Happiest Time of the Year?

[misplacedxsheath]

Who: Margulis, OPEN
What: The suffering of a fire user in winter.
When: Varies by prompt
Where: Mostly indoors, except for once...
Warnings: Nothing expected unless people poke at backstory. Mmmmmaybe violence in the form of sparring?

[Cabin Fever] (1/9-1/19)

[Going into the mountain was, honestly, a poor life choice on Margulis' part. The cold had worn on him, and left him sore and scarce for days as he recovered. Even now, the harsh weather makes it painful to go out and forcibly limits his training to the gym.

For someone like Margulis, this is a problem. As the weather grows colder, he gets more impatient. He can't use fire indoors, so his practice in the gym is swordplay and martial arts only...and increasingly frequent, to the point where people might wonder how he isn't wearing himself out. The library, usually when he's at his calmest, sees him tense and restless, tapping the fingertips of his clawed gloves against the table or shifting in place. A couple times, he even ends up taking over one of the kitchens to make curry so spicy it might make people's eyes water just from smelling it.

Winter is really not his favorite time of year.]

[Bah Humbug] (1/20)

[While most people are celebrating the holidays, Margulis...is not. He spends the day of the party in the library, sitting with an even larger pile of books than usual. For once, his usually difficult to read expression is visibly sour, practically glaring at what he's reading. Something, it seems, doesn't sit well with him...]

[One Man Snowplow] (1/31)

[After how bad just the cold was, you'd think Margulis wouldn't even be going to the annex while it's snowing, right? Well, you'd be wrong. With the snow piling up, he's out in a heavy coat and a scarf, creating a path between the station and surrounding buildings. Though, the fact that he's using controlled fire to do so might be helping him tolerate the cold a bit...except when the wind is blowing from the opposite direction.]

Comments

[hairpincurves]

[She hums thoughtfully, then chuckles.]

I really should do some more looking into that sort of thing when I get home...

[misplacedxsheath]

My focus might be on specific ones, but I do know quite a bit. Study of ancient culture was something of a hobby of mine.

[hairpincurves]

I've always been kind of fascinated by mythology but I never really got super into it until I became a Persona-user...

[misplacedxsheath]

I've studied it since even before I was your age. My master encouraged cultural studies alongside physical training.

[hairpincurves]

[She nods.]

That's pretty cool... kind of wish that sort of encouragement was more common...

[misplacedxsheath]

It's distressingly rare in my own time period, as well. History is falling by the wayside, leaving what were once the cautions of our ancestors as mere idle entertainments for the wealthy or eccentric. People are more likely to recognize the names of mythological beings from the Gnosis that resemble them than they are from ancient stories.

[hairpincurves]

[She makes a face.]

Somehow, I get the sense it's way worse in yours than it is in mine...

[Which gives her a bad feeling... those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it, etc.]

[misplacedxsheath]

Historically, time either worsens problems or resolves them. Very rarely do things remain stagnant for extended periods, for good or for ill.

[hairpincurves]

[That just sounds like it keeps getting worse...]

Mm, that's true enough...

[... And she falls quiet as she finds herself lost in thought again...]

[misplacedxsheath]

However...that's what makes it so important for those of us who still care about our roots to preserve that knowledge as best we can, and to inspire others to do the same. So long as even a handful still carry the lessons of our forebears in mind, they can be resurrected and reintroduced to the world once the consequences of allowing them to be forgotten have become evident to the masses.

[hairpincurves]

Mm, and if a future like yours is what awaits my world eventually... it's important for people in my time to take care of what we have now...

[misplacedxsheath]

I can at least say there's no guarantee things will go the same way. The decline in our culture was a result of having to flee the planet you call Earth and spread out across a multitude of planets. To the majority of humanity, these are mere ancient stories from a lost land, no longer relevant to the modern age.

If mankind's origins stay present and visible, it's possible that regard for them won't atrophy nearly so severely.

[hairpincurves]

[She nods thoughtfully as she listens.]

Hopefully it won't... It'd be far after my time for sure, but I can't help but think about it now, at least a little.

[She does know she needs to at least... focus on what's in front of her, so to speak.]