Cathead and Magicman

Blackie the Cat & Jay Jinx in "CATHEAD AND MAGICMAN" ~ An independent Cuphead OC roleplay blog. J. J. Jinx, a rather grouchy warlock, lives way out in a fairy-infested swamp off the coast of Inkwell Isle with his assistant-slash-pet-cat, Blackie. They sometimes visit the mainland for supplies, but they keep to themselves if they can help it... except for whenever Blackie gets curious and runs off to find new things and new friends. CONTAINS UNMARKED SPOILERS. Potential warnings for swearing and mentions of NSFW content. Triggers are untagged by default.

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Indefinite hiatus from RPing, probably from any kind of posting here on Tumblr

((I am so sorry for disappearing for a month, guys. It started with real life and escalated into anxiety about coming back, and while I’d like to be able to say I’m back, social anxiety and my variable ability to write for any particular character means that I could barely make myself write this. Actually posting regularly just got harder the longer this blog has existed, I’m not really someone with a long attention span for any one thing. I’d love to continue or start new rps with these characters on the blog, I’d love to see where that would have gone, but for now at least I’m just not physically up to it. 

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Wallace and Piper were out and about, taking in some fresh air and enjoying a bit of calm before the pianist’s next show. He sat on a blanket underneath the shade of a tree, scribbling and scrawling over some sheets of paper, pausing now and again to hum a tune to himself. He seemed wrapped up in his work, though he’d glance up to watch Piper whenever he had the chance.

Meanwhile, the tiny spiderling had started to wander away from his father, bit by bit as he collected brightly colored flowers that poked their way out from between blades of grass. He shoved the flowers into his gloved hands, only stopping his many legs to munch on the tastier looking blooms. Neither he nor Wallace had noticed how far he had wandered until Piper found himself surrounded by trees, the open field nowhere in sight.

Tensing up Piper let out a tiny squeak. Now he didn’t have any clue where he was…! He clenched his flowers and turned this way and that. Since his focus had been on the ground, he didn’t really recognize very much… Especially since his second set of eyes weren’t focused on anything but the sky…!

“W-Wallace…?” he peeped nervously, “Wh-wh-where a-am I?” though he was straining his ears fro any sign of his father, or anything familiar for that matter, Piper wound up jumping a good three feet into the air when he heard some rustling near him.

[catheadandmagicman]

The rustling, as it came into view, seemed to be in a rather similar situation to the spider had been. A small kitten with a small arm-full of wild plants was padding forward on the remaining three, leaning to the ground to search for the next weed to collect as his tail slowly wagged behind him. It took the little boy a few moments after he must have been seen before he finally saw Piper back.

“Oh!” He said, audibly surprised before he thought to politely smile, a mouth full of unsharpened human-ish teeth that looked positively average. “Howdy, I didn’t see you there!” It took him another instant to realize the spider, while not seeming particularly unfriendly to the kitten, didn’t look to be in a good mood either. “Gosh, are you alright? You look spooked! Uh, I’m not an unlucky cursing kind of black cat, I promise! My name’s Blackie, and it’s nice to meet you!”

He offered the unburdened front paw, really just a black cartoon hand like anyone else’s rather than being catlike, to Piper along with offering him a friendly grin. He adjusted his load of plants in the other arm, the jostling making it more obvious they sure weren’t the cheerful-looking flowers that grew out in the direct sunlight; it was a collection of uncommonly-seen greens, mushrooms or some other not-quite-plants, and unpleasant-looking pokey things, none of which looked entirely safe to mess with going by first impressions. A burr from something was also caught on the cat’s bowtie, while the cat’s own sunny demeanor seemed not to realize anything wrong with carrying all those thorns.

“Do you need any help, mister spider?” He asked, adding that question in before actually having waited long enough for Piper to react to the first things he’d said.

[catheadandmagicman]

What I say:  Jay talks with a (light) cowboy sort of accent like the western salesman type of guy he is.

What I do in rps: Jay is a fancy pseudo-British person for some reason?

At least Blackie basically talks how he’s supposed to? It’s hard to write a cute kid wrong, even if I make him a little too well-spoken or grown-up at times.

