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franciscoramon) wrote2017-04-06 09:14 pm
LEAVE A MESSAGE! voice | video | text |
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[Welcome to 'flippancy about horrible circumstances', a novel by Taako.]
I've got a few centuries under my belt, enough that putting an exact year on it isn't easy.
[Plus the whole century on the Starblaster, but that's... complicated.]
It was pretty neat, I will admit. We saw a lotta cool shit, like talking animals and robot people.
[He can talk Mongoose it's great.]
It works on people who are famous enough to have legends about them? It's not pulling shit outta thin air, it's tapping into what's already known. There's probably some bullshit about the mythology of people and how stories shape their existence but I don't really care it's just a handy spell.
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[ Cisco skips the incredulous part, though he is still plenty surprised. He's not used to meeting people who have died, much less "a few times". He figures it is probably necromancy, healing magic, something like that. Still... he'd like to know. ]
holy shit. yeah, i guess once you pass 200 or so precision starts to matter a little less.
i'm not gonna lie: that's gonna take some time to wrap my head around, man.
[ Cisco can't help thinking that people like him and Eddie must seem ridiculously young to Taako. Even if he's only 260 years old, that's still ten times Cisco's age. Ten times... ]
talking animals? sentient robots? that sounds like pretty much every awesome daydream i ever had as a kid.
[ There are times Cisco can't really believe he's living the life he is, meeting the people he does. It's all so much more colorful and exciting and wonderful than he could have ever anticipated. ]
i see, so it's not exactly reading the object itself so much as like... running a search algorithm on all the stories about the object that are floating around in the world, but, like, with your brain.
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Oh, yeah, I guess that'd be weird for you. [Humans in his world are used to having shorter lives] If it helps I'm like, the elf equivalent of 30! We don't hit proper adulthood until a century.
[Elves, man.]
The robots used to be people, their souls got put in a robot body? They were rad.
[They're all super dead!!!]
You know what, that's a pretty tidy way to put it. Less my brain and more just magic, but yeah, close enough. If you were super famous I could do you, but if you're just some dude it's not gonna turn anything up, you know?
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that's... a pretty handy piece of coding. makes you basically immortal, huh?
(you think you'd reset if you died here? there's like no non-creepy way to ask that but i promise i'm not a serial killer or anything)
wait does that mean you had to deal with being basically a teenager for, like, decades? because if so... i'm so sorry.
[ Human souls in a robot body might have creeped Cisco out at a certain point, but he has seen some weird things and also had some friends die somewhat recently, so he thinks the option of having them around still as a robot sounds pretty enviable. ]
i'm definitely just some dude.
i was thinking before the spell sounded more like psychometry, which is what they call it where i'm from when someone can touch an object and just know stuff about it and sometimes the person who owned it, no matter who they are or what it is. which is totally not actually real! but we've still got the idea of it, you know in movies and such.
[ No, Cisco absolutely does not know that term because he'd been googling around for an explanation of just what the hell his occasional visions are, gosh. ]
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Uh, if I died here my soul would have to get back to the world the ship is in? I think? Memories are part of your soul, not your body, so like, we remembered all the shit from the years we went through.
[Well, when the voidfish isn't taken into consideration, but that's a whole... other... thing]
Kiiind of, there's a whole coming of age thing and new names blahblahblah. We weren't really into elf culture, we're too cool for that shit.
[And Lup had already picked a new name, but that's not the kind of shit to share with strangers.]
Oh! I got a spell called Identify that does that with any magic items, tells me what spell made/is on them and how to use them. Psychometry sounds pretty fucking useful, though.
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[ Boy howdy Cisco is glad they're having this conversation by text because now he's thinking about memories being part of souls and not bodies, and how he remembers the timeline Barry had changed, and does that mean that whatever metahuman stuff he has going on that he doesn't want to think about, it means the particle accelerator did something to alter his soul, and what does that even mean - and it's a lot of deep terrifying existential stuff that he knows he'd do a bad job covering up. ]
so do elves even celebrate birthdays? i mean i figure it's gotta get kind of repetitive after 150 or so.
[ But then, Cisco can't help thinking (though he wouldn't say it to Taako since it's probably rude) that everything would start to get repetitive in one's second century. Cisco had read enough fantasy novels and thought about elves and vampires and all of that to decide that eternal life would probably end up sucking eventually. Extended life and immunity from violence? Great. But endless life? Naw. ]
yeah, i guess so.
[ If a person knows how to control it. And wants to know how to control it. ]
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[Don't get him wrong, he's super glad they're not dead after all the... dying, but after 100 cycles of it, they were all just really tired, enough to risk breaking the light apart just so that they could stop running.]
Me and Lup would do shit on our birthday sometimes but yeah, you get pretty over it. Half the time we'd just compete to see who could make the sickest cake. When we were little it was always who could steal the coolest shit. I always won.
[Because he had way less morals than her.]
That was the least committal response ever, just saying.
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[ Sure, Taako had been talking about when he was a kid, but even so. ]
i guess i was thinking that kind of ability is probably only as useful as someone's ability to control it.
like say if someone could touch an object but not really control what part of its history they saw.
or if the person couldn't control when they read an object and when they didn't, and it just sort of happened randomly without any pattern to it.
[ Just two totally random examples that Cisco thought of randomly and in complete abstraction from himself or his life, naturally. ]
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[Casually talking about crime like it's nbd]
I'll pay that, that would be shit.
