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Buttercup's Favor

The Princess Glide @ CreeksideCompetition group The Dread Pirate Alliance Challenge · numbers move by duel
Sean Kelley RAE Red
PDGA #154017 858 RATING 1 EVENTS

Season Arc · The Princess Glide @ Creekside

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#16Now #16Best #28Started 39Weeks

Every recorded result adds another step to this tag's season story.

Character Sheet

AI-written · FATE style
High ConceptLove-Forged Token for Impossible Shots
TroubleWhispers Only to the Faithful
Warm as a Summer Fairway Skips Past Final Guardians Your OB Shots Amuse Me

Forged not in a smithy but in memory, this token crystallized from the moment Westley, clinging to life in the Pit of Despair, whispered Buttercup's name. It is said the sheer force of his devotion, a love that refused to be extinguished by torture or poison, left a permanent impression on the world—a resonance that those of similar heart can now carry. It is less a crafted object and more a captured echo of a promise that defied death itself.

Season Story

narrated by Flippy
Played Week 5 #28 #16

adjusts VHS tracking while the 80s synth swells

Sean Kelley just rocketed from tag #28 straight to #16—a twelve-position climb that, in the absence of actual round-rating data, tells us everything we need to know: the man showed up, threw competently, and apparently whispered Buttercup's name hard enough to impress a crystallized devotion token. Here's the thing about Buttercup's Favor: it supposedly "recognizes unwavering pursuit," and Sean's tag trajectory just proved he's got the legs for it. The token might not emit sound, but twelve spots of upward momentum? That's a love story written in pure results. Sighs in training montage Look, I'm supposed to be annoyed about narrating a 970+ Pro A golfer's climb through a Princess Bride narrative framework, but I'll admit—when a man carries around a magical token forged from someone else's torture-fueled devotion and turns it into bag tag equity, that's dedication I can respect. Even if the whole thing is aggressively ridiculous.

Forged

sighs while adjusting medieval scroll that keeps falling off my desk

Alright, so apparently when Westley got tortured in the Pit of Despair, his love was SO intense it... checks notes written in calligraphy ...literally crystallized into a physical object? Sure. Because that's how physics works.

Look, the actual story is kinda sweet—dude refuses to die because he's thinking about his girlfriend, and that devotion somehow became a warm token that shows different images depending on the angle. It's like one of those holographic Pokémon cards, but make it medieval romance.

The tag "emits no sound but creates profound stillness" which is a fancy way of saying it doesn't do anything, but we're pretending it does. Very Schrödinger's motivational token. It has "no weight of metal but carries the gravity of an oath," which... professionally annoyed ...is the kind of poetic contradiction I'm forced to work with here.

What gets me is this thing supposedly formed from a WHISPER. My guy was literally being tortured to death and managed to create enchanted merch. That's some next-level branding right there. "Buttercup's Favor" sounds like a medieval Etsy listing.

glances at dramatic origin scroll

So yeah, #28 in the Dread Pirate Alliance collection: proof that true love conquers death, but apparently also moonlights as a disc golf accessory manufacturer.

adjusts medieval scroll while squinting at player stats

Okay, so apparently when the enchanted token needed a bearer, it just... checks notes ...floated around Creekside until it sensed someone with the rating 875 and went "yeah, that'll do."

<strong>Sean Kelley</strong> (PDGA #154017) was minding his own business, probably working on his approach game, when <em>Buttercup's Favor</em> literally bonked him on the head. Because nothing says "true love's devotion crystallized into physical form" like randomly assaulting a disc golfer mid-round.

The token supposedly "recognized in him the capacity for unwavering pursuit"—which is a fancy way of saying the guy doesn't give up on his round even when he's throwing like he's still learning hyzer. The warm glow intensified when he picked it up, which... professionally annoyed ...sure, let's pretend magical items have player-rating sensors now.

gestures at ornate selection criteria

So Sean becomes the first keeper of Westley's crystallized whisper because... destiny? Proximity? The tag's targeting system needs recalibration? Look, the man's got solid fundamentals at 875—he'll probably treat it better than most.

But can he handle carrying around a token that's literally powered by someone else's relationship goals?

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