First Curse

[bondsofsuffering]

[Video]

[Mint green hair and golden eyes are probably the first thing people see once the feed starts up, only for the camera to quickly zoom out to reveal two boys, the pair of them evidently sitting in the Sigyn common room if the surroundings are anything to go by. The first of them, mister green hair, is waving quite enthusiastically.]

Hey there Asgard! Nice to meet you all! I’m Hizumi Mizushiro, and I just got here recently with my friend here, Ayumu Narumi. We’re still kinda confused on a lotta things, so I was hopin’ some kind folks could fill us in.

[The second of them, a boy with spiky brown hair, seems far less energetic, but he’s quite polite when addressing the feed. Tucked next to him is… a crutch, oddly enough.]

For one thing…can someone at least explain why I can’t seem to heal my own wounds? I was told I was given healing magic, but it doesn’t seem to work.

[Only because he’s tried it on himself, so far.]

[Hizumi takes the opportunity to push in front for a moment.]

Also, can someone fill me in on the gods here? I mean, it’s kinda weird showing up in a place and gettin’ told you’re staying in Hel.

[Like. He gets that he’s the devil and all but really? Really???]

But anyway, if someone can heal up Ayumu here first, that’d be great. Movin’ around with a crutch all the time - well, it’s not always the easiest thing to do. Especially with the stairs.

[He gives Ayumu a few sympathetic pats on the shoulder.]

I’m fine, it’s just a pain that’s all.

[He seems a little put out by Hizumi outright asking for help for him, but he was at least right, it was a pain. Stressing the still healing wounds probably wasn’t what the doctor ordered.]

[Hizumi chuckles. They haven’t even known each other that long, but he’s getting a feeling this is about par for the course when it comes to Ayumu...]

Well, you heard him! I think that about covers it, so... Lookin’ forwards to gettin’ to know you all!

((OOC: Green is Hizumi and blue is Ayumu. They’ll respond to people separately, but they may also threadjack each others’ conversations for short comments every once in a while!))

Comments

Video

[samantha_grey]

Hel, not Hell. It's a little different. Mind you, she is the one who tends to the dead, so... there's that.

[Siiiiigh.]

And if nobody's contacted you, I can get some poultices together. They're not as good as the healers do, but... what house are you in anyway? Heimdall or Sigyn?

Video

[bondsofsuffering]

...So not the Biblical Hell, just a different one. 'Kay.

[That's... still not all that comforting though. Either way he's getting associated with death, geeze.]

Just what mythos is this supposed to be, anyway?

Re: Video

[samantha_grey]

Fuck that place. [That mutter might have come off a bit snappish.] The less I spend there, the better.

Asgard? Norse, with differences probably, if you know it.

[bondsofsuffering]

[...Um.]

...Have you been before, then?

[Normally he'd discard the thought immediately, but well. He's been magically kidnapped and placed in a new world and given some shiny magical powers, so he'll try to keep open minded.]

Norse, though... I'm not very familiar with any of that, unfortunately.

[There's like... Loki and Thor, right? Also Odin??]

[samantha_grey]

More times than I care to count. i'm half demon. [She shook her head and grunted in irritation.] Don't worry about it, though, if you don't know it well. It's simple. You're stuck on one side of someone else's fight, and honestly these people could use the help.

When it's over you'll go back. Simple as that.

[bondsofsuffering]

[A half demon. A half demon.

Didn't take long for this to get awkward at all.]

Ahh, sorry if that was rude, then! I wasn't expectin' to meet a... half demon.

[World hopping aside, this has already been an Experience.]

Buuut... say I have absolutely no skills that are useful for a war. What then? Am I just supposed to act as canon fodder?

[Probably a lie, but he's also a 16 year old kid - don't suddenly shove all this responsibility on him!]

[samantha_grey]

Nah, it's fine. I've had much much worse. Nobody expects it that I really care to talk to, after all. [She chuckled softly.] I wouldn't suggest trying to be canon fodder. On the upside, there's medics, crews that work on rebuilding the city and folks who welcome new people like you.

