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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!]

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[So he sees. Sorry Wan his solution for pretty much everything is "if I don't like it, I'll build it myself." Still, that does sound like it's a little more complicated.]

Maybe you can ask the imps if they come back for more requests. [Not that he's sure he trusts them but hey. He has a new set of magic now thanks to them.] Unless you have something else in mind that you want more.

I already asked for something else that was more important. Which they didn't give me and decided to give me something else that is... well, it's okay and I'm glad to have again. But it wasn't what I asked for.

Maybe I will if they come back again. I'll have to think about it if they do.

It was nice of them to offer, all the same.

[It's clear that Wan's purposefully not telling him what it is, but he has to ask anyway.]

Uh. What did you ask for that they said no?

To be able to talk to someone I should be able to talk to.

[It was a lot more complicated than that, but so far trying to explain it in more detail hadn't been as helpful as it should be. No one seemed to understand that 'soulmate' was a literal descriptor, not a metaphorical one.]

That doesn't make any sense. I mean I know they can't bring people here but if you should be able to talk to somebody...what do you mean you should be able to though?

[You wanted an over-curious teenager asking all sorts of fun questions, right?]

I mean that there is someone with me that I should be able to talk to that I haven't been able to since I got dragged here. She came with me and now I can't [there's a pause in the writing here as Wan tries to figure out the right word to use.] contact her at all.

[He used to be one of those. Ah, how times had changed.]

Edited 2015-02-28 18:10 (UTC)

...like a person inside you? [Because that's the only way he can interpret that. Or a person he had a telepathic connection with.] Maybe she's just wandering out there somewhere.

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Yes. Like a person inside me. She can't wander out there somewhere without me.

[Not anymore.]

Our bodies are bonded as are our spirits.

[Oh, great, more spirits talk. Why doesn't this surprise him.]

Did they tell you where she might be since you can't reach her?

No. They said they would honor my defense of Caer Scima by making it so I could not be harmed so easily.

[Which wasn't a bad thing. He could take more damage now, though still not as much as he was used to being able to. But it was something that was part of his connection to Raava.]

They returned a part of the power and strength her presence gave to me that I lost when I was dragged here.

But how is taking away something that you're used to doing you more help than harm? Sure, they gave you part of your power back but that's still putting you at a disadvantage isn't it?

It is. Though from what I've been told, everyone who has powers has issues keeping them when they're brought here. Something about where the power is anchored. But the power I have is anchored. I don't understand it. But I know that it shouldn't be this way. If they can give us power or return power to us, they should be able to remove whatever is blocking it completely.

I don't have powers of my own from home but it's true. Everybody else I've met so far has been capped. Someone told me that the monarchs hold audiences sometimes. Maybe you can ask them in person whenever we get a chance to meet them.

I wasn't told about that. But if I get the chance, I definitely will. Thank you for telling me. You said in the uh post. Don't write the uh. I said don't!

You take what I say too literally. Stop that. I said stop. Why won't you listen to me?

[Sorry Hiro, he needed to argue with the auto-writer for a second. There's a long pause between the words appearing but they do again. He had to hold his breath and get his train of thought back on track.]

You said in the post where people can see your face that you gained the power of fire through magic in this place. How easy was that?

I learned about it my first day here mostly by accident.

[Wan. Wan please. Hiro's busy trying not to laugh before he realizes that Wan can't hear him anyway so yes. He's laughing. Obviously someone's not used to this sort of tech.]

Easier than I thought which is weird. I didn't know it was possible but people say the shards kinda help with that. Lemina said that everybody here has some kind of potential. She helped unlock my own potential and now it's almost second-nature.

That sounds a lot like how I got the power of fire in my world. The lion turtle. No, that should be treated as a name. Lion turtle. Both words are part of the name. Lion Turtle. Yes, that's right. Thank you.

[At least he could train it to do that, right?]

The Lion Turtle granted me the power of fire and a spirit dragon taught me to control it. It's as natural to me as if I had been born with it. An extension of my body.

[This is actually the most interesting thing to watch. Hiro's had enough time with his locket tinkering with it and training it that watching someone else do it is fun.]

Is a Lion Turtle exactly what it sounds like? How can an animal give you fire powers? [Why are spirit-world things so weird?] Do you have any other powers?

They aren't animals. They're great creatures of the world that used to protect humanity from the spirits. Humans lived in cities on their backs until the spirits were no longer a threat to them. And they granted me the power of all four elements.

Are the spirits really that dangerous that humanity has to be protected? Four...fire, water, earth, and air, right? [Logically speaking those seem to be the common four.] What makes you so special that you get to wield all of them?

Yes. That's right. And I get to hold them because I'm not an ordinary human anymore.

The spirits could be dangerous to humanity. Mostly, though, humans were just afraid of what they didn't understand and didn't respect nature. So the spirits, who protect nature and live in harmony with it, became a thread to humans because humans had become a threat to them. Humans didn't have the same kind of power to fight the spirits that the spirits had to fight them. Humans started gathering together and living on the backs of the Lion Turtles for protection. Over time, those groups of humans forgot that any others existed. Humanity as whole tends to be very self-centered, thinking only of themselves. I hope to change that and to teach the rest of humanity to respect nature and the spirits as humanity reclaims the material world.

[So far it had been a struggle, but he held hope for the future.]

So what are you? [That's a very important question.]

So basically it was a case of both of them being afraid of each other and now you have to play peacekeeper and remind everybody they can all live in harmony. [Wan are you just a hippie or...] If you can get everybody to respect each other does that mean humanity can live in places besides the Lion Turtles?

I'm not an ordinary human. It's hard to explain if you don't understand my world.

[Wan is the biggest tree-hugging communist hippie hobo disney princess, Hiro. Seriously the biggest. Also, technically the closest thing his world has to a god. But that last descriptor doesn't mean much here.]

Humanity can already live in new places. Most of the spirits have agreed to return to their world and as a result, the Lion Turtles have chosen not to continue protecting humanity. They don't have a reason to. Humanity must now enter the rest of the world and learn to live in peace with it.

[Does it count if he wants to understand? Because he does. He seriously wants to understand because this is a big story apparently and none of it makes a lot of sense to him.] I figured. Most ordinary humans can't just wield a bunch of elements like that. Or live on Lion Turtles. Sounds pretty scary for those people. What about the spirits that don't agree to go back? Do they not mind humanity?

Actually, most regular humans do live on Lion Turtles. Or they used to. That only changed a few years ago. It's been really hard for most of them to build their homes from the ground up. Most had been living in cities that were centuries old and the only building that had been done was to repair what was already there.

And yes. That's right. The spirits that chose to stay are ones that believed they could help humanity learn and wanted to try. Some were ones that gave up their immortality and took on mortal forms. I'm really happy to have their help.

[There's a pause as Hiro reads all of that and even scrolls back up to read more of the conversation, and the one main thing that he can get out of the whole thing is:]

This place must be kind of weird to you then, too. This isn't really anything like that. I mean I know the spirits here can talk but it's not the same.

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