shiftingwinds | [7rings] catchall for luca

[what the heck, that breakfast sounds delicious. i'm hungry now.

anyway, shi qingxuan smiles.]

The one and only.

So that's your power, hmm? Quite impressive.

[And you know, Luca has worked with wind before too. Look how much they have in common!

Luca's left smiling by the end of it too, because at least it's not an incriminating memory.]

[honestly? she's left smiling too. in fact, she looks delighted.]

Wow! You have a talent for the wind, Fratellone!

It's not my specialty, but it's one of the ones I'm better at.

[He's grinning in delight now. They are matchy matchy and he loves it.]

Strictly speaking, that wasn't even my magic. Did you see that marble there on the floor? That was what made the wind. I merely convinced it to do so.

[Using a focus probably still counts as his own magic technically though?]

Aaah, really? It sounds like a spiritual device, or a magical artifact...

[fascinating!]

Even if the wind itself came from that marble, you're the one who convinced it to work. That must take skill, no?

It does. I had to practice for years to get it to work.

[He does not mind bragging a bit. He worked hard for it, and he's happy with his efforts.]

Most people are attuned to a specific element or type of reaction. You can do any of them if you study enough, but one or two will always come much easier. I've always been best at "seeing the specialties of others and convincing them to do those reactions". Spherical objects, like marbles and rocks, are particularly attuned to that kind of influence.

[this sounds so cool, what the heck. shi qingxuan decides she definitely needs to hear more about it, and i, britt, decide i definitely need to read luca's canon once the game is over.]

I see! How does that work, exactly? Is it only specific types of marbles and rocks that can do that, or is everything in your world attuned to some element or another, if you're able to perceive it?

Everything can do it, to some extent. People, animals, rocks, you name it.

It's called 'sfeer theory'. Basically- and this is a very condensed explanation, mind, I'm trying to keep it simple here- everything has personal boundaries. Think of it as like...what you can 'feel', with a sixth sense. Your awareness of your surroundings, outside of the five senses. Your sfeer is the area you personally control with your willpower.

For most everything, their sfeer stops at the natural limits of their body. They can will their arm to move and pick up a cup, but they can't make the cup levitate on its own. But, with sufficient training, one can extend their sfeer beyond the boundaries of their body and influence the world around them.

I, unfortunately, cannot do it without the aid of special objects. Like the marble you saw, for example. Or using sigils drawn on the ground in chalk to channel one's willpower more effectively. But some of the more powerful users in my world can affect large areas without extra materials at all.

[this is honestly so cool. what the heck? sqx feels like she should be taking notes.]

How interesting... in some ways, it sounds similar to cultivating spiritual power, but in others, it sounds very different. [...] I wonder if your aptitude for it means I'd be able to lend you some of my spiritual power if we had access to it here...

[hmmm...]

I wonder that too. It's too bad we can't test it.

[Luca sounds honestly bummed now, he really wants to try it.]

Well, I guess that means we'll just have to remember to test it once we're done here. They'll have to give those back to us when we return home, right?

[or she can just pop in to visit... clearly there's something connecting their worlds, if they could both be here. even if it's just this place. it's fine to jump from her world to here to his.

will that be how it works? she doesn't know, but there's no reason to think it won't at this point.]

[Luca feels like a god can do whatever they want, so.]

We do, yes. I'd love to see how your powers can affect the science of my world. I'm also curious to see what you look like as a man.

[There's no denying how pretty SQX is, and Luca wants to see if he's attracted to that beauty if SQX is in a male form. He's still figuring out this gender stuff, he'll learn.]

Ahaha, well - perhaps I'll get to show you--

[or he can just see it right now! luca gets an extra memory featuring her male form, as a treat.]

...oh, I suppose that would do the trick.

[Luca like 'oh no she's handsome'.]

...ah.

Truly, you are lovely no matter how you look.

[that obviously pleases her. she has such an ego, please stop feeding it, it's exhausting.]

Why, thank you!

[He will keep feeding that ego, thanks.]

It's strange, though. Even if that form looks to be male, I still see you as a woman in my mind. I guess your preference lingers even if your body changes?

Hmm, it might! [she shrugs] I'm still me either way, so male or female, it really doesn't matter much to me. That form is the form I was born into, though...

[she's just, well. she's female in this form. "lady wind master," "lord wind master," she answers to either of them.]

But I do really like this one.

Admittedly I'm still learning about what gender can really be. I thought it was just "male" or "female" and that was it.

[she pats his shoulder]

If it helps, even other gods have some trouble accepting it. Even though they can do the same thing I can! You're doing great.

I'm sure I'll get it eventually.

...I was a bit rude to Nathan before, and I think it was my ignorance on the topic that drove my rudeness.

[Except Nathan is fukken dead now so he can't apologize whups.]

[she'd tell him that at least he can do better next time... but...

r.i.p. nathan]

Well... ignorance can be corrected. It's much better than rudeness that comes from malice, after all.

Mmm, true.

[At least he's only been malicious towards a couple people so far?]

...perhaps I should tone back the intentional rudeness too.

Well, there are some people it's worth being rude to.

[

shi qingxuan? please? your grudges?]

Dare I ask?

Ahaha, not here! Well, mostly. Just in general.

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