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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MARCH; I'll Be The Watcher of the Eternal Flame
The monarchs give handwaved proclamations offering rewards to those of their courts who help unfreeze the drabwurld.
By the 25th, the effect of this second-winter are mostly gone, eradicated by the efforts of shardbearers and others with the power to undo the frigid cold.
Lemina
Of course all of that changed the first day the big free set into the Drabwurld. He'd seen the giant bird fly overhead and he found himself locked in Spire 10 for a few days until the blizzards and storms settled down. Once the winds stopped he started making calls to the people he knew, Lemina being one of the first. They'd agreed to meet up and take this on as their first real application of magic as Premier and Junior Premier and by the time Hiro joined her Lemina was already working on wielding a bit of flame to keep herself warm. At least he was wearing long pants today. That was a start.]
I've never really liked birds that much anyway. Look at this mess.
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Seriously, birds annoy me. The ones back home like to divebomb you and suck out some of your blood.
[Living the RPG world life sure was something.]
All right! We're going to be precision on this one. Do you know why?
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...okay ours are just really loud. Remind me never to piss off the birds in your world.
[There's a short grin and he nods in response.] I'm gonna guess it has to do with not wanting to light people on fire while we're trying to help them? I'm pretty pro-not-frying-people.
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[Already visions of forcing him to create something out of a block of ice float through her head. Ah well, maybe another time.]
All right I could have made a way better test but that's besides the point. I was thinking this might be good for you, Hiro, to see the positive applications of heat. And heat is what we're mainly using.
[She raises her hands up and a red glow, gentle and warm, surrounds them.]
Precision. You don't want a flame but you want the heat of one.
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Wait what? [Aw man. He's been using flames on and off since before they met up but he's been careful about keeping them away from people. Granted that means it's taken much longer but there's been an easier way this whole time? He's focused on Lemina's hands, already trying to emulate the glow but not exactly succeeding.] How?
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Leo
Due the Station's destruction thanks to the jabberwocky's game, snow made its way inside and started to pile up and effectively creating a blockade from the inside of the Station out to the fairy ring on that last day. It also had spilled right into his room and frozen Baymax's arm to the ground. It was annoying, frankly, but if Hiro was anything he was resourceful.
He hated to do this to his friend, but metal heated up pretty fast and he needed to get out of there and start checking for people again. Crouching down, he placed a hand on the metal and allowed his palm to grow warm, flames sprouting up to heat the robot's arm. He thought the snow and ice had melted enough and he moved to grip on Baymax's arm, giving it a tug--
--and promptly falling back into a pile of snow and landing at the feet of a native who'd been frozen in place. There came a yell and Hiro scrambled up, staring for a moment as he tried to think of the best way to tackle the situation. Fire still licked the palm of his hand as Hiro tried to will it away, trying to explain to the native that he wasn't a fire user and that lighting them up would probably be a bad, bad idea. Anyone walking by might notice the boy with one hand on his robotic arm and the other still shaking away flames and hear one last protest.]
No, seriously, you do not want me to actually do that.
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Since the snowstorms began, he'd tried to hook it up the Station computers and see if he could wire it to keep things warm here, to make sure it wouldn't all freeze, but it turned out that there was too much damage from the Jabberwock. Any other day, and he'd stay to fix it, but there were special circumstances here, and the work would take too long to complete. By the time he did, everything would be frozen solid, and while Leo knew his Blessing was enough to fight off a snow goddess, she didn't qualify as a full-blown storm.
Tl;dr: everything sucked, and it was a day ending in Y.
He kicked the console he'd been trying to get into as he stood, sphere in hand, ready to take it back underground and make sure it was secured before he started fighting the snowstorm himself. The last thing he needed was a priceless ancient artifact like this one getting irreparably damaged just because the place wasn't air-tight. It wouldn't be an issue of it could fit in his belt, but the Archimedes sphere was just big enough that it was a problem. He had a good box stowed in his room here, though, the same one he'd kept the sphere in at Caer Glaem for so long, just in case.
