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Tweak says, "Will he stay? Will he go?"

Rolf Scamander (outofthewild) wrote in finnigans_rpg,
@ 2014-09-24 17:52:00

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character: charlie weasley, character: rolf scamander

RP: And there be dragons
Who: Rolf and Charlie

What: Talking about Dragons

Where: Finnigan’s

When: Wednesday evening around 7pm

Rating: NSFW - language

Rolf was rather tired, he would admit it. It had been a very long day and he was already missing Rose and their vacation. Just getting home this morning had been hard. They’d each kept wanting just a little more time together, away from everything. Part of him wondered how things were going to go, now that they were back, but he wasn’t going to worry too much – she was his Rosie and he rather thought they’d become something more, now.

He’d worked all afternoon in the shop. The person he’d found to cover had done a fair job, but that didn’t mean he didn’t feel the urge to clean and set everything where he wanted it to be. By the time he headed for the pub, he was tired and thought a pint sounded pretty good, though he came armed with a thick and magically bound notebook to take notes in.

He walked in and looked around; he’d know one of the Weasleys on sight, he thought, though he didn’t think he’d ever personally met Charlie. It didn’t matter, though, he looked forward to talking to anyone who had an interest in creatures of any ilk.

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outofthewild
2014-09-27 01:47 am UTC (link)

"Whatever works for you," Rolf said with a nod and a smile. Everyone had different needs and wants. Charlie at least seemed happy with his club. "I'll have to come see this club of yours sometime." Maybe he'd take Rose dancing. She'd like that, he thought. A giddy little feeling danced inside him.

"True. They are often the fiercer in many creatures," he said. he'd come across it more than once himself. He flipped to the appropriate spot, humming to himself as he mentally made a few notes on things. "Interesting," he said, tapping a page. "That is different than I grew up learning."

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hopalongcharlie
2014-09-27 07:25 pm UTC (link)

"Oh, you totally should. We try to have a bit of something for everyone music-wise. Except Celestina Warbeck because I had more than enough growing up thanks. I'm just busy slightly shitting myself about the first LGBTQ night tomorrow," he said with a grin.

He leaned over to see what Rolf was pointed at and nodded. "Oh, shit, yeah, that one took a while to work out. I basically learnt the opposite when I arrived. There's something like that with all of them I think." He dug through his stack of notebooks and riffled through the one for the Hungarian Horntail and found the corresponding summary list. "Look at this," he said, pointing to one of the observations. "Did you know this? Because I swear I learnt something different originally."

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outofthewild
2014-09-28 03:53 am UTC (link)

Rolf chuckled softly. "Yeah, Warbeck can be a smiiiidge overplayed," he admitted, though he didn't mind it too too much. "Ahh, cool," he said. "I think I heard about that the other day. I hope it goes well."

Rolf read and blinked and took a moment to read it again. "Okay, so that is totally not what I learned," he said, shaking his head. "We apparently need to revamp a lot of things when it comes to teaching." He flipped a page. "And this! Why are we saying it was the other way around?"

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hopalongcharlie
2014-09-28 02:10 pm UTC (link)

"Thanks," he said, with a grateful nod.

"Oh, Merlin that one," Charlie said enthusiastically. "That was one of mine, well I was running the team. It took us what, six years to work it out because of the seasonal patterns?" he said, shuffling through his scrolls again. "Here, read this," he said, finding the relevant scroll and handing it to Rolf. "There's a load of notes on it too but that's everything summed up properly. You would not believe the uproar that one caused when I announced it. I thought my boss was going to hex me!"

He sat back for a few seconds to sip at his pint, not even trying to suppress his grin at being able to talk about dragons to someone who knew their stuff.

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outofthewild
2014-09-28 07:50 pm UTC (link)

Rolf nodded. "Yeah, those long-term things can be hard to pin down, especially when every year the weather can be different and affect such things," he said. "I've not been a part of very long-term studies as of yet, really, except for the one when I was small and we stayed in one place for... two years or so?" he mused aloud. "I can imagine it was controversial to start, though, contradicting a lot of what we thought we knew like that."

