014 | Accidental Video

[closedcircuit]

[Electricity crackles across the screen -- no, wait, the electricity is actually flowing around the twelve-year-old boy standing some distance away. This may be the first time most of Vatheon has seen Ky out of his uniform. It's sitting neatly folded on the desk. Ky isn't sure why he woke up in it, but he knows he hasn't earned it yet.

He frowns and shuts his eyes in concentration, muttering under his breath.]

Come on...

[The electricity concentrates around his hands, and he opens his eyes and starts to smile before it goes shooting out, some towards the ceiling but most disappearing into the air. There's a reason he picked as empty of a space to practice in as he could.

He closes his eyes to try to concentrate again, but gets only a very weak crackle that soon fizzles out for his efforts.]

I'll have to try again later.

[He pads over to study the SFC, obvious confusion on his face at the fact that it's on. He's only used it for texts, and he doesn't seem to have an incoming message.]

What are you doing now?

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[not_yet_adam]

[After seeing that display, he had to respond...as soon as he figured out how this bizarre contraption worked. After a moment he just goes for it, hoping he got it.]

Was that magic?

[Why was there more magic here? Wasn't there enough devilry in this place?]

If it was...I do not recommend practicing it so openly, young one.

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[closedcircuit]

I didn't mean to practice it openly.

[But just because...why would he want to show people that he's failing?]

But I have to practice, so I can get good enough to join the Sacred Order of Holy Knights.

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[not_yet_adam]

[He'd never heard of that before...a Holy order of Knights, certainly, that's what the Crusades were about, but using magic? No. Still, he wasn't going to interrogate a child.]

You want to be a knight? That is a good aspiration to have.

[He didn't know anything about magic, but..]

How is your skill with a blade?

[ugly_soldier_dude]

[...Dude.]

Did you just shoot out lightning bolts??

[Bitty Zack is instantly amazed.]

[closedcircuit]

[A beam, and then a guilty shrug.]

Not very well...

Control is really important for this.

[ugly_soldier_dude]

I guess so, so you don't accidentally zap people, but it's still so cool! How did you learn to do that stuff??

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[malik_caesar]

You look very familiar. It's Ky isn't it?

[Video]

[closedcircuit]

Yes sir.

But how do you know my name?

[Video]

[malik_caesar]

It's a little difficult to explain. I've met you before. You were just... older.

[Video]

[zelda_hylia]

[Oh no, Ky was cute...]

You might find it a bit easier to practice lightning magic up on the island.

[Video]

[closedcircuit]

Thank you, ma'am. But I don't want to hurt someone because I lack sufficient control. I might go exploring while it's exhausted.

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[zelda_hylia]

The island is not populated, so it is a safe place to practice magic. I do it myself, sometimes. It is a little chilly right now, so be sure to bundle up if you go up there. Items are free in this city, so you do not have to worry about money.

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[jerkass_genius]

[Have... someone not terribly familiar at all just kind of sitting there with what looks like a pen in his mouth.]

...They runnin' the tests on kindergarteners now?

[Why was a five year old hurling lightning magic around, anyway? Most adults couldn't figure that shit out. Also couldn't figure out why he was anywhere but the lab or in the associated lounge drowning in coffee, but.]

[video]

[closedcircuit]

Ah...

[ A moment while that sorts itself in his head. ]

I'm not that young. But I don't know what you mean by tests.

[ Enlighten him? ]

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[jerkass_genius]

Close enough.

[Might as well be; it's not like Frederick cares all that much either way. It's tiny and it hasn't hit puberty yet. But explaining tests? Isn't that kinda obvious? Frederick leans back in the frame, glad he's at least found a decent chair where he is. It rolls. Definite requirement.]

Tests're tests. Wha's there to explain?

[crabbygenius]

That was a pretty impressive display for someone your age.

[closedcircuit]

It's not power so much as control that matters.

[ Embarrassed. ] I don't have that...

video; I am so sorry...

[surly_chosen]

[That kid's using magic... Geeze, half-elves really need to learn their place around here.]

What are you doing showing off like that? Shouldn't you be in a basement somewhere?

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[closedcircuit]

I wasn't intending to show off at all. It was an accident. But I don't see what basements have to do with this.

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[fistfullofmagic]

[Have an impressed seven year old, little Ky. Electricity-based magic is hard to work with; so much so that he's not allowed to even start trying yet.]

Woooow they let you work with electricity? I'm still only allowed to to practice fire magic.

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[closedcircuit]

I only know electricity magic, not fire. But I have to practice, or how will I get better?

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[brokenfool]

<sub>[Little Libertà watches what Ky has just done with a bit of curiosity shining in his big, tired aquamarine eyes.

He eventually speaks in a quiet, shaky voice.]</sub>

Y-you can... use it, too?

_{[Talking like you know what he means by that.]}

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[closedcircuit]

[ Ky assumes the boy means magic. ]

In a rough sense.

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[littlescorpion]

[Little Rolo watches with wide eyes.]

Is that a Geass?

[He's never seen one like that before.]

[Video]

[closedcircuit]

A what?

I'm afraid I don't understand...