He will absolutely teach Luca everything he knows- it's so nice to have someone genuinely excited to learn from him.
"Sure, I can show you. I probably need to take it apart for a clean later anyway- who knows what gross sea-gunk is floating around in here. Uh...no offence."
"Well, that's the beauty of it. You can find ways to make things water-tight," he looks around them. "Whiiiich given where we live now might not be a bad idea. Just to be safe."
And then Luca can enjoy some things in the water too. Varian can absolutely make him a little underwater Vespa, you just wait little fishguy.
"You can?" He supposes that makes sense. "Like those diver suits?"
After all, if humans could make water-tight suits to go in the water without drowning, why couldn't they make them for their electronics, too?
"That would be great! I could even test stuff at different depths to see how it holds up! I mean, not so deep that light can reach it, because I don't go down that far, but there's no reason anyone should have to go down that deep anyway!"
Sure, he can survive that deep, but he refuses to go there.
"Yeah!" he brightens. "A little like that! It'll take some trial and error, and it really matters what sort of materials I have to work with first, of course."
He grins wider- this is actually really useful. Better than just attaching things to ropes and dumping it in, hoping for the best. Or asking Fern to dump himself in there and get utterly waterlogged.
"Really? I mean, we wouldn't want to go that deep anyway, not while testing water-tight ability anyway, but that would be great if you could. You'd be a fantastic lab assistant."
"Great! I can't wait to be your lab assistant! This'll be so much fun!"
Luca's so glad he ran into Varian! Well...of course he is, he's pretty sure Varian would have drowned if he kept treading water like that, but not even counting the obvious life saving reason. Luca had been worried about being in a strange place without anyone he knew, and to be honest he's still hoping people he knows will show up at some point, but with Varian here and the chance to learn things and do science, Luca's certain he'll be having enough fun to distract himself from all the other stuff he has to worry about in this place.
"You better believe it will be. If my lab, by some miracle, managed to make it here, you're in for a treat!"
And honestly, Varian is glad for this meeting - even beyond the life-saving stuff- because he definitely would have drowned if left to his own devices- having someone genuinely willing to listen and learn what he has to teach is a genuine delight. Helping to distract someone new away from the fact they were trapped in a whole new world was a bonus to all of that.
"Oh, that would be so amazing! Even if it's not here, though, I'm sure we could make a new lab!"
Sure, it'll probably take some time, but they should have plenty of that, shouldn't they? After all, they're in a whole new world without any plans or obligations.
"Oh, don't you worry, that's one of the first things I'll be doing."
Because who needs to worry about finding a place to sleep and eat when there's science to be had? He grins, now clothed and with his leg, feeling a lot better, starting towards the boardwalk.
"But for now, let's see if we can find home first- aaaaand the people who live there. The rest can come later."
"Oh, it's pretty big. The tower in it kinda...juts out of the side really weirdly. It definitely didn't originally have one, it just...appeared one day. "
You know. Like they do.
"Well, there's Fern, he's my age and uh...made of grass so...you'd pick him out of the ground quickly. Then there's Luz who's short and pretty scrappy, she's a witch or...training to be one, anyway, teenager too," this is already shaping up to be a great household, right? "Reaper lives in the coffee table sometimes. He's an adult and made of smoke? Has a weird mask on."
Well, at least it sounds like the house and the residents were all pretty noticeable. Even if Luca wonders how a tower just 'appears'. It should make this easy.
"Well, at least with a guy made of grass and a guy made of smoke, I don't have to worry if anyone sees me change back when I'm at the house. That's...something that kind of happens whenever I get wet."
Which can be a pain when people want to kill sea monsters. In a house where several of the residents weren't human? If anyone had an issue with what he was, they likely wouldn't have stayed there in the first place.
Don't question it, Luca. There's no rhyme or reason. One day the tower wasn't there and the next it was. Just a magical tower. It's fine.
"Oh, you don't have to worry about that at all. Me and Luz are the only humans in the house and both of us are really, really used to nonhumans at this point," and Varian is absolutely not going to tolerate any nonhuman being treated as less, no sir. "Well, if anyone gives you any trouble about that, let me know, okay? I'll deal with them."
