driftfleet | video

Who: Cloud Strife et al
Broadcast: Yes
Action: Selvin-9
When: Early January

[Video comes on, but instead of showing somebody’s face it’s pointed at a sign for a specifically popular snowboarding and skiing lodge on Selvin-9.] If anybody’s heading over here to snowboard or something, I put up some obstacles on the south slope, off the path, for more of a challenge. Here-

[The shot moves over to the snow, where a person-sized sloppy approximation of a chubby snow moogle sits.] These guys. And some giant icicles, thanks for the materia Aerith. Anyway if you’re up for it and you wanna get timed or something, I got prizes. Nothing cool but like hot chocolate tins and junk like that.

[Okay now Cloud’s walking so there is an unflattering angle of his face occasionally as he trucks through the snow to get his own snowboard.] -oh right, I wanted a general opinion on something. What’s, uh, what’s the best birthday gift you ever got? [Specifically a question for girls but he’s afraid he’ll be REALLY obvious if he says that.]

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It has a core with a specific magical ingredient. Mine, for example, has dragon heartstring.

Huh. Dragons back home are just kinda...big ugly mean monsters. They're magic for you guys? Though I guess their scales are good for like armor and stuff...

They're a kind of magical creature, yes, but they're just as big and mean, sometimes. It depends on the situation.

Sounds like some people I know. [some people who aren't currently here bc he would get a punch to the head if they were] Didn't know that about magic though...I mean, I knew some other guy could use magic without materia here too, but he uses like this tattoo thing.

A tattoo, hm? [ Hermione considers for a moment. ] Well, I don't need the wand, since I can do magic without it, but having the wand makes it easier.

You do magic without it? How? Can people just do magic where you're from?

Yes, I'm a witch. It's perfectly normal for some people in my world to be capable of using magic as part of who they are.

Oh...there were people like that before, where I'm from. Like, ages and ages ago anyway. [If materia contains the knowledge of the Cetra then that means the Cetra could use magic without materia, right?]