Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-25119920-20150417182333/@comment-26130256-20150418163319

With superhuman effort, Azulius managed not to smile, but he was pretty sure that Iris saw his struggle. It just made him sad inside that people would feel such shame about a thing they had no control over. He couldn't say that Iris sss's were "cute", but they certainly weren't as repulsive as she acted. Though Azulius really wasn't one to judge, based on how he hid his crime family ties, but ''shut up, brain. We're thinking about her problems here, not mine''.

"Well, doll," Azzie began, "I could talk for a while about different sleight of hand, how to perform and present a trick, and good ol' misdirection.  But to be honest, I think the really important bit is people.  Namely, people assume far too much."

"People these days -- and when I say people, I mean Humans, Faunus, and anyone else we don't know about yet -- have this nasty habit of assuming what they see is exactly what's going on.  And that if they don't know how a thing could be done, they assume it can't be done.  For example, when someone picks a card and I shuffle it back in, they assume it must be completely lost.  The idea that I held onto it somehow never even enters their minds.  Or when they pick a card, they have no clue that I may have forced them to pick that particular card.  Just not possible," he said with a wink.

"So, in a way, that's what I think a magician's job is.  You know how a comedian supposedly keeps us from taking ourselves too seriously?  I say a magician's job is to keep us humble.  Remind us that we're not all as clever as we think we are." Pausing for a moment, Azulius looked at Iris with a guilty smile. "Do I make any sense?  Forgive me if I'm rambling."