Video - Seelie/Unseelie (Post dated to after the feast)

[curser]

[Have a curiously peering fairy, Drabwurld. It's a close up of one oddly colored green eye before it's drawn away and the rest of the face comes into focus, along with the horns and large wings as a backdrop.]

Is this some form of scrying stone? How curious. And I'm to talk into this?

[She turns to look at a pixie, one who's hovering near her head and giving her directions on how to use the locket.]

And one can address everyone this way? Marvelous.

[The pixie tells her that it's on and that currently everyone can see her and she eyes the locket again, wondering at how this particular bit of magic works.]

Greetings. To those that do not know me, my name is Maleficent. I'm curious to see if a girl has wound up here as well. Golden hair, blue eyes, and quite likely charming those around her. Her name is Aurora and if anyone has seen her, I'd very much appreciate being informed of this.

[She looks to be about to turn the locket off, but there's a small twitch of her lips as she begins talking again.]

I suppose I'd also like to be informed if anyone finds a raven who is not a raven. He's incredibly cheeky, but he's also mine.

[And that would be the end of her speech. No need for pleases and thank yous. Someone's clearly used to being obeyed.]

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[enjoymyatelier]

[Well, this is new.

Not that he hasn't seen plenty of strange things in his time, but horns and wings are... unexpected. Then again, this is all a bit unexpected to begin with, but...]

Well, I can't say I've encountered this girl of yours, but the raven... would he be a familiar of some sort? Not that I've encountered one yet, mind. Simply that it would give me a sense of what to keep an eye out for.

[curser]

He is familiar to me, yes.

[She misunderstood what he was meaning. There were no witches within her kingdom or the next, so familiars weren't something she was familiar (hah) with.]

If he's here, he'd either be as a raven looking for me or as a man. I'm not certain how he'd arrive here.

[enjoymyatelier]

...Ah, are familiars not something that's common where you're from? Pardon me, then --- I likely shouldn't assume that magic's the same across all worlds...

[If that's what he's supposed to gather from this, anyway!]

And ah, so that's what you meant. That's an interesting trick he knows, then... did you teach him, or did he figure it out for himself?

[curser]

[That there was magic in other worlds was curious, particularly as it seemed to be the humans that were capable of it. How intriguing.]

He has little to do with it other than being the form I change, something he likes to pester me about when he's in one of his moods.

[enjoymyatelier]

Ah, I see. Still, that is an interesting ability, and it's impressive that he's intelligent enough to handle the transformation without it... being terribly obvious, I suppose. Ravens are extremely intelligent birds, but I'd expect your average raven to act a bit strange if turned into a human.

[curser]

[It was magic. There was no true way to gauge it and maybe a man walking around flapping his arms and trying to roost on a chair would just not really work for things.]

He was quite the mess when I first turned him, but he adapted quickly enough.

[enjoymyatelier]

Well, I'd imagine so. That sort of thing isn't really attempted much where I'm from these days, and the few instances where it has have gotten... messy.

[...maybe those were just rumors, but given how horrifyingly yolo mages who weren't that grounded in reality tended to get...]

[curser]

I can imagine.

[Maleficent had a rather active imagination. She just chose not to use it to that extent most days.]

And these instances... these are done by human mages?

[enjoymyatelier]

Generally, yes, though there are some with not quite human ancestry to begin with, and I wouldn't be surprised if some elementals or fairies or whatnot attempted it at some point for some absolutely incomprehensible reason. The latter may have had better luck, but you never really know what to expect with those.

[type-moon: everything is eldritch, dear god why]

[curser]

Are you saying that in your world, fairies breed with humans?

[That was so very wrong. This was not how the fair folk composed themselves. Breeding with humans... really. Her transgression had been bad enough.]

[enjoymyatelier]

Oh, heavens no. I'm not even sure if that's possible, to be entirely honest.

[FAIRIES ARE FUCKING WEIRD.]

It's usually supernatural beings that are closer to being human but aren't, like demons and succubi and whatnot.

[curser]

[A wary glance, because really, Kayneth, you were being weird.]

What are these things that are closer to human but aren't? Succubi? I have not heard of these.

[Perhaps she thought he was pulling her leg. Or wing. Or just being human.]

[enjoymyatelier]

Oh. Well, that's a bit awkward to explain, actually. I was hoping you were already familiar...

[Unfortunately, this is all going to be really weird...!]

...they resemble extremely beautiful human women and gain power from methods that aren't to be discussed in polite company. We'll leave it at that.

[curser]

[She thought about that, coming up with a few possibilities. It all depending on what he thought of as 'polite company'.]

Do they eat them?

[enjoymyatelier]

...

[there... there are a few ways to answer that...

why didn't he just talk about werewolves he wouldn't be so flustered]

...no. It's... the other sort of thing that isn't acceptable in polite company.

[curser]

I'm afraid I don't know what you mean?

[Mating was just part of the circle of life, Kayneth. Why so prudish?]

[enjoymyatelier]

[HIS DELICATE SENSIBILITIES, THOUGH!!!]

...sexual relations.

[...please tell him you don't reproduce asexually or anything.]

[curser]

Ah, mating. Are you saying that a succubus consumes its mating partner? My, my. How terrible.

For the partner.

[All smiles.]

[enjoymyatelier]

...

[why]

Well I'm sure it's happened, but it's really just... the resulting fluids...

[this could have gone so much better

diplomacy has failed]

[curser]

That hardly sounds palatable.

[Or sanitary. Or anything that she might do herself. Eww.]

Your world has strange creatures.

[enjoymyatelier]

...it... does, yes. Most of them aren't quite so... well, that.

[leave him to die]

[curser]

Oh? And what do the others do that are less... that.

[That he was feeling flustered for some reason was apparent, but she was amused that merely talking about mating habits of non-humans garnered that effect.]

[enjoymyatelier]

...Werewolves, for example, are just humans who turn into wolves.

[ah yes... something not terribly awkward...]

Not your average wolves, of course --- they're generally larger and can also take a form that's between human and wolf. They're dwindling fairly rapidly, though, unfortunately...

[curser]

A human that turns to a wolf? Are they sorcerers?

[The transformation of one form to another was hardly unfamiliar to her, as she turned Diaval at will. That there were men that turned to wolves amused her as she knew her companion, were he here, would despise them instantly. For the principle of it, of course.]

[enjoymyatelier]

Some are, I would imagine, but it's more of an innate skill they have. Magic is an art that humans must learn and perfect over the course of their lives, while a werewolf's ability to change form would be as natural as walking.