eswareinmal | Oh oh it's magic you knoooow

Characters: Helios and anyone else
Open? Sure is!
Where: Town Square
When: RD 12, around the late afternoon
What: After everything that's happened the last few days Helios decides that lightening the mood is the least he can do. So without further ado have a magic show!
Warnings: Sawing of people in half. Except not.

[ Ladies and gentleman children of all ages! Today there is going to be some fantastical and fearsome creatures traipsing about the town square. But there’s no need to worry because they’re hardly real. Actually they’re more along the lines of being made of light but in fact they look incredibly real for something like that. What is the source of all these creatures you ask? Should you follow them to the small little gathering you'll find out that it's none other than Helios. He will be on a center wooden stage with his lovely assistant Ginia, looking out to the small, ever growing crowd of people. He’ll be wearing his traditional wizarding garb that he woke up with upon his arrival here, and he’ll even have an old gnarled branch for a wand. Helios will proceed to take off his hat and wave his wand around in a slightly exuberant fashion as he pulls out a snow white bunny from his hat. The crowd will cheer and clap offering up some coins and money for the stellar act. There's more tricks to be offered too. Such as making Ginia disappear or a card appear in someone's hand in the crowd. Whatever else anyone would want to offer up for him to do. He normally would never do this, especially because he’s not used to doing magic in front of so many people, but the little odd jobs and things he’s gotten over the course of the weeks being here have helped. Besides he had Ginia and Giles with him so that always helped.

Still Helios looks decidedly uncomfortable, tentative, and overall anxious even if he is managing a smile throughout the show. It's only when the crowd goes silent that a long wooden box is brought on to the makeshift stage. People unaccustomed to magic shows in general might not find the box all too exciting. But sawing someone in half is a bit…tricky even for Helios. And here he’ll give Ginia a shaky smile with a slight nod. Maybe after everything Ginia has been through this wasn’t the best course of action. Maybe, hopefully, someone else would stand up to take her place. ] And-and this last ending t-trick will require a volunteer. If-if anyone would like to offer themselves up. Otherwise I might have to use my assistant. B-But no need to worry! Everything is completely safe!

[ It ruins the suspense a little but, well, Helios doesn’t want to alarm anyone especially the guards or law enforcement of the city.

Once the magic show is over and most of the crowd is cleared away Helios will be up to talking to anyone who saw it over the orb or even stopped by in the town to see it in person. ]

((ooc; anyone can participate in this. Timelines do not apply! Also have your doods shout out random magic tricks for Helios to do. He is taking all offers!))

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[And he has Giles with him now. Miraculously, apparently, the former Watcher hasn't had to be dragged back after wandering away. It's true he'd been scarce the afternoon and night after the the battle, but for his practicing, but...he's back, now. He does learn, and he's finding that he does actually want to be around the other two, if only because being near them is still easier than scrying to reassure himself that they're all right.

So he'd returned to their shared little room the night before, only gone a day and with a couple of sticky buns from the market to make up for it.

And now he was here to watch, having been lead here by an illusory lion, and he grabs a spot standing on a nearby bench to watch the show. It's easy to see, especially for him, that Helios is nervous and anxious in front of so many people. And it reminds Giles that, really, he and Ginia have had to rely on Helios a bit for money, here in Schwanheim, especially with him still barely able to use his scrying mirror. At the least, some sweet tea is in Helios' future as a celebration.

But, until then, Giles is the audience member any performer would hope for - applauding and calling out encouragement right up until the point someone looks at him and he gets embarrassed. Really, the only point Helios won't notice him is while he's setting up the sawing in half trick and while it's going on.

Giles won't be there for that. But he'll reappear just in time for the end of the show, as though he's been there the entire time.

[ Helios is very enthused about Giles staying and watching him. He knows the other man's abhorrence towards crowds and parties in general. So this is probably taking considerable willpower to even stay. Helios hopes the show was good and even when the crowd disappates and the last of the coins in tossed into the tip hat he'll only then spot Giles and wave. ]

Giles! [ Helios is all smiles as he walks over. ] I-I hope you enjoyed the show.