[catheadandmagicman]

Kids With Magic

[catheadandmagicman]

both brothers look at the little kitten, kinda confused, but continue smiling, marcus look at the door, not sure is he should said the true, could make their guest feel uncomfortable “well…it see better days, don’t worry, lets go inside, our little brother make some delicious macarons” octavio nods “we can talk where exactly your dad lives” he said smiling relax both brothers enter with the little kitty, as much the garden, everything is pink and elegant, so calm and nice, in the kitchen is the third brother, a redhead wolf-sheep, was chubby and fluffy, looks at the other two brothers smiling and then look at the black cat “well hello dear”

Nodding politely, Blackie followed them inside. “What’re macarons? I don’t think I’ve ever heard of them before!”

He was going to explain about his dad right then when he was distracted by looking around the interior, and he was especially distracted seeing a third person. “Hello!” he said, grinning widely back at the wolf-sheep. “Glad to meet you, my name’s Blackie!” He giggled. “My dad’s usually the only one who calls me dear... Oh, right, we need to talk about finding him so I can go home! Not that your home isn’t swell too, in fact it’s absolutely very pretty, but...!”

[otherwindow]

Concept: the secret boss of a video game is the merchant you’ve traded with this whole time, and their combat capabilities are based entirely on what you sold them. 

For example, did you sell them Necromancy skill books? Well shit they can summon a skeleton army.

[catheadandmagicman]

Jay doesn’t normally buy stuff random people walked up to him with, but if he did and then you got him mad he would totally beat you with your own items.

[catheadandmagicman]

Cuphead blinked, confused at what Jay was gonna say. But when the human dropped the subject, something told Cuphead it would be wise to do the same despite having questions about what the other meant.

Mugman listened carefully to his reading, and small smile forming on his face. Yeah this sounded like him. Hearing how the decision of sticking with his brother was why he got one of the cards make Mugs smile more before hugging his big brother tight. “He may lack common sense alot of the time but he’s still my brother and I love him!”

Cuphead grinned and hugged his brother tight in return. “Aw love ya too Mugsy!” He replied. After a moment Mugs shook his head. “I understand just fine thanks! Cuppy, you go next!” He said, gesturing for Cup to go. Cuphead nodded and drew his own cards.

“Thus the name for the Lovers card.” Jay quipped in between the two mentions of the word. He seemed entirely unmoved by the brothers being affectionate in front of him, though Blackie was smiling fondly at the display as if he thought it was just adorable.

Jay leaned forward to check what Cuphead had drawn from the reshuffled deck when he suddenly found his cat in position to bump foreheads. The comedic bonking of heads managed not to disrupt anything except for setting Jay’s hat askew, and Blackie looked very proud of himself.

“And I love you, dad!”

“Trying to work, dear.” Jay said simply, lifting the kitten and placing him out of the way. He paused to roll his eyes before adding “I love you too.” The blush on his pale cheeks faded as quickly as it had come while he put that feline show of adoration aside to read Cuphead’s fortune.

Cuphead had managed to pull the same card as Mugman first, though his had ended up facing away from him. The other two also faced away; cards labelled The Tower and The Fool.

Blackie read it too, only slightly inconvenienced by having been sentenced to the very edge of the counter away from the cards themselves. “Gosh, yours are all reversed! That’s the reverse of what your brother’s was! That’s a… double reversal!” he declared. “That’s not, uh… necessarily bad, though! I’m pretty sure!”

“Fortune doesn’t normally deal with something fully good or fully bad, it is what you make of it.” Jay said. “Though if you’re a realist, yes, reversed fortunes aren’t typically great to hear. As for yours in particular… 

“Reversed, The Lovers symbolizes internal conflict, or focusing on base desires instead of thinking things through.The Tower always means dramatic change; the reverse of it usually change that people around you consider your doing, or change that is - consciously or not - being fought against. The Fool symbolizes new beginnings, and reversed it means ignorance in the face of them; upright the fool means a benign lack of experience and a chance to learn without having to suffer first, not typical foolishness, but reversed it means missing something important and learning your lesson through a fairy tale’s worth of suffering. The reversed Fool can also refer to doing something more risky than is normally worth it, which is sort of like a new beginning that you willfully did to yourself.

“I’m sure you can draw your own conclusions about what important event in your past had a lack of thinking things through. The dramatic change in your present might just be the aftermath of how many people are still affected by what you did with those soul contracts, if you can’t think of anything else more applicable. As for your future, I’d say the cards are telling you you’ll either have more trips into the world of gambling, or awkward teenage years.”

Blackie reached out as if trying to bat the tarot cards without getting close enough to actually manage it. “Sometimes these predictions are mean, even though they’re right; kinda like dad!”

“Your input is as invaluable as always.” Jay deadpanned..”Questions? Comments? Moving right along to the third and final reading?”

