Professor Olivers
August 03, 2013 1:19 AM
What will you reveal...? [I & II years] by Professor Olivers
This winter break was the beginning of Florence's full recovery after her husband had passed away four years ago. Well, as full of a recovery as she could ever muster. She had spent Christmas with her brother and his family and spent the New Year with her fellow thespians. It reminded her of the years before she had married, back when she had been carefree and the theatre had been her life. Now she was a professor and teaching was her life, but she still looked back on those days fondly. Now she was looking forward to overseeing the development of the Drama Club. Though her lifestyle had changed drastically from seventeen years ago, the theatre was still close to her heart.It was only a week since her students had returned from the break and she was sure she could feel the post-holiday mood lingering. It was always difficult to break through that the first couple of weeks, but Florence herself was feeling a little more lighthearted today. She supposed it had something to do with getting a letter from her grandniece at breakfast and having no extra grading to do.
The door closed at eight o'clock sharp and she stood at her desk with a smile. "Good morning everyone and happy Monday." The winter sun was shining through the windows today and she was grateful. Hopefully the extra light would wake her especially sleepy students up. "Today we're going to learn how to turn invisible ink visible. There is a quill on your desk already filled with invisible ink and you may use it to take your notes, if you wish." She smiled. It would make messy notes, but if her students preferred, she didn't mind it. "The Revealing Charm reveals invisible ink and basic concealing charms. Depending on a person's skill, this charm could even make other invisible things reveal themselves. However, we are only going to be working on revealing invisible ink for today.
"The incantation for this charm is Aparecium. You simply tap the parchment three times and the words should appear. However, you must stay focused on the incantation and pronounce the spell correctly. It is pronounced AH-par-EH-see-um." She waved her hand and the chalk wrote the incantation on the blackboard and the pronunciation underneath. Pronunciation was always the first step in the beginner classes. Florence didn't think her second-years would have too much trouble with this one, but the first-years might.
"On a scrap of paper I want you to write a message with the quill provided, something you wouldn't be embarrassed to have your professor read. You will exchange your parchment with your neighbor then practice the charm on your neighbor's invisible message until you can clearly read what your partner wrote. Then I want you and your partner to come up to my desk and show me the parchment and I will mark you on how clear the ink is. Don't forget the essay on the Color-Changing Charm I assigned last week. It's due this Friday. Once you have completed the spell, you may work on your essay quietly." She gave them all a serious look. "And I expect you all to be above cheating." It didn't matter if they did cheat. She would know by the charm she had placed on the quills carrying the invisible ink on their desk. "You may begin."
OOC: Lengthy, creative, and realistic posts will earn you more points!
Subthreads: Oh, Merlin! by Emrys Lucan, Aladren with Ji-Eun Park, Pecari
I'm homesick... by Jude Butler, Pecari with Adam Spencer, Pecari, Jude
Revealing a secret message. by Emery Kijewski-Jareau, Aladren with Dimitri Porter. Teppenpaw, Ava Fletcher, Aladren
Not much, I suppose. by Leo Princeton, Crotalus with Irina Volkov, Aladren, Leo Princeton
Only the best partner will do. by Eleanor Vandenberg - Crotalus with Tristan Spaulding, Crotalus, Nellie Vandenberg
Attitudes and opinions, perhaps by Francesca Wolseithcrafte, Aladren with Malcolm Carey, Pecari
Back to the grindthtone by Analea Thornton, Aladren with Chloe Jareau, Pecari, Analea , Chloe Jareau
I am my own special creation by Charlie B-F-R, Teppenpaw with Darina Porter, Tepp, Rina
Not much, I'm afraid. by Julian Umland, Teppenpaw with Willow Collins,Teppenpaw
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What will you reveal...? [I & II years]
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Emrys Lucan, Aladren
August 03, 2013 7:31 PM
Oh, Merlin! by Emrys Lucan, Aladren
Emrys lie in bed, pouting. Winter break had been, for the most part, miserable. His aunt and uncle had decided to stay in Wales for Christmas and then his grandmother had been too ill to travel so his grandfather had made an executive decision saying that the family would not be able to go to Wales to see Emrys' aunt and uncle and cousin. He and Wesley had owled back and forth and Welsey had sent him pictures of their dog, Lio, but Emrys missed being able to pet and play with Lio and talk with Wesley. He hadn't even had anyone to write to from Sonora, Charlotte being the only person he'd really had a productive conversation with. Unfortunately he had not been able to see her again before going back home nor had he gotten her address to keep in touch. He sighed glumly and forced himself to get out of bed for breakfast and then Charms. He really did not want to go, he'd barely talked to the boys in his dorm nor any of his classmates preferring instead to hole up in the MARS room and play his violin, or curl up on his bed and read- after he finished his homework at a secluded table in the library, of course.By the time he had eaten by himself and gotten to