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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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What are you looking to research, anyway?
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Well, I'd like to learn a little more about this world, and I'd like to be better at magic. And I'm interested to see if there are any uses for different kinds of bloodstone that the jewelers don't know about.
I suppose I'd just like to be able to do it for myself, and not always have to ask my friends to do it for me.
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...Half of what you're saying you can probably learn from the teachers in Gaze. The school is pretty good, and I've half a mind to find a position there for myself.
The other half sounds like something you'll likely need an apprentice ship for-- or, in the case of bloodstones, some old-fashioned field work.
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I do go to the school, and I have an apprenticeship, but–I don't know how to use the Archives, or what books to look for, and everyone is always finding out important things about the Moon Presence or other worlds in there. And nobody who makes mixed bloodstone or tools for Blood Ministry has any time for a girl who's only been making bloodstone for a few months. I may as well see what there is to read about it while I practice the techniques I already know.
I do have several other teachers for magic, but I still would like to see what I could learn from you.
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The local magics may be easier. I'm a student of blood magic as well, and no expert. That said, I can share what I do know with you.