rediscovering: (don't be grumpin)
Prince Zuko 🔥 祖寇 ([personal profile] rediscovering) wrote in [community profile] avalononline2021-05-02 08:48 pm

text; un: fireprince

1. what do you know about job interviews?
i didnt know you have to interview to get jobs. even if it's just at a restaurant!! regardless of whether the job itself involves talking to people at all!!? stupid


[ Guess who's been bombing interviews as a part-time busboy all over town. And who's only bothering to ask about proper employment beyond random quests, um, now, after several months of just getting by...? He must be getting tired of stealing hotchips from the cornerstore. ]

2. what do you know about going to school as a full-time student here?
i heard you can make a living like this
insight about going to school in other worlds could be useful too. i was homeschooled....


[ But at least he's thinking in terms of solutions. ]
madcuriosity: (Sippy sip)

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[personal profile] madcuriosity 2021-05-04 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
[That is the common and ultimately, appropriate, reaction. Alice, herself, does not realize why so many people are upset by it.]

Well, we get paid to go to school. That seems to be the thing most people tell me to "lead with" when I first mentioned it near the end of the list. So I have moved it up to the first, as asked.
madcuriosity: (This sounds like so much fun!)

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[personal profile] madcuriosity 2021-05-04 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
Oh yes! I have mastered: wind, water, and earth! The only one I still struggle with is fire. Once I do that, the teacher will let me move on to my newer magic! But they say it's unsafe for me to do the second one while I'm still struggling with my first one.
madcuriosity: (Contemplating poison)

[personal profile] madcuriosity 2021-05-04 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, I do! I learned air first. My teacher says that mastering the different elements is about practice and concentration and that the element we pick up first is the one closest to our personality. I don't know what my personality has to do with air, but I certainly don't mind, I suppose.

She says the reason I struggle with fire is that I get distracted and can easily forget that a small spark can become a very big flame quite quickly. Fire requires the most attention to keep track of lest it gets out of hand.
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[personal profile] madcuriosity 2021-05-07 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
Well, was the fire magic anything like the magic here? Simply because you had it back home doesn't really mean it would follow the rules here, wouldn't you say? That was one of the first things she said. "Everything you know about your magic from home is useless here, this isn't your home's magic."

I suppose it's quite fortunate I never had any magic at all! [Unless you count imagination, then she may as well be the Avatar of Imagination.]

Perhaps you shouldn't use the rules from home, sir.
madcuriosity: (That's so sweet of you)

[personal profile] madcuriosity 2021-05-10 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
But then, that's all the reason to NOT keep using methods from home, because then you'll just keep thinking it's like home when it very much isn't.

If you're overthinking it, then simply underthink it! Don't think about it anymore until it leaves your mind and try again another time!
madcuriosity: (Alice knows best)

[personal profile] madcuriosity 2021-05-10 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
Oh yes, sometimes when I'm thinking and thinking and thinking but can't think of a thing, I underthink it and leave it be. Then, when I'm not focusing on it anymore, it's like the answer just immediately comes to me!
madcuriosity: (How peculiar!)

[personal profile] madcuriosity 2021-05-10 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
But... what does any of that have to do with the magic of this world?

You're thinking this magic is like your magic again.

And I just told you that it isn't.

So why do you keep acting like it is?
madcuriosity: (I'm all ears)

[personal profile] madcuriosity 2021-05-10 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
Then, perhaps you should definitely go to school, sir, so you can learn a new point of reference.

You seem to be terribly stuck on the old one.
Edited 2021-05-10 05:41 (UTC)
madcuriosity: (Alice and Mr. Rabbit)

[personal profile] madcuriosity 2021-05-14 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe we can walk to school together!
Edited 2021-05-14 04:10 (UTC)
madcuriosity: (How do you do!)

[personal profile] madcuriosity 2021-05-14 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
My name is Alice Liddell, a pleasure to meet you, Prince Zuko!
madcuriosity: (A proper curtsy)

[personal profile] madcuriosity 2021-05-14 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. Well, still a pleasure to meet you then Mr. Zuko!

[A new curtsy for the correction.]

What a curious username, though! Why fireprince? I can figure out the fire part, but why prince?
Edited 2021-05-14 04:58 (UTC)