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Chase Collins ([personal profile] bastardofipswich) wrote in [community profile] riverview2017-11-28 05:16 pm

video; un: bewitchy

[ BEHOLD... a teen witch sitting on his bed. He seems way too energetic, considering he's indoors and doing nothing. (lbr he's nursing a magic-high right now, and it's got him feeling both restless and aimless at the same time.) ]

Hey, show of hands, who here's got too much free time right now? [ HE'LL START. Look at that hand go up. ] Come on, at least one of you watching raised your hand, too. So let's do something about it. Get drunk in public, find a corner to loiter on, a shop to vandalize, you know, normal kids' stuff.

[ He grins. ]

Kidding! [ With a shrug and a careless wave of his hand. ] I'd get up to way worse than that if I wanted to be a public menace. [ Still kidding? EH. ]

Anyway, I can't be the only one here with nothing better to do, so who wants to play a game of Would You Rather? Look, I can even start:

[ He claps his hands together and makes a show of thinking. ]

Would you rather... Have superpowers, but die young. Or be perfectly average, and live a long, painfully uneventful life?
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[personal profile] alchemyfreak 2017-11-30 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
[A joke, right.]

Wouldn't know, it's been too long since I've been there.

[This is said a little dryly.]
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[personal profile] alchemyfreak 2017-12-04 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Since when is asking a question judging?

[A perfectly honest question, in Ed's position. Considering the different worlds he'd been exposed to, it was perfectly reasonable to believe someone's world counted that as a fun way to pass the time.]

If it was 'normal kids stuff' where you're from, I don't think you'd be so quick to insist you were kidding. Why bother, when you're trying to sell the point it's just typical behavior where you're from?
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[personal profile] alchemyfreak 2017-12-04 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Not really.

[People overreact to things a lot, Ed's just used to rolling his eyes at it.]

From the beginning or starting now?

[This is an important distinction to make, okay. He needs clarification before he can give a proper answer.]

I don't think I could even manage painfully uneventful anymore, and if it had always been that way it would get boring pretty quick, wouldn't it? I've kind of already done both, anyway.
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[personal profile] alchemyfreak 2017-12-06 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Probably the painfully uneventful, in that case. Without a frame of reference, I don't think it'd be so bad. Going back to uneventful would be a bigger problem.

[Not nearly getting his brother killed a whole bunch? Sign him up. Normal him can be bitter about being bored for 80 years, he's fine with that. Yes, he's definitely dissecting your little game, Chase. Sorry.]

High school-?

[He has no idea what that means. He does think he's following the rest of it, though.]

You went thirteen years before suddenly being able to do magic? Is that how it works on your world?
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[personal profile] alchemyfreak 2017-12-06 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Like you said, it would be painfully uneventful. When you're used to fighting to survive all the time, can you ever really relax like that? I spent two years without alchemy, I couldn't go the rest of my life the same way.

[Spoilers: Joke's on him, that's exactly what happens.]

I see.

[He looks sympathetic, but he's not entirely sure how to respond to that type of news. It was clearly a bigger issue for Chase. The resentment wasn't exactly subtle.]

I don't think it counts if you only got to experience it as a kid. I was normal by my world's standards until a similar age, too. My world doesn't consider alchemy a super power though, it's not something you spontaneously develop either.

[Ed's curious about the whole thing, but considering Chase's attitude he doesn't want to push any buttons. Obviously it was a sore subject.]
Edited 2017-12-06 20:33 (UTC)