[askcupheadthings-deactivated201]

Cuphead folded his arms across his chest. The Lovers card was… accurate. His own greed had consumed him and stopped him from thinking things through (even if the greed stemmed from good intentions.) The Tower card meant little to him. It was an okay change. At least Cup considered it that. The boys had alot more friends after reconciling with the people who they had wronged and now they were famous heroes!

It was the Fool card that annoyed him. “Well i ain’t gonna go back ta no casino, no siree. That ship has sailed. Gamblin’ is fun and all but i don’t think I’ll be touchin’ it too much afta that whole fiasco.” Cuphead commented

“We’re ready for our third reading”

[catheadandmagicman]

“Do what you like,” Jay said with a shrug, “my guesses as to the specific meaning of these predictions aren’t as infallible as the cards themselves are, and even the cards occasionally get things wrong if someone is particularly turbulent. Or if they have some sort of time-travelling magic nonsense; either works equally well if you’re trying to fight fate.”

Blackie giggled to himself as the final set of three cards were unveiled. The reversed Wheel of Fortune, then The Magician, then Death. “You wouldn’t believe how often somebody gets the Magician card in their present like that!” The cat told Cuphead and Mugman.

“Probably something to do with how you’re presently getting your fortune read by a magician.” Jay said. “We do live in a world with a sense of humor, after all. But as for what your fortune actually means...

“The Wheel of Fortune is a card about luck, and reversed it means luck that’s just plain bad; it can also symbolize hesitation, or something ending without anything to take its place. Clear interpretations to take from that one, I think, or at least it’s clear how the bad luck part applies to your past. The Magician card means developing or using an ability, or generally taking action; not a particularly specific card for your present, either you’re learning to do something or doing something already and that just about describes everyone who leaves their house on a regular basis. And - ah, probably should’ve started with this - Death doesn’t actually have anything to do with death, I assure you. Not necessarily at least.”

“The Tower card actually means somebody’s gonna die way more often!” Blackie said. “Not that, like, that’s come up in these fortunes a lot. But if something bad like that did happen then it’d be represented by the Tower card because dying is really dramatic and so’s the Tower!”

“The Death card refers to new beginnings,” Jay explained, “transformations and transitions; change that, more often than not, starts out subtle...” he glanced at his cat, “rather than a more sudden or ‘dramatic’ change. 

“Together, on top of what you’ve heard about your individual futures, you’re going to slowly grow into something new. So, that insight into your future isn’t really that specific either; group readings tend to end up generic if the group isn’t so unusually in sync enough that something specific could apply equally to every one of them, but there you go.“ He paused, then added “To be clear, the fact that you got all major arcana - these named cards instead of the normal deck, I mean you didn’t even draw the two of cups for the pun of it - means that your lives are very interesting. Major arcana basically mean more significant events, while minor arcana are more common to find with minor players: people whose lives don’t have particularly notable moments in the grand scheme of things... People who haven’t spoken to the Devil face-to-face more than once, or gotten into a dozen fights recently.”

“Nineteen, wasn’t it?” Blackie asked.

“What?” Jay gave him a quizzical look. “...It’s just an expression, dear, a dozen doesn’t have to mean exactly twelve.”

“Oh.” Blackie tilted his head to the side, now looking confused as well.

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Cuphead blinked, confused at what Jay was gonna say. But when the human dropped the subject, something told Cuphead it would be wise to do the same despite having questions about what the other meant.

Mugman listened carefully to his reading, and small smile forming on his face. Yeah this sounded like him. Hearing how the decision of sticking with his brother was why he got one of the cards make Mugs smile more before hugging his big brother tight. “He may lack common sense alot of the time but he’s still my brother and I love him!”

Cuphead grinned and hugged his brother tight in return. “Aw love ya too Mugsy!” He replied. After a moment Mugs shook his head. “I understand just fine thanks! Cuppy, you go next!” He said, gesturing for Cup to go. Cuphead nodded and drew his own cards.

“Thus the name for the Lovers card.” Jay quipped in between the two mentions of the word. He seemed entirely unmoved by the brothers being affectionate in front of him, though Blackie was smiling fondly at the display as if he thought it was just adorable.

Jay leaned forward to check what Cuphead had drawn from the reshuffled deck when he suddenly found his cat in position to bump foreheads. The comedic bonking of heads managed not to disrupt anything except for setting Jay’s hat askew, and Blackie looked very proud of himself.

“And I love you, dad!”

