chasma pcs: alisaie

[burnstrike]

idk the only roommate gif i have is an old lj icon of frodo and gollum

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[veraltwin]

[Oh, hell yes.]

I couldn't agree with you more. Simply standing back and casting magic from afar feels too removed from the battle for my liking.

[If she's gonna fight, she's gonna get her hands dirty.]

Though I admit, I imbue my rapier with aether more often than not.

[burnstrike]

[ Yeah!!

...But there's just kind of a blink at that last part. ]

...Sorry, with what?

[veraltwin]

[...ah. Goodness, how does she explain aether in a way that doesn't take a full week...]

Aether. It's a force that permeates our world and all living things. Utilized properly, one can use it to perform any number of feats, magical or no.

[She frowns slightly, considering all the nuances of even just those two sentences, then chuckles, glancing back to Nanaly.]

There's much more to it than that, but I'll spare you the details. Suffice it to say, Alphinaud and I spent years at the Studium learning the ins and outs of aetheric studies and manipulation, and I still don't know everything there is to know.

[burnstrike]

Ah, gotcha. Sorry, that's the name of a race of people in my world, so it kind of threw me off.

[ She is one of them, so it was a little weird there for a second. ]

That sounds a little like how we use the energy from lens, though, so I think I get the basic idea, at least. We use it for upgrading weapons and stuff too.

[veraltwin]

Really? [UH.] I can see why that might have been alarming.

What are lens? Surely you don't mean the glass type used in telescopes and glasses...?

[are they nerding out about magic and energy now? Huh. Unexpected.]

[burnstrike]

[ it'll be short lived because she's more of a jock than a nerd and i don't really understand lens lmfao but!!

She shakes her head. ]

Mm, it's some kind of mineral they say came from this asteroid that hit the world a long time ago. It's got a special kind of energy in it that we've used for all sorts of things -- that's how we're able to use magic, too, by drawing from that power. If you're looking to get into the nitty-gritty of how it actually works, though, I can't help much with that.

[veraltwin]

[that's fine Alisaie's nerd side really doesn't come out much anyway]

That's all right. While fascinating, there are other mysteries we should be expending our energy on.

[A general "we," not as in her and Nanaly specifically, but who knows if that nuance goes through I sure don't

Alisaie glances toward the bed.]

Do you see any problems with sharing? I suppose we could flip a coin for it, if you'd prefer... [She digs in her pouch and comes up with the coin they were all given, offering to flip.]