oo1: video. un: lilies.

[cwiclac]

[ lily potter has had something of a jarring entrance into el nysa, and has remained relatively quiet since her arrival. she's spent most of the time with her ragtag family in some sort of attempt to parse through everything that had happened. and, honestly -- lily hasn't managed to do that. she isn't entirely sure whether or not she could ever do that.

but sitting around and doing nothing is also definitely not her style. she needs to be proactive, to find her spot in this new world. get information, learn how to adapt and survive, and try to get through everything that has happened.

even in times of peace, war is still the predominating factor in how she tries to analyze what in the actual hell has happened.

so lily (a young twenty-something-year-old with a huge amount of red hair and green eyes) presents as tired, but with color in her cheeks and a brightness in her eyes. she's noticed some people have been asking for jobs, and lily knows that she needs to do that eventually, too -- but to introduce herself to her new community of ... well, refugees, lily figured something a little less to-the-point was more appropriate.

information is needed. and in this world, there are so many different people, people who are living openly, that it doesn't seem that magic is so taboo here as it is in the muggle world back home. it's almost refreshing, really, but it also leads lily to a question: ]

This entire world is miraculous, isn't it?

[ literally. figuratively. metaphorically. she's breathing, isn't she? ]

I'm new, here -- I'm sure a lot of other people are going to say the same thing in the coming weeks, and I know people who have been here for longer than I have are probably tired of the questions. [ tough shit is what she wants to say, but ah well. ] My name is Lily, and I come from a world where there are a lot of different types of people, too. I'm not sure how many skills or talents I have that will be useful to any of you, but I do want to know -- how many of you believe in, or practice, magic?

[ that's it. that's her question. but after figuring that that blunt question might lead the suspicious to not really want to answer, she continues. it's a risk, and it feels odd saying it -- but after seeing so many different people, and watching the network closely, she figures it's a risk that could probably pay off in spades: ]

I'll show you mine if you show me yours.

[ lily potter will make ice sculptures out of rain puddles all day if it means someone will give her something to do, thanks. ]

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text | un: lilies.

[cwiclac]

No, but I think the non-magical people in my world would like that a lot.

Why can't you have both?

[ psychic ghosts are legit dude ]

[shashka]

In my experience, magic is just something we haven't been able to figure out.

For example, back home, some of our scientists were doing research into ESP... psychics, ghosts and the like. Some people would call that magic. But isn't it just something about the natural world we don't understand yet?

[ well that and Russians take the fun out of everything. ]

[cwiclac]

Prophecies exist in my world, too, but I've never taken much stock into them.

[ which is a blatant lie, but the world doesn't need to know about that. not yet, anyway. ]

I suppose some things used to be described as magic that we now know isn't, like gravity and the Earth revolving around the Sun. But I'm talking about legitimate magic. Causing things to float with your own power, turning a lamp into a duck. That type of thing.

[shashka]

Just as well. The future's a tricky thing to predict at the best of times.

Again, couldn't you accomplish that with something like ESP and the manipulation of molecules? My first CO could shoot electricity from his hands. Would you call that magic? Or was it the fact that he could channel thousands of volts through his body on command? There were also psychics that were so powerful they could levitate themselves or others off the ground.

Isn't all just how you look at things?

[ but hey, he's not a scientist. just a guy who sees everything as almost explainable (and who also might've inherited some psychic powers of his own from his father but he doesn't know that yet). ]

[cwiclac]

I would call that magic, but you have a good point.

Maybe my world is behind the times because the two halves of the same coin refuse to acknowledge each other -- science, and magic.

[shashka]

[ hey, it was like he said. one person's magic is another person's science. ]

It probably depends on the governments as well. My country, the Soviet Union put a lot of resources into studying psychic phenomena, while other governments tended to ignore it, or thought our research was part of a disinformation campaign.

[cwiclac]

[ the soviet union, that's familiar, at least. ]

I see. And these psychics -- it's strictly biological? Through scientific experimentation performed by the government?