“Trying to work, dear.” Jay said simply, lifting the kitten and placing him out of the way. He paused to roll his eyes before adding “I love you too.” The blush on his pale cheeks faded as quickly as it had come while he put that feline show of adoration aside to read Cuphead’s fortune.

Cuphead had managed to pull the same card as Mugman first, though his had ended up facing away from him. The other two also faced away; cards labelled The Tower and The Fool.

Blackie read it too, only slightly inconvenienced by having been sentenced to the very edge of the counter away from the cards themselves. “Gosh, yours are all reversed! That’s the reverse of what your brother’s was! That’s a… double reversal!” he declared. “That’s not, uh… necessarily bad, though! I’m pretty sure!”

“Fortune doesn’t normally deal with something fully good or fully bad, it is what you make of it.” Jay said. “Though if you’re a realist, yes, reversed fortunes aren’t typically great to hear. As for yours in particular… 

“Reversed, The Lovers symbolizes internal conflict, or focusing on base desires instead of thinking things through.The Tower always means dramatic change; the reverse of it usually change that people around you consider your doing, or change that is - consciously or not - being fought against. The Fool symbolizes new beginnings, and reversed it means ignorance in the face of them; upright the fool means a benign lack of experience and a chance to learn without having to suffer first, not typical foolishness, but reversed it means missing something important and learning your lesson through a fairy tale’s worth of suffering. The reversed Fool can also refer to doing something more risky than is normally worth it, which is sort of like a new beginning that you willfully did to yourself.

“I’m sure you can draw your own conclusions about what important event in your past had a lack of thinking things through. The dramatic change in your present might just be the aftermath of how many people are still affected by what you did with those soul contracts, if you can’t think of anything else more applicable. As for your future, I’d say the cards are telling you you’ll either have more trips into the world of gambling, or awkward teenage years.”

Blackie reached out as if trying to bat the tarot cards without getting close enough to actually manage it. “Sometimes these predictions are mean, even though they’re right; kinda like dad!”

“Your input is as invaluable as always.” Jay deadpanned..”Questions? Comments? Moving right along to the third and final reading?”

[catheadandmagicman]

Kids With Magic

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How strange, a tiny black kitten was wandering around. He looked lost, like he didn’t mean to be there. And wherever it was he was supposed to be, suddenly right up in somebody’s face definitely wasn’t it. The silly cat had noticed him and gone to get his attention as fast as physically possible, which for a cartoon kitty-cat was very very fast.

“You look like my dad!” he told the goat whose personal space he was invading, looking rather amazed by that factoid. After he finished commenting, though, his expression changed to a sad quivering lip very unfitting for someone who’d just shown himself to be high-energy and friendly. “Can you please help me, mister? I’m lost…!”

[ask-us-m-n-o-deactivated2022111]

He takes octavio by surprise to look at the little kitten the goat don’t really like to be surprised, but then relaxes looking at him to be able to answer “hey little buddy, lost uh? well you can come with me to my home so we can start to look for you dad, what do you think” he said waitintg for an answer but then continue talking “oh yeah…presetantions, my name is octavio, what’s yours?”

[catheadandmagicman]

“Really?” The kitten’s tail flicked from side to side happily as he nodded like a bobblehead in order to agree with the idea as intensely as he could. “Thanks, mister! I guess it’s okay if I come home with you, since you’re gonna help me get back to my real home, so that sounds like a good plan to me!”

Then he blinked in surprise, apparently not having realized they’d forgotten to exchange names. “Glad to meet you, Octavio, I’m Blackie!”

Blackie giggled. “My dad sometimes forgets to say pleasantries too, you really are like him! I knew that’d mean you’d be nice enough to help me!”

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“hehe yeah of course” octavio in a tired tone “follow me, my home is not so far” he said walking to a path that had signs of a garden of roses, they soon arrive to a big garden of roses and a pink house, a yellow ram outside fixing a wood door, he finally look the door unsure of what he did and speak “mmmm maybe i should just buy another one..” octavio get closer with a smile 

“hey bro, look what i found, his name is blackie and he lost his papa” marcus looks back at them and smile “greetings kid, sorry to hear that you are lost, my name is marcus whelan, im octavio’s big brother”

[catheadandmagicman]

Blackie followed Octavio with a spring in his step, completely undeterred by his own problem. He looked around the estate with awe, tail wagging at the roses and everything else almost like he’d never seen anything like it.

