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william tsang ([personal profile] dogbane) wrote2014-04-20 12:03 pm
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milagros: ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴅᴏ ɪ ᴇᴀʀɴ ғʀᴏᴍ ᴘʟᴀʏɪɴɢ ɴɪᴄᴇ? (ᴀʟʟ ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ ɪs ɪɴsɪᴅᴇ ʏᴏᴜ)

[personal profile] milagros 2014-09-22 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
( levelly, as if she'd been prepared for that question and had rehearsed her answer - maybe true, maybe not - milagros inclines her head and says, ) Nor is it confined to human bodies. A colleague of mine has a bond with his rose garden some might call slightly perverse.

( that's actually a joke, although he'd be forgiven for not being able to quite tell. solomon's communion with nature is a source of great amusement for mila, who enjoys a slightly less intimate relationship with the natural world as trees aren't great conversationalists, sol, do you not have friends.

not that she's asked him that in a while. not that she thinks she ever will again, when they'll look at each other and remember calista. )


No. What I'm talking about is exactly what it sounds like. My kind are the demiurge of our world, and creation goes hand in hand with destruction. Such is nature.

( for all that she sounds so clinical, what she's describing is base, passionate and, as he's already realized, intensely powerful; her appearance is deceptive, and her practise of magic is joyously brutal. )
milagros: ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴅᴏ ɪ ᴇᴀʀɴ ғʀᴏᴍ ᴘʟᴀʏɪɴɢ ɴɪᴄᴇ? (sᴏ ᴛʜɪs ɪs ᴡɪɴᴛᴇʀ—-)

[personal profile] milagros 2014-09-23 08:37 am (UTC)(link)
( mila tries not to laugh. also, she can probably smell fear.

... all right, no, not literally, but she's certainly attuned to the response in others. mildly, )
I do know the difference between medical assistance and torture, William, and I don't take either lightly. I took that oath when I finished med school.

( she's qualified to provide both services. that she says 'torture' and not just 'killing' is itself a conscious admission - he recognized immediately the possibilities of her power, and she's not going to insult him by pretending that they don't exist or, for that matter, that she's not equipped to use them in that way. she's as experienced at tearing apart as she is at putting back together, by necessity.

but that isn't what she's here to do. simple as that. if it becomes necessary, that's something else-- but it's not going to become necessary in the medical bay, outside of some pretty farfetched scenarios. )


I know that there are always going to be people who mistrust either science or magic. I'd like to be available for those in the former category-- I will do particularly well with people of earlier time periods and those who expect magic to have an ... earthy quality to its practise.

( in her pristinely professional get up and with her crisp, clinical conversation-- he'd really be forgiven for querying that assessment. )
milagros: ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴅᴏ ɪ ᴇᴀʀɴ ғʀᴏᴍ ᴘʟᴀʏɪɴɢ ɴɪᴄᴇ? (ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴜsᴋs ᴀɴᴅ sᴇᴇᴅs)

[personal profile] milagros 2014-09-24 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
What I lack in built-up power, I make up for in flexibility and more varied experience, ( a little wryly. she's been practising magic in one tradition or another since she was barely an adult; if she'd been committed to one from the start and remained with them, she'd be even more of a force to reckon with...but she wouldn't be able to offer the same breadth of experience and familiarity. her scientific background complements what she does now, and she's learning to better appreciate that in this context. )

I've familiarized myself mainly through our medical records.
milagros: ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴅᴏ ɪ ᴇᴀʀɴ ғʀᴏᴍ ᴘʟᴀʏɪɴɢ ɴɪᴄᴇ? (sᴏ ᴛʜɪs ɪs ᴡɪɴᴛᴇʀ—-)

[personal profile] milagros 2014-09-27 08:39 am (UTC)(link)
( a delicate little nose-wrinkle-- ) 'Raw' power is a term I don't find particularly useful. Anyone can have 'raw power', and anyone frequently does. It's the experience and knowledge that come with wielding it that make it valuable. Those are the people who live long enough to become interesting.

