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TEXTS FROM SOME TIME
TEXTS FROM LAST NIGHT
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Nothing goes to waste. No matter how bad.
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...
You're being serious.
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Is it customary to eat other people in your world?
[ Girl, what the fuck. ]
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Eat people. Who does he think farms the snow leeks?
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I have....several questions.[ And he's trying to figure out which ones to ask and which ones are better left unsaid. ]
Who is Crux? What's the most use to get out of a corpse? Are you drunk? Please tell me you are drunk. Or you're just making fun of me. I'd be fine with that.
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Farming. Soap. Scrub brushes. Lamps. Prayer beads. God just go on and on and on.
Not drunk.
Not making fun of you.
Talking about basic af stuff!
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...Lamps. [ HOW???? ] Those are all very creative uses.
[ Jayce is taking Psychic damage just by reading those texts. It's a good think he likes you so much Gideon, or he would have given up already. Cultural shock at its finest. ]
Where I come from we don't do that, sorry![ Jayce why are you even apologizing, man. ] It would feel rude to use someone's corpse as a scrub brush!
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Right, you weren't here in July. You missed the campfires that shared memories. Not sorry, Harrow, but Crux is an abusive piece of shit authority who made my life hell. Maybe we can ask Thirteen about getting those campfires back on purpose, and I can show you.
All the uses I listed are ones he'd threaten me—[ Gideon shakes her head and gets Worst!Gideon to delete it. Crux's shitholery aside, it's not like what he threatened to do with Gideon's corpse was out of the regular in the Ninth House. It wasn't especially harsh or disrespectful. It's only a matter of him being a vindictive ass who saw her as red in his ledger he had to get back to black.
AKA when Jayce is already freaking out about normal ass recycling shit, no need to layer that on extra thick. ]
Candles come from fat. Lamps burn oil. It's just a different source of fat and oil.
I'm guessing where you're from isn't an airless planet with society dug into a hole in its surface with extremely limited resources. The Ninth House couldn't afford to waste the resources contained in a human body. It wouldn't have the manpower to feed the living without working the dead. It had too much pride to ask for help from other Houses when that'd mean they'd try to take it over, whether by force or resources and smiles (sic).
In the Ninth House, it'd be rude to refuse to make use of a corpse. Hell, there's a who's who of who's holy enough their bones end up where. (Even bones can't work forever).
Okay, so, you're used to helping society right? You wouldn't like it if someone came and said, "Wow, Jayce, it's so rude that you have to perform labor in order to live. We want you to stop working altogether and sit back, relax, and have the calm cozy life you deserve.
That's not the same thing, Gideon, you say.
Isn't it? I bet, if we talked with people from every world here and then every world Thirteen can visit, at leaaaaaaaast one of them has figured out how not to need people to work altogether, people who would be Shocked and Appalled that you Work! You sitting here going, "wtf that is so weeeeeeeeeeird" is exactly what I'm doing to you. Your society has so many resources, even if it doesn't have necromancy, that you don't need to make things from human remains. You can let them go to waste and do nothing. Congratulations, your world is rich! People with less figure out how to live too. It doesn't make 'em any lesser or grosser or insert-adjective-here-er than anyone else. No one's the Most Most all around the board. Us? We have space travel. Faster than light space travel. Stuff a lot of people here go oooooooh and aaaaaaaah and wooooooow over. (Also two women can make a baby. Two men can make a baby. Making babies isn't that hard!).
Point is, pick a measure, we come up different. That's what it tells us. People and places with different resources do different shit.
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I wasn't, and I feel like I missed a lot of important stuff. Some other people had also mentioned the trials with Baba Yaga to me. I think you are perfectly entitled to hate someone's gut if they have been horrible to you, no matter how nice they might have been to other people. I trust your word, telling me about it is enough.
[ Which is to say, Jayce won't press for uncomfortable details, but he appreciates Gideon trusting him enough to share things about her life with him, especially the not-so-great ones.
He doesn't text back immediately, reading Gideon's answer a couple of times more and reassessing what he knew about her world and her life. And adding to that information is the fact that, apparently, Necromancers are just a common thing in her world. That makes some of Gideon's remarks about Harrow make more sense. It's a lot. But it's her world and her life, and Gideon is pretty on point about Jayce's way of thinking and bias due to his own uprising. While Jayce still feels that using someone's corpse is disrespectful, and a little creepy, he understands the reasons why the Nine House does it.
'You've always been a part of this. You just never had to look it in the eye.'. Vi's word rang true, but Jayce likes to think he's never too late to learn. ]
My apologies, you're right. [ He isn't beyond admitting that. And frankly, from time to time, he can use this kind of reality check. ] My world is nothing like yours, and I've been luckier than others in life, so that colors my way of thinking. I'm aware. I meant no disrespect, it was a cultural shock, it's all.
