dear_mun | re: mun being impulsive

Wait, so you're the one my mun's been playing as these days? It's rare that he'd take me out for anything, so obviously you're some kind of big deal, but you don't look like someone that would be in command of Four Great Spirits (whatever those are).

I suppose that assuming so makes sense. I doubt our muns would be allowing us to converse otherwise.

I'm not surprised. Many humans that I've met so far seem to be having the same reaction as yours. But yes, I'm the Lord of Spirits, so that would make me a "big deal."

He takes me out and of course it would be for a big-name celebrity like Maxwell. Doesn't even consider that even with the existence of Efreet, Undine, Sylph, and Gnome in my world Maxwell doesn't even exist. Gah, it sucks being the only muse from this franchise in this guy's head sometimes.

Spirits... So that would make your world a place where Mana exists, right? Is there some sort of tree involved in that? [~~wrong game, dumbass~~] What's Mana like? I've only ever dealt with Fonons, so I'm not really sure what the difference is.

Doesn't exist? How strange. For as long as the elements exist, so should Maxwell... It's possible that in your world, Maxwell never felt the need to assume a corporeal form.

[Goodness, this human has quite a few questions in him!] There is indeed mana, but there's no tree- Only the Four and myself. Mana allows all forms of life to exist on Rieze Maxia, and make it possible to perform Spirit Artes. I'm... afraid I don't know what a "fonon" is, so I can't tell you what the difference might be.

Ah, what I wouldn't give for the Colonel or Guy to be here right now... [coughs into his hand to cover up his mumblings] Right, this could get a bit lengthy, so try and stay with me on this, okay?

Fonons are the particles that make up pretty much everything in Auldrant. Toys, buildings, people, monsters, you name it, there's a 100% chance it's made of fonons. Anything that has fonons in it has fon slots; these things allow fonons to flow in and out of objects, and gives objects a certain fonon vibration frequency. [Doesn't look like HE's vibrating, does he?] Since everything is at its core made of fonons, everything has fon slots, and that includes Auldrant itself. The planet's ten fon slots are known as the Sephiroth, and they release fonons from within the planet's core into the world to make up the things that live on it.

Now, a long time ago, way before I was born, it was widely accepted that there were six different types of Fonons, each corresponding to a different element. In order, it went like this: Darkness, Earth, Wind, Water, Fire, and Light. When a certain amount of the same type of fonon gathered together, they would form the Fonic Sentience (my term for it, I think it works) of that kind of fonon. The different sentiences were, in the same order, Shadow, Gnome, Sylph, Undine, Efreet, and Rem. So instead of just Four Great Spirits, we have Six Fonic Sentiences. For the longest time, it was just those six, but then someone discovers a seventh fonon type, the fonon of sound.

['Phew, lecturing like this is drying my mouth out something fierce. Ah, whatever, gotta commit to this.'] The sound fonon could only be manipulated by people known as seventh fonists, and while they aren't exactly rare, people who can only use the other six experience backlash when attempting to use it. It's used for healing, but since it's also the fonon for sound, there are seventh fonists who learn to manipulate it through singing, called melodists.

Are you with me so far? Because it gets kinda strange the further in you go, and that's coming from a native.

Hmm. I understand so far. And it seems I may have oversimplified earlier. But it looks as though there are some similarities between our worlds. Your fonons sound like mana, and your fonon slots like Mana Lobes. Spirits are, in essence, like your Fonic Sentiences (it's a good word), except there are varying concentrations. The Four are the Great Spirits, but there also exist Lesser Spirits. They are all of equal importance to Rieze Maxia, and their destruction would mean the end of all life. Corporeal forms like humans and monsters rely on mana and the aid of the spirits. As Jude told me, it's a symbiotic relationship.

You mentioned vibrations, but I don't see any such behavior in your body. And these Fon Slots... If your world is made up of fonons, why can there only be ten slots through which the particles can leave the planet's core? In order to sustain all life, such a limitation would only impede on the ability to support the flora and fauna.

