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Entry tags:
- billy kaplan: marvel 616,
- bucky barnes: mcu,
- colette brunel: tales of symphonia,
- dave stutler: the sorcerer's apprentice,
- emil castagnier: tales of symphonia,
- hiro hamada: big hero 6,
- jason todd: dc comics,
- katsa: graceling realms,
- lemina ausa: lunar 2 eternal blue,
- nico di angelo: pjo,
- shijima kurookano: nabari no ou,
- teresa: the maze runner,
- thrall: world of warcraft,
- wan: avatar,
- yoshiya kiryu: twewy
1st Circuit - Text for Both Courts, Video-locked for Unseelie
[There's probably a better way to do this, but at least he can put out feelers and see what he's working with. Since the decimation of Caer Scima Hiro's been a little more than bitter toward the Seelie and while he doesn't want to have anything to do with any of them, he realizes that as a scientist he needs to gather as much information as possible.]
It's been a long month, hasn't it? I'm not used to any of this. Monsters? Destroying people's castles? It's weird. I was getting ready for class one day and the next I came here and then the fighting started. I think I'm going to fall really, really behind in my homework.
Makes me wonder…what do you miss most about home? I can't be the only one who really misses advanced tech (computers, video games, even the old stuff like VCRs would be okay at this point.) And I know, I know, the Station exists but it's not the same.
So, what about you guys?
[If he can figure out what people value? Maybe they can use that to their advantage, too.]
[Unseelie Locked]
[Now comes the hard part. With that out of the way the video function of the locket clicks on and it's obvious that the locket's hanging from something in front of Hiro. He's in a room at the Station, ever-recognizable blue hoodie hanging loosely on his frame but the sleeves pushed up to his elbows. More importantly than that? He looks a little nervous.]
…hi. My name is Hiro Hamada. I don't know most of you, but I hope you're listening anyway.
[He pauses and looks to the side, evidently looking at someone else who's in the room with him. Deep breath, Hiro.]
It's not a secret that we lost this battle pretty bad. That's a fact, but I think there's something we can do about it to help recover. I know there are other people that don't know how to really fight, or there are people who can only fight with weapons. What if we could do something more than that?
[Give him a second and he's holding up his hand. It looks as though he might completely freeze up but after a short moment a small fireball appears in the palm of his hand. He wants to put it out immediately, but he pauses long enough to at least look at the locket again.]
I couldn't do this when I first got here. [And the fireball vanishes.] Think about how much stronger we'd be as a court if everybody could wield a couple of spells. Even if it's not something you want to use for offense even picking up a few for defense is better than nothing. I know there're a lot of magic users here but…well, Lemina and I have been working on something pretty cool.
[He's going to lean forward and pick up what looks like a piece of paper with a class list and a list of elemental spells written on it to show the camera.]
The Guild's designed to not only teach people how to unlock their own magic ability but hone it and build up to becoming a better magician. We have a few ideas how to use it to help our side of this war. We're going to start classes soon for anybody who's even kinda curious. [A pause.] Look, I didn't even really believe in magic before I got here and knowing the little bit I learned saved me back there. It'd be really cool if you guys considered it and you can always ask Lemina or me if you have questions.
[Actually…he looks off screen toward where Lemina's sitting.] Maybe we should do that now?
[ooc: This is actually going to be open to both Seelie and Unseelie because of the mage university being started by Tzilan just outside of Redgate. Lemina's been putting up flyers around the Station and Hiro just doesn't realize it and has a very strong bias against the Seelie. You can check out more about said-Guild in the class link above, and you can sign up your character here. As an aside, Lemina will also be teaching classes at said-university on her own, but will be keeping the Guild as something separate. edit: also Lemina might pop into some threads as well!]
It's been a long month, hasn't it? I'm not used to any of this. Monsters? Destroying people's castles? It's weird. I was getting ready for class one day and the next I came here and then the fighting started. I think I'm going to fall really, really behind in my homework.
Makes me wonder…what do you miss most about home? I can't be the only one who really misses advanced tech (computers, video games, even the old stuff like VCRs would be okay at this point.) And I know, I know, the Station exists but it's not the same.
So, what about you guys?
[If he can figure out what people value? Maybe they can use that to their advantage, too.]
