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( the test drive meme )

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.

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[hipsterbane]

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."

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[littlerabbit]

[ 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]

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]

[ 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]

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]

[ 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? ]