He's going to leave what 'deal with them' means open to interpretation. It won't be nice though.
There's nothing more heartwarming than showing up to a new place and having people already willing to stand up for him if he got in trouble. Which...actually happens to Luca a lot, now that he thinks of it, but it's still always nice.
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One of the many, many things Luca will insist on Varian teaching him. It's a long list that will ultimately include literally everything Varian knows.
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He will absolutely teach Luca everything he knows- it's so nice to have someone genuinely excited to learn from him.
"Sure, I can show you. I probably need to take it apart for a clean later anyway- who knows what gross sea-gunk is floating around in here. Uh...no offence."
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Phones, vespas, mechanical limbs...all things that just couldn't exist in the sea, because they'd just break.
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And then Luca can enjoy some things in the water too. Varian can absolutely make him a little underwater Vespa, you just wait little fishguy.
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After all, if humans could make water-tight suits to go in the water without drowning, why couldn't they make them for their electronics, too?
"That would be great! I could even test stuff at different depths to see how it holds up! I mean, not so deep that light can reach it, because I don't go down that far, but there's no reason anyone should have to go down that deep anyway!"
Sure, he can survive that deep, but he refuses to go there.
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He grins wider- this is actually really useful. Better than just attaching things to ropes and dumping it in, hoping for the best. Or asking Fern to dump himself in there and get utterly waterlogged.
"Really? I mean, we wouldn't want to go that deep anyway, not while testing water-tight ability anyway, but that would be great if you could. You'd be a fantastic lab assistant."
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Luca's so glad he ran into Varian! Well...of course he is, he's pretty sure Varian would have drowned if he kept treading water like that, but not even counting the obvious life saving reason. Luca had been worried about being in a strange place without anyone he knew, and to be honest he's still hoping people he knows will show up at some point, but with Varian here and the chance to learn things and do science, Luca's certain he'll be having enough fun to distract himself from all the other stuff he has to worry about in this place.
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And honestly, Varian is glad for this meeting - even beyond the life-saving stuff- because he definitely would have drowned if left to his own devices- having someone genuinely willing to listen and learn what he has to teach is a genuine delight. Helping to distract someone new away from the fact they were trapped in a whole new world was a bonus to all of that.
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Sure, it'll probably take some time, but they should have plenty of that, shouldn't they? After all, they're in a whole new world without any plans or obligations.
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Because who needs to worry about finding a place to sleep and eat when there's science to be had? He grins, now clothed and with his leg, feeling a lot better, starting towards the boardwalk.
"But for now, let's see if we can find home first- aaaaand the people who live there. The rest can come later."
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He thinks about it a moment.
"So what does your home look like? And what do the other people who live there look like?"
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You know. Like they do.
"Well, there's Fern, he's my age and uh...made of grass so...you'd pick him out of the ground quickly. Then there's Luz who's short and pretty scrappy, she's a witch or...training to be one, anyway, teenager too," this is already shaping up to be a great household, right? "Reaper lives in the coffee table sometimes. He's an adult and made of smoke? Has a weird mask on."
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"Well, at least with a guy made of grass and a guy made of smoke, I don't have to worry if anyone sees me change back when I'm at the house. That's...something that kind of happens whenever I get wet."
Which can be a pain when people want to kill sea monsters. In a house where several of the residents weren't human? If anyone had an issue with what he was, they likely wouldn't have stayed there in the first place.
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"Oh, you don't have to worry about that at all. Me and Luz are the only humans in the house and both of us are really, really used to nonhumans at this point," and Varian is absolutely not going to tolerate any nonhuman being treated as less, no sir. "Well, if anyone gives you any trouble about that, let me know, okay? I'll deal with them."
He's going to leave what 'deal with them' means open to interpretation. It won't be nice though.
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There's nothing more heartwarming than showing up to a new place and having people already willing to stand up for him if he got in trouble. Which...actually happens to Luca a lot, now that he thinks of it, but it's still always nice.