10th Rise of the Phoenix ஜ Action/Voice
[Filtered from Selphie | You can probably hack this by just sneezing]How many of you have gone to school? I don't mean studying about something specific like magic to be a sorcerer or however that's done. I mean a general school, with several classes and a lot of hours sitting on a desk doing nothing but listening to the teacher. Do that type of
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[Robert pauses slightly, before adding:] Ah, but it was rarely sitting there and listening to a teacher. Rather, classes were far more immersive and intuitive than that.
Does your world lack an educational system? [It's a sincere question, though it probably comes off as pedantic.]
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Hate, Ikki. Hate everything and everyone, no matter who it is, no matter what they did for you, you must hate! Burn with hate and use it as your strength to destroy everything in your way! Hate your teacher, hate your mother, hate your brother, hate the whole world and the gods. Just hate and destroy.]
It's not, but it's still troublesome enough to not be something to recommend.
[Ah, introductions. Ikki knows that this is a long conversation and a deep one, but he has never had problems with not knowing who the other person is. Even if in this place he has tried to take the habit ( ... )
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W-well, "professor" is something of a catch-all term for Terrans, generally a designation for a highly-trained intellectual. Many Terran scientists carry both a professor and a doctor title, respectively.
... Phoenix Saint? [The word "phoenix" is lost on Robert, and the word "saint" only has the vaguest half-remembered meanings.]
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[He notices the question, he expected it but it comes in a different tone than what he is used to. Well, it may be easier this way.]
It's a long story. But it's basically a rank. Saints are how Athena's soldiers are called, don't ask why because I don't know, though I assume that she considered that "soldiers" brought to mind images of violent wars rather than the ones she represents.
Each saint wears a Cloth, an armor, that represents a constellation or a mythological being. Mine is the Phoenix, thus making me the Phoenix Saint. There's also the Dragon Saint, or the Pegasus Saint or the Gemini Saint, for example.
[There's obviously more to the story, but he sees no point in explaining the full story unless asked.]
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[And then Robert listens thoughtfully to Ikki's explanation. "Constellation" pings him, though many of the images evoked by the constellations have long since been lost to Terrans, and now only the names remain with no real meaning behind them.]
So essentially, you are a warrior of a kind... [Not surprising at all, obviously, and Robert is more musing aloud than anything.] And your designation is a constellation? ... Or a mythical creature? I am not certain which.
[Yes, Robert doesn't recognize the word "phoenix". And he only recognizes "dragon" because he met Toothless and Hiccup.]
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Essentially, that's right. There has never been a Phoenix Saint before me, but even if there had been it's generally only one Saint per generation. There's no phoenix constellation so it's the mythical creature, I don't really know why it's that way, but it has never really mattered to me.
In my world the phoenix is a mythological creature, a fire bird that lives its full cycle of life before burning itself down into ashes, from which it raises once more at the start of its cycle. It's called the immortal bird, though it can die, it never remains dead.
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[Though he heard from Ami that the species she belongs to, as a non-human sapient, is also capable of this but in a far more fundamental way. That still boggles his mind.]
The biota of other worlds sounds incredibly fascinating... I wonder how a phoenix might generate flame to begin with?
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[And it's not possible for them to become extinct based on their premise. He's obviously ignoring the part about the jellyfish, mostly because, really, does he look like someone who understands of those things? All he knows about them is that they can't be eaten... And if they can, he doesn't want to try it.]
Though, the way I generate flames is merely with my Cosmos, my own energy. The flames are just the way it manifests when I raise it past a certain level. I know someone whose energy took the shape of snowflakes when he raised it, and another guy whose energy manifested as green flames. My little brother's energy manifests as star dust or something, it looks like a nebula.
[Yeah, his world is crazy like that.]
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[The next part earns a thoughtful sound.]
"Cosmos"...? Do all the people in your world have a Cosmos? And it all varies in terms of how it looks?
[This might be fascinating stuff to add to his ongoing thesis, if Ikki doesn't mind.]
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Considering my world has no paranormal physics whatsoever, it would seem most likely. [It makes Robert a strange anomaly.] For example, I have been told that I lack "chi", another similar form of "energy" or "life force". By logical extrapolation, I likely lack this as well.
Still, it might be fascinating to see anyway.
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But it's true that some individuals in my world were just naturally unable to control it no matter how much they trained. Most of the people don't know about it though, it's not a common thing even there.
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Is there some way to see or measure Cosmos? Perhaps, if w-we were ever to meet in person, you could... analyze me, so to speak.
[Robert kind of hopes that the pattern holds true because he would be disturbed if it didn't in this case.]
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[ooc: Just leaving this here since it seems it's going to be needed if they meet xD]
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(OOC: Hopefully my answers for that are okay? \o/)
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[There's only a light hint of disbelief in his tone, he isn't that surprised after how this conversation started.]
[ooc: They are perfect! Thanks, now I know how to play it when these two meet in person. \^o^/]
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