Track 02 - Here Comes the Sun [OPEN]

[princeofjunes]

Characters: Yosuke Hanamura and YOU!
Setting: Floor 25
Format: I'll follow, but action is far faster for me
Summary: Yosuke's in a half-thinking, half-escapist mood. What better place to do both?
Warnings: None!

[In the middle of this springtime meadow is one high school student, sprawled out on the grass with his headphones on and blasting music. He switches every few minutes between nodding his head to the beat and looking oddly contemplative. But he's aware of his surroundings, and as people pass he'll do one of two things]

[If Yosuke doesn't know you, he'll simply smile and offer a friendly wave]

[If he does, he'll slip the headphones off his hears and give a greeting] Hey!

Comments

[ocariness]

[ Why... is Yosuke laughing that was a very reasonable question, okay! But... Link can somewhat understand that. ]

... I see.

[ Huh. Weird. ]

This isn't like any instrument I have ever heard played... it is lovely, though there's a different sort of magic to it than the music I know.

[ In a way, it's odd, hearing music that is not positively vibrating with magical energy, or music coming from the trees themselves, within the forest. To someone like Link, everything had a song to it if you listened. That was what magic was about. But they feel this to be a little too touchy-feely and oddly introspective, so perhaps that's better left unsaid.

Plus, Yosuke might find it odd. ]

[princeofjunes]

Yeah? Well, if you're used to magic that teleports you around, I'd say you're right.

But even if it's not that kind of magic, I love music. Sometimes I wish my life had a soundtrack, and then I remember - [He points up at the headphones] - that I more or less give it one.

[ocariness]

I've always believed music has it's own sort of magic, even if you do not notice the effects at first. You have to open to find it, though.

[ ... Though Link has no idea what soundtrack means, they can probably infer it? But there is one thing that has got to be asked: ]

But... where are the people who play it?

[ Link is kind of looking at the headphones like tiny musicians might be hiding in them. WE KNOW YOU'RE IN THERE, TINY MUSICIANS. COME TALK TO US. ]

[princeofjunes]

[Right. The whole 'technology' thing. For a moment Yosuke wishes he could just carry Naoto around in his pocket and pull her out whenever there's something complicated that needs to be explained. It'd make his life a hell of a lot easier. Alas, until someone invents the Pocket Naooto (and it's not a terrible idea), he's on his own]

[So, how to explain technology to the technologically illiterate?]

That's... a long answer, but I'll try and explain it. The musicians played the music into a machine, and the machine recorded it and made it so that people could play the music back on other tiny machines they can carry around. So the music playing through those headphones is coming from one of those tiny machines.

[ocariness]

[ Contemplative look, here. Some serious thought is being put into your explanation, but luckily for you, Link is rather intelligent. ]

Ah. ... I see, so it's more a mechanical function and the music is written on to the machines in some way?

[ Since... recording to Link is "writing in a book" and all that. ]

[princeofjunes]

[Well, that's the best he's going to be able to explain it without help]

Yeah, like that. Naoto can explain it better, if you're curious. ... actually, anything I explain that doesn't really make sense, Naoto can probably explain better.

[ocariness]

[ ... Link can't help but laugh, if just a bit. ]

... I'll be sure to ask, in that case. Your... machinery is a bit beyond Hyrule's, I'm afraid...

[ Haha. Gosh, do they really want to ask Yosuke some other things, but at this point Link feels it better to keep it to theirself, because it's not right to bring Yosuke back to that earlier frustration.

This was their problem, not his. He deserved better. ]

[princeofjunes]

Yeah, well your magic is beyond ours.

... [He chuckles at that]

Man, if it weren't for all that shadow stuff I wouldn't even think magic exists, and you've got songs that teleport people places?

[ocariness]

[ ... Heh. ]

That's... rather surprising to me, I must say. Where I live--or... where I've lived until recently, magic is so commonplace that it seems... strange to me not to see it in every thing, not to sense it all around me...

[ Pausing. ]

Music, too. Music is its own magic... notes carry farther than even the best spell. Music is a good conductor for magic, which is why an instrument is easy to endow with it.

[princeofjunes]

Wait wait wait. So you're saying back in your home, someone could just... make a magic guitar or something? Just like that?

[ocariness]

[ ... Blink. Blink.

... Then, a laugh. ]

Yes, easily. It would be up to the creator to give it the proper magic capabilities, but I am rather certain it would be very simple a task.

[ Silly Yosuke, why wouldn't they be able to? ]

[princeofjunes]

[It doesn't matter if it's silly or not because quite frankly there is only one thing that matters now]

... alright, that's officially awesome. I want a magic guitar. You have any spares with you, Link?

[ocariness]

[ A small laugh, and a headshake. ]

Unfortunately, I could make you one, but I don't have one with me or the materials, and... I am certain it would have to be made in my world with magic and the proper intent...

[ Alas. Sorry, bro. ]