the Charms room he was in a particularly foul mood. Why did Wesley have to move? If he hadn't then Emrys would have had a ready made friend at Sonora and would not have had all this trouble finding someone somewhat decent to talk to. He took a seat in the corner and huffed, placing his bag on top of the desk in front of him so he had something to lie his head and folded arms on. Everything was starting to make him angry, even Caelia and his mother. Over break his mother had not stopped going on and on and on about King Arthur and it was starting to drive Emrys nuts. Granted he loved the stuff, but that break he just wanted to be left alone and hang out with his cousin and their dog. Wesley and Lio were in Wales however, so that was not possible. He'd considered stealing some floo powder and surprising Wesley but then he had realized the punishment he would have been awarded in his grandfather caught him doing that and decided that sticking with owling Wesley would probably be a safer bet.
He didn't register it when someone took a seat next to him, and just listlessly stared at Professor Olivers as she began the day's lesson. He didn't feel like participating or working with a partner, so this lesson did not particularly make him happy. However, he cooperated because he knew that if he didn't it would call more attention to himself than he wanted and he preferred to stay under the radar. He'd never really been around kids his own age until he started Sonora as he'd been home schooled for most of his life, and he didn't really get what the big deal was either. So, he picked up the invisible ink quill and scribbled notes knowing that they'd probably turn out messy but he didn't care much- his handwriting was messy as it was so not being able to see what he was writing probably wouldn't make that much of a difference. When Professor Olivers told them that she expected they were all above cheating he had to refrain from rolling his eyes. How could they possibly cheat? It was invisible ink. Aside from writing the message in real ink, he couldn't think of a single way to cheat and besides, Olivers would probably notice if one pair wasn't practicing the spell. He supposed though that if anyone wanted to cheat they'd probably find a way. Emrys himself didn't see a point. They'd be in the classroom until the period was over and it was a useful spell, but that, he supposed, was why he had been placed in Aladren.
Once Professor Olivers turned them loose, he tore a piece of paper out of his notebook and thought hard about what to write. He wanted to write more than just the standard name and introduction, so instead he took out his ruler and made lines across the paper and pressed hard enough so that he could just faintly make out scratches on it from the quill. Then, pressing lighter so that the actual message wouldn't be able to be detected without use of the spell, he wrote out the name of the first song he'd ever learned on the violin followed by the first few measures. He knew that he probably placed notes in the wrong place or too close to each other, but that came with writing with invisible ink. He waited a moment to let it dry then put his quill down. He turned to his neighbor and held out his scrap of paper. "Ready to trade, he asked?"
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Oh, Merlin!
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Ji-Eun Park, Pecari
August 04, 2013 1:54 PM
Don't worry - be happy by Ji-Eun Park, Pecari
Ji-Eun's break had been somewhat pressurised but really rather nice. Her mother had kept her busy assisting her with some of the simpler Potions she made for themselves and friends. Even though Mrs Park was glad Ji-Eun was going to a good school and would – so long as she applied herself properly and got top grades – be able to go to a good university, she didn't approve of her knowing only Western magic. There was a limit to what she could do on the wand magic side whilst her daughter was underage, other than constantly nag her to pay attention to the spells she was casting and repeat the words, but Potions was something she could start at any age. It being the family business, Ji-Eun had done it for as long as she could remember, even if it was only at the level of passing ingredients to her mother, or helping to weigh and measure. So, although her break had been crammed full of work, it seemed pretty much like normal life to her. She'd enjoyed being home, having familiar food and having people to speak Korean with again.Now though, she was back to school, and trying her best to concentrate and not let homesickness get in the way of her lessons. As she slid into a seat in Charms next to a boy with his head on the desk, she rather thought she might be succeeding better than some people... He seemed to pull himself together for the lesson, in that she was aware of him scribbling away beside her, although she was too focussed on her own note taking to do much more than register the movement and sound of his writing. She had opted to use her regular quill, as having detailed and legible notes was important to her. She wrote the spell down in English but added a few Korean letters around it to help her remember how to pronounce it. Sometimes she felt sounds were more obvious with their English letters, sometimes more so with Hangul and so she often used a mix, or at least some annotations. There were more symbols for vowels in Hangul, and so she often felt those fitted the vowel sounds more closely than the choice of five from English, which could be pronounced in such a range of ways.
