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[blueberryprincess]

[ Evie doesn't mind when people see her face, but she's so flustered by something that she forgot to turn the vide on. For now, however, it's clear in the tone and how subdued she sounds that something is entirely amiss. ]

Those...posters all over town. The ones about skiiing...be careful staring at them for too long. I can't really explain it, but I started feeling...

[ Give her a minute. She needs to work out how to put this. ]

I want to say lost. I also want to say disconnected. Both?

[ A pause. ] We'll go with both. I'm not sure what could have caused it, so just...be wary. Okay?

Thank you for your time.

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[blueberryprincess]

I've learned magic varies from world to world, but in my world it can mean a lot. We have witches, wizards, fairy godmothers.

And a ban on magic. My mother is a witch, but we were blocked from magic where I grew up, so I didn't really get to learn anything.

[bluetailedhawk]

So they were cutting their noses off to spite their faces? [Having magic and not using it just seemed stupid.] That kind of magic only exists in story books and movies where I come from. All the stuff that looks like magic in my world is just really advanced technology.

[blueberryprincess]

It's a bit more complicated than that. Magic was banned out of fear. I grew up on a prison island because people were terrified I'd be like my mother. She used her magic to try to murder someone, long before I was born. Most of the people on that island were magic users in some way who abused their abilities to harm others.

So it wasn't us that put the ban on ourselves. Others did, because they'd seen how much harm magic could cause, never mind the fact that some of their very own were very good people with magic.

Fear does funny things to people. Their reactions, while... very dramatic and probably in hindsight very over the top...were entirely understandable.

[bluetailedhawk]

[Tobias visibly grows, feathers fluffing out.] So they're blaming you for your parents being screwed up? It's not dramatic and over the top, it's wrong. No one deserves to be punished for someone else's mistakes, no matter what that mistake was. [This is a hill he is willing to die on. And grow three sizes for, apparently.]

[blueberryprincess]

Breathe, my friend. Myself and a few others from the Isle are working our hardest to improve things. To get the kids that are still on the isle off of it and show them a better life.

I promise, I'm doing a lot better now. I even have my own very popular custom clothing line.

So uh I didn't mean to switch forms mid-thread, sorry??? Assume he morphed off screen. :x

[bluetailedhawk]

I have strong feelings about bullies. [And that sure as hell sounded like bullying to him.] Did you ever find a place for your shop? Or was that... temporary?