[Unseelie Locked]
[Now comes the hard part. With that out of the way the video function of the locket clicks on and it's obvious that the locket's hanging from something in front of Hiro. He's in a room at the Station, ever-recognizable blue hoodie hanging loosely on his frame but the sleeves pushed up to his elbows. More importantly than that? He looks a little nervous.]
…hi. My name is Hiro Hamada. I don't know most of you, but I hope you're listening anyway.
[He pauses and looks to the side, evidently looking at someone else who's in the room with him. Deep breath, Hiro.]
It's not a secret that we lost this battle pretty bad. That's a fact, but I think there's something we can do about it to help recover. I know there are other people that don't know how to really fight, or there are people who can only fight with weapons. What if we could do something more than that?
[Give him a second and he's holding up his hand. It looks as though he might completely freeze up but after a short moment a small fireball appears in the palm of his hand. He wants to put it out immediately, but he pauses long enough to at least look at the locket again.]
I couldn't do this when I first got here. [And the fireball vanishes.] Think about how much stronger we'd be as a court if everybody could wield a couple of spells. Even if it's not something you want to use for offense even picking up a few for defense is better than nothing. I know there're a lot of magic users here but…well, Lemina and I have been working on something pretty cool.
[He's going to lean forward and pick up what looks like a piece of paper with a class list and a list of elemental spells written on it to show the camera.]
The Guild's designed to not only teach people how to unlock their own magic ability but hone it and build up to becoming a better magician. We have a few ideas how to use it to help our side of this war. We're going to start classes soon for anybody who's even kinda curious. [A pause.] Look, I didn't even really believe in magic before I got here and knowing the little bit I learned saved me back there. It'd be really cool if you guys considered it and you can always ask Lemina or me if you have questions.
[Actually…he looks off screen toward where Lemina's sitting.] Maybe we should do that now?
[ooc: This is actually going to be open to both Seelie and Unseelie because of the mage university being started by Tzilan just outside of Redgate. Lemina's been putting up flyers around the Station and Hiro just doesn't realize it and has a very strong bias against the Seelie. You can check out more about said-Guild in the class link above, and you can sign up your character here. As an aside, Lemina will also be teaching classes at said-university on her own, but will be keeping the Guild as something separate. edit: also Lemina might pop into some threads as well!]
[Voice]
My half-sister and...a good friend of mine.
[Nico's really missed Hazel and Jason, and some of that pain can be heard in his tone. He hasn't seen Hazel in almost a year, now. As for Jason...well, if they hadn't chosen to come to the Drabwurld on the Seelie side, he never would've been as close to his best friend as he is now. Jason's the closest Nico can say to having an older brother. Percy...is going to take a while to get to that point. There are too many emotions mixed up with that.
He also misses a certain son of Apollo, but he's not going to admit that or anything, let alone to himself.]
[Voice]
That's another one to add to "people" as their most missed thing. There's a little 'huh' sound in regards to who Nico specifies but when he speaks there's nothing but curiosity in his tone.]
How long has it been since you've seen them? [How long have certain members of the Seelie side been here and what advantage does that give them? It's all the same question, really.]
[Voice]
[Nico hesitates.]
My older sister, though...she was brought here for a month, maybe, and then left. I hadn't seen her in four years. I didn't see her as often just because it was hard to. She was in another Court.
[Damn has he changed in the year he's been here. He's never been so open about mentioning Bianca, but...well, after her arrival and quick departure...he doesn't want to forget her, and the pain has receded enough to talk about her a little bit.]
[Voice]
He hears that hesitation though and he stops. Four years...? Something's wrong with that picture. He thinks for a minute, trying to properly express his next question. It's not his business, but...]
Sounds like it would have been kinda hard, yeah. But why four years...? [Does he want to know the answer?]
[Voice]
[Letting go of the people he loves has never been Nico's strong suit. After losing so many of them in a short amount of time...he's just held onto them and his memories of them even tighter.
He hesitates a lot longer before answering.]
She died when I was ten.
[Voice] -> [Private Voice]
[…oh. Oh crap. There's a very, very, very long pause…
…and casually swapping the conversation to a private lock. Even then there's a long lull of silence.]
…how? [Wow that's kinda rude, but he has to know. He has to know if maybe it's something similar.]
[Private Voice]
Saved some demigods she went on a quest with. Electrocution or she got...crushed. She'd been in a metal, prototype version of Talos, so either was likely. Her body was never found, but, even though I could talk to her ghost...it wasn't the same.
