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Who: Sorey, Mikleo & y'all!!!
Broadcast: Yes
Action: Selvin-9
When: Early January

[The video starts out jostling and blurry, like some kind of snowed-in Blair Witch project. There’s even screaming- oh no, that’s just excited screaming, and it’s more like breathless squeaks than screams.]

Mikleo- Mikleo! Get it get the- you got it?

I’ve got it. I still think this is ridiculous…

[There’s a jostling movement as the communicator is transferred from one to the other, and for a moment it lingers on a seemingly-empty wolf kigu, its wearer invisible but sounding as unimpressed as the costume’s expression. It’s gone in a flash, and Sorey suddenly darts into view, wearing a goblin kigu, running through the snow with the clumsiness of a person unaccustomed to winter weather, over to a truly ugly snow sled…with wheels.]

Do you see this?! [Sorey seems unable to contain himself, gleeful and giddy, posing in front of the sled with a peace sign in front of a rental shop on the slope.] This is the coolest thing ever- ohhh, I wish we could buy it!

[Sorey suddenly gets closer to the camera, grinning a grin that precludes any rational decision-making.] Hey Keith! I challenge you to a sled race! Or anybody, anybody who’s game! I’ll bet rental fees and hot chocolate that I can beat you!

[There’s a long-suffering sigh - albeit mildly affectionate - from behind the camera. Mikleo’s done this song and dance before, it’s old hat.]

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[Alphinaud flinches visibly away from the camera.]

Gods! What are you?!

[leans in] Beautiful! And my boyfriend!

What--

[He has so many questions. Of course the one that comes out is:]

How?

It might not seem like it, but he's actually really particular about his looks. [that is not the 'how' he is asking, sorey]

[WHY DOES EVERYONE HAVE TO TEASE HIM.]

I imagine so, given that he is invisible.

It does become a problem.

Why is it that he is invisible?

The camera just doesn't pick him up is all. He doesn't have a reflection, either.

[What. The. Fuckkkkkk.]

I've only heard of such things in stories. If I should meet him, then, would I be able to see him properly?

I'm not really sure! It all depends on if you have enough resonance. -oh, but if you don't, don't worry about it! People can develop resonance really quickly here, just by being around him.

What is resonance?

[He's thinking of crystals, so of course he's confused.]

It's a sense, sort of like hearing or sight, only it's something you can attain later on in life if circumstances allow. If you have resonance you can hear seraphim, sometimes see them too. [Takes pity on Alph with some straight answers since he's having to dig himself out of that hole he dug with Mikleo]

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[oh lords this again]

That's rude.

[Welcome to hell.]

You couldn't be some manner of fiend, not with Sorey so close-- but then, how...?

He is fiendish, though!

Sorey!!

Fiend?

[HE'S SO

OFFENDED]

Do you always assume the worst of people you've never met before?

[miserably] I'll never get a straight answer out of him. Fine, then-- w-what is it that makes you invisible?

[He's being brave, look, he only stuttered once.]

I am not trying to be rude, I am trying to understand why there's a-- a gh-- [FUCK] -- disturbance.

[ugh. well it's not an apology, but at least he's asking. but the kigu is judging you, Alphinaud. Judging. You. With the angry eyes of a plush wolf head.]

I'm a seraph. We don't show up on cameras. And we're invisible to most people, besides.

[He will personally destroy that wolf head with magic god damn it.

A look of confusion crosses his face, as if Mikleo just offered that he was a tree nymph or something. And then he says every seraph's favorite words:]

An... angel?

[the longest, most suffering of sighs.]

Why is it, every time I say what I am, people try to call me something else? I said I'm a seraph. Seraph. A seraph is not an angel!

[This sounds like a touchy subject. His wits have somewhat returned, though he's a cautious creature. Nothing Mikleo can do will change that. In fact, it's better if he does nothing at all.

He closes his eyes for a moment and steadies himself. Okay. So, not a ghost. Just some kind of... race... that shares a name with a mythological creature. No big deal.]

They are on my world, though I'm not about to discuss the particulars of religious symbols as I do not adhere to that faith.

[And anyway--]

I apologize for my earlier rudeness. I should have guessed you were some manner of... being. Though in all my travels, I cannot say I've met anyone who is chronically invisible.

[HUFF.

but fine, he apologized, so after a long moment and an exasperated sigh, Mikleo relents. very reluctantly.]

It's... fine. I'm just tired of being questioned about it, that's all. It's not our fault that humans picked a word that's used for something else in every other world, apparently.

Anyway it's not that we're invisible, it's that most people - and technology, apparently - lack the ability to perceive us.

A quirk of the translation device in our heads, perhaps.

[That's also strange.]

Purely magical beings can still be detected by the appropriate technology on my world. It appears even the Atroma have limits. My familiar, Carbuncle, can only appear for five minutes at a time before it dissipates.

It's not as if I'm entirely undetected. Usually we can't be seen or heard without resonance, but this machine picks up my voice just fine. I don't have an explanation for it.

If you're so concerned, why not just come here and test your resonance directly? The communicators don't make it clear.

[he could use a distraction anyway, while Sorey's carting around like
a lunatic.]

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