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Who: Jasmine and visitors
When: Day 13, morning
Where: Jasmine and visitors

[80H is in the common area, making food. She's taken off her bandages, and her elbows look entirely fine, like they weren't shot at. The knees might be okay to assume the same of, but they are, naturally, hidden. She hasn't been out much since the trial, or even before it, honestly, but she's been doubling down on her isolated tendencies. She had to talk to one of their newbies but, after that, it was back to being a hermit.

So it is, perhaps, odd to see her out and about making food, and, what's more, it does not seem to be all for her.]

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I don't recall anything about myself. So no, I can't tell if there's something I particularly like or dislike.

...I suppose now is a good time to discover that. At any rate, it does not really matter, but I am 80H. I was remiss in my manners and neglected to introduce myself.

[ Wow she's really trying today. ]

It's fine, I think I was freaking out enough that I wouldn't have appreciated a proper introduction anyway. I'm going with Finn.

Likely not. Mister "Finn".

[She stares at his hair for a long moment.]

Why that?

Coral and I decided for an aquatic theme.

—That's the little girl, by the way. We named each other, and I'm officially the best adult on this team since I took care of that.

I see.

[there's a small urge to make a joke--there isn't really much competition for being an adult on this team--but she decides against it.]

It is probably for the best. I do not have great fortune with names. It is very thematic, though.

[ Let him take the title for best adult because he'll never earn it again ]

It fits with all the jellyfish and everything else. "Great fortune", though? Nobody ever takes your picks?

[80H slows her grating of cheese until she stops. Her expression is difficult to place, but it is distant.]

Two people have. One of them did not stay very long at all.

[The other was Shiro-chan who...

The Broken Empress.

She never got to apologise to her--and then there's the fact that she wonders if she will ever get to banter and argue with Katsuki over his atrocious name sense ever again.

She starts grating again.]

It is likely the better course of action not to. Do you wish to try an omelette?

I'll literally take any food you give me. Honestly? I'm kinda starving.

[ Despite having already eaten quite a bit of what she did just now ]

Are you trying to tell me you have a naming curse? Because I hope you realize just how ridiculous that actually sounds.

You can curse with names. It is really quite simple. [but yes back to this.]

What did you want in it?

It's ridiculous and you have no basis for saying that.

I don't know, really - whatever you've got? I don't remember what I like.

[Calmly, nonchalant, really.]

I am a mage. Curses are my bread and butter.

[But okay, she will tryyyy cheese, bacon, and onion. Seems safe enough. She pours some already whisked eggs into a pan as she gathers the ingredients together.]

I don't believe that.

...That I can do magic?

Basically. And that somehow you're cursing people by giving them a name.

[She looks at him.

She raises a hand.

Water gathers around it until it is in a sphere.]

That doesn't prove it's magic.

[She disperses it and goes back to his omelette.]

It is, but I am not going to argue with you about it.

[next he'll tell her the world is flat.]

For all I know it could be the result of technical enhancement. Even if it's not, the definition of magic would depend on people's knowledge of the field to begin with.

You cannot have both, then. You cannot so quickly decry something as not being magic if you concede that is dependent on a person's knowledge and definition.

I'm saying that you think it's magic, but really, that's because you chose to call it that way.

Well, yes? I am versed in this field. It is a fundamental force.

Okay, let's just take a step back. Whether it's magic or not? Doesn't actually matter.

But I still don't believe it is, I'm just saying.

What matters is that your implication that you naming someone is what caused them to disappear has no basis.

I did not say it caused them to disappear. Teammates will come and go, regardless. I would simply prefer not to.

Good. So long as you're not looking for reasons to blame yourself.