[He takes a very deep breath and lets it out slowly.]
And then she chose to be reborn, so I'll never see her again in my lifetime.
[Private Voice]
He's gotta say to it somebody. Even if it's just the most brief allusion to it.]
They never found Tadashi's body after the fire either.
[Please please please understand what he's saying, Nico. Stupid older siblings who just had to go and save people.]
But what about in the next lifetime? [How does rebirth work?]
[Private Voice]
Seems like a typical older sibling thing to do. I can only hope I don't end up doing the same for Hazel.
[There's a sad sigh.]
When a soul's reborn into another life, they have to bathe in the River Lethe. It completely wipes their memories, I think so it doesn't interfere with their decisions in the next life. Achieving Elysium or paradise three times means going to the Isles of the Blest, the ultimate paradise, after all. I don't know if that's what Bianca was planning on doing, but....
[But it was perhaps better than the existence she'd been forced into.]
[Private Voice]
But it means that even if you did find her again you'd never know. [That's…that's horrible.] How do you achieve Elysium?
[Private Voice]
Exactly right. [And it hurts a lot, but he's trying not to be selfish about it. It's hard, though. It's hard to not be bitter about it.] Heroes automatically go to Elysium. Regular mortals can go there by doing more good than bad, but if they did something horrific, such as murder, then they get sent to the Fields of Punishment, Tartarus, or, if you seriously messed up, then there were worse punishments that my dad would personally create.
[Private Voice]
…what if. [Okay. Maybe it's worth asking since Joshua didn't give him a good answer.] What if a regular mortal risked his life and died trying to save somebody else even though he didn't have to? Would that be something worth Elysium?
[Welp. Good thing he didn't go through with killing the man in the mask.] If your dad's the god of death though why can't he just bring your sister back? Couldn't he do that?
[Private Voice]
[There's a bitter, humorless bark of a laugh.]
Oh, I tried to talk him into it or to trade my own soul for Bianca's, but he couldn't bring my mom back to life when she died, either. Of all the gods, Hades has to uphold that kind of order, no matter what the personal cost is. [And it took a long time to really understand that.] He did make an...exception once. Hazel had been killed about 70 years ago, but I brought her back and dad gave it a pass. Death or Thanatos had been missing at the time, so a lot of good and evil souls were escaping from the Underworld. My plan had been to get Bianca out during the confusion, but then I found Hazel. I couldn't just leave her there after that.
[Private Voice]
How did you find somebody who was dead for seventy years? [And better yet, how did he know she was his half-sister?] What happened to all of the other souls that were escaping?
[Private Voice]
I went to the Underworld personally. [He says it about as casually as someone saying they'd been to the supermarket.] It depends. The ones that were good, Hades generally gave a free pass to. The ones that escaped Punishment or Tartarus, though...those souls are in the process of being rounded up by Thanatos. Let's just say that normally, if a soul escapes the Underworld, they get a seriously bad punishment.
[But...Hades is fair. Fairer by far than most gods would be about it.]
[Private Voice]
Oh, why didn't I think of that. [Do you hear the skepticism, Nico?] So a lot of dead people are up and walking again and the rest are in for an afterlife of suffering. Sounds about right for the god of death.
[Maybe. He doesn't know much about the gods beyond the little bit of reading he's done.]
If Bianca was here once, who knows. Maybe she'll come back again.
[Private Voice]
I thought I mentioned my father was Hades. [His tone is so dry for that statement.] They're not dead. Technically. They're fully alive with a physical, healthy body and everything. I'd rather a hero like my sister get a free pass and not get a severe punishment for technically escaping the Underworld, which may as well be considered treason in mortal terms, than a serial killer getting a free pass for escaping.
[Nico's had that thought before, too. A hope that maybe he'll see her again in the Drabwurld, maybe she'll stay longer than last time. But, in truth, he's of two minds about it.]
I want her to, mostly because I want her and Hazel to meet. But if the war's going to kick off to something more extreme than what it's been from here on out, then...I don't think I want her here. I don't think I could handle losing her like that for a second time.
[Private Voice]
[A small huff.] Yeah but still, most people don't just walk into the underworld. [He pauses on that thought.] I don't think anybody would disagree with that.
[...point.] I don't know if I could take losing Tadashi again either. Not so soon. [Among other things. But he doesn't want to touch on it so give him a second to think of how to change the subject.]
