Recording #002 | June Log

[the_archive]

WHO | Jon and OTA.
WHAT | DITL mostly, with a few starts in the comments. Feel free to run into Jon anywhere mentioned. He's flexing his Knowing, so if you're interested in dropping some knowledge, that'd be lovely.
WHERE | The Castle, Thorne, the Library, the Dungeon
WHEN | Post-Festival through the rest of June

Realizing that his connection to the Eye is whole again rather soured the end of the Festival for Jon. He spent a day behind the curtains in his room, enduring a headache, but now that's settled down to a mute throb, he's walking off the rest of it while he wrestles with himself.

It's not a surprise, this reconnection. Ambrose told him the respite would only be for a few days. And it's not explicitly unwanted. There are a lot of questions to which he needs answers, and he knows he can seek out those answers, but not without some cost. He knows he'll do it, since the information isn't only for himself. He has to work up the courage.

And he hasn't read a statement in over two weeks now, which is... troublesome. Despite taking full advantage of the dining hall daily (okay, nearly daily), he's aware of a constant vague hunger.

So the walking is as much distraction as exploration. He's going to wear out his sandals pacing the corridors of the castle and the aisles of the library, walking out into the town. He mostly confines his town visits to mid-day, when folk are often too busy to waylay an "honoured guest."

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[the_archive]

Sitting reading in his bed, he looks over, just raising an eyebrow. "What."

Yes, he knows what.

[moremilkplz]

"That!"

And Homelander stabs a finger in the general direction of the tape recorder. "What the hell- how did they get that here and yet they can't seem to- you know what, I'm going to have a stern word with those lying mages."

[the_archive]

Jon looks down at it, as if he's only just noticing it himself. "Oh, that. No, they didn't bring it here. It brought itself."

[moremilkplz]

"What?"

His whole face twists and Homelander scoffs. "Things don't generally bring themselves. Did you bring it here? How?"

Homelander woke up naked, and with nothing to his name. Where the hell could anyone hide something like that.

[the_archive]

"Yes and no. They show up around me." He shrugs. "It might turn itself on, just turn it off it does."

[moremilkplz]

"Wha-"

This is getting repetitive and Homelander rests his fists on his hips and frowns. "It's-" How to even find the words for what this even is. "Alright. So, your superpower is to summon a tape recorder. At least that's new."

Useless, but new.

[the_archive]

"I told you it wasn't extraordinary," he says, voice level and his gaze flat. "They're not even good tape recorders. Antiques, where I'm from."

[moremilkplz]

"Right. Sure, you know what? I can live with it." he eyes it again, the unsettling feeling of knowing that it exists "Why don't you just pack it away somewhere and we'll call it done."

[the_archive]

Obligingly, he picks it up, opens his trunk, and drops it inside. It's almost the only thing in there. "Feel better?"

[moremilkplz]

"Much" But his eyes narrow at the trunk, before he drops down on his own bed and opens some kind of book. It's thin, with barely any pages in it but until he's powers are restored, he's forced to do this the old-fashioned way. One page at a time-- reading takes forever now.

"Why a tape recorder?"

[the_archive]

"No one gave me a choice in the matter." Jon shrugs, picking his own book back up off his chest. "Like I said. They just started showing up."

[moremilkplz]

"That is-" he blows out a breath, "so stupid." A beat and Homelander adds "No offence."

A tape recorder? Wow, talk about picking from the bottom of the barrel when it comes to superpowers.

[the_archive]

Jon chuckled softly, flipping a few pages back to where he'd lost track of the history of the roads of Thorne.

"No argument from me. They don't even come with a good mix tape."

[moremilkplz]

"What do they come with?"

Homelander asks, not really caring that much. It's a stupid thing anyway. Why couldn't Jon's powers be to summon a decent cup of coffee or a hamburger.

[the_archive]

Jon too would prefer decent coffee. Though the tea here isn't bad.

"One blank tape. No Sousa marches or John Mellencamp, sorry."

[moremilkplz]

"Most useless superpower ever," Homelander grumbles, tuning Jon out in favor of staring at the book in his lap. It's about as exciting as counting grains of sand.