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]

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.