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smallfandomflshTitle: Hocus Pocus Focus
Fandom: Tales of Hearts
Rating: PG-13/Gen
Spoilers: none
Other tags: mild swearing
Word count: 187
"Hisui, dear, did you just call my battle magic that saved your ass 'Hocus Pocus'?" Beryl called sweetly, knuckles white with a death grip on her paintbrush-shaped Soma, Will already focused enough for a powerful, particularly nasty Arte.
"Not your magic, Beryl, your chanting," he replied, "You've admitted yourself the words don't mean anything, They're just to focus."
"That's NOT what I said!" she growled, "I said the words didn't directly cause the magic to happen. They're still important manifestations of my creative flow, which I'm also unleashing through Artes. They're like beautiful poetry, the flow of consciousness of a genius... they certainly are not random words you can substitute with any old gibberish and it would still work!"
"But they're not really magic words?"
"Is art and magic not the same thing? Do they not both transform the world? Do they not both come from the..."
"So if I randomly say the words, I won't accidentally set something on fire?"
"What? No, do NOT plagiarize me, you FIEND!" she smacked him in the face with her brush.
Fandom: Tales of Hearts
Rating: PG-13/Gen
Spoilers: none
Other tags: mild swearing
Word count: 187
"Hisui, dear, did you just call my battle magic that saved your ass 'Hocus Pocus'?" Beryl called sweetly, knuckles white with a death grip on her paintbrush-shaped Soma, Will already focused enough for a powerful, particularly nasty Arte.
"Not your magic, Beryl, your chanting," he replied, "You've admitted yourself the words don't mean anything, They're just to focus."
"That's NOT what I said!" she growled, "I said the words didn't directly cause the magic to happen. They're still important manifestations of my creative flow, which I'm also unleashing through Artes. They're like beautiful poetry, the flow of consciousness of a genius... they certainly are not random words you can substitute with any old gibberish and it would still work!"
"But they're not really magic words?"
"Is art and magic not the same thing? Do they not both transform the world? Do they not both come from the..."
"So if I randomly say the words, I won't accidentally set something on fire?"
"What? No, do NOT plagiarize me, you FIEND!" she smacked him in the face with her brush.
