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[pyropathic_ambicide]

Who: Saguaro and youuu
When: Day 37, Mooorning
Where: Common area
What: hella questin!!

[so she is a tiny girl, and minus being covered in tattoos it's easy to overlook her, but she is probably pretty good at getting your attention when she holds her hand up in the air and a flamethrower shoots out.

she keeps that up for a few seconds just so some heads are turned and then lets it die out]

Okay so! I don't know most of you guys, but in Dellen's name I am looking to help out with some shit. I am good at basically anything involving fire except cooking, and I can manage just about anything that relies on common sense or bullheadedness. I don't really care what you want help with so hit me up so I can get a fucking toilet.

Comments

[his_favourite_subject]

...

Do you not have any control?

[pyropathic_ambicide]

Have you ever actually used fire to kill anything?

[his_favourite_subject]

Not by itself. I don't specialise in fire magic, so large spells are somewhat [irritated handwave] difficult...

But if you can pinpoint a vital area instead of the whole body, surely...

1/2

[pyropathic_ambicide]

Fire spreads. That's what it does. And it doesn't go straight to the heart of things, so if you want to kill with fire, it's going to take a while and ruin a lot of shit getting there.

[pyropathic_ambicide]

[but then SMILES and holds up her hand and a tiny little molten ball appears on a fingertip]

Which was making it a fucking pain to hunt around here, so now I have lava bullets.

[his_favourite_subject]

[!!]

You taught yourself??

[pyropathic_ambicide]

[eyebrow]

I invented it myself.

[his_favourite_subject]

[what]

... Your teacher couldn't have been very competent ...

[pyropathic_ambicide]

I am my teacher, jackass.

[his_favourite_subject]

What-- I wasn't insulting you!!

[pyropathic_ambicide]

Yeah you were. But it's cool, I'll forgive you. Maybe you should stop just assuming you know how my magic works and try asking.

[his_favourite_subject]

No, I wasn't! I thought that if you were teaching yourself, your teacher can't have been very good, or he or she would've taught you already! To invent magics on your own is nothing short of impressive!

[pyropathic_ambicide]

Yeah yeah. Cause you assumed I had a teacher. It doesn't work that way, okay? Everyone teaches themselves their own magic where I'm from. We're all super impressive.

[his_favourite_subject]

What? Whatever happened to school...

[pyropathic_ambicide]

There never was any, I bet. Everyone's magic is different. Witches go one of three ways: they figure out how to make their magic work, they die trying, or their one of the few lucky assholes with the will power to not play with magic to start with.

[his_favourite_subject]

...

Why lucky?

[pyropathic_ambicide]

Cause even if you have the will to avoid it doesn't mean you might not just accidentally blow yourself up one day.

[his_favourite_subject]

But-- that could go for anything! Just because you don't drive doesn't mean you might not get run over by a car!

[pyropathic_ambicide]

Then witches just get the extra bonus of maybe one day they lose their temper and spontaneously combust for real.

[shruuug]

Or so I hear. Was never my problem, and there aren't a lot of us.

[his_favourite_subject]

Are there only female witches, or is the term gender-encompassing?

[pyropathic_ambicide]

Gender-whatever. I mean I guess maybe some guys call themselves wizards maybe? Like I said, it's not common and we aren't organized. I always thought of myself as a witch, and I guess a bunch of other people did too.

[his_favourite_subject]

Why are there so few of you...?

[pyropathic_ambicide]

[shruuug]

Learning magic's dangerous, government hunts you down because witches are dangerous, annndd it's not all that common to start with.

[his_favourite_subject]

The government what?!

[pyropathic_ambicide]

[siigh]

Look, how powerful are witches-or-whatever where you're from? Like. What's the biggest thing your very best can blow up?