465/Royal Affairs

Royal Affairs
Date of Scene:	20 September 2023
Location:	Dorms #1
Synopsis:	Hannah opens up about her home, and Court matters are discussed!
Cast of Characters:	Amanda Faust, Hannah Steiner

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Amanda Faust has posed:
(T/L Note: They're speaking Mid-Childan (English) unless otherwise noted.)

    "We're a backwater?" Amy can't help but feel a little insulted for Earth's sake. "It's alright, I know it's true. It's a little weird to be in this situation after watching so many stories where the viewpoint characters are from Earth's society, centuries hence, visiting other worlds... but y'know... if there's so much more out there? I kinda wanna see what *real* civilization is like. If I... somehow end up with a future and don't die fighting Witches? I'd like to come see it. As long as I'm not gonna constantly get teased for being a country bumpkin, anyway. Although, you know..."

    She smirks, "*I* just learned that I've got technology more advanced than they have in space!" She walks back over to her desk, and holds out her hands to indicate the Soul Gem presently sitting before her keyboard. "An artificial Linker Core! I'm a *magic cyborg*! How cool is that?!"

Hannah Steiner has posed:
Hannah is rather fleunt in Mid-Childan, a necessity really given her position at the apex of an Allied World, and coming from a House with such an interesting history with the TSAB.

"Mein dear love, this planet is /such/ a backwater that only the superior Tharkadian engineering of mein spacecraft even allowed me to get here! Und a /magical/ one. Practically a black hole. Indeed! I should like to show you mein home und the rest of the galaxy! ....Perhaps when we start the trip back, we shall do a tour. I am sure mein dear Regent can handle a few more months by herself." Her words are fond. Whoever she's chosen as Regent, clearly she thinks highly of them.

"Enough with such dour talk! You shall not die to some pathetic mongrel of a Witch!" There's that voice again, just like when she said she isn't stuck here.

"Acht, come now, you shall be a curiosity at court! Just watch out for any young nobles our age. They may very well be too charmed by you und attempt to gain your hand in marriage! It shall be /scandalous/ und shall lead to so many Duels!" A big, big sigh! It's like she's looking forward to the madness of her home's politics again.

Squint! Hannah grabs Blauer Greif, henshins, and then she is already doing a Focus Search on that so-called techno-Linker Core.

"Und how would you even know such a thing!? Mein dear engel, I am a /Device Meister/! I know secrets of fallen Ancient Belka, for the Sankt's sake preserved by our family line since the end of the War! If such technology /did/ exist, Great House Steiner would have a trade deal for it already!!!!" Comes the rather scandalized Hannah while BG goes scanning.

She waits for the data-shunt with a haughty shake of her head!

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Mongrels? Amy has this brief mental image of Hannah as FATE/Gilgamesh, pronouncing that no treasure of his could fall to such a fate! She's seen some artists' interpretations of Fem!Gilgamesh too, though she's not really familiar enough with the franchise to know the characters very well. Tall and blonde, though...

    Charmed? By *Amy*? Amy blushes and subconsciously tries to make herself smaller. "I... I'm really not... that special..." Until meeting Hannah, she had never *been* desired, and it still feels like it's not her place, not only that some kind of cosmic mistake or misunderstanding must have occured but she's also deeply uncomfortable with such an unfamiliar situation. The idea that her lack of experience, that not knowing what she should know, will cause trouble for Hannah is extremely concerning!

    While she's lost in thought, suddenly Hannah's at her side. "Huh? I... I don't know that it was created by someone you can *trade* with... Chrono's theory is that maybe Kyubey, and Puella Magi, are a sort of... Gaean immune response to the incursion of Witches."

    Well, it scanned to mid-Childan science as a linker core. It provides the functions of one, and such functions are absent from her body. What else it scans as rather depends on what the scan can do! The readers all know the truth of Puella Magi.

Hannah Steiner has posed:
Hannah shakes her head, giving a 'tch!' as if to banish the thought! "You, mein engel, are not only in unique circumstances, carry a massive burden, but you are uniquely stalwart und righteous. Reborn as your true self, one might say. How can that /not/ be special! A true daughter of Steiner does not accept mere /mediocrity/ in those that they love!" Comes Hannah proudly!

She does tap her chin thoughtfully. "However we /do/ need to teach you the necessities of Court. How are you at dancing? What is your House's crest? Have....by the Sankt, /tell/ me that they at least educate you Earthlings on how to initiate honor Duels und the differences of Grievance und Honor!? Please. Surely they do?" Hannah sounds like she knows the answer to that last one and is /begging/ to be incorrect!

