So You Think You're Turning Into a Chayzard: An Instructive Guide for Proper Living as a Burn Lizard

[tank_rockarms]

Who: Max and... probably some other charizards
What: Max is turning into some sort of fireman lizard
Where: Max's Forge and Sundry Other Locations
When: June 29th and beyond
Warnings: Swears. Lots of swears. Violence. Some (Lots of?) violence.

Persons wishing to interact with one (1) Maxizard are welcome to do so once he's finished blossoming into a new man.

Other Persons Turning Into Chayzards Are Welcome To Use This Post As Well. We'll get together a regular Conflagration of Charizards (Is that the collective noun? It seems as if it should be.).

Comments

no mere human could measure up to a perfect being like a turtle

[rivalkidneypunch]

"...I'll do it," he answered, though not without a note of hesitance. Char was still not wholeheartedly convinced he wanted to commit to hours of hanging around Max's turf when he was still a dragon, let alone taking steps down the potentially-slippery slope of doing whatever Max instructed, but... well... he'd already said yes, so there it was.

You're just jealous that you cannot be a hero on the halfshell

[maxizard]

Max... grinned.

Oh sweet baby Arceus, it looked... not right on his face.

"That means a lot, Char. You got any idea of what sorta thing you want to make?"

Isn't everyone?

[rivalkidneypunch]

Truly, this was a day of weird and unanticipated things.

Char shrugged, that air of hesitance still hanging over him. "I dunno. Something he could use if he needed to, I guess. A trainer ain't got much need for platemail or whatever, y'know?" Maybe he ought to have planned something specific to make, but most of his thoughts about this had been centered more on the "doing something Max wants to do" aspect of taking up this invitation than on what he might be capable of forging.

What are you talking about, I had a ninja turtle halloween costume as a child

[maxizard]

"I can do rings or bracers or bracelets if you want somethin' ornamental. If you want somethin' more useful I can do little things - a dagger, a pair of scissors, a shovel, a chain, a bunch of nails. I could do little charizards in enamel on the dagger or a bracelet or the shovel or scissors, I guess."

He was still hammering away at the lump, folding it over and smashing it down further.

Doesn't count

[rivalkidneypunch]

A dagger would probably be too impractical for a trainer to carry around -- that'd likely end up more ornamental than useful back in Kanto. Stuff like nails or scissors or shovels went the opposite way: they were a bit too practical. They'd probably just end up shut away in a shed or a drawer. The enamel offer was a little interesting, he guessed, but if Char wanted that, then that narrowed his choice down to just one thing.

"Let's do the bracelet, then. Something he can keep with him if he wants to that won't look outta place back home."

I was in a costume contest. I didn't win.

[maxizard]

"Alright," said Max, eying the squashed down metal carefully, and finding it sufficiently smashed. He picked it up with his hands (this was the nicest part about being a charizard by far, it was still hot and it hurt but it couldn't do any lasting damage) and set it into the furnace to keep hot. He turned back to Char.

"I ain't much of a silversmith, but I can handle this. We've got two options here. The first is, you help me melt the silver down to get it into a sheet of the right size and thickness, then I bang at it with a hammer for a couple of hours, no heat needed, 'cause it's silver, then I polish it, put the enamel on, and you give me a small, bright flame to melt the glass without meltin' the silver. Second option is we make it outta steel, and do the same thing, only we start with a steel bar and shape it out all with hammer blows, and 'cause it's steel, I gotta have it hot the entire time. Less worry about meltin' the steel than meltin' the silver to set the enamel."

"Second option's got you doin' more the entire time; it's probably a little more interestin' for you, a little more difficult for me the second way, but I'm fine with that if you're fine with that."

first place is reserved only for real turtles

[rivalkidneypunch]

"I'm fine with that," Char answered. Silver was the fancier of the two metals, for sure, but pretty, soft, and easier to work with were all not qualities that he felt were especially Charizardlike. He'd much rather the option that didn't have him hanging around doing nothing for hours while Max did all the work, anyway.

I keep reading about turtles in the books I'm reading for the class I'm teaching.

[maxizard]

"Alright," Max said. "Let's get started then. This is gonna take a few hours to shape it, then it's gotta cool down to where I can paint on it, then we gotta set the enamel. Might have to come back tomorrow to set the enamel. Takes me a long time to do enamel work to make it look good. I'll sketch out some charizard designs, let you pick the one you like best."

Max walked over to an area with several bins, and fished around in one of them until he found a bar of steel. He walked over to an unused forge (of course he had more than one, sometimes he had to have multiple temperatures going on at once) and set it down inside. "I need you to heat that up until it's white-hot. Don't melt it, though. If you let it melt, we gotta start over. I'm gonna get the right hammers and vise for this."