Titles Are Too Mainstream (Plus I'm Bad at Them) (Open to Everypony and Creature)

Amethyst walked along the walks of Ponyville. The black fedora atop his head covered his horn; one would probably think he was just an earth pony at first. A gray scarf, just a shade darker than his natural gray coat, was wrapped once around his neck, the ends dangling down on either side of him.

He didn't know where he was going, didn't know where he was other than in Ponyville. It was his first time here, and his lazy eyes seemed to emphasis his destination-free walk. His hooves slowed to a very slow pace as he began to look around and take in his surroundings. Seemed he had made his way to Town Square.

Of course you're in Town Square, he told himself. That's probably the center of town and you've pretty much just been walking straight. He smirked slightly at his own comments to himself and looked around. Looking around again, he began to wonder if anypony else were around.

~~~OC: Logik~~~

No, try again... Logik waited for another leaf to float down to the ground, and once he observed one beginning to do so, his horn once again glowed, along with the area around the leaf. Nothing happened, however, and the leaf simply proceeded to sink to the ground as it normally would. The glow from Logik's horn subsided, and the Unicorn sighed. Again. I know it is possible.

At that point in time, Logik was sitting under a tree located near the Ponyville town square. It could have been said that he was comfortable where he was, though if one observed the stallion they might have seen a slightly vexed expression on the Unicorn's face. What the pony was doing was not an easy thing to discern, though it could be seen that he was apparently attempting to do something to the leaves falling off of the branches above him.

"I know I have the potential to do this, it is just a matter of time and effort..."

Logik noticed a pony approach the town square from the corner of his vision. He payed no heed to the new figure, though. What he was currently doing required a relatively large amount of concentration, and so doing anything more than acknowledging the pony would do him no good. In all likelihood, the newcomer would most likely ignore Logik's efforts anyways, though there was also just as good a chance that he would deem the action interesting...

Amethyst noticed something. At first, it seemed to be nothing more than a faint glow; he almost mistook it for the sun shining off some random window. But then he noticed that what he saw was another pony; another unicorn even, sitting under a tree.

Normally, Amethyst would avoid strangers, especially one not paying him any mind, but it seemed to him that this unicorn were doing...something. He couldn't quite tell for sure, but that small flash he had seen moments ago reminded him of things he had done himself in the past, and curiosity overwhelmed him.

He stepped toward the stranger, face neutral, his hooves clopping slightly against the ground with each step. He would stop a couple yards away and watch the stranger and whatever act he seemed to be trying to, his eyes full of curiosity.

No.

Another leaf casually floated to the ground as Logik's horn stopped glowing, and once again the Unicorn awaited a new one to present itself. As he did so, he also noted that the pony he had noticed earlier had decided to approach the stallion. The figure stopped a few yards away from Logik, though, for a reason unknown to him. Logik shrugged off the occurrence, and once again initiated a flow of magic once he spotted another leaf fall from the tree he was stationed under. As had happened before, once more the leaf simply dropped onto the ground, not affected at all by Logik's efforts.

No...

Amethyst watched the stranger watch another leaf fall. Nothing seemed to happen. Was this pony simply watching the leaves fall? It seemed rather odd.

He took another step forward, glancing up at the tree a moment before back to the stranger. He wasn't sure if he should say something or not, but after a moment of hesitation, he spoke up in a quiet, timid voice. "Are the leaves that interesting?"

He ground his front left hoof against the ground softly, idly, an subconscious, nervous habit, as he stood, awkwardly awaiting a response.

"Are the leaves that interesting?"

Logik glanced at the nearby pony for a second before returning his gaze to tree in front of him. He then responded to the stallion's question in something of a loud murmer. "No... I'm...attempting, to do something..."

Once again another leaf fell, and when it did both it and Logik's horn once again glowed. However, as usual, once more nothing of note happened. The Unicorn sighed. A whole half-hour, and still no advancements...

"D-did you need something?"

Amethyst tilted his head to the left as he watched the other pony attempt to do something. His curiosity continued to grow. What was he trying to do? Something awesome? Something smart? Something silly? So many questions, but he wasn't sure if he should ask.

He then realized that the other pony had just said something, but he didn't catch it. Rather than respond to it, he instead asked, "what are you trying to do?"

Please don't let me have asked what he just told me...

"What are you trying to do?"

Logik took a second to think about the question. Or, more precisely, how to respond to it. After a moment of silence, he spoke back to the pony. "Well...I'm attempting...to cast...time-altering magic." He looked back at the stranger after he said this, awaiting the pony's response.

Amethyst's eyebrow lifted as the other pony responded. Time-altering magic?

"You must be pretty skilled to by trying such a thing. From what I have read, that is a high level spell...so to speak." He nodded his head matter-of-factly. He head read a book or two about magic, and as a unicorn he knew a decent amount himself, but he didn't think that time-altering was an easy feat, though he admittedly had never tried it himself.

"You must be pretty skilled to by trying such a thing. From what I have read, that is a high level spell...so to speak."

Logik nodded once slowly, and then looked back up at the tree he was seated under. "Well, n-no one else has ever a-attempted it before...n-not officially, anyways..." That was really nearly the whole reason why the Unicorn was attempting to do such a feat: So far, the only recorded use of time-altering magic was found in stories and other such sources.

Logik turned back to the pony. Say, what i-is your name?"