Um, very much so.

[Apart from the bit where you sawed his girlfriend in half. Giles is currently trying busily to blot that out of his mind. His hands are shaking a bit from the aftermath of secondhand adrenaline as he picks up the tip hat and passes it over to Helios.] Hang on to that, will you? Another showing like that, and we might be able to find another place to stay.

Phenomenal work, yes. Um, I'm not sure I've actually ever seen you put magic to use beyond...well, combat, escape, or accidents. [Meaning the times you blew up the apartment and Giles had to help you put out a fire while he was blind, bro.]

It was an experience.

[ Helios frowns and takes the offered hat. He does notice the shaking and he finally realizes why. ] Oh god. Giles. I-I'm sorry. I-I didn't mean to... [ he really hadn't meant to use Ginia for that act, given her recent unfolding of news. He looks rather dreadful now and extremely apologetic. ] I was looking for other volunteers. Ginia w-wasn't supposed to be used...s-sorry. [ He looks for the briefest of moments a bit ashamed for not really thinking ahead towards something so potent and mentally shocking. ]

I t-tried to, um, make it one. Nothing went wrong so th-that's always good. [ No blowing up anything this time! ]

It's, it's fine. [With an edge of irritated something in his words, Giles waves Helios' words away as though they're an irritating sort of bird.

It's not, but Giles wants it to be fine. Ginia's here, now. She's here and he scoured the bookshop and there was no blue book there with that cover waiting for her. So she's probably going to stay here.

He just...has to keep telling himself that.]

Knowing this crowd, um, they might have paid extra for some sort of disaster. Mobs, um, generally seem to like that sort of thing. Myself...well, um, I was impressed.

[He manages a smile, and it's mostly genuine.] You've gotten better.

[Helios probably had some time to practice, while Giles was away from Luceti, and that thought drives a new spike into his heart.]

[ Helios doesn't quite believe you Giles and he looks down and at the floor at those words. It wasn't fine at all. ] N-Not really. S-Still the same as, ah, al-always. [ Though, yes, when Giles had left he did immerse himself rather deeply into his work again. Just to keep busy and to, well, not have to think about it. But it was really just mindless busy work and nothing else. Nothing that would really raise his skills very much. ] I just never typically do this sort of m-magic.

[ He manages a small smile despite himself. ] It was probably a bit t-too flashy for, for typical stage magicians too.

[...and Giles, despite himself, manages a very faint laugh.]

I can only imagine that you've, um, n-never seen a proper stage magician. Until you've brought a tiger out on stage, um, I-I'd say you're still fairly subdued. At least as far as stage magic goes.

For what it's worth, though, I...well, um, I think it was better for it. Certainly seemed, um, more genuine than smoke and mirrors.

[He's aware that he's probably not phrasing the attempted compliment - and it is a compliment - well enough to make any sense. But, living the life he has, Giles has had to spend a lot of time putting up with misinformation and misrepresentation. Even with the touch of showmanship, it had been easy to see that Helios' magic was utterly genuine, and all the more enjoyable to watch because of it.]

T-To be honest I h-haven't really. I-I wasn't, um, r-really one to g-go out to the carnivals and f-faires when they came into town. [ A frown as he says that and his eyes betray a little sadness in them too. Maybe it was because when he was little that sort of thing was never on his mind. He never usually went out much either. Not having many friends tended to aid in that. ] Ah, perhaps I should get an elephant too?

[ A laugh and smile as he thinks on it. Where to put them is the real question. Helios smiles at the words. Despite not being the most clear that Giles has spoken to him he kinda understands what the other man is trying to say. ] Sometimes it's just better when you make something more genuine. I don't know much s-stage magic but, but magic in general well...you know I can do that.

Oh oh it's magic you knoooow

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