--Ah. I interrupted you. Please go on, it's all quite informative.

Ah Er, right... Well, you're not the only one who oversimplified, I guess. In the case of the planet's fon slots, it's not so much that it's just those ten slots, there's a large number of them. The Sephiroth just happen to be the biggest and most powerful of all of them, and some of the only fon slots a person can physically enter. And when I say vibration frequency, it's not so much that the person or object themselves vibrate, its that the fonons that make up that person or object vibrate. It happens on such a small scale that it really can't be measured without proper equipment, actually. Also, while the Fonic Sentiences do exist, they don't show up much because that kind of concentration of any one type of fonon particle on such a scale is a very rare occurrence. In fact, each of the six Fonic Sentiences has their own unique fonic frequence, although my understanding of that is its just the given frequency of the particular type of fonon rather than the actual measuring of Fonic Sentience themselves.

On the subject of Fonic Sentiences, since there was one for each of the six, there had to be one for the seventh right? Thing is, nobody could actually find a concentration of seventh fonons so vast that they would gain sentience. Still, if the other six had one, it stood to reason the seventh did as well. So they named the hypothetical seventh 'Lorelei', though I couldn't tell you why.

Regardless, back to where I was earlier, while seventh fonists were special because they could heal and manipulate the seventh fonon, they could also read the future from stones that fell from the sky. [Let that sink in.] Turns out, the seventh fonon is actually a form of the planet's memory, and the planet knew well ahead of time just how things would progress. A Seventh Fonist named Yulia Jue founded the 'Order of Lorelei' in order to guard and regulate the seven items from which the planet's memory could be read, called the fonstones, so that the 'Score' for the future could be followed without fail to everlasting peace.

Now, a while into this Score, it was decided that more Fonons were going to be needed at some point or another, so someone had the bright idea of creating a ring of fonons that followed the path of the already existing ring where the fonstones fell from. What they intended to do was create a pair of fonic glyphs on the two most powerful sephiroth at both ends of the planet, so you get the widest possible range of effect. Fonons would then be accelerated out one Sephiroth and funneled into the other, speeding up the circulation of fonons until what you get is a giant tunnel shape stretching the whole world over, providing an abundance of fonons never seen before. This became known as the planet storm, and is the reason why pretty much everything went to hell.

[Well that's abrupt] Any questions before I move on?

I see... How unusual. Stones that can foretell the future... There's no such thing on Rieze Maxia. Healing abilities are simply a matter of channeling the spirits to aid you. Anyone can acquire such an ability. It's up to each individual to choose to develop their Mana Lobes in such a way that they can properly execute the artes.

So this "score" of yours. It sounds like it could be quite dangerous. Do the humans rely heavily on the future foretold upon it? Could this reliance have caused a disruption in the harmony of your world, which then created this "planet storm" that plagues you?

Well that's a system that makes sense to me, honestly. And the score was supposed to be a good thing, apparently. "If you head to the east, you will find great riches." Because of score readings like that, people are content to live their lives in accordance to the score. That it came from the planet's memory also gave it points in its favor.

It would be nice to think so, wouldn't it? [shakes his head.] The planet storm was an intentional invention, and it did its job of increasing the flow of fonons from the core. What people didn't know was that doing this was actually causing the core to vibrate even faster. Because of the increased vibration, something else began to come out of the core, a poison known as the Miasma. While the stuff was filtered out of the fonons from the planet storm, direct exposure to the stuff for prolonged periods of time is fatal. This stuff was coming out of the planet itself though, and pretty soon there was nowhere to hide from it. The score, however, produced a solution: Using the Sephiroth, they would raise the continents and the crust of the planet away from the core, keeping the escaped miasma contained in an extra layer between the surface and the core known as the Qliphoth. The planet storm could keep producing more fonons, the miasma suddenly becomes a non-issue, and the score is now a necessity to the people, giving the Order of Lorelei a great deal of power as a third-party. Thus, we have the state of the world and the status quo for thousands of years to come.

