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asgardeventide2013-08-17 04:42 pm
morethanadream) wrote in asgardeventide2013-08-17 04:42 pm
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1st Winter Dream ☽ Video ☾ Jack and Sandy
[When the feed starts, it shows the inside of what must be a room in Sigyn. Plants grow up and down the walls, along the windows, and occasionally along the floor. A little man in a turtleneck stands in the middle of it all, giving the camera an absent wave as he takes a sketchpad out from off camera. For those who know him, he seems a little pale, but he doesn't acknowledge it as he flips through the sketchpad. He opens it up to a pre-drawn page, and he turns it around to show, in deceptively simple (though there are pictures weaved in if one looks closely enough) calligraphy, Sandy. Then he points to himself.
He figures he ought to introduce himself to the network before telling them about spirit banishing.]
I don't think I need to translate that one. [Jack doesn't appear on the feed, his voice is coming off-screen. He sounds a bit worried too.] Are you sure you want to do this?
[Sandy, without missing a pause, just nods and flips through his sketchpad again. Now is not the time for worrying about him, Jack; now's the time to worry about everyone else.
Sandy flips to another pre-drawn picture, and when he turns it around, it's a picture of ghosts bouncing off a house. He holds the page up for a second, allowing people to see it, before flipping to another page that shows a detailed picture of a sprig of rosemary. Beneath the picture, there's an image of a house with a rosemary growing on either side of the entrances to a house.]
Alright, alright, it's learning time with Professor Sandman. There are some plants that can be planted outside your place to repel the ghosts. Thaaaaat's... rosemary I think?
[Sandy nods. Yes, it's rosemary.
Then he flips to the next picture. It's a picture of a potted cactus inside a house, next to the door. On the same page, there's a picture of the outside of a house with the cactus visible from the front window.]
Woah, cacti to? Another reason for me to stay away from the desert. Gotta keep this one inside and near the entrance.
[Sandy has to bow his head a little as his shoulders shake. Damn it, Jack, stop making him laugh.
Then he shakes himself out and flips to a new page. There's a picture of a saltshaker, and beneath that, a person shaking out salt around the perimeter around a building. There's also a picture of a person periodically shaking salt out around themselves. Beneath that, there's a picture of big grains of salt.]
You can make a safe zone out of salt, and apparentely coarse salt is better? ...You're not getting salt anywhere near me, little man.
[Despite the seriousness of the situation, Sandy's eyes sparkle with amusement. Jack, stop annotating your translations.
He flips to a new page which has a detailed picture of sweetgrass, then tobacco, then sage. Beneath the sweetgrass is an arrow pointing to a picture of hands braiding the sweetgrass into a thick piece of incense.
Beneath that, there's a picture of someone holding a lighter to a clump of the herbs tied together with a piece of twine, and beneath that, there's a picture of the clump in a bowl or in a pair of hands, smoke wafting from from the plants and chasing away spirits from a room.]
Let's see... you make like, incense out of those? Yeah, and then burn it to cleanse a room. Great, fire too.
[Sandy shoots an amused look off camera. Jack, these aren't meant to invite ice spirits into the house. Yes, it involves fire. Be happy he's not talking about cleansing people with bonfires.
Then he flips to a new page. In this one, someone is on their tiptoes painting the top of their window with a strange circular design. Beneath that picture, there's an image of the outside of a house with that design on the top of every window.
This one is a little more difficult than just putting a cactus in your house, but it's good for anyone who needs to ward their windows, don't have friends in Sigyn, and/or happen to be good at art.]
And since we can't de-energize all our growers, here is one for anyone with a pencil: draw that symbol on your windows.
[Speaking of growers...
Sandy flips to the next page, and in it, there's a series of pictures of people all across Asgard, holding their hands towards bare earth and coaxing plants to grow. The more people grow things, the fewer houses the spirits can get into.]
He asks his fellow Sigyn members to help with the growing so we keep the city safe.
[Sandy flips to the next page, and it's a picture of someone with a speech bubble and a question mark over their head, facing a happy Sandy.]
Any questions, just ask Sandy. Seriously, this guy is zillion years old, he knows everything.
[Now Sandy's going to smile and turn off the feed before he sits down on his bed to take a breather. Okay, maybe the hauntings are taking more of a toll than he'd like.]
He figures he ought to introduce himself to the network before telling them about spirit banishing.]
I don't think I need to translate that one. [Jack doesn't appear on the feed, his voice is coming off-screen. He sounds a bit worried too.] Are you sure you want to do this?
[Sandy, without missing a pause, just nods and flips through his sketchpad again. Now is not the time for worrying about him, Jack; now's the time to worry about everyone else.
Sandy flips to another pre-drawn picture, and when he turns it around, it's a picture of ghosts bouncing off a house. He holds the page up for a second, allowing people to see it, before flipping to another page that shows a detailed picture of a sprig of rosemary. Beneath the picture, there's an image of a house with a rosemary growing on either side of the entrances to a house.]
Alright, alright, it's learning time with Professor Sandman. There are some plants that can be planted outside your place to repel the ghosts. Thaaaaat's... rosemary I think?
[Sandy nods. Yes, it's rosemary.
