherwise
disturbs guests you ominous, even if just in
bring over. appearance.
Decorates and cleans Has unique usefulness,
shared spaces, and perhaps in terms of locations,
also has time for all quality, furnishings, hidden
their own things; areas, convenience to water
magically awesome. and sustainability, or similar.