Halloween [Digital Devil Saga, Roland/Gale, G]

[dogmatix-san.livejournal.com]

Title: Halloween
Artist: dogmatix_san
Rating: G
Warnings: none, worksafe.
Summary: Roland introduces Gale to Halloween
A/N: Arg, again not smutty, darn it. Although now with bonus drabble. XD;
Prompt: Feb 19 - Digital Devil Saga, Gale/Roland: roleplay - Gale just doesn't get it

Halloween

"So, then it is a weapon, like a firearm?"

"Uhh, no," Roland floundered. "It doesn't itself contain the energy. The energy comes from the person."

Gale's expression had been set to 'I do not comprehend' for the past five minutes, and it didn't look like it would be changing anytime soon. "Then what is its purpose?"

"It. Well it's-" Roland tried again to put what he could remember of the fantasy logic of a children's story into terms that a guerilla warrior AI could understand. "It's like a conduit, for the energy to flow through. Sort of."

Gale pondered this bit of information. "Then, would it not be more efficient to make it from metal? Wood is not an optimum conductor."

Roland tugged on his red and yellow scarf. Trust Gale to have no trouble with the concept of magic, but to need its use explained in logical scientific terms. No wonder they'd stuck him in Ravenclaw "It's not that kind of energy," he tried.

Gale still looked highly dubious, but was fortunately distracted as Cielo flew past them laughing delightedly, bee-striped scarf trailing in his wake. "Gale, Rolan', come on, we're gonna miss de candy!"





..and yes, now I want to do another drabble where Harry was messing around with a high-level spell he shouldn't have been to get a certain someone back from beyond the Veil and he gets several highly annoyed teenaged cannibalistic AI guerilla warriors instead XD (and, and Serph would be in Slytherin and all the others would be in various other houses and they'd still follow Serph instantly and without question which would completely floor all the students. And Cielo would be in Hufflepuff because above all he's about loyalty. And, yeah. XD;;; )

Comments

Re: Hmm... as you're speccing about houses continued.

[laryna6.livejournal.com]

For me, the fundamental Gryff/Slyth divide, as I said, is that Gryffs are old-style leaders-by-example/doing, while Slytherins are leaders from behind the front lines (remfs).

If you want to put it on a two-dimensional scale, than Gry & Huf are more emotional and Sly and Rav more logical, while Gry and Sly are natural commanders and Rav and Huf natural followers/backup/support types.

Heat: emotionally-driven supporter type: Hufflepuff.

Harry: he's a natural leader with both idealism and rationality when he's not manipulated to the snapping point, but by natural instinct he and Dumbledore need to be at the front lines. It costs Harry Sirius and it costs Dumbledore his life. They can't muster the emotional distance to know that, yes, a strategist/leader's life is more valuable than his troops and for the good of the group he cannot sacrifice himself for the group. Hence, while they're borderline, in the end they're griffindor.

Notice that in the square I set up
S-G
| |
R-H

You say that Gale has S and H traits but end up with R. S & H are the ones with similar traits to R. If you're choosing between S & R, think: are they more like G or H? If G, than S, if H, than R.

Heat, the choice is between H & G. So, ask yourself: is he more S or R? His base person was R, and he can't do cold-blooded rationality, holding himself back from helping for a long-term goal, worth a damn. So, H.

With Serph, you give a triad: G's in the middle of the three, as with Gale ending up a Ravenclaw.

Sera: more like a Slytherin or Ravenclaw? Ravenclaw. She's a Hufflepuff.

With Roland, the trinity you give ends up with Gryffindor in the middle, but with him I'd say he's balanced between Slytherin, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff. He fundamentally hates leadership/being the one to make the tough decision in the clinch. The Griffindor type finds that their element: they don't want someone else doing it for them. Roland wants Greg to be doing it and then he switches over to Serph. I kind of see him, as a Ravenclaw, on the opposite extreme from a Gryffindor on the chart above, but to each his own.

The issue with Argilla is that while she's certainly not any sort of pushover, she's fundamentally a support type. She wants to help others and even her big break away from the group is to go follow Roland. Is Argilla more like a Slytherin or a Ravenclaw? Ravenclaw. So, by my chart above, I'm going with Hufflepuff.

As for Harry, is he more like a Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff? He's loyal to his friends and he hates studying. Hufflepuff. Hence, Gryffindor.