Once they were set to practise the spell, she turned her mind to thinking of something to write. She wanted to write something interesting but not keep her neighbour waiting too long. Glancing over, he too seemed deep in thought and thus she thought she could afford some thinking time. Her first mischievous instinct was to write something in Hangul. The thought that, even once visible, her words would remain impossible to read was rather amusing. However, she didn't want to stress the boy out, making him think he hadn't managed the spell. And Professor Olivers would have trouble with her grading, which would make her cross. Ji-Eun tried to think about the particular boy she was next to, and what she might say to him. She didn't really know him, other than knowing his name and face from him being in her class. She could introduce herself but that seemed boring... As she thought of how he had seemed at the start of the class, an idea came to her. Smiling to herself, she pulled out a scrap of parchment and wrote 'Think happy thoughts.
Turning to give it to him, her smile wavered, as she saw him scribbling a large and detailed-looking message onto his parchment. She nodded nervously as he asked if she was ready to trade, swapping her simple sentence for whatever he had been writing.
“AH-PAR, no – AH-par-EE- EH-see-um,” she read carefully, taking in all her notes. She practised a couple more times until the word flowed more easily off her tongue.
“AH-par-EH-see-um,” she cast, trying to sound firm. She had found Charms were less demanding about your tone of voice than things like Defence Against the Dark Arts or commanding a broom. They seemed somehow to appreciate one's own character more, and thus being delicate or flourishing could be just as effective. A scattering of black marks appeared across the paper but they didn't seem particularly connected. None of them linked up with each other or into letters.
“AH-par-EH-see-um,” she tried again. A few of the blobs grew lines, both up and down. “d d... something p.... o?” she began. It wasn't coming together or making sense, and she wondered for a moment whether he had just written a random selection of letters.
“AH-par-EH-see-um,” she tried, one last time. More ps and ds appeared, all sitting neatly on lines. “It's music!” she declared, as she suddenly realised. “It's funny, I thought about writing in a foreign language but decided that was too unfair on you,” she smiled at him.
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Don't worry - be happy
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Emrys Lucan, Aladren
August 07, 2013 2:34 AM
In every life we have some trouble by Emrys Lucan, Aladren
The girl who sat next to him he somewhat recognized, he'd seen her around in class, in the hallways and at dinner. He had never spoken to her before but he was almost certain her knew her name. He also knew that he wasn't too sure how to pronounce it. After the two switched papers, he focused on the task at hand. The sooner he could figure out how to do this, the more time he would have to perfect it and be able to move onto the next lesson more sure of himself. He stared at the sheet in front of him and gritted his teeth. He looked up at the board and carefully read of the pronunciation of the spell."AH-par-EH-see-um," he said slowly and then again with more determination. His grandfather had instructed him that confidence was key to getting things done. "AH-par-EH-see-um," he repeated. He tapped the parchment three times with each of the pronunciations and slowly but surely a message began to appear. Once the letters were clear enough to read he put down his wand and read it in his head once and then aloud. "Think happy thoughts," he said incredulously. He didn't think he had looked that glum. Certainly his grandfather wouldn't have approved of his face so easily betraying his emotions. Just that in part made him want to pout more, but he listened to the tern voice in his head and wiped his face of emotion. He was only 12 years old for Merlin's sake, but he had been trained too well by his grandfather. Despite his constant resisting, he'd still absorbed his grandfather's teachings.
Emrys turned to the girl who was saying something to him. “It's funny, I thought about writing in a foreign language but decided that was too unfair on you,” she smiled at him.
