Iskaulit Mingle - Problems with Psychics

[notzubats]

Who: Anyone on the Iskaulit!
Broadcast: If you'd like?!
Action: Iskaulit!
When: Today, as Sora's augment glitch starts.

[It's your average day on the Iskaulit. Absolutely nothing seems out of place initially, but without any warning- you might find yourself or your friends experiencing some problems. What's up on that?

In other words, it's an Iskaulit mingle with a twist! Come on in everyone! You don't need to interact with Sora to have it effect you, so feel free to start your own threadstarter! Or talk to Sora, that's cool too. ]

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[winn]

[ oh he knows how that feels. he knows it so well. the day he and jim called each other brother will forever remain in his heart as one of the best days of his life, even if they started off with pretty horrifying and depressing conversations. kara complained about jim acting like a disapproving dad, but to winn it's been wonderful. for the first time in his life since he's needed more than two hands to count his age - he feels like someone really cares about him, wants to take care of him. he loves and treasures every second of it, even when he gets on his nerves - especially when he insists to stick by him despite it. ]

I know exactly what you mean. [ his voice is quiet, a little choked. but he's not making this about him, just expressing his understanding. ] You had to make it official? [ the world she used to be in sounds so complicated. he just calls people 'brother', 'sister', and that's it. ]

[brainiest]

[ She can still remember all her conversations with John, how often she had joked with him, calling him dad and watching his laughter, wondering and wondering and being afraid, every single day, that she would lose him. When she had found out he had lost his shard and would be in the Drabwurld for the rest of his immortal life... It had devastated her, but it had also sealed what she had already known to be true in her heart: she didn't want to go home either.

Quiet, Hermione shakes her head. ] I didn't have to. We both knew that it was there, that we cared about each other like that, but... I wanted to. I was a Marchioness and second only to the Queen in the Seelie court. I didn't want the world to forget about what he meant to me if something happened, so I asked Solais to make it official, legally speaking. It was the same for Nico.

[winn]

[ she keeps saying words he doesn't know, doesn't understand. but he doesn't want to stop her to ask right now, so he settles on the gist of it. ]

I'll remember. [ he knows it's a small comfort, especially since he can't really guarantee it what with the atroma having direct control of his memories. but as long as they don't mess with him, for what it's worth, someone out in the multiverse will remember what john grimm means to hermione granger. ]

Who's Nico?

[brainiest]

[ It was a world so completely different from this one - even Hermione struggles to rationalise it sometimes. ]

... Thank you, Winn. [ It does help, even if her heart aches a little. She already knows that some people go home and forget her completely - Katsa had been one of them before she'd woken up here - and she doesn't want to think about that. She wants to remember her moments of happiness, the glee she felt, the joy - all of that.

His question, though, makes her perk up a little. ] He was my little brother. The son of Hades.

[winn]

[ he notices the perking up, and decides to pursue the line of questioning for a bit - they'll get to the hard stuff, but there's no reason why this conversation should be all doom and gloom.

and besides, he's interested, he cares. ]

How many brothers and sisters do you have? [ he makes sure to use present tense, because that's how he wants to think about it. if they manage to bust out and he'll get to keep his memories back home - jim, margaery, sascha, cisco, hank...they won't be any less his siblings. ]

[brainiest]

[ Talking about family does cheer her up because they're important to her - and she gets to share how proud she is of them time and time again. It makes the sad memories feel a little more distant.

She does have to pause to consider, though. ]

Well, Nico was the only one I really adopted. I... Have you met the Korra that's here? I knew her at home, too, and her friend Mako, and they were like my brother and sister. Mako had a dragon that was a bit like his daughter and she was my niece, too...

[winn]

I don't think I have, no. You should introduce us sometime - [ he'll let her talk about her family anytime at all. he knows how important it is. ] you have a dragon niece? That's so cool, did she talk? [ he's never met a dragon before! ]

[brainiest]

I'll see what I can arrange. [ Humming, she makes a soft noise. ] She did talk. Her name was Rizhao, and she had a brother called Bridei. Her brother was more interested in growing up to be a strong knight and marrying me than he was in many other things.

[winn]

Her brother...was a dragon too? [ he may be imagining a dragon in a helmet and a badly-fitting armor trying to get on a horse. it may be hilarious. ]

[brainiest]

Yes. They looked like toddlers most of the time but could transform into long dragons when they needed to - or weren't hiding. They hatched from eggs that the Seelie queen had found.

[winn]

Could they shapeshift into anything or is it like they had two forms?

[ dragon wanting to marry her is weird enough. toddler-dragon is just downright creepy. what even is that world? ]

[brainiest]

As far as I knew it was just dragons.

[ Which hadn't been good when the castle had attacked, but... ]

[winn]

[ he is so confused but okay he'll roll with it. nodding for her to keep going. ]

[brainiest]

One was hatched to Mako and the other was given to Lancelot - um, Sir Lancelot. The Knight.

[winn]

You know Sir Lancelot? The Sir Lancelot, from myth?

[brainiest]

Mhm. Merlin, too, and I met Arthur and Gwen.

[winn]

Wow.

[ he's got a sort of awed look on his face. that's amazing. he wants to ask so many questions he actually sits on his free hand and bites down on his lip to keep from vomiting them all at her.

this isn't about him. this is about her story. it's about hermione. let her talk. just let her talk. ]

[brainiest]

[ Hermione can't help the way she looks a little... Sheepish before she shrugs, fighting her laugh. ]

You can ask if you want, Winn.

[winn]

Sorry - [ he looks just as sheepish. ] your life is just -- super interesting.

[brainiest]

[ Her lips twitch ever so slightly. ]

It has been an adventure.

[winn]

Adventure feels like a good term.

[ he nods, they're exciting, but they definitely have their downs. ]

[brainiest]

It never really ends. I went from fighting a war to the Drabwurld to here. It's like I'm destined to be in the middle of something.

[winn]

If all these pocket dimensions are connected [ as he suspects they are; otherwise they would be warring with each other. he can't imagine almighty overlords being too happy with having their participants poached, it makes much more sense for the transfers to be consensual. ] it may mean they find you too promising to let go of. You adapt, you thrive, I don't know what their ultimate goal is here, but...whatever it is, I guess you fit their job description.

[ he doesn't believe in destiny. but this is just as bad. well, almost. this can't last forever sooner or later all these brilliant and powerful people will find a way out and on that day - their almighty overlords will pay for it all. ]

[brainiest]

It would have been nice to have been asked before they started dragging me around. [ Hermione's hand goes to her scar, the one on her face rather than the werewolf bites to her neck, rubbing against it absently. She can't stop touching it sometimes, running her fingers along the blood-red marking; it should be as silvery as the rest of her scarring is, but this one feels too much like the engraved mudblood on her arm - a reminder of something.

Huffing a noise, she tilts her head up to look at Winn. ] I might fit their description but I was busy.

[winn]

[ yeah, it would have been nice. most of them had lives, goals, families. but these overlords don't give a shit about what they have going in their lives, so he tries to at least look at the positive - if he were asked, of course he would've said no. and if he would've said no, well, he would've missed out on kitty, and all his friends. ]

Silver lining, if you would've been asked you wouldn't have met me - [ he nudges her lightly. he could've said 'cisco' of course, but he's trying to lighten the mood a little bit, not make her uncomfortable. ]