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deernet2022-07-26 01:38 pm
slightlytaller) wrote in deernet2022-07-26 01:38 pm
video | un: big ben
[Hi, Trench. It's been a while since this display name surfaced on the network. This time, there was accompanying video instead of just text-- And the dour man frowning into the screen, with dark bags under his stormy ocean green eyes and his cheekbones prominent in a manner that suggested recent illness, exuded nothing short of the stony sense of a man that was done with watching the madness of recent weeks.
--Or, perhaps, someone that had actually worried himself sick over the last month. Literally.]
... Not that anyone cares, but watching all these pompous assholes call themselves 'teacher' is making me want to pull my hair out.
[And, look. He had a lot of it. Heaving a sigh, Waver Velvet plucked the wire glasses he had been wearing off and set them aside. Pinching the bridge of his nose as if to ward off a headache-- or collect himself-- he continued.]
Some of you know me. Most of you don't.
That's fine, I'm only here to offer a different option for anyone feeling a tad... unanchored here.
I am Waver Velvet, sometimes called Lord El Melloi II-- but most of the people here just know me as Mackenzie. I'm not a combat instructor, like that trio that really wanted to play out a real-life Tournament Arc a few months ago-- like we were in one of my kids' anime shows. I'm also hardly worth even calling a mage. What I am, however, is someone that is willing to offer tutoring to anyone that feels they need it... In basically any subject matter.
[A shrug. He waved a hand.]
Don't worry about whether or not I'm an expert. One thing I've learned after teaching for the last decade is that no one is. If you need help with something that I don't already know, I'll learn it well enough to help.
--Also, if you need someone to just listen and help you resolve a problem... I can do that, too.
No, I won't ask you to call me Professor, Teacher, or even have you use my title. Just keep calling me Mackenzie, if you wish. I won't ask for payment, either. But, well... if you insist, bring along something to eat. Anything. I don't really care what.
Alternately, feel free to talk about whatever's currently interesting to you.
...I won't arrange 'classes' either. I know that you lot of teenagers are basically free-range, and that's fine. There's probably good reason for you to not trust adults. I know I didn't while I was in school.
[He sighed, satisfied that at least he was able to remove this much of his concerns from his shoulders, and seemed to be signing off before adding:]
Oh. One more thing. Does anyone have an open venue? I have a stack of rhythm and fighting games that I'm willling to share with people needing a distraction-- in a public forum, of course. If enough people are interested, we could work on making something official.
That's all.
Private--- to Palamedes Sextus
Palamedes... When you have a moment and are up to it, I'd like to talk.
--Or, perhaps, someone that had actually worried himself sick over the last month. Literally.]
... Not that anyone cares, but watching all these pompous assholes call themselves 'teacher' is making me want to pull my hair out.
[And, look. He had a lot of it. Heaving a sigh, Waver Velvet plucked the wire glasses he had been wearing off and set them aside. Pinching the bridge of his nose as if to ward off a headache-- or collect himself-- he continued.]
Some of you know me. Most of you don't.
That's fine, I'm only here to offer a different option for anyone feeling a tad... unanchored here.
I am Waver Velvet, sometimes called Lord El Melloi II-- but most of the people here just know me as Mackenzie. I'm not a combat instructor, like that trio that really wanted to play out a real-life Tournament Arc a few months ago-- like we were in one of my kids' anime shows. I'm also hardly worth even calling a mage. What I am, however, is someone that is willing to offer tutoring to anyone that feels they need it... In basically any subject matter.
[A shrug. He waved a hand.]
Don't worry about whether or not I'm an expert. One thing I've learned after teaching for the last decade is that no one is. If you need help with something that I don't already know, I'll learn it well enough to help.
--Also, if you need someone to just listen and help you resolve a problem... I can do that, too.
No, I won't ask you to call me Professor, Teacher, or even have you use my title. Just keep calling me Mackenzie, if you wish. I won't ask for payment, either. But, well... if you insist, bring along something to eat. Anything. I don't really care what.
Alternately, feel free to talk about whatever's currently interesting to you.
...I won't arrange 'classes' either. I know that you lot of teenagers are basically free-range, and that's fine. There's probably good reason for you to not trust adults. I know I didn't while I was in school.
[He sighed, satisfied that at least he was able to remove this much of his concerns from his shoulders, and seemed to be signing off before adding:]
Oh. One more thing. Does anyone have an open venue? I have a stack of rhythm and fighting games that I'm willling to share with people needing a distraction-- in a public forum, of course. If enough people are interested, we could work on making something official.
That's all.
Private--- to Palamedes Sextus
Palamedes... When you have a moment and are up to it, I'd like to talk.
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This shark, however, is fascinating. Their biochemistry features a specific peptide that allows them to live in inhospitably deep waters in the Arctic, and their overall biological development is so slow that some were born during the Renaissance period.