Before he could get downstairs to put it away, though, he heard a yell, and immediately turned to follow the sound. Leo hadn't known there was anyone else here - well, anyone that wasn't already frozen. He definitely wasn't expecting to find a kid with flames in his hand, slightly freaking out, and the sight made him pause in surprise. He was still getting used to the idea of other people being able to do that. ]
You know, fire might actually help thaw the place out a little, [ he called out, stepping closer. ]
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It was an obvious statement but there were plenty of reasons why he wasn't ready to pursue such an avenue. He shook his head though, half-thinking of sticking his hand in the snow to extinguish the flame.]
Well unless you've got a blowtorch stored somewhere, I can't do much. [Said like he wasn't capable of fire magic.]
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[ Who ever thought Leo Valdez would be preaching caution to anyone? But if the kid's not willing to do it, he will. Shifting the sphere to his left hand, he calls the flames of Hephaestus to his palm and holds it out to the frozen native, but not close enough to touch. It'll be slow work, but all of his kindling is being used or stowed elsewhere. ]
There's some firewood in one of the closets on the first level, [ Leo tells Hiro. ] If we bring some up and light a fire, we get back to work on everything else since the heater here's broken.
[ Yet another souvenir from the Jabberwock. Thanks a lot, Unseelie. This is why we can't have nice things. ]
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Granted it's then that he gets a closer look and following Leo's example, he's shifting to hold out his own flames just enough to test and see if that speeds the process along. The kindling's a good idea, but...let's see if this works first. Besides. He's a little focused on Baymax's arm, too.] Yeah, but what happens when we run out of firewood? [The flame in his hand flares up and he quickly jerks his hand back to make sure he doesn't burn anybody.
Okay no. Firewood's a good idea.] I can go look at least. See what I can dig up.
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Katsa
He held the plant carefully as his free hand swept over the heaters in the room to warm them before he turned to her and held out the plant.]
Kinda seems like a lot of trouble just to turn him blue, doesn't it?
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But it did no good to dwell. So she focused on the boy and the heat that came from his hand and extended her own to take the plant from him.
Katsa's mouth twitches in a smile. ]
I hadn't even thought it would get this far. But you offered, so now it seems like more trouble not to do it.
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There's a sheepish smile and a shrug as the plant leaves his fingers.]
It was a fun challenge. And I know how annoying it is to want something and not be able to get it done. [He gestures around the spire.] This whol place has sort of been like that so far.
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[ Liam paces the small room for a moment and growls, seeming uncomfortable with the short space at his size. There's a pause and his form wavers, shrinking and elongating until a man stands in the wolf's place and backs himself silently against the wall, simply watching and alert. Katsa does not seem to notice, or at least she doesn't react to the change and ignores it. ]
What exactly are you doing here? Is this where you're learning your magic?
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...he'll get back to you in a second, Katsa, he's a little busy staring at your apparently animagus wolf-guard-thing. In fact he's just stopping the conversation all together and just blatantly staring at Liam.]
Well. I'm definitely not learning how to do what your wolf just did.
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Howard
Hiro wouldn't openly admit it just yet, but he was far too curious about how Howard's mind worked and also about what kind of ideas the older man could create. When Howard told him he had something of a plan but could use Hiro's help, he didn't hesitate to reappear at the Station and seek him out. It took a little longer than he intended due to stopping now and then to assist someone with just a little bit of a melting boost but eventually he found Howard and appeared in front of him, eyebrow arched expectantly.]
So. What's this amazing plan you've come up with?
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Traditional methods had been used. The Station was warm enough in some places, large bonfires constructed where those who were there gathered, most sleeping together closely for the shared warmth of both fire and multiple bodies. But even with the fires roaring, the ice and the cold came creeping ever closer, and he worried it would soon give them less and less space, and in the end freeze them all. (He remembered seeing frozen corpses in in the streets of New York then, those poorer than even him left out in the cold with nothing but fraying clothes. It wasn't a pretty sight, he didn't want to witness it again.)
And so he had begun to think, pacing back and forth for what felt like days as he tried to comb through his brain for ideas, but all of them were too complicated. All of them relied too heavily on access too materials he didn't have. Until, of course. One day it dawned on him as he sat tossing and catching a mobile phone in the air. It had gotten away from him and come crashing apart on the floor, and it was the metal shining up at him that opened his eyes.
