Introducing: Mercutio

[bymyheelies]

Mercutio is lying on a very plush couch. It is not where he was, that is clear enough. This is nothing like a tavern, certainly nothing at all like Verona. Even the lights are strange-looking, not flickering or dancing like flame. Is it some kind of faerie-land? Without doubt, it is not any sort of heaven or hell he has read of, though he knows well he should be dead. The lingering blood on his extremely thin, gauzy shirt is proof enough of that. Strangely, he is no longer bleeding, but that only makes it easier to rise from his bed and proceed to look about the room.

Eventually, he makes his way through the house, poking in various rooms until he finds his way to the main foyer. He opens the door and stands in the entrance, examining the gardens and forest beyond; before deciding that it is unreasonably cold outside. There's more proof, then, that this is not Verona, it had been the middle of summer when he had been fighting Tybalt. He shrugs, and proceeds to rifle through the papers at the table, not exactly reading or retaining anything on them. Clearly there are inhabitants, but he hasn't seen any of them yet. A queer faerie-land, indeed.

Comments

[summerdude]

"Yeah, Alex is genderfluid."

[bymyheelies]

Magnus should really be used to the entirely blank looks he gets from many people here when he explains that by now. That is exactly what Mercutio is giving him, in fact, along with a ‘get on with it’ sort of hand motion. “Pray, explain? I do not understand.”

[summerdude]

Magnus doesn't notice the blank look because he doesn't actually get them all that often. "What part?"

[bymyheelies]

"Gender..fluid?" He can sort of guess at it through context, but he would appreciate a more concrete explanation.

[summerdude]

"Yeah, sometimes he's a boy and sometimes she's a girl." Hadn't Magnus already explained this? "I guess some people are occasionally nonbinary, too -- that means neither -- but Alex is just male and female."

[bymyheelies]

"And --she can be either, and no one says anything?" He looks intrigued. He may grow to like this place after all.

[summerdude]

"Alex is both and no one says anything."

[bymyheelies]

"Hmm." It's not judgemental at all, only considering, and he gives Magnus a nod. "I thank thee."

[summerdude]

"What for?"

[bymyheelies]

"Oh -- for thy information. 'Tis much to think on."

[summerdude]

"Oh. Yeah, sure thing, dude!"

[bymyheelies]

He nods and gives Magnus a cheerful bow.