[You would think that after living most of his life without magic, he'd be able to handle being without it, but circumstances already proved that wasn't true. There was an entire key quest about it. Quentin couldn't just accept what someone told him, but he's been sitting in a corner for awhile now trying every technique he knows to get magic to spark and none of it's working. It isn't the absence of magic like what he's known before; it's more than that. To most people the way the Magicians use hand gestures and twitching fingers isn't exactly typical known movie or TV magic, so it would just seem like he's doing strange spider-y gestures with his fingers. Still, he's determined, walking through these strange streets more focused on his hands than on anything else.]
Exploring Changes: Touch-a touch-a touch-me
[While doing that, Quentin isn't paying much attention to where he is going. He has often been called oblivious, and a little feather-brained, and he is both of those things. So there are several times that he ends up knocking into someone or knocked around by them. His apologies are quick and sincere, shoulders slumping in obvious guilt, and he scoots out of the way. When he walks into someone, he might accidentally brush fingers with them, setting off an empathy bond without meaning too. Unlike a lot of people, Quentin doesn't pull away from it, instead he blinks and leans into it, quizzical. His emotions are a blend of high anxiety and deep sadness, mixed in with some curiosity at what's happening.]
Resolution Day: VR Simulations
[Quentin likes video games although it's been a long time since he played any of them. It requires a lot more time than he has. When presented when something geeky and excitingly new as VR, well, he can't help being drawn into it. Want to be a hero? someone asked him, and it's a loaded question. Which he says yes to. Always.
He is not at all prepared for what happens. At first he's amazed and looking around at how realistic it all seems. He has seen some fantastical and bizarre shit in his day, dragons for example, but he's not used to science fiction, not to this level of impressive trope-naming level of technology. He is definitely into it at first, but as the VR keeps going he gets way too immersed and starts flailing around.]
Wake up, wake up, shit. [It feels too real and the panic begins in his chest until he's heaving breaths and he manages to pull away before he really loses it, stumbling and tripping onto the floor.] That seems so much more fun in the movies. [He says to himself, loud enough for anyone to hear.]
NETWORK @ quentin.coldwater
Hi. How did you get your new powers to work?
Wildcard:
[Quentin will be walking around looking very lost and easily startled. He is friendly at the safehouse if a little shy of making steps to introduce himself, and spends a lot of his time brooding, staring off into space. There may be heavy drinking involved. There's an air of melancholy to him at all times.]
[OOC: No Magicians spoilers in top level but could be in later comments, please note if you do not want season 4 spoilers at all. Message me at plurk @ waftingcurtains with questions/thoughts.]
Quentin Coldwater | The Magicians
[You would think that after living most of his life without magic, he'd be able to handle being without it, but circumstances already proved that wasn't true. There was an entire key quest about it. Quentin couldn't just accept what someone told him, but he's been sitting in a corner for awhile now trying every technique he knows to get magic to spark and none of it's working. It isn't the absence of magic like what he's known before; it's more than that. To most people the way the Magicians use hand gestures and twitching fingers isn't exactly typical known movie or TV magic, so it would just seem like he's doing strange spider-y gestures with his fingers. Still, he's determined, walking through these strange streets more focused on his hands than on anything else.]
Exploring Changes: Touch-a touch-a touch-me
[While doing that, Quentin isn't paying much attention to where he is going. He has often been called oblivious, and a little feather-brained, and he is both of those things. So there are several times that he ends up knocking into someone or knocked around by them. His apologies are quick and sincere, shoulders slumping in obvious guilt, and he scoots out of the way. When he walks into someone, he might accidentally brush fingers with them, setting off an empathy bond without meaning too. Unlike a lot of people, Quentin doesn't pull away from it, instead he blinks and leans into it, quizzical. His emotions are a blend of high anxiety and deep sadness, mixed in with some curiosity at what's happening.]
Resolution Day: VR Simulations
[Quentin likes video games although it's been a long time since he played any of them. It requires a lot more time than he has. When presented when something geeky and excitingly new as VR, well, he can't help being drawn into it. Want to be a hero? someone asked him, and it's a loaded question. Which he says yes to. Always.
He is not at all prepared for what happens. At first he's amazed and looking around at how realistic it all seems. He has seen some fantastical and bizarre shit in his day, dragons for example, but he's not used to science fiction, not to this level of impressive trope-naming level of technology. He is definitely into it at first, but as the VR keeps going he gets way too immersed and starts flailing around.]
Wake up, wake up, shit. [It feels too real and the panic begins in his chest until he's heaving breaths and he manages to pull away before he really loses it, stumbling and tripping onto the floor.] That seems so much more fun in the movies. [He says to himself, loud enough for anyone to hear.]
NETWORK @ quentin.coldwater
Hi. How did you get your new powers to work?
Wildcard:
[Quentin will be walking around looking very lost and easily startled. He is friendly at the safehouse if a little shy of making steps to introduce himself, and spends a lot of his time brooding, staring off into space. There may be heavy drinking involved. There's an air of melancholy to him at all times.]
[OOC: No Magicians spoilers in top level but could be in later comments, please note if you do not want season 4 spoilers at all. Message me at plurk @ waftingcurtains with questions/thoughts.]