In contrast, for Nico the League computer room isn't...comfortable but it is familiar. It's not a good place but there are very few areas where he has no doubts about his abilities and beneath his usual awkwardness there's a certain type of confidence as he sorts through the pieces on one of the tables.
"I was, uh, thinking of this?" He points, carefully, at the printed circuit board in front of him.
"Yeah." His appreciation is mostly for what it can do, the beauty of getting lost in programs and pure logic, but there's something to the pattern of it too that appeals to him.
He also appreciates the comment that it can be useful, that's always what he searches for.
He flexes his hand a little, the...reconstruction of his hands during the shadow attack has erased the stiffness of broken fingers that hadn't healed entirely straight, something he tries to be grateful for when his dreams are filled with green.
Nico watches Newt carefully, taking in both the movement of his hands as well as his voice with careful concentration. He never forgets but he can focus his abilities.
When he finally starts himself, he's good for someone pretty unfamiliar with even holding a pencil. Breaking down forms into geometric shapes is easy for him and, once he remembers how to hold the pencil correctly, he has an instinctive ability to draw straight lines and proportionate shapes.
Even if he's slightly reluctant to leave just drawing squares behind for something more complex.
Newt stays almost superhumanly patient, but he still presses Nico to move outside of his comfort zone, to try more details, and even basic shading. He finds a reason to praise even the smallest progress, as well, though he never seems anything but genuine about it.
Nico tends to move at even the slightest hint of pressing, and it's not like he has much of a comfort zone. The pencil is awkward in his hand, it's been almost a decade since he's held one, but he doesn't get frustrated at the difficulty of capturing what he can see, even if the tension might be read that way. But then, he tends to tense even more at praise, though he tries not to show it.
Newt allows for silence, too. And it's after one of these quiet lapses that he says, in a voice a little quieter and less sure than usual, "It helps makes sense of things, sometimes. Breaking them down with my eye and rebuilding them on paper. That's not- always easy for me, like it is for other people."
"It can be. Uh, simpler. I have an easier time with...patterns. Where one thing leads to another." He's good at breaking things down into small steps but within a greater pattern.
"They do." He hesitates a few moments but it's something he's gotten more...used to talking about here. "I have - abilities. With patterns. It's best with stuff like computers," he waves a little vaguely at the parts around them, "Because they'll follow their programming and if they don't, it's easy to know why. People are harder but I can...see them too. Doesn't always help." Knowing what's coming and being able to do anything about it have been separate concepts for a long time.
"I can see how it wouldn't." He can follow creatures very well. That doesn't mean he never gets bit; far from it.
"Do you have- are computers a common thing, where you're from?" It's a little hard to wrap his head around. Muggles have more technology to make up for what they can't manage with magic, of course. But in his time, they still don't have anything like what surrounds them now.
"Yeah, they're very common. Or were, the internet crashed some after - everything. But computers were big. Phones too, not just calling but stuff like the communicators; where you can send all sorts of stuff or access the internet."
He pulls his Chatter from a pocket, showing it to Newt. "This is built from, uh, a more old fashioned type of cellphone but it's about the same size and shape as more...recent ones."
"Is that- that's a phone?" Newt's seen them, here and there, even if wizards don't particularly have a use for them. But they certainly don't look like that.
"I always figured the communicators just worked by magic."
"They can do a lot more than the communicators," as close as he ever comes to sounding dismissive, "You can access way more information and organize it more efficiently and search for things..." He misses computers frequently, though the slate Jedao gave him is an even better replacement.
"Sounds incredibly useful." He's happy with his notebooks for his own use, but actually trying to turn those notes into a book was certainly more work than he expected.
"They are, you can do so much with them." His animation is more interest and less nervous fidgeting when it comes to this subject. "I, uh, would be happy to tell you sometime, if you want."
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Date: 2018-01-24 07:11 pm (UTC)"I was, uh, thinking of this?" He points, carefully, at the printed circuit board in front of him.
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Date: 2018-01-26 05:11 pm (UTC)"Geometric shapes are important in illustration, anyway. It'll be good practice."
He sets the drawing pad and supplies down next to it.
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Date: 2018-01-29 07:46 pm (UTC)He also appreciates the comment that it can be useful, that's always what he searches for.
He flexes his hand a little, the...reconstruction of his hands during the shadow attack has erased the stiffness of broken fingers that hadn't healed entirely straight, something he tries to be grateful for when his dreams are filled with green.
"Uh, how do you...start?"
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Date: 2018-01-30 02:22 pm (UTC)"Any complex form can be broken down into simpler geometric shapes - you want to map those out before worrying too much about the details."
He demonstrates as he talks, showing Nico how to block out shapes and create the illusion of three-dimensional space.
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Date: 2018-02-01 10:45 pm (UTC)When he finally starts himself, he's good for someone pretty unfamiliar with even holding a pencil. Breaking down forms into geometric shapes is easy for him and, once he remembers how to hold the pencil correctly, he has an instinctive ability to draw straight lines and proportionate shapes.
Even if he's slightly reluctant to leave just drawing squares behind for something more complex.
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Date: 2018-03-11 05:56 pm (UTC)And he can see the patterns in animals and creatures just fine. People are too complicated.
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Date: 2018-03-13 10:41 am (UTC)"Do you have- are computers a common thing, where you're from?" It's a little hard to wrap his head around. Muggles have more technology to make up for what they can't manage with magic, of course. But in his time, they still don't have anything like what surrounds them now.
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Date: 2018-03-21 05:19 pm (UTC)He pulls his Chatter from a pocket, showing it to Newt. "This is built from, uh, a more old fashioned type of cellphone but it's about the same size and shape as more...recent ones."
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Date: 2018-03-23 11:46 am (UTC)"I always figured the communicators just worked by magic."
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Date: 2018-03-25 06:08 pm (UTC)"Maybe you could tell me more, some time."
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