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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.]

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.]

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

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.]

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[murowa]

I'm interested in this as well.

[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??

[recklessbelief]

[Oh nooooooooo!!!]

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

what do you mean?

[recklessbelief]

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

[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?

[weiward]

i can do that.

[sure, his death-by-spice molton lava from hell soup is surely proof of that.]

where can i find these recipes?

[long_live_the_queen]

you're thinking too small

i can't pick things up without touching them anymore, but i can see in the dark without any potions

[If the dark wasn't total, anyway.]

a potion could make me a shadow, i guess, but I can do that myself [If the dark was sufficient.]

why wouldn't that count?

[recklessbelief]

magic made it so you can see in the dark
but you didn't have any control over that did you???

[recklessbelief]

there are classes at the coven
i'm sure their library has some too???

[They have books like that there in the library, right? She's not actually sure since libraries are more like a good place to take a nap.]

[long_live_the_queen]

no?

I didn't choose to have powers before the mirror either

[...she did choose what she did with that power, but!! Separate issue.]

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

[recklessbelief]

no what i mean is becoming a monster changed you physically right?
your eyeballs are able to see in the dark now because they work that way
kinda like how i can run a lot faster now because of my legs being different

[hoboagogo]

not like with your mouth.

but we live off the stuff. we don't produce it. witches do.

[long_live_the_queen]

what are you getting at?

[stopfen]

I don't know. It doesn't exist at all where I'm from...

Going by the dream from when I first arrived though. Humans and monsters were separated for a long time. There weren't any witches then.

[murowa]

I have. Other than what we already know, I haven't had much success.

But I won't stop looking.

[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.

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.

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.