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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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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.

You're right. This place is pretty weird to me. But I'm getting used to it. I'm going to have to, if I want to have any chance of ending this war.

How'd you hold up on the battle field? Were you out there?

I was in Caer Scima when it was attacked. I had only arrived a few days before that. I was still getting what information and supplies I could before I left. You?

[He's just going to pause and double-check that this is filtered only to Wan before continuing. He can't be too careful with these lockets, considering.]

I was sorta out on the field for a little bit before I went back to the castle, grabbed my stuff and bailed when it fell apart. I was at the Station for a while until the jabberwock came by and since then I've sort of been going back and forth between some of the spires and the Station trying to figure out what's next. I still don't really have answers beyond learning more magic.

I'm glad you managed to get out of the castle and somewhere safe. And again when the station fell. I spent that time helping many of the other survivors somewhere safe. One group wanted to go very far south, to the Pool of Souls, and that took me a couple weeks to escort them to, even traveling as fast as a horse drawn cart could go. I did my best to help speed the travel, too. They said it usually takes a month and a half to get that far if you only walk.

[The power of air helped make everything go faster when you knew what you were doing with it. The power of earth, too.]

If you want, you can come to the town of Azure, in the forest of La Llorna, near Quendi, and I'll show you how to move fire so it's more of an extension of yourself. I don't know if it will be the same, since my power over fire isn't based in magic, but if it feels like it's a part of yourself, it's worth trying. If you're interested.

[Ahaha truth be told that's all thanks to a certain chaos dad and a certain ex-Batman sidekick, but details.] I was trying to talk to the jabberwock to get her out of here but it didn't help. And after that I had a job to complete for somebody so it's been a busy couple of weeks. What's the Pool of Souls? [He's not saying anything about the horsepower though because...horses man. They're still not something he's used to.]

Azure? Do you know Thrall? He told me he was out there a little while ago. [The offer makes him stop again. It's...hm. It's not that he's not interested. If he can be able to defend himself better, absolutely. But...fire's still something he's getting used to and he had a hard time explaining to Lemina why. Trying to explain his own phobias to a stranger? No way. But it sounds really cool...and maybe he could then teach Lemina, too.] I appreciate the offer, but I want to get better with controlling what I have first. If you don't mind keeping that open though, maybe later?

Sure. I'm going to be in Azure for a couple weeks before I move on. After that, you'll just have to get a hold of me and I'll try to find my way back quickly. Using the locket should be easy enough.

[Until they stopped working. Oops.]

And no. I don't know Thrall. I haven't actually been to Azure yet. I was told about by someone who lives there. But if he shows up again, I'm sure I'll get to meet him.

[There was a pause in the writing. Almost enough time to reply to, but not quite, before it started up again.]

And just so you know, it's easier to learn to control the fire if you have someone to show you how. My offer isn't just to show you how to use it in a fight. It's to show you how to make it an extension of your body. As much a part of you as breathing. I want to help you control it, if I can. When I was granted the power of fire, I had a lot of power but very little real control. I could make it appear and I could toss it around, but that wasn't control. It's okay if you don't want me to help you with that step, but you should have someone do that. It helps.

[The question about the pool of souls went unanswered more from losing it in in his train of thoughts than any desire to hide what it was.]

I'll keep that in mind. I don't know how long it's going to take us to get everything set up here but I'll be around. [For March. And then things goes wrong for him in April and then everything stops in May but oh well, the joys of not knowing what the future holds.]

You can't miss him. He's sort of like eight feet tall and really, really green. He's an orc, but he's pretty cool.

[You know that is 100% okay because Hiro's attention span's already moved on. It's clear he's taking his time to really break down and understand what Wan's saying and it's interesting the way he's offering a sense of control. Control is what he needs. Power is what he wants. It's all very complicated inside the head of a fourteen year old boy that doesn't quite know where he fits in in this world, especially one who's trying to prove he can handle everything and fight on just as much as everybody else.]

No. No, I want to learn how to control it, it's not that. Lemina's teaching me how to create it and control it but anything I can learn to have better control might not be a bad idea. Can it really be that easy? [He's not under any sort of illusion that it's easy to learn, but if it can be that easy to control...]

Once you learn it, it is. It took me less than a year to master the power of fire.

[Of course Wan had a Spirit Dragon teaching him. But it couldn't be that hard to pass those skills on, right? ~~Wan, no, that's not how it works for most people.~~]

[[ooc: if you want hiro to hit wan up for training during the timeskip, we can probably work something out?]]

I don't know if I want to be stuck here for that long, but that doesn't sound like too big of a stretch.

[ooc: I might hit you up on that! Hiro's got a ton on his plate and he's acquiring teachers left and right but it definitely wouldn't hurt, plus further developing their CR.]

You might be stuck here until the war ends and it's been going on for centuries. It's worth working towards an end, but it's going to take time.

[A sad truth, but one that was important to recognize.]

Just let me know. My name is Wan.

[Because while Hiro had given his, Wan hadn't yet done the same. It would probably be helpful for getting in contact with him.]

[[there's an open post for Wan in the Auzure catchall if you do. :) ]]

Dude! That's not funny! [Wan why would you say that, he has things to be doing!]

Wan. Got it. I'll definitely keep in touch.

[sweet deal <3 Let me see what Hiro's doing first and I might hit that up.]

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