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[letmewin]

( It's Asriel's first time using the device to make a video-type post – so when he first appears on the network, it's a rather close picture of white-colored fur before he manages to zoom out. He can't help but fumble a bit with the phone, the picture shaking a bit before he realizes that it's zoomed out enough.

He's seated in his shared room at the inn. His sibling is out, so it's really just him. )

Oh! Here we go!

( He offers a tentative, but bight smile. )

Howdy, everyone! ( He uses a free hand to wave. )

Uhm.... I was wondering if anyone could help with something.

I really wanted to cheer up my sibling and grow a lot flowers for them for our room at the inn! B-But, I.... really don't want to use magic to do it. ( His expression falls for a moment before he smiles a bit once more, looking hopeful. )

Does anyone know how to take care of them...? I really want to help them live for a long time. Dad was always really good at gardening, but the flowers I want to grow might be different than the ones he grew...

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[angelolatry]

Maybe I will explain more later. Some of the others here already know. It's just. A lot? With this being our first meeting. I mean. Sort of.

[Talking and all like this. One might debate if it really counts as meeting or such but still. Colette does give a nod at the question though. It was nice, a relief in knowing at the least that she could help things grow here even if Sylvarant was suffering back home.]

Yes! I can. It's kind of amazing to me, given things back home. I need more practice still with the magic here, but I'm definitely getting better with it!

[letmewin]

I-It's alright. Sometimes it really helps if you have someone to talk to about something sad.

( Asriel can't help but smile a little when she speaks again. )

Uhm... Would it be okay if I see your magic sometime?

[angelolatry]

It does. I guess I'm still just more used to bottling things inside. I'm trying to be better though. But of course you can see! I'm not sure it's that impressive to watch, necessarily but. As long as we meet somewhere there's plants or such I could show you sometime.

[letmewin]

I... think I understand. ( He knows someone else who doesn't really talk about painful things... ) I-It can be kind of hard to talk about things that hurt, but... when you're ready, I think it might help.

( He shakes his head. )

Being able to help something grow is... still really nice. And I think that that kind of magic can help make others happy, too.

[angelolatry]

I know. I've started getting better about it, here at least.

[It's just a rough habit to try and break. When she is so used to hiding it, to holding it in behind a smile as she reassures her friends she is fine, really. Colette is trying to break that, with the encouragement and reassurance of others here. Along with the fact that even if she herself doesn't say anything, that knowledge that someone could easily go to Emil or Kratos to ask them otherwise probably helps.]

But yes! It's amazing, after watching our flowers and crops wither back home. It definitely makes me happy, at least!

[letmewin]

Gosh, that's great! Uhm... I hope that you can be happier, too.

( It sounds like things have been really hard for her... he can't really help but say that. )

I bet if you practice more, you can make even more things grow, too! Mom and Dad said that magic gets even stronger over time. ... B-But, the magic here is probably real different here than the magic at home is.

( Especially since monsters like himself are made of magic. )

[angelolatry]

I am. Sort of. It's just been a lot to process in finding out more about things back home. But -- yes! I guess, like with most things? The more you practice, the better you will get at it. I know the magic back home is different to this, but. I think that's the case for all of us. We just have to do our best to adjust and figure it together.

[letmewin]

Do you think there might be a chance that we keep our magic when we go home...? That way, you'd be able to help your world even more when you go back. Especially if you practice a lot.

[angelolatry]

Be able to keep it? Ah, I'm not sure. But I know, with being the Chosen, it's my role, my duty back home to help everyone, to help restore the Mana supply so the crops and plants can flourish again.

[And. It seems things work out in the end in that regard. At least mostly. From what Kratos told her anyway.]

[letmewin]

Gosh, that sounds really important... M-Maybe that's why you were given elemental magic here. So... after you help this world, you can help your own.

[angelolatry]

You think? Maybe. Maybe that's why I was given this ability with plants here. I'd be helping in a different way back home, but. That is a nice thought.

[Like this is some sort of preparation for things back home. That she knows for sure things will work out. That she can do this.]

[letmewin]

We're all here to save everyone's worlds... The people who sent us here-- want to help us, just like we're helping them.

( So... it makes sense that this magic they've gotten is a gift. )

[angelolatry]

I want to try help and do what I can, at least.

[She might not be able to heal like Raine. But she can help in other ways at least. With her abilities here. They were here for a reason. She just has to trust that and do what she can.]

[letmewin]

Me, too... O-O, at least -- I want to get real good at using the magic I have here!

( That way, he can do more to help everyone here! )

[angelolatry]

We can both do our best! I'm sure with everyone working hard, we'll figure out our magic!

[letmewin]

Yeah, I think you're right.

I can do some fire spells, but... Dad and Mom both said that's what I'd probably be best with, since they could do fire magic, too.

[angelolatry]

Fire spells? Oh! Like Genis back home! He had I guess something similar to the elemental magic here. That's neat! Is that what you have here?

[Or maybe here he has something different. She isn't sure if that's the case or not here.]

[letmewin]

Mm, it is! But, I haven't really tried to use ice magic yet.

Is magic at your home kind of the same, then...?

[angelolatry]

Well, a little? The Light magic, depending I guess on how you use it might be sort of like my Angel abilities back home. Sort of. And the Professor could heal us if we got hurt! So some of it is kind of like back home. But other things we definitely couldn't do. Or at least that I met anyone that could.

[letmewin]

Angel abilities? Golly! Are... you an angel?

( That was something that definitely caught his interest just now. Wow. He's met knights, super heroes, and now he's meeting an angel? )

[angelolatry]

I am! Or was? Back home, anyway. I don't have my wings or anything here though.

[Because her Cruxis Crystal isn't working. For some reason, being here seems to negate those abilities tied to it. She's adjusting all the same, but it is taking time to fully do so, and take in what Kratos confided in her about the truth of the Chosen system. About her becoming a vessel for Martel.]

[letmewin]

Woah...! I've... never really met an angel before... But, uhm -- there's a story in the Underground about an angel that was supposed to free all the monsters.

Does that mean that you can fly back at home?

[angelolatry]

An Angel that frees the monsters?

But ah, well. Only after I went on my Journey. When I managed the first of the seals and got my wings. I didn't always have them. But yes, I can fly with them back home!

[letmewin]

Mmhm. Back at home-- monsters were trapped Underground for a really, really long time. There used to be a story that an angel would come someday and free everyone. ... Oh, that's what I am! I know I look pretty different from the monsters a lot of people are use to seeing.

That sounds real amazing! But then -- it sort of sounds like you weren't always an angel, too...

[angelolatry]

Free you so you could go outside again?

[It was obvious that Asriel isn't human but Colette hadn't considered that to mean he was a monster or anything. People came here from all sorts of different worlds, after all. Fenton and his friends from home were ducks. This isn't so strange, really.]

I wasn't always. I was human. And I guess I am at the moment, with my Cruxis Crystal not working to give me access to those Angelic abilities, my wings. But that's why I went on my Journey. Me becoming an Angel was supposed to help our Mana supply, so everyone could prosper and be happy again.