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destinystrings2014-07-04 09:22 pm
hachitaro) wrote in destinystrings2014-07-04 09:22 pm
Entry tags:
burgers and explosions;
Who: Taro and OPEN
Where: Capricorn, in the Central Park
Summary: Taro may originally be Japanese but he's been in America long enough to consider himself American. Certain traditions should be followed.
Warnings: ... Not really.
Music: America Fuck Yeah [NSFW]
After making his network post, Taro goes back to cooking his burgers. It's hard to get it just right, but he's had plenty of time to practice and enough fast food jobs to know how to make sure it looks good. He's got a blanket spread out with cups and bowls for the soda and the chips respectively, and there's the sounds of Bon Jovi music if anyone gets close, despite there being no CD player.
Later in the night, Taro's got a lighter out and the fireworks ready. None of them are really big, but they're loud. Someone might find him either right before he lights one, or after - they're not exactly quiet and the explosions are probably audible from a long distance away.
Where: Capricorn, in the Central Park
Summary: Taro may originally be Japanese but he's been in America long enough to consider himself American. Certain traditions should be followed.
Warnings: ... Not really.
Music: America Fuck Yeah [NSFW]
After making his network post, Taro goes back to cooking his burgers. It's hard to get it just right, but he's had plenty of time to practice and enough fast food jobs to know how to make sure it looks good. He's got a blanket spread out with cups and bowls for the soda and the chips respectively, and there's the sounds of Bon Jovi music if anyone gets close, despite there being no CD player.
Later in the night, Taro's got a lighter out and the fireworks ready. None of them are really big, but they're loud. Someone might find him either right before he lights one, or after - they're not exactly quiet and the explosions are probably audible from a long distance away.
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[He gestures to himself.]
- you can't feel like you have fur, and if you want to play music -
['La Cucaracha' as performed by a car horn, plays briefly before dying off.]
- you've got to be able to convince people of that too. Taste is... probably the least used, and at least in my case is mostly changed when you want someone to stop stealing your cookies or something. Smell is... mostly just used around animals.
As for how the mechanics of it work, I don't really know. Some people have tried to study it, though. Think of it like... a glass of water outside. You can take a drink from it or spill it out for your use as you see fit. The rain will refill it, though it's more of a waiting game. You can also refill it from something else, which lessens the water in whatever you fill it from.
People who are nonhuman - as in a hundred percent, not born from a human parent - can use everything in the glass. Half-humans can use anywhere from fifty to seventy five percent, depending on what they do and how much they work at it. The magic is still there, just not useable - like ice. If you're three-quarters human, you can use somewhere between fifteen to thirty three percent, though I've heard of people pushing it further than that. Anything less than a quarter non-human can't use it at all, or can use so little that they might as well not be able to use it.
That's as far as I know. Humans might be able to pull off magic in my world - real magic, not David Copperfield - but I've never seen or heard of a confirmed case of it.
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[And he means it, chewing contemplatively on the last of his burger.]
I wonder what caused magic to be so fundamentally different between all of these worlds. I mean, aside from the obvious, but we've clearly got a few alternate earths, along with completely different worlds that still managed to develop humans alongside different flora and fauna. Even going off of the many worlds interpretation, some of those minute changes should have had some large consequences on even the common structures of the creatures that inhabit those places.
[A rhetorical question. It's something he's wondered about a few times on his own, but as with many things he's discovered since coming here, it's not something that's particularly easy to find any solid answers for.]
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[Hm...]
The phrase 'supernatural' is kind of weird, too. It implies that we're not natural, but it's really the best word I can come up with aside from 'people'. Most people assume 'people' is the same thing as 'humans'. We are natural, at least for our world.
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However, it quickly returns to its usual soft smile.]
...I guess so. And humans area always distancing themselves from nature, even if they evolved from it just like any other creature.
Makes you wonder just how much of it might really be the work of some gods.
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[But he leaves it at that for now, heading for the drinks.]
Looks like an okay turn-out, huh?
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[Drinks! Drinks are good. But he's going to make sure Hizumi doesn't drink too much.]
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For now. He even does a quick sweep to make sure nobody that matters is looking before he pops it open.]
Come to think of it... Do we actually have any people from America besides you?
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What's he like?
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[Then why doesn't it sound very endearing...?]
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[Driiiiink.]
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[... Hm.]
We should get some movies at some point and have a movie marathon. We can watch stupid cheesy movies and mock them.
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[And given it's Hizumi, he's always up for more of that!]
Got any movies in mind?
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We'll have to get a ton of snacks, too! [Since Ayumu would protest, he's sure.]