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stiles stilinski ♘ teen wolf ([personal profile] hyperactive) wrote2020-02-09 02:50 pm

ic contact || deerington.



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[personal profile] billiam 2020-04-30 06:04 am (UTC)(link)
OKAY
YES
THAT BAG
THE BAG WITH THE LEMBAS BREAD AND THE WHITE TREE YOU GOT THAT BAG TOO


[ ugh, billy is - so glad stiles gets it. billy's incredibly excited about it too, if that's not already clear, but there's definitely some things that need to be addressed when it comes to the rest of the bag's contents. which he'll get to in a minute. ]

i thought maybe the bag was from you at first because i couldn't think of anybody else that would leave a bag with the white tree of gondor on it on my doorstep like, on purpose.
and put lembas inside?
it's even wrapped up in the leaves and everything!
but then i got to the letter and unless you also go by ramona on top of stiles and mischief, i figured - probably not you.

i don't even know if this is like actual lembas.
probably not though, right?
there are like a thousand lembas recipes online (i may or may not have looked them up a couple dozen times before, leave me alone)
but most of those are just flour, butter, and some kind of sweetener.
how much did you get?
i got like four.
Edited 2020-04-30 06:26 (UTC)
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[personal profile] billiam 2020-04-30 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
no, yeah
that's kind of what i've been thinking too.
the cup, the bread, the letter.
i don't really know anything about the sleeping stone, though or how that might tie into the grail and the lembas.
but something's definitely about to happen. i'm not really sure what to do.
i haven't tried any of it either mostly for the same reason.
it seems like any time a stranger offers us food, there's something wrong with it or it's been tampered with - and i have no idea who this ramona person is supposed to be.
no clue who mother superior is, either.

hmm. i was going to suggest one of us try it while in the company of the other just in case something goes wrong or gets sick, but would you look at that?
suddenly i don't know you.
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[personal profile] billiam 2020-04-30 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
that's not a bad idea.
you don't have to sleep on the couch, though. i have a spare room?
it's kind of bland and boring but. it's got a bed and pillows and blankets and a plug by the bed so you can change your phone without having to get up.
and it's upstairs, so if something crazy does go down and like - i don't know
orcs invade, you won't be the first person they come across. i'm just saying.


[ billy makes a quick note to himself to wash the bedding in the spare room just in case, and then - takes a minute to try to figure out how to tackle the question about his powers, only because they're so... broad. ]

i... can do a lot of things, actually.
but to put things very, very simply
i'm magic, electrokinetic, and i can warp reality.


[ which is still pretty vague, and billy can already hear all the questions stiles probably wants to ask, so he expands a little. ]

a lot of what i can do is magic-based.
spell casting, wish fulfillment in that if i want something to happen, i can just
state what it is i want to happen, and so long as i actually believe what i'm saying, it usually works.


[ ... ]

i've been having some trouble with my powers since i've been here though, so some things don't always go according to plan.
but i've spoken to a few people about it and i've heard that it's a pretty common thing.
not that that necessarily makes me feel better.
ms. grey showed up on my doorstep a couple weeks ago needing a little help patching up an injury, and when i tried to heal it like i normally would, it mostly worked
but instead of just speeding up the healing process, i like
absorbed the injury onto myself instead? which has never happened before.
totally sucked.
well, i mean it was fine because i just healed myself after that
but that's definitely not how that is supposed to work. so.


[ is he playing down the entire situation with jean? maybe. but that's not the point here. ]
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[personal profile] billiam 2020-04-30 09:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ 'i've always wanted to date someone big and green' is enough to make billy pause for a couple seconds, thumbs hovering over the fluid's screen as a very weird, very unexpected but very brief spike of something vaguely similar to jealousy sparks up in the back of his brain.

stiles has no idea, though, that teddy isn't just the tall, blond haired, blue eyed boy he saw for all of ten seconds in the middle of the woods not too long ago. he has no clue that teddy's a shapeshifter, that he spends just as much time being big and green as he does not-as-big and not-as-green. stiles probably doesn't mean anything by it at all, so he lets it go.

