I didn't know how purified individuals could stand being blinded all the time; those without a Curtain certainly seemed to walk around squinting an awful lot.
About that.
(All hail the ominous day orb! HAIL!)
Also, teeth. Many many teeth.
Always important to have!
My best plan to date, that of avoiding letting us fall into such a position, was in dire danger.
Ah. I was wondering if it was intentional.
Did you ever get rid of the extras after the whole, 'more eyes might help me see as you do,' attempt?
Joy's embarrassment grew, which rather neatly answered my question: nope.
Miracle of Sound has a song about that.
"Magicians as inexplicably powerful as yourselves don't simply fall from trees, fully grown and prepared to–"
I stopped and frantically reviewed my own words as distress flashed across Crimson's face. What did I say? She hadn't done more than frown slightly at my initial words, so what was the issue with saying they'd fallen from trees?
I suspect it was the "fully grown" bit...
"SHE THINKS WE'RE VALID COMBATANTS! AAAAA--!!!"
I grimaced while mentally reviewing events previously attributed to Magenta. I wondered just how many of them would, in fact, be her fault. With a ready scapegoat at hand, surely at least some acts blamed her for events she'd had no hand in.
Huh. That's interesting... and actually very probable, I mean look, they just tried to frame their best and perhaps only competent fighter, imagine what they'd do to an
enemy.
The misunderstanding aura is strong around magical girls, though, regardless.
However, this understanding is nearly always associated with a far weaker status; they are still unmistakably divine, but most of them would still have trouble with, say, destroying the entire Shaded Realm should its inhabitants sufficiently displease them.
This would imply the existence of a second, stronger type of god. Which would mean...
Such gods are somehow born sharing a mortal's existence. Their bodies, their minds, their souls are intertwined with that of their avatars.
Yuuuup.
"They will seem more real than the world around them to such an extent that they can be seen even in the deepest darkness or most blinding of light."
Gray's gaze did not do anything as revealing as letting his gaze settle on Us. That did not stop Us from feeling as though he was giving Us a pointed look.
That would
probably be the pointed look.
"When gods and avatars agree to sufficiently impose their combined will upon reality, and enjoy doing so," he said, tone turning bland, "floating crowns will frame the heads of their avatars using materials and shapes unique to that particular pair."
We recalled him staring above Our head and fought to keep dread from visibly influencing Our expression.
He definitely knows.
Hand, this is Cookie Jar. We have photographic evidence. Care to confess?
Haha, they're terrible at disguise, aren't they.
"In hindsight, that really should have been a warning sign," Gray muttered.
"Pardon?" I asked.
"I said that her excellent mood is a good sign," Gray obligingly repeated.
OH. This is him complaining about her being an Avatar, not just him griping about her mood.
we have a homicidal hellhorse smart enough to only give us the death glare when Violet's back is turned
Ah, so that's what it was doing.
There were plenty of little hints, ranging from all four times where 'bioluminescent microorganisms' infested and devoured offshore oil spills, to the wealthy families with members who looked suspiciously identical to their 'ancestors,' to the titanic stone throne explorers found buried in arctic ice.
Yes, that does sound suspicious.
And, most glaring of all, how Crimson's face would tighten whenever the topic of fairies came up. She never said anything of substance about them, yet such an omission might as well have been a blaring klaxon that not all was well in the nation of Dunemark.
...Especially because if the fey truly were fantasy, Crimson would totally be audibly fantasizing about them during relevant discussions. Sunflower knew well how Crimson's brain worked by now, thank you very much.
Yeah, that
does imply something odd about at least one of the world(s) they're from.
And she's very perceptive, apparently.
"He has to be at least somewhat politically savvy to avoid being promoted or demoted despite how many times we beat his bosses."
...
Very good point, there.
"Oh, well," Crimson muttered. "Guess I'll die."
Commoners weren't half as obsessed with having 'ideal heirs' or generally trying to 'improve' their own bloodline — an effort which, I noticed, seemed to produce a disproportionately high number of morons with more arrogance than actual ability, so clearly they were doing something wrong.
Ha!
the actual historical stuff (apparently now referred to as "traditional color theory," "color science," or "colorimetry" depending on which you meant)
Oh for crying out loud, they've gotten to that too?!
I want so badly to find whoever keeps making us need new terms for stuff and make them wear full-body wool clothing.
On a somewhat related complaint, I'm incredibly annoyed that the word "goon" is now problematic.
I JUST WANT A WORD FOR "MINION" THAT ISN'T THOSE THINGS!
I'm pondering what exactly these are.
My current top contender is that Joy has orbital infrastructure in the form of a bunch of mirrors that she can use to focus a large amount of light in a single spot.
I presume telescopes, but death rays aren't improbable, I agree.
If that's the concern, why not wipe the memory of the person that revealed it too?
Because fae are bastards, and you couldn't pay for it if you didn't remember.
But of course since this world seems to run on tropes, there is the inevitability of the infamous 'This plot-point wouldn't have happened if they just talked to each other!' so sadly Sunflower is unlikely to end up bringing it up until it triggers a misunderstanding plot.
More than one at this rate, clearly.
I think we're forgetting the obvious here: a child, even a teenager, telling someone about faeries isn't going to be taken seriously most of the time. There's no need for any additional intercession for it to go nowhere, but the fae in question could still be spiteful enough about the attempt to curse her to be unable reveal things about others/the supernatural that the person hearing doesn't already know.
That kinda makes it worse. But I think they'd be exactly that spiteful.
Unlike curse, Geas is two-way street. What did she pay for with ability to spoil secrets.
Would that be related to her scrying ability? Or in the "perverse" sense of geasa, maybe it's "payment" for her ability to detect it in the first place then?
VV: I will provide a practical demonstration of violence then.
RRR: Wait, go back to the first part- Ouch!
Two: Why gorehorse and not gorse?
/Pinkie/ Because that's a plant, silly! /Pinkie/
