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Post by Indigo Noble on Mar 1, 2014 19:34:10 GMT -5
Indigo wasn't aware of the curious look he gave Sean, but it passed after just a moment. "I'm not really an expert at anything," he said. "I mean, I work hard and I'm good when I want to be, but like, something tells me you're pretty damned good." And he wasn't going to ask. He'd do some internet research and be informed the next time he saw Sean.
"I'm working toward a place with the Unspeakables," he went on. "It sounds like, way too cool, but it's what I'm into, figuring out new stuff, being on the cutting edge, you know?"
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Post by Sean Sullivan on Mar 1, 2014 19:41:00 GMT -5
It was the first time Sean had told someone who didn't know him before or during his initial transition. Well, it was the first time he'd told someone instead of being outed or accidentally discovered, anyway. He couldn't quite decide how he felt about it other than weird, and decided not to comment on how good or bad he was at transfiguring himself. "Yeah, that'd be really cool," he said. "How do you even get started with that? I mean, they're all secrety and stuff. I can't imagine they just leave leaflets lying around."
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Post by Indigo Noble on Mar 2, 2014 0:40:30 GMT -5
Indigo grinned, his moment of curiosity forgotten in his excitement. "It was something I like, stumbled on," he said. "I was talking with my Head of House, telling her I knew what I wanted to get into, just not where to find it in the wizarding world. Well, I'd told like everyone, but we got to that and I was like, that's it, you know? It was... it was Jory that gave me the idea." And there he was going on about Jory again, but Jory was a big, important part of his life. He dipped into his pocket and pulled out the mirror.
"This is like my cell phone on crack," he said. "It only gets me one person, but it's instant, the sound quality is perfect, it solves like so many of the problems the Muggle version has. And I'd never seen anything like it before. I don't think they're that common, but they're not like invisibility cloaks. So like, it was taking what I like most about Muggle technology and working magic into it. I could never just give up magic, so it's like, perfect. So I'm taking transfiguration trying to get better at changing things. I got an E on my N.E.W.T., but I didn't know what to do with it then. Now I do, and I've got a lot of catching up and getting ahead to do." He paused for a breath and realized how much he'd just said at once.
"So like, I won't laugh if you tell me how badass Transfiguration is," he finished. Considering I just gushed like a third-year girl over my pocket mirror.
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Post by Sean Sullivan on Mar 2, 2014 11:48:16 GMT -5
Sean grinned and shrugged. "It is pretty badass," he agreed. "If you want any help, I could give it a shot. I mean, I'm no professor, but I do some pretty serious transfiguration every day. Guess you could say I'm experienced. Probably not up to Unspeakable standards, though." He didn't even know what he intended to do after graduating, but he doubted he could do something as impressive as joining the Department of Mysteries.
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Post by Indigo Noble on Mar 2, 2014 12:46:11 GMT -5
"Hey, don't knock your skills," Indigo said. "Most people are good at stuff they love, aren't they? If you like it, you want to spend time on it, and you get better at it, right?" In his excitement, he managed to miss Sean's reference to serious transfiguration every day, but then, Indigo didn't know how the process of changing physical sex worked to begin with. He knew there was hormone therapy and surgery involved, but that was it.
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Post by Sean Sullivan on Mar 2, 2014 13:02:09 GMT -5
"Yeah, it's just that what I'm best at is pretty specialized, is all. There aren't a lot of people like me, you know?" Self-transfiguration wasn't exactly rare, but it typically didn't go to the lengths Sean daily took it. "I mean, I use transfiguration to get the look I want, same idea as body mods, really. Most transfiguration is on objects or like, something easy like hair."
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Post by Indigo Noble on Mar 2, 2014 13:40:17 GMT -5
Ohhhhh. Indigo nodded while he let that sink in. He supposed that was better than hormones and surgery, right? But having to do it every day? He was starting to understand Sean's interest in learning more about transfiguration. And Sean had inadvertently answered his question about which sex he'd started out as and which he wanted to be. Or was, since it appeared to be working.
"My Transfiguration professor, the one I mentioned before, had all kinds of colors in his hair, but he started off his first class of the year telling us how he'd saved his life using Transfiguration in a duel. I saw him use it in a duel once, and it was pretty badass. He gave this other professor gills and made him get on his knees to give up before he fixed him. Like, Transfiguration's a big deal."