“Glad to meet you, Marcus! I’m not too worried about being lost, since I’ve met you nice people to help me! But you know, I’m pretty sure me losing my dad is the opposite of me being lost; my dad’s the one who knows where he is right now, not me! Losing my dad would be if he was lost and I knew where I was instead, right? Though I guess I know that I’m at Octavio and Marcus’s house right now, so that’s progress!” He paused for a moment. “Is your door okay?”

[catheadandmagicman]

Hearing that they were recognised from their little adventure across the island they called home, the pair beamed and nodded. “That’s us! And we destroyed all of da contracts… ain’t our fault people went back and made more deals with da ol’ goat…” Cuphead sighed. He was disappointed that he and his brother couldn’t put Hell out of business for good but as long as there were sinners, there would always be a Devil. When Jay smiled, the pair couldn’t help but be reminded of some of the scary smiles they saw from the casino workers they had to fight.

Mugman thought over the offer for multiple readings, looking over at his brother. “We dont have anything planned today, right?” He asked his brother. Cuphead shook his head. “Nope. Three readin’s would be perfect.”

Jay raised an eyebrow. “Oh, you’re sure you got all of them? Odd that I don’t feel any different.” He glanced at Blackie, who didn’t notice. It was very hard to tell what he’d meant by what he said, if it was supposed to be sarcasm or a joke or plain statement of fact; the dry delivery made it seem like the last option.

“I thought you only got the contracts of the debtors you beat up!” Blackie said, tilting his head in thought. “If you got all the contracts that’d already been paid up, too, that’s even more impressive!“ After taking a moment to grin at them, he hopped out of the way - and took some merchandise with him - so that, while he was still on the counter, there was now plenty of blank room to put cards.

“Not that it really matters to me.” Jay said. “Though I will say that, as much as I think we’d all like to see the Devil permanently crash and burn in his own domain, he can produce some truly desirable things. Like moths to a flame, most of the time, but as moths quite enjoy flames it’s no real wonder that he can garner a customer base.” 

Jay shrugged, and he begin to shuffle the deck in his hands - gently - as he spoke further. “So, regardless of whichever one of you or both would like to go first, do you both know how to draw cards sideways instead of flipping them over? Though it’s fine if you don’t, just as long as you’re consistent it won’t inconvenience me any. Just thought I ought to mention it, your fortune would be strange otherwise because upside-down cards have different meanings than the right-side-up orientations.

“I want whoever’s getting the first reading to cut the deck into thirds, then take three cards - it doesn’t have to be one per third of the deck, do what you’d like, it’s just to give the deck a little time to tell that you’re the one seeking their predictions - and lay them face-up on the table here from left to right; those are your left and right, not mine.” He gestured for them which way was left and then which was right, though pointing out both was definitely a bit excessive. Then, having finished shuffling for them, he held the deck out for the brothers. 

The magician didn’t hesitate before adding “If you’re going to try to be ‘smart’ and do something like actually damaging my cards by cutting them, don’t.” The look on his face, magic flashing in his eyes like a green flame, was the unspoken threat at the end of his warning. “Try to focus on thinking about your reading, or a specific field of life - money, love, et cetera - that you want your reading to address.”

Blackie looked expectantly at them and was having a noticeable amount of trouble keeping himself from saying anything, encouraging yet distracting as it would probably be.

[askcupheadthings-deactivated201]

“Well we had ta beat up just about everyone on Inkwell so that’d be bout all of ‘em.” Cuphead replied after a moment of thinking.

When asked if they knew how to flip the cards, they both nodded. “Mugs can go first. I don’t mind. Let’s see what our future holds.” Mugman nodded a little before picking three cards from the deck.

[catheadandmagicman]

Jay gave Cuphead a long look, a mixture of befuddlement and annoyance. “So you’re just... not going to... Really? ... Okay.” He rolled his eyes and, with a huff of breath through his nose, appeared to let the issue drop.

The three cards laid out in front of Mugman were, from left to right, labelled: The Lovers, The Chariot, The High Priestess. All three were facing Mugman, making them easy for him to read.

“Hey, it’s pretty rare that none of somebody’s cards are reversed!” Blackie said. “That means you’re doing pretty good!”

“This is a rather straightforward story.” Jay said, ignoring the cat. “Now, these represent“ he gestured from the left to the right “a summary of your past, your present, and your future. According to the Lovers cards, your past can be notably defined by either your relationship with another person or by the relationship between two things; essentially, you were at a crossroads and had to choose which path open to you was the right one. From what the two of you were saying earlier, I’d assume this is when that something you dealt with recently was Cuphead’s fault and you went with him anyway.

