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Apr. 3rd, 2015 08:13 pm
tongueamok: (➣ this just got very heavy indeed)
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Hello, this is Carlisle.

I mean, it's not Carlisle as in I'm actually answering you right now, so if you're trying to reply to me at the second, you should probably save your breath because I'm not really here. This is some kind of a recording of my voice, but this is my communicator. I'm going to assume these devices are as common here as they are in other places — not my world, but others, ones more technologically advanced than where I come from— so if you'd like to leave me a message, then you may do so here, or er...

Right. Here is fine. So just leave yo—

[beep]

Date: 2018-07-11 03:26 am (UTC)
puzzlingly: (♚ 65.)
From: [personal profile] puzzlingly
For a little moment, Atem remains silent. If he could, he would do everything in his power to protect every single one of them, even those he doesn't know a single thing about. But just as Kaiba (and Law) had told him before, he cannot save them all.

A shadow of remorse crosses over his eyes and he does not look at Carlisle when he speaks again.


To be frank with you... there's... two in particular I'd want to protect before thinking about all of Hadriel.

He knows he's got little time for it too, he's unsure as of when they'd set sail to try to recover the ninth god and he doesn't know how long preparing for it would take.

Date: 2018-07-11 04:11 am (UTC)
puzzlingly: (♚ 15.)
From: [personal profile] puzzlingly
Carlisle's relief is certainly met with a bit of a comic stance, as Atem blinks at him several times.

I am not as... delusional as others think I am. It would have been too much to ask.

He, then, seems to hesitate.

What do you mean, the nature of your energy?

Date: 2018-07-11 05:14 am (UTC)
puzzlingly: (♚ 208.)
From: [personal profile] puzzlingly
Atem listens with wide eyes, it sounds so familiar to what he's used to that he's a little surprised. So, maybe different dimensions can be connected by the same principles. His, and Carlisle's for instance might not be so different one from the other (except, maybe, he doesn't have Duel Monsters either...)

But something in the way he says it makes gives him goosebumps. His mortal enemy, had said it before, claiming that they weren't so different from each other, that we're really just two sides of a coin.


Light and Darkness... 「Atem repeats, idly, as the words of the Darkness itself makes way from his memories.

Powerless as you all are, you cling to the tiny scraps of this light with all you have.
That light, Nameless Pharaoh, is
you.


Hn, I see it.

He says with a little nod. He, and Carlisle, are no different either, as it turns out, they are both agents of light.

Do you seek balance, then... or it's your purpose to overthrown the darkness?

Date: 2018-07-11 02:16 pm (UTC)
puzzlingly: (♚ 5.)
From: [personal profile] puzzlingly
That's an answer he can get behind any day.

Then we definitely are on the same page.

He leans forward to take a better look at the symbols.

How does this work? The symbols channel your... energy and intent into an object, like you did with the tea?

That's pretty much how it was done in his time, and more or less what Carlisle explained to him, but truth to be told, he was so tired then he could not pay that much attention. It's time to mend that.
Edited Date: 2018-07-11 09:32 pm (UTC)

Date: 2018-07-12 05:29 pm (UTC)
puzzlingly: (♚ 74.)
From: [personal profile] puzzlingly
Oh! So it's like putting a puzzle together!? Pieces and parts of little things to make it work as a whole. It's wonderful.
To see it all being put together before his eyes, brings a bright to them that hasn't been there in a long time, he's excited, hopeful. This is the kind of magic he's used to.


What is it that you need to write in that space? More glyphs? And how do you inject your energy into it? Is this the space where you put the thing you wanna enchant? 「He points at that empty space in the middle.」 You called it, stage... right? What other schools are there and what do they do? What is this other line for?

He wants to know everything!
Edited Date: 2018-07-12 05:57 pm (UTC)

Date: 2018-07-13 11:03 am (UTC)
puzzlingly: (♚ 46.)
From: [personal profile] puzzlingly
Atem doesn't seem deterred by the attitude in the slightest, instead he takes a second to consider.

The energy one. How do you do it?

If anything, it seems to be the most important question, as he wonders if he would be able to do it too.
Edited (never tag without previous caffeine intake) Date: 2018-07-13 03:05 pm (UTC)

Date: 2018-07-14 01:50 am (UTC)
puzzlingly: (♚ 24.)
From: [personal profile] puzzlingly
A being's very essence...

You mean... One's soul?

Date: 2018-07-17 12:52 am (UTC)
puzzlingly: (♚ 116.)
From: [personal profile] puzzlingly
As familiar as he is to use the power of his soul, Carlisle's way is unknown to him, thus he does seem a little hesitant.

You don't get to use it in a way that you leave a piece of it in the things you work on, do you?

He's also unfortunately familiar with that too.

Date: 2018-07-17 01:45 pm (UTC)
puzzlingly: (♚ 74.)
From: [personal profile] puzzlingly
Ah...!

Atem's expression turns a little more surprised if possible. To see it work, the suddenly brightness of the glyph, to see the energy at work, it brings him an elating sensation. Not all magic in Hadriel worked that way, this is more to what he's used to, primal, yet clean and simple, almost elegant.

Mahad would surely love it as well...


What did you do to the leaf?

Date: 2018-07-19 03:02 am (UTC)
puzzlingly: (♚ 125.)
From: [personal profile] puzzlingly
...!

He can dye things....!?

Carlisle, you're a hero!


Can you make it purple?

Date: 2018-07-19 03:21 am (UTC)
puzzlingly: (♚ 133.)
From: [personal profile] puzzlingly
Please?

N-no, it's fine... Um... It doesn't affect anything else, right? Why would you need this for?

It's pretty cool but... why?

Date: 2018-07-19 04:33 am (UTC)
puzzlingly: (♚ 68.)
From: [personal profile] puzzlingly
It seems like a lot of effort just for such kind of effect.

Maybe this isn't as mystical as he had anticipated. It's not less cool because of it.

Anyway, do you think I could try? Is there anything that could go wrong?

Date: 2018-07-20 01:36 am (UTC)
puzzlingly: (♚ 203.)
From: [personal profile] puzzlingly
Carlisle should probably not sugarcoat things like this, last time someone he knew ignored what could go wrong with practicing magic, it practically wiped the world, but he's the teacher.

He does as told, trying to mimic Carlisle's earlier movements — as soon as his fingertips touch the glyph, he can feel it. It's not quite what he's used to, but it's the sensation, he can recognize that little tug. It's no too different from him channeling his soul into the Millennium Puzzle, he allows the little glyph to gather what it needs from him, this unspoken acceptance makes the shaky lines on the paper to glow momentarily, the leaf turns a vibrant purple and the glyph evaporates just as it did in the earlier demonstration.

And Atem? His grin couldn't get any bigger than it is. He did it... He did it!

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