Then he flips to the next picture. It's a picture of a potted cactus inside a house, next to the door. On the same page, there's a picture of the outside of a house with the cactus visible from the front window.]
Woah, cacti to? Another reason for me to stay away from the desert. Gotta keep this one inside and near the entrance.
[Sandy has to bow his head a little as his shoulders shake. Damn it, Jack, stop making him laugh.
Then he shakes himself out and flips to a new page. There's a picture of a saltshaker, and beneath that, a person shaking out salt around the perimeter around a building. There's also a picture of a person periodically shaking salt out around themselves. Beneath that, there's a picture of big grains of salt.]
You can make a safe zone out of salt, and apparentely coarse salt is better? ...You're not getting salt anywhere near me, little man.
[Despite the seriousness of the situation, Sandy's eyes sparkle with amusement. Jack, stop annotating your translations.
He flips to a new page which has a detailed picture of sweetgrass, then tobacco, then sage. Beneath the sweetgrass is an arrow pointing to a picture of hands braiding the sweetgrass into a thick piece of incense.
Beneath that, there's a picture of someone holding a lighter to a clump of the herbs tied together with a piece of twine, and beneath that, there's a picture of the clump in a bowl or in a pair of hands, smoke wafting from from the plants and chasing away spirits from a room.]
Let's see... you make like, incense out of those? Yeah, and then burn it to cleanse a room. Great, fire too.
[Sandy shoots an amused look off camera. Jack, these aren't meant to invite ice spirits into the house. Yes, it involves fire. Be happy he's not talking about cleansing people with bonfires.
Then he flips to a new page. In this one, someone is on their tiptoes painting the top of their window with a strange circular design. Beneath that picture, there's an image of the outside of a house with that design on the top of every window.
This one is a little more difficult than just putting a cactus in your house, but it's good for anyone who needs to ward their windows, don't have friends in Sigyn, and/or happen to be good at art.]
And since we can't de-energize all our growers, here is one for anyone with a pencil: draw that symbol on your windows.
[Speaking of growers...
Sandy flips to the next page, and in it, there's a series of pictures of people all across Asgard, holding their hands towards bare earth and coaxing plants to grow. The more people grow things, the fewer houses the spirits can get into.]
He asks his fellow Sigyn members to help with the growing so we keep the city safe.
[Sandy flips to the next page, and it's a picture of someone with a speech bubble and a question mark over their head, facing a happy Sandy.]
Any questions, just ask Sandy. Seriously, this guy is zillion years old, he knows everything.
[Now Sandy's going to smile and turn off the feed before he sits down on his bed to take a breather. Okay, maybe the hauntings are taking more of a toll than he'd like.]
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Yeah, I bet saying "the Sandman" is as weird as saying "Son of Poseidon" right now. Plantman is kind of lame-- [A beat.] --but you're still the Sandman. They can't take that away. [Trying to be encouraging...]
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He draws a picture of a trident and then a question mark, spinning it to show the boy. What was that you said about Poseidon?]
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[Oh, right. He makes a bit of a face.]
Poseidon's my dad, so water's kind of my thing. It feels a whole lot less godly without it. [Not that he cared about feeling godly, because it wasn't that. It was more that a huge part of him felt like it was missing, so he could relate.]
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Sandy draws one of the shrines outside of each god's welcome hall, but instead of drawing a particular god's face on the statue, the face is a question mark. Which house are you in (and, well, what power do you have) if you aren't under Poseidon anymore?]
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[It's a good thing he can't actually say under Poseidon because otherwise Percy would feel conflicted.]
Uh, Heimdall. I've got Energy Lending, but it's really lame.
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(Kill people for falling asleep?! Good thing no one's shared that particular tidbit with him, or else he'd be vaguely horrified that he was mistaken for Somnus quite frequently in the Roman Empire.)
Sandy perks and starts to draw again, spinning his pad around to show a (actually really good) picture of Percy touching an exhausted person, and then said person jumping to his feet, perfectly energetic. Sandy doesn't think that it's a lame power at all.
Something Percy may or may not notice is that the picture is a realistic but mildly idealized version of him, with slightly de-emphasized flaws. It's not that Sandy deliberately draws him that way--it's just that Sandy actually sees him that way. Sandy always sees the best in people first and foremost.]
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(At least no one's seeing a resemblance now, right?)
He kind of takes a moment to consider the images. Both how the drawing looks and the way Sandy seems so happy about it. In part, Percy's used to being connected to the ocean-- which is gone. But the worst part of Energy Lending is that, well, he's used to being able to protect people.
It just kind of seems like a shot in the knee regarding the fact that'd been feeling useless in that department lately.]
At lest I'm not the funny looking one. [It's said lightly, but he's still sort of troubled at letting other people do the protecting.] One person passing out for another really doesn't seem that cool.
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Sandy starts to draw again, and when he lets Percy see the picture, it's a series--in one picture, a bunch of heroic-looking people are battling a frost giant, and then they fall to their knees in exhaustion, and the giant crushes them.
In the next series, the same thing happens, except this time, someone slips in just before the heroes collapse, touching them before sliding back in the shadows. And then the giant is slain.
Sure, it's not as glorious, but Sandy thinks that being an essential part of battle is plenty cool.]