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captain cutie ([personal profile] zerotohiro) wrote2015-01-13 09:16 pm
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prissykid: (To hold me tight)

Near Yule, 2701

[personal profile] prissykid 2015-04-01 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
[Joshua has, by this point, become a hard person to track, even by normal Joshua standards. Yet, he does take the time to send Hiro a gift. He'll get the following:

(1) Glass cat
(1) Tailored set of clothes, both fashionable and able to keep him warm during the winter
(1) Pristine sketchpad with (5) charcoal pencils; on the inside of the cover, in neat handwriting, is the following phrase: "To the one with big ideas, catalog the images that will make San Fransokyo proud to have you as its citizen."

There's also a note:]


Out of the darkness of the previous year, make the next one shine brighter.
fell_to_hell: (Everybody lets you down)

Near Yule, 2701

[personal profile] fell_to_hell 2015-04-01 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[Nico's got gifts for Hiro, too! He does it by way of carrier hell hound, aka Clifford. Sorry about the mess and drool and stuff, dude.

Here's what Hiro gets:

(1) Pocket sized screech owl figurine
(1) Box of homemade shortbread, gingerbread, and sugar cookies
(1) Perfectly balanced dagger with an ivy pattern carved intricately onto the hilt

There's also a carefully written note. The handwriting's a little messy, but it's readable.]


The screech owl is my father's animal. I thought it might give you protection. As for the dagger, it's easier to hide on your person, so you'll have an advantage if you're clever enough. Use how people underestimate you to gain an upper hand.

PS: sorry if the food doesn't taste very good. I made them myself.


[He's been practicing really hard to get them right.]
fell_to_hell: ('Cause what's in a name oh)

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[personal profile] fell_to_hell 2015-04-01 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[He doesn't expect it, but...it's one of those things where it's a really, really nice surprise. Like, the kind that makes the heart feel lighter.

In he back of his mind, some distant warning bells are ringing, but he doesn't pay them any mind. For now, at least.]


1. Sorry about the drool. He's easily excited. His name's Clifford and yeah he's a hellhound.
2. Total guess, actually. You reminded me of someone I know, a daughter of Athena who also used a dagger.
3. It's fine. I rambled a lot about myths and stuff when I was a kid, so...I know how it goes.
4. I don't always, but when I've got the means to do so...it's kind of relaxing.

I'd like that. It's been a while since we've hung out. You have a place in mind?
fell_to_hell: (You can call it what you want)

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[personal profile] fell_to_hell 2015-04-02 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
1. My friend gave me the idea. He told me about Clifford the Big Red Dog since I hadn't heard of it. Thought it'd be fitting for a huge dog like a hellhound. (He won't eat you, I promise.)
2. Gods no. I mean that you'd fit right in with the children of Athena, but Annabeth is the best knife fighter, other than the Hermes kids.
3. Know what? I'll try you. (Also: Shadows?)
4. I guess I'll make it an occasional habit if they're that good.


["Somewhere people can't bug us." ...That sounds an awful lot like a date, but that's impossible in Nico's mind. He's pretty sure Hiro wouldn't be interested in him, for one thing. And for another, he doubts the other boy's even into guys in general.]

There's a festival I heard about going on in Parrais during February. Festival of the arts or something? It's called the Ostara Festival.

[He's...he's pretty sure this isn't a date.

Oh, gods, maybe he should take this to Hermione and ask her about it because now he's starting to get paranoid. Like. Just. It can't be a date. There's no possible way. Why did he have to get that thought in his head? What the actual Hades is wrong with him?]
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[personal profile] fell_to_hell 2015-04-02 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
1. Well, I'm getting a kitten, too. Hermione's cats had kittens and she thought I'd like one. I swear, I'm going to have a menagerie at some point, and I didn't think that would be possible.
2. You two would get along scarily well.
3. (That makes me sound super pretentious, and I didn't have a fun time at the House of Hades when I visited. So. Shadows it is.)


[Despite his starting to freak out, he can't help smiling a little.]

Your secrets are safe with me. At any rate, I don't have a whole lot going on in January, if you can bear to wait even that long. Where else is there you'd like to travel to? We can still go to Parrais, even if it's not the festival.
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[personal profile] fell_to_hell 2015-04-02 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
1. I don't think it's weird. It's not that it's bad to have one, it's just not what I'm used to. Animals usually run away from me or growl at me.
2. Will do.
3. (Why would I be Wasabi of all things? But yeah, there's an actual House of Hades. It's in Epirus, Greece. Pilgrims went there to try getting visions from the spirits of their ancestors.)

Well, I'd hate for you to die of boredom. I don't know how far specifically it is, and it definitely depends on where our starting point is.


[It'd be faster if they had magical flying horses, but Nico doesn't like them and they don't like him. So.]
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Yule 2,701

[personal profile] notyetlegend 2015-04-03 08:01 am (UTC)(link)
[She hasn't forgotten their conversation at Treun, so come Yule morning, Hiro will find a package sitting next to him wherever he is, delivered by raven. It's neatly wrapped, not giving away much in the way of shape. Upon unwrapping it, he'll find a leather bound journal, words elegantly written into the leather, and a delicate-looking black quill slipped into the cord wrapping around the journal along with a note, a smaller bottle of ink is wrapped up in a separate parcel.

Everyone's legend has to start somewhere. Sometimes we need to take it into our own hands.

- Merida
]
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[personal profile] fell_to_hell 2015-04-04 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
1. For once, I'll actually agree with you because I've seen them.
3. (Gods I can only imagine what you come up with.)


