Weird. [That's a lot of stuff he wasn't even aware was real. This is a lot to process. It also sounds like RPG video game mumbo jumbo but whatever, it's fine. It's fine. Nevertheless he did actually come to find Axel for a reason.]
Lili said you were helping her with her powers. Is that true?
[ ... pffthahaha no axel be good don't laugh at the kid ]
Hopefully you didn't set the bed on fire. [ teasing? is fair game? tho? ] Makes sense. Since it's new for you guys, it only shows up when you feel strongly about stuff. As far as emotions go, anger's especially explosive, too.
[ he says that a bit wry, like he's thinking about something specific. ]
Alright, come over here. But face away from me, I don't wanna check if I'm fireproof.
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[Frown.] It was just smoke and steam, it wasn't that big of a deal. Someone could have rebuilt it. [Spoken like someone who literally doesn't know what they're talking about. But at the same time he's attentive, watching Axel quietly and thinking on that.
That tracks. Lili had said something similar.]
Is it always like that? [He usually has a good grasp of his emotions, so that's. Hm. He does as instructed and approaches, turning so he's facing sideways and can see Axel without facing him. A loophole.]
[ it's light, because honestly, there could be, and it's not like axel cares about property damage. but also. logically speaking.
he frowns a bit at the question ]
Nah. Or at least, it shouldn't be. You just don't know how to access it any other way yet. Trust me, if feelings were necessary for magic, I know a few guys who would've had some definite trouble with it over the years. [ ha ha, nobodies. ] But we might be going along with that route to kickstart you. Before we go there though-- do ya remember how it felt, with the smoke and steam? Physically.
Alright. So what you're gonna do is try to imagine that again. Start off slow, like you're just holding a candle in your hand, and try and build it from there.
[ he has NO fucking idea if this will work at all but you wouldn't think it by his tone of voice ]
It might be easier if you try for longer than five seconds. [ but he sounds amused ] Try to see and feel it, alright? 'Cause the only thing you can set on fire around here is me.
[Fiiiine. He frowns in thought, staring at his hands and actually bothering to try for longer than five seconds. He'd rather not set someone on fire yet anyway.]
The magic thing is still strange. [He's still concentrating though. There's a period of silence before there's a little flash of a spark in his hands. Unsurprisingly, it startles him and he lets it go, snuffing out the baby flame.]
Yeah, some worlds aren't really that connected to it.
[ but his magicxposition is interrupted by Kaoru succeeding, if briefly, and he lets out a fucking sigh of relief mentally because he had NO CLUE if that was ever going to. out loud, he just gives a low whistle and a short slow clap ]
Hey, there you go! You got it. All you gotta do is not freak out next time.
Asking me not to freak out because my hands created fire is a little much for the first week. [But there's an expression of awe as he looks down at his hands again.] It's really that easy?
[Wow. Thanks for not talking about your cult, Axel.]
Magic isn't real where I'm from, obviously. It would make things easier but I don't think the world is ready for that. [...] So you've been doing this for years.
Earth doesn't have access to it. But what makes a world able to access magic? [He doesn't expect Axel to have an answer, but he's back to looking at his hands and trying to relight the flame.]
You're only ten years older than me. [That is to say that doesn't sound too long and he's assuming Axel started when he was like five.] And it's a thing everyone you know has access to in your world, too?
[ he has no actual clue. also god sure ask me to logic radiant garden like an ASSHOLE ]
Nah, not everyone. You still have to learn how to use it, and I'm pretty sure a lot of people just never got interested in it, since it's used for fighting for the most part.
Of course it was. [Fighting. There's that stupid word again, and he catches the "got" but doesn't ask. He makes note of it for later.] What else would magic be used for?
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[ that last one is said a bit wryly, considering their circumstances ]
There's a bunch I haven't listed to, but my thing's kinda always just been fire, personally.
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Lili said you were helping her with her powers. Is that true?
