BREAKDOWN
PLANSBreakdown of things I hope to accomplish at various points in the year:
✖ I'm hoping to use this timeskip to develop Hiro's CR and also have him get involved in the Unseelie aspect of the Drabwurld, specifically trying to get involved with the R&D department that Saber's setting up. Update - post-timeskip: busy with R&D stuff from April until about Yule, then disappeared to fulfill the task given by Black Shuck.
✖ I want him to help with the spire projects (specifically spire 10 thanks to his quest) and also spend a lot of time at the Station, building technology that will work outside of the station that he can sell for profit/possibly be building things for Lumina's chocobo ranch. (Also building cat toys for Shijima. This is important.) Update - post-timeskip: the team of natives and sorcerers Hiro recruited during his quest helped finish Spire 10 and he spent very little time at the Station during timeskip. He built a few things for Lumina and Shijima.
✖ He'll also be building up his magical ability by acting as Lemina's Junior Premier, learning how to control his magic and also recruiting for her. He's going to spend a lot of time to effectively wield his magic. Going to learn how to use his crossbow too. Also depending, he may be learning some mild sorcery from Loki. One of his boons will be healing magic so he'll be attempting to be Tadashi be Baymax help that way. Update - post-timeskip: After their fight in June, Hiro hung back on the Guild and just acted as Junior Premier whenever Lemina needed him. He had a few students he checked in with but was largely hands-off while also learning how to control his fire magic and his wind magic. Learned to use a dagger instead. Has mastered level 1 illusion spellwork from Loki and will be looking into runic magic.
✖ If he behaves and proves himself, he will be playing a very large part in the R&D that Saber's setting up in Spire 10 acting as the Head of Project. Once that starts he will begin questioning how to make off-locket communication devices and teaming up with Rin, most likely. Update - post-timeskip: Saber named him head of project at the end of March 2701. When Rin didn't teach him right away, he circumvented her and learned to make the devices himself (accomplished by June 2701.) He's been working and will continue to work with Rin to further develop their partnership and create more tech to sell.
✖ Notable dates include a certain unhappy anniversary in the spring (sometime in the first part of April) that will cause him to basically shut down, along with his 15th birthday (headcanoned August 22nd) Update - post-timeskip: Both of these were acknowledged.
✖ CR-wise he'll be going to extreme lengths to keep in contact with Jason Todd and Loki until the three go their separate ways over the timeskip (possibly developing a friendship with Billy Kaplan via Loki as well?) Around April he'll most likely meet Joshua Kiryu and learn some very important things about him and gain a troll-guardian. Around March most likely he'll also meet Leo Valdez while unfreezing people via fire magic (tentative?) and also he will officially meet Nico di Angelo and soothe the tensions between him and Lumina, who he will also occasionally pop in and visit. In July he'll take a month off to go explore the northlands with Thrall. He'll be in contact with various people he's assisted so far and just let them know he's available if necessary but otherwise he'll be mostly exploring on his own. I want to also use this time to send him to some of the neutral territory (maybe Redgate) and also maybe make some Seelie CR since right now he kinda hates all of them. Update - post-timeskip: Jason and Hiro have had a turbulent year that ended with them splitting up for good until Hiro gathers the nerve to crawl back and apologize. He's developed very close friendships with Loki, Billy, Shijima, Eren, Lumina, Lemina, Thrall, and Howard. He's developed an extremely close friendship with Nico di Angelo as well and has since realized he has romantic feelings for him that he's yet to act on. Joshua Kiryu continues to act as a guardian angel and one person Hiro can be about 95% open and honest with and receive real answers. He developed a friendship with Leo Valdez as he assisted him thawing the Station in March and they spoke of developing secret meeting places during Samhain, along with talks of Leo's apprenticeship. In July he explored the northlands with Thrall to heal the earth and during Yule Thrall made him a member of the Frostwolf Clan. During Samhain, the Black Shuck sent Hiro on a mission with Nico to lay the dead to rest so January-April has been spent traveling.
