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prismatica2020-10-08 11:27 am
wearingguess) wrote in prismatica2020-10-08 11:27 am
10/7 // video; un: laurea
[ titus's smiling face appears. it is very close to the camera. ]
Lunatia!! Amegahara, Lyestellus! Et cetera! Moonblessed and Moonheld! Hello!!
[ he makes a slight gesture, and the camera zooms out far enough to show a fuller view. anyone who knows him will notice right away that he's different! for one thing, his hair is so long that it's disappearing out of the bottom of the shot. for some others, he's wearing ceremonial silver armor and a heavy gold-trimmed cloak, and carrying an ornate golden staff taller than he is. his forearms, formerly badly cracked and set with stones, are perfectly smooth. and he looks more grown-up—though it might be hard to tell whether that's due to change in his features, or simply to his bearing. (also, subtitles to the video are appearing in real time.) ]
It is I! Titus Alexius! I have just now returned to this world! I gather that it's been three days here, just as it was three days the last time I left and then returned... Really, I wonder why it is three days?... but this time, for me, more than three years have gone by. So much has happened, and so much remains to be done, but what a gift it is to find myself once more in this place! My memories are returning all at once, and yet they are already years old... How strange and wonderful, to experience such instantaneous nostalgia...
[ abruptly, he leans forward and claps his hands together, letting the staff slip into the crook of his arm as he does so. ] In any case—honestly, I don't know how much of this is Cordis talking, but I am so, so excited to be back! I want to see and speak to you all again! I want to meet all the people I've never yet met! I want to eat, drink, and be merry! Of course, I want to moonlace—anything from handholding on up... Oh, speaking of which, I should update my profile on "the apps," shouldn't I?... ...Ah, but that can wait.
Everyone!! I will be permitted to drink them now, so please recommend your favorite alcoholic beverages! They have so many more varieties here than we do back home, and I am excited to try them, but I do know better than to sample too many at once.
Oh!! One more thing. I should like to retain the ongoing services of anyone with healing capabilities, for any compensation you deem appropriate. It's possible that I don't actually require it—perhaps the rejuvenating effect of moonlacing will be enough by itself—but I wish to err on the side of caution.
And... let's see. Please tell me the last thing that made you smile... or your favorite thing about the world of Prismatica. Or, perhaps, tell me an interesting fact! (And just so you know, my standards for what counts as interesting are extremely easy to meet.)
Lunatia!! Amegahara, Lyestellus! Et cetera! Moonblessed and Moonheld! Hello!!
[ he makes a slight gesture, and the camera zooms out far enough to show a fuller view. anyone who knows him will notice right away that he's different! for one thing, his hair is so long that it's disappearing out of the bottom of the shot. for some others, he's wearing ceremonial silver armor and a heavy gold-trimmed cloak, and carrying an ornate golden staff taller than he is. his forearms, formerly badly cracked and set with stones, are perfectly smooth. and he looks more grown-up—though it might be hard to tell whether that's due to change in his features, or simply to his bearing. (also, subtitles to the video are appearing in real time.) ]
It is I! Titus Alexius! I have just now returned to this world! I gather that it's been three days here, just as it was three days the last time I left and then returned... Really, I wonder why it is three days?... but this time, for me, more than three years have gone by. So much has happened, and so much remains to be done, but what a gift it is to find myself once more in this place! My memories are returning all at once, and yet they are already years old... How strange and wonderful, to experience such instantaneous nostalgia...
[ abruptly, he leans forward and claps his hands together, letting the staff slip into the crook of his arm as he does so. ] In any case—honestly, I don't know how much of this is Cordis talking, but I am so, so excited to be back! I want to see and speak to you all again! I want to meet all the people I've never yet met! I want to eat, drink, and be merry! Of course, I want to moonlace—anything from handholding on up... Oh, speaking of which, I should update my profile on "the apps," shouldn't I?... ...Ah, but that can wait.
Everyone!! I will be permitted to drink them now, so please recommend your favorite alcoholic beverages! They have so many more varieties here than we do back home, and I am excited to try them, but I do know better than to sample too many at once.
Oh!! One more thing. I should like to retain the ongoing services of anyone with healing capabilities, for any compensation you deem appropriate. It's possible that I don't actually require it—perhaps the rejuvenating effect of moonlacing will be enough by itself—but I wish to err on the side of caution.
And... let's see. Please tell me the last thing that made you smile... or your favorite thing about the world of Prismatica. Or, perhaps, tell me an interesting fact! (And just so you know, my standards for what counts as interesting are extremely easy to meet.)
1/2 omg thank you for your time and effort, im honored lol. one of my own kind— so many words lol.
[ He sighs. This is the official point of confirmation of their friendship, that he listened to all this at all. Zuko's practice in patience in Lunatia is... always being challenged by good people, it seemed... ]
You know I had to replay that, like... three times? I took notes, okay, so I wouldn't forget some points! Just to make sense of it! I think you just said more in one message than I have all day! At least!
[ Ayyy, kid's got (always half-true) jokes, he's opening up, clearly. ]
I feel like a little kid listening to a fairy tale. I have so many questions about your world, you say so many words I don't know... like djinns and Singularity... I don't know about the "dungeons," either... But it's fine, it's fine. We'll gloss over it for now.
Okay, then. So let me get this straight— I probably got a lot of these details wrong, but whatever, that's your fault.
[ what how. welcome to friendship with Zuko. very nice. ]
Alma Torran was destroyed by Al-Thamen, an insurgent group led by a magi named Arba. A nation called the Kou Empire sought to “unite” the world by military force, expanding its reach by occupation of all the other nations. So Al-Thamen sought to gain control of the Kou Empire next, and destroy it. Arba then reincarnated herself as a woman named Gyokuen, who married the Kou Emperor, and plotted with Al-Thamen to assassinate the emperor and all their sons. However, by some twist of fate, the youngest prince Hakuryuu survived, although he sustained serious burns... and a scar over his left eye... His brothers told him their mother was secretly responsible for arranging their murders. After Gyokuen’s plot succeeded, Al-Theman created positions of power for themselves as priests in the Kou Empire, led by another magi, the high priest Judar, more relevant later... Gyokuen continued her reach for power by marrying the late Emperor's brother. All his children, Prince Hakuryuu's cousins and now stepsiblings — that's royal family trees for you, ha — they were all great military leaders. Regardless, Gyokuen usurped the eldest's rightful place on the throne once the second Emperor died — I assume Gyokuen had him assassinated, as well — and she crowned herself Empress. Only Hakuryuu knew the truth behind Gyokuen's actions, and vowed to defeat his mother and Al-Thamen to reclaim his homeland. The high priest, Judar, realized that he'd been disillusioned by Al-Thamen, and joined forces with Hakuryuu. Once he killed his mother, Prince Hakuryuu gained control of Al-Thamen, and declared himself the Kou emperor. His eldest cousin, though, General Kouen, was also the rightful heir to the throne. Once he heard his stepbrother had dethroned his stepmother, he sought to usurp him in turn. Hakuryuu commanded a small coup against Kouen's armies, but against all odds, Hakuryuu's revolution won out. As emperor, he ended the Kou Empire’s military expansion, and formed the International Alliance to work toward peace, I take it... But it, too, became corrupted — that also checks out, heh. So once they were aware of the internal threats, Hakuryuu rejoined with Aladdin... But why did they go into hiding? Had the traitors within the Alliance hired a hit on them both? What were the threats? Did Hakuryuu stay in power? You said the world is in disarray, though, but that he's well... How's that? And he lost all his limbs — how?! And how did he regain them?
There's a lot else you said that didn't make sense — but I think I got the gist otherwise? Right?