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This is for anyone wanting to test out their characters in the setting before the applications open, see what clicks. Multiples will be allowed for this post, and you can generally assume any threads are a self-contained continuity unless you feel like getting creative.
Just post a thread with your CHARACTER NAME and CANON NAME in the title with a prompt and others will reply. Prompts and threads can be action spam or prose or whatever. These threads can be used on the sample section of your application, as well. Go out and have fun! Feel free to consult the institute tour and dorm guide for setting info. We also encourage you to check out the "!!event" tag on the IC comms to brush up on the story so far.
Melinda Sordino | Speak
List of things the students at Xavier's Institute Are No Longer Allowed To Do:
1. Must not refer to Princeple Summers as "Mom"
2. Synchronized Macarena is not an acceptable breakfast activity
3. Not allowed to add “In accordance with the prophesy” to the end of answers I give to a question a teacher asks me.
4. "My platypus ate it" may not be used as an excuse for not turning in my homework
5. Neither may "God told me not to".
6. Magneto is not living under my bed, and I may not claim otherwise.
7. ...
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[ She's sitting on a windowsill in the recreation room, a sketchbook propped against her knee. She likes art, is one of the few classes she bothers paying attention to. And it's not exactly a group activity so it makes her lack of friends, or any kind of social life for that matter, less noticeable.
On the paper in front of her, she's already sketched out a caricature of Principle Summers and is now working on another one of 'Bad Girl'. She wonders what would happen if she were to turn this is as her art assignment. Probably nothing good. Still... it could be worth it. ]
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[He knows a couple of definitions of that word, but from where he stands nothing really covers things like that.]
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["Some foreign country" confuses him for a moment until he realizes that, yeah, someone who doesn't know languages besides English and Spanish would probably be unable to place it. ...Or at least he assumes that she would only know those. That are the ones that Americans speak, right?]
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Different countries have different cultures. That's why they call it multiculturalism.
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[...actually now he wonders if that means that she would call McD's culture.]
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And so he ends up behind her, watching her sketch with interest, and not thinking before he lets out a fairly miserable attempt at a whistle.] You're really good at that.
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She turns her head. Stares at him. The silence between them stretching out for what feels like forever. Why is he talking to her? What does he want? Finally she shrugs and drops her gaze. ]
Thanks.
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Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to startle you. I must've gone invisible without thinking about it, I do that. [He grimaces ruefully, scratching his cheek.] Are you okay?
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She wants to glare at him. Wants to tell him that 'No, she's not okay. He almost scared her to death'. Little rabbit heart pounding in her chest. Instead she ruffles through her bag for an eraser to remove the line she made, avoiding his eyes. ]
'm fine.
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Well, I'm sorry anyway. How long have you been drawing?
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Kindergarden. [ She knows that wasn't what he meant. Everyone draws in kindergarden. She draws a kindergarden version of a tree on the edge of the paper. ]
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No wonder you're so good, then. [He smiles, and holds up a finger, moving it as if drawing a flower on his cheek and focusing really hard, actually managing to leave a bright pink flower there for a few moments before it fades.]
Most people only doodle, though. You're drawing. I think there's a difference.
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We had a really good art teacher at my last school.
[ She bites her lip, not hard enough to draw blood but it's close. ]
How'd you do that?
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[He hums, as always scrambling for words to describe his power.]
I can... hmm, change how people see me, both literally or more figuratively, see? [He grimaces slightly.] There's no way of saying that without it sounding way more creepy than it is. I'm not some master manipulator, but that's what it sounds like.
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"For the record, 'in accordance with the prophecy' is a completely acceptable ending to any answer you give me."
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Silence.
She should say something. But she hadn't actually expected to get any replies to her 'skippy list' in person. Communicating in text was so much easier than being face to face with someone. Text meant no words were getting stuck in her throat and clawing at her to be let out. It meant that, sometimes, a little whisper of 'Melinda' seeped through. She swallows, clears her throat, smiles a bit helplessly at her and shrugs. Then, finally, she manages to find some words. ]
I made this, in accordance with the prophecy. [ She turns her sketchbook so that Reki can see what she's done. She holds her breath. Maybe this was too much? Would she get in trouble? ]
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"For you are the Kwisatz Haderach." She says with a wink. "Good use of comic exaggeration. Now can you do it in the more realistic style we covered last month?"
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She tilts her head a bit at the question and bites her lip. ]
Maybe. I'm better with trees. [ Though she still has no idea of how to "breath life" into her drawings. ]
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"First you draw him as a caricature, then you call him wooden? Even I think you're being a little harsh on Old One Eye."
She found this kind of gentle teasing a good way to get certain students engaged. Perhaps Melinda was one of them.
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My last art teacher had me drawing trees. As an art project kinda thing. It's not that much of a difference. I don't think a tree cares as much about rules as Principle Pri-Summers does though. [ Was it really okay to be joking like this with a teacher? And about another teacher as well? ]