✖ Other people to meet/build CR with: Rin, Eren, Sakura, Katsa, Shijima, Vol'jin, Saber, Sakura, Merida, Ellie, Colette. Update - post-timeskip: Has built better CR with Rin, Eren, Shijima, Saber, Merida, Ariadne, Colette, Prince Edgar and Katsa. Has met Sakura, and Ellie. Has also met and built decent with Grell Sutcliffe, Wan, Johnny Storm, Teresa, Clarke Griffin, and Lia de Beaumont.
SUMMARY OF KNOWN DETAILS
So far Hiro's only participated in the battle and also tried to play with the jabberwock. Also will soon discover he cannot, in fact, rebuild a special robot friend and will be very upset about that. Otherwise whatever! Update - post-timeskip: Haaaaaaaaaa.
SPRING 2701
SPRING IN 2,701 (Mar, Apr, May)
- MARCH - The new King of Birds, the Roc, brings late snowstorms across the drabwurld; shardbearers must combat its magic to un-freeze each other, natives, and whole areas. Monarchs are still around and boons still occur.
- HIRO'S MARCH PLANS - Hiro will be using his newly learned fire magic to help unfreeze people (team up and meet Leo? Also team up with Merida at some point.) He will also be spending time between Spire 10 and the Station, most likely trying to set up residence in both places. He will also be recruiting for Lemina's magic guild and attempting to learn more about the R&D sanction of the Unseelie that will be housed in Spire 10. Update - post-timeskip: All true save for teaming up with Merida. Hiro worked with several people this month during the freeze (Leo, Johnny, Howard, Wan, Lemina, Katsa, etc.)
- APRIL - Shardbearers shall be struck at various moments by the sound of harp-playing which inspires distractingly, disablingly intense and wild emotions, but be unable to determine the source! Shardbearers will discover that they can follow the sound only in their dreams to the dream-image of a harp which magically plays itself. Smashing the harp in their dreams will disable the spell which affects their waking moments. This is the last month monarchs will be visibly around and which boons will occur.
- HIRO'S APRIL PLANS - Hiro will be hearing the harp and stuck struggling with keeping said-emotions under wraps and will probably explode on someone. Once he figures out how to smash the harp it will be done so. Update - post-timeskip: Had a near panic-attack about his harp and had a loooong talk with Joshua about how the harps worked and also a long talk about death and morality after Hiro smashed the harp. Spent the entire month of April locked away doing research and hiding from everyone/ignoring his CR.
- MAY - Golden swans will migrate to the mainland from the southern coast, devouring newly-planted crops and seeds; slaying them turns them into solid gold swan figurines. (also the Monarchs will be gone, lockets stop working, people opting out go to sleep.)
- HIRO'S PLANS FOR MAY - Once he finds out that the swan figures can become money, he'll most likely be taking his newly-booned cat and chasing/terrorizing the swans to get money. When Mochi won't have any of it, Hiro will team up with Shijima to kill swans and get money. Update - post-timeskip: The first of May was spent hunting down Jason Todd. Afterwards he made his way to Lumina's farm and started building automatic feeding stations for her chocobos. He also hunted swans with Shijima without Mochi (did not boon the cat.) Also researched in the background and worked on his communication devices. Worked with the Guild when he could.
SUMMER 2701
SUMMER IN 2,701 (Jun, Jul, Aug)
- JUNE - It becomes clear that the areas the Jabberwock spent too much time in will grow nothing and have become barren; includes areas around Caer Glaem, the Cothromach, the Station, other parts of the map. Shardbearers may attempt to heal these areas.
Treun holds its famous summer tourney! The purse is 5,000 gold marks for each of these competitions: Magical Duelling, Mounted Joust, and the Melee! The competitions go over the day, featuring many famed individuals participating in secret, and the revels continue over nights. A mod post will go up for this event.
- HIRO'S JUNE PLANS- He's not going to participate in the tourney but he IS going to set up a giant betting pool for non-participants to get involved. Since a lot of his friends are also competing he will most likely spread a few rumors about the stats of the fighters to mess with the odds. His healing plans will take place in July instead. Update - post-timeskip: Betting pool still happened and he almost got his ass kicked for it. Nico di Angelo saved him and his friendship with the boy started. Also handed out communicators to his very close CR. And also found out Lemina was offering the Guild to Seelie shardbearers, got pissed, and stopped talking to her. Hiro's work with the Guild went on pause.
