Death Just Needs A Little Conversation [Open]

[fivemilesdeep]

Who: Ryo and Open (angled towards those with death powers/connections)
Where: ICP/Garden Car
When: Nebula 3
What: Ryo is coming to terms with the fact that he's kept his death-related Diagad powers, so now he's asking for help with them. (They're not what he's afraid they are, but he doesn't know that yet.)
Warnings: Probably a lot of death talk, but we'll go from there.
Notes: It starts as an ICP post, but he won't be replying on the network, only in person. Anyone is welcome to join in; he's just angling for people with Insight Into Death. (I'll also match prose or brackets.)

[Ryo looks...uncertain at best, but much closer to 'worried but trying not to show it' as the ICP flickers on.]

If anyone is connected to death, or has death-related powers, I could use your help.

[-wait that sounds bad-]

It's nothing crazy - I just have...questions.

[He can't quite bring himself to say what he's actually worried about, so instead it's just:]

I'll be in the garden car, if you wouldn't mind coming to see me.

[And the ICP flickers off. He's not planning on having this conversation in front of the train and everyone, so in-person it is. True to his word, he's sitting on one of the benches in the garden car with Lagos in his lap, holding the plush bird and trying not to let his fears run away with him. He may not be entirely succeeding. It may be obvious.]

Comments

[wewillwewill]

[Elidibus keeps a certain distance as Ryo doesn't appear to have relaxed at all. As long as the youth doesn't ask for him to depart, the Ascian won't.

Ease will come with time or not. At least Elidibus has practice dealing with the outcome of both. The question causes the Ascian to close his eyes momentarily.]

Yes, I was here.

[When his eyes open again he seems thoughtful. There are many reasons to be asking about death related to that and Ryo has already eliminated one option. Though rather than offer his guess on the matter, Elidibus instead offers a prompt.]

If not about the cycle of death, then what would you like to know?

30 years late without starbucks fffffff

[fivemilesdeep]

[He'd been there, then. So he'll have some context for this line of questioning, at least.]

The power that you got there - did you keep it? Do you know?

[It's not a direct admission that he has death powers - not yet - but it's enough for an intelligent person to put two and two together and get a reasonable approximation of four.]

Starbucks is overrated sometimes anyway. Though their peppermint mocha... c.c

[wewillwewill]

[There's definitely some contextual clues here. As to the question, Elidibus pauses a moment before answering. Half to consider how to respond but whether admitting as much had more benefit than risk.]

Yes. The false Diagad bestowed on me a command over shadows. [And the dark, though not as much as his false-past's 'brother' of that illusionary world. The Ascian smiles faintly.] A somewhat ironic power for those who are known to be without shadow.

[Strictly speaking he does have one now. Borrowed body and all.]

I take it with your questions, your call for assistance is related to the power which stays with you from that world?

[fivemilesdeep]

["Without shadow" is a weird tidbit, and he's honestly not sure whether that's a metaphor. Whether it's useful or not, he's probably going to remember that.]

[But there's the subject at hand to get back to.]

Yes. I had death powers on Diagad, and I'm...not sure what to do with them.

[The people he trusts get his actual worries and fears regarding his powers. Elidibus gets vague concern.]

[wewillwewill]

[Elidibus wouldn't expect such intimacy from Ryo on matters of emotion. He closes his eyes but there need not be worry.]

Pray explain what defines this death power of yours? The phrase by itself is unclear.

[He doesn't seem troubled that Ryo holds some sort of power over death. Polite and calm, he simplyawaits the explanation.]