usedfeatherdance | Feather 8 [Video]

[ When the video turns on, a blue Gardevoir's face is taking up half of the picture. She looks at the Gear curiously and rotates it a bit, then a voice can be heard from off screen. ]

Is it on now? Point it this way.

[ She looks up and after a moment the camera swings around to show Joshua sitting on a bed, hair and clothes messy as if he just woke up but otherwise cheerful enough. He waves at the camera. ]

Hee hee, hello everyone. Feels like I've been asleep forever. I don't suppose anyone else who caught that plague a while back is still suffering for it? This [ and he reaches up to twist that little curl of now-purple hair ] certainly hasn't gone away yet.

More importantly, it seems I'm still having some trouble handling my PokeGear. For the meantime, Gardevoir will have to be my cameraman. She doesn't quite know what she's doing yet. This is her learning experience. [ There's a soft "Gaaar..." of protest, but Joshua simply giggles, focusing off-camera for a moment. ] Unfortunately, you're the only one I have with hands.

Ah, yes. In the interest of discussion, how about telling me about something or someone that was important to you back home that you don't have here. I'm curious.

... You can turn it off now.

[ There's a sudden flurry of movement as Gardevoir puts the Gear down and leans over it, trying to figure out what to do. After a couple seconds Joshua's hair can be seen peeking into the frame. ]

That one. The one you used to start it.

[ Then the video ends. ]

(( OOC: so Gardevoir is going to be making mistakes here and there all over the replies. If you'd rather not have mistakes in your thread, just let me know. ))

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A kind of monster called univir. Human-like in appearance, but in truth closer in origin to creatures not unlike Pokemon than to humans themselves.

[ There's an extended pause, like the reply was started too early, during which the Gear is pointed up at the ceiling. After nearly half a minute, Gardevoir leans over the camera, makes a soft noise of surprise, and quickly picks it up and points it at Joshua. No reason for him to notice she messed up, right? :D ]

I've never heard of anything like that. Were there also humans on your world?

[...aww, pogglemon.]

Oh, yes. The kingdom in which I live is known as the land where the human race originated, even.

[ He won't notice until much later 8D ]

Strange... It sounds very different from my world. What's it like to be human now?

Hmm...muted, I suppose. I'm not certain if it's due to being human or simply a fact of how this world works, but when I woke up that first day I felt awfully disconnected from what was around me. Part of that is certainly the loss of my magic, but as humans are capable of rune magic too it could just be this world's lack of the energy that permeates mine.

One of the univir's natural abilities is healing magic, and without that at my disposal I feel a little more fragile than usual. And...hmm. My eyesight's no better, which makes sense, but I can't say I'm not little disappointed.

... So humans have magic back in your world, but you don't have any here? [ So it's not just him who's lost all his abilities, after all... ]

Mm-hm. Humans, elves, monsters...all are capable of using rune energy to perform magic.

Edited 2012-10-07 12:51 (UTC)

Do you think this world might just have no magic? It makes you wonder just how Pokemon do what they do...

Whatever it is that gives Pokemon their powers, it isn't something the humans of this world are capable of detecting. It's a mystery I'd like to study while I'm here, if the opportunity arises.

What do you mean by detecting?

Well, as a monster, I could often sense alterations in rune energy, including those that preceded or were the result of rune magic. That Pokemon instinctively understand how to use their powers suggests that they are similarly attuned, if not consciously, to whatever process or source those powers draw on. Meanwhile, I as a human have no similar powers and thus no such understanding.

But don't you think the need to train in order to master stronger skills would imply that they don't instinctively understand that power?

Given that most have no parent or elder of the same species, there must be some degree of instinct to their initial use of the power. One of my companions can produce lightning as easily as I can walk, and I imagine it took me much longer to learn.

Fair enough. I was thinking more along the lines of making noise, where we work our way up from crying to eloquent speech, but my world doesn't have much in the way of magic. So I wouldn't know.

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