[OPEN]

[evocation]

WHO: Kyna + various
WHERE: All over!
WHEN: June 2512
WHAT: August catchall! Catching up, settling in, all that fun stuff.
NOTES OR WARNINGS: Will add as needed! If anyone wants a starter hmu cephalopods

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[lifetothefullest]

[He sighs, not exactly sure where this is going but sure it's nowhere good, and offers with a tone of long-suffering--]

Four.

[evocation]

[She reaches out to give his arm a little nudge.]

You stopped being allowed to eat shit like that after the first one.

[lifetothefullest]

[He shakes his head at that, carefully nudging her arm in return, unsure about any injuries she might've gotten during the event and wanting to be careful just in case.]

I was sixteen when I got the first one; I was still owed plenty of ramen eating years.

[evocation]

The cut off is your first degree or like, 22.

[Either way, he's past it!

But then her smile fades a bit, back into something more guarded.]

Uh, hey... Did your Kyna use magic, too?

[lifetothefullest]

[Ugh rude it's hard to believe he's almost a decade too late by that standard. But if he still looks 22, does it really count?

And okay, serious time again, and it's another question he knew was coming. There's no avoiding it, so he tries to be as honest as possible without upsetting her unnecessarily.]

Yeah, she did. She um, taught me some too, but obviously I lost that when I got here.

[So although it's not at all to the level of how she feels, had can at least commiserate a little on how much losing it sucks. And of course he also knows much it hurt the Kyna in Hadriel when she lost her magic for awhile, which he presumes is similar to how Kyna here feels, only it's more permanent here.]

[evocation]

She what?

[Did he already have some magical ability, then?]

How?

[lifetothefullest]

Um, I'm not sure, exactly? She basically told me there was no reason I shouldn't be able to learn, and started off with some really basic stuff, and I just sort of picked it up over time.

[That actually gives him good opportunity to ask--]

Is there something called a 'focus' that you have to make, in your world? Or was that just in hers?

[evocation]

[She's squinting at him now, as though he's speaking another language.]

No. Where I'm from, you can only learn magic if you're born with the ability to use it. What's a focus?

[lifetothefullest]

[Well that's an interesting, major difference.]

It was something that was supposed to kind of store your magic, I think? Honestly I didn't know a whole lot about how exactly any of it worked, it was more like she'd explain to me things that were possible and I'd try to make them work until I got it.

[It was some very methodical, skillful learning Lance did, clearly.]

[evocation]

[Well that's... something.]

We don't have to "store" our magic in anything. It's just... all around us.

[lifetothefullest]

Weird. So you're not just from different worlds, there's some major differences in the worlds themselves.

[Which is fascinating, honestly.]

[evocation]

I guess so. We don't have elves where I'm from at all. What else do you think is different?

[lifetothefullest]

It's kind of hard to guess.

[He thinks about it another few moments, before guessing--]

Do you have a brother, and does he have a huge dog?

[Priorities here.]

[evocation]

[It's... weird. Weird that he knows, even though she knows why.]

Um. Yeah. Nico. And the dog's Lando.

[lifetothefullest]

Lando's awesome.

[And that said--]

Um, was the Kyna in Hadriel used evocation magic, mostly; is that the same?

[evocation]

[God, this is so weird.]

Uh... Yeah, sometimes. Wait, what does that mean to you? Evocation?

[lifetothefullest]

I feel like this question is a trap to make me sound even more like an idiot about magic than I already do.

[But that said--]

It was like... Conjuring energy or something? There was a lot of fire and electricity.

[evocation]

Sorry, I'm not trying to make you sound dumb. I'm just curious.

[Weird, though.]

I can control electricity, but evocation is like... calling forth a spirit. Usually to make it do something for you.

[lifetothefullest]

Huh. I think that's either a difference or I totally misunderstood something.

[Either is possible.]

[evocation]

Uh, maybe. Controlling electricity is just... the way my ability manifests, you know? Anyone who knows magic can communicate with spirits.

[lifetothefullest]

So knowing magic means you can communicate with spirits, but do the spirits have to do with magic themselves?

[evocation]

They're magical entities all on their own, basically, and they can be a lot more powerful than humans. We can sense them, and they can sense us. It's like a... like attracts like thing. It's the same with some monsters, too.

[lifetothefullest]

Huh. I think there were things like spirits in the world of the Kyna from Hadriel, but I don't remember them being mentioned very often.

[He's pretty lost on this topic in general.]

[evocation]

Oh. Weird.

[She picks at the bandages on her right hand absently.]

Do I look cooler with elf ears?

[lifetothefullest]

[That gets a quiet huff of laughter.]

I mean, I can't lie, elf ears are pretty cool. I did get used to them after awhile and they lost some of the cool factor though.