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Helios Sprensonne ([personal profile] folklorist) wrote in [community profile] eswareinmal2012-07-24 05:42 pm

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!))
bondsoflove: (next time | I'll be braver)

[personal profile] bondsoflove 2012-07-24 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[Just when Sasuke is convinced that this town is full of proto-humans who can't add one plus one, he sees something like this that makes him question his own eyes.

He'd think it were a series of illusions, but nobody who isn't an Uchiha can mimic the nuances of reality so perfectly, and he can't see any chakra being molded at all.

It doesn't make sense.

So after the show, he walks forward, observing, eyes narrowed.]

How.
shadedsunlight: (Everything about you resonates happiness)

[personal profile] shadedsunlight 2012-07-25 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
[Today Ginia sheds her armor in favor of something a little more bright and flimsy as she helps out her friend with his show. She'll never cease to be amazed by his magic and after the previous day, the distraction is very welcome. Helping is also the least she can do for him after contributing to his distress, though she wouldn't have said no even under happier conditions.

She does everything she can to help; take items from the audience for him to transform or pull birds out of, lets him make her disappear and reappear, walks through the audience with a hat to collect money, and overall plays her part as a pretty little distraction and aid. Unlike magic shows in her world, which were really just illusions or acts of trickery and slight of hand, these are the real deal. The wonders of true magic.

However, that doesn't make the idea of being sawed in half any less concerning. While she trusts Helios, she also remembers other magical mishaps.]


/Are you sure this is safe?/ [She signs secretively, still smiling brightly and acting as if everything is perfectly fine.]
Edited 2012-07-26 01:49 (UTC)
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[personal profile] retrieverchef 2012-07-25 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
[Normally, volunteering for some magic show wouldn't be something he'd consider. If he happened to be around for one, usually while on a job, he'd stay in the back as unobtrusively as possible or find a way to use it as a distraction. But he isn't on a job and he doesn't have to worry about someone recognizing him later. So he lets his childish side out for a change and steps forward.]

I'll volunteer.
goldeneyeball: (suspicious)

[personal profile] goldeneyeball 2012-07-25 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[James didn't actually enter the crowd until the show was over. He had been watching from the alley like a creepy mc creeperson with a scrutinizing eye. He was wary and jealous of other magic users and though Helios had never done anything unkind to him, he thought it best to hang back and see just what this man could do.]

So where's the rabbit now?
tatra: (Applause)

[personal profile] tatra 2012-07-26 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
Tatra was wandering through the village, greeting everyone she passed with a smile (as usual) when she happened upon the little performance. Of course she stayed to watch, and she laughed and cheered with the rest of them, and when the crowds dispersed she stayed and cheered some more.

"That was quite a show," she informed Helios cheerfully. She recognized him from around town and from the orbs.
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[personal profile] consultmybooks 2012-08-02 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
[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.