“The Chariot, your present, indicates an eye set on the future, a goal of progress towards an eventual success rather than trying to rush things into the present. I realize that sounds a bit contradictory, your present having to do with the future, but what I mean is you seem to be putting in an effort at the moment not to focus on the past or even on the now. Either that or you’ve got a project you’re working on at the moment, the cards can be more literal than insightful at times.

“The High Priestess is a rather weighted card. It can symbolize the unknowable - not that your future itself is unknowable but that perhaps something in it involves the unknowable, like if you were to decide to dedicate yourself to something religious - but it can also mean provable but intangible things, like the subconscious. I’d say this means you’re going to soon learn something, or put something you’ve just learned into practice, but that something is rather hard to articulate rather than, say, showing off how high you learned you can jump.

To summarize: your past at this point is strongly defined by a choice you made, most likely about another person; your present has you moving forward at a reasonable pace towards a reasonable goal; your future will involve higher concepts, probably something about trust or self-worth or anything else more philosophical than easily defined, and your understanding will be key at that time even if you don’t or won’t be consciously aware that you understand. Overall it’s a very benign fortune, nothing worth fretting over like the card or two that symbolize bad luck in your future might be. So, need anything repeated or rephrased, or shall we do your brother’s fortune?“

“I can translate into not-as-fancy-talk, if you’d like!” Blackie offered.

(Not to state the obvious but Jay’s predictions can’t be magically accurate if I don’t actually know the character’s future, so that was a little vaguer than real magical future-telling cards maybe should be. I just didn’t want to get more specific since it wouldn’t necessarily be canon!)

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[catheadandmagicman]

Hearing that they were recognised from their little adventure across the island they called home, the pair beamed and nodded. “That’s us! And we destroyed all of da contracts… ain’t our fault people went back and made more deals with da ol’ goat…” Cuphead sighed. He was disappointed that he and his brother couldn’t put Hell out of business for good but as long as there were sinners, there would always be a Devil. When Jay smiled, the pair couldn’t help but be reminded of some of the scary smiles they saw from the casino workers they had to fight.

Mugman thought over the offer for multiple readings, looking over at his brother. “We dont have anything planned today, right?” He asked his brother. Cuphead shook his head. “Nope. Three readin’s would be perfect.”

Jay raised an eyebrow. “Oh, you’re sure you got all of them? Odd that I don’t feel any different.” He glanced at Blackie, who didn’t notice. It was very hard to tell what he’d meant by what he said, if it was supposed to be sarcasm or a joke or plain statement of fact; the dry delivery made it seem like the last option.

“I thought you only got the contracts of the debtors you beat up!” Blackie said, tilting his head in thought. “If you got all the contracts that’d already been paid up, too, that’s even more impressive!“ After taking a moment to grin at them, he hopped out of the way - and took some merchandise with him - so that, while he was still on the counter, there was now plenty of blank room to put cards.

“Not that it really matters to me.” Jay said. “Though I will say that, as much as I think we’d all like to see the Devil permanently crash and burn in his own domain, he can produce some truly desirable things. Like moths to a flame, most of the time, but as moths quite enjoy flames it’s no real wonder that he can garner a customer base.” 

Jay shrugged, and he begin to shuffle the deck in his hands - gently - as he spoke further. “So, regardless of whichever one of you or both would like to go first, do you both know how to draw cards sideways instead of flipping them over? Though it’s fine if you don’t, just as long as you’re consistent it won’t inconvenience me any. Just thought I ought to mention it, your fortune would be strange otherwise because upside-down cards have different meanings than the right-side-up orientations.

“I want whoever’s getting the first reading to cut the deck into thirds, then take three cards - it doesn’t have to be one per third of the deck, do what you’d like, it’s just to give the deck a little time to tell that you’re the one seeking their predictions - and lay them face-up on the table here from left to right; those are your left and right, not mine.” He gestured for them which way was left and then which was right, though pointing out both was definitely a bit excessive. Then, having finished shuffling for them, he held the deck out for the brothers. 

The magician didn’t hesitate before adding “If you’re going to try to be ‘smart’ and do something like actually damaging my cards by cutting them, don’t.” The look on his face, magic flashing in his eyes like a green flame, was the unspoken threat at the end of his warning. “Try to focus on thinking about your reading, or a specific field of life - money, love, et cetera - that you want your reading to address.”

Blackie looked expectantly at them and was having a noticeable amount of trouble keeping himself from saying anything, encouraging yet distracting as it would probably be.