- JULY - Violent anti-shardbearer demonstration in Daonna results in the hanging of a dozen Seelie and Unseelie shardbearers in the city square. Whispers insist that ancient shardbearer Martin Maskmaker is behind the clever fox-masks which magically hide the identities of the killers and help them leave no trace.
- HIRO'S JULY PLANS-If Hiro gets IC word he's going to start trying to work on solving the mystery despite not having clues about the killers. However he will be spending the entire month of July traveling with Thrall into the northlands to assess the damage of the area and start trying to heal them on their own. Update - post-timeskip: Did not do anything about the anti-shardbearer demonstrations but instead spent the whole month with Thrall traveling to the northlands to heal the destruction from the jabberwock.
- AUGUST - Leathann's Festival of Lights is the second week in August, a curious local celebration timed to the arrival of fireflies which will this year mark the induction of the new Oracle; overnight the boats which comprise the Water Market all seem to have vanished, and natives float candles on the river out to sea and let paper lanterns fly, while in the distance the Tower of the Oracle glows golden through day and night.
- HIRO'S AUGUST PLANS- Depending on if he can get there, he might go down and check it out because pretty lights and fireflies and stuff. Around the 19th or so, he'll be organizing a beach trip with friends as a guise to celebrate not only his birthday (August 22nd) but also Jason Todd's (August 16th.) Update - post-timeskip: Came back from his journey with Thrall and immediately was whisked away by Nico to Leathann for the Festival of Lights. Celebrated his/Jason's birthday on August 20th. Background research. He apologized to Lemina this month as well. Guild work is still less but he's helping where he can. R&D research goes back into full-swing at the end of August.
AUTUMN 2701
FALL IN 2,701 (Sept, Oct, Nov)
- SEPTEMBER - The magical power which allows shardbearers to understand Drabbish and each other goes haywire; affected characters will be heard speaking their native tongue! All their writing, however, will still be seen as Drabbish. The annual Treun wreath festival! Harvests are very poor, but the spectacle and scope of the dancing, grain-giving, and public drunkenness are as riotously whole-hearted as ever. The festival ends in drunken bread-riots, however, and fires set in the garden district. The public calls for Fortuna to abdicate his position
- HIRO'S SEPTEMBER PLANS- Language shenanigans! Let's see how many people he no longer understands. Hiro speaks and understands English and Japanese fluently. No other plans thus-far. Update - post-timeskip: He pantomimed stuff with Wan to learn meditation methods better! He also started learning how to write and translate things in Ancient Greek for a certain present for a certain demigod. Month was spent heavily doing research and development and mostly stuck to the Spire save for his time with Wan at the Station near the end of September.
- OCTOBER - 25-30 - SAMHAIN! Sun does not rise; characters can go wherever they please; Black Shuck makes another appearance; giant party on the Cathraon. Mods will post logs for this.
- HIRO'S OCTOBER PLANS- - Samhain! Hiro's going to attend Samhain and probably get into a lot of trouble because it's a giant party. He's going to try to approach Black Shuck with Nico di Angelo and force Eren Yeager into a suit because it's hilarious. He'll probably also be easier to trick into dancing with his CR and he'll be mingling around to meet new people as well. October otherwise is completely open and planless. Update - post-timeskip: Early October he researched blood granite with Edgar, but otherwise pretty much nothing about this has changed other than the fact that approaching Shuck was a Bad Idea and he and Nico were tasked with traveling the Drabwurld to lay the dead to rest. Hiro's secrets about Nico were revealed to Loki after he stopped the fight between Nico and Lumina. Loki also gave him his first kiss to prove it was no big deal. Hiro pushed him in the face a lot. Also began planning secret clubs/safehouses with Leo Valdez and made a lot of new connections.