However, there's not a lot of food options deep in the Arctic. To combat this, the native peoples of those things found a way to ferment the flesh of the sharks if they were captured, because without the extra biochemical reactions their flesh is too toxic for humans and even sled dogs to eat.
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Do you remember which species of shark it was? I'd like to research that a little bit, if they have something on them in the archive.
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You may also find information under Greenland shark, Gurry shark, Grey shark, or probably the more general category of Sleeper sharks.
...Why zoology? If you don't mind my asking.
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And living in Japan, I've always been near the sea. So it just seemed a natural fit.
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But what you say is true, animals can be a lot easier to handle than people are. If my life allowed it, I'd probably have had an aquarium in my apartment a long time ago.
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I'd wanted to go to university to study marine biology. I didn't even make it to upper secondary school.
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Schooling in a classroom isn't everything. The biggest lessons I learned were outside of the classroom, doing things I never would have imagined.
...If it helps you any, I didn't graduate with my classmates either.
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It's not, but it definitely helps.
I've learned things outside of the classroom, too. Mostly things I wish I didn't know. The ugliness of people, including people with power over kids... it only made me want to disconnect from them more.
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Carefully, he typed a reply.]
That's fair. You have good reason to do that.
Tell me, are any of these people here?
[He wanted to know of there was anyone he needed to keep an eye on, for potential acts that involved poisoning as the kindest option.]
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No one else from my world is here, as far as I know.
It just makes it hard to trust people. Even if I fought to save everyone, including those people... I'd like to think the good people outweigh the bad. But it's hard to know when you see how bad people can be.
Even other kids. Not all of us died the way we were supposed to.
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There is no way that a kid is supposed to die.
Kids aren't supposed to die.
[Yet he didn't know what to say. There was nothing good to say that would help, and counseling was a matter that required specific trainings that he just didn't have. Mages dealt with matters differently from the general populations as well....
This is far more than he had bargained for.]
Don't be hard on yourself about it. Sometimes, the worst wounds can't even be seen. There's no reason to be ashamed.
Just because your brain knows your safe doesn't mean that your body understands this yet.
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That's what almost all of us did, except for the ones who didn't make it.
I just wanted to spend a week looking at animals and sea life. Instead I had to deal with the beginning of the end for fifteen of us.
[This teacher seems... safe. He'd entertained his interests, and he hadn't gotten a bad feeling from him.]
[So it's safe. Safe enough to tell him, and see what he thinks of Jun after.]
And the end of other versions of our world, at our hands.
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[He's judging those adults. He's judging them all.]
What were the circumstances? This sounds like a crappy sci-fi book I borrowed from the library as a teenager.
That story didn't end well, either.
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We were led to a giant robot. Told it was a 'game' by the man whose world had it before us. He didn't tell us that it used our life energy to pilot it. He didn't tell us that if we lost, our world would be destroyed. He didn't tell us we were fighting alternate Earths, and that if they lost their version would be destroyed.
I didn't join then, initially. I joined later, when we knew what was at stake. But with the others dying for our world... how could I not?
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The fact that it was the world that Jun called home just made it more tragic.]
No, you're right. I don't see how anyone could say no under those conditions.
It still shouldn't have been a task given to you, nor a burden you should bear.
...For what it's worth, I'm sorry. I'm sorry that the adults in your life lied to you, used you, and treated you as a means to complete a task that they didn't want to dirty their hands with.
You deserve better than that.
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You don't need to apologize for stupid people. It's not your fault they're cowards.
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You're too young to be carrying that kind of weight. But, you don't have to hold it alone while you're here.
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We were all too young. But we did it anyway. We had no choice. And I'd do it again.
Sorry for the late reply. family crisis.
totally okay :3 no worries
Answers can't just be 'because magic'. I want to know the whys.
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[He smiled. It wasn't bragging-- not to him. This was merely a statement of fact.]
Understanding the Why is a key part of what I teach, and in my non-teaching assignments. The What happened and How it works mean nothing if you can't answer Why it works... in magic, murders, and a multitude of other mysteries.
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It all looks like nonsense to me, to be honest. But my world doesn't have magic at all.
I don't know how magic works in the slightest. There's no apparent reasoning behind it from what I've seen.
People can't use magic as an excuse to not try to answer things scientifically, too.
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Explaining things rationally and scientifically is part of why my peers hate me. But, it's also part of why my students go on to excel in whatever field they choose. Learning how to think is an artform itself, and probably more important than understanding reagents or how to fashion a counterspell on the fly.
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I've just gotten Looks for asking how the magic here works and no real explanations. It's frustrating as hell.
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Many practitioners treat magecraft as an esoteric art for only the scions of the most ancient bloodlines. I wrote my thesis on expanding this view and making information more accessible for those who don't have the privilege of generations' worth of work as their foundation.
...I was laughed at, of course. After all, I'm the first to actively practice in my family.
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