[Video / Action] The Magic of Moar Magic

[innocent_royal]

(VIDEO)
[It was the early morning when this little lady decided to hop on the network. Her blue eyes reveal her to be in a relatively good mood.]

Good morning, everyone.
I had a dream the other night that gave me an idea regarding my magic, so I'm going to be in Fayren today to experiment. I welcome anyone who can help me with it.

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(ACTION)

[Anastasia was in a large clearing in the Fayren woods. Right around the same clearing that Arro Caine brought to for magic demonstrations, however, none of the training dummies remained. Which is fine, because the young lady doesn't need them. Dressed cute, comfortably and light, Anastasia stood in the middle of the clearing, carefully and slowly gathering magical ribbons of mana, weaving them together in ghostly globes. This globe was an icy blue. It was hard on her, stressful. Her eyes rarely blinked as her focus was like a needle's point.

Once the small globe appeared stable, Anastasia began to twirl her finger of one hand to gather a faintly dirty mana ribbon, then attempted to weave it into the globe. Her mana weaving remained precise as she carefully "sewed" the Earth-element ribbon into the Ice-element globe until nothing left of the ribbon remained. But anyone else watching her could see the new elemental hybrid globe looked as though it was beginning to unravel. Whispy ribbons of mana snapped from the globe and fall off. The young girl desperately tried to weave it back together, but it was clear her youth and inexperience resulted in a panic as the globe destabilized further.

Anastasia pushed the globe away from her and ducked away, covering her eyes with her hands as it exploded into a cluster of eartern spears caked in permafrost that was as tall as she was. The resulting failure also got her pelted with snow and dirt all across her left side and back. She opened her eyes a few moments later to see someone was there. Did they come as a friend? Or to tell her she's grounded?]

Um... Hello there? ...Am I in trouble?

Comments

[innocent_royal]

[Again, Anastasia shakes her head. It really is too much to explain. She gently rubs her arm nervously.]

Really, it's nothing. Sometimes I have these... silly thoughts that don't help anyone.

[Such a stubborn girl.]

[scarlet_devil]

Have some confidence...

I'll tell you what, if you tell me what's on your mind, I'll keep it to myself.

[innocent_royal]

[Anastasia was quiet for a while, a hand still on her arm. It's not like she was given any reason not to trust Remilia.]

...Sometimes, I think I can't be helped.

[scarlet_devil]

[ Remilia frowns a little. ]

I don't at all agree.

[innocent_royal]

[Anastasia has heard this a few times before.]

...But you don't know me all that well.

[scarlet_devil]

Indeed not, but you do put me in mid of my dear sister Flandre. She's small blonde girl with difficulty controlling her power.

[innocent_royal]

Flandre...
I do not believe I have ever met her.

[Anastasia took on a more relaxed pose.]

So you see your sister in me?

[scarlet_devil]

She has a tendency to... wander.

[ Remilia looks as completely chill as before. ]

A little. It's either that or I'm indeed going soft. Have you ever heard of a monster that befriends children?

[innocent_royal]

As do I...

[Relaxed enough that Anastasia let that one go without a fuss. How often she got a stern talking to from Satsuki for all the times she wandered off without telling.]

A monster that befriends children...? I do not believe so.

[scarlet_devil]

Do be careful. Flandre can easily defend herself, but you do not have the strength of a vampire.

[ Well, this was hardly Everglade at night. ]

Then allow me to be the first.

[innocent_royal]

[Anastasia nods. She wants to be safe to, one of the reasons why she's trying to learn self-defence.

But then, she perked up in surprise.]

Attends une moment... Are you truly a vampire?
If so... Then I must correct myself.

One of my dearest friends is a vampire.

[scarlet_devil]

[ Ah? That was a little surprising, and still shaded be her parasol. ]

Oh? Yes, I am a vampire.

[innocent_royal]

[Anastasia never paid any mind to the parasol. She'll walk around with one too.]

I'm happy to count you among my friends. Do you, by any chance, know a man named Soma?

[scarlet_devil]

[ The little vampire smiles pleasantly. ]

Know him? I consider him to be family, if not by blood.

[innocent_royal]

He's a wonderfully dear friend of mine. See this circlet?

[Anastasia was smiling happily as she raised a hand to brush her bangs out of the way, revealing a ruby-encrusted circlet. She stepped closer to give Remilia a better look at it.

My, how quickly her mood flipped.]

Soma gave it to me. With it, I can safely go outside in the summer daylight and not get sick.

[scarlet_devil]

[ Remilia looks toward it in curiosity. ]

Ah? Such a thing could be useful to a vampire. How do you, ah, get sick?

[innocent_royal]

[Anastasia let hand down. The gold of the circlet could still be seen.]

I'm slightly different from other humans. My people thrive when and where it's cold, so I can get heatstroke more easily than others in the summer.

[scarlet_devil]

Hmm, that sounds a bit like a kind of youkai. Yuki-onna, they are called.

[innocent_royal]

A yuki-onna?
I don't know what that is...

[Anastasia may be learning Japanese from Satsuki, but she doesn't know much about youkai.]

[scarlet_devil]

[ Technically, she's a youkai herself. A western one. ]

They are a spirit of winter who can control the cold... Some say they're spirits of people who froze to death.

[innocent_royal]

I see...
However, I'm the only one who can use Ice magic. My race, um... We just "belong" in the cold.

[Countless years of evolution and all that.]