I want you to envision with me for a second.
Wistram. Magic academy. Kept clean except for a little aesthetic of glowing moss because that's cool you know?
You've got your factions and loyalty to kingdom and fights but most of all. You've got nerds. Nerds who happen to have a high number of horny teens among them.
Two of which are Pisces and Ceria. They're in Cerias dorm cause Pisces' has all the bones and he's closeted about being a necromancer. They're flirting being cute fall into bed hormones. It is what it is. Temperature play is fun but midway there's some piece of spell theory they start arguing over and it goes from them about to have sex to shouting about mana channeling and Pisces is like "this is more efficient" and Cerias like "this is easier" and it's a constant gripe from that moment on.
And now years later, Pisces more okay with everything everything pulls her new significant other aside, who honestly probably isn't even a mage, and gives them a lecture about using the 'easier' method of magic and it's meant to convey Sometimes Even If You're Right Just Accommodate Her Preferences It's Low Stakes Here but in observation he's over explaining everything about this singular ice spell that the person could not remotely cast.
