video; un: eisner

[hegemonwings]

Name: Byleth Eisner
Date: 5/10
Format: video

[ a dark-haired young woman in glasses and dark local fashion sits in front of the camera. she can't be older than 21, surely. anyway, byleth's been here for over a month and she's only posting to the network now. ]

I'm Byleth Eisner. I've met some of you already. I suppose you would call this an... interest check? [ she takes off her glasses, hanging them from the neckline of her shirt. ] Most of my recent work before coming here was in commanding my Emperor's army, but I'm an experienced teacher as well. Armed and unarmed combat, archery, strategy and tactics, riding, magic... rhetoric and composition. [ was that last one a joke? it's impossible to tell. her face gives no hints one way or another. ]

The Coven trains witches in magic, but that only does so much good. I'd like to work towards establishing a school where the Mirrorbound without martial skills can learn them. As it is, the Wilde is too dangerous for too many of us, and ad-hoc lessons aren't enough. [ she waves a hand. ] This is all... hypothetical, right now. But if this sounds something you'd like to either help with or learn from, please, let me know. In the meantime, I'm open to teaching one-on-one.

[ she seems to consider something, briefly, before: ]

... Also, firearms are new to me. I'm familiar with powder explosives, and I've seen cannons, but if anyone might help me to understand the use and maintenance of guns, I would appreciate it.

[ byleth pauses again. ]

That's all. [ and off it goes. nailed it? ]

[ ooc: open to fourth wall people! ]

Comments

[gunsmithed]

[ Sometimes all you need for invention is a badly thought out revenge plan and a suspiciously helpful demon. ]

I see. I'm somewhat well-versed on the subject, though I'm given to understand there's a greater variety here than I'm used to. My own are not entirely dissimilar to canons, to be very simplistic about it.

[hegemonwings]

In what regard?

[ she can think of a number of ways that comparison might be apt, she thinks, and some of them make more sense than others. ]

[gunsmithed]

Front-loaded, black powder generally packed in the barrel rather than the ammunition. I've seen quite a few variations.

[hegemonwings]

I see. I wondered if that might be it, but I wasn't sure. And... packed in the ammunition? Like an explosive shell, or like a rocket?

[ neither, byleth. exandria may tend towards the early modern, but fódlan is mostly at a late medieval level. she's out of her depth, percy. ]

[gunsmithed]

Not quite. It's a bit hard to explain, and I am not an expert. I've just taken a few of them apart.

[ Very, very carefully. ]

Why do you want to know about them, out of curiosity?

[hegemonwings]

[ part of it is simply an intellectual curiosity, but. ]

I've been career military for at least ten years now.

[ a vague span and also a long one, for someone of her apparent age. ]

Not knowing the weapons I might use or face will get me killed.

[gunsmithed]

I could hope it wouldn't be something you'd run into at all, but fair enough. Come by the forge some time if you want a more in-depth discussion.

[hegemonwings]

Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

I may take you up on that. What do I call you?

[gunsmithed]

Percy will do. I'll spare you the rest of it.

[hegemonwings]

An overly long noble name? I know the type.

[ just a guess. ]

Percy, then.

[gunsmithed]

Quite. And you?

[hegemonwings]

Byleth will do. I've just the one name after that.

[ and a military rank that she'll avoid bringing up. ]

I've known my share of nobles with "von" in their surname or a middle name they never drop, though.

[gunsmithed]

Ah. Yes, well. Percival Fredrickstein von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III, at your service.

[ There are reasons he sticks with just Percy these days. ]

[hegemonwings]

[ ah. wow that's... definitely even more than she's used to. ]

I'll just call you Percy.

[gunsmithed]

For the best, yes.