Magnus Chase (
summerdude) wrote2023-11-02 09:33 pm
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You Say Overkill, I Say Due Diligence [open post]
Magnus copies the sign onto seven different pieces of paper. It reads:
He adds a note about the areas where he can most frequently be found and then posts one sign in each of the two kitchens he's encountered, one by the welcome table, one on the door to the greenhouses, one in the library, one on his bedroom door, and one by what he believes to be the most-populated lounge. Then, with a great deal of eager anticipation, he goes about his day.
[A note from Magnus's typist: Open indefinitely!]
WANT TO LEARN NEW SKILLS? ME FREAKING TOO. I (Magnus Chase) Will Trade Lessons In Any Of The Following For Something You Know:
- ASL (Alf/American Sign Language)
- Camping (pitching tents, campfire safety, celestial navigation)
- What To Do If You Find Yourself Lost In The World Tree Yggdrasil
- Pickpocketing (But only if you promise to use it for good (stealing ONLY from dickhead rich people) and ONLY if you have to!)
- Swordfighting for Beginners (I am intermediate but Jack is advanced and he can help!)
- What It REALLY Feels Like To Die (NOT ADVICE!!!)
- (Trans)Gender Identity and Fluidity (from the perspective of a cis guy) (Alex-approved content only)
- What To Do If The God You're Talking To Is Super
ObnoxiousParticular- Why Falafel is the Best Food in the World
All skills welcome! But if you know any of the following I am especially interested: Cooking, Geometry, How To Declare Your Love To Your Partner, Hand-to-Hand Combat, Balancing a Budget, Writing Poetry, Social Studies, Codebreaking.
(Sorry but I will not learn pottery from anyone but ♥Alex Fierro♥. I hope you understand.)
PS if there's enough interest we can maybe do full classes where everybody gets to take turns teaching and learning?
He adds a note about the areas where he can most frequently be found and then posts one sign in each of the two kitchens he's encountered, one by the welcome table, one on the door to the greenhouses, one in the library, one on his bedroom door, and one by what he believes to be the most-populated lounge. Then, with a great deal of eager anticipation, he goes about his day.
[A note from Magnus's typist: Open indefinitely!]
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But he is a smart guy, underneath it all, and he can sort of get what Claudius is hinting at. At least, he can tell that Claudius really likes Galahad; that they have Galahad's interests in common, if from slightly different angles. He holds up his right hand, ring and middle fingers snug against his palm; thumb, pointer, and pinky splayed. "This means I love you," he says. "It's one way to say it, and the one that most people who don't know ASL are familiar with. The other one is --" He points to himself, then forms his hands into loose fists, wrists crossed over his heart, and then points to Claudius.
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"And then, um," he says. "Wait, I'll wait for you to practice first before we get to specific emotions."
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“See?” he says, in regards to Magnus’s teaching style. “Thou art patient and adaptive.” And Claudius does take the opportunity of Magnus’s patience to work through those signs, one by one, until he can do them quickly and see how they flow and feel together.
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*By some value of 'in full.'
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He pauses to fix his hair -- it's falling out of the scrunchie, so he pulls the scrunchie out, runs his fingers through it to comb it out, and tries for a teeny ponytail, or something. "The flyting went... fine," he says, modestly. "I won and we trapped Loki in a walnut shell and gave him back to the gods. I'm pretty sure they let Sigyn go back to wherever they put him this time, like I asked. She's good people." And an unexpected ally, despite her weird devotion to Loki.
Then he smiles. "I've decided what emotion words are best to start with," he says.
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But he's always had a mind for languages. Beyond exchanges or excuses, there's a pleasure in learning for a purpose -- to communicate, to connect. Grateful for Magnus's instruction, Claudius flexes his fingers in preparation for the next lesson.
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"Hey, dude," he calls, and when he knows he has Claudius's attention, he signs, what's up?
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It's challenging. The things that are occupying his mind right now outstrip his vocabulary -- not just in signs. He's accepted that, with all the facts in evidence, it's simpler and more straightforward to accept his life was written and predetermined by an English playwright. It changes less than he thought, because he'd worked through so many ad hoc explanations beforehand. A play that revealed his worst sin, as relayed by a ghost, was shattering enough to accept. The realization that events continued to unfold in that play, and foretold a future he hadn't yet lived, was tricky, but Shen Qingqiu had the previous experience to walk him through it. Untangling how, exactly, William Shakespeare was able to capture the of his life already lived and his life to come from hearsay and legends, and how many diverging histories there were, and what that meant for any plan of God's ... that could've been a twenty-four hour mind project1. At the end of the day, he's still quite glad not to be in the play. And if characters escaping a play can ruin it, there's an appeal to plotting to ruin it as much as possible, and thus ruin the jurisfiction agency's day.
Anyway, Magnus knows about the play. He also knows about The Lion King being based on Hamlet, a fact Claudius was able to learn and pass on in the space of a single day. Happy to see you, Claudius decides on, chaining the signs for happy and see and you together. How are you?
1 Thank you to anyone out there who catches that reference.
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