- NOVEMBER - Inmates from a magical island prison-colony of Leathann have escaped, and some manage to reach the mainland and begin causing havoc! The government of Leathann posts rewards for the return of these criminals, dead or alive. Many are legitimately dangerous mages and sorcerers; others are simply individuals who are debtors to the state and couldn't pay their taxes!
- HIRO'S NOVEMBER PLANS- He may try to team up with some people to go after some of the criminals but for the most part he'll be using the month of November to research High Queen Morla and complete a quest for Ariadne. Update - post-timeskip: First two weeks of November alternated between working on the quest for Ariadne and researching stuff for R&D. The end of November was spent with Lumina traveling to Spire 9's city to work with the vampires to make copies of her chocobo books.
WINTER 2701
WINTER IN 2,701/2,702 (Dec, Jan, Feb)
- DECEMBER - YULE! Giant hunting party with both courts trying to catch the White Hart! Mods will post logs for this.
- HIRO'S DECEMBER PLANS- He's going to wind up building an army of snowmen and one very special Snowmax at the Station if he can get there. Otherwise no real plans. He'll be celebrating Yule/Christmas and provide presents to a lot of his close CR. Update - post-timeskip: Haha he basically exchanged presents with people, argued with Nico until Nico agreed to take him on Shuck's task, ventured on an overnight trip with Thrall to become a tiny Frostwolf, argued with Jason about Nico and cut their ties temporarily and ditched the spire to head out. Last month he researched stuff for R&D. Last month he actively worked with the Guild.
- JANUARY - Caer Scima is at last entirely rebuilt, and grander than ever!
- HIRO'S JANUARY PLANS- Definitely going to return to CS to see how it's been rebuilt. Otherwise he's pretty quiet this month. Update - post-timeskip: Definitely did not return to CS and definitely did not remain quiet this month. Spent the month traveling and training with Nico.
- FEBRUARY -Parrais holds its Ostara Feast! A local celebration of and competition in the arts, chalks harvested from the coast are all dyed and given to local children the full week before, and the whole city is mostly covered in their murals. By the feast's end, several famous elven artisans and musicians are found with their throats slashed.
- HIRO'S FEBRUARY PLANS- He's going to end up bouncing off to Redgate with Billy Kaplan to crash in Loki's dorm and also try to break into the fancy-schmancy library. May also end up meeting a handful of the Seelie in Redgate. Update - post-timeskip: Went to Redgate with Billy to research more/bond with Billy/crash in on Loki. Billy and Loki figured out his romantic feelings toward a certain son of Hades that Hiro adamantly denied. Hiro gained access to the Redgate library for research. In addition, he traveled to Mair and met Grell who spoke with him of death, magic, and runes as she helped him with the next leg of his task for Shuck.
SPRING 2702
SPRING IN 2,702 (Mar, Apr)
- MARCH - The skeletons of unburied soldiers killed in battle begin to rise, devouring whatever living beasts or people they come upon until their skulls are struck off.
- HIRO'S MARCH PLANS- Gonna double-check that this isn't Nico's work and then use a combination of magic and other skills to kill the skeletons. Update - post-timeskip: Rejoined Nico! This probably was tied into their initial task anyway. Also met Jason again at the end of the month and it went as poorly as one would expect. Jason told Hiro how to fix it ("come home", basically) and Hiro shied away from the idea.
- APRIL - Great numbers of imps and fairies begin to go missing in both castles, to the point where many everyday tasks go unfinished!
- HIRO'S APRIL PLANS- Start devising ways to accomplish the daily tasks with inventions while hunting for the missing imps. Update - post-timeskip: He's lost Jason and it's that time of year again. During Yule he set up a meeting with Joshua on the anniversary of the harp-smashing so they could chat and review everything wrong with the world. He also had a friend-date with Merida where the same sort of things were discussed. Lastly, he received a quest from the Unseelie monarchs just as he was getting ready to go find Jason to apologize one last time.
- MAY - End of timeskip.
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I actually didn't think of it. [This is the fun part of the story and the one time he'll be willing to admit he didn't actually think of something.] Lemina's the one who brought it up to me. You know the feast that was going on right before the battle? I was there and I...I mean you've seen the armor here. It's kinda outdated. Soooo I was drawing up plans for some new stuff, Lemina starts talking about enchanting them for me, and I wanted to know what she wanted.