He smiled back, uncertainly. "Sorry, I guess I figured it didn't really matter what I wrote so long as there was something there." He shrugged. "I wouldn't have minded if you'd done a foreign language. You'd have to tell me what it said though so I could understand." He found himself kind of wishing that she had written in a foreign language, he loved learning new things and a phrase in another language was just the thing to add to his collection. "What language, if you wouldn't mind me asking?"
OOC: Sorry this is so short, but I've been having brain blocks all day, I just wanted to get a post out to try and stop the block. I'm so blocked I can't even think of the correct term for it!
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Emrys Lucan, Aladren
In every life we have some trouble
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Ji-Eun Park, Pecari
August 08, 2013 3:00 PM
And how do you propose we deal with it? by Ji-Eun Park, Pecari
Judging by the boy's tone of voice, he was unimpressed with Ji-Eun's sentiments on thinking positive. She felt like it was good advice and, judging by the way he'd been slumped over at the start of class, some that he could do with following. She was only trying to be cheerful and helpful, and why was that a bad thing? However, rather than convey any of this to him, she merely bent her head over her notes, pretending to examine them. Her hair was in two small buns today, meaning it didn't have the remotest chance of swinging forward and hiding her face, nor the very slight blush that was colouring it.The topic of his parchment, however, seemed somewhat more profitable, as far as conversation went.
“That's ok,” she smiled, as he apologised over his trickery. “I don't mind - I just thought that it was a funny coincidence.” She considered sharing what she had considered writing but the evidence so far suggested that she and this boy didn't seem to think the same, and he might have thought her little joke was silly. Or perhaps even mean, seeing as it would have been at his expense.
“It would have been Korean,” she answered his question. Picking up the invisible ink quill, she carefully inscribed a few words “If you want to see how it looks...?” she questioned a little shyly, holding out the parchment.
Once it was visible again, the parchment showed three small squares made up of clustered symbols.
“That's my name,” she explained, once the letters were visible. “My surname first because that's how we do it in Asian countries. P – ar – k,” she explained, pointing in turn to each of the three symbols that made up the first small square. “Ji,” she pointed to the two in the second square, “Eun.” She felt a little self conscious going into so much detail, but it took time to explain when people had never seen Hangul before. They often assumed it would be like Chinese, and have symbols stand for whole words. However, it was an alphabet, like English, only the way of arranging letters on the page was very different.
“Your name is.. Emerys?” she questioned, not sure she'd pronounced it very well. She was a confident native speaker of English, having been born in America, but his name wasn't one she knew. It had stuck in her head rather reluctantly but was proving just as awkward to get out again.
OOC - I hope it's ok to assume that he would take the second paper and make the letters visible. The rule of thumb for 'when is it writing for someone else's character' is to stop if you think they would need to act or change the direction, and I didn't think that was likely, plus it moved it on a bit quicker (and, you'll note, I didn't actually write him taking it or doing the spell – just sort of assumed it happened. I am right in thinking you're new, aren't I? Which is why I'm bothering to explain...)
As for the writer's block, glad you worked through it. I'm sure I've seen worse and have definitely written it!
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And how do you propose we deal with it?
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August 08, 2013 6:26 PM
I dunno, I was just finishing the song lyric... by Emrys Lucan
Korean? That was interesting! Emrys immediately perked up. This had nothing to do with anything he'd ever been taught before and he was glad to learn something new. He just felt as if everything he'd been learning lately was stale. With all the King Arthur that had been pounded into his head over winter break by his mother, he was slowly starting to get disillusioned to it, but that having been his main passion for all of his life except for music, he didn't know what to fill the void with. More recently he'd tried to find new books to read in the library but for the most part his search had been fruitless, and he desperately wished to find a new hobby."That's really neat!" He exclaimed as he watched her scratch something out on the parchment. He accepted the paper and cast the spell until the characters showed up. He tilted it towards her so that she could read it and tell him how it worked and what it said. He tried to pronounce her name correctly as he asked her the question he'd come up with, but wasn't entirely sure if he got it correct. "So, if you went to a Korean school, for example, instead of being called 'Gee-E-uhn Park' like you are here, you'd be called 'Park Gee-E-uhn'?" He was confident he'd messed up her name and so apologized. "I'm sure I messed that up, any advice on how to pronounce it?"
