dead to the power of two | OPEN

[runeing]

Who: celen's boys (aka charles and viktor), you?
Where: viktor's lab, lupin, the farm
What: viktor finally loses the battle against his illness and comes back. meanwhile, charles is learning magic (badly).
Warnings: death and dying, mentions of child abuse



PROMPTS IN COMMENTS.

▷ charles.
▷ viktor.

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[For a time, there really weren't many that even called her Cait. Her family was so proper, it was always full first names only. Then there was Jayce. He started the nicknames, then Vi walked into her life. Vi was the first step in opening up her world, and once they found themselves here, making a life for themselves, making friends, Caitlyn isn't very surprised that the nicknames have lasted. She quite likes it. It's proof of how much her world has changed.

She finally dismounts from her chocobo, grabbing his reigns and leading him closer. The chocobo tilts his head curiously at Charles and squawks, and quickly busies himself with poking at the ground.]

That's... fascinating. So specific items can affect your...aura? [She really has no idea what to even call his visual state. Because he's definitely there. And yet transparent enough to disappear through walls and be unable to drink.

There are spirits in Runeterra, and are a big part of Ionian culture and life, but she's mostly just heard those things in stories. She's never really witnessed them in her life, but that's hardly the same thing as what Charles was.]

[incorrigibles]

[ meanwhile, charles blinks at the chocobo — it's definitely not an animal found on earth... but that's maybe for later.

right now is for grinning at caitlyn as he nods. ]

Sort of, yeah. I mean, I do exist, just... uh, in varying degrees of corporeality?

[ as she has already witnessed in lupin, he can very much either pass through objects or touch them like he's fully corporeal. ]

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And yet, not enough for a drink?

[Look, Caitlyn hasn't forgotten his visit to the bar. She's thinking of ways to make that a possibility, but it does help, learning more about how it all works.]

Is it dependent on your circumstances? As in, where you are at the time? Or if you're around something particularly "spiritual"?

[She's genuinely curious how close this affliction relates to what she knows of spirits, okay!! But it was mostly lore from Ionia that her father told her, and she had no idea how much was truth and was what simply folklore.]

-- Sorry, if I'm prying. You don't.. have to answer. I'm genuinely curious. We have spirits in our world, but it's not such a common occurrence where I grew up.

[incorrigibles]

Yeah. Dumb, innit? Technically, I can eat, but it just all tastes like ash, so not much point to it.

[ he smiles at her as she's backtracking, trying to apologise for her curiosity — it's an easy thing, to shake his head. ]

Nah, it's fine. I don't mind. It's all about concentration. I can choose how corporeal I am, or how incorporeal. I could float up right now, and the only reason I don't is because I choose not to.