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littlerabbit: (Drawing)

Melinda Sordino | Speak

[personal profile] littlerabbit 2013-02-07 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
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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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scares: (considering this)

I'm sorry I had to, also text

[personal profile] scares 2013-02-07 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Try Caramelldansen instead.
littlerabbit: (Is that a smile?)

Text; Yes. Good.

[personal profile] littlerabbit 2013-02-07 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll put in the suggestion box. Maybe they'll give us points for cultural diversity.
scares: (Ah?)

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[personal profile] scares 2013-02-09 02:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Culture?

[He knows a couple of definitions of that word, but from where he stands nothing really covers things like that.]
littlerabbit: (Here's looking at you kid)

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[personal profile] littlerabbit 2013-02-10 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah? Caramelldanses comes from...from?some foreign country, right?
scares: (considering this)

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[personal profile] scares 2013-02-11 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Not "culture", though.

["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?]
littlerabbit: (Just talking)

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[personal profile] littlerabbit 2013-02-11 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually, in her case it's just english. She doesn't pay attention in spanish class. ]

Different countries have different cultures. That's why they call it multiculturalism.
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scares: (Ah?)

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[personal profile] scares 2013-02-12 10:58 am (UTC)(link)
Not everything from a country is culture.

[...actually now he wonders if that means that she would call McD's culture.]
littlerabbit: (I think you should know what you stand f)

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[personal profile] littlerabbit 2013-02-12 12:00 pm (UTC)(link)
No but it's still a part of it. Like, I don't know, baseball and apple pie.
scares: (Ah?)

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[personal profile] scares 2013-02-12 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Americans don't have apple pie?

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comparative_insanity: (Smile you down to your knees)

[personal profile] comparative_insanity 2013-02-07 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[He doesn't really mean to sneak up behind her, he really doesn't. Sometimes when he wants to be alone, he ends up doing the "see me not"-trick without thinking about it, and even if she doesn't look up for long enough to be affected, he moves rather silently, and his mind isn't present enough for him to notice her in turn.

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.
littlerabbit: (Trapped)

[personal profile] littlerabbit 2013-02-09 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ She hadn't noticed him when he came into the room or, which was a lot more frightening, when he came up to stand behind her, her pencil making a dark streak across the page as her arm jumps in fright. How had he gotten this close? How had she let him get this close?

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.
comparative_insanity: (No man or woman who can't be touched)

[personal profile] comparative_insanity 2013-02-09 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
[It's hard not to notice her jumping like that, and he looks concerned, starting to reach out but stopping himself because that's probably not going to help.]

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?
littlerabbit: (Just talking)

[personal profile] littlerabbit 2013-02-09 02:48 pm (UTC)(link)
He can turn invisible. That would be a nice power to have, to be able to hide so that no one could find her. But it also made him dangerous. She would not be able to see him coming.

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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comparative_insanity: (This confidence in me and you)

[personal profile] comparative_insanity 2013-02-09 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[That just makes him look even more contrite, since he can see that she's not. There's a chair next to the window where he sits down, at a respectful distance for now.]

Well, I'm sorry anyway. How long have you been drawing?
littlerabbit: (Here's looking at you kid)

[personal profile] littlerabbit 2013-02-10 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
WHY IS HE STILL TALKING TO HER? WHY IS HE STILL THERE? She glances around the room, trying to take comfort in the fact that there are other people there. She shrugs again.

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.
comparative_insanity: (Only sixteen and you're such a tease)

[personal profile] comparative_insanity 2013-02-10 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sorry, he's incurably social and nice. It's a thing. And now he laughs softly, not at all put off by her evasive answer.]

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.
littlerabbit: (Is that a smile?)

[personal profile] littlerabbit 2013-02-11 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Her lips twitch in a semblance of a smile as the pink flower appears and fades on his cheek and - in spite of herself - she relaxes, just a bit.

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?
comparative_insanity: (Give me crack and anal sex)

[personal profile] comparative_insanity 2013-02-11 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm, good teachers are usually a good reason to learn how to do something.

[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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hipsterbane: (smirking at the victory)

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[personal profile] hipsterbane 2013-02-08 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
Reki watches her second most sardonic, isolated student drawing (the dubious honor of first place going to Parsee Mizuhashi). When she pauses, she approaches with fresh pencils and holds them out to her.

"For the record, 'in accordance with the prophecy' is a completely acceptable ending to any answer you give me."
littlerabbit: (Bites lip)

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[personal profile] littlerabbit 2013-02-09 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She accepts a pencil with a small flash of a smile, one of her 'teacher smiles', but the comment that comes with it startles her.

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?
hipsterbane: (smirking at the victory)

[personal profile] hipsterbane 2013-02-09 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
There's certainly no great overlap between Reki's informal style and Cyclops's strict one. Thus she has to suppress a giggle at the drawing.

"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?"
littlerabbit: (The fuck?)

[personal profile] littlerabbit 2013-02-10 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
[ Who? The question is clearly written on her face even though she doesn't ask about it.

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.
hipsterbane: (indifferent to the clamor)

[personal profile] hipsterbane 2013-02-10 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
Reki wonders what it is with kids these days and their lack of knowledge of cheesed out 80s attempts to ride the Star Wars wave.

"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.
littlerabbit: (Is that a smile?)

[personal profile] littlerabbit 2013-02-11 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
That makes her laugh in spite of herself. Maybe she could draw summers as a tree, would that help bring emotion into it?

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?
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