A pranking contest wouldn't be so bad with Alec. He enjoys a good one. Especially with Phoenix. And never goes for Malicious. Unless pushed. Which Phoenix would never do. They know their boundaries.
If Simon does decided to start it with Phoenix then good on him. As long as he's willing for the payback.
Merging timelines is always difficult, especially when you're trying to exclude certain people. It helps if the worlds are close together in history. But since they were merging worlds where they were trying to bring in the people who didn't exist in their world, it would be harder.
They know their world, so that also helps. And they knew who they really didn't want to come over.
Still, having an outsider double check your work never helps. They can see something you might not being so close to the piece.
No lines are drawn, but he does reach out rather closely to Simon - since he's the closest thing there from that world/those worlds... and starts making a gesture like he's plucking a string instrument and weaving some things together. There's nothing physically drawn. That's for show and tell. This is working through the actual fabric of reality. Which, by its very nature, can't be seen within reality. Especially not in the Inn.
Simon might hear some notes, a plucking of a harp maybe or a violin trying to create a harmony, with far in the background a deep, but quiet, cacophony of what sounds like an orchestra if every person was playing their own piece of music and they were six bottles past what was unacceptable drunkenness. The sort of drunkenness that makes you wonder how they can even play.
The music of the multiverse.
Which is what Alec hears nearly all the time. It's a wonder he's still functional. It's not a wonder why he's insane.
When he pulls his hands away, the noise fades and he answers the question. "No. I was just doing some fine tuning. Tuck away a few loose ends," he said. "And sorry about the hands in the face. It's easier to do it when there's something from the world there so you don't have to go searching."
Re: Simon Gruber
If Simon does decided to start it with Phoenix then good on him. As long as he's willing for the payback.
Merging timelines is always difficult, especially when you're trying to exclude certain people. It helps if the worlds are close together in history. But since they were merging worlds where they were trying to bring in the people who didn't exist in their world, it would be harder.
They know their world, so that also helps. And they knew who they really didn't want to come over.
Still, having an outsider double check your work never helps. They can see something you might not being so close to the piece.
No lines are drawn, but he does reach out rather closely to Simon - since he's the closest thing there from that world/those worlds... and starts making a gesture like he's plucking a string instrument and weaving some things together. There's nothing physically drawn. That's for show and tell. This is working through the actual fabric of reality. Which, by its very nature, can't be seen within reality. Especially not in the Inn.
Simon might hear some notes, a plucking of a harp maybe or a violin trying to create a harmony, with far in the background a deep, but quiet, cacophony of what sounds like an orchestra if every person was playing their own piece of music and they were six bottles past what was unacceptable drunkenness. The sort of drunkenness that makes you wonder how they can even play.
The music of the multiverse.
Which is what Alec hears nearly all the time. It's a wonder he's still functional. It's not a wonder why he's insane.
When he pulls his hands away, the noise fades and he answers the question. "No. I was just doing some fine tuning. Tuck away a few loose ends," he said. "And sorry about the hands in the face. It's easier to do it when there's something from the world there so you don't have to go searching."