Emrys smiled when Ji-Eun tried to say his name. "Close, it's Emrys, so you just say 'M' like the letter, then '-rys', my mother's a Camelot nut so it's Welsh and comes from one of Merlin's supposed names." He shrugged. "It's kinda cool, she named my sister Caelia like the Faerie Queen." He thought about his mom who worked so hard to properly educate her children in her field of study. He felt a little bit of guilt acting as if he didn't share her love for the subject, but it had just gotten to be too much for him over winter break. He felt certain that the children in the neighboring houses were always staring at their family and laughing when his parent called for him with his full name. He didn't like that feeling and knew from experience that they hadn't liked it much when he tried to talk to them about the specifics of Camelot. After one fateful afternoon a few years ago when he'd been stuffed in a snowbank by some of the older kids, he hadn't talked to them much, but that was more from his grandfather than his own wishes. Myrddin Lucan had been furious to know that not only had his grandson been playing with Muggles but that he had been on the loosing end of a fight with them. Emrys could still hear his words echoing in his head no matter how hard he tried to forget them.
OOC: Yeah, that's fine! And thanks! It's slowly starting to wear off... I just have all this writing I have to get done for work (I work at a newspaper) so it's time and brain consuming! haha
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I dunno, I was just finishing the song lyric...
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August 13, 2013 12:47 PM
Ah, that'll teach me to quote songs I don't know well by Ji-Eun Park, Pecari
Ji-Eun was relieved that her classmate seemed interested in the subject that she'd been rambling on about. She didn't always have the easiest time thinking up things to say but this was something she could be confident that she knew a lot about, so long as he was happy to listen.“Right,” she nodded, when he asked her to clarify the name order thing. “That's not too bad,” she smiled, when he asked about his pronunciation. However mangled people got it, she was always polite and positive. She knew it was strange sounding to people who weren't used to it and appreciated their efforts. “Gee like the letter. Or like 'Oh gee, it's Monday again.' And Eun like... uh,” Well, Eun was just like itself really. She grinned a little sheepishly. “Two syllables – Ji-Eun,” she added, as he'd put an extra one in, probably as a result of her spelling out all the letters that were on the page. “All Korean surnames are one syllable and given names are two syllables. And if you find it easier, you can just call me Jane,” she offered.
She smiled as Emrys explained his name, finding it funny that they both had used a letter name to explain the pronunciation, and had both accidentally added an extra syllable to each other.
“That's a pretty name,” she said, of his sister's. It was exotic and sort of... floaty sounding. She wasn't at all surprised that it was the name of a fairy queen. If his sister was anything like her name, she sounded like a very sweet person whom Ji-Eun would like. “Will she come here too? My brother will be here the year after next,” she added. She did not sound abundantly enthusiastic about the prospect.
“Would you like to practise the revealing Charm one more time, then maybe we could set to work on our essays?” she queried.
OOC – my turn to be slow! Sorry – really long week at work. Also, is the vowel in the 'rys' part of Emrys' name pronounced to rhyme with 'hiss' or with 'peace'?
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Ah, that'll teach me to quote songs I don't know well
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Emrys Lucan
August 18, 2013 3:57 PM
Eh, everybody makes mistakes- everybody has those days. by Emrys Lucan
Emrys listened as Ji-Eun explained just how to pronounce her name. "Thanks but no thanks," he smiled at her. "Unless you mind if I mispronounce your name the next few times I think I'd rather call you Ji-Eun." He tried to say her name again, and looked at her face to see if he'd gotten it right or not. "That's your actual name- unless you want me to call you Jane, in which case I can." He smiled again, hoping she'd say yes because it would mean that he'd succeeded in his attempt at her name.He smiled when Ji-Eun complimented his sister's name. For all the complaining he did about Caelia in his head, he really did love her and anyone else who did immediately went up in his books, but he supposed that was due to general big brother-ly tendencies rather than Caelia's general charm and cuteness. He nodded. "Yes, my whole family's magical so she should be here soon, in a few years, I should think. She's a lot younger than me." He frowned slightly when Ji-Eun didn't sound too happy about her brother coming too. "Do you not get along with your brother?" He questioned. In case it made Ji-Eun feel more comfortable, he offered up some information about his and Caelia's relationship. "Caelia and I get along but that's mostly because she's so much younger than me. Other times I get frustrated with her because I think she's too slow." Caelia really was slow. Emrys felt as if he had understood things much quicker when he was her age than Caelia did now. He wasn't sure if it was because she was coddled so much or if it was because she was a girl. But he guessed it was probably a mix of the first one and that she herself wasn't very smart. After having met a few girls at Sonora he realized that his sister was not actually an accurate representation of the general population (he'd never counted his mom or grandmothers as girls, mainly because they were his mom and grandmothers). But Caelia's simple-headedness only made Emrys feel as if he had to protect her more, which pleased him as it reminded him of being a knight in one of the many tales his mother told them about King Arthur. He shook his head as if to get rid of the thought. He was supposed to be banning thoughts of King Arthur and his knights, not thinking happily about them! But then again, he figured, Camelot had been his whole upbringing. He would never be able to totally rid himself of the tales.
