User:A, Mori/A, Thing

here have this short story that's probably not canon at all

HS C94676 (TARLOY: so hey mori)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: mind if i like, ask you some important question right here)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: I guess it depends on the question. But, shoot.)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: alright thanks)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: so i know the whole thing about me apparently being the whole magic ghost person is supposed to entail that i probably have some wicked magic powers)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: but in all honestly i’ve never had any real magic training)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: like i’ve gone to those lectures in the witch academies but that stuff teaches me nothing about actually Doing magic)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: apparently application was a “do-it-at-home” kind of thing and they didn’t give us any homework for it)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: those lectures were mostly just explanations of like, what kinda matter is aura made out of, and how do we interpret that in science, and how the actual building blocks of science and matter stem from magic)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: (hint: it’s a lot of bs compare/contrast science and magic stuff instead of actually telling us how to magic))

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: Hm.)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: I can remember delivering a number of speeches on scientific origin theory to a couple of pet schools.)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: i mean, i don’t want to insult ur work on that stuff or anything)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: not like all this stuff isn’t cool to think about and all, but)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: i just think it all seems kind of pointless in terms of applying the information)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: it’s really interesting but how am i supposed to do anything useful by knowing that kind of stuff)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: True, I guess.)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: And no offense taken.)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: like, i’m not going to bore something to death by explaining magic and science)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: well i probably would maybe but the point is why not just blast it and get it over with, right)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: Aheh, I guess I can’t argue with you there?)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: Magic application is, of course, very much the most important part of magic—at least, in an academic sense. It’s pretty much the guide for grading in terms of proficiency and skill of any witchy student, sorcerer, wizard, mage, etc.)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: Sure, students can be graded on written tests and reviews, but then there’s really no separation between a magic school and a school.)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: exactly)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: That said… I do have to wonder what kind of academy you would’ve had to go to in order to have such a lack of experience with pure magic use.)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: ehhh, mayb it wasn’t too much the place, it might’ve more been a lot of me not trying?)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: i mean, who knows if i even have the bodily potential to actually do magic on command)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: not only because i’m literally somehow a disembodied spirit among the living but like)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: what if i just physically can’t do it)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: or what if i am literally so bad at it to a point where it would be embarrassing to even try)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: I see.)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: Well, not in the sense that I understand the cause and purpose behind the insecurity, but more that I now understand the reason for any sort of inability to apply magical ability.)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: Your own doubt of your abilities is perhaps blocking your potential for performing your best, or at all.)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: Or perhaps you’ve been so fearful all along that you’ve not stooped to do so much as try your hand at it.)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: i mean, pretty much, but i wouldn’t say i’m just really shy about it)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: at least now that is)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: i mean u seem pretty smart talking about how insecurity over my abilities might’ve stopped me from being able to do it when i was alive, but i honestly think now there’s some sort of reason for me to fear that i just can’t do it)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: if ur right, i probably could’ve done magic in life)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: but i’m a ghost now)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: so we honestly might never know if i can. or if i ever even could)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: and to be honest that really sucks)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: it makes me wish i really got into actually doing magic in life. maybe then it could actually come to me naturally now, and i’d at least Know if i could still do it, or if i could learn how to do it)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: hell, maybe it’s even more than a restriction about using magic as a ghost. maybe it’s like, impossible for a ghost to learn new skills after death, or particularly skills in magic, since that’s pretty much the makeup of the panexistentialplane)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: or something like that?)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: … Really?)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: maybe. i rlly don’t even know much about the laws of ghosthood, tbh. i just feel like there’s going to be some real shitty loophole like that waning around the corner for me, and it’s going to suck for me to have to go through, and it’s going to be some sudden realization like a sack of bricks)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: i know i haven’t experienced that as of yet but i know some experience like that is just waiting to come)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: and this isn’t some sense of paranoia-driven thought or “it always happens in the stories” kind of logic, i honestly KNOW it’s going to happen. i cross you to say otherwise)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: Not implying that something like that may or may not happen, but I do have to say that you’re putting some length of your insecurity towards your magic ability onto this upcoming restriction you’ll find.)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: I mean, on top of the fact that we know you’re kind of insecure about your abilities, I think I would know very well if some existential law prevented ghosts—or whatever definition of term you may be—from using magic.)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: you really think so?)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: At least, I think I’d know about it. The dead and undead is kind of my specialty, study-wise, anyway.)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: man it’s great that i have dead-master mori around when i’m a major dead)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: Aheh.)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: real nice convenient when things work out like that)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: They tend to do, along the string of the rather joyous line of lighter sides seen within the grand scheme of interactions we conceptualize as tales and intertwinements of comradery.)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: indeed. cute-tier character arcs are nice)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: … Now I kind of wonder whether maintaining a mysterious guise can better be reached by feigning characteristic traits of knowledge over humanity mechanics rather than breaching out towards direct revealing of understanding in simple terms.)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: i guess it’s good i brought it to your attention then. or not.)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: In terms of bettering the style I go for, it is a thought that hasn’t yet crossed my mind. Thank you for bringing it up.)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: u just keep on being & doing u buddy. you’ll do good that way)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: Too much of me might be a bad thing.)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: (revelian voice)) HS C94676 (this much of you ALREADY IS A BAD THING)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: Pfft.)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: Revelian would do that.)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: i mean from what i hear, he rlly doesn’t like you, so that’s the idea)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: you know i actually don’t get that about him)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: i guess you two kind of have some history together and all and i’m not exactly the most unbiased or knowing about it, or one to judge character between you two)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: but, like, why does he hate you)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: i mean, excuse me if i’m missing something, but)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: ur nice, ur pretty smart, and ur rlly cute. that’s kind of hard to hate)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: Hhhcck.)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: First of all, let me correct you that I’m neither pretty smart nor really cute.)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: I can act smart to save my life, sure, but I mess up all the time in pretty dumb ways, and I still consider myself far from the likes of very above-average beings of intelligence.)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: Also I am most definitely not cute.)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: sure ok mori whatever you say mx. dead-master…)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: (and I’M the one who has self-doubt problems))

