eastbound | un: man's greatest treasure (video)

[She switches on the video function of her device knowingly this time, as she climbs the stairs to a relatively quiet deck. It's daylight, and the moment she steps foot outside, she flinches; not that she believes in divination, but those fucking fortune fish were right.]

Ugh. Sun. [She squints and shields her eyes with one hand.]

Hello - I hear there are people who've newly joined our journey due east. I'd say welcome, but the circumstances of us meeting for the first time will never be better. Take it from experience. [The way she scrunches her nose here has little to do with the sun glinting in her eyes and more with the experience of circumstances.]

Anyway. My name's Hermione Granger, I come from a world where the planet I inhabit is called Earth, and the country I come from is called England. [A pause.] I am also a witch. It's not a thing we broadcast in my world, what with the rules about secrecy and not wanting non-magical users to know witches exist, but I figure when in Rome...

[ANYWAY 2.0] Tell me about yourselves. [She goes to turn the video off in wait, but it still catches the last mutter:] Bloody hell, I need a hat.

[ooc; NOTE ON TIMING: backdate this to before the plot rolls start, please.]

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Do as the Romans do, right? I think that's the saying...

[He's only been human for a short time, okay, cut him some slack.]

Yo!

[He raises a hand in a quick greeting.]

I'm Izumi. I come from Japan and I used to be part of the Shinsengumi. I don't know if you've heard of them, in particular, but we worked under the Tokugawa Shogunate, if that helps.

...What do witches do, exactly? I can't say I've ever met one before.

[But, like, with that username he must be a good protector type, right? Nothing to worry about.

Nevertheless, as her muggle history got frozen in time around the time she was eleven (she knows, atrocious that the wizarding world never prepares students for the muggle world!), she can't pinpoint when the Tokugawa Shogunate happened. But.]

Hi Izumi, it's nice to meet you? They don't sound familiar, I'm afraid - although, Japan does!

[And, as for witches.]

We do all sorts of things. Unless you're asking what I can do here specifically, in which case that'd be...brewing potions, sneaking into places, creating wards, summoning things out of thin air, turning objects into other objects... [A beat.] No fortune telling.

Oh, what have I not told you already
that you'd like to know?
My name, the fact that I'm a warlock, my age?
Not even my boyfriend knows the last one.

By the way, would you fancy a beach umbrella or a sun hat?

I know your age, Magnus. I know you're capable of great feats of magic, and you talk like you've been around forever, but you look young. What's this about being a warlock mean?

And one more thing: where do you keep getting nail polish from, in this economy?

Oh - of course! Why hadn't I thought about umbrellas before?

[Useful items, too. If push comes to shove, she could close hers and whack someone with it.]

It's kind of like being a witch
only with immortality and all the extra emotional baggage from being related to
something fundamentally incapable of showing love or kindness.

But we de have our own version of the witch trials –lucky us!

And one paper and wood umbrella coming up.
I'd conjure something fancier, but we're a little short on raw materials.

Also, I mix my cosmetics myself, and I have a shade that would look absolutely
lovely on you.

[ What better way to kill time on a boat than making creative use of octopus ink? ]

Magnus, that sounds difficult, and complicated - oh, bugger, wait.

There, that's better. It didn't feel like the right medium, written messages, you know? To talk about existential crises and also the emotional baggage.

The fuck's a witch?

[Anduin is 100% charmed and amused by this post, and thus by you, Hermione Granger.]

You already know much about me. I am not certain what more there is to tell.

My name is Anduin Llane Wrynn. I am from Stormwind City, of the Eastern Kingdoms, in a world known as Azeroth. And I...

[What more can he say publically?]

I have a horse?

Honestly, I was trying to be hip with the younger generations and twittering
and texting as you do. Please tell me you're not having an existential crisis at your age. What does that mean for the rest of us?

[ Is he going to have to conjure up some gin to go with this conversation? ]

Xue Yang, still with us?

The middle name is new, for starters. Do you use it, or is it just...tradition to have one? Also - I didn't know you had a horse, Anduin.

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Yah, aren't you lucky?

If you want to prepare people for you, there's worse than ...witchiness.

[She lets out a laugh.]

I've probably already had one so far, to be fair. [Like for instance, that whole crisis of what her worth was if she could not be of service and help to others, right around the time of the volcano nearly errupting?] What's twittering? [Magnus, she's not the younger generation.]

I'm not going to ask 'such as what', because I don't want to have to toss you overboard.

That means you must know what.

Charmed any new people yet? Should I warn or console them?

[Sarcasm, dryyyy.] No, I reserve my charm for our conversations.

Is that only in person?

Because I can see it there.

Pervert.

Recede below to your fetters.

Aren't you, for whatever you are thinking?

There's poetry about lady's smiles, you know? I'd recite it, but I'm too common and maybe it doesn't work for witches. Always assuming the worst...

Could I please get that instruction with some clarity? It's been a while, I haven't had oranges yet.

Wen Qing.

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