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Thanks for believing me, even without seeing. That whole seeing is believing phrase may sound dumb, but it's true.
[ Somehow, despite knowing he's a decent guy, neither Gideon expected an apology. People don't readily apologize to her often. Gideon's the only one who's apologized to Worst!Gideon in her life, and that Gideon's list is fairly short too. ]
Folkmore is a big walking talking culture shock experience. There may be various things in common we have, but I expect there will always be something for anyone's world that is super WOAAAH unique. That's why we're all here right? We have potential. We're interesting. That means our worlds are too.
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[ Jayce is far from perfect, but he tries his best to act mature and learn from his mistakes. That includes apologizing when he is in the wrong, even if it isn't always easy. ]
That's true. There's always something new to learn or be surprised over. I don't think I've ever been leveled interesting in my life or if I know what my potential really is, but...we need to try, right?
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* Except if a construct could cast magic. Same difference.
Regardless, big sword says hello. Also, this is why I generally walk around with at least one sword at all times. One moment you were relaxing, next moment you were in a trial. You could have to do it in your pajamas.
Universe is a big place. We all change. We can't help but change. [ Gideon can't help but see that when there's multiple of her. ] We might as well think about how we'd like to change and do it. That's all potential is.
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I never seen a magic construct before, but I think I get the idea. Anything that is part bird is vicious by nature, that is just a fact.
That is good advice, this place can be dangerous. The problem is that my weapon of reference is a large hammer, which is not something you can conceal as well as a sword. It's a bit awkward to take it with me everywhere. Give me a second, and I'll show you a picture.
[ He learned from the experience of Jinx stealing the Hexgem from his laboratory. Now Jayce keeps the hammer in a trunk with three different kinds of locks to make sure no one but him can get to it. After a couple of minutes, he sends Gideon a picture.
When he says it's a big hammer, he's not being hyperbolic. ]
That's the Mercury Hammer. When charged up, it opens and functions as a cannon, to hit targets from a distance. [ But that's a function he doesn't ever want to use again. ]
We kind of have to if we want to survive. Being forced to change or doing it by choice makes a world of difference, though. Here, unlike in my world, we seems to have the right to choose.
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Ooooooooh, that looks awesome. I would love to try using it sometime—maybe on some birds being dicks?
As far as options go, as I see it:
Choice makes all the difference.
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[ Jayce is picturing Gideon wielding the hammer, and it's a fantastic mental image, but it also has the unstoppable potential for destruction. And a lot of bird murder. He will have to make sure the Mercury Cannon function is locked. ]
Thank you. You can give it a try, I don't mind, you seem pretty excited about it. And Jayce can understand it. His trauma aside, it's a pretty sweet weapon.
We should be careful with the birds, some might be actual familiars. Cruel Summer is the best place for training. Plenty of big rocks to destroy and few collateral damages to cause.
[ He makes an amused sound at those options. Ah, if only Jayce had Gideon's confidence. That would either go terribly well or terribly badly. ]
A sound that floats? Now THAT'S cool.
That's not a bad idea actually, something smaller and easy to hide.
Oh, something magic! I do remember the story about how you got the hammer. A thing like that would be very useful, especially if I could carry more stuff inside, like my tools. You never know when you'll need to fix something. Luckily for me, I like talking to people.
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Oh, it's super cool. [ Gideon attaches a photo of honedge, floating beside her. She's leaning against it casually. ]
Usually you have options. You can even do different combinations different days. Like sometimes carry the hammer, sometimes something else, until you got the magic for carrying stuff small. Problem solved. You're welcome.
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[ What's training without some healthy competitiveness? At the view of the floating sword, however, Jayce grins, is as good as he imagined. ]
Woah! That is really super cool. Where did you ever get that?
That's a good idea. I end up using my tools more than anything else, but in some places, it is dangerous to walk around without ways of protecting myself.
Thanks Gideon. You give pretty great advice, did you know that?
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[ Competitive spirit? Yeah, Gideon has way more than she needs. ]
Baba Yaga's maze trial thing. I asked for a cool ass sword companion, and this is what I got.
Oh yes, some parts of Folkmore are always dangerous. You gotta be ready.
You're welcome. It's all the common sense I have.
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[ So does Jayce even if most of the time it might not look like it. This will be energizing. ]
Good choice, that's a winner's prize.
I started to notice that more and more recently.
Hah, much appreciated.
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Folkmore would be a lot more boring if nothing were dangerous. How would we reach our potential?
[ Worst!Gideon sits and feels depressed for a couple moments because she thought she and Harrow, even when they hated each other, understood that. Not the idea that Gideon's potential was worth wasting in the House that wasted nothing. ]
Lets go find some new rocks to smash.
we could wrap this thread up, if you want?
I think our concepts of 'boring' differ, but it would be duller for sure.
[ Oh no, poor worst!Gideon. ]
I'll see you in Cruel Summer.