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: Oh, hush, you.)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: but for real, i kind of doubt that you’re some big fool playing the mystery smart person)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: like, you would have at least slipped up big time at some point if you were, and i haven’t seen that yet)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: Oh, trust me, one day a big blunder will come about from me.)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: I believe in the same sense that you have claimed to have known earlier, I have foreseen such a thing happening to myself.)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: aw)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: idk what it is but just the way you talk about that makes it sound like it’s some sort of Really Bad thing that you know is going to happen)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: A little bit, yes.)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: i’m sorry)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: Oh, don’t be. I really don’t want to have you be upset over it, too.)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: And, besides, if worst comes to worst, I could always end up being like you, right?)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: oh f*ck yes)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: that actually sounds like a really cool thing)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: we could be ghost buddies and go around messing with people and really just messing around all the time. that’d just be the best)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: One day, if it happens.)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: Oh, I nearly forgot.)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: ?)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: You did want me to teach you about using magic, right?)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: OH RIGHT i forgot too)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: dang we just got sidetracked with all that junk didn’t we)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: mostly me anyway)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: Now, I also played a hand in sidetracking our original intentions. This is more of a trouble for you, anyhow, as you wished to get something done.)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: Why don’t we get into it now, then?)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: wait you mean, like, trying to use magic)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: Yes. No reason to put it off any later than it can be addressed.)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: oh man)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: uh alright then, let’s go)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: So, what kind of magic would you like to learn about? Elemental type, specifically. There are apparently a few different methods of awakening the type of elemental knowledge inside of a being, as well as channeling it into forms of energy.)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: Of course, there’s auric magic, voidic magic, many types of temporal and cosmic sorcery, spells under the titles of doom and life elements, and the assorted elemental qualities.)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: which one includes fire magic)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: Uh…)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: Fire elemental magic, you ask?)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: That’s one of the many assorted elemental qualities I mentioned.)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: i kind of want to learn about fire magic rn)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: … Really?)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: yea, that’s what i’m feeling. plus fire magic is hella cool stuff)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: Interesting…)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: A bit of a disclaimer, I’m not exactly as talented with the assorted elemental qualities as I am with the other major types of sorcery that I mentioned.)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: I go for more neutral ground along magics. I must say, it also kind of comes as a surprise when others don’t, or particularly favor a single type of magic within the assorted elemental qualities.)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: are you telling me you can’t teach me it right now)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: No, no, it’s just… I’m surprised that I’d have to be teaching you about it today.)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: Are you sure that fire-type magic is the only kind of magic that you wish to learn at the moment?)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: yeah, pretty much)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: idk about that other stuff but maybe after i’m done becoming the flamey ghost then i’ll check them out a bit)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: Um… Alright. I guess.)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: who knew my dead-master would fall at a time like this…)

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: Please, save the shot-firing for during the lesson.)

HS C94676 (TARLOY: (!!!))

HS C94676 (TARLOY: (shots FIREd… yes))

HS 253698 (AMYGEA: Alright then, spirit. Let’s begin.)