knackered: (♚ why the fuck is he being interrupted)
{united kingdom} ♚ {england} ♚ {arthur kirkland} ([personal profile] knackered) wrote in [community profile] ataraxion2015-04-11 07:52 pm

☂ two ; video

[England clears his throat. This is his first video broadcast across the network, and he wants to avoid an embarrassing situation like his mistaking the text function for a telegram the first time.]

Right. Yes. This feels oddly informal but if that's what's done--

--I'll be brief and to the point: I've got two questions.

First, could anyone from Earth who's lived through the twentieth century tell me of its history? Ah, the version of Earth where the British Empire exists. I would like to know how the world changes in the next hundred years. It doesn't matter when or where you're from, I'm just very interested.

My second question is addressed to the users of magic on board the Tranquility. Sorcerers, witches, wizards, healers, mages; whatever you are, how does magic work in your world? What sort of spells do you use? Runes? Talismans? Perhaps a proxy via a familiar or even technology? I've been practicing magic for as long as I've been alive--that's over fifteen hundred years--but one can never learn too much.

--Ah, I'm rambling. Excuse me... [He straightens his shoulders, tilting his nose up to be as dignified as possible.]

At any rate, I've one more announcement: I'm willing to trade tealeaves for sewing supplies, or anything else. Especially alcohol.

[Arthur pauses, not sure how to end the feed, but he just decides on something simple.]

Thank you.




[*edit/ooc: I'm aware of what he's asking. Bring on the temporal spoilers.]
muscovy: (I can really have it?)

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-04-12 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
Scotland becomes an empire?

[So far he has only heard about America and Russia as major powers.]
muscovy: (what on earth)

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-04-12 07:54 am (UTC)(link)
[It would be a lot easier to react to this if he had any idea what just happened (good or bad or just silly?). Not that he has much time to react, because England's laughter has woken the fairy that was nesting on his head and angry chiming erupts above him.

Which is accompanied by pulling at his braids as sketto rises quickly, legs and wings getting tangled in his hair before she can pull free and flee towards a quieter resting place. Muscovy is left trying to futilely calm her and help her out of the braids in a way that is less painful, and then hold his hurting head.

But that wasn't all. Sketto's angry chiming has roused Pityo as well, so after a moment a second fairy rises. Just that this one descends on Muscovy's shoulder before the chiming begins, and his chiming is much louder and shriller than Sketto's. Which is particularly painful next to one's ear, so Muscovy shoves him off his shoulder and narrowly escapes being bitten for his trouble. Not that it helps much. He is, at least, somewhat successful as Pityo perches nearby now, though it takes a while before the sound of silver bells dies down.

Still holding his head, Muscovy returns his eyes to the weird communication device and the person laughing at the other end of it.]


You are being very loud, yes?
muscovy: (we're good)

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-04-13 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
[This nation has quite some years to cover still since he'll be the awkward teenager that England will meet for the first time, busy growing from a little kid into an empire in a shorter span than some other nations need to decline from Empire status. No, for now, he's a child, and England is a child too what are you saying.

He shakes his head and smiles.]
England is very weak and cries a lot, yes? Scotland is stronger than him. [Everyone knows that (or maybe the last person from that area that he talked to just was a Scot).] You are too old to be England. [There's a difference between knowing that people can come from different times and applying it to his own world. The second is a lot less easily done. ...He's never had to do it before now, after all.

A faint tilt of his head and then nods.]
You look old. [The only blond nations that look this old are Scandinavians. Whom he'd.... really rather not run into, thankyouverymuch. But he's also very sure that this is a nation, simply by how he talks about other nations.]
muscovy: (what on earth)

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-04-13 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
[Congratulations, England, you made the baby cry. Or, well, you at least turned his eyes watery. Adult nations yelling at him is scary, legitly scary, because too often, bad things happen afterwards. And yelling into his general direction tends to mean that he should better run even outside of that - over the last year it usually announced that he had accidentally landed himself in territories that were unfriendly to Seelie shardbearers and if he hadn't run and escaped they would likely have killed him

But England doesn't know where he is, his brain registers, and the ship isn't big enough to properly hide or run from him, so this is probably a good moment to turn around and try to fight. His eyes are still watery, but he's at least trying to put on a brave facade.]


I might be small now and you big already, but if I fall asleep I could wake up very strong, yes? Because I'll be big and have many friends one day, John said so. So if you're mean to me now it would be bad for you once I became big. [...this would probably a lot more convincing if he wasn't trembling with tears in his eyes, but. It's worth a try?]
muscovy: (dreams of an empire)

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-04-13 11:25 am (UTC)(link)
John was courting my lady aunt. He's nice but I think he isn't very well now because he said that Death adopted him.

And I didn't insult you. You are old, and Denmark said that England is small and weak. [But now that England mentioned a year, he can make more sense of everything. It's a bit difficult to grasp, but in theory - and he's seen it in other people before.]

But that was many years ago for you, yes? And when you're from we're both big and strong. ...Ameh-rica, too.
muscovy: (we're good)

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-04-13 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
You shouldn't say that Denmark lied, because then he will hear and be angry. [He pauses and brightens up.] Unless he isn't around anymore when you are from, in which case he can't be angry with you and nothing bad will happen.

...how can you know that he isn't here?
Edited 2015-04-13 19:28 (UTC)
muscovy: (from the east)

Dear Himapapa what was Denmark doing in Russia :||||||||

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-04-14 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
...But if you have trade routes and houses all over the world and no problems with him, that sounds like he is dead in your time and then he would also be quiet.

[He knows that when Denmark and Sweden started coming to his place, the Viking activity in the west got worse, and his knowledge of the world beyond his area might be outdated and not very complete but he doubts that Denmark could change fundamentally enough to stop bullying people, so he figures that he's just doing it elsewhere in his time.]

Who is Canada?
muscovy: (I can really have it?)

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-04-14 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Is Canada big and strong, too?
muscovy: (hello)

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-04-14 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Is his place warm?
muscovy: (from the east)

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-04-14 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh. Well.]

Then when I am strong and big and have a holiday home in the south of America and he is my friend he can come and visit me so he can have it warm sometimes, too.
Edited 2015-04-14 20:37 (UTC)
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[personal profile] muscovy 2015-04-16 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Muscovy.

[Not Ivan. It's a nice name, but it is also a human name and he's not sure why he would ever use a human name - not out of principle but he has a hard enough time holding on to any nation names and navigating which one a person wants to hear. To add human names to these - half the time, people just call him some form of "little one" or "boy" anyway and he's perfectly fine with that.]

And my lady aunt lives in the gardens. [She doesn't remember him anymore, but he's not someone to let got that easily.]
muscovy: (from the east)

[personal profile] muscovy 2015-05-03 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
The lady Galadriel.

[He wants to add an explanation, but... the thing is that the explanation that he had finally settled on when talking to humans and elves and other non-nations doesn't really work in a nation context.]

She offered that I can stay with her, too.

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