spellbinders | [HUB ISLAND

Who: Coven Members
Where: Coven Base Camp
When: Day 90
Open/Closed: OTA

You're not doing anything right now, right? Good. Genette's using some of the resources taken from Aimintas to create a little get together. Even if you do have something going on, she's not averse to using a little force to make the evening magical.

In fact, the magic is exactly how she's pulling this off. Genette is offering you to a little get together at the base camp, which may be all it takes for you to follow her. If not? Your hand is tethered (or some other part of you) quickly and you're led to the camp anyway. This is important, darn it!

What's so important? A little "party" of sorts. There's an assortment of foods, some of which have been hastily made since some groups have gone harvesting for new resources, and a large water basin that's acting as a punch bowl.

The true purpose of this little activity is a 'get to know you' exercise of sorts. Genette's got a glass container of a large quantity of Elto bones that can short-circuit the tethers, but the caveat is that you have to participate in a little, tethered sharing circle.

(It's honestly a good idea to know who you're stuck within your little makeshift coven, but Genette is the pushy sort when she sets her mind to something.)

The way to be released from your Elto shackles? Tell everyone your name, where you're from, your magic (seemingly left a little ambiguous) and something else about yourself. Discussions are encouraged! The more people know, the better!

After you're done sharing with the class, food and drink is yours to have -- or you can just run off, that's fine too.

OOC: Characters who would have absolutely nothing to do with this can of course escape, whether fleeing in the first place or using Elto bones of their own to circuit out their tether.

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[It better be! She put all of her courage to say it without sounding awkward. But when he refers to her as "dude", it does make her wonder if she had said something to offend him. Considering their earlier deal in the way she should use the word "dude" specifically. Was he annoyed that he didn't hear her speech?][Okay! Now or never. She can do this: Dirk-style.]

Nike Lemercier. I'm from the version of Earth where we have a newly crowned world king that everyone believes is the form of a ruthless, leechering, and hairy old man with horns and bad breath when in reality he is actually a precocious eleven year old brat that believes he is entitled to control the skies as much as the ground. My magic is something you'd find from a mother's affectionate touch. And no I will not demonstrate it to anyone for as long as I live because I'm not your mother, no matter how much Qri refutes it otherwise.

One thing about myself is that I underestimate my ability to be clever and my joke may have fallen as flat as having one of your parents to tell you to clean your room while you were in the middle of playing with them. I already have experience in this area back home and didn't expect to feel it in another world by a witch instead of a precocious tyrant.

[All said while micmicking Dirk's tone, but it was clear she failed in the instances she felt annoyed at the memory of the precocious brat or being anyone's mother.]

[oh my god nike]

Holy shit, this is hilarious. [HE'S NOT LAUGHING BUT he's amused? If you look close you might see the hint of it.

Look, growing up in total isolation means you don't really learn to emote much. Give him a break.] My bad for making you think the joke didn't land. I was using dude in my sense of the word, which 'a person who exists.'

[And Nike was definitely staring at Dirk to make absolutely certain he wasn't pretending to find it funny out of the goodness of his heart.]

I'll believe you. For now, anyway. Even if, your face doesn't really match up with your words. Do you need help with that?

[Because she could always grab his face and teach his muscles to smile. The thought was tempting, but his explanation of the word "dude" will catch her attention.]

Oh, you caught up to that? About my earlier confusion when you used that word.

I'm pretty sure that's something that's supposed to come naturally.

[honestly. yes, yes he needs help with that.]

It occurred to me that you might have interpreted my response as negative based on our previous discussion.

Are you saying you're a natural at it?

[Because she's never seen you crack a smile yet.]

...well, yeah, you did say only to refer to you as "dude" whenever you're acting like one.

[Since he agreed that "dude" was poop.]

I'm saying I don't think I can learn it if I'm not.

[because. yeah.]

Right, because that's how you personally feel about the term. It's your unique set of associations for it that define its place in your vocabulary. That doesn't match up with my idea of the word and doesn't suit how I use it.

Does that mean you're willing to learn to smile if someone taught you to?

[She won't ask the reason behind him being unable to smile. His voice tone has always sounded pretty...unemotional for the most part. There could be a reason behind it, but she rather hear it from him in a voluntary kind of way.

His explanation will leave her feeling thoughtful. It was clear she was trying to mentally interpret his words. Understanding their meaning before realizing...]

Are you admitting that you have been messing with me this whole time about your surfer language?

[That was the only word she remembers from his long ass explanation about "bro" and "dude" being from some kind of surfer dialect.]

I'm aware of the muscle movements required for smiling.

[But at her next thing there's the—smallest? hint of confusion?]

What? No. That's the actual linguistic history of those words according to my research. You said 'dude' sounded like faeces to you so it made sense that that would be an association that informed how you used it.

Have you tried it yet?

[There may be a moment of silence as Nike tilts her head, offering him her own confused look, since...]

Yeah, but you could've explained the actual definition from your world, couldn't you? Just because a word sounds one way, it doesn't mean it is the actual definition or proper way to use the word. I rather use the words correctly, then to tarnish their beautiful meaning.

[Nike can't help wonder the reason he didn't try to correct her or explain. He was okay with the idea of being called "dude", feces, whenever he did something wrong when the actual words' definition meant "a person that is just existing" which makes her wonder.]

...I hope I'm wrong, but... [She may as well say it.] Do you have an inferiority complex?

This is pretty difficult to believe, I know. But I've smiled.

[Any further sass is interrupted, however.]

What? Holy shit, no. I thought I'd explained that it wasn't how the word was used. I just believe that language should be used as the speakers see fit.

[he's a descriptivist not a prescriptivist, Nike!!]

........could you send a picture message of that occurrence as evidence into my mind?

[Because she doesn't believe him otherwise. Unless she was interacting with him wrong, she hasn't seen much emotion other than deadpan, deadpan sass, and a laugh. Now she just needs a smile to fill her Dirk-expression collection.]

Did you? [Give her a moment to look through her memories for that.] ...if it was in the Palai world, then I may have missed it. [Since she can connect with planets to hear and feel their emotions and attitudes and makes assumptions of the personality of the world's natives too. It can get quite loud and she does lose her concentration on paying attention to people when a world wants to overwhelm her mind and body with information.] Huh. I guess I learned something new about you: you don't have a single strict bone in your body, huh?

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