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video; un: harbinger
[The scruffy, middle-aged man that appears on the screen looks a bit uncomfortable. Videochat is certainly not his preferred mode of communication on these devices, but he does figure it would be helpful to see his face for what he's posting on the network to say, so.]
Uh...hey. I'm Qrow. If you don't know me from Deerington, I'm a Huntsman. Which--mostly means I've fought a lot of monsters and sh--[hm. children.]...crap like that.
So anyway, it's halfway through October, and the streets aren't overflowing with blood and corpses, and far as I know nobody's gotten eaten by monsters or lost their mind and gone on a murdering rampage. But that probably just means the town's waiting for us to let our guard down.
[Or maybe that's just paranoia. But Qrow would rather err on the side of paranoia rather than complacence, considering his last October.]
Point is, now seems like as good a time as any to learn to defend yourself if you don't already know how to fight. I uh, I used to teach teenagers in a combat school, a few years ago? So I've got some experience.
...Don't expect a lot, I quit for a reason--[that reason being, honestly, Ruby getting admitted to Beacon a full two years early, but shhh]--but you can get the basics down.
So yeah. Let me know.
Uh...hey. I'm Qrow. If you don't know me from Deerington, I'm a Huntsman. Which--mostly means I've fought a lot of monsters and sh--[hm. children.]...crap like that.
So anyway, it's halfway through October, and the streets aren't overflowing with blood and corpses, and far as I know nobody's gotten eaten by monsters or lost their mind and gone on a murdering rampage. But that probably just means the town's waiting for us to let our guard down.
[Or maybe that's just paranoia. But Qrow would rather err on the side of paranoia rather than complacence, considering his last October.]
Point is, now seems like as good a time as any to learn to defend yourself if you don't already know how to fight. I uh, I used to teach teenagers in a combat school, a few years ago? So I've got some experience.
...Don't expect a lot, I quit for a reason--[that reason being, honestly, Ruby getting admitted to Beacon a full two years early, but shhh]--but you can get the basics down.
So yeah. Let me know.
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I’ll do lessons even if I hate them. It’s dangerous here and I’ll hate not having lessons even more!
[ This is some powerful foresight at extreme difficulty by Alice standards but she has two fools she is responsible for and two other fools who she is less responsible for but nevertheless exist and she is trying to make an effort. ]
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Yeah, it's best to be prepared for anything around here.
[A beat.]
Do you uh, have a scythe? Or should I ask the other girl to make you one? Mine's all wrong for your height and build.
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[ The limits of Alice’s discretion, which she does in fact have, are that she’s not leading with ‘so the last time I used a scythe I was a rabbit monster the size of a small elephant’. Even if he says he’s prepared for anything - actually, he probably is, if he’s known Break for a month and hasn’t run away screaming. ]
What does yours look like, is it fancy?
[ Scythes aren’t common weapons, she wants to see what her potential life goal and role model has to show off. He’s old, he’s fought monsters, he still has all his limbs and eyeballs and stuff. She sits back, with the impatient sparkle similar to a normal child who is on the way to Disneyland and is eager to see a real genuine princess in the flesh. ]
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In light of all that, "used to be taller" doesn't even make the list of particularly strange things Qrow has heard.]
Well, I think it's pretty cool, anyway.
[And because he is still an edgy goth and will happily take any opportunity to show off his weapon, the video shifts as Qrow props it up against a wall somewhere and pulls out the weapon from his back, the gears spinning and making sharp metallic clinks as it expands from its sword form to a proper scythe.
He grins at her, then, as he rests the weapon against his shoulder.]
This is Harbinger.
[Yeah, he's That edgy goth. Don't judge him.]
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[ Loyalty is one thing but the Blood Stained Black Rabbit isn’t its weapon or vice versa, that scythe doesn’t even have a name- ]
Say, why does it have a name? Is it because it’s important to you as your favorite stuffed toy?
[ That is a very deep level of importance to Alice, it makes sense to her and the comparison is in fact meant to be flattering. You don’t give just any old stuff a name unless you love it. ]
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Everyone from Remnant names their weapons. It's what makes 'em really ours, putting our mark on something we'll be using pretty much every day of our lives from the time we first build 'em.
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So you give a weapon a tough, intimidating name, to let people know you mean business... Yeah, when I get my scythe, I'll give it a name like yours!
[ Qrow can practically see all half dozen of Alice's brain cells whirring around behind her large eyes, trying to come up with something suitably awe-inspiring. ]
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[He does appreciate the enthusiasm, honestly.]
I figure we'd start with just a practice weapon, but if you're thinking of naming it, you should have a hand in building it, too.
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[ It doesn’t sound particularly fun to do, compared to thinking of amazing names for the finished product, but she did say she was going to do things she didn’t like to protect her beloved stupid people. Maybe it will be like arts and crafts.
The brain cells boil harder. What do you make a scythe out of, wood? Metal? Where do even you find a metal, aside from in like forks and such. That’s like a hundred forks. Wood is easy. ]
I can get a tree branch, a good one!
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No, you don't make a practice weapon. I'll get you something to practice with. But once you've developed your skills a bit, you want to have a weapon that suits your specific strengths and weaknesses.
[A long beat.]
...And you definitely don't make weapons out of branches. Don't worry about it. Just think about what you want your personal scythe one to be like as we practice, and we'll sort out building it later on.
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Think and practice, got it.
[ Her image pops out, now that she's got a goal in mind. She's gonna bug her sister, for sure. The other Alice is much more creative about weapons. ]