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[Open] It is our choices

Who: Newt and YOU
Where: The Citadel
When: all through the event
Rating: PG
Summary: Innocent Hufflepuff is innocent... also drives for the first time
The Story:

Always the tourist - Citadel

If Newt had thought stepping off the boat into New York City had been a bit of a surprise and delight, it was nothing like the Citadel. For a time he just stood there, jostled by those moving around him, turning in a slow circle as if he might take it all in like that. It wasn't going to happen.

So Newt tosses himself into it all. Food. Nightclubs. Even sampling the alcoholic beverages, perhaps a few too many one night, but he is enjoying it all. After a time he forgets to worry and just enjoys. If he eats too much, dances like the biggest dork there is, or even tries his hand at the arena - where he is fairly bad - he doesn't care. It's exciting and new and he realizes he will look back on this as others do on Hogwarts, and he wants to experience it all.

There's no reason to panic - Driving

They were apparently like cars, which he has seen though never driven, and they fly. They. Fly. Also they were for rent. Maybe that wasn't the best of things, but Newt refuses to not experience it all. So he rents one.

He is hesitant, and slow, and may wreck - or nearly so. Yet there's a huge grin on his face the entire time.

Come and give me a smile - Pyjak

It was like nothing Newt had cared for before. It was simian in nature, with long spindly limbs, a looong tongue and longer ears. It snatched treats from Newt's hand before he could share them, and it was truly the most perfectly wonderful thing Newt had seen since he'd been brought to Wonderland. It let itself be pet, and stayed close to Newt as he moved throughout the city. He constantly spoke to it in soft tones, and shared all of his treats with it, and if he was constantly staring at the beast with wide eyes and a look of utter devotion, he couldn't help himself.

For the first time since he had come to Wonderland, Newt felt as if things were right, and good, and that he wasn't entirely alone.

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"Oh yes, h-he knows." She answers incredibly quickly, the words almost cutting off the end of Newt's sentence. She doesn't want him to think she's holding it over him or anything- especially considering, if Newt knew the truth, he'd know she literally wasn't lying about just making the body. "We're, uhm, friends. I mean, pretty well. We uhm, share a lot of interests, which I guess makes sense, but, he was the reason I got my job as the Royal Scientist."

She fidgets a little bit, and then hastily adds, "I hope he hasn't done something to, uhm, offend you or anything l-like that."

Newt listens, watching her as she speaks, curious now. So he listens, though when she asks that question, he quickly shakes his head, waving one hand.

"Oh no. No. Nothing at all. Not to offend me, or anything. He's been very helpful, and was one of the first people I got to know in Wonderland. I have to say, I wasn't sure if he was a gollum or some other mystical creations. In my world, that is the only way we have such wonderful beings."

Technoloty is still so foreign to Newt, but he loves all he is learning.

She lets out a relieved sigh when she hears Mettaton hasn't been harassing someone. She's not his keeper- in fact, incredibly far from it- but people still might come calling if they think she was responsible. Is responsible. Kind of? It's not like he's her kid.

"I've heard of golems! In, uhm, mythology and stuff, and there's been events with them here. I guess he's kind of that, since he is, uhm, magic imbued in s-something else? I'm not sure what specifically makes a golem a golem."

Newt frowns slightly at that. "There were gollums here? How bad was it then? I've known some that are quite useful, but they can be utilized in any way their creator wishes which means they can be quite dangerous as well."

Sadly with Wonderland being what it is, that is what Newt expects may have happened.

"They're not my forte, but I suspect that is quite close to it, just technology from different worlds. So your world has magic then? Of that sort?"

"Oh, yeah. It was uh, this event where we were in these underground caves, there were a few. One kind of, uh, f-followed me home." It's still guarding her lab, seeing as people have actually tried to steal stuff from her in there. "We just don't really have magic like that-- to like, uh, animate nonliving objects, really. Well, we d-didn't. That was part of my research."

Maybe she's getting ahead of herself here. "My world does have magic, it's just uh, it m-manifests in a lot of different ways. Mostly it's only monsters that can use it, though. Not humans, by virtue of their SOUL and their, uh, s-solidness."

"Oh. Well. I can't help but wonder whose world that was. I find it interesting to learn about other worlds, especially those that have magic." Pausing though as she speaks of not having that kind of magic, even if sometimes he might argue that some of the science he's seeing seems to be no different.

"What was your magic into then? How it worked? Manifesting it for all?" He pauses though at something she has said, something that left him stunned. "Wait, wait. Are you saying that in your world the reason you can do is magic is because of lacking a soul? I don't believe that." He's met too many of them, and they certainly seem beings with all a soul means in his world.

"Oh, n-no, I have a SOUL! It's just, a monster SOUL, n-not a human SOUL. Only monster SOULs can work with magic. Humans have too much physicality, b-because your SOUL survives after death, while ours are inexplicably tied to our forms." She explains it hurriedly, seeing where the confusion must have come. "A being without a SOUL is... a v-very bad fate."

It takes the wind out of her for a moment to dwell on that before she continues. "So, uh, monster magic is very varied. Usually there's types that everyone can learn, like healing, or stopping someone from running, but some are better at it than others. And then there's some things, like... t-there's fire elementals, right, so they're more inclined towards fire attacks, and probably couldn't learn an ice one. Or, uh, skeletons use bone attacks. Stuff like that."