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Post by Sean Sullivan on Mar 2, 2014 13:49:08 GMT -5
Sean raised his eyebrows over at Indigo in surprise. "That's cool. I never really thought about it in a duel. I mean, it isn't really usually considered offensive magic." Anything could be used offensively if the user got creative enough, though, he supposed. Except maybe astronomy, unless the person hit people across the head with telescopes.
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Post by Indigo Noble on Mar 2, 2014 13:55:06 GMT -5
"Seriously," Indigo agreed. "But like all the magic he used in the duel was Transfiguration I think. And he just whipped out human Transfiguration like it was nothing. If he was teaching here, I'd so take his class. I mean, our professor is great, but this guy..." Indigo glanced around the corridor, which was emptying as classes started and they reached the front of the school. "He wasn't bad to look at, either."
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Post by Sean Sullivan on Mar 2, 2014 14:03:27 GMT -5
"There's a transfiguration professor here, the animagus teacher," Sean said. "He's damn good to look at." Not that he was likely to ever actually talk to Cat again, though maybe he could manage in the future. Like in a few years. Maybe. For a class. "Actually, there's ton of eye candy here. My room mate? He's the singer from the Billywigs. The healer, my Head of House, I'm pretty sure he's part Veela, and the Viridis Head is gorgeous." It really was kind of ridiculous.
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Post by Indigo Noble on Mar 2, 2014 14:08:29 GMT -5
"Oh my god, you're telling me," Indigo said. "Jory's met the guy from the Billywigs! I haven't, but I got some of their music and the guy's awesome. And the Healer? He's like... yeah. Part veela, really. And Madame Magadia's my Head of House. Those sheer robes she wears? Damn." Indigo shook his head a little. "So you're bi, too? It took me forever to figure out. I thought I was straight until sixth year, and just like, didn't know that looking at guys was weird. I mean, all my friends were girls before Hogwarts and they talk about other girls all the time."
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Post by Sean Sullivan on Mar 2, 2014 14:31:36 GMT -5
"I dunno how I figured it out, it's complicated. Like...originally I don't know how much of it was me actually being bi and how much of it was me just being really, really f~ing confused. I told my parents in like fourth year I think," Sean said, his forehead wrinkling as he tried to remember exact dates. It had been a while since he'd needed to remember his time line.
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Post by Indigo Noble on Mar 2, 2014 15:13:59 GMT -5
Indigo wasn't sure whether to pick up the conversation or wait for Sean to finish whatever it was he was thinking about, and so the awkwardness that had only just faded began to creep back in the silence. He'd already said something about when he'd come out, right? And repeating himself would just be... repetitive. He looked forward, his thoughts turning to the confusion Mari's first kiss had brought, those couple months of getting out as much physical curiosity as possible, and giving it up to wait for Jory. Jory. ?
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Post by Sean Sullivan on Mar 2, 2014 15:22:22 GMT -5
Sean let the silence sit for a minute as he thought, but eventually shook off the memories. "So you said you didn't figure it out, did your boyfriend help you?" he asked. There were people he knew who hadn't figured it out until someone plopped into their life. He supposed that was a pretty common thing. Sometimes that push was necessary.
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Post by Indigo Noble on Mar 2, 2014 15:38:45 GMT -5
"Oh, ah..." Indigo blinked to get his thoughts in order. Not that it was a stretch from where he'd been. "So like, me and Jory were friends, hung out all the time and everything, and I guess he'd never said anything because I was straight, and I'd never thought of it, like, not really." How he'd had thoughts and feelings that had gone unrecognized was too complicated to bother with, so he skipped that part.
"There was this new guy at school and we were talking and like, he kept looking at me, you know? And I was like, I ought to go to bed, and he just like, suggested it kind of and it started to click that it wasn't as weird as it should be, or something. I mean, there's not being grossed out by something, and there's realizing that part of you maybe wonders more than you thought you did. And he kissed me, and it was like, whoah.
"So when I was trying to figure things out, Jory came along and I told him. He was a professors' assistant then and he was like, dammit, why didn't you figure this out when we were both students? and like..." And I kissed him, just to see, and I realized I wanted to kiss him, that Mari was good, but I wanted Jory. "So he saved up his money to come here, and I came here, and like, it works and stuff. So like, it kind of just hit me in the face. With its mouth." And hands. Yes, he had enjoyed kissing Mari.
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