[Which has never been a concern for him; sure there are spells that can backfire, but it's always been about learning and practising to get more power, never having something raw that needed to be controlled.]
This is thing with metahumans, huh? Learning to get a hold of that shit?
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still, the only time i ever tried to steal something you better believe my ass got caught.
lucky for me it was only a TA who actually kinda liked me and i explained i needed it for a robot i was building and she let me borrow it.
a good distraction is totally how magicians do it where i'm from. since it's just sleight of hand and not, like, actual magic.
[ It's probably sad that it never even occurs to Cisco he could tell Taako he's just talking about himself - that he has no reason to be prejudiced against metas and no concept of the fraught history of how he got and learned about his powers in the first place. ]
for the most part, yeah.
i mean some metas have a really easy time getting a handle on their powers, but for others it can be pretty complicated
they don't come with a guidebook or anything. not like most of them have anyone to talk to about it, either. they just kind of have to figure that shit out on their own.
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[She never really picked up the art of being subtle, which, while not Taako's greatest skill, is one he can deploy when necessary.]
Sleight of hand is more of a rogue thing, but also for stealing! Just a whole lot of stealing going on.
[what's a moral can u eat it]
Why can't they talk about it? Oh wait is this one of those superhero things? Secret identities and whatever the fuck? I read some comic books and I gotta say, don't really get it.
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[ He knows that Taako doesn't have any friends from back home here, and asking after people he's separated from is probably rude, but Cisco can't help but be curious, especially when the name has come up a few times now. ]
rogues use it too. one of those skills that works for entertainment or thievery.
[ Wow, Taako, way to ask the hard questions. ]
not exactly. i mean, there are only one or two metas who are actually superheroes, and yeah, for them it's a secret identity thing. don't want the bad guys finding out who they are and taking their families hostage or some shit.
[ Hahaha, wouldn't that be terrible... ]
some of them wanna cover it up because they're using their powers to commit crimes and don't want to be caught.
others have got dangerous powers, though. i met this woman whose abilities made it so everything she touched, like with her bare hands, turned explosive. she didn't want to hurt anyone, but... she couldn't turn it off.
and for other metas i guess it's just a shame thing. not like they had a choice. they just got turned into freaks against their will and now they gotta live with it.
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[It's easy to pretend he's just missing Lup because she's back in their reality, not because she's been dead for almost a decade. He has to cling to god hope that he'll get her back.]
I'm gonna need you to back that train up into the station. Freaks????
[That seems kinda rude.]
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i'll be sure to keep an eye out.
[ Oh, no. Oh, that's not what he meant... ]
no no no no i wasn't saying that's TRUE.
i was trying to like explain the thought process a self-hating meta might go through you know, thinking of themselves that way
if they didn't understand what was happening they might see it like that.
[ God, what a disaster. It'd be easy to clear the whole thing up if he just said he was a meta, but... well, the truth is that'd be a whole can of worms now that he doesn't want to open, because as metas go, he's holding down the fort at the far end of the self-hating spectrum. ]
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(We're twins)
[Identical, but adding that opens up a can of worms that isn't Taako's to open, so he just tends to keep it general. Fraternal twins can still look very similar, anyway.]
Listen, I'm gonna get real with you for a second here: Earth is fucking ridiculous and I don't understand it at all. You guys care about the strangest shit. Like I get that it'd suck if you had that explode-y power or whatever, but how would everyone else not be fucking psyched to be able to do cool shit?
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[ So he really hadn't been exaggerating about the resemblance, then. Cisco kind of hopes that she does appear, because even though he's far from being tight with his sibling, it sounds like Taako is with his, and it must suck to be separated. ]
i mean you're not wrong.
like trust me i'm the first one to admit that a lot of people where i'm from have really terrible priorities and find the most ridiculous reasons to hate each other and themselves.
and some metas ARE psyched don't get it twisted.
it's just circumstances, you know?
like if a random stranger walked up and kicked you right in the nuts and then while you were rolling around on the ground they tossed you a bag of candy and walked off, you'd be a little less excited about the candy than you would if you bought it in a store on your own sans excruciating pain.
when the particle accelerator exploded it gave some people powers but it also, like, killed people. a lot of people, and caused a lot of chaos.
and now half the time when people hear about metas it's the bad ones who are using their powers to murder or rob banks or wreak havoc.
honestly, the flash is probably the main reason people in the city haven't gone full-on witch hunt on metas.
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[Almost definitely not the way Cisco was going with that metaphor, and also severely lacking in tact (it doesn't really occur to him that Cisco might have known people that died, because sometimes his focus is a little narrow).]
Not that it even matters since it doesn't seem like there are any of your metas here. It just seems stupid to me not to get psyched about sweet powers instead of moping about not being normal any more.
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no, doesn't really matter, you're right.
i'm with you there. it's more like... i get that there are gonna be exceptions? but as a rule, i'm team "superpowers are fucking awesome".
[ It's only a tiny bit a lie. ]
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Super powers are fucking awesome, for sure.
Except superspeed, cause no one's into a guy that can't keep his dick hard for more than like two seconds.
[taAKO]
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like i get that i started this but my best friend's a speedster and i really don't need that image up in my brain.
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[Now he's just being a shit.]
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not saying i'm against thinking about dick as a rule but him and me don't roll like that.
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[let cisco live 2k17]
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