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kano ([personal profile] suddenlybees) wrote in [community profile] daybreakacademy2019-03-17 11:29 pm

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Who: Kano & OTA
What: magic practice, pettiness, finals
Where: Lumière, greenhouse, library
When: mid-month, before finals
Warnings: self-harm for prompt i., none expected for the rest
Notes: details of Kano's new Fey Contract can be found on his app

i. Lumière dormitory rooftop
[ Fey magic is a really... terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea. But Kano is determined to make it work, this new Contract that he'd forged a couple of days ago, but it's just so different from his usual illusion magic that he'd worked ten whole years to get to the point where he is now, illusions seamless and effortless compared to him staring at his arm right now wondering what he's doing wrong?

Because his arm is bleeding, a bloody knife on his lap while he pokes at the wound with his other hand and it just comes back bloody, him wincing because it hurts and why isn't the magic working? There's nothing intuitive about this at all, and he has no idea how he's supposed to make it work, with the magic supposed to be healing and dulling pain but it's just doing the opposite for him, the pain making it hard to keep a smile on his face, and making him feel like crying a little.

With a sigh, he waves hand over the bleeding cut instead of touching it, and it disappears— simply masked underneath an illusion, but it's still there while he tries to figure out how to do this, preferably before he bleeds out.

It won't come to it, though. He has three years worth of band-aids stocked up, and he knew they would be useful someday. ]


ii. campus, on the way to the greenhouse or inside
[ But you know what always makes up for terrible days? Even more terrible ideas to get your mind off previous ones. This one isn't that bad, though, because it's something that'll have positive long-term consequences. Probably.

Anyways, it's Kano with long sleeves and pants and winter gloves and the hood of his jacket pulled over his head and eyes and also a bandanna over the rest of his face so he can have as little skin showing as possible. It isn't all because of botched healing practice, though, it's because he's lugging around a three gallon plastic jug in his arms— you know, one of those large plastic containers twice the size of your head that you can buy cheese balls in, but instead of cheese balls, it's bees.

It's a jar full of bees.

He had to ship them to a PO in town and then lug them all the way back to campus; this insect purchasing restriction is really an awful pain. ]


iii. library
[ But also, anyways, it's almost finals and while Kano did surprisingly okay on his midterms, he's got to do slightly more okay on his finals too, because exam scored are literally all that's carrying his grades without the homework to pad it.

So the library it is... Books, his arch nemesis... Him, sitting at one of the open study areas with a stack of brand new text books in front of him that barely look touched, a mug of something on the table that's a dark dark red to the point that it's almost black and also has four tea bags sitting inside it that's steeped so long the tea is no longer steaming, and also hands clamped over his ears like he's trying to block out ambient noise, or massage away a headache, or give himself a headache so he can go hang out in the infirmary for the next two weeks and not do finals.

Why does Daybreak have to be a school??? Schools suck. ]
eudaimonikos: (fear and trembling)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2019-03-21 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Michael grumbles to himself a little when he sees the cut. It's deeper than he'd like. Why can't he just get the hang of healing magic already? Trying to do things the mundane human way just seems so inadequate sometimes.

At least he's picked up one trick. He puts a hand over the wound, and for a moment it's wreathed in his particular brand of glitchy-looking shadow, the same ones he generally uses to commit murders. Of course he doesn't think to give any warning before he does that. It shouldn't hurt or anything.]


Depends what you say afterwards.
eudaimonikos: (that's guided to you)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2019-03-21 03:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Thing I'm learning to do.

[It's over pretty quick, letting him pull back and waggle his fingers demonstratively.]

Bacteria murder. Hieke thought it was good. [Low-key bragging to distract from the fact that he's now just gonna use his pocket square to wrap that wound up like a regular human man. He does it really neat and tight, at least, his particular nature lends itself okay to this.] Just a lot of very small, specific death.
eudaimonikos: (ethics without principles)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2019-03-22 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Meanwhile, Michael is secretly quite proud of learning to use his natural abilities for something that is definitively not evil!]

Sure. Don't bother returning it.

[He's lost more pocket squares that way. The blood isn't likely to wash out well, so he just makes an illusory one to replace it.]