Ji-Eun interrupted his frustrating, conflicting thoughts with her question of continuing to work on the class assignment and he welcomed the interruption greatly. "Yes!" He said, "that would be lovely, it would be definitely preferable to master this spell by the end of class!" He grinned. "Should we write out another message and swap again until we can each do it after one try?"
OOC: No problem, seems as if we're both a bit busy!
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Eh, everybody makes mistakes- everybody has those days.
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August 18, 2013 5:30 PM
My characters seem to have a lyrical theme this lesson by Ji-Eun Park, Pecari
“I like being called Ji-Eun,” she confirmed, appreciating his sentiment about it being her actual name. That was how she felt about the matter, even if both were on her birth certificate. It was the one she'd predominantly used and which resonated most strongly with her. It was also a chance to bring a little bit of home, and all its traditions, with her to Sonora. She had text books of her mother's, and wrote and received letters in Korean, but all of those things were very much in her own personal bubble. If people called her Ji-Eun, it meant the bubble expanded to include others, even if it was only by the tiniest bit.“You could say that...” she said, with a slightly weary smile when he asked about her brother. It was a little odd trying to explain it to someone outside of her own culture, she suddenly realised. She'd never had to really explain it before full stop. Her Korean friends at home who had younger brothers all just... knew. They would sigh sympathetically, or share examples of particular incidents but you didn't have to explain. She wasn't really sure how to tell Emrhys that the male child was inherently the most important and that thus, when they weren't the eldest, it created this weird sort of tension. As the eldest, she was the flag bearer, in some senses. In the sense that, if she did badly, the fact that she was the eldest and should be setting an example and forging her way in the world – didn't she know how much they had sacrificed to give her a better future? - was brought down against her. But any time she was good or did well, it barely seemed to matter because they were all waiting with baited breath to see how Ji-Won would do when he did it. His achievements mattered more than hers but her failures were held against her. That wasn't to say that his weren't, or wouldn't be. But that had to involve him failing. And, whereas any kind of slip in her grades, and she had failed, a slip in his, and the subject was rubbish anyway, or his teacher was clearly inferior. The worst part of all of that was that it wasn't even his fault so she couldn't hate him for it, although he definitely managed to be a brat on top of, or possibly because of, it.
“He's my brother and I love him,” she stated, in a tone that very much suggested that a fitting tail end to that sentence would have been 'because I have to.' “But my parents let him get away with murder,” she summarised. She didn't think that was entirely true. Ji-Won was probably under even more pressure than her to make something of himself but he did definitely get away with things that she wouldn't. It was like their parents had started with the default assumption he was perfect, and that it would take an awful lot to disabuse them of this notion. “And he really bugs me. I was sort of relying on being able to get some peace from him in my Common Room but it doesn't look like it. I mean, I always assumed he would go into Pecari, I just never thought I would,” she explained.
“That sounds good,” she nodded when he agreed to go back to the spell. Even with the abbreviated version, that was probably far too much information – she didn't want him to think she was whingy. She took up the strange quill again, trying to let the ink catch the light so that she could see what she was writing.
Your name in Korean is... she wrote, switching to the characters of Hangul to write out Emrhys' name. Or at least, an approximation of it. If she handed it to a Korean person and asked them to read it, it would probably sound like a complete mess. Instead, hopefully it would amuse, and she handed it to him, accepting the piece of paper he offered her in return.
