What's A Roblox? PV: Thomas B + Elias W fin

Mentions: @Thomas Baines, @Eyre Reeves

"Phantom Forces? There is no wa-" Suddenly, the boy who Elias had noticed following the two, but taken no real notice of spoke up. A tad bothered about being cut off halfway through his debate with Thomas Baines about who could possibly be a better Phantom Forces player on ROBLOX, he spun around to face the distraction. Hopefully, Thomas would do the same, if not the boy was more than welcome to continue his walk back to the Ravenclaw commons without Eli.

Taking a moment to process that whoever their stalker follower was had no clue about ROBLOX, Elias blinked a few times. He was aware that many wizarding families had no real use for muggle technology and that some shunned the muggle world completely, but he'd never actually come across one of them. This would be an experience for sure. Blinking once more, the young raven composed himself. "Roblox is the best game ever, mate. Like the absolute coolest." He finally said with a smile, not even the fact that Thomas played the game could change his mind on that fact. He would not let the fact that Thomas also played Phantom Forces put him off from ruining plebs, because, well because it gave him the opportunity to beat Thomas at yet another thing.

A tad perplexed as to why the boy was so red, Elias attempted to shift his facial expression to something that was, to say, a tad more reassuring and comforting, but it probably had very little help. He was stoic by nature and genetics. He simply wasn't born to look kind or gentle or reassuring. Oh well. "I can't believe you've never heard of it. Do you live under a rock?" He asked, once again shifting his voice, trying to emphasize the fact he was joking.

Mentioning @Thomas Baines and @Elias Weare

Eyre tried to wrap his head around the information that the two boys were spewing at him, while also simultaneously trying not to be offended by the assumptions of the stockier boy. The pureblood world was an especially guarded one. In current years they had opened up more to half-bloods, but there was still a strange stigma when it came to families that allowed their children to access muggle content. The internet was one of them.

"I... Huh. I've heard of video games before, but I've never played any." He said, his eyes wide with curiosity. "I'm a pureblood, so I've never been able to...My parents have always been weird about things like that."

It's not like he had never smuggled anything from the muggle world into his life. He loved muggle comics, especially the ones that tried to give their own perspective about what wizards were like. The most hilarious ones were the ones that tried to spin all witchcraft as being evil, as if all witches were lumpy green crones who spent their time casting hexes on innocent people. His parents were surprisingly okay with this, figuring that it was harmless, but they were still as old fashioned as the wizarding world as a whole. Getting a little taste of muggle media made him hungry for more, and he was curious if these boys would be able to enlighten him a bit.

"...I'm Eyre, by the way. Eyre Reeves." He said. "What are your names? Are you muggle-born? Is that how you're able to play the Roblox game?" The words coming out of his mouth felt clunky and he knew that he was asking too many questions at once, but he just had to know. "Do you need a computer, or-or a controller? Constroller? What are they called?

Mentions: @Eyre Reeves @Thomas Baines

Who in their right mind would use a controller to play a game on ROBLOX? That was even more ridiculous than the fact that he had never heard of the game. Keyboard and mouse all the way, gamers. Blinking at the boy a few more times, Elias decided to introduce himself as well. "I'm Elias Weare, and I'm half-blood."

The way in which Thomas had chosen to describe ROBLOX also struck Eli as a tad odd, although it was rather accurate, it seemed like he was quoting directly from the companies website. How could he possibly spend so much time on the site that he had managed to memorize their slogan? If Thomas got unlimited computer time that was totally unfair, and the young Ravenclaw would be having a conversation with his parents about his 30-minute allowance per day, even over the summer.

Deciding that he would leave the rest of Eyre's questions for Thomas to answer, Eli refocused himself onto what Thomas himself had just said. There was no way in the muggle or wizarding world that he'd lose to that boy unless he cheated in some way. He was simply built differently to him. He was better in every which way. "The only person getting a butt-kicking over the summer is you, Thomas. You can't even finish an essay without asking three people for help."

"I'm also a half-blood. My name's Thomas, and no, Tommy doesn't work fine." The Ravenclaw boy introduced himself, sure to prevent any unsavory nicknames from arising from the exchange. He was eleven years of age for crying out loud! Thomas didn't want to be called by such a juvenile moniker, but the name 'Tom' made him feel like a forty-year-old man. The only compromise was to only be referred to by his full name. "You don't use a controller to play Roblox. Well... I guess you technically can, but most people just use a mouse and keyboard. It's a PC game usually, but I think you can download it on your phone and on some consoles. I wouldn't know, PC master race and all that," he explained since Elias wasn't answering Eyre's inquiries.

Shooting a glare at Elias, he laughed at the boy's attempts to devalue his genius, or his Roblox skills. "Um, I think you got yourself confused with me. I don't know how you'd manage it, since we're so different... Maybe you're blind too, then? It'd make sense why you're so god awful at History of Magic." Thomas crossed his arms, raising a single brow as he expected his fellow Ravenclaw to retort. Before he had a chance, though, he followed up with another taunt. "My K/D is like, 3, dude. One shot, one kill, no luck, pure skill. You're probably a bacon hair, still." The bacon hair comment of course referred to the default skin for the Roblox Boy avatar.