[People don't usually do things without a price attached.] How do you think she roped me into being Junior Premier of her Guild? [The fondness in his tone is pretty evident though. He adores her
for now.] That was the price. Join her Guild and she'd teach me to do whatever I wanted. Fire's the easiest to learn and she kinda gave me a jumpstart but I had enough of my own raw power to make flames after the first try.[And then promptly freak out and refuse to try again for a few days. But Katsa doesn't have to know that.] Lemina told me that everybody has some magical ability and this place just enhances that. Anybody can learn how to use magic if they're dedicated enough.
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[ She was killing by the age of ten, after all, and Bitterblue crowned as queen barely older than that. But those were responsibilities no one that young should have had to face. Perhaps this is different. This is only building a spire and learning magic, not the weight of lives and a country on his shoulders.
Though she does raise an eyebrow at his comment about armor before listening on with interest. What outdated armor? ]
That hardly seems like a price. Or a particularly good deal on your part. Fire is useful. You can use it for a number of things to keep yourself alive when you need it. Being able to generate that in a fight, like Zuko, in an instant...
[ Katsa leans forward, pressing her lips together to hold her smile from growing. ] At least it's Junior Premier, so you don't have even more price and responsibility. I'm sure you feel relieved.
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Granted this is different than being home. Here it's building a spire here, learning magic there...home it's making sure the city's safe and holding a man's life in the palm of his hand. Losing friends, losing family. The little things that make choices harder.]
Maybe it's both. [The comment about fire though...nah. Nahhhhh he doesn't look like he agrees that much. Yes fire is useful, as indicated by the little heaters he's created. Fire's still horrifying enough that he tries not to let his flames grow large enough to cause substantial damage.] Who's Zuko?
[While Katsa might be trying to suppress her smile, Hiro's own smirk is only growing.] Not really. I like being busy. [More like he likes having control.] Besides, I was kind of a leader back home...or starting to be, anyway.
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He can hold fire like you can: he has gold eyes, unusual but pretty. And a scar on his face.
[ Eyes are important. Katsa notices eyes before anything else. She settles back, tilting her head at him as she lets her smile grow now. ]
Well? Tell me about that.
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He's not a Graceling too, is he? Or his own world's version of one. [He's never met anybody with gold eyes and it makes him wonder if his own brown ones would maybe mean something different in another world.
With a captive audience Hiro settles down, finally taking a seat and relaxing a bit even as he deliberately holds up a hand with his palm up to conjure a small flame now and then. It's smaller than the one he presented on-camera, but it's all practice.]
Does the word "superhero" mean anything to you?
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[ Despite having just relaxed herself, Katsa leans back forward toward Hiro, her face lit by the fires. It's not as hot as the flames Zuko held, but she still has to resist the itch to reach out and try to take it from him. She curls her hand in a fist. She wants to learn. ]
It doesn't mean a thing. I've never heard the word.
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[Not helping. He recognizes that look though. It's the look he gave people like Lemina and Loki when they're showing him something he wants to claim as his own. Funny how the roles are reversed now. He allows the flames to grow a tiny bit, just a slight pull at his mouth pinched tighter in concentration so he doesn't lose it.]
Superheroes are basically people that have a job of protecting other people. It's more than being like a police officer or the FBI or anything like that. They usually have powers. Powers or gear that works to gives them power to do what other people can't do like…like breathe fire or slice things with lasers or fly. That's what me and my friends started to do back home. [A beat, and a sheepish smile.] It was my idea. They didn't believe in it at first but after a while we got the hang of it. It was supposed to just be a one-time deal but we just…kept up with it. [A shrug.] That was a few days before I got here.
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[ she continues to stare at the flame while she talks, but looks up at the end. ]
So what do you mean by that? Your idea. Are you one of those supers or not?
[ someone needs to tell her she asks too many questions. ]
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[Science.] But like I said, I don't think hetereochromia gives people in my world super-skills.
