text | un: Helios

[fruitknife]

[Granted, there's exactly one person here who might understand Shinji's choice of user name, and that's a pretty big 'might.' But it wasn't taken, and it's not like the Iwatodai crowd know nothing about Greek mythology. There's just another layer to it.]

So. Money's presumably a thing here, since this isn't a void between worlds where you can just think shit into existence and I don't just have Mitsuru levels of it on hand. (Anyone else who knows Mitsuru: Yes, that much money is exactly as weird as you think it is.)

What do people do for jobs? I can cook and I can hit shit.

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Text : Un; Caster

[colchismagecraft]

[Caster just stares at this message for a good few minutes. Given the last few months had a number of the Greek Gods showing up, usually using their names as usernames, seeing another one appear was a bit alarming.

Especially given that this one was the name of her Grandfather.

'Mitsuru' didn't ring a bell, and the way of writing didn't sound quite like his - unless he was pissed off of course, which made the situation even more delicate. And, well, she didn't want to just outright admit her identity to a stranger either.

50/50 chance it was a grandfather in an extremely bad mood, or just some punk using his name as a username.]

i'e beenwokring at the library
a numbre of the stores in town are hiring and a friend of mine is working on the farmland otside of camelot proper

the phones have a tihng where they're hiring peole for quests that they will pay for if you'd be happier um
hitting shit.

[Please excuse her absolutely awful typing, she's nervous.]

[fruitknife]

[whoops? But really, it was that or 'Castor,' and Shinji's never had that strong of ties to his first Persona (now that he can say he's had two, anyway). Helios - the version he... has experience with - may have been an asshole, but he was right. Besides, it's part of where he's been.]

Definitely not a library. I'll leave that to the academic types. [But maybe a restaurant is hiring? That's promising.]

Huh. Probably gonna have to make sure Aki doesn't turn himself into a chalk outline every now and then, at least. Otherwise, depends on the shit that needs hitting.

[colchismagecraft]

[Don't mind her just trying to read far too much into this. Aki was another name she didn't recognise, so maybe, maybe she was jumping to conclusions?]

it's quiiet and means i can keep references on the magic here close to hand. not the worst job for me

giant insects, obnoxious criminals, a dullahan, goblins
tha tsort

aki and mitsuru are friends of yours i ttake it?

[A pause, before: ]

i trust you've already had the workings of this world explained to you by now
at least in terms of our powers

[fruitknife]

[Giant insects sounds close enough to Shadows to be familiar hitting-shit territory. The rest of it, not so much, but. There's more potential in that than he thought.]

Yeah. If Mitsuru's here I haven't heard about it yet, but Aki is.

Ain't like I need magic to put dents in shit. [Translation: Yes, but Shinji remains dubious about actually using it.]

[colchismagecraft]

[...he didn't sound too alarmed about losing his power.

Then again, neither did Hypnos.]

i suppose not
as a sorcress i've always been a little more dependant on my magic

...we're a long way from greece
but i'm sure you've also had tha t talk already

[fruitknife]

Also a long way from Japan, and Liminal Space. Still not sure this isn't a result of Tower's extinction burst or something, though. [He didn't say Avalon's predicament is the Tower Murder Squad's fault. He said he's blaming them.]

[colchismagecraft]

i do miss japan
i'll assume from the names that's where your friends are from
my fiance too

liminal space? tower?

[fruitknife]

It's where I'm from, why'd you pull Greece into

[No, wait. Shinji's not studious but he's also not stupid. He can guess why she pulled Greece into this.] Personal connection?

Liminal Space is the last place I was stuck. Tower's one of the... let's go with entities in charge. Or was, anyway. Some other people got pissy about bein' kidnapped and decided to see if they could kill him. (It? Them? Fuck if I know.)

Not a real big leap from 'killed chaos and destruction personified' to 'broke the entire fucking universe in the process.'

[colchismagecraft]

youre from

ah

i assumed you were someone else

it wouldn't be the first time a literal god appeared here

[As for his other question, she'd keep the point brief. No reason to disclose anything if he wasn't her Grandfather.

...Especially as someone who clearly knew their Greek mythology.]

my ex was greek

i go by caster here
and you?

you were at another world before this one then

[fruitknife]

Probably didn't think that part through very well. Oh well.

Name's Shinji.

More like 20. There was world-hopping bullshit involved.

[colchismagecraft]

do you have any connection to the god out of interest?

and not shinji matou i assume?

[Otherwise he probably would have reacted to her calling herself Caster anyway.]

otherwise a pleasure to meet you

20 worlds? thats enough to give anyone a headache

[fruitknife]

Let's go with we've met. Probably not whichever version you're thinking of, either. World-hopping shit, long story. [He is so not prepared to explain infiltration yet. Some other time. Maybe never.]

Nah.

[Given she's the one who latched onto Greece so hard, he's wondering why it's Caster and not Castor - but that's her business.]

No shit. Whole thing was couched as a cosmic board game for the prize of redefining the universe.

[colchismagecraft]

i suppose you could say helios and i have 'met' as well
we were on good terms
but i imagine a different one in your case

[Interestingly, she had met Castor about the Argo, not that she'd spoken about her companions much.]

redefining or restoring?
here seems fairly set on the idea that we are the people to save this world
laughable though that is

[fruitknife]

He was an asshole. He was also right about the problem at hand.

Definitely redefining.

[colchismagecraft]

i wouldn't call the helios i knew an asshole but
right in what sense?

interesting
more flexible than this place then

[fruitknife]

Divine politics, basically. [Probably the shortest explanation of that particular clusterfuck that will ever exist.]

Flexible's a good word for it. There were some rules, but people found ways around those all the damn time and I'm not sure how many of them were built for us in the first place.

[Answer: Basically none, since the Arcana didn't know how to account for mortal variables.]

[colchismagecraft]

the usual for the gods then

[Well aside from 'Zeus decides he wants to sleep with a mortal' anyway.]

people will always find a way to break the rules of course
they should have expected as such

[fruitknife]

Oh, I think the one who made the rules in the first place was countin' on it.

[She was.]

[colchismagecraft]

oh? for what purpose?

[fruitknife]

To see what we'd do. She likes surprises.

[colchismagecraft]

i'm surprised you'd made it out of that test unscathed

when the gods intentionally leave a choice like that up to people they are trying to prove a point amongst themselves

especially if it is an outcome they are interested in

[fruitknife]

Oh, they were definitely doing that. The point was 'are these guys people.'