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glyficTitle: If there's magic in this world
Author:malurette
Fandom: Gunnerkrigg Court
Characters: Kat Donlan & Annie Carver
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Siddell's
Author’s note: ESL author with no beta-reader – if you spot any mistakes please do correct me?
Prompt: «magical creatures» forladiesbingo
Spoilers:
Word count: 500+
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Katerina Donlan lives by science. She doesn't believe in magic, because magic doesn't exist. Sure, they may be unexplained phenomena... that need studying and explaining, even if it means you'll have to invent a new brand of science for that! And that, is what her mother calls Etheric Sciences. As far as Kat is concerned, it still looks a bit too much like unexplained magic. But she'll take a scientific approach to it. Surely this etheric stuff must obey to certain laws and follow a certain logic, even if it's something utterly unfamiliar. And just because she doesn't understand what's the source of energy powering it, doesn't mean that there isn't one. There must be something. Something different, something unexpected. But something explainable. Somehow.
Well. Anyway. The point was, there's no magic. At least no magic in the «handwave, it just happens, don't question it» way. She questions it. She's got lots of questions.
And yet. Even before she learnt of the Ether and started studying seriously this whole untapped force, when she met Annie... she considered her magical very fast. Even before that business with Shadow People and Psychopomps and ghosts and... Wait! But for all her scepticism regarding magic, she still meant the adjective as a compliment! Really! Not to disparage her, not to say sthat he shouldn't exist, oh no! To say that she's... outwordly? That she's different, in a good way.
Annie's her best best friend, Annie was her first real friend.
Now Kat has more real friends and not just mere acquaintances and distant classmates, and it all started with Annie. Their budding friendship sparked and spread, for the both of them, to other people, but no matter how many new friends they both make on the way—or whomever Kat may fall in love with—they'll remain best friends. Loyal. Loving. Steady. Even when one doesn't fully understand the other. They still accept each other with their quirks and they have each other's back.
So, well... Kat now amends the thought: Annie's magical as, she sparks joy, she lights everything up just by being here. She makes life more beautiful, more enjoyable. And Kat has little explanation for just how she does that. But she does.
Okay so Annie does light things up as, she set them on fire with her mind. That's incredidble but Kat learned to accept it. Etheric sciences and all that. Fire elemental. (She just doesn't dare question exactly how mating went up her ancestry for it to happen. How Ether affects matter, yes, she very much wants to know! But when we're talking biology and... no, she stops the thought right here. For now.)
It's a fact of life, and she's glad to have Annie in this life, with or without magic, etheric connections, fire thingies and all that. She's got them and it makes life even more exciting. More dangerous, too. So here's hoping that it doesn't make life shorter, but hey, they're teenagers, they think of themselves invincible and immortal. For now.
She'll question the rest later.
Author:
maluretteFandom: Gunnerkrigg Court
Characters: Kat Donlan & Annie Carver
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Siddell's
Author’s note: ESL author with no beta-reader – if you spot any mistakes please do correct me?
Prompt: «magical creatures» for
ladiesbingoSpoilers:
Word count: 500+
Katerina Donlan lives by science. She doesn't believe in magic, because magic doesn't exist. Sure, they may be unexplained phenomena... that need studying and explaining, even if it means you'll have to invent a new brand of science for that! And that, is what her mother calls Etheric Sciences. As far as Kat is concerned, it still looks a bit too much like unexplained magic. But she'll take a scientific approach to it. Surely this etheric stuff must obey to certain laws and follow a certain logic, even if it's something utterly unfamiliar. And just because she doesn't understand what's the source of energy powering it, doesn't mean that there isn't one. There must be something. Something different, something unexpected. But something explainable. Somehow.
Well. Anyway. The point was, there's no magic. At least no magic in the «handwave, it just happens, don't question it» way. She questions it. She's got lots of questions.
And yet. Even before she learnt of the Ether and started studying seriously this whole untapped force, when she met Annie... she considered her magical very fast. Even before that business with Shadow People and Psychopomps and ghosts and... Wait! But for all her scepticism regarding magic, she still meant the adjective as a compliment! Really! Not to disparage her, not to say sthat he shouldn't exist, oh no! To say that she's... outwordly? That she's different, in a good way.
Annie's her best best friend, Annie was her first real friend.
Now Kat has more real friends and not just mere acquaintances and distant classmates, and it all started with Annie. Their budding friendship sparked and spread, for the both of them, to other people, but no matter how many new friends they both make on the way—or whomever Kat may fall in love with—they'll remain best friends. Loyal. Loving. Steady. Even when one doesn't fully understand the other. They still accept each other with their quirks and they have each other's back.
So, well... Kat now amends the thought: Annie's magical as, she sparks joy, she lights everything up just by being here. She makes life more beautiful, more enjoyable. And Kat has little explanation for just how she does that. But she does.
Okay so Annie does light things up as, she set them on fire with her mind. That's incredidble but Kat learned to accept it. Etheric sciences and all that. Fire elemental. (She just doesn't dare question exactly how mating went up her ancestry for it to happen. How Ether affects matter, yes, she very much wants to know! But when we're talking biology and... no, she stops the thought right here. For now.)
It's a fact of life, and she's glad to have Annie in this life, with or without magic, etheric connections, fire thingies and all that. She's got them and it makes life even more exciting. More dangerous, too. So here's hoping that it doesn't make life shorter, but hey, they're teenagers, they think of themselves invincible and immortal. For now.
She'll question the rest later.
