text; siri how do i tell everyone i know i'm a werewolf but like, casually

[woofdad]

So, I was wondering - what's something from your world that's been really weird to find out isn't universal? For example, I'm a werewolf and I've been kind of surprised by how many worlds we apparently don't exist in. It's a weird feeling.

Related, is cats having extra eyes a thing where you're from or not, asking for both me and my boyfriend.

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[epitaffio]

[Oh boy. This is immediately So Much.]

So it's kind of like the four elements people used to believe in...
But with different elements?

[woofdad]

Ah... not quite, sorry. Unless you just mean in that there are four parts with different associations attached to them.

[Hmmm.]

For now, maybe think of them more like... forces, if that makes sense?

[epitaffio]

[...]

So... More like gravity?

[Wait.]

Or is it more like time and space?

[woofdad]

Kiiind of along the lines of gravity, you could say... actually, let's go with that comparison; it's not scientifically exact, but it works as a point of comparison, since part of the important thing here is to think of it in terms of an ever-present factor that effects everything around it, more noticeably in some cases than others.

A key difference, though, is that magic can be manipulated in ways gravity can't - at least if you look at it from a technical perspective, thinking of birds and airplanes as manipulating air rather than gravity itself, etc.

[epitaffio]

Okay... I think I'm following.
What does this have to do with the eye thing, though?

[woofdad]

Right, so - the thing about magic is that it works largely in concepts and perception; I could REALLY simplify it by saying that ritual spells, for example, work because we expect their components to do something, and while that's a pretty significant oversimplification, it's also not totally untrue.

While that element isn't quite as directly relevant to biology, since it's not being intentionally "cast", it's still kind of... a thing. To some degree, magic effects that crop up natually in animals are usually connected in some way; it's very often just a matter of finding out how.

Hence, cats' extra eyes might be directly related to their being lucky, or there could be a third factor here - that being the root mode of interaction between the magic and their bodies. ...Which would get into a level of understanding of the esoteric sciences that I didn't quite hit in community college.

[epitaffio]

[Yeah, nope. Definitely can't follow this, after all. But at least it sounds like this guy doesn't fully get it either...?]





So how did people figure out cats are lucky?