jean's business isn't really his to tell, at least not is so much detail, but - well, her showing up on his doorstep made it partially his business too, so. he just treads a little carefully, keeping some of the details vague for now. ]


she just had a couple deep cuts that needed stitches.
but i don't have a first aid kit and even if i did i don't know the first thing about stitching someone up.
i mean maybe it's close to sewing? which i do know how to do, but
anyway. there was a lot of blood so i figured i'd just heal her the same way i've healed other people before, just to save time and so she could lay down and recover sooner
and it went fine at first, it worked like it was supposed to but right as i was finishing
uh, this is kind of gross, but my arm just kind of ripped open in the same place her's had been torn open.
it's all good now though.
took care of it, good as new. :)
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[personal profile] billiam 2020-04-30 10:14 am (UTC)(link)
in my defense, it's been a couple weeks since then.
i definitely wasn't calm when it was happening. definitely some lingering trauma hanging around.
and i can't say i'm used to that level of pain because it was excruciating and i'm pretty sure i came kinda close to blacking out at least twice
but uh. if you're asking if i've gotten hurt before
well, it's not the first time i've had to heal myself, probably won't be the last.
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[personal profile] billiam 2020-04-30 10:41 am (UTC)(link)
i mean, i barely handled it if we're being honest.
and i like passed out for idk
15 solid hours after everything was done?
which i've also never really had to do before.
like don't get me wrong, i definitely get tired after pushing myself a little too hard, but this was like
i went down like a bag of bricks the second i was sure jean was fine and that my arm was mostly okay.
but this is good to know. remember this when i inevitably turn up on your doorstep needing some help after having done something stupid
or at least needing a solid place to crash while i recover.

anyway. way more importantly:
you had an experience?
well, tell me more.
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[personal profile] billiam 2020-04-30 11:29 am (UTC)(link)
[ give him some space??? billy squints a little, mostly out of confusion, but he's easily distracted by the impossible logistics of what stiles is chiding him over, so fortunately he doesn't question the whole space thing. ]

stiles.
i was passed out. sleeping.
how was i supposed to come to you while i was sleeping?


[ he even goes as far as typing something out about how between the two of them, he's not the one that sleepwalks, but upon review that seems like a really shitty thing to say even if he means no harm, so he deletes all of that. ]

but jeez, i'll text you next time something like that happens, alright?
or i'll try my best to, anyway.


[ that's enough of that though because billy is... very intrigued by all this supernatural talk, even if all of the censoring leaves him feeling a little bit lost. he tries his best to keep up, and by the end of stiles' explanation, billy has reached a very clear conclusion. ]

so what you're saying is that you were given a task that only you could carry out for mysterious reasons that are none of my business, and in order to do this task you had to believe you could do it otherwise it wouldn't work - and you did exactly that.

and you think it was a fluke?
stiles, this sounds pretty similar to what i do.
when i cast spells, if i don't really believe in what i'm doing or i don't actually want whatever thing i'm trying to do to happen - it doesn't really work.
sometimes it does, but not anywhere near as well as it should.
but what i'm saying is that if you've got some kind of
if you're a 'spark' like this guy says you are, and part of that relies on the power of belief
having the attitude that it was just a fluke and it couldn't have possibly been you definitely isn't going to get that spoon to bend.
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[personal profile] billiam 2020-04-30 12:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[ does it really count as 'meeting jean' when billy had been in the middle of playing rayman on top of his dryer waiting for his laundry to finish tumbling when jean quite literally stumbled onto his doorstep, bleeding everywhere and asking for a first aid kit like a bandaid and some neosporin was going to be enough to fix her problem? it's not like he got a whole lot of warning - for any of it, really. jean showing up, his arm basically tearing itself open, nearly blacking out, actually blacking out.