He had scrambled for his locket, alerting Hiro who he knew was there too, telling him to find him as soon as he could. He had an idea that just might help them combat and keep the ice at bay. He had lost track of time, really, and so for him Hiro may have taken hours or just minutes to appear. Either way, when he did, he found him surrounded by computers he had gathered from around, now hunched over slightly as he tore them apart.
His gaze flickered up, the wild sort of I haven't slept in days look bright in them.)
Magnesium.
(He gestured at the pile of metal on the table. It wasn't much, yet, but powdering it finely enough it could be spread over a large area. Sure, it burned quickly, bu tthe intensity should make up for it.)
Grind it up, spread it out. It might just help.
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On the one hand, dude. You just destroyed a bunch of computer that they could have used for something else! On the other hand, that's actually a really brilliant idea. He didn't say anything for a minute as he crouched down to be eye-level with the metal. Magnesium's incredibly flammable and it didn't take him more than two seconds to understand exactly what Howard was implying.]
Spread it out and we light it up. That's actually not a bad idea. [He looked up at the man again, watching him pry apart another computer.] So I get how we can grind it up, but how are we going to spread it around? [He was already reaching into his pocket for a pen and paper just in case he needed to notate some ideas.] The snow's everywhere.
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Howard, while Hiro looks on, busies himself with ripping out a few more pieces before deeming himself satisfied, and tossing it into the pile of already torn apart ones. If nothing else, they might be able to build something new out of all of those bits and bobs.)
The best part is we don't even have to light it up, since it'll do so on contact with the snow. We can remotely deploy it and be out of harms way. As long as we figure out a way to get it out, it can be spread all over. (Technically, and all. He hums thoughtfully at the question.) Barring that we don't have anyone that can fly, my best guess so far has been to build a balloon, fill it in there, and make sure it bursts when it reaches a certain altitude. Somehow. Or shoot it with an arrow once we're pleased. Not the best control, we're reliant on wind, but that's what I got so far.
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Where would we get the balloon? [It's a minimal problem of course but it's enough that he's already thinking of how else things fly. If Lemina were nearby he could ask her to use some of her wind magic, but she's not. He has to think of his own solution.] If we're looking for something with more control...we need something that we can use to aim. Like a cannon. I mean look at this place. We could probably find the parts to make a cannon or something right?
[He may or may not be thinking of turning the magnesium into a sort of bomb. More than likely the answer's yes.]
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Johnny
He'd just popped out to Spire 3 to see if Ariadne needed help with anything when he saw it.
What it was, he had absolutely no idea, but it looked like an actual burning man with flames covering his entire body and the look of pure horror on his face was pretty evident within seconds. Part of him wanted to turn and run and the other part (the part that sounded strangely familiar) told him that someone had to help.
He didn't want to get anywhere near the guy so he did what seemed like a good idea. He quickly crouched down, packing a large snowball, winding up and throwing it directly at the man's face to see if that would help quell the flames any.
Sometimes…for being a genius, Hiro Hamada lacked basic common sense.]
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Which, by the way, ow.
The kid's got pretty incredible aim, and an even more incredible throw, because Johnny yelps, distracted from building yet another bonfire, and heating the vats of water the others were supposed to bring in for the others to use to care for the refugees once he's done. ]
Wh-- hey!
[ It doesn't take long for him to figure out just which bright spark beaned him in the face with a snowball, and it's fortunate that the fire melts it off just as quickly, although Johnny looks quite affronted. He recognizes the kid from their conversation, although, really, is this a game or something? ] What was that for?
[ He forgets that Hiro hadn't actually seen him lit up yet. ]
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What the hell is this.]
...might have something to do with the fact you're on fire? Maybe? [He gestures at Johnny with his hands in a way that clearly says "duh."] What?
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He snorts in amusement, crossing his arms over his chest as he regards him. ] That's what I'm supposed to be. I'm the Human Torch.
[ And oh, Hiro, please know who he is -- he's getting quite tired of people giving him blank looks when he tells them he's that one awesome part of the Fantastic Four. ]
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