 Zombie Apocalypse Team Leader ★ ★ in a crown of pepperoni and artisan cheese
Aaron colored slightly under the professor's attention, and her call-out. For someone as boisterous as he was capable of being, there were instances when he just couldn't help but to shy away. Probably because he didn't have the required confidence in this subject. That was most likely why. BUT... he liked that she was opening dialogue with them and being encouraging. He appreciated her already.
... and he shifted around to look at Valencia. The young Ravenclaw had just reminded him of a chapter he'd read in one of his grandfather's books. There were spells that supposedly revealed numbers that were crucial in determining the nature of curses, and how to break them, buuuuuut this lesson clearly wasn't about cursebreaking and he didn't feel too great about straying off the professor's topic.
Anyway. Names. The request for them to offer up their's made a lot more sense now. "I think it's important to consider that a lot of these types of things are opened to interpretation." ... And he understood that concept vividly, considering his gift. "So, say you're analyzing something, and you're cross-referencing your results with all the possible "explanations" that have been compiled over a length of time... Wouldn't you just pick out the explanation that best fits the your result?"
Yikes... that sounded argumentative. Was he blushing?? His face felt especially warm right now. "I'm honestly asking, ma'am." Aaron was worried she'd take offense to all his questions, but he didn't have the best history with this subject, and he'd always wondered about that bit. "Also... maybe something like "tree" is too vague for numerology to accurately analyze it. Similarly to the names of large cities. It feels too much like a generalization in that context, like saying... This city stands for "x", so everyone that resides there must also be "x", or if you move there, you're going to be viewed as "x". Perhaps it only really works for sentient being... names?" Like... her hypothetical niffler.
... This was another reason he couldn't follow the cursebreaker dream. Arithmancy hurt his brain, just like potions.
__________________ We live in cities you'll never see onscreen..._______________________________________________
So very pretty, and we sure know how to run things..._______________________________
Livin' in ruins of a palace, within our dreams...____________
We're on each other's team._____
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