"You assume it'll work," Thanatos replies with a little laugh, "But... hm..."
He thinks on it for a moment, before he begins to sing, quietly enough that it won't drift too far from their spot but still strong and steady. Gustavain's heard him sing before, many times back in Ishgard, but this time it's different. The likely more immediately noticeable difference is just in his voice- not in the quality of it or tone, that's always been lovely, but as a performer himself Gustavain will be able to tell that there's a richness to it, a fullness and warmth that can only be gained through practice, consistent and focused, over a lifetime. That wouldn't be surprising, except that Phillip doesn't sound like that. Which means before Ishgard, he hadn't sung in a long, long time.
The second takes a little longer to show; the melody starts off smooth and elegant, the sort of song that isn't really meant to do more than fill space, likely the exact sort of thing he would have sung in Gustavain's childhood home. But then partway through, the mood shifts. It's subtle at first, and the elezen may feel the sense of melancholy before he hears it. Thanatos is very careful to not change anything else about his performance except that, and after several moments of this it's very clear: he's manipulating dynamis.
It's a bit clumsy, nowhere near the precision that is wrecking things so thoroughly back home, but that's hardly surprising given that Hermes seems to be the only one who knows it exists and Thanatos is almost certainly not aware that it's an actual force to be wielded. The mood shifts again, before the melancholy becomes too much, the song rounding over into something more soothing, a peaceful and quiet sort of hopefulness to it, to ease any distress that might have been caused as he finishes it up.
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Date: 2022-01-09 03:03 pm (UTC)He thinks on it for a moment, before he begins to sing, quietly enough that it won't drift too far from their spot but still strong and steady. Gustavain's heard him sing before, many times back in Ishgard, but this time it's different. The likely more immediately noticeable difference is just in his voice- not in the quality of it or tone, that's always been lovely, but as a performer himself Gustavain will be able to tell that there's a richness to it, a fullness and warmth that can only be gained through practice, consistent and focused, over a lifetime. That wouldn't be surprising, except that Phillip doesn't sound like that. Which means before Ishgard, he hadn't sung in a long, long time.
The second takes a little longer to show; the melody starts off smooth and elegant, the sort of song that isn't really meant to do more than fill space, likely the exact sort of thing he would have sung in Gustavain's childhood home. But then partway through, the mood shifts. It's subtle at first, and the elezen may feel the sense of melancholy before he hears it. Thanatos is very careful to not change anything else about his performance except that, and after several moments of this it's very clear: he's manipulating dynamis.
It's a bit clumsy, nowhere near the precision that is wrecking things so thoroughly back home, but that's hardly surprising given that Hermes seems to be the only one who knows it exists and Thanatos is almost certainly not aware that it's an actual force to be wielded. The mood shifts again, before the melancholy becomes too much, the song rounding over into something more soothing, a peaceful and quiet sort of hopefulness to it, to ease any distress that might have been caused as he finishes it up.