Rolf was just as enthusiastic as Charlie about talking shop. He had similar things that he often could talk about for who knew how long.

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hopalongcharlie
2014-09-28 10:28 pm UTC (link)

"Yeah, we had a lot of shorter projects going on alongside the longer ones. Mostly they worked well alongside each other. Just an extra thing to add to regular observations."

He grabbed another journal from the table and flicked through it idly. "It's like anything in this world, the older order are more set in their ways. Mind you I'm sure someone will think that of me or you soon enough."

"In cheerier thoughts we had a couple of Chinese Fireballs for a while, we didn't find out a huge amount new about them, but if you compare behaviour side-by-side you can really see how environment can impact a breed. See here," he said, showing Rolf a page of statistics and behaviour summaries.

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outofthewild
2014-09-29 03:25 am UTC (link)

"Yes. Several of the things I've worked were alongside longer projects or part of them. But so far I've mainly hopped around from one to one." In part to gain experience, in part to travel, and there was plenty of time to figure out where to settle. At this moment, wherever Rose was was where he wanted to settle, so that was a note to put in his mind.

"Now thr Fireballs are a breed I've always been intrigued by," he admitted. One he'd not pursued too much; his mother had done a good study on them years ago and it gave him a certain reluctance about things as well. He read the paper avidly. "It really is fascinating. Similar to thr study I was doing on gryphons versus griffins."

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hopalongcharlie
2014-09-29 11:50 am UTC (link)

"Yeah? I'm rather fond of them myself, but I didn't get much opportunity to visit their reserve, just a week or so mostly tacked onto transporting the dragons." He shrugged and drank a little more. "Oh, you must tell me about that sometime. Contrary to what my family thinks I don't just love dragons," he said.

"Although if you want the low-down on the two British breeds I have contacts at both of the reserves if you don't. I'd be happy to introduce you," he offered. "I've not had much to do with the actual dragons."

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outofthewild
2014-09-29 12:44 pm UTC (link)

"My mother went to one of the reserves for almost a year, quite a while back. Wrote several papers," he said. Charlie might even have read them, though they were under her maiden name.

Rolf grinned. "Oh, I will. Even if it ended badly for me, it was an interesting job. I've had a few really interesting ones over the years." He too liked to get to prattle on about things at times, and would definitely enjoy getting to talk about it some time.

"That would be nice," he said with a nod. "With it being closer, I could take a day or two. An introduction would ease the way." His grandfather did things like that sometimes, but he liked to work independently from his family when he could.

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hopalongcharlie
2014-09-29 02:10 pm UTC (link)

"Oh, great. I've quite possibly read her stuff. Dragon reserves are not the most thrilling of places outside of work, as I'm sure you know. I did quite a lot of reading." Sure going off the reserve worked just fine but sometimes you just lacked the energy after a whole day of dragon wrangling.

"No problem, just let me know when you're ready to go see them, I'll drop them an owl. They'll have all sorts of research of their own. Plus the MacFusty's are great and their research goes back hundreds of years," he said, the light of excitement of research in his eyes.

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outofthewild
2014-09-29 11:01 pm UTC (link)

"Probably," Rolf agreed. "And yes, they are. Most reserves can be that way - the down time really low key and you need to fill it somehow." Rolf remembered his parents finding things to do when he was young -- things that usually didn't have a single thing to do with their several children. Well, now, his mother had time for the girls a lot of times, but on the whole Rolf hadn't seen much of them either way.

"I've heard good things about the MacFusty's, once you can get in to see them," he said. They weren't the most trusting of outsiders, or so he'd heard. "But it'd definitely be a boon. I know they've not published much,a t least recently."

