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[meca]

both of the ghosts i've met are pretty solid to the touch
the painkink one bled when i cut him but not much

undead as in necromatic or undead as in spectral?

[chrisisofaith]

huh must be a thing to this place. i imagine you wouldn’t kidnap a ghost to sex city if he couldn’t fuck

undead as in necromantic, spectral, zombie, vampire. any aspect of a thing to mean it was once alive but no longer. most of my magic is necromancy based, even my healing

[meca]

huh
mine is everything that has never been alive
so stone, like i said before. crystals, metals, plastic, sand

[chrisisofaith]

an interesting take on 'necromantic' and 'not alive' surely that's still true. hadn't considered it before.

usually people who's magic involves things like that have more like artificers or earth elementals.

[meca]

i am the artificer
when i feel like it

necromantic magic where i come from is defined as magic tied to beings that can't be seen, and everything that has died or been corrupted

mine is mechanic

[chrisisofaith]

ok so you're mechanic, which is like artificer. where's the infernal/demonic part come in?

this is why i'm not a wizard: i can't keep schools of magic straight in my head and i'm useless at study

[meca]

i only just barely graduated so like
i get you

so there's 8 planes of magic, right
humane, natural, mechanic, unnatural, spectral, demonic, heavenly, and necromantic

these planes intersect with compatible planes--like they meet in the middle. most people are able to access a secondary plane, so while i'm most in tune with mechanic, since that's the plane i was born into, demonic magic is the secondary plane i'm able to use without it destroying me

using planes you're not compatible with at all can really fuck you up. it's possible, but it's not good

so like for pierce (my bf) the plane he's most compatible with is unnatural. necromantic is his secondary: he can use necromantic magic, but it comes less naturally for him. he has to work harder for it.

tl;dr:
i can use two different kinds of magic, but one is significantly harder to pull off

[chrisisofaith]

[It takes him a moment and he reads through it a couple times before simply...liking the message. It'd be easier to find that way if he needed it.]

alright, that part at least makes sense, the last part. most magic users of any stripe back home have something similar unless they're the kind that's just a mess of chaotic magical energy, like their ley lines got tangled.

for my own head: all clerics have a domain that they get their power from, something attributed to their god. the magic attached to that is what flows through them majority and easiest, but there's other kinds of magic and spells they might have access to as well, some of it weaker than what might come naturally, but still there.

it's just a matter of specialty and subspecialty, yours is what you're born to for the most part

[meca]

and mine is mostly inherited
my mom was a witch who specialized in mechanic magic, too

[chrisisofaith]

is that how you made it through class without failing: inherited talent?

[meca]

inherited ability

but i graduated by leeching off of a friend of mine
our graduation ceremony is a little fucked and idk you don't need to have GREAT grades to get there just
passable ones

graduating comes in the form of not dying when sent out into a forest full of monsters and demons and other weird shit overnight
pierce has always been a great fighter, i just amped him up and stood right behind him

[chrisisofaith]

what the fuck

i'll admit i've never been to an actual school except on business once but like
pretty sure that's not how you do a graduation, just a slaughter.
survival of the fittest's not a learning plan

[meca]

i never said it was a good learning plan
or a good way to finish out high school but tradition is tradition which is also stupid but idk i don't make the rules

[chrisisofaith]

well i'm glad your stupid school didn't kill you and you had pierce to keep at your back

[meca]

my grades weren't great bc paying attention in class is boring
but i know my way around

[chrisisofaith]

i mean do your grades matter outside of the school? like do other people ask you about those or about what you actually know?
cause pretty sure latter's more important

which, for the record, is a mostly legitimate question, i have no idea how it all works

[meca]

nobody cares about school once you're out of school

[chrisisofaith]

then fuck that
you seem to know what you need to know and likely the type to learn what you’d like otherwise. that’s plenty enough for most.

what in the hell’s were we talking about before?

[meca]

we were talking about you coming over so i can distract you from shit
and magic
but since you forgot about it p sure my distraction technique worked

[chrisisofaith]

you’re a miracle worker

i can still come over if you want to watch a movie, promise ive seen nothing you have

[meca]

you can come over whenever you want 😘

i like having you around

[chrisisofaith]

you like that i admire your abilities and assets
oh and probsbly my voice

i'll be by in a bit

[meca]

your voice
your hair
your eyes
your very nice arms

probably a lot of other shit i'm forgetting to name, but that works for me
see you soon

( which gives him enough time to contemplate whether or not he actually wants to stand up to get ready for a visit before remembering he downloaded shit to his phone for a reason and just casts the first fantasy film he can find on his list of shit snagged from andy onto the screen. leaves it paused at the beginning so it can buffer before he finally swings his legs up under him and moves into the kitchen.

for snacks. )