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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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the pastcouple ofwhilefewsome time recently. When I looked up alchemy I was initially given the definition of "the medieval forerunner of chemistry, based on the supposed transformation of matter," and a solid bone to regenerating ash is a transformation.The impenetrable part is not perfect, yet, but I am trying. May I ask what you are currently studying?
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You're quite correct. Turning solid bone to regenerating ash is a transformation. Even if it's not impenetrable, is it infinitely powered?
That's quite an impressive feat.
Right now, my primary study is adapting my skill set to the local blood magic systems... and I'm hoping I have a better shot of learning healing magics in this world than I do in my Earth.
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[ Harrow has no idea how to actually offer someone help. This is her trying. ]
As to its power that would ... depend on what you would like it to do. Will it infinitely regenerate? Yes.
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We can certainly share notes on the matters of healing some day. Unfortunately, my difficulties with it are not from a lack of research, but a limitation that's enforced by my academic and lordly peers within the Clock Tower and the Mages Association.
Change is slow in any world. That's especially so for an entire culture that bases all of its mores and values on ancient traditions.
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Politics.
[ she hates them enough to sound like mercymorn, apparently ]
Those people sound ... difficult to deal with, and that comes from someone whose full name is either Harrowhark the First, Ninth Saint to Serve the King Undying or Reverend Daughter Harrowhark Nonagesimus depending on who you ask. I am well versed in stuffy titles and but being someone who limits power capacity that could otherwise be expanded by academic research is just excessively so.
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It wasn't his matter to pursue, but this WAS interesting.]
THANK YOU.
I spent the whole of my senior year working on a thesis about how to revolutionize the study and access to magecraft in the modern era, and had it publically shredded by my teacher.
It was an outrage-- and it fueled a number of impulsive decisions on my part that included even dropping out for a time.
It's is a pleasure to make your acquaintance, Harrowhark. Which title do you prefer? And are you at all connected to the veritable bard, Ortus the Ninth?
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Oh, for goodness' sake, that is appalling. I likely would have done the same thing.
Even if my parentsHe is my cavalier secondary, and bard is an excellent appellation for him, come to think of it.
Reverend Daughter is fine, but so is Harrowhark, or Nonagesimus, or Harrow. However you prefer.
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Harrow seems simple enough.
I'm glad that Ortus has a good lady to stand by. His post a few months back about his capture by pirates was quite concerning, and I had half a mind to hunt him down myself if a boat had been easier to access.
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[ she is a little choked up, now being reminded that anna is not talking to her anymore, but -- a worry for another moment. ]
Normally it is only family that calls me Harrow but others have taken to it recently because it is less complex, so I am growing used to responding to it.
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That's quite fortunate, then.
Doubly so, that you were reunited in this world. It's terrible, enduring a transition like this alone.
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I've felt adrift for a very long time without my partner. Trench has allowed us to be together for the first time in a decade.
I'm not sure I recognize this feeling anymore.
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Sounds about right.
I am not sure what to call it either. I often require assistance identifying emotions, though, a condition known as alexithymia.
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Unfortunately, I'm not sure if that particular emotion has a name. At least, there isn't one that I'm aware of in my language or others from my Earth.
It doesn't help that I tend towards depression. That alone can make seeing yourself and the world without harsh judgements difficult.
...The world has been brighter for me since Iskandar came ashore. I never expected to see him again.