Re: Fan Rp - MAlec - THE DEATH OF CLARY! (c) Cassandra Clare

[Nyako-Chan]

"Hmm, as you like," Alec said, smiling. Brightness and shiny glittery stuff was other world kind of stuff for him. He didn't ultimately care for it, but he liked it on Magnus. Well, he liked it off of Magnus too, but glitter caught his eye only when it was on his fiance. "I don't know how brightness could be different. Bright, brighter, too bright?" Why did people wear the too bright category? That hurt other people's eyes, why didn't it hurt theirs? It'd be too flashy flashy and it'd catch way too many eyes. It could make snickers arise, and maybe teasings. Magnus didn't seem to mind getting teased by people sometimes, attention was attention for him, Alec gathered.

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Magnus shook his head, laughing lightly. "Close, but not quite. There's bright from somebody who doesn't know what they're doing and matches everything too much, there's bright that has everything mismatched everything different brightnesses, and there's bright, sparkly bright. And then every combination of the three" he explained, having used all of them but the first one. The first one ended up looking funny half the time. He didn't do that look.

[Nyako-Chan]

"Umm, okay." Alec just nodded, his response to things he didn't understand and didn't expect to understand. "Oh, Magnus," Alec started, since they were talking about appearances. "I've been meaning to ask. With immortality," the subject that had been side tracked since Skylar came along, "how does the appearance thing work? I imagine you look the same age, and can change appearance, but explain it better for me?" Immortality had been on his mind for the past few days. Now that the confusion and excitement of Skylar's arrival had died down some, he had time to think of what Magnus had asked him months ago.

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Alec hadn't been expected to know what Magnus was talking about, in the warlock's eyes. He rarely understood when it came to clothes. The next question made him hesitate for a moment, not having been expecting that. "Well, you'll look the same age forever, you can gain and lose weight, you can gain and lose muscle, your hair keeps growing and everything, if you break something and it isn't healed properly, it could probably deform itself. Almost exactly like a normal human, except that you don't age" he explained, thinking about it as it worked with warlocks.

[Nyako-Chan]

"Makes sense," Alec commented, "okay." He'd just be keeping up his normal life style then, except he'd never see what he looked like when he got older. He just assumed he'd look more like his father than his mother. He'd never see a different looking face in the mirror unless he did something with his looks. Maybe that was why Magnus changed so many things with his looks. Maybe he wanted to see something new and different every day instead of the same nineteen year old face he'd had for pretty much 800 years. "It doesn't sound too bad, being immortal." He'd watch everyone die before him. He didn't want to see that, but it'd happen, he knew.

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Magnus was glad to be of any help with that, hoping that Alec would make his decision soon. He wanted to make sure his lover was safely immortal before something got him killed. Not that immortals couldn't exactly die, it was just harder to kill them. It would probably take a greater demon to kill Alec once he was immortal, which was a reassuring thought. "It's pretty sweet. Seeing how times change and such. And I couldn't think of a better person to spend my immortal life with" he said, smiling slightly.

[Nyako-Chan]

"It must be nice to see all of that," Alec said, "but it must be hard to find people to be friends with, that are Mundanes, anyway." Did Magnus want Mundie friends? Not likely, but still. Alec didn't either, but he imagined making a friend, even a downworlder friend, would be hard because it'd be watching another one close to him aging while he didn't. Skylar would do that too, wouldn't he? Magnus would help him get through that, if their kid didn't want immortality. They couldn't make an entire immortal family though. The Clave would definitely hunt them down for that.

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Magnus nodded, knowing exactly how nice it was. It was amazing to be able to see how the world evolved. He was liking this era the best though, with products and such. He wasn't sure how the future would turn out though. "It's pretty amazing. I'm going to have to show you some of the places I've been though. Way more amazing than New York. But I'm glad I decided not to move to China or something" if he had, he probably wouldn't have met Alec, and that would probably have ruined his life.

[Nyako-Chan]

"Everything is done as it's supposed to play out. I'm not going by what the Angel says or does, but it's what I think. We meet people because we're supposed to have at least some influence on them." He wasn't big on the religion thing, but he did go for destiny. It couldn't be coincidence how people met each other. As Isabelle told Alec about making friends, he could turn the corner of the street one day and meet the next best friend for the rest of his life. Magnus had been one of those people, his job, and technically Clary, had led him to his life partner.