[Nico sighs wearily, but...he's tired of arguing with Hiro at this point. He doesn't like it, not a bit. Regardless, there's nothing the son of Hades can do. So...he'll just have to make sure he trains Hiro hard so that he doesn't get killed. So that Hiro doesn't become another tragedy.]

I was hoping for longer than this. Hiro, are you sure? I mean this seriously and with no challenge. Are you seriously, 100% committed to helping me? Because you don't know the full extent of what I can do, and you'll be required to know everything so that you understand how my powers work. I can teach you how to ward off evil, and it'll work on even a mortal person, but, again, you need to be committed. Also, you'll be training hard with that dagger I gave you, too. I'm personally making sure of it.

[He has to make sure that Hiro's serious about this, especially since there's such an enormous possibility that this will mean the other boy may start to lead his life more like a demigod than a mortal. It's not something Nico wishes on anyone.]
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[personal profile] fell_to_hell 2015-04-05 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Hiro doesn't get an immediate response, but eventually Nico switches to audio as well.]

If you're not scared, then you should be. The ghosts in the Drabwurld aren't like the kind I deal with at home. I can make educated guesses on how to keep them from becoming too powerful for us to handle, but I can't guarantee anything.

[So. He's going to try Hiro. If the boy doesn't run from him or anything, then...then Nico will let him help.]

Alright, then. I can travel through shadows, and how much energy it drains from me is all dependent on distance and the amount of people I'm traveling with, if any. If I abuse any of my powers beyond my limits, then I start turning into a ghost myself. I can summon not only skeletons and zombies of humans, animals, and any other species I'd care for, but ghosts from good to bad to everything in between. I can put sleeping people into a deeper sleep if they're in range and if I care to do so. When I'm asleep, I can travel into the dreams of other people or they can drag me into theirs if they have a powerful enough dream. I can cause fissures if I get angry enough. If I need to preserve my life for any reason, I can go into a deathlike state, a "death trance," which can slow down any poison and I won't need to breathe as much air. I can even safely eat pomegranate seeds taken from Persephone's Garden that can sustain me for a full 24 hours.

[And now...the one power that he's not sure even Hiro can handle. The one power Nico doesn't want to use again if he can at all avoid it.]

If I'm seriously pushed over the brink, I even have the power to turn someone into a ghost and banish them to the Underworld.

[Nico pauses to let that and the implications of that statement sink in.]

So. Do you still think I'm worth it? Do you still want to go with me?
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[personal profile] fell_to_hell 2015-04-05 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
[It's not exactly the reason, and Nico knows that it's not. At the same time, he doesn't really want to get into it. That's a can of worms that he doesn't like opening for good reason.

Regardless...he's totally silent through the whole thing. The fact that Hiro thinks he's worth any of this is...a foreign concept for him, even after all this time. So, Nico gives in. There's nothing else for it. He'll just have to make sure he gives Hiro the tools and experience necessary to keep him alive.]


If you're as good at learning as you say and you don't find what I can do...disturbing enough, then...alright. I'll start training you after the holiday. Just promise me that you won't take any unnecessary risks, okay?

[After a moment's hesitation:]

I want you to make that a binding oath, too, by swearing on the River Styx. So, if you feel like you can't keep that promise, then I'm warning you to back out. Breaking that oath will mean a fate worse than death will happen to you.
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[personal profile] fell_to_hell 2015-04-05 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
Except that you've never before met someone who was a child of Hades or Zeus or Poseidon, or even their Roman counterparts. [Seriously, they're a different league altogether in comparison to the other children of the gods.]

No tricks, I promise. [He wouldn't do that to Hiro, as tempting as it is. Unless it's something that absolutely needs to happen, he just won't.] If it's for reasons like trying to prove you're brave or prove that you can do it, that's unnecessary. Being reckless will also fall under that category.
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yule 2701.

[personal profile] boutant 2015-04-07 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ For Yule, Hiro will receive a red-and-blue wool scarf and an extra obsidian necklace/communicator, with a note that says "just in case" and a smiley face. ]
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Yule 2701.

[personal profile] selfimage 2015-04-07 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ there's some neatly wrapped cheese pastries from one of Redgate's bakeries. there are also two small jars with runes written in Loki's neat writing across the cap. there's a note enclosed:

     You can activate them by opening the cap. They'll hold all forms of spirits and terrible nasties, but not for anymore than 14 days. You'll have to figure out what to do with them after the time limit. :) Great for holding candy when you're done. Hugs! —L

on another piece of parchment are instructions for Stage 2 of Illusion magic, which includes illusion-ing up his clothing. if Hiro digs to the very bottom of the box, there's a tiny little triangle of fabric. it's a piece of Loki's jacket. no note, no nothing. but Loki figures he knows what to do with it.
]
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[personal profile] fell_to_hell 2015-04-07 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
...I suppose so. [He'll grudgingly give Hiro that much.]

Maybe because it bears repeating. [There's no venom or gentleness about it. It's just matter-of-fact truth.] Also, I very distinctly remember you angering a bunch of natives in Treun. So.
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[personal profile] fell_to_hell 2015-04-07 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
And you neglected to give any sort of warning. [Nico's tone is innocent, and actually half amused.

There's silence for a moment.]


Alright. This trust goes both ways, Hiro. Also...you're going to hate me with the training I'll put you through, but you'll be able to hold your own at the end of it. I'm not going to be very fair.

[But, no matter what, Nico will make absolutely sure that if one of them has to make a sacrifice, it won't be Hiro. He'll give his life to make sure at least the other teenager will get out of it alive. He cares about Hiro too much to let that happen, if he can at all help it.]

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