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[recklessbelief]

Name: Anonymous - but probably poorly so
Date: 05/17
Format: Text!

does anyone know why monsters can't do magic?
i'm not talking about being able to do alchemy, i know that monsters can follow recipes and make stuff that way (;¬_¬)
but monsters are just as connected to the magic of this world as the witches are
so what gives???

is it just that no monster's ever been successful and so everyone's just assuming they can't?
or is there actually something that makes it so they can't

just curious

Comments

text; un: ursamajor

[beariot]

Well, given the existence of monsters themselves are part of how the mana of this world manifests, I think the lack of ability to perform practical magic has to do with the fact that their being is supported be the mana itself. This is why bonds stabilize monsters, after all!

There's quite a few books on the theory of all of this at the Coven, if you care to look them up! Though it does seem to be mostly theory, at this point. There's still a great deal about the magic of this world we don't understand yet.

[recklessbelief]

but shouldn't that just make them naturally really good at it???
like if someone's got a lot of muscles, they're probably better at lifting things than someone who doesn't, right?

[...Books are bad enough, but theoretical books? Mortal enemies. There's no way she'll survive trying to read something like that. Y u c k.]

have you read all the books?

[Because it sounds like she has and it also wouldn't surprise Akko if her professor spent all her free time reading things like that. It'd probably be a comfort to her if anything since it'd be such a close approximation to life back at Luna Nova.]

[beariot]

I don't think that's how it works, stranger. Mana that's dedicated to sustaining oneself isn't necessarily able to be refocused back into practical execution. Human beings, for instance, can't turn the energy generated in their cells into anything other than fuel for their own bodies.

un: ma - voice

[stopfen]

[She's too lazy to type.]

I've been told that some species do have magic as a part of what they can do. Like...How fauns can make plants grow quicker. It could be done with a witches spell, but a faun can do it easier.

[At least she thought so. She wasn't a faun, that was just an example she could think of. One that didn't give away her own possible abilities.]

[recklessbelief]

[Akko will continue typing and not out herself directly. Or at least try not. Who is to say she won't eventually?]

i know but
any witch can learn any kind of magic
monsters are limited

so what gives??

text; un: kaede

[long_live_the_queen]

[Hark, it's one of the rare times Kaede uses the network! How fortunate for Akko.]

depends on what you're thinking of as magic

[recklessbelief]

[Oh nooooooooo!!!]

[No, actually. It's okay. For now. We'll see.]

what do you mean?

text | un:wwxwashere

[weiward]

we can do alchemy?

[wei wuxian, you might know this if you paid attention or opened a book once in awhile.]

[recklessbelief]

yeah! all you're doing is just following a recipe

text;

[murowa]

I'm interested in this as well.

[recklessbelief]

[...Of course, she is.]

[Which is not as derogatory as that might sound because really, it's one of those things that Akko probably should have already anticipated and she's realizing how much she should have already known.]

have you started looking into it?

text; (un: aragaki)

[hoboagogo]

thats stupid. it's 'cause we eat it. thought that was monster 101.

[recklessbelief]

uh we eat food
what are you talking about

Text un: redkey

[princessascended]

Given how the links and everything work, I think it's basically that the monsters need as much mana as they can get to keep themselves stable.

I mean, they need witches as a mana source so they don't go feral, so it seems like using mana for spells would be kind of a bad plan to me.

[recklessbelief]

maybe it might not be easy
but hard and impossible aren't the same thing

un: contract

[abandonware]

"Symbiotic relationship."

Why does it matter anyway?
With everything else going on, having to learn magic would make everything an even bigger pain in the ass.
Don't need it.

[recklessbelief]

what's such a pain about learning magic?

Text: UN Sypha

[strongspirited]

That's hard to answer.
I don't actually understand it myself.

But I feel like maybe it's because monsters feed on magic.
Monsters are kind of like a vacuum for magic. They draw it in, in a sense. So putting it out feels like the antithesis of what their body might want to do.

[recklessbelief]

people push themselves past their limits all the time though right?
or find ways to anyway

text; un: hemlock

[unholey]

Do you actually want an answer to your question (because, given your own replies, you seem to already know the answer) or did you just want to vent?

[recklessbelief]

do u actually want to share your thoughts or did you just want to come in here and be a jerk?

look everyone is saying it's impossible but i want to know WHY
and i don't think there's anything wrong with thinking maybe there's stuff we don't know or understand yet
and that's why we think it's impossible

i'm not going to give up just because someone tells me i can't, ok?

text;

[oathkeeper]

uhhhh well i guess magic is mostly a witch's thing to do. but i'm a puca so i've been learning some puca magic?

it's not really the same as witch's magic, though! but i can mimic sounds and i'm trying really hard to figure out some illusions. i'm still really new to it all!

[A puca's magic isn't really real magic. It's more like charms and tricks magic. But it sort of counts, right?]

[recklessbelief]

it definitely is a lot of hard work
but if you keep practicing a little every day, i'm sure it'll get better

are you practicing by yourself or are you working with a tutor of some kind?

un: ALPHYS

[textsfromhotland]

it's so weird! in my world, monsters use magic for a lot of things! when i came here i lost all of it and it still feels so strange :(

[recklessbelief]

i'm sorry that happened
that's gotta be really hard for you
like part of you got taken away?