video; un: saxitup | two truths, one lie

[saxsongs]

Hello! Some of you might remember me, but in case you don't - my name is Ren Jinguji. I returned during New Years and I'm resuming my work as an idol!

[With rewnewed energy, as one might notice from his annoyingly sparkling smile.]

But that's not why I'm making this post, really. I want to propose a game! Something so we can get to know each other better.

This is, two truths, one lie. Write three things about yourself, one of which is a lie. Others will have to guess which one it is. Of course, you can also reply as a video or a voice message, if that's easier.

Simple, right? Let's have fun.

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[throneaway]

A multiversal conduit and I expect all my mythological references to land. I really am spoilt. Tell me you had the theatre where you come from? Shakespeare? I'll be lost without that. All you'll get is grotesque puns otherwise.

A month... Mm. Yes, I've noticed the kindness. [ Alien, foreign. Suspicious. But welcome. And he'd be lost without it, honestly. Receptiveness and vulnerability are still not second nature, but he adds: ] I'm grateful to you.

I have to be my own partner, at present, so go ahead and appreciate yours a little more on my behalf. I hope it's a magic/science split.

[malleiform]

We have theater. From plays, to operas, to orchestral performances. And many other things. But we do not have Shakespeare. It sounds like my world is really different from yours. That's actually really interesting.

Of course. There's no problem, either. I like helping if I can. People are worth helping.

It's not. Science and magic are inextricably linked in our work. We couldn't simply do one without the other. We need to have a full understanding of each part of it. Plus, it ensures our work doesn't get stalled for any reason. We just bring different and new ideas to each other. Having Viktor wasn't about filling in the parts that I'm missing. It's about meshing our processes together to be better. It was about having a second mind that understood how the first worked.

[ jayce will NOT shut up about viktor ]

I do hope you find it. It's so valuable.

[throneaway]

You're missing out as far as I'm concerned, but maybe someone else took the Bard's place where you're from, and they were just as good, or better. I should keep an open mind about interdimensional literature. I'll try to go easy on the references. Are there any gods at all where you come from, historical or current? Living or mythological?

You do sound like him. [ And that next thing, about science and magic. It's not wholly what Maxwell wants to believe but it rings so profoundly with truth that it draws him to it, inexorably. ] ...I'll take that under advisement, my friend. I promise.

How did you meet?

[malleiform]

There are gods - at least in mythology, but it sounds as though our mythology and worship is pretty different.

You should. And should you come to the research center, you can find me there.

[ He doesn't even hesitate to talk about their meeting. ]

I got in trouble for studying magic, as it was banned from the academy. They only knew I had it because a giant hole got blown in my apartment when it was robbed. He was the one who had come to bring me in. But after my trial with our country's Councillors I returned there and he met me.

He believed in me when no one else did. He's the reason I was able to chase my dream at all.

[throneaway]

I've got two worlds to draw on. Earth's where all the literary gags come from. The Constant had real, present deities, or beings enough like them to count.

I'll ask for you, Jayce. What kind of hours do you keep there?

[ All the best friendships, romances, and partnerships are predicated, apparently, on uncontrolled explosions of illegal materials, becoming a felon, violating known laws of physics in order to expand them... ]

Good for you, and I do mean that. Sometimes all it takes is one.

I won't ask you to go too in-depth on what kind of magic you study, or how, we can trade all that later in person.

[malleiform]

I'm here earlier in the day, before lunch time. Or I try to be. I often stay much later than I intend to, though. Just the way that it goes.

[ Until he gets a house with a lab to work in. ]

You're right. It only does take one.

[ Because those words, for some reason, strike so true to him. But maybe if he hadn't been so ready to just walk off a ledge that day... ]

It will make more sense with some of my notes, too. Which will be far easier to understand in person.