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[eyeforaneye]

Who: Uchiha Sasuke+YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: SS Huntress
When: Jan. 31

A few things.

There are a good number of fighters here or people otherwise trained in combat. I'm interested in observing people's abilities or training, or at least discussing what they can do. Spars could also be arranged if you want some exercise.

Secondly, I'll take recommendations for good literature available around here.

Finally, if you know how to knit or crochet then I'll offer you up to ten credits to watch you create something.

[ Yeah, this isn't weird. For anyone interested in action he'll be holed up in his room on the Huntress! ]

Comments

[eyeforaneye]

I'm giving you extra information, not defending myself. [ There's nothing to defend, after all, not when he's had more life experience than he honestly really wants.

He can't help wondering how much more he'll have when he's twenty-two. ]

For us, as soon as we're able to produce a certain katon technique -- a fireball -- we're considered adults. How does it work in your world?

[theshabbiestofmen]

[Yeah, all right, buddy.]

It's not so clear-cut. We graduate school at seventeen, and that's a fairly good marker-- I mean, emotionally, I don't know, half the time I barely feel an adult right now. But my friend married and had a child at twenty, so.

[eyeforaneye]

[ Don't you even start with me.

Still, shinobi often marry young, so it doesn't strike him as odd. After all, they need to reproduce quickly with their extremely high mortality rates... ]

We graduate at twelve. It used to be that the age was lower, but...

It tends to increase the chances of instability when people are moved into their squadrons at that age. [ No kidding. ]

[theshabbiestofmen]

We had dorms. Four to five magical teenagers in a tiny room. Not pleasant at times, let me tell you.

1/2

[eyeforaneye]

2/2

[eyeforaneye]

No.

[ THAT'S IT, JUST NO ]

[theshabbiestofmen]

Puberty was a nightmare. Our magic can go off with strong emotion, you can just imagine.

[NO INDEED he's seen some shit.]

Still, Hogwarts was fantastic, all magical . . . accidents, let's call them, aside.

[eyeforaneye]

[ Sasuke's voice broke before age twelve and he's sexually repressed; please explain puberty to him in terms of how it works for normal people.

But... wait... ]

"Hogwarts".

[theshabbiestofmen]

I-- oh. Our school name.

[It doesn't even register to him at this point, honestly.]

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

[eyeforaneye]

[ Well. That is a travesty. He doesn't even know what to do with that, to be honest. ]

... so your powers are tied to your emotions?

[theshabbiestofmen]

To an extent. There are spells you need certain emotions to conjure-- or at least, you have to remember the emotion. But part of our education is learning to control our magic so we don't lash out magically when we feel strongly.

I set a cabinet on fire once, when I was six.

[eyeforaneye]

[ Sasuke nearly allows the word 'impressive' to slip out before realizing that Remus is talking about consequences and how not to use magic. Right. Of course. ]

We also have rules about emotions -- [ which already sounds somewhat severe, just by the slight change in wording ] -- so I can understand to some extent.

... are you able to conjure that fire now?

[theshabbiestofmen]

Yes.

[Easily, with his wand-- but he wants to try it without. Loki has been teaching him, these past few months; there's an awful lot of knotted string looped around his left wrist, thin and testament to that. Remus raises his right hand, opening his palm-- he has to murmur a word, he can't do nonverbal magic, not without a wand-- and ah, there's a fire, small and sitting in the palm of his hand. Not so impressive, except of course it's far more than he could conjure a month before.]

[eyeforaneye]

[ It's still enough to earn Sasuke's attention as he actually steps closer, clearly unintimidated or at the very least familiar with working around fire as he even leans in, sharingan activated again to size it up. ]

... hm. [ He straightens back up again after the noncommittal noise, giving him a curt nod. ]

Are you limiting yourself because we're indoors or is that the extent of what you can do?

[theshabbiestofmen]

The former. I don't want to risk something too big when I'm unpracticed at wandless magic.

[He doesn't extinguish the flame; rather, he murmurs another word, and the flame turns an electric blue.]

[eyeforaneye]

In that case if we land on a relatively uninhabited planet in the future I'll have to see your full capabilities.

[ Because knowing that there's more that he isn't allowed access to is as frustrating as learning that he can't fight Moony.

Which is high up there, okay. ]

[theshabbiestofmen]

If you'd like. I'd certainly be keen to show off, god knows.

[He closes his fingers, lets the flame disappear-- ooh, magic, and he's totally showing off a little right now, even if it's only to himself.]

[eyeforaneye]

[ yeah but can you summon a freakish derpy panda, I THINK NOT ]

... you're cocky but that's preferable to how you were earlier, self-conscious and reluctant. Stay in this mindset instead.

WHAT THE FUCK NARUTO

[theshabbiestofmen]

. . . I'll endeavor to do so. My god, you're blunt, has anyone ever told you?

oh he can do weirder things even, dw 1/2

[eyeforaneye]

[ ... ]

2/2

[eyeforaneye]

If you mean has anyone ever told me that I'm a dick, then yes.

They have.

[theshabbiestofmen]

That's not the word I would have used. Is there a reason you don't censor your thoughts?

[eyeforaneye]

[ There are a lot of reasons, and not all of them are ones that he actually realizes. ]

... I don't like lies. Besides, I never learned to fake that kind of kindness for anyone. For instance, even if you say it's not the word you would've used then that doesn't necessarily mean it isn't more or less what you meant.

I'm not offended. I know what I am.

[theshabbiestofmen]

[Interesting. Perhaps the exact opposite of him, frankly, and he doesn't agree with it, but still fascinating to consider.]

Don't you worry about losing people you care about?

[eyeforaneye]

[ He actually just stares at him for a moment. ]

I don't understand.