video; un: dellacacy

[sos_pilot]

Uh, hey all my party peeps. I was kinda hoping to ask for some advice, if you've got any to spare?

Back at that masquerade - major fun, by the way, would do again - we all got second magic, right? I was all, like, score, more magic! Except then I learned my second magic was... dark magic. Hexes, curses, shadow manipulation...

Here's the deal. Back home? I know one person one did all that jazz - especially the shadow stuff - and she's straight up evil... Magica De Spell. One of the worst people ever. I mean, if she ever came here? I'd be giving her nonstop punches to the face. I can give you more deets if you need, but trust me, she's called The Shadow Queen for a reason. Sooo learning that I can now do the stuff she does? Kinda made me feel icky all over. Like, I've never heard of someone using curses for good. Even the idea of using it on my enemies just ruffles my feathers.

But I know that's, like, super prejudiced and stuff! And I also know there's probably a ton of you with dark magic who do awesome work with it! So that's what I'm asking for - how to use my dark magic for good, besides fighting bad guys. I know I'll never turn into Evil De Stupidface no matter what, but, still, every little bit helps. Just whack me with the common sense bat ya'll have.

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text | un: Helios

[fruitknife]

[Shinji's thinking the other lady's called the Shadow Queen because, oh, her actual name is fucking ridiculous. But that's him.]

Magic's magic. Kinetic could drop a boulder on someone's head. Light could make someone think there's a solid floor in front of 'em when there's not. You could use the shadow stuff to hide until someone looking for you is gone.

Just because you got it doesn't mean you have to be terrible with it.

[sos_pilot]

[ hey, della wouldn't argue. magica's evil, not creative. ]

Hey, the hiding thing's not a bad idea.

But, yeah. It's just the mental association that's driving me nuts. Logic and emotion don't always go hand in hand.

[fruitknife]

Don't have to tell me that. [No seriously he spent two years destroying his health out of self-flagellation for an accident. Two years too many, and he knows that now, but... yeah.]

Do what you want with it, not what she'd do, and it'll probably get easier.

[sos_pilot]

I guess I just don't like any implications we could ever be alike, even if it was accidental. Is the magic given to us randomly assigned? Cause I don't like digging into it.

[fruitknife]

Hell if I know.

[Shinji's not even sure what his secondary magic is yet.]

[sos_pilot]

Figured it was worth a shot asking. I know there are plenty of times I miss good info because I was distracted by something exciting.

[fruitknife]

Fair. But if anyone's gonna know, it's gonna be someone who cares enough to study this shit.

[Shinji is. Not one of nature's academics.]

[sos_pilot]

And that's not you, I'm guessing. Not a fan of the magic, or just of learning?

[fruitknife]

School's never really been my thing.

Didn't help that most of the teachers at my high school absolutely sucked.

[sos_pilot]

Hey, can't blame you there. I've always thought experience made the best teacher.

[fruitknife]

Sure did a lot better learning to cook than learning anything else.

[sos_pilot]

Maybe you just have a natural talent for it! Trust me, it doesn't come easy to everyone. Like me.

[fruitknife]

Been practicing since I was eight. That probably has a lot to do with it.

[Also he was interested in it and it had an immediate, obvious effect on his life.]

[sos_pilot]

Dang, maybe you should be the one teaching people!

[fruitknife]

I have before. It'd be hard to find a worse student than Fuuka.

[Or Chie, really. Fuuka at least had a genuine desire to get it right. Whatever extent Chie had that was lost under her total cluelessness.]

[sos_pilot]

I dunno, I'm pretty awful. I've burnt ovens and put my kids into sugar comas.

[fruitknife]

Putting kids into sugar comas ain't exactly hard. Put sugar in front of most kids and they'll eat it until it's gone.

The whole oven?

[sos_pilot]

The whole oven. Luckily Ms. B was there with a fire extinguisher.

[fruitknife]

How the hell did you manage that?

[sos_pilot]

I dunno, I was putting in everything I thought would make a good cake! Chocolate, sugar, pep cola, pop rocks, the good stuff!

[fruitknife]

That's

That wouldn't even make a very good cake, for starters. Soda's gonna fuck up how everything else comes together. Without flour or eggs or something it's not gonna hold together. Also it'd be way too sweet.

Pop rocks might work better in the frosting than in the cake.

[sos_pilot]

Well hey, it sounds like I was close on that last thing, so yay for me!

[fruitknife]

['Close' is very, very relative.]

Still not sure how that turned into settin' the oven on fire.

[sos_pilot]

Maybe the oven was defective! And hopefully not because I turned it on to the max heat so the cakes would bake faster.

[fruitknife]

Well, I got some bad news for you, in that case.

Something might've dripped out of the cake pan onto your heat source, but 'more heat cooks it faster' doesn't mean 'you can eat whatever comes out of the oven.' Or that it cooked all the way through. Best result was probably burnt outside, raw inside.