[There's a shrug in response to that last question. It's okay, Katsa, Hiro asks too many questions, too.] I mean it was my idea. I had something to take care of at home and so I did it with their help. I guess I'm kind of the mastermind behind everything and the leader of our team. I designed the suits, I figured out the plans, and I stopped the guy we were going after but they helped a lot. Not sure how much it matters here though when the rest of my team's at home. [Or "dead."]
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somewhat helplessly, but also resigned: ] Well, your—suits, or heteroam or whatever it is—so they were your idea. [ she really doesn't get this ] Your friends helped you when something went wrong, but it was all your idea.
[ She thinks about this. ]
You must be smart, no matter what nonsense you spout. [ ... ] No one else I know from my lands is here, either.
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[There's probably no point in telling her he's an engineering student at one of the best technical schools in the country and that he graduated about five years early, is there? He has a feeling that means nothing to her so he just nods. Yes. He's smart. However he fixates more on the fact that Katsa's alone, too.]
Do you like it that way though? Being alone.
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No matter what it is, everyone should be able to learn it. I've been doing the same.
[ She looks down at her hands. Nah, that definitely wouldn't make any sense to her. She's not stupid either, but there's some stuff that's just always going to be difficult to grasp. ]
It suits me better this way.
[ not an actual answer to the question, but not untrue, either. ]
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And eating vegetables probably suits me better, too. Doesn't mean I like it.
[Don't try to pull his own tricks on him, lady.]
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And yes, I have been. I've been teaching mostly the use of knives and swords to young girls and women, and I've had a few wishing to learn to use a bow. But it's not limited, it's just those who need it most.
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[Speaking of fighting...] What about me? I mean obviously I'm not a girl, but what if we made a deal?
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You look like you could do with some lessons, anyway. [ oop ] I'd teach you as you are. What kind of deal?
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Teach me to use the weapon I picked up and I'll give you a crash course in fire-starting. It can't be that hard, right?
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I already know how to start fires. And better than most, too. Do you intend to teach me the way you can hold it in your hands just like that?
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[And suddenly an idea hits him.] There's probably a few imps outside. We can use them as practice.
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[ she jumps to her feet. ready!! ]
Even finding a way to make the imps useful for once in this, too.
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Oh well.]
The imps are always unhelpful? I've been trying to train a couple of my own and it's sorta working. [Outside they go and into the thick of the snow. The wind's stopped blowing but snow flurries swirl around them as he begins to walk, sneakers crunching on the snow as he searches for their first target.]
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I don't know why you bother. They stole me here, and they've stolen my clothes, and they're ugly.
[ katsa that's not a good reason............. she just hasn't liked them since they kidnapped her to the drabwurld against her will and she doesn't forgive very easily, even if she likes where she is now.
she waves at liam to stay where he is and follows behind hiro, anticipating what must come next. if he gets too cold, she has a number of layers of her own and won't hesitate to foist one or two on him no matter how he protests. ]
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Guess they're gonna find out.]
Okay. So like I said a lot of how magic works is that it comes from within. Lemina told me that everybody has potential but being in this place heightens it. The first thing you have to do before you can even start to light fires or make hurricanes or whatever is tap into your raw potential, and that takes a ton of focus. [Even as he stops talking he finds himself tripping over an imp frozen in the snow. Rolling his eyes, he stops and whips up a flame with ease, holding it a short distance away to start thawing the hideous creature.] Lemina gave me a small boost when we first met but I tapped into my raw power right away. You have to kinda just...imagine that you're focusing all of your energy into one central location. How good's your focus?
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[ katsa's more of a "go with the moment" rather than "plan ahead with patience" kind of person. she directs this comment at the frozen imp, but she doesn't interfere with hiro's attempts to thaw it. instead, she tehn turns her attention back to him, minding the flame. ]
I can focus just fine. [ most of the time. ] Or at least ignore other things around me. But I've no idea what you mean by that.
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Ignoring things around you isn't really focusing. I mean like envisioning? You know. Bringing things into being by concentrating hard enough. Sorta like meditation.
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