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Amos M. Kamiya ([personal profile] amos_moses) wrote in [community profile] hadriel2016-06-04 12:55 am

Two | Video | Earworm

[The video opens to view Amos perched on top of a mostly-crumbled building. He’s grinning widely, but it’s the kind of guilty grin that suggests while he finds this funny, he knows other people won’t be happy. There are several jabberjays around him, pecking at crumbs he’s scattered around on the rooftop.]

Ya’ll, I am so, so sorry. I really wasn’t thinking.

[See Amos has this bad habit of trying to teach all animals he comes across tricks, as one does with treats and too much time on one’s hands. Little things, like teaching a parrot to wolf-whistle, a dog to shake paws, a squirrel to bow...all in return for food. He’s slightly more successful at it than your average trainer, simply because he can explain the desired nonsense behavior.]

[As for the jabberjays, only two actually like him, so he’s been playing with them and teaching them small things, different phrases in different languages, a Latin prayer or two, and the occasional children’s song.]

[This was probably not the song to teach them, in retrospect.]

[Amos points at the nearest bird, and it happily starts singing in a lovely woman’s voice:

This is the song that never ends…!
Yes it goes on and on my friends!
Some people started singing it not knowing what it was!
And they’ll continue singing it forever just because…!


[The rest of the birds take up the chorus, in the different voices of the inhabitants of Hadriel, and Amos doubles over with laughter. People are going to kill him for this but Lord help him it’s hilarious. This is what he gets for having watched that singalong puppet show with the farm animals as a child….]

NOTE: Most of the birds will only repeat this once or twice, but the two that hang around Amos will repeat it back if you sing or hum it or offer them breadcrumbs.
inappropriatelaughter: but i know my friend "Jack fists" and he would like to come to knock the shit out of your teeth, (i may not know "jack shit")

[personal profile] inappropriatelaughter 2016-06-23 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ Gojyo mirrors the expression: this dude is good people. ]

Yeah, right? It could've been real shitty.

[ He pauses, thinking back. ]

You were pretty chill about it, though. I had that same dream like three or four times, and everybody else freaked out.
torrefied: (i remember when we were gambling to win)

[personal profile] torrefied 2016-06-23 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
For any number of things - paperweights, for example. Door stoppers. Paving stones.
quaerit: sᴄᴏᴜᴛsɪxᴛᴇᴇɴ.ᴄᴏᴍ. (s q u i n t)

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[personal profile] quaerit 2016-06-23 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I've...

[ You know, Gansey really wishes he had a straight answer to that question. He smiles. ]

I can ask. Sometimes, it seems to work. Most of the time, I think I'm just like everyone else. It's complicated.

[ He's not a Magician. Regardless of what he's done, he still doesn't feel like one. ]

It's the thought that counts, anyway. I appreciate that you tried.
notjustinthemirror: (Coming for you)

[personal profile] notjustinthemirror 2016-06-24 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
That sounds important. Well paid?
quaerit: sᴄᴏᴜᴛsɪxᴛᴇᴇɴ.ᴄᴏᴍ. (c a r e)

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[personal profile] quaerit 2016-06-26 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
That's a fair point.

[ A pause. ]

Yours is all right, though. Talking to animals. You know, Glendower could do that. They used to say he could talk to birds, especially ravens. It's why he came to be associated with them.

It's fascinating, meeting someone with the same power as him.
torrefied: (there's five for the silver)

[personal profile] torrefied 2016-06-28 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
Don't mention it.

[Or, you know. Anything. Ever.]
inappropriatelaughter: this fucking thing wont eat and its loud (i bought one of those craigslist peacock)

[personal profile] inappropriatelaughter 2016-06-28 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Summoning…ritual.

[ HOW DOES THAT EVEN WORK ]

I thought that was a totally different thing. [ A pause. ] Oh, this is more of that 'everybody's from different worlds' bullshit, right? That fucks me up.
quaerit: sᴄᴏᴜᴛsɪxᴛᴇᴇɴ.ᴄᴏᴍ. (g e l a t o)

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[personal profile] quaerit 2016-06-29 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ You should probably make yourself comfortable, Amos. ]

Owain Glendower. He was a Welsh King who lived in the Middle Ages, and fought for freedom from the English. He's a Welsh national hero

They said he could talk to birds. It's not a very normal power where I'm from. Glendower was special.

[ And from Gansey's ton, it's clear he remains special, at least in some quarters. ]
quaerit: sᴄᴏᴜᴛsɪxᴛᴇᴇɴ.ᴄᴏᴍ. (g a z i n g)

[Video]

[personal profile] quaerit 2016-07-05 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
Similar to, but Arthur was English. And Arthur’s not unworthy of fascination, for the record, but as far as dedicated obsessions go, mine is Glendower.

[ Gansey smiles. ]

Birds are what the stories say. They also say he could control the weather, though. He wasn’t really your average King.
quaerit: sᴄᴏᴜᴛsɪxᴛᴇᴇɴ.ᴄᴏᴍ. (g l a z e d)

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[personal profile] quaerit 2016-07-06 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ It's true, Gansey's particular accent would make him stand apart in most crowds. To anyone who's familiar, he sounds like Virginian old money, his accent tinged with just a slice of the South. ]

No, I'm not Welsh. Someone once mentioned his name to me, along with word of something called a ley line. I started to research, and never really stopped. I've been studying Glendower for years, actually.
quaerit: sᴄᴏᴜᴛsɪxᴛᴇᴇɴ.ᴄᴏᴍ. (l o n g i n g)

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[personal profile] quaerit 2016-07-10 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ Gansey just smiles. He's had all kinds of responses from the people he's told. Derision is one he's heard often enough. ]

You could say that. I won't bore you with them, though. The one about his powers is probably the most relevant.

Where do yours come from, may I ask?
notjustinthemirror: (Don't even need all my fingers)

[personal profile] notjustinthemirror 2016-07-10 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
And there's zombies around? Or monsters? What the fuck is up with your world?
quaerit: sᴄᴏᴜᴛsɪxᴛᴇᴇɴ.ᴄᴏᴍ. (p e n s i v e)

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[personal profile] quaerit 2016-07-15 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
They're not boring to me.

[ Gansey clarifies gently. ]

So you're saying powers like yours are relatively common, where you're from? [ He pauses, considering. ] Do you think of it as magic?

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