Meme

[appleofhiseye]

It's been forever since I did one of these and Apple hit 32k...sometime this weekend? SO LET'S HAVE A QUESTION MEME. Ask me things and I will ask you things back! I can do those dot things and heart things too but you will have to link me to them because HTML is hard.

I have Apple/Shirayuki and Haruki at Aather
Machika, Leo, and Jack at CFUD
Apple/Shirayuki at Decollage

I like the colors okay

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[doesnothappen]

Mau likes and cares deeply for every member of Sapphire; his feelings on the team are "well we have to live with each other and cooperate, so we'd better do our best to all get along with and support each other regardless of personal feelings" and "I'm responsible for them -- not as a leader, but just, whenever someone new shows up on Sapphire, it would be wrong for me not to try to take care of them and get them settled and be a resource." He feels very lucky that he DOES actually like everyone on Sapphire, but Mau isn't someone who actually... has to like or get along with someone... to care about them sincerely...

...anyway on paper it sounds very pragmatic and kind of cold but the thing is that Mau backs up all his pragmatic, sensible ideas with fierce emotional intensity so. "Well we'd better get along" actually ends up translating to "we WILL stand by each other BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING ELSE ACCEPTABLE THAT WE CAN DO." At the same time, he thinks that the way they're forcibly split into teams is asshattery and he thinks it's the height of stupidity when there is ever TEAM VS TEAM conflict outside of games. He looks for ways to change and subvert this all the time, but he doesn't really get... offended or shirty... about the EXISTENCE of teams on a day-to-day basis because what is the point that is a waste of his energy :|b But although he thinks the construct is stupid, it still exists and is something that currently needs to be contended with, so he doesn't try to ignore it, and as long as it's there, he'll try to work within it the best way possible for the people around him on a daily basis.

He's a practical man who wants to take care of everyone ever THESE ARE SORT OF HARD THINGS TO RECONCILE but that's what his Sapphire feels are based in as well. And there's a lot of dere but none of it is based in Sapphire-as-team but in oh-gosh-these-individuals.

Yes.

QUESTIONS ARE HARD idk if you're still doing this maybeeee tell me about TECH AND MAGIC levels in Apple's world? What is normal for her?

[appleofhiseye]

I am slowly still poking through this, yes. Everyone asks interesting questions '-'!! Uhm the tech level for her is very basic; her world is a horse-and-carriage kind of world, no electricity or anything like that. She is very baffled by the concept but it seems interesting! Movies sound fascinatinggggg. So do jet packs. I have no idea what the plumbing is like but it's possible she was very excited by running water and flushing toilets too, they don't really expand upon what kind of plumbing they have in manga FOR SOME REASON (they should because I am oddly curious). Amnesia kind of made her accept the concept easier, but she still can't fully grasp it. Magic lightning yes okay sounds cool??? And even though she knows the idea, there isn't really any huge tech in aather so she doesn't come in contact with it a lot. As for magic, we haven't gotten a LOT on that but I am thinking her world doesn't have any, at least not in an overt sense. But there are things like glowing plants on her world, which are definitely not normal. There are plants that all look the same but produce different colored seeds too...and colorful birds that can learn to follow the sounds of whistles and bells (birds might already be able to do that but the point is they have cute birds). There are herbs that she can use to make ointments for bruises and burns which i am pretty sure don't actually exist, i sadly know nothing about actual medicine but if there is an injury or illness there seems to always be some kind of thing she can make from plants to fix it! If magic popped up at some point I would not be surprised, because the flora and fauna of her world all have a very magical quality to them. And because of that quality she is more accepting of magical things than more advanced technology; not that her world doesn't understand science and developing technology, but it's still in the early processes of developing so she doesn't know how it gets from point A to point B. or something like that. The way people use magic is...actually a little concerning to her, because she doesn't know how it works or when it will STOP working; like the personae seem to be able to turn magic on and off during games as they please, which is a very serious issue. Magic is just as cool as technology but also something she doesn't fully comprehend and something she doesn't want to rely on.

Because I thought this question was interesting, does Mau think Sapphire's tactics on how to approach games have changed since he first arrived? how has it developed?