March & April Test Drive

[thewakemods]

It's that time again!

→ Comment with a new character you'd like to test out in the game's setting. (put character/canon in subject line pls!)
→ You don't have to be in the game to comment! HI NEW PEOPLE LET US ENABLE YOU.
→ Tag around with new and old characters.
→ App all those characters
→ ???
→ PROFIT!

**NOTICE** - For new series and recent updates/occurrences to existing ones, please mark as SPOILERS if you must refer to such, but please use your own discretion in general.

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[guru_clef]

"I see nothing that needs forgiving, but I simply ask why. What does being blind have to do with stopping you from using magic? From doing anything you want, really?"

[blind_masseur]

Ichi tilts his head, and a warm smile graces it. The look is appreciation for Clef's words, before he finally lowers his chin back to his chest.

"I cannot argue much against you, there. Perhaps it is just a strange thought to me, to make magic. I could never see it, and I'm not quite certain how I would feel something that is not as solid as a breeze or a rock."

[guru_clef]

He smiled and stopped. "Pause walking a moment, and place one hand out, please, palm up." This... ah this he could do something about.

[blind_masseur]

Ichi's head stays tilted but he does as told. His expression turns to an almost child-like curiosity as he holds his hand out, palm up and open.

[guru_clef]

Celf focused and Bent up the tiniest little rain cloud to rain onto his hand. Then the rain started gathering there, as if he held a glass, or a sphere, swirling just past his fingers around the outer edges of a circular shape, until Ichi was holding a moving ball of water, flowing with its own internal tides. No casing. He could dip his fingers in and out. As long as Clef held the focus, it would hold its shape. He let the cloud go, and the rain stopped, so he could give his attention to the water sphere.

"Not solid, but undeniably. As the breeze you mentioned. But both more and less. Magic. Bending."

[blind_masseur]

The sensation is so foreign and seemingly impossible that it actually causes Zatoichi to open his eyes. They are a strange, silvery color. Not clouded but still not normal for a man from his world. He can't see a thing with his eyes open, but they dart as if he's searching for something. He leans his cane against him so he can feel that water sphere with both hands, testing its movements with his deft fingertips.

"It's - incredible." His voice is low. This was indeed, magic he could feel.

[guru_clef]

"It is not a spell that I would teach someone new, as it takes an enormous amount of focus, as well as study on tides on varying worlds, and gravitational forces present. But it is very good for washing away the walls of disbelief. Once those walls are overcome, the rest is study, practice, will, and imagination. You do not need eyes that see for magic, as long as you have a mind that can dream."

[blind_masseur]

Unseeing eyes blink as he continues to feel the ebbs and flows of the small sphere of water, and that child-like smile returns.

"I would like to learn, Sensei, if you would be willing to teach me." He had hounded the man who taught him his swordsmanship, and knew how doggedly he could apply himself when he put his mind to it. The idea he could learn something so incredible, it tantalized him with its possibilities.

[guru_clef]

"Of course I am willing to teach you. I have been a teacher of magic for centuries in a world where power works very much as it does here. Would you like to begin right away?" A warm smile could be heard in his voice.

[blind_masseur]

"Perhaps fortune has smiled upon our meeting, then. I would be honored, to learn from you." He is afraid to just let the orb of water drop but he makes an awkward bow with his head and shoulders and keeps his hands where they are.

"Whatever you see worthy to teach me, I will apply myself." Clef has found a part of Zatoichi's heart that years to learn, and rekindled a youthful desire there. It shows, whatever weathered age may show in Zatoichi's face seems to melt into an energetic man excited to begin.

[guru_clef]

"Alright then," he said warmly. "Please sit and make yourself comfortable."

[blind_masseur]

"Hai." He finally has to release the water sphere, regretting it only a little but excited because he was about to learn something new. He knows he won't get anything right on the first try without dumb luck, he spent too long training with his sword and his dice to think otherwise. That only spurs him to do his best as he settles, laying his cane down at his side so both hands are free for the lesson.

[guru_clef]

He created a hard shell over the water sphere and set it next to the man. HE wouldn't be able to dip his fingers in or feel the wet, but the spell was now stabilized inside the shell that he could hear the tide against it and feel the sense of motion within. A bit more Bending, and he was able to tie the whole thing off to the World's energy, so that his own focus was no longer needed.

He settled onto the ground and let his own sphere pop so he could move to sit beside his new student on the grass. "Alright, think of something from home that you know well. Something you've held so many times it seems a part of you. For one student, it was her glasses, another, his wrench. Chose something you would know in an instant. Nothing alive though, please."

[blind_masseur]

Zatoichi already had his cane sword at his side, but there was another item he knew just as well. He brought to mind his favorite set of dice, worn from use and handling, but he knew every single scratch and indent in their surface.

"My traveling dice." He nearly ducks his head in mild shame, but keeps it to a bob of his head. "I have had them since I was a boy."

[guru_clef]

"Alright then, hold your hand as if you were holding them as they usually do. Think about the exact way your hand shapes around them, about where they push into your hand, the weight of them, the texture. If they have a scent, think of the scent of them."

[blind_masseur]

Clef certain knew how to teach. Ichi holds his hand in a loosely cupped shape, eyes closed as he thinks on them. He'd only held them a few hours ago and he could clearly imagine their weight in his hand, the well-worn corners, and the pips of each side. He nods as he cements the sense of them in his hand.

[guru_clef]

"As you focus on them, apply your will. Wish for them to be in your hand, feel them as if they were there and will it to be so."

[blind_masseur]

His head tilts, not from confusion but from concentration. He applies his will the same as he might when he focuses on his work as a masseur. Dice are meant to bring pleasure, after all, and he wasn't going to use his warrior's spirit to try and bring them into being.

In his hand faint, uncolored boxes appear, half-existing and not really there, but Zatoichi is trying. While he can feel them, he certainly doesn't have the skill of Bending yet to make them tangible to anyone else.

[guru_clef]

"You are getting closer, focus your will, you can do this," he encouraged, softly.