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Tennouji Kotarou ([personal profile] scriptwriter) wrote2021-07-03 12:46 am

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impostorsyndrome: (the witch hunt is nothing)

[personal profile] impostorsyndrome 2021-07-06 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
[Why did Kadoc not realize that going on the actual excursion with this guy was unlikely to change the way he acts . . . he's still calling him Fish Eyes! Come on! Kadoc doesn't even bother correcting him this time; it seems pointless. If anything, if this guy is a bully, it'll only encourage him to do it more.

But he's got to admit he doesn't actually seem like a bully. Just an over the top weirdo, and Kadoc's known plenty of those. And right now, his reaction isn't even that over the top: this place is actually impressive as hell. Kadoc's also spent some time living in palaces semi-recently, but this is on another level—maybe because it's so shameless, alive with excess in a way his Lostbelt could never hope to touch.

He follows at a short distance, and once they're at the fountain, he does a slow circuit around it, taking in the sight.]


. . . This is so weird. What's the point of all this . . . ?
impostorsyndrome: (you are the only one who is ignored)

[personal profile] impostorsyndrome 2021-07-11 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[Silently, but not subtly, Kadoc rolls his eyes at the dungeon-crawl remark. Come on! This isn't a video game! It's on the tip of his tongue, only for Kotarou to follow it up with . . . an actually relevant question. Huh. It would seem that this guy has a head on his shoulders, even if that head also sports eyes that see the world in a twisted way.

So he comes back over, arms folded.]


. . . It's Light magic. That's the only one I've got, so don't count on anything else from me. I'm no good for combat, but I've at least got a handle on what I do have.

[It's not like he has anything else to practice but the one field, so by now, he's done an agonizing amount of practice. Kadoc's hopes had been high for a time that if he only mastered Light enough, his secondary magic would reveal itself later. No dice.]

You didn't give me your name yet.
impostorsyndrome: (is anxiety what we'll live on)

[personal profile] impostorsyndrome 2021-07-17 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
Right, Tennouji.

[He says, pointedly. It's got nothing to do with culture; Kadoc is just a habitual family name user most of the time, especially at first. There are times it feels or sounds weird and he relents, but this is definitely not one of them. Nice to meet you, Tennouji.

But that's all that needs to be said about that. Light Amigos, huh . . . sheesh, this guy. He's so excited by something so disappointing: not the Light magic, which Kadoc actually likes just fine and wouldn't want to give up, but the fact that he has only one. But Kotarou didn't even mention that part. He just got hyped up about the Light Amigos thing. Here Kadoc was all ready to be defensive! This throws him.]


I like my magic just fine. God knows I've busted my ass practicing it these past few months. It's just not as offensive as some of the others. I use it mostly for defense and illusion.
impostorsyndrome: (before trust comes the annoying people)

[personal profile] impostorsyndrome 2021-07-20 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Maybe it is a personality thing. Kadoc wonders the same, letting out a quiet little snort when Kotarou says he's no good at illusion . . . that makes sense, doesn't it? It's hard to imagine this guy pulling off a stealth mission down a guarded corridor or some shit. Kadoc, in contrast, has gotten pretty good at making himself invisible by now, and he has been well aware the entire time of how on-the-nose that is.

He wanders a little, over to take in the finery adorning the walls of the chamber they ended up in. Are they supposed to do something here? It feels like they must be, right? It can't just be a tour like they advertised.]


I don't have a secondary magic. I thought I was the only person here in that position, but maybe you're as unlucky as I am. It'd be weird that we both started with Light. . . . What's wrong with Elemental?
impostorsyndrome: (is anxiety what we'll live on)

[personal profile] impostorsyndrome 2021-07-30 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
[That answer isn't anything like whatever Kadoc expects. It feels—familiar, in the tone and psychology of it, and he wants to pry into it more, maybe think about that a little more deeply than he has thus far. It's always been hard for him to wrap his head around this place's version of magic, where you literally can't access anything other than what's been mysteriously assigned to you, but there are times it feels more like home, and that's . . . interesting. He's all about to dig into that, a little more gently than he may have been inclined to a minute ago, but then they're interrupted—

By, uh, this. Kadoc turns slowly, slooooowly in the direction of the creepy rhyming gentlemen, eyes widening little by little as they go through their routine. When they finish, he doesn't say anything immediately, that's how much he's expecting a "just kidding!" to get tacked onto the end of all that there. But it doesn't. The silence stretches on for a bit too long, until finally Kadoc turns to Kotarou to address him instead. He literally doesn't even know what he'd say in response.]


Please tell me you're not dumb enough to agree to this.
impostorsyndrome: (the grandfather wanteth the enemy)

[personal profile] impostorsyndrome 2021-08-03 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
—Oh my god. One of the trials? Are you kidding me? That dumbass crap?!

[It's the nature of these trials that, while it was going on, the knowledge of the trials happening at all this week was withheld from Kadoc's mind; he would not have been able to place what was happening no matter how hard he tried. But now that limiter is off, and the truth occurs to him immediately when he thinks back on the phrase you have passed the test.

For real?! Kadoc grumbles and pushes his hair out of his eyes, then rubs the bridge of his nose.]


If anyone fails that, we all deserve to be invaded by Celliwig yesterday.