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hopalongcharlie
2014-09-29 11:39 pm UTC (link)

Charlie's face scrunched up in a frown. "Yeah, the MacFusty's can be a bit...protective really isn't the word. It might be an idea to introduce you sooner rather than later. It takes them a while to trust anyone. They take their duty very seriously. They think of it more as protecting the dragons than keeping them like we did," he explained. It had taken a lot of time and negotiation to be able to speak to those most involved the care of the dragons, never mind actually getting to see them. Charlie's eventual tour had been brief, and they all seemed to like him.

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outofthewild
2014-09-30 12:12 pm UTC (link)

"Clannish?" Rolf suggested, not criticizing but definitely repeating something he'd been told in the past. He had time while here; he could earn their trust. He didn't know when or even if he'd get to go on major expeditions again. "Given how much poaching has gone on, I can't quite blame them, honestly." He'd read the stats a while back, just after the war, and they'd astounded him.

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	hopalongcharlie 2014-09-30 01:07 pm UTC (link)
	Charlie laughed. It was a pretty accurate description really. "Yeah, that's about it." The poaching though, it was terrible. "Yeah, we had that problem with the Longhorns too, and I've seen what people do. I really don't blame them." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

outofthewild
2014-09-30 09:44 pm UTC (link)

"I don't really either. There's a time and a place for harvesting, and it's not like that," he said. He was on a list to call if a dragon died of natural causes and they needed a hand with all that sort of thing. He'd done it twice in the past, and though it wasn't something he enjoyed at all, it was a duty to be done. "At least it seems somewhat under control at this point, more than it was, anyway."

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hopalongcharlie
2014-09-30 10:40 pm UTC (link)

"Yeah, I've done harvesting after territorial disputes, accidental deaths, or just plain old age. They're never fun even if they are important," he said, remembering the apportioning of a variety of dragons that he'd taken part in. It was never a very pleasant job, but it was important.

Charlie hummed in agreement as he finished off his pint. "Yeah, it's far better than it was. A couple of the older keepers had stories, well, cautionary tales really, they were never much fun to hear."

"So, then. You got any more questions for me, or shall I just give you this huge stack of work to look at? Not that I'm rushing off or anything," he hastened to add, "but we wandered off topic a bit."

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outofthewild
2014-10-01 03:23 am UTC (link)

"I've been in a few places where poaching was a big problem. It really isn't pleasant at all." Not to mention dangerous. More than usual. But then as his incident proved, you could get hurt anytime. He took a long draw on his pint as well. "Right off the top of my head? No. But I probBlt will as I go through everything. And I don't mind wandering off topic," he said with a grin. "You're welcome to another pint on me, if you want."

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hopalongcharlie
2014-10-01 12:05 pm UTC (link)

Charlie too had seen the effects poachers could have on an animal, and it was never pleasant. They tended to have zero respect for the creatures they killed and unlike the keepers or other trained people they just got what they wanted the quickest way possible, which was never clean.

"Sure, not a problem. So long as it's not before noon I'm good with whenever. But I have become useless in a morning unless it's pre-arranged and I stay awake, or an emergency!" He'd been a morning person until his new venture meant he worked until four. That was a different style of morning person entirely.

"Well, I'm not going to say no to another pint," he added with a grin of his own. "Thank you very much."

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outofthewild
2014-10-01 12:28 pm UTC (link)

"No worries. I might wake early enough for the shop, but most of my personal business is done after it closes in the evening, unless I arrange for it to be otherwise beforehand, as well." There were always emergencies, of course. But he didn't see any kind of emergency coming up that would impact this book thing. "So it shouldn't conflict, and don't feel in a hurry to reply if you're busy." While he wanted to do this book, he had to do it around everything else he had going on.

Rolf grinned. He hadn't thought Charlie would turn one down. "Not a problem. You're doing me a big favor by helping me out, so I'm happy to give you something in return." Though he'd of course reference all materials and thank all contributers when the time came.

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