maskormenacelogs | OCTOBER CATCH-ALL

Um, sort of. Definitely not before I had the potential. But when I left our world for the first time, Maleficent showed me how to do a couple of things. Maybe, even though I couldn't summon it, I had it at the time. It's... hard to say.

[Technically, he only actually received his Keyblade much later than Sora.]

Hmm.

[Jaime may have insatiable curiosity about some things, but the technicalities of magic on another world isn't one of them. He's fine with just saying it's magic and leaving it at that. He doesn't even understand magic on his own world; what's the likelihood of him understanding it on another?]

Well, I guess it doesn't really matter in the end, does it? What matters is that you've got it -- and what you do with it, I guess.

Yeah, that's true. I don't know, really. I don't have much use for it here, besides Cure. Though the others come in handy every now and then, too.

So... what are the others, besides fire and cure? Cure sounds pretty darn self-explanatory to me, though.

Yeah, it is. There's Fire, Blizzard, Thunder, Aero, and Cure. That's what I do, anyway. There are more spells than that, naturally. I can vary them in power a little, there are three levels to each spell. I have a few abilities that are magical in nature, but they all come from my ability to use it in the first place.

So no teleporting or turning people into mice or any weird junk like that? Sounds to me like it's just control over the elements, plus being able to cure people.

[He leans back in his chair, sipping at his tea.]

I'm jealous, though; I wish I could cure people too.

Well, there are people that can do that stuff, but I do just elemental stuff, yeah.

[He shrugs, considering his own tea for a moment.] It's... not perfect. If I need to do something big, I'll use up all the magic energy I have, and then I have to figure out a way to replenish it. Fighting will do, something physical, and there are like... I've found some different foods here that'll work.

Wait, hold on. I've heard of people needing energy to cast magic before. Like, they'll have to rest, or get some calories in them or whatever, but fighting to gain it back is a new one. How d'you fight to get energy back?

[Jaime just said that he didn't apply science to magic. Well, look at him now!

He can't help himself.]

[Ah, the science emerges.]

Yeah, I know. I think it's kind of like a trade between my physical energy and my mental energy. When I'm fighting, I don't... it's not the same kind of focus as when I cast a spell.

No, no, I get that. It's just weird to think that it's like... hey, I need more energy! Better go for a jog!

[Magic. It makes no sense.]

I dunno. Maybe it has something to do with adrenaline or something. That sure isn't the way it works back home.

[This is because you're not from an RPG, Jaime.]

Haha, I know. Maybe it's less that I'm fighting and more that I'm just not casting magic.

[He shrugs -- it's never really made sense to him either.]

Then I guess resting would have the same effect, yeah? It'd be pretty easy to test -- see how much stronger you feel after you fight versus after you rest.

[A beat.]

...not that it really matters, I guess. It's just the kind of thing I would do.

[He also wanted to see how fast he could go, lost control, and flew directly into the ground during his first months as a superhero. He destroyed an innocent brick wall trying to figure out his claws, and discovered the hard way that fire hydrants need to be operated in a very specific way.

Don't be Jaime, Riku.]

Yeah. Guess I could... write it down or something.

You know... maybe it's a part of the Keyblade, too. When it hits something, maybe it absorbs some of the energy from the opponent or whatever.

[He can't say he's ever done anything of that caliber, but he's seen Sora do some stuff that might be parallel with how dumb that is.

After a moment Riku sits back in his chair, tea cupped in both hands. Now that his thoughts have kind of tapered off, he's back to the original reason he came here.]

... I'm going to change the subject here for a second, but... I'm a little concerned about Minato. Have you ever noticed him just... go to sleep for days?

He likes to sleep a lot.

[He doesn't know it as well as someone like Gogo would, particularly as she lives in the same house as him. And while Minato's professed his affection for sleeping, Jaime hasn't known him to ever be too busy sleeping whenever he's decided to call or text him.]

But for days at a time? That's not so great. Has he been doing that lately?

[He nods. He isn't sure how to feel about this -- Riku goes out of his way to avoid sleep, so the way Minato operates is totally foreign to him. But even he isn't so silly as to think it's normal.]

