Event || The Festival Of Light

[melodiesmods]

Characters: All the Heroes of Light and their Moogles.
Where: Aqures Ixen.
When: July 27th - August 03rd
Summary: Feel free to use this post to participate in the Festival of Light. Post your own threads or jump into someone else's thread-- This is a free for all mingle post!
Warning: N/A

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[has_been_faking]

Ed's eyebrows raise at being sized up like that. He's not sure how to feel about it.

"N....o, not really a save-the-world type. But to be fair, my world isn't in this kind of peril."

He shrugged, not sure what Jack was insinuating. Or at least he was pretending to, anyway.

"I was an alchemist. Studied magic for a long time. I travelled around central and southern California selling my stuff and learning how to make new things. Not too different than here, though having a stationary store is a nice change."

[theendiswherewestartfrom]

"H-unh. You get so used to the world being in danger, you sometimes forget that it's not like that for everybody. Nice to be from a world where you don't have to constantly get tested, see what you're made of."

"And, this is the second time in two weeks that alchemy is coming up in conversation." Two guesses as to who Jack's other conversation partner was, and they don't count. "It's real, where you're from?" He gestures a hand at Ed. "And Humans have mastered it?" But this would explain Jack's other question about Ed, and why he probably should stay on the back lines.

[has_been_faking]

"It is, and we have. Well, some people have." He tries very hard to suppress a knowing smirk, but it slips out a bit. "It's just one of many types of magic out there, but it's one of the most intently studied. Mostly since it's the foundation for a lot of other disciplines, and it's based in actual chemistry."

Ed chuckles quietly at the idea of his world in danger, though, wondering if he'd even notice if it was. He was always too embroiled in his own schemes.

"I think if my world was in trouble, though, I'd probably be too busy to notice. Good thing there are a lot of mages out there to take care of things like that."

[theendiswherewestartfrom]

Jack nods along in understanding, and the look on his face is completely fascinated. "That was always the legends on Earth, that alchemy was just chemistry with...improvements? But, my world, we never got it to work, humanity as a whole decided to give up on the study."

"No magic where I come from, but it's common for you?" Jack shakes his head with another grin. "Say that two years ago, and I wouldn't even be able to wrap my head around it. Is the magic here familiar to you, then?"

[has_been_faking]

"I wouldn't say common. Or even widely accepted. But it's out there, no matter what someone thinks of it. People have been studying it for hundreds of years. It takes a lot of dedication and training to get any good at it, and that's only if you're born with that certain something that allows you to cast it at all."

As far as the magic here, Ed makes a face that says that it is and isn't really the same.

"It's different. Like how fast you can learn it. The Jobs thing is really different, but spellcasters do usually pick one or two disciplines and stick to them."

[theendiswherewestartfrom]

Jack points at Ed on his last remark. "Even on this world, I'm noticing the Jobs thing is weird. The natives don't pick things up as fast as we do."

"With the physical Jobs, it sort of makes sense, you focus on one weapon or one manner of fighting, is it really the same with magic? You'd think it's all," waves his hand like he's searching for a word, "interchangable?"

Oh, maybe this does make sense, Jack keeps his thought train going out loud, "But if magic came out of science, swapping from healing magic to damaging magic is like comparing biology to chemistry. Same basic idea drives them both, maybe some principles work across disciplines, but it's hard to switch your way of thinking from one to another?"

[has_been_faking]

"Well, think of it like being a doctor. A medical doctor is going to have a lot of base knowledge, but a heart specialist isn't going to know the finer points of podiatry. It's sort of like that. Different spells, components, cultures, interpretations... there are a lot of factors."

Ed'sbrow furrows thinking on Jobs in Crystallis, though. "We have the freedom to have two Jobs, and change them around when we want. The natives get one they have to stick with their entire life. I'd hate that. Even magic back home isn't that strict. You're totally free to study whatever kind you want."