light_mischief | [come sail away] ic inbox (season 1)

Symbol magic is one field of magic in my reality. Not one that I spent much time with, though, unfortunately for us all. I keep hoping we'll conveniently wake up to find a sigil expert has come aboard, but so far, no dice.

[man, there are a lot of little fiddly bits to this star map. Skulduggery's copy is going to be accurate in scope, but the details will likely be slightly off. hopefully not so much that it affects anything...]

I can manipulate the elements; the walls are a matter of restructuring air particles into a solid shape. I learned to do those more recently.

The elements... you mean to say you could manipulate more than one? [ a veritable avatar of a skeleton. ] I've only known one person to be able to do that, where I come from. But it seems there are those from different realities who really are a lot more capable... for instance, to even hold power over celestial bodies! I wouldn't know if the 'moon' counts as an element!

[ does he have moon PTSD.

m a y be? ]

[it's a funny coincidence, right? ~~surely not a formative influence of any book canon~~]

Elementals are relatively common in my reality, but most tend to favor one or two over trying to master all four. [three, technically, because earth doesn't count...]

I think the moon counts as a very big rock more than anything. Impressive, certainly, but really... he's just changing the trajectory of a boulder.

[ the moon... a big rock... actually the sheer unimpressedness of skulduggery in the face of that moon spiking almost has him stunned, but maybe he's biased for being the victim of said moon spiking. ] A boulder--

Is that truly what you think of the moon, a boulder now! [ ... ] Though, I can't say whether the moon in this realm is even real, as real as those false stars might as well be, such inconsistency they hold in the sky. It felt more painful than a big rock, I've had those thrown at me a-plenty!

[ thanks no thank you zhongli. ]

[he said it was impressive!]

A moon is a celestial object that controls the tides and has a direct effect on gravity. When Ebalon hurls heavenly objects, they do not result in natural disaster. Therefore, [and here he lifts his pen to point, even if he's not looking directly at Venti,] he chucks boulders at people.

[a brief pause]

Rock, boulder, or moon -- when it's coming for you, it doesn't really matter what it is. Hopefully, there won't be a repeat experience.

[ the moon in genshin is... questionable. that being said, the very sky itself and the heavens are questionable so, kind of much of this goes over a silly spoony bard's head. ] It resulted in a natural disaster for at least one person! [ he taps a hand to his chest. him! it was a disaster for him!!... kinda?! ] But if I think of it as a boulder... hm! So I should simply try to avoid or dodge next time.

[ which, funnily enough, is the captain's advice as well. so.

... ] I don't suppose your invisible wall could block something like that, could it?

Or blow it up, I suppose. [shrugging like that's totally a thing you can do] I would recommend avoiding getting into the position to begin with, although that was obviously not a choice at the time...

[hmm] I wonder if there's a way to redirect it back towards him, the next time he decides to fling asteroids about... Spike the moon, so to speak. [oh, right, Venti's specific question was about his own power...]

I haven't learned how to manipulate a large space as of yet, so creating a barrier large enough to stop the moon would be... tricky. And that isn't something to easily test...

Looking back on it, it could have been a choice. I should have kept my head, I... [ but he'd seen mizuki die, his mind reeled back two thousand years to maybe the most pivotal and defining moment of his life, the silhouette of a boy falling to arrows. the pierce through. he falls quieter, a hand going up subconsciously to his chest, the memory that hit harder than bullets, fatal shots.

a blink. he drags himself from the mire of the past. the scritch of skulduggery's pencil or pen tracing the map. the present, which deserves focus. ]

We've quite a collection of magic users on this ship, and yet we can barely understand the Captain's...

Perhaps we could practice? I could throw things using wind, if you'd like to test your walls more.

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