Started researching the spirit guide animals/totems. Snake and falcon were pretty easy, and, surprisingly, they already corelate with my characters in the dream. So those character graphs will be easy to do.
But the mouse, my main character, eluded me.
Apparently there are only a handful of spirit guide animals. Mouse is not one of them. Rabbit is--Little Sister Rabbit, she is called--but I don't know if I really want to trade my mouse for a rabbit. I really like mouse. I'm seriously considering borrowing some rabbit traits, but I don't know how genuine animal-worshipers would respond to this. I'm not a politically correct person, but I want my character's culture (or, maybe, her religion?) to be as accurate as I can possibly make it.
The mouse is also a very popular totem, and the falcon/hawk and snake happen to be popular totems also, so maybe that will work. Then again, practically any animal is a totem, even flamingos, which I don't think would really be recongized in ancient Native American culture.
But hey, it still may work.
Another incredible difficulty in researching the mouse totem/animal spirit guide is that it's terrible inconsistent. One account claims that mouse people are disorganized and happy among clutter, while another tells me that they are OCD neat freaks who have to have absolutely organized and categorized. Apparently the characteristics of a mouse person vary according to tribe, not to mention how it's changed, from ancient culture to a modernization of the totems.
Snake and Falcon were easy to look up, and I already have pages of notes on them and their characteristics. But Mouse...that's proving to be incredibly difficult. And, worse, I can't skimp on it because a Mouse person is my MC.
It will be an interesting story to write.
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