Answers #4 & 5: Famous

"4) Would either of you equate "Crown" with the same rock-star attention you get with being, for lack of a better word, famous? (Even if only on a minor level)

5a) If 'yes', have you ever been in the position to handle "famous"?

5b) If 'no', what would you compare it to?"

I don't know if I would use "famous" to describe it. You'd be famous in the regards that people will know you when you win Crown, and they will try to get to know you better. What I think you are describing is being famous as a positive thing, as opposed to infamous.

Although it could be considered famous, I think it's be better described as "being under the microscope," since everything you do will be scrutinized. I think this especially true since I'll be Japanese. I know I make a point about it, but I think there will be issues, and I should expect them.

No, I have never really been in a position to handle "famous". Because of such, not sure how I would react to, or handle it. I'd like to think I'd be ok with it, but it's hard to imagine a position that you've never been in.

Wynn Answers: 1. Expense, 4-5. "Famous"

1) How expensive do you think being Crown will be?

The numbers that I have heard are more in the $5-7k range. With a couple of reigns that I know of being more like $10k. Of course, there are ways to make things more and less expensive. I'm pretty sure the higher cost reigns included a lot of out of kingdom travel (read airline tickets) and expensive clothes, gifts, etc.

[Question 2 seems very personal to Kato. And I don't have time for 3 right now—but I'll get back to it.]

4) Would either of you equate "Crown" with the same rock-star attention you get with being, for lack of a better word, famous? (Even if only on a minor level)

Khaentlahn, I think you have the most experience with what it means to be "famous," but a shot in the dark is that yes, Crown does come with a minor level of this within the SCA. It definitely puts you on a new level of renoun, with a much larger number people who you have never met knowing your name, and talking about you, judging your decisions, etc. There's a level of demand and responsibility that is quite different from a member of the general populace. To explain a bit more, as Crown, there are a huge number of people who have expectations of you, and who will want to talk to you, ask you questions, or just be close to you.

5a) If 'yes', have you ever been in the position to handle "famous"?

There's an amount of this that comes with becoming a capital P Peer—for sure at the time of your elevation. The number of people who know your name that you've never met is much higher. People who you don't know now feel a certain ownership of you and that they now have a reason and a right to stand back and judge the things that you do. This happened for me to a much lesser extent when I became a Lily, so I can only imagine that Kato would be experiencing it with his recent elevation to Hus.