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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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[Never mind that Chizuru likely wouldn't understand his words-- her earnest explanation made him feel like he was being placed above, and he didn't know what to do.
Regardless...]
Very well. I shall do my best to teach you what I know of blood magic. You said that you're a Paleblood, correct? Your type and mine-- Vileblood-- are said to pair very well.
We may be fortunate because of that.
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But what he says after draws her attention so much more. ]
Pair well?
[ That's apparently the thing that drew her in. ]
I already know that the different types of blood are supposed to give people different kinds of powers.. but I didn't know that they were supposed to pair well or badly with each other as well. [ She hums, seeming to think. ] How exactly does it work..?
[ Sure, he says he's only heard about it, but who knows what else Waver "Big Brain" Velvet managed to pick up on too. ]
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Paleblood and Vileblood have traits that counterbalance each other, as if they are two links on the same chain. If Vilebloods can accept any blood type in an emergency donation? Palebloods are the only other ones that can accept vileblood in the same. Often a Paleblood will find that being around a Vileblood will help balance them from the changes brought by every new moon cycle. Switch it around and it's the same for Vilebloods.
[A sigh.]
I'm thoroughly grateful that the man I've waited the last decade for arrived in this world as a Paleblood. It could have easily been a lot more difficult for the both of us.
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But rather than commenting on the new knowledge he's giving her here just yet, the first almost instinctive thing she says is just: ]
A man you've waited an entire decade for, before being reunited here.. How romantic..
[ Is it romantic. Apparently it's so instinctive that Chizuru didn't think for a moment that maybe this is just some platonic deal, instead seeing the sentence through way too rose-coloured lenses.
A problem she seems to realise a moment later, when she suddenly flusters and sputters: ]
O-Or! Um, I mean--! It sounds very admirable t-to wait for someone that long..!
[ Clearly a super smooth save. Good job, Chizuru. ]
You know what's going on... :(
He's my King, [he said simply.] I'd wait an eternity if it meant walking by his side again.
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[ The word escapes her before Chizuru has even thought about it, really. It's her instinctive reaction to hearing something so.. well, sweet. Chizuru is the sort of person who feels a lot for other people, after all, so she always loves to see how deep bonds between other people can go. It feels important to have those.
Hence why the admiration is so clearly audible in her tone as she says that single word, before managing to continue. ]
But then it's a good thing that you didn't have to wait an eternity in the end, right..? Now the two of you are together again!
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Trench afforded them both a chance that their Earth would never grant them. Only by getting older did Waver start to understand the desire to live for longer than fate allowed...
Instead of saying anything, he chuckled softly. Maybe it really was that simple.]
You're right. Perhaps, we can even be together for an eternity.
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You know, maybe an eternity is a little bit too much.. You'd become a really, really old man in that time, you know..!
[ It's a tease. A very, very gentle tease, sure, but even just getting a tease from Chizuru is already a lot by the girl's standards. Maybe it's something about the other, or more likely something about the very topic they're discussing here, but it seems to put the girl at ease enough to be able to make a slight joke like that.
Though she sounds a little more serious again when she continues. ]
More than anything, I think you should be careful together in this place. It seems that sometimes even people who care very much for each other can be driven apart here by forces we can't help.. I really hope that won't happen to you two.