I mean, not for... that long. I'm pretty sure he still goes to work most of the time. But I've stopped in when it's school hours and he'll be there.

[Minato may have skipped something like three days a week lately.]

You ever talk to him about it?

[He'll have more to say on the matter later, but he wants to know the level of Riku's involvement first. Sometimes it's hard talking to Minato about things like this - there's nothing quite so demoralizing as the blank stare you receive when he doesn't realize why what you're talking about is important - but it's a necessary evil anyway.]

... Yeah, sort of. He kind of just looked at me. [He smiles quietly.] But he does that a lot, so I should have expected it. I've just been kind of... going over and checking on him when I go by. I do a trip through each of the cities at least once a week for work, so. Sometimes, though, it'll have been a couple of days, and it's hard to tell whether he even got up in between visits.

Checking on him seems like a good idea. I dunno, usually when someone's sleeping that much, you gotta wonder if they're staying healthy, but for Minato? I think he just has a lot on his plate. Between school and work and the fifty kajillion things he signs himself up for...

I'd be sleeping forever too!

[Jaime feels as if he has hands full with his two jobs and his friends, let alone a whole host of others.]

But if you can, it's probably good to get him up and moving whenever you're over.

Yeah. I can't even imagine how he manages to do all that stuff. I'd get tired after like three things.

[He does, too. He can handle fighting for hours and needing to survive and all that stuff, but give him anything interpersonal and he wants to leave an hour in. But then, Minato seems to care for all of those people, and with the people Riku likes, it's different. They don't make him feel tired. So... maybe it's in the middle.]

Mm. I do wake him up, so I'll have to start insisting a little harder that he gets up.

Probably not a bad thing letting him get some rest -- you could always just wake him up and sit around with him for a while, see if you can get him to talk. Whenever I lie around all day, it's 'cause I feel like crap.

[And not necessarily physically. Jaime has a bad habit of choosing just to lie around when he's feeling depressed. If he's upset, you can expect there to be a marathon of some background noise on TV with Jaime draped inelegantly on the couch.

Minato has so much to look forward to when they move in together.]

Mm. ... I get like that, too.

[He doesn't watch a whole lot of TV, though -- Riku kind of has no idea what to do with himself in those sorts of situations. He can't sleep like Minato does, because he'll dream. So he just stays up and powers through it.]

Guess I'll have to bring him a treat or something.

That, or you could just ask him what's going on. He'll never tell you unless you actually ask -- and ask directly.

[He shouldn't be saying that like Riku of all people doesn't already know that, but, well... he's so quiet about it that it's hard to cotton onto it. The more people getting in his business, the better.]

Yeah. I... try not to force him, though, either. Sometimes I feel like it's really uncomfortable for him.

[He nods, looking down at his mug, which is more or less empty now, and then back to Jaime.]

Uh -- I'm sorry what I told you wasn't what you would have preferred to hear about me. But... thanks for listening, either way.

Hey, you don't hafta thank me for anything. I'm the one who was prying. And, I mean...

[He can't say that he was happy to hear what Riku had to say. It complicates things. It does, knowing that he's ruined the life of someone that Jaime knows and likes, of some kid who deserved miles better than he got.

Eventually, he says,] I'd rather hear something I didn't want to than hear a lie, anyway. But you know I'm always gonna try and look out for Roxas, right? And Minato?

[Which is to say, at the present, Jaime's loyalties don't lie with Riku. Give it time. He's easy to win over.]

[He nods -- he can understand this, naturally. If he were on the other side of this conversation, that's what he'd be saying, too.]

Yeah, of course. I... would prefer it that way, anyway. They're important. They can both protect themselves if they were in danger, but... some things are harder to protect yourself from.

OCTOBER CATCH-ALL

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in which jaime ignores 'maleficent' for the sake of our future thread WHY THE EVIL WITCH RIKU

lmao did you not expect this after he just confessed to the roxas thing come on

i didn't expect the roxas confession when we started our second thread!

this is true lmao

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