cousinsindozens | MEMES?!?

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MEMES?!?

[This is a catchall post for memes for

Autistic_Ace's characters.

Current list of memes: Relationship Questions;
Truth Meme;
Texts From Last Night and General Texting;
Two Truths and a Lie;
Carnival/Fun of the Fair;
Denny's (which apparently does delivery now! Order-in?);
Words; Hurt/Comfort;
Lap Pillow;
Rescue Meme;
Train to the Afterlife Meme (which can ALSO double as a rescue meme, heh, especially for CRAU.)
Hurt/Comfort Meme, for kicks;
Wal-Mart;
Hygge;

If smut ( ahem ) feels like an option for a character/CR, then go ahead and ask! May require an AU/ageing up of some sort, but I digress.

Please specify a meme when tagging a character's respective toplevel - then we can go from there!]

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"So it doesn't require an audience present, just the pre-existing concept to be in people's heads? Somewhere?"

She could see the upsides, looking at it that way.

Morgan nodded. "Exactly, though an active observer makes it even harder to do and produces more of a backlash. That's one big reason I mostly live in a realm than accepts magic exists, it means I can do what I want instead of stick to the lines."

Nita manages a bit of a smile at that.

"So in a way, you kind of owe us one?"

Or owe wizardry one, more precisely.

"But I'm assuming a demonstration wouldn't be in the cards for what you had in mind today."

"Sure, I can demonstrate. You might owe me a racy question or two in return," Morgan says, with a wicked grin and enough light amusement that he's clearly teasing instead of making a legitimate threat.

"Hey! You never know, I could have come up with those on my own," she says.

It is absolutely not as likely as she makes it sound, but she's not saying it in the Speech.

"Just warn me if I need to close my eyes or anything first."

Suuuure she would have.

"Why would you need to do that?" he wonders, even as he flips a couple of pens out of a pocket. A casual flick into the air sets them spinning, before he sticks out one foot to catch them -- one vertical on the end of his shoe, then the other perfectly balanced on top of that.

"Y'know, powers of un-observation-" Nita begins to explain, but now THAT is a show!

While her eyebrows go up, she's not here to be a doubter. "I could chalk it up to excellent proprioception, you know," she says, fighting to keep a smirk off her face.

"And that's how plausibility makes magick easier."

With a twitch of his legs, Morgan snapped up to a standing position, snapping the pens out of midair to tuck back away. No, that wasn't actually magick, just lots of martial arts training. But the next part...

He caught up a bottle of water, held it with both hands, then snapped one forward and other back so it started spinning on its vertical axis. In the same motion, he tossed it upwards. In an extremely unlikely scenario at best, the sudden motion snapped the lid free of its plastic tamper seal, then unscrewed it, so just before the bottle was about to hit the ceiling the water started pouring out.

He twisted one hand around the chaotic stream of water spilling down towards the floor, and like a rope or a snake the water suddenly began wrapping around his arms in long loops as he made gentle circles with his hands while never touching it.

Then the bottle fell down from its arc. Morgan 'tossed' the water up into the air, caught the bottle, then swept it around him. Whether he was moving faster than he should, or the water moving slower, it was hard to say -- maybe it was both, but whatever the case, he caught every drop of water back in the bottle.

Then he followed his momentum, completed the spin the last arc of the bottle pushed his body though, and as he turned around he lobbed the bottle towards Nita. For a second it promised absolute disaster -- right up until the lid dropped straight onto the bottle's neck as it flew, and the spin screwed it right back on.

Catch!

Nita looks genuinely impressed this time.

In fact-

"You sure you don't have a water affinity? Because it can respond to people that way,"

She'd say a little more in that vein, but that's when Morgan throws the water bottle at her.

Not quite surprised enough to be off her game, she only fumbles it slightly before firmly grasping it - and makes sure the top is pointing away from her face when she halts its momentum, just in case.

No worries there. It's quite secure! But not resealed, though, if she cares to draw inferences from that.

"Nope, that's what we'd generically call the Spheres of Forces and Time. Manipulating kinetic energy, then the general flow of time on a personal and short-range area. Those are ones I'm pretty solid at."

