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Αγαπητό Facebook,

Παρακαλώ βάλε ένα φίλτρο χιονιού στην timeline μου γιατί είναι 2-3 αναρτήσεις που ΔΕΝ δείχνουν τα σπίτια και τους κήπους φίλων μου με χιόνι και με χαλάει αισθητικά.  Θέλω να είναι όλα παντού άσπρα.  Είμαι σίγουρος ότι οι συγγενείς μου στην Βόρεια Ελλάδα γελάνε πολύ με τους Αθηναίους που ανεβάζουν τα ελαφρώς πασπαλισμένα τους μπαλκόνια.  Θα το βρίσκουν χαριτωμένο, όπως εμείς όταν…

But the more I talk about Fey and Tori and their friendship and them being huge dorks together the more I’m thinkin’ I might ship my own OCs, and that was not the point of the story but it very much is the point, ya feel me?

2. What apps do they have on their phone?

A mix of basic utility things (email, bank accounts, instrument tuning apps) and awful money-sucking games where you build up an army and attack other people. She pays a lot to be able to build her town and troops quickly and then conquer everything she can find. Unsurprisingly, she tends to place a lot of stock in the higher, more powerful units, and is less worried with the building of the resources or the more common troops - which is why she spends so much money on a cell phone game.

3. What’s their wallpaper/phone background?

Sheet music to her favourite battle song: it creates a circle around her of fast-moving air and debris and then spikes out in every direction with deadly accuracy and eliminates anyone within 25 feet of her all around. She hums it happily while punching in the unlock code. Other fairies think that’s really fucking creepy, and they’re not wrong.

6. Would they use emojis or emoticons? If yes, their favorite ones?

She would get so confused by emojis! 

“What is the meaning of these symbols? Are they self-censoring? I don’t recognize the significance.” 

“Uh, it’s a smiling face? If you turn your phone sideways-” 

“Why would I turn my phone sideways? Why not just type ‘I am smiling’, it is much more direct? Look, now they’ve sent me a little cartoon woman waving. She looks nothing like the person sending this.” 

“It’s just a cartoon emoji, it means they’re waving-”

“-now they’ve sent me chocolate ice cream with a face on it. Wait. That’s not ice cream.”

“Uh, no, that would be a pile of, er, shit. With a, um, face on it.”

“Ambassador, how do I disable this?”

“I mean, you can, but then you’d just have a bunch of weird boxes show up instead of the emoji.”

“This is why technology is unnecessary,” Victoria would say and then toss her phone into the space abyss of her cloak and the Ambassador would quietly hand her a replacement.

7. Do they use chatspeak, or do they grandma text?

Definitely grandma text. She treats text messages as memos, and since we’ve advanced quite a bit since the telegram, she doesn’t see the virtue in omitting any letters. 

15. What would be their aesthetic?

Mage - The basic level that all who are born with the capability of magician magic start at, and if they do not further study magic, remain at.

Infuser - A mage at this level can take an ordinary object and add magical properties to it from a magic reserve or with the help of a higher level magician.

Mender - Can use magic to fix both nonmagical and magical items with relative ease, restoring them or improving them in the process.

Seeker - Seekers have a developed sense for magical energy and can find objects or hot spots that release strong magic.

Artisan - Artisans can create magical objects using only magical energy and the four elements (earth, air, fire, water), so they can literally make something out of thin air. (Though they prefer it thick.)

Invoker - An Invoker creates magical hotspots by sacrificing items or stitching nearby hotspots found by Seekers together to create something more powerful.

Source - A Source actively help channel magic into machines, a living mix between technology and the mystical. They often also create their own magical objects to help where pure science falls short, and they have to recharge at magical hotspots regularly.

Enchanter - An Enchanter has reached a level of magical study where their spells begin to affect living beings. They no longer have to rely on items for enchantments and illusions but can instead create their own.

Manipulator - Manipulators can draw magical power from the world around them, including from magical objects and from other spells or magical beings. 

Generator - A misnomer as magicians do not generate their own magic, but a Generator-level mage can draw upon magic of the past and future and use it in the present, giving the illusion that they are creating magic from their being.