"Oh. Okay. Yes. Thank you. I didn't mean to insult you. I just... Given some of the things I've heard said about those that practice magic..." Not to mention creatures though he wouldn't relate the too. Not with the personalities and consciousness he witnesses in Wonderland.

"I had so many issues with the word monster when I arrived here. In my world it is not the nicest of words," he admits, trying to hedge around it though he suspects several of them have heard it nonetheless. "I felt it was being insulting, though I am catching more and more that it isn't. Not in the ways I think of it, at least."

It bothers him to imagine them feeling insulted, being the amazing beings that all of them seem to be at this point.

"In a way that isn't much different than my world. In that there are many types, and many are better at some sorts than others are." Though again Newt pauses, frowning slightly before asking. "A lot of magics are attacks? Is that for others or is there a lot of fighting among yourselves?"

"It seems a lot of worlds have, uhm, b-bad associations with the word monster. I thought maybe it might have been, uh, a reaction from the war, but most worlds don't seem to have monsters like us? So... I'm not sure how it came up." She's a scientist, not a linguist. But she's used to having this kind of conversation by now.

She does tilt her head a bit when he asks about attacks, because it doesn't even register the connotations of that for a moment. "Oh, well, they can be, but t-they don't have to be. Monsters have, uh, individualized bullet patterns, that we use for greeting, and talking, and just... expression. It's like... friendly fighting? But not, uh, everybody does it or anything. It's n-not really my thing." Mostly because she's a fairly weak monster, but... that's not relevant. "I'm not sure I'm, uh, explaining this properly. It's hard to translate well to people outside the culture, I g-guess."

Newt nods with what she's saying. "In my world it's used to refer to those that do horrible things. Murders and such. In the muggle world it seems the word is used to refer to nearly any kind of creature from the wizarding world. Up to and including referring to wizards themselves."

He saw the attitude when he was in New York.

"Not to be offensive..." Though he's made these correlations before and definitely offended people so he's aware this is going to happen again. "Much in the same way that many creatures do?" Being in Wonderland he has encountered many that look like creatures and yet he doesn't see them that way so, until that moment, he hasn't thought about how those things could be related.

"No, that is making a lot more sense, I think," he says, nodding. "I'm just so relating things to how my world is, and I need to stop doing that." Opening his mind to all of this.

"No, it's okay, really." She wants to be reassuring, not make him feel he needs to blame himself for his preconceived notions of language. "You're not the first, uhm, h-human to ask me this sort of thing. A lot of people are a lot more wary about us when they hear about, uhm, bullet patterns and that sort of thing. I had my own questions about humans when I arrived, too." Considering she had met like, 2 of them at that point, tops. "It can be hard to, uh, adjust to new ways of thinking, or the rules of other worlds. Magic behaves differently all over, so something that works, uh, o-one place, might be different another, and that can be confusing."

"I will certainly ask questions. About how you were all trapped, about the bullet patterns, all of it. Not that I judge any of you for it, but because I'm curious to know what you've been through and how you came to be here," he admits, sharing just why he asks as many questions as he does.

"Has this place changed your magic that you've noticed?" He can't help but to ask. His seems the same. So far, but if there's a chance that will change, he feels he needs to know.

Now that's a curious question, and she tilts her head a bit, tapping at her chin. "Not that I've noticed, aside from uh, c-certain events that change the nature of the world as a whole. Not, uh, like this, but like, uhm... when we went to Hogwarts, and everyone forgot for a few days they didn't belong in t-that world. Or, t-the island, uhm... when some of us were mutants? But usually not in other settings." Those were both, objectively, wild. Getting to do magic so freely like that-- it was fun, albiet a little intimidating looking back on it.

She wouldn't have minded ending up at Hogwarts for a little bit more time, though. That event really was spectacular.

Newt nods with that question, having heard of those moments. Even in the space station though he still had the magical abilities he possesses now though.

"I've herd there are times when the entire place, us included, change, though I've yet to experience it. Some have complained to me though about the Hogwarts even doing just that though. Removing who they were, and not just putting them in what seems to be a new place."

He can't imagine how disconcerting that might be, and he hopes he never has to encounter an event like that.

"I've been considering how much things change and what that might mean. Like when they talk about the memories lost. Just... I don't get a chance to talk to other magic workers much here so I can't help but wonder."

"You know, it's surprising for all the work the science teams in, uh, W-Wonderland do, that nobody's thought to have a bunch of magic users talk to each other." It does seem that magic in different worlds varies much more than say, physics, but has no one thought to study it? "I know there aren't a lot of people like me, who, uh, think about the intersection of science and magic, but it would be useful to know, wouldn't it? How other world's magic works and, uhm, i-if applicable, how we could teach each other."

Sometimes, she feels, everyone gets so stuck in escaping Wonderland that nothing ever gets done to figure out how to best go about that-- or even just how best to relate to each other.

That makes Newt frown. "That is curious. Especially since it seems that so much of Wonderland runs on magic and not science. At least not as I know it," he admits, finding that curious to be honest. Maybe that's just because he came from a world where magic also ran so much of things, and despite living "outside" the muggle world, they didn't look to science first either.

"I suspect we should. If this place truly does run on magic, and they're using magic to take our memories, maybe that is what we should be looking into. If only if it might give us a few answers to this place. As for the intersection, I would be curious about it. I've not known a lot about science but I wouldn't mind learning."

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