Interacting with @Elias Weare and @Thomas Baines

Not an ounce of this stuff made sense to him, except for maybe the bit about the phone. Hell, everything that they were saying felt like culture shock to him. Even though it was a bit embarrassing to ask this of strangers, he knew that he needed to learn about what they were talking about. After all, if he wanted to keep himself from falling into the realm of dumb pureblood territory.

"What is bacon hair?…And PC master race? That sounds sort of brutal to me… Is there a blood system in Roblox?...But it's a video game.. And why are you guys playing with mice?" Eyre asked. He was starting to believe that his parents were right when they said that muggles were far more weird than wizards were. That was saying something, because he had seen his fair share of weird stuff like balls, arranged marriages and weird purity flexing from his side of the wizarding world. Eyre knew that you couldn't really compare the two, but if muggles spent their lives wearing butchered slices of pig on their heads and implanting muggle tech into innocent mice to play computer games, he'd say that they were about equal in terms of strange behavior.

Elias? A bacon hair? Absolutely NOT!!! He was infuriated at just the thought of such an accusation from Thomas. Elias was very proud of the collection of squid themed hats he had collected on ROBLOX and was in no way a noob when it came to the game, Thomas on the other hand, probably wore one of the ridiculous Roblox man morphs, instead of playing as a block.

Turning his attention back to Eyre (so that he didn't lower himself to Thomas' level and taunt back) at the purebloods barrage of follow up questions, Elias had a rather judgemental look in his eyes. "A bacon hair is a noob... and a PC is a computer, that's the only acceptable thing to play video games on, people who play console games with a controller are also noobs. The worst kind of noobs."

When Eyre decided to ask about the mice, the Ravenclaw was put at a complete loss of words, how could someone possibly think that a computer mouse was... a living creature. Had this boy never seen one at all? Had he never been to a library, or heck, even gone to a muggle school as a child? In that case, could this boy even do math? What came out of his mouth next was perhaps a tad rude, but it was, at the very least, a genuine question. "Can you do maths? Have you ever even been to a real school? They have computer mice at those, you know?"

Purebloods confused Thomas greatly. How could they claim to be better if they didn't have any access to muggle technology? While the wizarding world was great, full of possibilities that couldn't even be fathomed by muggle minds, the muggle world was pretty great too. They invented things like indoor plumbing, and computers, and Roblox! What was not to love? The boy standing before him was the quintessential example of the ignorant pureblood, and Thomas couldn't help but feel a bit sorry for the boy. After all, to be eleven years old, and to have not experienced the sheer euphoria of getting a 13 kill streak on Arsenal...? It sounded like a torturous existence, and Eyre didn't even know what he was missing out on. Should Thomas have been a more empathetic person, his expression may have been one of pity.

Unfortunately, that was not the case, and instead a derisive, wicked smile broke out on the young Ravenclaw's features. This was the opportunity of a lifetime. Thomas idly wondered if Elias knew the potential that was standing before them, in the form of a naive Gryffindor boy. While Thomas wasn't usually one for derision and mockery, the fact that Eyre was a pureblood made him more heavily inclined towards the action. After all, he could be a perfectly nice person and even a friend, but with the way other purebloods conducted themselves? Thomas wouldn't be caught dead being kind to one. Some may argue that he was being wizard-racist, but backwards. He would simply reply that sometimes equality means dragging someone down to your level rather than raising yourself up. Besides, what was the fun in being virtuous all the time?

Waiting for the perfect moment to strike, however, Thomas just answered his questions. "Computers are the machines you use to connect to the internet. The mouse is what you use to control the cursor on your screen," he explained, as if that should have been obvious. Idly, Thomas wondered how much technology Eyre was even aware of. As Elias asked the question about mathematics, he followed it up with an equally out-of-place question. "Do you know what a phone is?"

Interacting with @Thomas Baines and @Elias Weare

Thomas' explanation made more sense than Elias' mumbo-jumbo, but he couldn't help but feel a bit offended that they both obviously thought he was brainless. His face turned red when they explained to him that he was extremely wrong about the stupid mouse thing, and he desperately tried to backpetal to save himself.

"I know what math is.. And I know what a phone is." He stuttered, trying to defend his intelligence. "Just because I don't know what a KD is or why you're putting bacon on your heads in a video game doesn't make me a half-wit!"

Regardless of how ignorant he was towards Robooky or whatever it was called, Eyre liked to believe that he wasn't even close to how vapid and dumb some purebloods were. He didn't know a lot about things that were outside the wizarding world, but he was willing to learn. And, based on how serious his new acquaintances were on the subject, he didn't want to go the rest of his life without knowing what a Noob was.

"...Could you both teach me about Rubuck?" Eyre stuttered. "I know I don't know anything, but I want to know! You can maybe uh.. Start with the p-stuff and work up from there?" He suggested, his voice sounding feeble and small as he clearly didn't know what he was talking about. "I'm sorry if this is weird…"