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[ he says it a bit amused, because he knows in most worlds magic is still kind of a big deal. at the follow up, he rubs the back of his neck a bit ]
Oh. Yeah, I guess. Dunno how much help I was for real, but it's not like it was a lotta trouble.
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...burning down our house sounds less appealing if this is really where we're supposed to be staying. She said I should ask you.
[For help. But words.]
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For help? Sure, I can give it a shot. I'm not exactly the mentor type, though. [ he said, lyingly ] You manage anything tangible yet?
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Not on purpose. [He looks at his hands.] I made some flames on the first day but nothing since then.
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...the same. We sort of figured it out at the same time.
[Because there's only one bed.]
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Hopefully you didn't set the bed on fire. [ teasing? is fair game? tho? ] Makes sense. Since it's new for you guys, it only shows up when you feel strongly about stuff. As far as emotions go, anger's especially explosive, too.
[ he says that a bit wry, like he's thinking about something specific. ]
Alright, come over here. But face away from me, I don't wanna check if I'm fireproof.
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That tracks. Lili had said something similar.]
Is it always like that? [He usually has a good grasp of his emotions, so that's. Hm. He does as instructed and approaches, turning so he's facing sideways and can see Axel without facing him. A loophole.]
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[ it's light, because honestly, there could be, and it's not like axel cares about property damage. but also. logically speaking.
he frowns a bit at the question ]
Nah. Or at least, it shouldn't be. You just don't know how to access it any other way yet. Trust me, if feelings were necessary for magic, I know a few guys who would've had some definite trouble with it over the years. [ ha ha, nobodies. ] But we might be going along with that route to kickstart you. Before we go there though-- do ya remember how it felt, with the smoke and steam? Physically.
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But okay, sure, that makes sense. There's a raised eyebrow at that middle bit but he won't press. The question can still be taken a few ways to him.]
It was sort of like holding something very hot but without it burning. Not like the scrolls but something warm.
[He remembers the emotions more clearly but that's fine.]
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[ he has NO fucking idea if this will work at all but you wouldn't think it by his tone of voice ]
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...he can do that?
His palms are cupped and he's visualizing...but nada.]
...would it be easier to have something to actually light on fire? [Please say no, this is also Kaoru not visualizing hard enough.]
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The magic thing is still strange. [He's still concentrating though. There's a period of silence before there's a little flash of a spark in his hands. Unsurprisingly, it startles him and he lets it go, snuffing out the baby flame.]
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[ but his magicxposition is interrupted by Kaoru succeeding, if briefly, and he lets out a fucking sigh of relief mentally because he had NO CLUE if that was ever going to. out loud, he just gives a low whistle and a short slow clap ]
Hey, there you go! You got it. All you gotta do is not freak out next time.
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["Easy."] How'd you learn?
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[ he looks upwards as if in thought ]
Hm, well, I kinda got off easy. Magic was pretty normal where I grew up, and then I was apprenticed under people who sorta studied that sort of thing?
[ what a diplomatic way to put all that. ]
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Magic isn't real where I'm from, obviously. It would make things easier but I don't think the world is ready for that. [...] So you've been doing this for years.
[He's guesstimating.]
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[ fucking disney logic. anyway. ]
Yeah. Been like... [ what the FUCK is the passage of time, he's literally frowning ] A pretty long time.
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You're only ten years older than me. [That is to say that doesn't sound too long and he's assuming Axel started when he was like five.] And it's a thing everyone you know has access to in your world, too?
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[ he has no actual clue. also god sure ask me to logic radiant garden like an ASSHOLE ]
Nah, not everyone. You still have to learn how to use it, and I'm pretty sure a lot of people just never got interested in it, since it's used for fighting for the most part.
[ woops he accidentally a past tense ]
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Of course it was. [Fighting. There's that stupid word again, and he catches the "got" but doesn't ask. He makes note of it for later.] What else would magic be used for?
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A lotta stuff, probably. Healing's one of 'em. But fighting's the easiest way to use it, I guess. People don't always think that much into things.
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