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Magnus Chase ([personal profile] summerdude) wrote2023-11-02 09:33 pm

You Say Overkill, I Say Due Diligence [open post]

Magnus copies the sign onto seven different pieces of paper. It reads:
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 Obnoxious Particular

  • 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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[personal profile] timebethine 2023-11-28 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"Galahad saith thou canst speak with thy hands," he says, and signs Galahad, friend. "There's nothing I like better than learning a new language. I'll happily teach thee to cook, an thou wouldst teach me."
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[personal profile] timebethine 2023-11-28 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Laertes signs Cut apples; he signs butter, sugar, flour, and Yes, and I'm sorry. "Little more than that, I fear. But I've been diligent in my practice of them."
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[personal profile] timebethine 2023-11-29 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
"Ay, I had a hand in it, but so did Galahad. I'm glad it was pleasing to thy taste." Laertes sits, cross-legged, sweater draped over his lap.
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[personal profile] timebethine 2023-11-29 12:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"Only my name." Laertes fingers-spells it quickly enough. "He taught me that names need not be spelled, though, and showed me his."
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[personal profile] timebethine 2023-11-29 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ay, Denmark also uses the Latin alphabet; I'll follow." Laertes is already thinking of how he might name himself--whether he would define himself as a brother, or as a student, or a fencer. His hands hover over his lap, eager to begin.
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[personal profile] timebethine 2023-11-30 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm sure he will," says Laertes; he thinks privately that Claudius would like little better than to select a name for him, as though it were a doublet or a hat. He practices the letters to himself, spelling the names of everyone he knows: Tress and Sagramore, Lancelot and Ophelia. "What words hast thou found most useful to know?"
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[personal profile] timebethine 2023-11-30 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
"I have never in my life needed to say that, which makes me gladder of my life than I can say," Laertes laughs.
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[personal profile] timebethine 2023-11-30 12:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Laertes immediately recognizes it, that flourishing swish (like a foil, he thinks, a light and whippy blade), and grins. "Couldst show me the sheath of it again? I missed that part."
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[personal profile] timebethine 2023-11-30 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"Like saying only 'didst' instead of 'thou didst'--the conjugation implies the subject, as the act of unsheathing implies the sheath," says Laertes musingly. He copies the motion, but makes an L for the sheath. "This might make a fine name. It's pleasing to my hands."
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[personal profile] timebethine 2023-11-30 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Laertes copies the gesture--he mirrors, at first, left hand doing what Magnus's right hand does, then corrects himself. "What does it mean?"
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[personal profile] timebethine 2023-11-30 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh--make." For a long moment, Laertes just sits there, practicing the sign, first with and then without the L.

It's overwhelming to him, that the first thing people think about when they think of him is no longer the sword. It's no longer his gentlemanly graces, his polite manners. The first things that Magnus thinks of are the things he shapes with care and straining hope, like the boat or the tarte tatin.

Magnus threw off the sign of the crown and embraced the sunlight, and it shines in him. He is more than his father's summer; he is a light all his own, and he illuminates everyone he touches so that they might better see themselves.

"Yes," says Laertes quietly. "Yes, that is a fine name."
Edited 2023-11-30 17:57 (UTC)
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[personal profile] timebethine 2023-11-30 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"I love it," says Laertes. His voice is a little thick; he clears his throat and continues, "And I like Sagramore's, too, although I'll happily call him by any name he chooses." He signs S-coffee idly, making sure to mirror rather than reverse Magnus's signs.
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[personal profile] timebethine 2023-11-30 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ay, Galahad showed me that one--I think I'll use it often." And he signs Magnus, friend, easily and fluently, as though it is the most natural thing in the world to say.

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