Have to make another Contract to cover that. [But he doesn't sound unwilling. This time it'd be different. Kano's first Contract already was different - in Michael's mind, the sight thing was a pittance, harmless to both body and soul. This time, though, he'd be willing to go even smaller. He doesn't want anything from Kano, except maybe to stop getting hurt.] Why do you ask?
eudaimonikos: (moral exactitude)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2019-03-23 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
No.

[Michael responds immediately. He doesn't want that.

And sure, eating Kano's soul after he died would be a hell of a lot better than killing him to do it now, and sure, it'd make up for a fair bit of lost power, but he couldn't do that. He couldn't just sit there and chow down on someone he knows like it was nothing, not really.

Even if...what is he going to do when the few mortals he's attached himself to go and die?

He doesn't like this conversation all of a sudden.]


Since when do you want to kill things, anyway? I don't think you even grabbed any weapons at that dance, and they were right there. [though this is based more on what he saw with his own eyes; he was too busy with the other daemons to watch through Kano's]
eudaimonikos: (a boost over heaven's gate)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2019-03-23 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
Have you considered taking any classes about combat? I hear we've got a lot of them.

[Really, the idea of giving Kano the power to kill isn't even the part Michael had a problem with. But the offer of a soul stuck in his craw, and now he's leery about this entire proposal.

Kano will probably need to fight eventually, but - is this the best idea? Just running to make another deal with Michael every time he needs a new skill? Sure, Michael doesn't intend to screw him over, but in general it's never a good idea to be too beholden to any entity.]


You can't just rely on my magic. There's stuff out there that could counter me. At least pick up some enchanted weapons, learn to knife-fight or something.
eudaimonikos: (the birth of the prison)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2019-03-23 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
That's the whole point of enchanted weapons! Makes up for all your natural weaknesses!

[Get some armor in there too, maybe it wouldn't be so bad...

Michael grimaces a little. All in all, Kano in a combat situation just kinda sounds like a bad idea.]


You don't have any magic of your own you could use for combat?
eudaimonikos: (moral agency)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2019-03-23 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know how your species has survived this long...

[He always just sort of forgets that they don't have any innate abilities, at all. Most of the kids around here at least have a little something...

UGH. He hates this. But he doesn't actually want Kano to be completely unprotected, and the past few months have proven that Michael himself is not always attentive enough to do the protecting. Which is fair, he supposes, he's got his own life too.]


How about this? I'll grant you some offensive magic, if you'll actually go and train with it. I'll teach you what I can, but I'm not a physical being. I don't worry much about keeping away from most forms of attack. [There's things that can harm him, of course, but Kano's got a lot more weaknesses.]
eudaimonikos: (on the way to language)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2019-03-24 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
You should try having more at a time. Like frogs.

[Why don't humans lay hundreds of eggs at a time???

As for Michael, well, those were the terms behind the Contract. Which would have made it more of a gift, perhaps, but - but now that he has to say it out loud, that just sounds really dumb? He doesn't want anything else, it's just - that's so, so dumb. God. How is he even a daemon.]


I want...oh, I'll just get the right to eat the souls of whatever you kill. Classic cursed sword stuff, right? [Kano won't be killing any innocent humans, so that's not terribly evil, right? Moreover, Michael hasn't made an actual agreement to do it. He'll just quietly bow out if he decides he doesn't want one.]
eudaimonikos: (would you give me)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2019-03-26 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, contract sealed!

[Michael offers his hand, crackling with his usual magic, so that they can shake on this deal where neither of them actually even wants what they're getting!]
eudaimonikos: (start over again and again)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2019-03-26 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Yeah, their first deal was one of those times when you dispense with the formalities. But they're both calm, reasonable adults here!

...kinda!]


Great, good talk. Don't keep hurting yourself on this roof. [...] Or other places. What're you, trying out blood magic?
eudaimonikos: (give me a boost over heaven's gate)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2019-03-26 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
I doubt it.

[Actually he probably could? Michael doesn't want him to.]

Look, you've almost died like ten times this semester, and we haven't even hit finals yet. You've gotta slow down. Go get a hobby that's not dangerous - did Nana ever follow up with you on dance lessons? I may have made her think you're interested in that.
eudaimonikos: (you're the one habit I just can't kick)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2019-03-26 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
It was a dance, Kano. What was I going to do, not dance with her?

[obviously impossible!]

If she hasn't asked you yet, she probably won't. Maybe I intimidated her with my sweet moves.

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