What type of Phone would each Character use?
Based on a Cohost Prompt
Oh hell yeah. So Brave Earth's magic has a deleterious effect on technology. Little angry spirits spitefully attacking technology for reasons I.... really shouldn't get into right now. So while people in very low magic areas, in big cities, where electronic are stable, they might have your fancy flat shiny thin rectangles, anyone who travels has some sorta clunker.
A big, robust phone, usually lower powered, built bigger, filled with little powered toggle switches to act like fidget toys for ghosts. Phones with detachable batteries, mechanical power switches and replaceable hardware fuses. The actual space for these hardened electronics is pretty big. You might have a big ol' 90s walkie-talkie ass looking cell phone if you need it work as deep into magical territory as possible. Maybe you got a touch screen, modernish phone but it's almost an inch thick. You don't necessarily care about it working as much as possible as much as making sure it doesn't fry itself.
Then style come into this. Do you prefer the sleek appearance of mass production, or do you want your phone to be engraved and gilded because you live in a low technology area with huge wealth disparities and cheap human labor?
To use the BEP girls since I'd waste too much time going through everyone.
Naomi: Very plain but tanky touch screen phone. More style conscious with the places she goes, so she appreciates the sleeker looks. Even if she's from a pretty high magic area, the city she grew up in is starting to have technology work better (blahblahblah population centers tend to have this happen because human souls push out weird angry mars ghosts blahblahblah) and she's more aware of """modern"""(I need a better word) fashion.
She probably asked one of her friends to change her background once to a picture of one of her dogs and has no idea how to do much with it but text and take a picture. Thinks you need to take a picture in [insert Instagram Substitute] to post it. Has no idea what a file is. Home screen filled with thing she accidentally downloaded off of ads.
Sinlen: Rich, but lives in a creepy ghost house in the woods. Dresses like a vampire, but the blood drinking is purely a sex thing. OF course she has a fancy looking red and gold engraved phone. Mages are actually nerds so she actually learned how to use it. Actually knows what a file system is. Used her phone to learn what [insert anime substitute] is and it almost ruined her incredibly toxic relationship. It's okay though they both suck and deserve each other. Her background is something form the last bad anime she watched.
Vayn/Beth: The succubus girl who ran away to a low magic city just uses a fantasy iphone because those are cool and she's hot and cool. Gets mad about her friend's green text message boxes. Every once and awhile she forgets to leave her phone at home when going someplace magicy and toasts it because she has a bad memory for [very redacted reasons]. Unreasonably clean home page. Other people might see it so they have to see that she's cool, and tasteful, and sophisticated, even though she's only 1 and a half of those things.
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