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[mcmemeface]

The Awkward Questions Meme

 

Does your character have a deep, dark secret? An embarrassing past? A sensitive issue? Something they really don't want to talk about? Well, too bad. That thing is now written on their chest on top of a bright red sticker, and the sticker won't peel off no matter what. Uh oh!

Rules:

1. Post with your character. Write out what their sticker says - it can be something dark ("Ask me about how many people I've killed"), something gossipy ("Ask me about my crush on my friend"), something silly ("Ask me about my fear of clowns") or something vague ("Ask me about my secret identity.") No blank top levels, please!
2. Comment to other people asking about the thing.
3. Have fun and be awkward.

Comments

[inachinashop]

Mental protections. So people aren't supposed to be able to do this kind of stuff to you? You have to be a mage to put those uh, protections up, or...?

[cuttingremark]

I am a mage. One of the strongest in all the Realms. [And so humble too.]

To be fair, it wouldn't take someone a lot of effort to find out my paternal issues though non-magical means.

[inachinashop]

Probably that one, then. Not everyone would know enough to give me shit about this, [He knocks on the sign on his chest,] but it isn't like I hide it. Not sure who would know about Thedas and uh... Asgard, right? Is that a kingdom some place, or...?

[cuttingremark]

A planet. [A disk floating in space that somehow supports life. Don't think too hard about it.] I can't say I've ever heard of a Thedas. Is that a realm? A country?

[inachinashop]

Uh... A realm, I guess? I've never really thought about it, kind of didn't know there were a whole lot of other options.

[Does he know what 'planet' means? No. Has he learned that sometimes the world's bigger and weirder more fucked than he actually wants to know about? Definitely yes. There are some things that he doesn't need to know.]

[cuttingremark]

Likely a realm or world then. [Without space travel, but that's not so uncommon.]

I'm assuming you're a warrior, considering...[Gestures to Bull's sign]

[inachinashop]

[At first he thinks the guy's just gesturing to all of him and he looks down at himself with exaggerated dismay, like the muscles and scars and little bit of armour on his shoulder are a surprise.]

Aw, crap, must have left my ballet shoes at home.

Oh, you meant this thing. Yeah. Seemed like the way to go, you know. And you, you're a powerful mage, right? Asgard must be something, a prince around here turns out to be a mage and it's always a big drama.

[cuttingremark]

[The comment about ballet shoes does get Loki to give a quick, inelegant snort of laughter.]

Preferring my magical studies over combat training was frowned upon, but I wouldn't say it caused 'drama.' Does your world not carry mages in high regard?

[inachinashop]

I mean, most places don't love the 'exploding into demons and trying to kill everybody' thing. No offence or anything, I know it doesn't always happen, but. You know.

[He shrugs.]

You make it sound like you could have focused on other stuff, though. Once the uh, magic stuff started happening, people didn't want you spend all your time figuring out how to deal with it?

[cuttingremark]

Well, yes. I showed proficiency in magic, but if I hadn't studied it that proficiency would have atrophied like an unused muscle.

[...Confusion???]

I'm sorry, did you say 'explode into demons'? Why would they explode into demons?

[inachinashop]

I wouldn't know, I've never exactly gotten a chance to ask one of them afterward. Oh, you mean, uh-- Did you not... know?

[Well, crap. This is awkward.]

I thought, uh. That you guys just... knew. I mean, to watch out for that. Sorry to be the one to um, to tell you. I guess... it hasn't happened yet, so you're probably going to be okay for a while?

[cuttingremark]

If you consider "A while" being a little over a thousand years, then yes. Channeling and summoning were never of much interest to me, so demons or other malevolent forces never posed much of a risk.

Is that...common for mages from Thedas? Do they try to contact the demons, or are there demons just running around preying on unsuspecting apprentices?

[inachinashop]

Not just the apprentices, that's sort of the whole... thing.

[But he's distracted when he says it, because this is what he's actually thinking:]

Are you telling me you're over a thousand years... come on. That would make you some kind of spirit or something.

[He doesn't try to hide the frowning way he looks the other guy over. He's not thrilled about the idea, but then, it wouldn't be the first time he's met one of them that looked like a person, acted like one. And that had turned out okay.]

[cuttingremark]

Wouldn't being spirit require me to have died at some point? [He has, or at least made a good show of it, but that's beside the point.] And I think I'm a bit too corporeal for that anyways.

Asgardians live an incredibly long time. All Father Odin was well over 5000 at the time of his death a few years ago.

[inachinashop]

[The Bull makes a face, like he just bit into something gross. He'd been bracing himself for one kind of weird and then got hit with another. Hate that.]

Well, you don't look a day over... what, three thousand? So, you guys' mages don't get possessed, and you all live to be a million years old. Sounds too good to be true.