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[electricflock]

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_{[ ...covers his eyes obediently with his hand, and stays where he is, staying still a moment or two... before he does turn so that his back is facing the bulb. ]}.

Will it feel warm? When it's working. Like a fire would.

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[chitters, reaching up to tug one of those red locks while his eyes are covered]

A bulb this big will. Not as hot as a fire though, do want it to make more light than heat.

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Mm. I wonder if you could light one with Holy magic, instead of Thunder...

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Do you want to try? Don’t know Holy, but is at least partly a magic light.

[meanwhile, muffin’s reaching out with his free hand to touch the glass. he has to concentrate here— he doesn’t zap the bulb directly, but reaches his senses out for the wiring to feed his lightning through to the filament.]

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Maybe~. I want to see what color yours makes it, first. Holy, you know, it's light, like... it's snowy out...

_{[ he peeks through the fingers over his face, not toward the bulb, but at the wall. Maybe he'll cast a strong silhouette. ]}

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Am only heating the filament, so this is lighthouse’s normal color. But if you want…

[a massive, blazing light. a brightness burning without color.

the light dims slightly, and. angie’s shadow is backlit by a faint purple corona]

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Oh! Lookit that! That's a cute splash of color!

_{[ he's so fawning like this... like a familiar drink, filled with a whole bunch of an unfamiliar kind of sugar. ]}

Heh, heh, heh. I like purple a lot. It's a color of nobility, so I'm told... what do you think? Do I look good with such a crown?

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[the corona’s light flares up, flickering together with muffin’s chittering. he likes the sweetness.]

Is very stylish. Any rich man can get gold, not everyone can get lightning.

[though muffin does prefer a feathery crest to a crown]

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...Catching heaven to keep the lights on. Well. That definitely gets around some of the problems of just using Mist.

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Only have to watch out for gryphons messing with power surges. That part not so heavenly.

[he's only one catbird and that's a big bulb, so after another minute or so he lets the lighthouse turn off. the charge he freed for the corona lingers on a little longer, glowing like ghostly candleflames on the points of the roof and the edge of the railing]

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_{[ he watches it until the last, knowing it's not an experience he'll soon have the chance to repeat. then... he stalks over to the bulb, too. he holds a hand some few centimeters from it, looks over at Muffin, and purrs, ]}

My turn.

<sub>[ the light of Holy running through the bulb isn't all that different in appearance from its baseline, ultimately. Holy is pure and cleansing, after all.

But...
There might be...
The faintest hue of blue to it, too.

...he doesn't hold it as long. This isn't quite the conduit this sort of power is meant for.

The curling shadow of the Genome's tail can be seen as the light shines, though it can't currently be seen by the naked eye. ]</sub>

[electricflock]

[whistles softly, gazing at the cast light and its brush of blue as if entranced. he’s familiar with many elements, like Fire, Ice, Mind, Lightning, and so on, but Holy isn’t one he’s ever seen before. he’s never felt energy with that kind of clarity before.]

Pretty…!

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_{[ he giggles. ]}

That's a little bit more of that angel part. Sometimes, I wonder what it would be like to look more the part, too...


_{[ he twirls a lock of red hair around a finger.]} ...But I don't knoww~. Now I've got this Angel Devil title to live up to.

[electricflock]

An angelic devil or a devilish angel? Is difference, isn’t there?

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Is there? Isn't there? Heheheheh. I don't like to have to just pick. Isn't it funner to make people have to guess?

...

...You know I'm already an Angel for good, anyway, right? _{[ that playful twirl has turned to a tight grip on a coil. ]} I'm different from the last two.

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[chirps? reaches up without thinking to try and loosen his hand]

Of course you're different. But I'm not sure what you're asking me?

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_{[ his hand's easy to coax loose. he takes the opportunity to sieze hold of Muffin's, and guide it to rest over the fancy pin over his heart. ]}

I'm gonna kill the man that gave me this. I've killed way more other people already, too. More than I remember. But he's powerful. I want that power, because it means my life's going to be easier. I'm going to use it to kill more people, too. That's what I am. I'm made just for killing people. That's the kind of angel I am. So... you see. I really am both at the same time, right?

[electricflock]

[presses his hand against angel devil's chest and steps closer]

Looking at it like that... What about when you're not killing? The younger you and the older you both, um... like having time to just be. Do you get to have that?

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You know what waking up here taught me...? Reading those silly papers... the sad parts, the really good parts...

One day, it really is all going to be over. Done. I. Win. I get out of every single noose on my neck! All gone!

...Don't take me the wrong way! I'm not giving up on Gaia. That planet is mine! I'm supposed to kill it, so you know what? It's all mine to keep alive! But...

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_{[ leans in. ]}

Standing up here with you... I actually know for the first time. One day. I am going to... "just" "be." ...but, honestly! How disgustingly humble! Of course I want more than that. I'm not going to sit here and pretend I have the lowly aspirations of... Of a...

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_{[ his hand hasn't left muffin's. his stare is intense. ]}
...

I dont just want to "be." I can't just want to be. That's as good as putting myself up on a shelf and calling it quits, isn't it?

I'd rather... be... a devil, and an angel, forever... than just a doll.

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I didn't mean it like that.

[curls his fingers in angel devil's shirt and gives him a thump, not even really a shove]

You read his papers, you just said. He doesn't just sit and exist, and I don't want that for any of you either. Want you to have the peace to have time to yourself, to relax if you want. Want you to have more time to explore or play or study, and do what you want to do instead of what you were made to do.

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