[And he lets out a breath.] Most people don't really know about the existence of the Qliphoth, though. Since any instances of miasma showing up usually end in it coming and going, it wasn't considered that important to normal everyday life. The only people living up top that are aware of it are those in positions of governmental power and higher ranking members of the Order of Lorelei. There's a city sitting on liquified miasma down in the Qliphoth, guarded against the poison by glass panels, whose existence is essentially a total unknown to those not already there or are a part of the Order. This place, Yulia City, serves as a way to let people know about the Qliphoth without being exposed to the miasma. It's essentially a city that holds the secrets of the world, including score excerpts that would cause panic if exposed to the world at large.

So yeah. That's Auldrant in a nutshell. Sorry if I rambled, I'm not that good at this sort of thing.

That's quite a nutshell. I have to commend you for being so knowledgeable on the workings of your home world. It's clear to me now that our worlds, while sharing some similarities between the functions of fonons and spirits, are indeed very different. However, it has come to my attention that the greed of humans is more powerful than I had previously anticipated. If I'm not careful, Rieze Maxia may end up in a position like Auldrant.

There's no need to apologize. This is all very informative, and quite interesting. Thank you for explaining it to me so well.

You should get your mun to cook you up some curry or something. It's the best!

Curry? I haven't had that yet. What is it?

W-what?! You've never eaten curry before? Ever...??

[Excuse this kid's look of horrified shock, but, lady, you need to find some, pronto! You don't know what you're missing!]

[He finally recovers. Lets out a breath. Crosses his arms.]

Then it's a good thing you and I ran into each other! I'm something of an expert. [He grins up at Milla and continues:] Curry's only the best food in the whole world! You make it with meat, potatoes, onions, and carrots, and you put all that over a big plate of rice.

But you can't go throwing in any weird extra ingredients, or you'll ruin the whole thing! And you have to be extra careful not to let it get too spicy. Spice is the number one enemy of curry.

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[Milla blinks, surprised at his reaction. She's had very limited interaction with children, after all.

But then his description...... has her visibly drooling.]

That does sound delicious. Where can I get this dish?

[Well, it's curry, after all. It'd have anyone drooling!]

Oh, it is! Chances are your mun knows of a place. They're usually pretty good when it comes to directions and stuff. But if not, I've heard they have food stalls in most big cities that sell curry by the bucketload!

Or, you know, you could just go buy the ingredients from a shop and cook it yourself.

[She chuckles softly.]

I'm afraid I don't have the skills necessary to cook it properly. But I will ask my mun to bring me someplace where I can get some.

Yeah. I don't cook too much either.

[He doesn't cook any.]

But, hey! Maybe if your mun finds somewhere like that, you could put in a good word for me. I've been trying to get mine to let me go for ages.

[It's literally only been a few days, but whatever Asbel. There's certainly no putting a damper on his enthusiasm for adventure.]

Oh, and you might want to do this before your mun sends you. [He makes a mouth-wiping gesture with his overruffled sleeve. Drool isn't the most attractive thing in the world. He wouldn't want Milla to embarrass herself or anything.]

[She smiles.] I never would've imagined I would be receiving such good advice from a human child... Thank you. I'll remember what you've told me.

[At his gesture she's confused, absently raising her arm up to mimic him. It's only once she's wiped the drool away that she understands, and again, it makes her smile a little.] Again, thank you. This seems to be something I often do when I think of food. It's a problem I've never had to face before.

H-hey! I'm not a child! I'm already eleven years old, and I can pretty much go wherever I want.

[He's totally a child.]

But, you're welcome. Ha ha, See? I told you I was an expert!

[Wait. Wait a sec. HOLD UP.] What? You've never drooled before? Come on, everyone does it! Some people even drool while they're sleeping!

