godbent | 31st: The Spells of Haruhi Suzumiya

[Voice / Action for the library]

[For the last 20some days, Haruhi Suzumiya has been obsessively studying. While she slowed down some after the Cultural Fair, it still was a very, very welcome distraction from thinking about how much she was hurt by that break up. Which is why she's been in and our of the library a lot. Finally though today she has decided to prop open the journal and ask for help.]

Hey, Luceti, does anyone recognize these?

[And she moves the journal to focus on:
* Helios's universe basic spellbook
* Basic Buffyverse spellbook (possibly this one or this one)
Lined up next to each other. these are the two she's had the most success with so far... she even more or less mastered one of the spells in the first one.]

Or these?

[And now it focuses on:
* Touhou Grimoire
* CLAMP universe magic tome (Western)
* CLAMP universe magic tome (Eastern)
Much less success here...]

Or this one? [She is much more unhappy sounding at this last book (a Greenhill Academy Rune textbook) because she's had basically no success even figuring out what it is talking about other than it apparently deals with mythology and magic... things.]

Or, I also found the "Writings of Aurelius" next to those first two ones, but I'm not sure if it's got spells in it or not... [it feels ominous, actually... so she figured it might, but- inside it just looks like a bunch of horoscope type things as well as just some weird old school notes]

I'm looking for people who know these books and are willing to tutor me in what's within them. I expect answers ASAP; that is all. [A pause] Also, Leon, since when do you write textbooks? [And then the camera focuses on a book written by Leon DS Geeste on Symbology]

[Anyone can, of course, question here about this post. Or the books. Or both]

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[She doesn't know Haruhi that well, and honestly, she always seemed fairly self-absorbed with that sort of thing. ... So it's actually refreshing to see that she does have other interests, and ones that she's not specifically forcing on any other people.]

I see. ... In any case, it's simply a suggestion. Some spells can get out of hand when you're first starting out with them. And people do come in here for peace and quiet, you know.

Yeah and the back of the library looks like various people may or may not have been living in here. It's fine, it's not like this is a real "keep quiet or we'll complain at you" library.

[Waving a hand dismissively, even]

All right, but if you run into any trouble, I did make the suggestion.

Yeah, yeah, I hear you.

[Sigh. But now she flips some more pages in this other book. She really needs to figure out this CLAMP world one.

...She does feel tired though, bah]

[Although she is still curious, so she'll tilt her head at the page flipping.] What do you have there?

This is an eastern magic theory... Right now I'm trying to figure out Shikigami.

"Eastern"? Eastern of what?

...Oh, right. My world historically is looked at as "Eartern" meaning Asia and "Western" meaning Europe.

[Both of which she knows have come up at some point in world sharing classes]

There's a lot of cultural differences even within those, not to mention if you include other continents, but those broad terms are used a lot by people still.

Hm, I see. Different ways of thinking to create different varieties of spells... [The book might not have been referring to Haruhi's world at all, but once she elaborates, Raine simply nods, recalling the reference.] Shikigami sounds like it would be complicated to produce in a place like this, if it can be managed. [If it is indeed referring to small spirits to do her bidding, or something along those lines.]

I guess it depends on if they're spirits independent of the paper of putting a spirit in the paper. I'm not totally clear which is which but given how summoning works if it's the former it's probably impossible, yeah. [But how cool would it be] The characters there are a little ambiguous, and I've heard it told both ways.

Either way you look at it, it sounds like summoning. Even to put one into something--you'd have to be drawing it out from somewhere, wouldn't you? But it still sounds rather fascinating. Arts like those aren't something one comes by every day.

Unless you create the spirit. [...But that sounds dumb and she knows it. she nods] So that one's probably out.

Well... I have seen a manmade summon spirit, though that's not quite the same thing. I believe in order for it to have existed, it had to be... drawn from somewhere... into a new form.

Yeah, yeah. That makes sense... I mean I could try to shove one of the filial spirits or those lesser things people used to mess with before the possession fiasco, but I doubt it'd work.

In any case, you're still a beginner with these spells to begin with. Diving into the more complicated areas without fully understanding what you're going into isn't very practical.

[More fun. But nod] The beginning stuff would probably be seals and talismans.

That seems more reasonable. In either of those cases you'd be applying a concept to a less animate source.

Yeah. [...Hm. but those sound a little boring actually]

What would you use it for?

A stepping stone for something more advanced, I guess. On the off chance there's ever youkai here I bet I could use it on them too.

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