OOC – sorry, font issues mean that I can't actually write out what she put on the paper.
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My characters seem to have a lyrical theme this lesson
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Emrys Lucan, Aladren
August 25, 2013 11:34 PM
That must be fun- the subject line is always the hardest :P by Emrys Lucan, Aladren
Emrys frowned while Ji-Eun tried to explain her feelings towards her brother. He got the feeling that she wasn't being completely honest, especially by the way that she said the part about loving him. But he knew that they'd only just met so he didn't expect her to open up immediately like that- she didn't seem the type and to be honest, he probably would have been uncomfortable should that have happened. Instead, he thought about what she said and then realized something. "If you never thought you'd get into Pecari, then isn't it possible he would get into a different house?" He hoped that might put her mind at ease a little bit. It seemed like a good solution to him- if Ji-Eun wasn't supposed to get into Pecari and did, if her brother was supposed to, then it could be highly likely that her assumptions were off and he wouldn't. "If Caelia gets into Aladren, I would be very surprised," Emrys admitted, trying to steer the conversation in a different direction in case all this talk about Ji-Eun and her brother was starting to embarrass her. "But then again, it could be possible. Honestly, I think she'll be in either Crotalus or Teppenpaw but I couldn't really say. Once she drinks the potion then we'll know for sure, but only until then."After Ji-Eun and he decided to go back to working on the spell, he was stumped as to what to write. He'd already exhausted his brain by being angry at his entire family and he didn't want to make Ji-Eun uncomfortable by mentioning anything else family related. He settled for something simple. "So, how do you feel about this spell?"
He took out his wand again and attempted the spell until the words began to appear. "Cool!" He exclaimed. "Would it really?" He couldn't stop looking at the paper, Korean was so cool! He really wished he could speak something other than English and French. "Do you think you could teach me maybe?"
OOC: It's okay, I can imagine it haha. Well...maybe not since I'm Chinese, not Korean :P
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That must be fun- the subject line is always the hardest :P
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August 28, 2013 11:56 AM
Yes, though I do feel bad now for the one who was left out by Ji-Eun Park, Pecari
“Yes, I suppose,” she nodded, when Emrys suggested that Ji-Won might end up in a different house to her. In truth, it was already something that had occurred to her, or rather worried her. If he ended up in Crotalus or Aladren, he would have got a better house placement than her, in her parents' eyes. She wasn't sure whether having to endlessly hear that from them cancelled out the respite it would gain her from her brother. She supposed it meant either option – him ending up in Pecari with her, or in one of the 'better' houses – at least had a silver lining. She would be granted both if he went into Teppenpaw but, even with all the open mindedness she could muster, that did not seem like a realistic possibility.“AH-par-EH-see-um,” she cast, tapping the parchment he had handed her. The words sprang onto it much more easily and clearly this time, though she supposed it helped that they really were words. She could just about make out the message, although it was faint and there was an ascender or descender missing here and there.
“I think it's sort of neat,” she smiled, once she had tidied up the message with another shot at the spell. “I mean, everyone knows it now, so it's not like it would keep our secrets very safe but it's still fun. What about you?” she asked.
“More or less,” she admitted, when he asked if it really said his name in Korean. “It might get a little lost in translation, especially the 'r' sound, so you might get a few variations that don't sound quite how you would expect if you asked Korean people to read it,” she explained. She had been encouraged by his interest in the subject and it helped put her at ease, confident that she could talk and write about it without him being bored. She was a little taken aback by the level of enthusiasm that his next remark revealed though.
“I... I don't know. I mean, I could try. I've never taught anyone before though,” she added. She wasn't sure she'd really know where to begin. She had grown up speaking both Korean and English, so she didn't know what it was like to be sat down and formally instructed in either, or what sort of thing would be useful. Lest Emrys took this as a 'no,' she quickly added, “But I do like the idea of trying.” She tried not to get carried away and imagine being able to have long conversations in Korean with someone at school – it was, surely, very difficult to pick up a new language. But even having someone who was interested, or who could say a few words to her was a fun idea.
OOC – sorry for keeping on putting an 'h' in your name. I have seen the error of my ways!
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