call me out v. 14.0

[misheard]

Call out one of the characters from my muselist with a starter, a prompt, a general 'hey can we do something with these characters' comment, a smoke signal, etc., and I'll get back to you with some kind of RP thread!

Old CR, new CR, assumed CR, canonmates, AU, crossover, whatever, it's all good.

Comments

[accidentallich]

Not very, I don't think? For better or for worse, he is mostly focused on me, so if we can convince her not to pick a fight with him again she'll be okay.

[Whether Gershom will be okay is another matter, but that's not her problem to worry about.]

[pyrephobia]

...Are you going to be okay? [TOO LATE, SHE'S CONCERNED.] Not that you're not very capable, I'm sure- you're clearly very good at keeping out hostile spirits. But if he's a necromancer, too...

[Listen, she's spent most of her afterlife fussing over small children and setting terrible people on fire. The concept of just letting an issue be someone else's problem isn't something she's had much opportunity to consider.]

[accidentallich]

Ah - I think you're overestimating me, actually. I don't know any magic.

[This is not a reassuring thing to say, Gershom.]

[pyrephobia]

...Oh dear. [Okay, this is definitely not making her less worried about him.]

Wait, then what was keeping me from...? [She turns around to look at the door, deeply confused.]

[accidentallich]

It's the mezuzah. I don't know if you're familiar with them...?

[Like, there is a reasonable Jewish population in DC, so it's fairly likely that she's seen them before at least.]

[pyrephobia]

Huh! [She blinks, looking mildly surprised.] I don't know what it says about my afterlife that I thought of magic before I thought of religion.

[She was brought up half-heartedly Catholic, but the only time in her thirty-odd years of undeath she's even looked at a rosary was when she was briefly haunting a priest.]

[Well, it's not as though anyone can tell her grandmother she hasn't been to church in the last couple decades, now.]

I don't think anyone on the staff is particularly devout, so that probably rules out protecting the group home the same way. [Even as lax as she is on the subject, she can guess that a holy symbol without any actual faith behind it isn't going to do much.]

didn't get a notif, rude

[accidentallich]

I think you have to actually believe for it to work... Sorry.

[He would happily recommend places to get a good mezuzah if he thought that would keep Momo safe, but alas.]

No worries. :D

[pyrephobia]

It's only fair, I suppose. [You can't get something for nothing.]

Those are only for hanging up in doorways, though, aren't they? What do you do for protection when you have to leave your apartment?

[Look, she's only known this guy for like a minute and a half but she's increasingly concerned that he seems to have very little concern for his own safety.]

[accidentallich]

I don't. Leave my apartment, I mean. If I went out looking like this, I'd have more problems than just him, nu?

[IT'S FINE, THIS IS FINE]

[pyrephobia]

[...She really, really hopes this guy didn't become a lich until after the internet was a thing. Because "internet" is about the only answer she can think of to how he's possibly managing to get by without ever leaving the house.]

You mean you can't- [She frowns.] I'd heard liches could disguise themselves, but I guess I don't really know a lot about them. I know I can only make myself look like this at night, in sunlight I look... [She trails off, expression briefly uncomfortable, before settling on:] ...different.

But I shouldn't expect you to work the same way ghosts do, right?

[Privately, she's not entirely sure that other ghosts are specifically revealed by sunlight, either. Maybe they are, she hasn't met a lot... but she quietly suspects that her own complicated relationship with fire might have something to do with it. Whatever else the Sun is, it is burning.]

[accidentallich]

Most liches can, but it comes from also being a mage or something like that, not from anything innate to the lich...iness. I wasn't a mage before I was turned into this and casting spells is... a little bit frowned upon in Judaism?

So I just look like this all the time. A couple times a year I get a goy friend of mine to disguise me so I can go to synagogue for High Holidays.