Seventh Performance - Belated Regain

[magique_bonbon]

[Coquelicot is currently standing on the sidewalk in front of her house, staring at her mailbox in a state of shock.]

[Well, okay, more accurately, she's staring at the eight-and-a-half foot tall pink mecha standing NEXT TO it. The Koubu-F2 is completely motionless, though its hand is very definitely inside the mailbox (probably because it was the

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[buildstherobots]

[Is... is that a robot? *_*]

Oh, it's gorgeous!

[And Dist has practically skipped up to the mech, starting to inspect it without giving Coquelicot a second glance.]

1/2

[magique_bonbon]

Eheheh. Thanks! I-

2/2

[magique_bonbon]

- wait, who ARE you!?

[buildstherobots]

[He looks up; oh, yeah, there's a girl here too.]

Oh, I'm Dist the Rose, the beautiful fontech prodigy. And this is a lovely specimen of technology that you have here! Did you design her, or are you simply her pilot?

[Smile smile!]

[magique_bonbon]

[Oh god that smile is kinda scary]

... n-no, I'm just... I'm Coquelicot. I just pilot the Koubu-F2!

[buildstherobots]

Oh. Such a shame.

[This is the face of a disappointed Dist. But something occurs to him!]

But perhaps you can tell me about her anyway! She is much smaller than my Kaiser; does she operate on the physics of this world, or does she have something similar to the Kaiser's fon drive?

[magique_bonbon]

I THINK it follows physics, kind of- what's a fon drive?

[buildstherobots]

...Ah, I sometimes forget that no one knows.

[Disappointment again! But it does give him an excuse to talk.]

A fon drive is a mechanism for powering fon machinery. It's essentially a device for casting artes -- spells -- without a fonist, entirely artificially. I use them to power my beautiful creations.

[magique_bonbon]

Um...

[Totally taking a stab in the dark] ... your robots are powered by magic?

[buildstherobots]

I suppose that's one way of saying it.

[magique_bonbon]

Wow... you must be REALLY spiritually strong if you can pilot robots on magic alone.

[buildstherobots]

Well, you are right, I am fabulous. But it's more like... the machine itself uses magic. It's an artificially-produced arte.