dear_mun | Voice testing for luceti and maybe eswareinmal

Right. So, we're doing this again, then, are we?

...at least you're excited. If we both don't want this, well, what's the point? I'll be gone in another month. And I refuse to put anyone else through that again.

Certainly some interesting plans in the works. No...sorry, I meant "horrific". Yes, I'm sure that's what I meant. Yes, that includes the party. Especially if one of them takes it into their heads to make it a surprise party. And depending on when Helios decides to admit what happened over Valentine's Day. To say nothing of all the people who I know fully well are hoping for a chance to shout at me or, um, smack me. Or hit me. In some cases, probably hard enough to knock me unconscious. And, with my luck, I'll probably be tossed at one or two individuals who wouldn't mind another chance at attempting to murder me, just for the flavor, and I don't just mean Drusilla.

Still. Um...it will be nice to see Willow, again. That's...something. Still as far ahead as ever, of course, but...well, you know how it is. I can at least make that work to my advantage, this time. And I most certainly intend to.

As for the other place...all right, fine, it's a shame about the train, but you do recall that having me in two places at once never works out, yes? I don't care how much the three of you are amused by it. We would not do well in a medieval setting. They stoned people like us to death, back then.

...but, we'd, we'd be able to remember one another? Helios, a-and Ginia, and I? Fine. I, um, I suppose my tastes towards weaponry, fighting style, and reading material might finally be relevant. I can only imagine how much that news might amuse Buffy.

And I hope the fact that I very strongly protest being made a ghost is assumed. In other words, I would hope you would know better than to, um, make me argue that point with you. I don't care if it sounds interesting. Things that, um, sound interesting to you rarely end well for either of us.

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'People like us'?

...an exaggeration, perhaps. But, um, I was attempting to make a point. Sometimes I have to resort to exaggerations, with, with adolescents.

Magicians, former sorcerers, and women who...aren't quite mad but might be read as such. That sort of people.

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To sorcerers, they are friendly enough.

As they should be; it is magic that will be their salvation.

Will it? Well, that's both...very fascinating and, um, deeply disturbing to here. Helios will be quite pleased.

Sorry, probably a silly question to you, but...would you care to elaborate? How, exactly, will it be their salvation? Back in my world, um, magic is generally just the opposite.

It is no secret; their world is overrun by thorns. Their way of life is under terrible threat.

We, they summon, to sweep in and save them. They seek a hero.

Ah. V-Valentine's Day... [ hdgsue you're not supposed to know about that. ]

Giles. We have to have a party for you it's imperative, really. A-And what's this about, about a medieval setting?

[ He sounds curious at least. But, yeah, he's not too sure given the implications of being burned at the stake or stoned to death. Kinda doesn't want that to happen bro. ]

[Tough. It's the timeout zone, Helios, so Giles knows everything.]

...Valentine's Day, yes. [Just...a look, Helios. A very quiet, very stern, very restrained look.

Technically, he knows you're not to blame. And neither is Ginia. And, really, neither is Alice.

That doesn't help a whole lot.]

According to a local, um, more..."medieval style", I suppose. A world under the threat of thorns searching for a hero throughout the multiverse.

She wants to bring me in as a ghost, Helios.

((ooc: What? The personality of "ghost mentor" fits Giles pretty well to a T.))

...and they still haven't found one?

They're, um, scraping the bottom of the barrel, honestly, finding the three of us.

I suppose the question of "how" we're meant to save them is still up in the air, of course.

Of course. Why would they provide instruction? They, after all, are not heroes.

[ Bitter? Not at all. ]

[...Giles is starting to like you already, Loki. Tell him your name, and that might not actually change. He's a mythology nut, this one.]

I presume, of course, if they had it they, um, wouldn't need us in any case.

And I presume they haven't exactly been discerning with what worlds they gather from.

They have brought children and warriors both, the able and the ignorant, the willing and the cowardly.

So that would be a "no", then.

Right. Business as usual, then. Fifteen year old girls called upon to save the world, and all that.

[A tired and long suffering sigh.] Perhaps I will fit right in, then.

You don't much look like a fifteen-year-old girl.

I should bloody well hope not, as I am both fifty five and male.

...I was, um, referring to an old friend of mine. Not that it matters. She, um, isn't in this world.

[ Oh. He doesn't really like that look. Helios is just sorta flinching slightly at that look. ] I. Ah. I-I can explain. I-I didn't mean for that t-to happen. It was an experiment.

[ Does it help that he beat himself up over it afterwards? ]

A ghost...that's a bit much isn't it? [ A frooown. It's also terribly horribly ironic and Helios isn't sure about that choice but, well, muns always have the craziest ideas. ]

((ooc; fff it really does fit him kinda scarily to a T. ))

[ Mildly: ] Appearances are so often deceiving.

...I know it was. [He is trying so very hard to remember that it was. Just an experiment. Not their fault. They never would have done so in their right minds...

...would they? With him gone? Giles would be lying if he said he hadn't been worrying. Three months is a long time. They were good for one another.

But, yes, Helios, yes it does. It always does, because you're a kicked puppy.

Even so, it's possibly because he's a bit hurt that Giles adds the next bit:] A ghost, yes. Due to being dead, after all. Fitting, wouldn't you agree?

I-I'm sorry Giles. I would never h-have done that w-with her. Y-You know that. I-I...didn't mean to. I'm so sorry.

[ Never in a million years because Helios can't feel such emotions anymore in the first place. If he had been in his right mind? He would have stayed far away from Alice if she was affected even if it meant hurting and ruining his own relationship with her. ]

No. It's...rather horrible a-actually. I don't think it needs to be p-put forth about what happens. It's supposed to be a second chance for you...

She's not going to change her mind, is she?

...it's fine.

[And it is. Or it should be. Will be.

Giles will make sure of it.] I, um, I...I know.

[But, because he can't help but ask, and because he has been wondering...]

Do you love her?

Yes, um, well. Rest assured in my case. What you see is very much what you get.

[ Just cringing a little. You're far too calm about this. It's dredging up memories about Nero, bro. Especially when he got particularly angry about something but just decided to explode when Helios least expected his brother to. He was always so calm when he was at his worst. Because you have every right to be angry but you're not and it's a bit scary. ]

Y-You're not an-angry then? [ Just a slight hitch of breath at that question. He can't say he wasn't expecting it though. ]

No. I-I mean. Not, not like that. [ Never like that. Helios loved them both but in a familial way. Not the way Giles is thinking. Never the way Giles is thinking. ]

I don't believe you.

[ Again, mild, soft. He doesn't say it as an insult, but as a playful fact, a subtle twinkle in the depths of his eyes. ]

Is it... a bit of chaos, that I smell on you?

If the thorns come to consume us, it may well be preferable to be a ghost.

Speaking as one who has quite enjoyed not being a ghost, we'll have to agree to disagree.

...so. Not, um, ordinary thorns, then?

[He might not say it as an insult...but, to a man like Giles, it's as good as an insult, and a stinging one at that.

He flinches, very slightly, immediately regarding Loki with a good deal more wariness than before.]

...I suppose that would depend on what "chaos" smells like to you, wouldn't it?

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