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]

...determining character traits by even looking at how you want them to be for your plot is kind of one of the warning signs you might be heading towards badfic! territory. If you've got scientific training, think of it in terms of experimentor bias. The good scientist tries to prove himself WRONG.

Of course they wouldn't stand for it. Consider Gale's reaction to Roland keeping Cielo!

'Dumbledore lets random people stay' fics are hard to make realistic. Teachers? After what happened with Lupin? He needed Lupin there for Harry's sake and he couldn't keep him. He couldn't even keep Umbridge out. Also, these are kids there. The kids it's his duty to protect.

One parody fic was ironic to me because the choices for teachers were supposed to be obviously bad and I read it and told the person who recced it that since one of them was a principal in a school training people to fight evil magic-users and the other was in canon amazingly good with messed-up kids, they were the most reasonable teacher choices I'd seen in that sort of fic for a long time, and it was quite odd that THIS fic, a parody, thought these were ones that were obviously bad when they were actually people I'd want to hire if I were him. If I could get away with it, which Dumbledore at the point in timeline this fic was set would not have, sadly.

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

[dogmatix-san.livejournal.com]

Mmm, it could be fun to do something with the 'Dumbledore lets random people stay' thing if Embryon came through looking to be in their mid-teens instead of late-teens/early-twenties, where, perhaps

* Trelawny(or someone else) had a prophecy that pretty clearly indicates they need to stay,

* for some reason (perhaps a tie to beyond the Veil, perhaps they saved his, Ron, and Hermionie's lives) Harry's pitching for them to stay, or

* they're just plain too dangerous to let loose among the general citizenry, or

* something else came back through the Veil with them and they're specialized to fight them (Bat or Varin or such), or

* Harry would get in all kinds of trouble if the Ministry found out he'd been messing around with those kinds of spells and so Embryon's being hidden in plain sight, or, yeah, something like that.

I'm guessing Dumbledore would take every precaution he could, and that the Embryon would retreat to the Forbidden Forest for midnight snacks, since they can't very well munch on the kiddies.

I can write, and yes I can plot my way out of a wet paper bag, but I'm not an author so much as an artist. So I'd write maybe a few thousand words for this, max, as a fun thing to play with. On the other hand, it sounds like you could get eight or nine chapters out of this. *g*

and now I'm starting to have trouble getting words to look right, so I'm off to bed. Thank you for the input, by the way :)

Looking at your list:

[laryna6.livejournal.com]

a) reason to keep them there
b) reason to get them out of there, possibly Sirius' house.
c) reason to hand them over to the ministry
d) ...this is Dumbledore. N/A. Power level nothing, he's got spells that would totally blindside Junkyard types.
e) He's not actually that good at hiding stuff that large.

He might find a safehouse for them, but Hogwarts is already a safehouse for people that are a higher priority to him, and he's having a lot of trouble keeping it a safehouse already without adding another possible internal threat/reason for the Ministry to give him a hard time.