IC CONTACT | Mask or Menace

[animated]

"Hey, you've reached Charlie Maxwell. Leave me a message. Or just text me. I might get back to you faster that way."

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[animated]

Hey. [ He reaches up, resting his hand on Bull's wrist ] It's okay, really. Looks like there was miscommunication all around.

[rideme]

Yeah. Looks that way.

... Sorry, though. Hard to get around the whole 'magic is terrible' crap.

[animated]

It's a process. I get it.

Still, I feel like I need to thank you for always being reasonable where my magic is concerned.

[rideme]

Hey, that's nothing. Guys in control of their magic? I respect them.

It's the other kind of asshole you've got to watch out for.

[animated]

Oh, so am I some kind of asshole then?

[ HE IS TEASING, really. He hopes that's apparent. ]

[rideme]

Nahhh. Not unless you let your magic go crazy and start hanging around with demons.

Then you're an asshole.

[animated]

Good to know.

I still am gonna check out Tetsuo's bike for freaky magic, by the way.

[rideme]

Probably a good idea. Who knows if one of the actual assholes around here put something in it or not.

[animated]

Yeah.

... Kaneda and Tetsuo are a ticking time bomb, you know.

[rideme]

... Yeah. I know.

Kaneda mentioned that. Even if they both didn't have signs hanging off their backs about it.

Not sure what can be done.

[animated]

They need to have a conversation, but Tetsuo doesn't wanna hear anything Kaneda has to say.

[rideme]

Hn. He's going to end up being one of the assholes, at this rate. Kid who's too into his power. Doesn't see anything wrong with using it however he wants.

... and Canada? Too worried about saying the wrong thing to try to talk serious to him.

[animated]

It's... a bit more complicated than that. I ended up having an unintentional heart-to-heart with Tetsuo the other day. There's a lot of issues there, and I guess something really bad had happened with Tetsuo's powers.

Kaneda is being antagonistic on purpose. He's trying to give Tetsuo a target for his anger to stop him from destroying everything.

[rideme]

And here I was, having one with Canada.

[He blows out a breath, slowly.]

From what I gathered, 'really bad' means death, destruction, and all of it falling on Kaneda's head. At least, that's how he feels about it. 'It's all my fault'. That sort of thing.

... no wonder he's doing like you said.

[animated]

Well, if we compare notes, maybe we can figure out the best way to deal with this.

Obviously I don't want things to literally explode, but they can't continue like they are, either.

[rideme]

Yeah, explosions are the opposite of what anyone needs.

Told me he doesn't know how to get Tetsuo to control himself, or what... power? Magic? Whatever it is, he has. But short of how the Qunari do it, I'm coming up dry on solutions.