( it isn't that mila doesn't see herself as powerful - she does - or even that she doesn't see herself as experienced - she is - but that she knows she isn't honed to the degree that a mage of her seniority should be. would be, if she'd had more consistency. but that's just another way in which she is, as he describes her, a double-edged sword; her experience and her knowledge are broader, and no longer having access to the powers she wielded as an etherite doesn't mean she took nothing from her former tradition when she left it. )

I imagine that's true here as much as anywhere else. ( she further imagines it's not an irrelevant observation as she leans forward to skim over what he's showing her, something she'll have to take a closer and more detailed look at when she has the leisure to. )
milagros: ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴅᴏ ɪ ᴇᴀʀɴ ғʀᴏᴍ ᴘʟᴀʏɪɴɢ ɴɪᴄᴇ? (ᴀ ᴡᴀʀ ʀᴀɢᴇs ɪɴsɪᴅᴇ ʏᴏᴜ)

[personal profile] milagros 2014-09-29 11:11 am (UTC)(link)
Maimings, unfortunately, are rather my area of expertise. As far as healing.

( nice worlds with nice witches don't produce women like mila gallo. she learned to heal by necessity, up to her elbows in blood; it is what it is. )
milagros: ᴛʜᴏᴜɢʜ sʜᴇ ʙᴇᴛʀᴀʏs ʏᴏᴜ ɪɴ ᴀ ʜᴇᴀʀᴛʙᴇᴀᴛ - (Aɴᴅ ʏᴏᴜ ᴍᴜsᴛ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ʜᴇʀ)

[personal profile] milagros 2014-10-01 07:00 am (UTC)(link)
Close.

( she knows. )

It varies - what's been done to them, how strong they are, how much time we have, if I can stabilize them to move or if I have to act in the middle of... ( a gesture. ) The devil's always going to be in the details. I've survived things I shouldn't have running on nothing but magic and fumes.
milagros: ʙᴜᴛ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴄʀᴏᴡ's ғᴇᴇᴛ, ᴍᴏʀᴇ ᴛᴀᴛᴛᴏᴏs ᴀɴᴅ ʙᴇᴛᴛᴇʀ ʟɪɴɢᴇʀɪᴇ. (Sᴏᴍᴇᴛɪᴍᴇs sʜᴇ ʟᴏᴏᴋs ᴊᴜsᴛ ʟɪᴋᴇ ʏᴏᴜ)

[personal profile] milagros 2014-10-03 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
( it takes her long enough to decide how to answer that he might wonder if she just didn't hear him. it isn't an awkward silence, per se, it just ... goes on for a while, and more than anything else she's so fucking tired, sometimes, when she thinks of how much she can't do compared to how much she can.

there's so much more she can't fucking do. it's different, here, but she's lived the alternative for much longer.

slowly, not ashamed of herself but aware that what she's about to say is both not at all the helpful answer he's looking for and also potentially very, very unwelcome in itself, )
The kind of injury you're describing isn't something I've encountered in a scenario where we had the luxury of options beyond making it fast.

( mila isn't a healer; she's someone whose abilities are applicable and who has, out of necessity, applied them. it hasn't always - ever - been pretty. )
milagros: sᴇᴛ ᴜᴘ sʜᴏᴘ ɪɴ ᴀ ᴡɪᴛᴄʜ’s ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ, (sʜᴇ ᴡɪʟʟ ᴀᴅᴏᴘᴛ ᴀ ɴᴇᴡ ᴄᴏsᴛᴜᴍᴇ)

[personal profile] milagros 2014-10-10 08:40 am (UTC)(link)
It's not that that's the only option there theoretically is, ( a little wryly, ) it's just the only option we've ever practically been able to achieve without getting everyone killed.

