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[personal profile] magnetizings 2022-12-20 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
I think she'd be happy to learn from you.

[ Erik states with a smile. ]

I'd been thinking the same thing. They are all they've ever known, and it's a very strong bond. [ And he knows Wanda can relate, given what she's spoken about her own sibling. ] But you're right, it would benefit them in the long run if they can learn to develop their individual identities as well.

[ Nic was slower to trust, and to warm up to people; but the family they lived with had said he'd been making subtle progress over the weeks that passed. ]

Nic has a harder time with the language barrier than Kira; I can help him with that. And I can take him with me when I do perimeter checks. I know he's curious about the rest of the island. For all that Kira has been his protector, I think there is something in him that wants to do the same; for her and for the other children.

[ And if they were walking and Erik was doing the talking, he knew Nic would feel less pressured. ]
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[personal profile] magnetizings 2022-12-21 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
[ It brings an answering amused smile in return as he shakes his head. ]

No, I don't think I'd be very good at that.

[ Traversing people's minds, he means. It takes a certain strength, and while he knows he has strength of his own; it's a different kind. ]

I hope I can be a suitable one. If you asked anyone beyond this island, they would find the idea of me as any kind of role model... very unlikely.

[ To put lightly. But he's glad to be talking about the children now, it helps the remaining vigilance from the fight earlier to slowly fade from his awareness; and he hopes it's doing the same for her. ]
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[personal profile] magnetizings 2022-12-21 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
[ He raises his brow with a surprised smile, one of approval. He knew she had an interest in learning how to make latkes, but learning French was a much lengthier undertaking, as most languages were.

The latkes were more meaningful however, and there's a softness in his eyes as he thinks back to the conversation they'd first had about him teaching her. ]


The latkes will take considerably less time to learn than French. But we can start off with the basics.

[ He finishes the remainder of his beer and sets it aside. ]

The accent is the best part. [ He says, a bit of dry teasing because he knows people either enjoy that part of speaking and hearing French, or they find it challenging. ]
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[personal profile] magnetizings 2022-12-21 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
I had noticed your accent is unique.

[ He commented with a grin, thinking it was not unlike a version of his own - not sounding alike, but similar in that it seemed like a mixture of different accents combined together, hard to define specifically but decidedly not American. ]

Only if you mimic it as I give the instructions.

[ He answered with a chuckle, imagining himself giving her instructions with an exaggerated French accent while speaking English. ]

If you tried that next the time we read to the children, I guarantee you'd get Nic to laugh.
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[personal profile] magnetizings 2022-12-21 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ He nods in understanding. Slovakia he knows, Sokovia he didn't recognize; but it made sense, that sometimes happened with smaller countries. ]

It's nice, your accent. Why did you change it? Or did it just fade over time?

[ His had, more or less; due to living in so many different places and speaking so many different languages. It had become an amalgam of sorts. ]

That is actually a very good idea. [ He chuckles at her suggestion, thinking Nic would likely be very entertained by that. And anything that got the boy to laugh just a bit felt like great progress. ]
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[personal profile] magnetizings 2022-12-21 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
Then it was a smart decision.

[ Americans were touchy enough about those they deemed 'foreign'. If she was on the run, it made sense to use what tools were available. Though it always touched a nerve in him, when he heard of someone having to conceal their origins. For obvious reasons.

Her question opens up a longer explanation that he doesn't quite feel comfortable delving into just yet, so he tries to give the shorter version. ]


I did a lot of traveling when I was younger. [ Traveling and killing Nazis. ] It's where I learned languages, in order to effectively blend in. Enough time spent in different countries speaking their accents, and I found my own had mostly faded. The time I spent in London further influenced it. Now I find it is useful to have an accent that isn't so easily detected.
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[personal profile] magnetizings 2022-12-22 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
No, I could not have guessed.

[ That the languages he learned in the pursuit of violent vengeance would one day be useful as something completely the opposite - something to help two frightened children feel slightly more at ease in a new environment is absolutely not something Erik could have ever imagined. He is glad, though, incredibly; to be able to help Kira and Nic in that small way. ]

Well, that is honestly more believable, given my life. [ There's an amused grin that flashes for a moment, before her asks the question - ] Is that what you'd call yourself? Were there other witches - in the group you were with?
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[personal profile] magnetizings 2022-12-22 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
Captain... America? [ He raises a brow at that one, if only because it sounds about the same as there being a Captain France, or ...Lieutenant Norway. But then again, if anyone would take on a name like that, it'd be an American. ]

I suppose all monikers are a little strange if you think about them too long. My group had their own as well. [ And he'd held too tightly to his own moniker for so long, it had only been recently that he was able to just be Erik again. He did find it interesting that she had been only Wanda initially, rather than her own moniker of The Scarlet Witch - which she seemed to have gained later. There were missing pieces still of her story; but just like his own, they were revealing them on their own time. ]

I'll assume it didn't end well for her. [ Not a good first impression indeed, and also not a wise choice to try to take someone's powers; especially someone like Wanda, he thinks. ]