fionnuisce: (through my heartbeat's megaphone)
Lord El-Melloi II [AU] ([personal profile] fionnuisce) wrote in [community profile] kaisou2023-09-28 04:07 pm

un: silverrose

WHO: Waver+open
WHERE: Libra + Cygnus Academy
WHEN: October 3rd
WHAT: Plans for the future and definitely not a birthday.
WARNINGS: None

[In a rare video appearance, Waver sat at his desk at the Academy restlessly twirling a pen in his hand.]

Given that precognitive projection seems to herald things going poorly in the near future, we're taking steps to establish a relative safe haven at Cygnus Academy; it may take some time, but the option to seek shelter there will be available as soon as we can find the space and fortify it.

[He set the pen down next to an open notebook, barely visible but full of arcane sigils in different shapes.]

I think I'm going to start pulling back from the University following this semester or the end of this year depending on how difficult transferring everything to another professor ends up being. That said, if anyone needs tutoring or anything similar, I'll be just as available as I am now. But it would be better for both my students and myself if my attention was focused on the Academy instead of spread quite so thin. At least partially to that end, I've decided to take up an apprenticeship with POKEGO--we're already working closely as it is, and it seems the best course of action to properly understand this world. Didn't think they'd admit me for how hacked off they got about the patent fraud. Suppose that's fair. For matters on that front, you can call me Blackthorn if you like.

[Anyway.]

Long story short and bottom line: you'll probably find me here a hell of a lot more often in the future. As for whatever happens this month...all we can do right now is prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

[Muttered almost as an aside:]

If the worst I have to deal with is that fucking skeleton waking me up this morning, that would be great, actually.

[action; cygnus academy]

[When early afternoon hit, Waver spent a considerable amount of time around the building and the grounds. At first it probably looked like aimless wandering, but occasionally he would stop and frown at a notebook in his hand. Then he would trace a shape on the ground with the end of his cane, or against a wall with his fingertip.]

[...Or, perhaps, trying to move a bookshelf with his shoulder to facilitate said sigil-placing.]


Hey- [If someone passing by looked particularly inclined for a brief stint of furniture rearrangement, he'd call out with a small wave.] -think you can help me move this for just a second?
hoshikiri: (guren.)

action

[personal profile] hoshikiri 2023-09-28 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm? Ah, of course. [For furniture arrangement and then some. Takame wasn't terribly busy anyway so he may as well make himself so, approaching the shelf and pushing it with his shoulder pretty effortlessly.]

Will this suffice?
reignitions: (03)

un: steadyflame; video

[personal profile] reignitions 2023-09-28 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
... If you want any extra hands for getting that safe haven established, I'd be willing to help out.
hoshikiri: (yaten.)

[personal profile] hoshikiri 2023-09-28 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
... Mm. [He eyed the traced sigil curiously with a hum. He'd begun to notice concentrations of aether around the Academy and worried, but he couldn't speak to whether or not they were malevolent for sure. Seeing that it was Waver's doing relieved him. He moved the shelf back just as easily.]

'Tis no trouble. [...] These were your doing, then? [Said staring looking so deeply into the shelf it was practically through it to the wall.]
hoshikiri: (🌦️ bladedance.)

[personal profile] hoshikiri 2023-09-28 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I see. [Not that he needed further confirmation, but it didn't help. He still spoke while staring at the wall where the sigil was drawn.]

I assume it isn't intended to be visible for most. [He tended to be hyper aware of changes both aetherial and not, but since August his detection had become more sensitive. Like it was in his sight again, but tenfold.]
hoshikiri: (hakaze.)

[personal profile] hoshikiri 2023-09-28 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
... I doubt most who know not what to look for will notice them. I've had, ah... a keener sight and sense for concentrated magical locations since August.

[Which could have meant anything, but the flick of his tail said it was after he was saved.]
hoshikiri: (oka.)

[personal profile] hoshikiri 2023-09-28 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[Considering dragon eyes in his realm, Waver was more on the money than he realized.]

No, it isn't. Even if it was, it is necessary to have a well protected haven for everyone. To that end how I feel means naught. [Takame.

As if realizing what he said was a flag:]


Still, ah, it... can be a boon as well. Should something malevolent arise I am able to notice and report it immediately.
prunedworlds: (what's going on?)

Video

[personal profile] prunedworlds 2023-09-28 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"A skeleton woke you up?"

Guess what little Kaisou quirk Ritsuka still hasn't heard about!
hoshikiri: (gyoten.)

[personal profile] hoshikiri 2023-09-28 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah. [This is the face of a man who knows he said something wrong.]

I am able to provide a final line of defense, however the barriers I create last a very limited time. I can provide full protection but only long enough to begin an evacuation process should the need arise. [And that hinged upon whether he had the power or not. Something to test, he supposed.]
prunedworlds: (what's going on?)

[personal profile] prunedworlds 2023-09-28 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't remember hearing about it..."

Unless someone mentioned it on like... Her very first day when it was information overload and look, she's good but not that good.
hoshikiri: (yaten.)

[personal profile] hoshikiri 2023-09-28 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm. Preparation is key.

[His attention this entire time has been mostly on the Bounded Field and half on Waver, but for a moment he averted his eyes from both and his tail started twitching again.

Was it his place to ask? It was something a friend should know, was it not? It was Waver, he wouldn't get upset by it right? Hells with it.]


Your Named-- [Wait, wrong term.] Ah, Birthday falls during this month?
twofoldfury: (55)

sort of here

[personal profile] twofoldfury 2023-09-28 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[HE SHOULDN'T HAVE COME IN UNANNOUNCED.]
prunedworlds: (cheeky grin)

[personal profile] prunedworlds 2023-09-28 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, she can't fully suppress a laugh at that, so have an amused snort.

"I mean, I don't think I'd blame him if he did..."
hoshikiri: (oka.)

[personal profile] hoshikiri 2023-09-28 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah. [Read: What do you MEAN it's today???]

Forgive me, I was curious as you mentioned it earlier. Rather the... the skeleton. [Why did he sound so guilty mentioning that? He cleared his throat.]

I assume you are not one to put much into this day. I am much the same, but it is something to be celebrated that you have come this far. [Takame you can just tell him Happy Birthday it's fine.]

It is safer to prepare where we can for now... but when whatever looms before us is settled perhaps we can go for a drink to do so. It'll be my treat.

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