( sometimes when it comes down to saving one person or risking everyone, you don't get to be a big damn hero about it. you don't get to say no, damn it, we don't leave anybody behind unless you want those to be your last words, never quoted. you make a hard call and then you live with it, and sometimes you wonder, but it's done and it's all you could do. maybe they'll understand, in the next life, why you chose that way. maybe they'll live longer, the next time around.

or maybe they won't. the world's getting worse and not better, every passing year. )


My experience as a healer is essentially battlefield medicine from the thick of it. When I talk about stabilizing... ( a 'hhfff what can I say' kind of sigh-- ) Let's say you lose a limb. If we move fast enough and if we can get out, I stop the blood flow. I trick the limb into believing it's still attached to a living body. We have a window of time in which I can reattach it without any lingering damage or side-effects. Without a scar, if that's the kind of thing you like.

( the verbena don't, really. they like their scars just fine. )
milagros: ᴛᴏ sᴍɪʟᴇ ғᴏʀ ʏᴏᴜ. (ɪ ᴡɪʟʟ ɴᴏᴛ ᴛᴜᴄᴋ ᴍʏ ғᴀɴɢs ᴀᴡᴀʏ)

[personal profile] milagros 2014-10-13 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
( a brief, businesslike nod-- )

He needed it. We needed him. We were lucky enough to be able to get him out before everything went tits up.
milagros: ɪ ʟᴇᴀᴠᴇ ɪɴ ᴍʏ ᴛʜʀᴏᴀᴛ. (ɪ’ʟʟ ᴄʜᴏᴋᴇ ᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄʀɪᴇs)

[personal profile] milagros 2014-10-15 07:00 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. The most straightforward foci I can use for any of this is my own blood; some people may find that alarming or unsanitary, but while I can't do anything-- ( AND HONESTLY WON'T EVEN ATTEMPT ) --about the former, I can assure you that my practises are perfectly safe. I know what I'm doing.
milagros: ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴅᴏ ɪ ᴇᴀʀɴ ғʀᴏᴍ ᴘʟᴀʏɪɴɢ ɴɪᴄᴇ? (sᴛᴀʀs ᴀʀᴇ ɴᴏᴛ ɢʟɪᴛᴛᴇʀ)

[personal profile] milagros 2014-10-17 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
I've been a part of two of nine different traditions, and each of those - nine - has their own particular subgroups and internal disagreements as to the best methodology.

( mila's tone is dry; she finds a lot of the in-fighting extremely wearying, particularly as wrangling it has become actually her job. this perhaps accounts for some of her disinterest in putting herself out there on the tranquility, where there's yet more diversity and differing opinions and frankly she doesn't give a shit about the opinions of most of the people who are actually contextually relevant to her. wading into whatever this ship has to offer sounds like the opposite of anything remotely entertaining or worthwhile.

but that's the nice thing about being mila gallo. bringing this up with him will mean, inevitably, sooner or later, going public; she will welcome, warily, the opportunities to discuss and develop that it brings. she will also have absolutely no difficulty dismissing, firmly, anything she finds pointless or irrelevant.

which is going to happen, sooner or later. she's seen the network, ever. )


That headache is perfectly normal. But no, I wouldn't mind.
milagros: ᴛᴏ sᴍɪʟᴇ ғᴏʀ ʏᴏᴜ. (ɪ ᴡɪʟʟ ɴᴏᴛ ᴛᴜᴄᴋ ᴍʏ ғᴀɴɢs ᴀᴡᴀʏ)

[personal profile] milagros 2014-10-18 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
( if it makes him feel better, there's absolutely nothing like a team that includes people of more than one tradition. there is, occasionally, some extremely reluctant collaboration and when it happens, mila is usually the one who has to stand over the rest of them with a bat to get the job done without solomon punching an etherite and starting a feud that results in killing each other before they kill whoever they're working together to take out. they have enough of a grasp of the necessity of not wiping each other out - generally - for there to be delegates sent yearly to new york from each tradition to navigate ... not wiping each other out, but it's tense at best and the verbena, often considered savagely barbaric and unfashionably old fashioned, tend to show up prepared to throw down.

she may have actually told lindberg at one point that she was only there to stop solomon killing him before he stopped being useful and that he should try being a little more fucking useful and a little less annoying before she suddenly remembered a nail appointment and left their executioner unattended. world of darkness, where everyone different from you is terrible. )


Make it deep.

( --and scary. )

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