week 4

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[Just like the previous week the status quo is restored with frighteningly quick efficiency. PAL still makes the morning and night time announcements through the PIP on each Champion's arm, and still the Champion unitards are freshly laundered and re-hung each morning in their closets. Even the glass roses Choromatsu and Takumi broke after the trial in their fit of anger have been replaced with fresh ones. All signs that there was anything amiss this weekend are completely gone.

There's a new floor to explore, their "reward" for a job well done.]

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[ooc: Don't forget to to turn in your AC for week 3, submit your memory regains and put in your threads for the Benefactors!]

Comments

[goteachother]

[And she's actually using her hands for this "wizardry" not actually using magic.

She can't help laughing, though. Oh, Church you're adorable. She pauses, looking up with a smile.]

Makin lace, silly.

[Because that's totally obvious, isn't it?]

[motherfucking_ghost]

[IT LOOKS LIKE PRACTICAL PHYSICAL NON-MAGIC MAGIC. It's wizardry.]

Wha--that's how you make lace? That is way more complicated-looking than I thought.

...You hand-make lace?!

[goteachother]

It ain' that hard once you get the hang of it...

[And then she just tilts her head, adorably confused. Machines are, so far as she knows, not that skilled yet.]

How else would ya make it?

[motherfucking_ghost]

I mean, I don't know, I didn't know how it was made in the first place. I assume programmed machines in factories can make it just fine.

[goteachother]

Machines can't-

[A pause, a giggle, and then she tucks her makeshift bobbins between her fingers to hold her place so she can lift a hand to crook a finger at him. Come here and let her give you some affections. A kiss would be nice but she'll settle for just being able to squeeze him.

Normal people are not as openly, casually affectionate as she is, she knows that. And she doesn't want to assume things like kisses are okay just because of last week.]

I s'pose 600 years in the future they can probably do whatever they please, huh?

[motherfucking_ghost]

[How about kisses and squeezes? Please give this man attention and affection. He is happy about all of this.]

Yeeeeah, pretty much. I mean, we've got machines that can think on the level of a person, like PAL, so.

Some things don't beat handmade, though. Like a homecooked meal.

[goteachother]

[Mmmm kisses and squeezes. That's excellent.]

Think, maybe, but not feel. That's what gives us the advantage over him.

Mmm, yeah. Cooking, sewing, things like this? There's no substitute for the real thing.

[motherfucking_ghost]

[Opens mouth, closes mouth. He's not well-versed enough in AIs, he thinks, to be able to debate about them feeling or not. So let's not even go down that philosophical path.] He sure as shit don't care about us, at any rate.

Even if we've got machines to do a lot, we still need people who understand how it works in the first place. It's cool. It's quaint, to me, and look at me, do I look like I wear lace? But cool.

[goteachother]

That makes sense... can't teach a machine to do something if you don't know how it works.

[She tilts her head, thoughtful for a moment even as her fingers pick up the pattern again. Yes, Church, she can hold a conversation while she does this.]

Magic works the same way, really. 's why my sister can't do more than fry an egg with charms.

[motherfucking_ghost]

[And Church can hold her around the waist and talk to her while she does it.]

Or like how you're good with water magic and making ten spoons stir ten bowls, but zapping someone doesn't come as well to you? Because you don't quite know how it works as well as the ones you're better at?

[goteachother]

Mmm, yeah kinda. I mean aguamenti is a really basic spell, just conjuring water.

[Mmmm snuggles, yes. She's just going to lean into him a bit.]

But a lotta the more complex spells... and definitely anything with potions. Ugh potions... See I can't remember what things do what so there's only a few I can do without botchin' everything.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Which is a reason why you have schools for learning magic. Because the magic is natural, but the control of it isn't. [See, he's not so dumb sometimes!]

[goteachother]

Exactly! [Church you're not dumb. You're just very.... reactive. A moment for thought before you open your mouth would go a long way most times.]

Gosh you shoulda seen some of the stupid stuff we did as kids. Mmmm this one time my sister was s'posed ta be watchin me and I... almost fell into a pond in Central Park. [She can't help giggling and grinning at the memory.] Of all the things she coulda done, levitating me, apparating to me, anything...

She froze the pond so I couldn't fall in. Lost a tooth though.

[motherfucking_ghost]

[He laughs and squeezes her tighter.] Was it at least cold enough that spontaneous freezing could somehow be ignored by the less magical people?

[goteachother]

I honestly don't remember? I was maybe 6 and I just remember bein' so mad at her.

Silly stuff like that, though? A response to your emotions, tha's what most kids can manage. Control is learned, and sometimes takes concentration. Which is how I ended up levitatin things when uh- Kip... [He just gets a sly smile by way of explanation.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

Okay. Serious question time. Have you ever intentionally used your magic during?

[goteachother]

Doubt there's any witch or wizard that hasn't.

Not that most of 'em would admit to it.

[motherfucking_ghost]

With a little warning beforehand, I would be so down for you to try that. Given another opportunity. In the future.

[goteachother]

Can't do a whole lot without my wand, unfortunately.

I'm sure we can think of something fun, though~

[It doesn't even occur to her that Church is trying not to assume he's going to have another chance. Clearly this is a "before we get out of here and go home" concern, right?]

[motherfucking_ghost]

I'm sure we can.

[Watch, he's going to make things weird. In 3, 2...] Do people use their wands as vibrators? Has a witch ever fucked themselves up because they just had to stick their wand somewhere? Inquiring minds want to know.

[goteachother]

[Honestly? Not that weird.]

Oh gosh there's always some poor fourth year that's decided their wand would be a good idea.

It's never a good idea. The jinxes that have happened... [She actually shudders.]

I was never that dumb, thankfully.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Oh...my god. [He covers his face with a hand, giggling. That's definitely giggling.] Anyone ever think about making wands...less phallic, maybe?

[goteachother]

[Giggling is infectious, she's just usually the one that starts it.]

Well back in the day things were a little more free-form I suppose. Staves and things?

Wands are the most efficient, that's why they're the standard now. Have been for centuries.