You don't have to be front lines if you don't want.

voice;

[afrozendance]

I'm afraid that is not how our house's healing magic works here, sir... You can heal other people in need, but your own sicknesses and injuries can only be relieved by someone else with healing skills.

[She pauses for some seconds, then sighs softly.] ... If you still need healing, I can do so. I live at the Sigyn Welcome Hall and I'm heading back there, even...

voice;

[melodyoflogic]

We can't heal ourselves.....? [Well that hadn't been in the admittedly bare details he's gotten from the maid. No wonder his attempts at using this magic stuff hadn't worked.

The offer to help throws him a bit, though.]

You don't have to if it will be trouble for you. [He didn't know if this magic stuff cost them anything, after all. It still seemed too good to be true that they could just... close people's wounds at will.]

Re: voice;

[afrozendance]

Yes... Those who have been taken into Baldr House can heal their own injuries, as far as I'm aware. Us from Sigyn are chosen to heal others's wounds, but not our own.

[She then realises what he said in his last phrase, and shakes her head per instinct. Then she remembers they can't see her, and a soft sigh follows.] Ah no, no! It's not trouble at all... I was given such skills to help whoever needs it, so it's best this way!

voice;

[melodyoflogic]

I guess that makes sense. [Especially with the description he'd gotten of the kind of people Sigyn picked.]

It won't cost you anything?

Re: voice;

[afrozendance]

... Why would it cost me anything, sir? [Ah, that sounded a bit rude did it?] I mean, it's both my duty and my will, so it's not something I'd charge for or lose anything for. It's my pleasure... it really is.

voice;

[melodyoflogic]

I'm just not used to the idea of magic to begin with. [He pauses before explaining. He didn't want to trouble her because he was concerned it would cost her something, but apparently that wasn't the case.]

The idea that here people can heal someone's wounds just like that with no consequence or cost seems too good to be true, for me.

text

[windbreak]

Fill u in on what about gods? there's a bunch of em!
which ones look like girls, which ones might randomly hug u without a warning, which ones are honest about being dicks,
come on give people something to go on here

text

[bondsofsuffering]

I don't know any of the gods here, so lay it on me!
Which ones are nice, which ones are mean, which ones like to screw up your life because they're bored
You know, that kind of thing!

[The important stuff.]

[windbreak]

Well in that case!
1) some of the ones who look like girls
2) the rest
3) IDK whether they're ALL bored but what else do u call this besides screwing up

Anything else?

[bondsofsuffering]

1) which ones
2) which ones
3) which ones

That should about do it!

[windbreak]

U cant tell just by looking at em?

[bondsofsuffering]

Maybe if I met them! But I haven't yet.

We're still fresh from the castle. The only person I've really met so far was that weird maid lady.

[...He thinks she was a maid, anyway.]

private text; FEEL FREE TO JUST PASS OVER BECAUSE idek

[bloodypocket]

In the future

you are welcome to ask any questions you may have.

As long as it is about this realm.

[Because sharing his deepest darkest secrets with little brothers? Pssh, no way.]

private text;

[melodyoflogic]

I figured as much.

We got sidetracked last time we spoke.


[Which is why many questions hadn't been asked.]

private text;

[bondsofsuffering]

[Oh. So we're talking to him after all.]

So it's Freyr, huh?

[Might as well get that one out of the way. Always good to know where your nephews are at and all that.]

private text;

[bloodypocket]

[............]

That would depend on what are referring to about him. If you are asking if that is my house, then yes.

Re: private text;

[melodyoflogic]

it's fitting.

[at least they all knew each other's houses?]

Re: private text;

[bondsofsuffering]

[Cool, now he knows where to avoid.]

I just wondered.

Anyway, no one's really explained a whole lot to us so far. A little about what type of people the gods usually pick for their houses, but that's basically it.