"Giving you a wider range of things to manipulate, but with more precise manipulation..."

Reluctantly, Nita nods. "I like it." Possibly in spite of herself.

She hefts the bottle, avoiding sealing it for the moment.

"But it'd take me a lot more energy to get the same result, both levitating the bottle and maneuvering the water separately."

"If I may flatter myself, I'm reasonably powerful and practiced." Morgan drops back down -- not into his chair again, but on the opposite side of the couch from her, with a grin. "But there are plenty of things I can't do. Affecting actual physical matter directly instead of through physical forces, garbage, for example. Terrible with the spirit world."

"So you need a conduit," Nita concludes, setting the bottle down on a side table before continuing.

"And... communication with the inanimate?"

Not that that was Nita's best subject either, but still.

"That's out of my paradigm. I wouldn't even know where to begin."

Spirit? Mind? Matter? Time? Maybe he could think of a few ways, but all of them were foreign to his way of thinking, something he'd have to unpleasantly wrestle his mind into believing.

Nita fights the urge to be smug.

"So it's about personal background as well, then. We have that in common, a little."

What with her initial 'growing things' specialty and all...

"... Ever been out of your home dimension? Willing or unwilling."

"It's about paradigm. I'm a martial artist, an Akashic to name our Tradition. The Order of Hermes is all about 'classic' magic, spells and invocations, alchemy, demon-summoning circles... The Virtual Adepts see reality as a program they can hack, the Dreamspeakers commune with the spirits in all things... Background has an influence of course, but it's what you believe."

He remains very matter-of-fact about this all, relaxed lazily into the couch cushions.

"I actually moved off-world a while ago. Found a place that I liked better and was more comfortable in. So yes, you bet. Ever met an alternate version of yourself?"

"And they're all Akashics? Or Akashics are with the Order of Hermes specifically?"

She could sort of see parallels with wizardry in all of them, but none were an exact match (unsurprisingly so at this point), and she could definitely appreciate the compare-and-contrast inherent in them.

"And no, actually. I know they exist, but I've never met them."

Kit may have had more to say on it, courtesy of Ponch, but he wasn't here today, and no dogs had seen fit to give her a surprise visit either.

"You have, though, then?"

"Akashics are one of the nine Traditions, as are the Hermetics, the Adepts, and so on," Morgan said, picking the answer he'd prefer to discuss. "Styles of magick that are both large enough to have significant representation in Awakened circles, and are uneasily allied because they're inherently opposed to and basically at war with the Technocracy that wants to extinguish said magick."

Ending the explanation with that made Nita sit up straight, almost giving herself whiplash.

"In my experience, extinguishing magic - or magick," she said, making sure she pronounced it right, "is usually a bad thing. What in the worlds is their deal?"

... If this was, in fact, a recruitment pitch, then Morgan had his hook.

If it wasn't, though, he was going to have to work double-time to put her off the scent.

"Depends on who you ask. A world with magick is one that's far less safe, you know. Not just for the Mages, but for all the other creatures in it. The average person has no defense against any of that. So from one point of view, they choose that safety over the wild and dangerous freedom."

Then Morgan smirked. "Or alternatively, a world without anything they don't approve of is one they control."

Nita was quiet, for a moment, analyzing both sides as Morgan presented them...

Then grinned. "I can see why it'd be better to oppose such a group. Kind of like dealing with people who approve of censorship."

Even if it wasn't made to be part of an agenda, it was still a starkly slippery slope.

Morgan nodded.

"Actually..."

And here her expression turned a bit more grim.

"Do they know wizardry exists? Separately, I mean?"

While being mistaken for something else could get annoying, it could also present an advantage in certain circumstances...

"Not all of them, probably not even most. As you get into more senior levels, then they start classifying us as 'reality deviants'." Morgan makes a face at the term. "Though they often lump other supernatural creatures under that too."

Nita matched him, a disgusted look on her own face.

"Is it a small group of people who started it? Or is this more of a widespread movement?"

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