Stories set in the Oversaturated World, some silly, some less so.
For years, three of the most put-upon administrators in Hassenfeld County met at a bar in Crystal City every Saturday to vent about their respective principals. Glimmer Goodwitch fit into the group as though she’d always been a part of it.
Luna swirled her drink as she finished telling the others of her encounter with Headmaster Pin. No one was quite sure what she did to the dark rum, herself included, but by the time she considered it fit for consumption, it emitted shadows the same way a candle shed light. “I am beginning to suspect that no one with a clean bill of mental health can run a school in this county.”
Jace Beleren, vice principal of Ravnica High, waved a hand uncertainly as he put down his Shirish coffee. “To be fair, I can kind of see his point. Speaking from experience, if someone that young has that level of legal manipulation, you want to keep him where you can see him.”
Cadence held up a finger as she waited for her Single Entendre to finish its languorous journey down her throat. She’d invented the drink in college with the sole express purpose of making something that looked like a glass of her hair. Once she finished swallowing, she said, “Assuming his parents didn’t help him.”
“They didn’t,” said Glimmer, toying with her martini’s olive in her telekinesis. “Headmaster Pin assured me.”
Luna rolled her eyes. “Let me guess, he didn’t say how he knew that.”
Glimmer shook her head. The others groaned. “I take it that’s a common theme?”
“Abacus will never admit it, but she thinks of herself as a queen,” said Cadence. “Even before the incident, she expected the rest of us to obey without question, like good little subjects.”
Jace snorted. “’Subject’ is too human a term for Niv-Mizzet. He treats us more like programs or chemical reactants.”
“Celestia’s better in some ways and much worse in others,” said Luna. “The problem is that she’s using the entire student body to satisfy her maternal instincts. She has trouble seeing people as anything other than teenagers in need of her guidance.” She shook her head. “Hence CHS’s rather lax admittance policy.”
Jace raised an eyebrow. “You mean ‘Anyone who looks like a teenager and walks through the door’?”
“As I said, lax.”
Glimmer couldn’t help but grin. “I’m beginning to understand the reasoning for your hypothesis.”
Jace comes from a country where the noun phrase naming convention never caught on. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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Or you could name him Thought Sculptor.
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Nah, just name him Mind Sculptor to give those who had to face that card in Standard PTSD-flashbacks
7818973 Ugh please no. When that got banned for the last 6 months of standard play I threw a little party that the perfect storm of red could actually WIN consistently now that the 1000 walrus left the room. Admittedly I missed stoneforge but then again batterskull stoneforge was ugh as well. Living weapon was one of those mechanics I loved and hated for what it did to MTG.
Don't you mean, "that's his story and he's sticking to it"?
He also acts as a reminder to one day finish that Magic: The Gathering crossover. This continues to be a great story.
I think it is a Dilbert Principle effect. When the headmaster's post falls vacant, anyone competent is desperately needed in their current post so the big chair goes to the amiable eccentric with the charisma and personality to lead but not necessarily the intellect or mental stability.
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I usually go with "Deep Thought" when ponifying Jace. I may yet change my mind; the ambiguously canonical nature of this collection provides a lovely amount of wiggle room.
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Hmm. There's an idea. An assumed identity would work well given his analogue's backstory. Though if that's the case, I have to figure out what happened to this world's Alhammarret...
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Idea: Short involving Phil, Prince of Insufficient Light
Does Niv Mizzet come from the same country, or did his parents just want to be contrary when they named him, but wanted it to at least sound normal?
Or was he found abandoned at an orphanage and the first sounds that vaguely resembled words that tumbled out of his mouth were used as a name?
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A different, nearby country where the architecture isn't so heavily focused on circles.
Mind you, this was before Niv moved to Amareica as an adolescent and went on to become Mr. Discord's college roommate. And yes, that is canon as of now. (Don't ask about the Smooze. You really don't want to know.)
Niv-Mizzet Jace Beleren and Ravnica are all references to Magic the gathering for anyone who cares. Jace and Niv are planeswalkers that in Magic that hop from one plane of existence to another. This might also explain why Ravnica high is so diverse. It could also be that Ravnica is a plane called The City of Guilds where guilds rule, and each guild is made up of very diverse sets of creatures thus making Ravnica a diverse plane of existence given the number of species that inhabit it.
7948386 Niv-Mizzet isn't a planeswalker, dude.
Now I wanna see Chandra, Liliana, Gideon, and the rest in that school. Basically, I want to see that school full of multidimensional beings.