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Magnus raised an eyebrow as Alec almost preached at him. He thought it over, nodding slightly. He wasn't big on that kind of thing, being told that he was an abomination against God for almost his whole life, so it had never really grown on him. He did agree with the fate part though. Things were always meant to happen, and fate could be cruel sometimes. It was just how the world always worked, and always would work. "Too true. But you sound so. . . monk-like with that. It's weird" he gave a small, almost crooked smile. It was just something odd to hear from his Shadowhunter.

[Nyako-Chan]

"Err, monk-like?" Alec inquired, "Uh, that sounds bad. Sorry if you didn't like that." He wasn't one to go around and say religious things. He didn't even like people who did that. Who was he to tell people what he thought? There were few people he had said his thoughts on that to. "I'm not trying to tell you to believe what I think, I'm just kinda saying." He only believed in the Angel as far as his fighting methods and the magic of runes. He could believe in God if he wanted, but the Angel, he was more believable because of everything Shadowhunters had gone through.

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Magnus's eyes widened slightly when Alec appologized. "What? No, that wasn't a bad thing, it was just an observation, darling. I just didn't expect that from you. But I do agree, believe it or not. Everything happens for a reason, be it a good one or a bad one" he shrugged. He didn't know why Alec's immediate thought was that he didn't like it. There was hardly anything he didn't love about Alec, and the things he didn't love, he still liked. The only thing he didn't like about him was that he worried about others too much, and himself not enough, and even that could be sweet sometimes.

[Nyako-Chan]

"Oh, uhh, okay. Some people don't like other people saying things about religion, or beliefs. Umm, Shadowhunters don't generally get in those kinds of fights with each other since they all have to worship the Angel in some sort of way." Hence, naming the blades to turn them into seraph blades, and swearing on the Angel's name, which was handy and dangerous in one go. Death to the promiser was useful in various forms, and a curse in other forms. "After being around this long, what do you think of some sort of deity?" Alec asked, since Magnus didn't talk about his beliefs too often. While they were on the subject, why not?

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Magnus had dealt with a million different religions over his lifetime, he could deal with Alec's little bit about what he believed in. It was somewhat interesting to hear how so many different people believed such different things. "I know that. I have no problem with anything you believe in. It's who you are. If you didn't believe in the Angel, or warship the Angel in some way, you wouldn't be a Shadowhunter" he shrugged. Alec wouldn't be a Shadowhunter, and then he wouldn't be Alec. He would be completely different. "Well. . . I believe in angels, mostly because of the Nephilim, but that's about it. I think if there really was a god, so many people wouldn't be damned like they think they are, and the world wouldn't be turning into as shitty a place" he shrugged, running a hand through his hair. He had expected the question to come up eventually in this conversation.

[Nyako-Chan]

"I suppose more proof if the Mortal Instruments. I don't know how else they'd be here. I suppose seeing is believing." Alec wished he could be those people who didn't have to see some legit proof to believe it, but that was just blind faith then. Blind faith was kind of pointless, and in a sense, kind of dangerous. Like the 12 people who jumped out of a building and landed in a car parking lot and died because they 'saw the devil.' (True story, recently) Insane people believing too much in religion, Alec thought. Mundanes were interesting like that. "Something has to be out there. I guess I'm Agnostic, but I think there's something out there. Humans can't be the greatest power around." He wasn't saying God was there, but he was saying that something of higher being could be around.

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Magnus nodded, knowing what he meant by that. The Mortal Instruments had to be on earth because of something of angellic power. And since no Nephilim had that much power, it had to be an angel anyways. "I believe myself to be athiest. I believe more in the supernatural. What I am, what you are" he shrugged. "No offense though honey, but humans aren't exactly as high up on the food chain as they like to believe" he grinned, winking at him. "Downworlders take the cake. Particularily warlocks" angels technically won, but they weren't exactly common. And Demons didn't really count in this, even if warlocks were half-demons.

