text; un: weiwuxian

[resurging]

question: if you were, hypothetically, to trap a spirit in an inanimate object, how would you go about it?

[ this post was brought to you by: horror movie nights with the nephew! hooray! ]

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text. — un: lightning

[imperio]

are you trying to do this?
because don't
it's dark magic

un: the jinling

[inheritedpain]

he's not actually going to do it because there aren't any spirits here anyway he's just being stupid


i showed him some of those movies and he got ideas
he has way too many ideas it makes my brain hurt

[imperio]

how do you know there's no spirits

( sweating in 'i have a severed part of a dark wizard's spirit in my guts' )

[inheritedpain]

i looked
fairy can find them too

i mean there are some ghosts and undead and stuff but they're all like us
from other worlds

not here

[imperio]

ah

( he is notably not very warmed by this reassurance — it still sounds too akin to horcruxes to harry, and he knows very well how deadly, how impure that magic can be. )

just tell him to be careful with what he says then
like i said it's dark stuff

--> private

[inheritedpain]

[ This is making Jin Ling sober up a little fast, and he fumbles with his communicator for a minute before he manages to switch the setting over to private. ]

trying to tell wei wuxian to be careful with what he says is like trying to ask a typhoon to turn around

but he's not


i'm not going to let him do anything that would hurt anyone
or anything
he's just doing that thing where his mind moves way too fast and then it takes me like an hour to catch up



he's not

he's innocent he's not
bad

that was all a lie


i'll make sure it stays that way

[ Well. So much for sober. ]

private

[imperio]

( he was sipping a sweet sweet depresso drink for a second there but at this — he snaps out of it )

a-ling are you good
?

[inheritedpain]

i'm fine



i had
a little too much wine but i'm fine

and he's fine

he's not bad i promise
he's not

gotta
look at another uncle for that

just

trading around the evil i guess

but don't worry about it he's fine if he actually does something stupid i'll bite him

[imperio]

( ahhh now he sees. sweet drunk jin ling. he'd best not focus on all the angst, then. )

you'll bite him?
not fairy?
your bite must be much more painful.
i have only a little insight.
:)

sorry for overreacting.
that question is just taboo where i'm from.
don't let me ruin a movie night.
i trust your judgement.

[inheritedpain]

if i let fairy bite him he'll cry all night and then he'll never let her near him again
trying to get him to like her not hate her anymore

that

you

that!!

that's a different kind of biting shut up
shut up!


you're not overreacting
he

you should see how my whole
place
overreacted to him that would be a thing you didn't even try to kill him or anything

or stab him

at least you didn't stab him


you're not ruining anything
you can't
just try it and find out you really can't

[imperio]

how could anyone hate fairy?
she's a great dog.

:x
my lips are sealed

uh
yeah
i will definitely definitely avoid stabbing your uncle at all costs
for one stabbing isn't really my style
also i would essentially do anything to get on your family's good side

i'm not going to try and ruin anything
don't be so silly

[inheritedpain]

he hates all dogs
he's scared of them




well don't


well don't totally seal your lips

because i
like them
just
stop making me embarrassed that's all!!!


well if you manage to not stab him you
are doing better than me


i'm just saying
you could try but
you

look things are just
you make things better

[imperio]

not fully sealed but partially sealed
you got it

you
stabbed your uncle????

( you make things better is maybe not something he should take to heart so profoundly when jin ling is as apparently drunk as he is — but harry can't help it. he's a glutton for praise from the right people, and he's honestly touched whenever someone has a good word to spare him. )

that's
thank you a-ling
that's

( not something anyone, literally anyone, has ever told me before. generally, i make things worse. )

don't embarrass me now either

[inheritedpain]

i

yeah
just the once and it

i was misled!! and i didn't enjoy it
i thought i had to
i thought i had to, and i hated it

it doesn't matter now he doesn't remember he hasn't lived it it's fine


what's embarrassing i'm just stating a fact!!! you don't have to make a big deal out of it

[resurging]

is it, though? does it necessarily mean it's dark magic simply because a spirit is involved? or do intentions factor in as well? i mean, shouldn't it matter?

[imperio]

you can't kill an object
putting a spirit in something, you're allowing that spirit to live forever
eternity is always a dark thing
intention means nothing

[huaisang]

The more you advice against it, the more they will want to do it.

[imperio]

then they clearly don't know the weight of what they suggest
i'm certainly not going to encourage it

[huaisang]

They're a couple of well-meaning lunatics. Do not worry, I don't know what will be the result but probably it'll all amount to nothing.

[imperio]

maybe i overreacted
you're probably right

magic is different between us, anyway

[huaisang]

You could always tag along and see what happens.

Probably, Wei-xiong will make something explode. Or someone will fall into a ditch. Either way, no major harm done.


Unless you're the object that exploded.