[This lady's weird. Almost weirder than Sophie. Maybe she has amnesia, too...??]

At eleven, you still qualify as a child. [It's a fact. She has no idea why he's protesting this.]

Never. Until recently, I've never experienced hunger or ingested food as humans do. As a spirit, there simply wasn't a need. But now I get hungry quite easily and end up drooling when I think about it.

Well...! Well, maybe officially I'm still a child, but on the inside, I'm plenty old! You can't judge these things just by how many years a person's been alive.

[Asbel plz.]

So, wait a minute. You're a 'spirit'...?

[He's not completely sure what she means by that. Is it like a ghost or something? The part that makes the most sense here is Milla saying she's not human.]

[...That's. So awesome!]

Yeah, that's pretty normal. And hey, at least that's not a bad thing. I mean, now you can eat whatever you want. You should totally try as many different foods as you can! Um - just not all at once, or else you'll get a tummyache.

So I guess there's a lot of other things you've never done before, huh?

On the contrary, that's exactly the only way anybody really can. [You are so confusing, little human.]

Yes. I'm the Lord of Spirits. My human appearance is merely a vessel.

[She looks thoughtful for a moment about that. Food certainly hasn't proven to be hazardous so far.] For as long as I need to, I'll certainly appreciate the simple human pleasure of eating.

More or less. There are many things that I've done, but differently than humans would.

I don't know about that. There are plenty of adults out there who still act like kids themselves! Age is just a number. [He may or may not be thinking of one in particular. Yes, this kid has daddy issues.]

W-wait...you're a lord, too? [Can women even be lords? This is getting really, really weird.] So why are you disguised as a human anyway? Are you trying to learn more about us or something?

[He tilts his head at her. She's definitely an oddball. But he doesn't mind. He'll never be bored for as long as he lives if he keeps meeting girls with amnesia and spirit lords who've never eaten before.] Yeah, eating's pretty great. But making friends and going on adventures together is even better!

Differently? Like what?

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Hmm. [She actually looks thoughtful about that for a moment.] That is true. And I've certainly met adult humans who are less mature than they think themselves to be. Still, even then they have more years of experience and knowledge. Frankly, all of you humans are like children to me.

Yes. The Lord of Spirits. [She doesn't see why this would be at all confusing.] The physical and spiritual makeup of the human body allows for better channeling of mana into Spirit Artes, much better than would be possible as another spirit.

[Milla just nods and smiles at the eating thing. There's no denying any of that, really.] I've certainly been on quite an adventure since losing the Four.

Travelling, for example. I've never walked such long distances before. It's quite tedious and exhausting, really.

I...guess grown-ups have had more time to gain experience. But if we're all like kids to you anyway, then you must be...ancient!

[This is all so confusing Asbel's having a really difficult time wrapping his 11-year-old brain around it all. At least he has the tact not to ask just how old she is, though.]

[And he didn't get half of that. Mana. Spirit Artes. Makeup. Ooookay moving on to something that actually makes sense!]

So if you've never walked long distances before, then how'd you get anywhere? Does it have something to do with this "Four" that you lost?

That's quite an impulsive decision. Reminds me of someone I know. There are times however such choices are better suited to a person. It sets a goal for them and gets them going.

Agreed. But I'm not sure that this is one of these times.

re: mun being impulsive

AND LIKE THAT, I BRING OUT MY ONLY TALES MUSE, AN AU AT THAT.

OHSNAP AU-LUKE

THAT'S RIGHT, THIS ISN'T YOUR AVERAGE LUKE FON FABRE!

S'ALL GOOD, I WELCOME ALL SHAPES OF LUKE FON FABRE

DAMN RIGHT

OSHI-- LOOKIT THAT BEAUTIFUL NOVEL~

IS IT NOT MAGNIFICENT!?

IT'S SO SHINY I NEED TO SHIELD MY EYES

FEAR MY EXPOSITION!

AHHHHHHH /COWERS

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