[Nyako-Chan]

"Warlocks take the cake because?" Alec asked, raising an eyebrow. Was this Magnus being self confident again? Most likely. Warlocks could lose to Nephilim, just like Nephilim could lose to warlocks. They weren't exactly even, seeing as abilities varied in each, but they could hold their own if need be. Now, if one race could snuff the other out like a candle, then there was a superiority thing going on there. "What about Greater Demons? They could beat loads of demons and Shadowhunters." Dangerous things they were, they could kill anything easily, and what didn't die by force or teeth, died by poison.

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"Warlocks take the cake because we have the most power" Magnus replied simply. Sure, Shadowhunters could take them out, but not one on one. And it all depended on the age and skill level of said warlock. It would take a shitload of Shadowhunters to take him down, as the case was with a handful of other warlocks he knew. "Greater Demons aren't technically in our world. Well, they're not supposed to be. But still. They don't count" he shrugged. Greater Demons were a pain in the ass to deal with, but he had gone through his fair share.

[Nyako-Chan]

"What about-- Hmm, nah. You're probably right," Alec finished, not finding another thing that could stand up to a warlock. "If taken by surprise, you guys at least need a moment to gather yourself and cast a spell, right?" Shadowhunters, no, pretty much everyone needed at least a moment or two to register what happened, how to deal with it, and then a moment to kick back into regular fighting gear. "How long does it take to cast a spell?" he asked, seeing Magnus who could bring fire to his fingers in a matter of seconds. How long did it take to conjure that though?

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Magnus grinned wider when Alec tried and failed to find something that could outmatch warlocks. "Well, that all depends on the spell, the warlock, and how tired the individual is" he shrugged. It was all relative to everything else. He snapped his fingers and a tongue of blue flame appeared at his fingertips almost instantly. That was one of his favorite things to do, his fire being his favorite weapon, and it had always fascinated him. "Something more complicated however could take hours to complete" he knew of a few things that could take days to cast, but he generally avoided those, unless absolutely necessary.

[Nyako-Chan]

"Is it hard being a warlock?" Alec wondered, because Magnus made it look fun. He made it look like magic was a gift to him, and his gift to other people, at a price, or his entertainment. Whichever came first, which was usually the first one. "Why would things take so long as an hour? Like what? Healing spells? Fighting spells can't take that long unless they're distance spells, right?" Alec couldn't imagine staying up for hours, or days, focusing on a spell. Warlocks had to have another way of doing that, they couldn't just concentrate for that long.

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"It was at first, but once you get over the fact that you're not human, and you start getting into the magic, it's really easy. It just takes a while to train your power, like anything" Magnus explained, letting the flame go out. He ran his fingers through Alec's hair, the digits not overheated by the flame in the least. He hadn't even felt it. "Well. . . more complicated spells. . . The one for immortality takes. . . ehh. . . quite awhile" he looked to the side, knowing now that Alec would be asking. It was only a few hours, but a few hours of his utten concentration was worth the rest of his life with Alec.

[Nyako-Chan]

"So you just...sit there and concentrate? What does the subject do?" Just lay there and wait too? Maybe they were put into a sleep spell so they didn't move around and distract them, so they wouldn't have to eat, or go to the bathroom, which would probably ruin the concentration thing too. "How long is a while?" he asked, curious. The more information he got on this, the more comfortable he felt. Not that he ever felt uncomfortable with Magnus performing spells on him, but it was like getting surgery and knowing nothing about it. You had to trust the doctor, but what about the surgery?

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"Pretty much. Some things actually need preperation, like ingredients for some kind of cenermony or something, but those are normally the more sketchy spells. Some have to be done at a certain time of year, and they take a bit of preperation normally" Magnus didn't like the ones like that, but he had used them countless times for high paying customers. "Only about an hour or so. . . you have to stay in one place, but you can shift or whatever, as long as you don't get up and move or something. Or distract me" he explained, making a face. It was hard for him not to get distracted by Alec.

[Nyako-Chan]

"That doesn't sound too bad," Alec said, "but what would you mean by distracting? Other than a normal distraction?" If it wasn't him, what else would distraction mean? Talking? Asking questions? Checking something out. Moving around? How much moving around? "Do any of your spells hurt when you put it on a person? One that's not supposed to hurt intentionally, I mean." Yeah, of course spells could hurt. He meant spells that were supposed to fix things. Maybe something in them hurt sometimes, like, the spell would set something right, but the real healing process from the spell would hurt.

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