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[OPENING] mass visual telepathy log

[Genette has provided everyone a portion of mirror, which they're free to do whatever they want to with it BUT the idea is that they introduce themselves to the telepathy network with a video feed, showcasing their face. Otherwise, the coven might just get an endless stream of grass, sand or hut wall.

If you're willing to commit to the exercise, here is your intro log for doing so! Hold up the mirror piece, introduce yourself and receive a broadcast from your fellow mages.

Because this is an open post, tag around like you would a typical log community post!]

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Well, I suspect we'll be here for a bit at the very least.

Oh? And I'm Yuuko. Yuuko Ichihara. The Witch of Space and Time, as I'm more commonly referred as. But Yuuko does just fine. There's no need to be formal with titles and honorifics.

It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance, Waver. You seem like quite the scholar. And I imagine you'll be quite the magician. They say everyone was given new powers here. If you don't mind me asking, what's yours? I'm just curious.

[Well now she's gone and done it, she's fed the ego that's been bruised over the years. There's a blush on Waver's face, but it's from pride for once, rather than embarrassment.]

It's nice to meet you too, Yuuko. [And he does try and get the pronunciation correct. The boy was just plucked from Japan after all.]

Smoke creation and manipulation. I'm an alchemist back home, so it's a big change. [He isn't sure if it is for the better or not. Bloodlines being tied to magecraft, it is something he couldn't do under circumstances back home.] What did you end up getting? Space and Time sounds like it's pretty all encompassing.

[Alchemy? It just keeps getting better and better.]

Manipulation hm? You better be careful with magic like that. But it does sound like quite a change.

And you're right. Space and time is pretty all encompassing... I've seen and dabbled in quite a bit. And if I haven't I knew someone who covered the rest of the bases.

The new power I was given seems a touch ironic considering the state I was in when I was presumably taken. [The dead giving life. It honestly makes her smile.] I can breath life into plants. Make them grow and such. It seems I've gone from a time witch to a green witch~ It's very... interesting. And different. But a good different.

[Yuuko either had seen a lot, or been around for a longer than usual time to have those kinds of contacts. But Waver knew better than to say those thoughts out loud, but they did ping something else.]

I think there's kind of fun in there, given how witches get portrayed as having green skin and the like. But that kind of limitation of your natural abilities, that's not bothering you?

[He figured that one was out of line after he asked it. Crap.]

[She gives a slight shake of her head at his question. She doesn't find it out of line or offensive. It's natural to ask something like that. To be so powerful and then to have some of that strength taken away...

It doesn't bother her.]

I knew a wizard who was so powerful that upon his death he split himself in two. He did this because he made a mistake so great that it threw the natural order of things into chaos. He never wanted that to happen again.

And even if you live wound in the thick chains of checks and balances sometimes it's still not enough...

More power, less power... I'm still who I am. I may not be a Space Time witch anymore but I can still grant wishes. I can still cast magic. [She is still a dreaming butterfly.] And that's what's important. Also~ Where I was before I woke up here can't even hold a candle to a place like this. If some of my magic being gone is the price of coming here... then so be it. That's a fair trade.

[Well, consider Waver surprised. There's no rebuke, and the answer is thoughtful. He breathes an internal sigh of relief at having not stepped on toes, then actually listens.

That kind of sense of self is something that does remind him of Iskandar. That level of confidence, or at least Yuuko projects that same level. There's none of the Iskandar levels of well, Iskandar, but there's a shared seed or two.]

That's some power. [And moreover:] Some wizard, with that level of foresight.

[No mage Waver knows would ever do that.]

I think you're the first person I've spoken with that's been able to take everything stride. Or even use the word fair.

[Talking about Clow is always hard and it probably always will be. Yuuko allows her eyes to close, for just a moment, before giving a nod and a smile.]

He was certainly something.

[Something special.]

I think that's just because I've been around for a while. In your life so many things happen. Some unmistakably tragic and some beyond amazing. There are good days and bad days and all the days in between. You lose and gain from day and no matter what happens the world always finds a way to right itself. It's always balanced. You learn to take things in stride one way or another. You learn to cope and continue your path even when it seems hard. No matter what is thrown at you the world isn't going to stop spinning.

We're in a new world with strange magic and possibly toxic crabs... However you feel about that situation doesn't stop tomorrow from coming. So taking a deep breath and continuing forward seems better than sulking about it. Oh, and a smile helps too~

[How long have you been around? That's the question on the tip of Waver's tongue, but it doesn't come out. The number doesn't matter in the end, it is all about wealth of experience, and it is clear to Waver that Yuuko has that in spades.]

How do you deal with the feeling that the world is going to stop spinning though?

[He's asking for a friend who is in the middle of a magi war for a wish granting cup. Just a friend.]

Toxic crabs aside, mind.

Well... [She curls some hair around her finger.] You try and deal with it gracefully.

Everything happens for a reason. That's not people's favorite saying but it's mine. The world will eventually end. Sometimes you have a part to play in it and sometimes you're just a bystander. Sometimes you can do something. Other times you can't. But knowing that you did everything you could win or lose... Finding a way to accept the inevitable does wonders.

I broke the universe you know~ By accident... but it did very much happen. And there was no guarantee it was going to fix itself. And for me the world did stop turning. And when that happens you make sure there are no regrets and you do everything that you need to do. So when it all ends you can feel at peace with it.

[Gracefully has never been Waver's strong suit. He's impulsive and very angry and prone to making everything seem like the end of the world. But he tries to listen to Yuuko here, really listen.

And he knows asking how did you break the universe? is the wrong take away. The last two sentences she says though? That's the real important thing to seize upon.]

I think most people don't like the saying because it usually gets said blithely and without anyone really explaining what they mean by it. [Versus what just happened.] Everything else is...worth trying.

[She smiles.] That's very true. People use it as an excuse when it should be used as an explanation.

And if there is one thing that I have learned in my long years it is that fate can be changed by those that are willing and determined enough to do so. The world may stop spinning because that is fate of all worlds but there should be someone determined enough to try spin it themselves.

[An excuse instead of an explanation. That was a good phrase. Good wording. Waver quietly noted it down in the back of his head.]

I think you have to have lived through enough problems to have that kind of perspective. [He pauses, then adds:] Thanks.

[This is all stuff he needed to hear.]

[Well. He's certainly not wrong. Her profession of granting wishes has given her insight to so many things both great and small. No to mention the very big mistake she made with that wizard. You learn, eventually, to take all things in stride. Doing anything else will eventually wear you down beyond repair. There's no need to elaborate on such things though. So she smiles and offers a small nod.]

You're most welcome.

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