Amethyst nodded his head. Seemed like a reasonable purpose to trying something like that. As the other pony asked him his name, he responded fairly cheerily. "My name is Amethyst Masquerade. What's yours?"

"My name is Amethyst Masquerade. What's yours?"

"My name is Logik." The Unicorn noticed how simplistic his name sounded compared to his new acquaintance's, though he did not mind in the slightest. He turned his head back to the tree, once again failing at inducing the wanted effects on another leaf.

"A-are you from here? I noticed you wandering around...earlier..."

Amethyst shook his head. "No. I actually grew up in Appleloosa. Haven't really been here before." At that moment, he walked up so that he would be standing next to the stranger who's name he now knew, his eyes resting on the tree and leaves as well. "Are you from here?" he asked curiously.

"No. I actually grew up in Appleloosa. Haven't really been here before."

Logik looked back as he heard footsteps, and watched as Amethyst approached him, turning his gaze back to the tree once the acquaintance was standing next to him.

"Are you from here?"

The Unicorn shook his head, and attempted to affect another leaf as he answered the pony's question. "It seems we are both foreigners. I am actually from Canterlot."

Amethyst blinked upon Logik's statement of his home city. "You're from Canterlot? Huh, must be hard to find places of interest with that kind of upbringing." He pauses a moment before continuing. "Most places feel like big cities when compared to Appleloosa, but compared to Canterlot...I guess most places seem fairly humble at least, hm?"

"Most places feel like big cities when compared to Appleloosa, but compared to Canterlot...I guess most places seem fairly humble at least, hm?"

"Well..." Logik thought about the statement for a moment. "I suppose, though I wouldn't necessarily use the word 'humble'... Canterlot certainly is a big city, though, and admittedly somewhat...overly complexified."

Another leaf fell from the tree branches above two ponies, but this time, rather than have it sink to the ground as it would normally would, when Logik attempted to cast his spell on it, the leaf stopped falling halfway down to the ground. It remained there, suspended in air and completely unmoving, it and the area around it glowing with a magical aura. When it did this, Logik's eyes suddenly widened, and the Unicorn without warning jumped up with great speed. Once he did so, his excitement broke the level of concentration that he had attained, and the leaf once again resumed to fall down to the ground.

"Unbelievable! I've done it!" He quickly turned and faced Amethyst, still talking in an extremely excited manner, quite uncommon for the relatively quiet and secluded pony. "Do you realize what this means!? This could revolutionize the magical arts! Amazing!"

As Amethyst noticed that Logik had successfully cast his spell, he clapped, bring his front hooves up and down against the ground back and forth. "That is some pretty fancy spell work, sir. Could it really revolutionize the magical arts?"

"That is some pretty fancy spell work, sir. Could it really revolutionize the magical arts?"

"Indeed I believe that this may be able to do just that! Nopony else that I know of has ever attempted to master such a spell, aside from one pony, and that one case was only recorded in a story, or legend." Logik stepped away from Amethyst and calmed down a bit as he considered the possible uses of this newly created spell.

"Just imagine what this can be utilized for... Fatally injured or diseased ponies may be able to have their lifespans double or even tripled if given the proper time to be treated correctly within the time span that can be given by this spell, and should this spell be perfected, the success rate of evacuation from dangerous areas and occurances can also potentially be increased substantially..." Logik trailed off and became somewhat lost in thought as he considered various possibilities.

Amethyst thought a moment about the other pony's words. "But if it were used during dangerous occurance, wouldn't the spell freeze time in the entire area, keeping anypony within to be frozen in time as well?"

"But if it were used during dangerous occurrence, wouldn't the spell freeze time in the entire area, keeping anypony within to be frozen in time as well?"

"Well, I don't know about that. But that is were experimentation comes in. The spell itself would only be the start of these ideas. If it were to be used on such a large scale, many things would first have to be discovered: the spell's effects on living creatures, the potency of the spell in large areas of effect..." Logik once again trailed off, sounding quite eager to utilize this spell in new ways and discover more about it.

Amethyst let a slight smirk curve his lips, amused by the other pony's excitement. "Well, all that sounds complicated...but at least it can be used to keep milk from going bad, right?" He chuckled lightly.

"Well, all that sounds complicated...but at least it can be used to keep milk from going bad, right?"

"Hehe. Well, I suppose that that can be one way to utilize the spell." Logik turned back to the tree and performed his previously uncovered spell once again, succeeding and confirming the fact that his previous attempt had not simply been a streak of luck. Once he stopped another leaf for a few seconds, he turned back to Amethyst. "So, um, what do you do?" The Unicorn had noticed the other pony's cutie mark earlier, though couldn't find how it might be able to connect to any occupation.

"I don't really do anything. Travel around, dress fabulously, that sort of thing." Amethyst shrugged his shoulders slightly. "Pretty relaxing, actually. What do you do? Magic scientist?" He asked genuinely, not sure if that were an actual occupation or not, though it did seem to be the kind of thing the other pony were interested in.

"I don't really do anything. Travel around, dress fabulously, that sort of thing. Pretty relaxing, actually."

"I see..."

"What do you do? Magic scientist?"

"Well..." Logik thought about the question for a second. He had never heard of such a term being used before, but it did seem to be quite close to what his title might have been if he had an official career or occupation. "Yes, I suppose that that term does...a fairly good job of summing up what I do. I invent new magic, and new ways to use existing magic. I have been doing so for...a number of years now."