Sooo...is the son of Hades thing the reason you can raise an entire zombie army?
[Private Voice]
Not unless you have good reason to or you happen to be Hades or Pluto's child.
[It's hard to find it scary when you know how to keep from getting into trouble. Not to mention the fact that the ghosts and everything in the Underworld tend to fear/respect the Lord of the Dead's children.
Nico will be more than happy to change the subject from that.]
...It's one of my abilities, yeah. Anything the Greeks related to death is something I have some power over. Ghosts, for example. I can move through shadows as well. Probably the one downside to all I've got is that you're treated like an outcast, and the ability to feel when someone dies or is about to die.
[Private Voice]
[…goo gadget subject change.]
Dude. That's kind of awesome. [It's probably not the reaction Nico's expecting but it's genuine.] I mean that you can control the dead and shadow travel. [A beat.] Knowing when somebody dies or somebody's about to die doesn't sound like a fair trade though. Neither does being an outcast. Guess it's true what they say. People fear what they don't get.
[Private Voice]
[Although Minos is the biggest jackass ever. Who even likes that guy?
He definitely doesn't expect that as Hiro's reaction, so...Nico's kinda quiet for a moment. How does one even take that? Nico doesn't even knooooow!]
Yeah...well.... [What does he even say? What does he even do? Because that simple statement is way more true than Hiro knows with regards to Nico.] After a while, you kind of just expect it to happen. Whether you tell them you're related to the god of the dead or just...use the powers you were born with.
[Private Voice]
[He doesn't mind waiting for Nico to respond because he sort of had a feeling nobody's ever said such to him. He gets it. He was kind of the outcast too but not for the same reasons, obviously. But he gets it. He gets the idea of people judging you just because they don't get it and if he's honest? Meeting the nerds and gaining friends was probably the best thing for him.
Nico's Seelie...but that doesn't mean Hiro can't keep talking to him. Right?]
I'm not related to the god of anything, but brain power used to be the thing people avoided. [A shrug even if Nico can't see it. It's meant to be a joke but it sorta falls flat because he gets it. And he doesn't like that he gets it.] It's one of those things that does and doesn't bother you the more people do it, right? Just seems kinda weird that those are the powers people avoid when there's a bunch of other gods in Greek history alone.
[Private Voice]
[Hiro gets it. Maybe not exactly what Nico went through, but...there's enough that they can understand each other about it. How people avoid him or how much easier it is to just push people away rather than get his hopes up in finding a friend, a person who'll accept all the weird stuff and won't be scared of him. A person who won't reject him outright. It hurts less that way. Reject them before they can reject him.
Although, he's starting to change his mind on that. This past year and the war with Gaea has been making him reconsider it very strongly.]
For the most part, mortals don't know know the Greek myths are real. They forgot how to see the truth, I guess. Some see it, but not all and sometimes not for very long. So...for the most part, it's from other demigods. [Who should know better.] Not even most animals like me just because they sense my heritage. The more intelligent ones, like parrots, seem okay with me.
[Probably because they can reason a little bit better than, say, a cat.]
[Private Voice]
[Because he's heard Leo's story a bit. Learning from another demigod would help his research, too, maybe figure out how people are really chosen for this place. But currently he's also trying to view Nico as something not a variable in a greater experiment because it's hard to ignore the fact that they both seem to have that understanding.]
Pretty sure that doesn't make it much better. [Actually that makes it worse...it'd be like if all of the nerds thought he was an oddity. That's harsh. That's actually sort of really startling because as far as he understands a lot of the demigods have weird freaky powers thanks to their parents.] And I wouldn't call parrots that intelligent. [But that's because he's biased and he likes more common pets. You know. Like cats.
That raises the question though...] What about the people here? ["How do they treat you?"]
[Private Voice]
[There may have been a hint of a smile when he says that. It's been a while since he's told any stories that are more lighthearted than serious.]
It's not, especially when demigods in general get treated poorly for our dyslexia and ADHD, not to mention the random monster attacks that usually end in us being framed for criminal activity or something. [Society can be pretty pitiless that way.]
I try not to let the native people know. They're scared enough of us as it is. People from other worlds, though...it's been...different. They're not always comfortable with my heritage and what I can do with my powers, but.... [But he's got people who accept and love him despite that here. At least discomfort he can deal with better, and maybe over time it'll turn into something they're comfortable with.]
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