And then her jaw all but hits the floor. It certainly has all the hallmarks of a Linker Core. But, while BG simply doesn't have the code to process Truth or really see deep into the wrongness of it all?

She's right. It's beyond even vaunted Belkan technology from the heights of their depravity. Or at least that which Hannah is aware of.

"Wh...Was!?" Her mid-childan dies, and then she's outright cursing in Belkan. Hopefully Amy hasn't picked up /too/ much of the language, or those words are going to make paint chip off the walls from their vehemence and creativity.

One of her maids back home originally came from a Tharkadian slum, and her Mother was smitten. Therefore all that foul language let slip easily from the maid, and thusly into Hannah's own when her parents weren't around.

When she has to go for oxygen in that string of invectives!

Back to mostly Mid-Childan. "....Mein love. I ask you, as one well in contention for co-ruler of Tharkad, that you set up a diplomatic meeting with this Kyubey of yours!!! I wish to talk Terms of Trade!!!" She's doing it again. That whole 'bend reality over' such that it favors her. Pause.

"Our ramen is cooling!" Oh Sankt! She's offering flowers, leaning in, and dipsmooching Amy lovingly! Then, FOOD!

Hannah Steiner has posed:
Hannah shakes her head, giving a 'tch!' as if to banish the thought! "You, mein engel, are not only in unique circumstances, carry a massive burden, but you are uniquely stalwart und righteous. Reborn as your true self, one might say. How can that /not/ be special! A true daughter of Steiner does not accept mere /mediocrity/ in those that they love!" Comes Hannah proudly!

She does tap her chin thoughtfully. "However we /do/ need to teach you the necessities of Court. How are you at dancing? What is your House's crest? Have....by the Sankt, /tell/ me that they at least educate you Earthlings on how to initiate honor Duels und the differences of Grievance und Honor!? Please. Surely they do?" Hannah sounds like she knows the answer to that last one and is /begging/ to be incorrect!

And then her jaw all but hits the floor. It certainly has all the hallmarks of a Linker Core. But, while BG simply doesn't have the code to process Truth or really see deep into the wrongness of it all?

She's right. It's beyond even vaunted Belkan technology from the heights of their depravity. Or at least that which Hannah is aware of.

"Wh...Was!?" Her mid-childan dies, and then she's outright cursing in Belkan. Hopefully Amy hasn't picked up /too/ much of the language, or those words are going to make paint chip off the walls from their vehemence and creativity.

One of her maids back home originally came from a Tharkadian slum, and her Mother was smitten. Therefore all that foul language let slip easily from the maid, and thusly into Hannah's own when her parents weren't around.

When she has to go for oxygen in that string of invectives!

Back to mostly Mid-Childan. "....Mein love. I ask you, as one well in contention for co-ruler of Tharkad, that you set up a diplomatic meeting with this Kyubey of yours!!! I wish to talk Terms of Trade!!!" She's doing it again. That whole 'bend reality over' such that it favors her. Pause.

"Our ramen is cooling!" Oh Sankt! She's offering flowers, leaning in, and dipsmooching Amy lovingly! Then, FOOD! Luckily, Lyra was a good doggie and has thoughtfully placed out the ramen. Hannah discretely tosses a Lyra Snack to her beloved guide space dinosaur for the effort!

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Her cheeks pink but it's good-embarassed, like a compliment, when she's described as reborn as her true self. "I... I've never danced... w-well okay I did like *once* at a school function after we graduated... but that was 18 years ago... but I learned way more at the dance the other month!"

    She sweatdrops. "There is no 'they' and you know it. That's probably a thing in some of our ancient cultures too, but I've always been one for logic and reason -- and mercy and compassion -- over honor."

    Belkan is an awful lot like German! Which shares some roots with English. Amy can piece some of it together. She doesn't mind. Swears are swears!

    "I uh... I'll forward your request... if I remember to, y'know, given I might see him in the middle of stuff going on... But I don't know if I'd assume it's the kind of technology that can be traded? If this was deliberately engineered, then why would we mmph!"

    Dipsmooched!

    She's been... moved by another's arms so, and kissed! She's overwhelmed, trying to analyze it then giving up and enjoying it and then trying to remember and savor the details of an experience so rare and precious. Afterwards she follows Hannah to food in a daze...

    "Ooh, real ramen! I keep meaning to try different kinds and figure out which are my favorites...!"