life comes at you fast, stiles. ]


why couldn't he just do the thing then?
why did he have to give it to you?
and what would he gain out of lying to you?
if it was just as simple as doing the thing with the powdery stuff, then he could have just been like "here, do this thing real quick, thanks" and left it at that.
but it's magical, right? you said it needed some kind of kick otherwise it wouldn't do what it needed to do.
so why does that kick not count just because you only did it once?
you did it. it counts. and you could probably do it again if you'd stop trying to discredit yourself.

back when i was first figuring out my magic, i would read a lot of like.
self-help books that uh
that teddy's mom gave me. for other reasons i guess?
which sounds kinda weird in hindsight i guess, but they really helped me kind of
build some self-confidence. positive affirmations, speaking the things i want to do or to be into existence (sans magic), etc.
don't think i won't go down to the library and check out a bunch of them for you too.

i don't know if i can figure out if the lembas is safe, but i could probably make it safe, if it's not already.
it wouldn't take anywhere near as much effort or energy as healing an injury, so it should be fine?
worse case scenario, i accidentally reverse the effects and we just get super hungry afterwards and we order a bunch of takeout.
or, well. one of us gets super hungry, anyway. we probably both shouldn't try it at the same time, just in case.
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[personal profile] billiam 2020-04-30 01:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ despite how much billy talks up being confident in oneself, he's - kind of a little bit of a hypocrite. while he's much better than he used to be when it comes to believing in himself, he still has plenty of issues with his own confidence, his self-esteem, his self-worth. he has his bad days, his bad weeks, his bad months - but things could be way worse. billy's proud of himself for getting himself to where he is, even if sometimes he doesn't feel so great.

but even so, it's still a little jarring to hear stiles say all these positive things about him out of nowhere. billy's never really thought of himself as being the best at anything, much less being the best person someone's ever met, and if he gets a little bit emotional over someone wishing they could have met him sooner (someone like stiles, who is equally smart and funny and attentive, if not twice as much as billy), well. that's just billy. ]


"start thinking of take-out orders"
wow, look at all this faith you don't have in me.
no, but you're right. no way would i let you eat it by yourself.

oh yeah, i almost forgot about the card.
i kind of thought maybe it was just a joke because mine is the magician?
kind of cliche, honestly. not very creative.
but i don't really know that much about tarot anyway.
what'd you get?
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[personal profile] billiam 2020-04-30 01:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[ well. this seems entirely unfair. stiles gets a cute little fox on his card and billy gets some kind of - creepy deer demon thing. the cards don't even look like the come from the same deck, which is also kind of weird. hmm. ]

what's the difference between major and minor arcana?
besides being major or minor.
you're not gonna get sacrificed, stiles.
even if it turns out that the cards are like. targets or something, i wouldn't let it happen to you.
you're probably right that it's not a good idea to just go advertising your card to random people though, just in case they give more insight about a person than we realize.
but maybe there's more information on the internet
or the library.
we could kill two birds with one stone
pick up some self-help books and tarot for dummies.

the fox is really cute though.
mine is all
hold on.


[ and then a couple seconds later, billy sends a picture of his card, which is nowhere near as cute as stiles'. it's good artwork, just... kind of ominous in a way billy can't really pinpoint. ]

i guess it's appropriately themed?
for deerington, i mean. not me.
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[personal profile] billiam 2020-05-01 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
okay. stiles.
relax. it's probably not a death threat.
isn't there a death card? i feel like that'd be more of a death threat than a weird deer mage and a fox with a sword collection.
i mean we should definitely still go to the library at some point to see if we can figure out what our cards really mean, but
can we not put vivisection out into the universe, magic-man?
being tortured in the name of medical science isn't exactly my idea of a good time.


[ y'know - been there, done that. ]
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[personal profile] billiam 2020-05-01 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
oh.
well. that's kind of misleading, isn't it?

we're not gonna panic. alright?
especially not before we even know what's going on with these cards.
panicking isn't going to help anything until we know exactly what ramona means.


[ ... ]

we should also probably try to figure out who ramona is, too.
and mother superior?
i... assume she's a nun, but i don't know why a nun would like
threaten everyone with famine, if that's what the letter is actually implying.

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