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do you believe in magic in a shared bath's heart?
The bath at the mansion really is extensive -- probably more extensive than a lot of them have seen, considering there are literally multiple pools of varying temperatures, probably statues and indoor plants or something for atmosphere, steam rooms, complimentary bath things (everything in the manor is kind of complimentary but shshhh) and whatnot.
On this particularly fine and nondescript day, though -- there's a bit of a commotion whenever you wander in butt-naked for your soak or whatever you like to do in here (you can hang from the ceiling like a bat or something we ain't the judge of you); there's two enterprising wizards flitting about poking at things.
The thing with 🪄 Cid Kagenou 🪄 is that he is Very Into Baths, and Very Into Magic, and thus the Bath Magic is one of the few areas where even his li'l old self can shine. Or not shine, given that they've all been here for 2.5 days (extremely rough estimate) and the miracle is nobody has blown up the mansion trying magic yet. But there is definitely magic happening! Since there's already steam and everything.
And then there's 👓 Yamato 👓. Yamato is Here and enabling himself by watching Cid experiment with various things in the area. Initially he probably would've tried to stop him, but seeing what Cid's been doing has made him want to try some magic experimentation of his own. Pairing a teenager who kind of knows what he's doing with a man who has no idea what's going on makes it even more of a miracle that the mansion has not been blown up yet.
But if you look even closer, you'll spot various small differences:
............. Enjoy your bath!
(OOC: This is backdated to before the South mission so South Wizards get in on the fun too!)
On this particularly fine and nondescript day, though -- there's a bit of a commotion whenever you wander in butt-naked for your soak or whatever you like to do in here (you can hang from the ceiling like a bat or something we ain't the judge of you); there's two enterprising wizards flitting about poking at things.
The thing with 🪄 Cid Kagenou 🪄 is that he is Very Into Baths, and Very Into Magic, and thus the Bath Magic is one of the few areas where even his li'l old self can shine. Or not shine, given that they've all been here for 2.5 days (extremely rough estimate) and the miracle is nobody has blown up the mansion trying magic yet. But there is definitely magic happening! Since there's already steam and everything.
And then there's 👓 Yamato 👓. Yamato is Here and enabling himself by watching Cid experiment with various things in the area. Initially he probably would've tried to stop him, but seeing what Cid's been doing has made him want to try some magic experimentation of his own. Pairing a teenager who kind of knows what he's doing with a man who has no idea what's going on makes it even more of a miracle that the mansion has not been blown up yet.
But if you look even closer, you'll spot various small differences:
🛁 all of the water has bubbles in it; the hot bath in fact looks like it has small duck-shaped bubbles just sort of trundling along, occasionally a duck pops and releases a puff of scented air (scents may vary at your discretion)
🛁 the cold water bath keeps turning different colors, maybe they should stop experimenting with it before somebody ends up blue for the week
🛁 some of the statues and potted plants have been slightly altered; nothing too outrageous, but at least one or two statues have been turned into roomba replicas and there's a potted plant with leaves that look like people in the manor's faces in miniature
🛁 the steam room is letting out an intermittent screaming noise that sounds very human, but there's no one in it
🛁 some of the bath soaps are extremely bright and keep on changing colors, as if they were colored like a disco ball (rave! in the bathhouse!)
............. Enjoy your bath!
(OOC: This is backdated to before the South mission so South Wizards get in on the fun too!)
State of the bath
Meanwhile, he is very much bathrobe-clad and not looking like he's about to take it off, though he will sit down on the hot water side and let his legs dangle in once he's sure that the water isn't going to dissolve his legs or something else equally horrible.]
If there had been invitations, I would have known to come later...
[He wasn't exactly expecting a crowd while trying to just take a nice, relaxing bath!]
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You're not that shy, are you? [ he doesn't enter the bath just yet because he has to hang up his towel on one of the hooks. yes he has no qualms about having this conversation while he finishes undressing to become fully naked. ]
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He spins to look away so quickly that he almost loses his balance but manages to catch himself before he ends up falling into the water. Nice save, at least?]
N-no, it's just... I don't really know anyone here, so...
[... that would be a "yes, he's that shy."]
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time to enter the water, completely at ease as he does so, even as he stares at Phil the entire time. that was not an ask~. ]
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[He's pretty much backed himself into a corner here now, hasn't he? Phil is starting to realize the error of his ways, namely that there's no getting out of this one.]
Um, if you wouldn't mind looking away for a moment...
[Just long enough for him to get the bathrobe off and slide into the water, which he is most definitely not about to do with Khun staring at him like that.]
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You realize you're almost double my age, right? If you're that shy, get creative.
[ Phil will quickly realize that khun is not someone who takes orders well, or at all really. ]
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R-right. Of course.
[Get creative. Okay. He can do this.
Stepping into the water, he starts to lower himself down into it and wriggle the bathrobe up and off over his head as he does so. It probably looks extremely stupid and the hem of the bathrobe gets more than a bit soaked in the process, but he does in fact succeed in getting into the water without flashing Khun or anyone else in the vicinity, so... success?
And then he promptly sinks down into it up to his chin and draws his knees up to his chest to make extra sure that no one can see anything at all.]
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You forgot about your magic.
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[Okay, now that was just plain unfair. Phil gets nailed right in the forehead, but at least it gave him a head start on washing his hair?
He reaches up to push his dripping bangs out of his eyes, a very evident pout on his face.]
I didn't "forget" about it... mirristry-- magic isn't meant to be used for things like that in my world.
[So of course he wouldn't think to use it for things like that here either!]
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What's it supposed to be used for then?
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[And for just a moment, his mouth thins into a line. Seems like he's got some thoughts about that.]
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[ he punctuates that by conjuring up another stream of water to hit phil in the forehead with. ]
Think about how your bathrobe feels.
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And that absolutely was not a squeak.]
I meant... other people. Not me. I don't need to be expending energy on something like that.
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[ stares at phil for several long seconds. ]
You're clearly expending all of your energy being as embarrassed as a schoolgirl, so that makes sense.
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[Busted, and he can't even protest because Khun hit it right on the head.]
... well, you aren't exactly wrong. I'm not used to bathing around so many other people outside of hot springs, so I'd been hoping the bath would be empty when I came here today.
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[ like yeah they're inside, but. ]
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[A quiet sigh.]
This would be why Marcus is always telling me that I need to stop spending so much time with my books and start spending more time with other people instead.
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[Okay, so Marcus bosses him around, but technically they're both the leaders!]
But I do have to admit that he does far more of the day-to-day work than I do. He's always been better at that sort of thing.