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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.

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"Finnish! Honestly, don't count me in as one of them, I wouldn't say it if I wasn't." He flicks languages easily, one hand on his hip now, but then changes back to English. "There's a few international people here. I suppose that's not too surprising... Ah, but you should meet Ari and Sigurd! They both grew up there. And I think Ari was born there, but really they've all moved around so much it's hard to keep track sometimes!" He pauses to take a breath, and then hums, stepping into the room. "Do you want help? What happened, anyway?"

Okay, she understood not a word of that, except for that it sounded Finnish, but she can guess what his point was. The next thing surprises her though, and she nods - she won't necessarily become friends with those boys, but it is good to know that there are others who speak her language just in case that something would make it necessary to find native speakers. Whatever that would be.

~~Homesickness is irrational and impractical so it doesn't happen, okay?~~

"A project exploded." She gestures at the silver shimmer that covers everything. "I completely forgot that the water here has a different chemistry than the one back home, and that should have changed everything." The temperature had been different, too. "So I'm cleaning up and starting over. What grade are you in?"

He glances around for a moment, and then picks off a cloth to start wiping off the surfaces for her. "Eleven. It's harder studying in English then I thought it'd be, though. What about you?" He can understand the mistake she made all too easily. There's too many things to think about that simple things get forgotten.

"Ten. Some things are a lot easier here, like math, but others are just... too different." She frowns as she picks up some larger shards of glass. "I wanted to go on adventures, but I'd rather have gone to a place that was unknown to mankind, or at least reasonably wild. And not run-over by tourists." There might be a bit snark at this, because the middle part of her description is how she's often heard others describe her home.

"I don't know if there's anywhere like that still really." Timo says, frowning a little as well. "One time Nalle and I ended up biking back to Finland, and even then when we spent a lot of time camping out I don't think we were ever completely isolated.

But you know, there'll still be time for adventures after we finish school! And there has to be somewhere left unexplored."

"Back to Finland? From where?" She sits up into a crouching position, eyes judging how much of the silver she has managed to make go away so far.

"If everything fails I'm sure space programs should advance a lot with mutant powers aiding in them... eventually. When the higher ups get their shit together and stop being babies about people who are different." She sighs. This is not going anywhere. She needs a different method of cleaning... "Not that I can really talk, it was never a problem back home. But I guess that's partly because my father was just popular with the people. Always a helping ear and arm and all that, way too nice for his own good."

"From Denmark. It took half the summer, but it was fun." He explains, smiling at the memories. "Nalle used to visit his brother there before he moved, but one time they had a fight so we decided to make our own way back." There were a few facts missing in that, but Timo didn't even think about it.

He finishes wiping off the desk and goes to shake his cloth out of the window. "You can't be too nice!" He says, cheerfully.

"Of course you can be too nice." Wow some people... you start to really really remind her of her father :| You'll make things harder on your family if you are like that. "You have to look after your own weelbeing and health and financial stability before reaching out to help others, and then when the helping would do more harm to you than it would help them you still shouldn't do it if you could." The shrug that goes with the words indicates that she doesn't care too much if he follows her words or not, though - she is kind of used to that kind of advice falling on deaf ears.

Timo considers that and frowns. He's not entirely sure that he agrees. "I don't think I could live with myself if a friend needed help and I didn't offer it if I could." But he's not childing, or trying to force her to change her opinion. That's just how he feels, and if she can live with herself, then that's probably a good thing. "You're right, though, because otherwise you can't be around to help them next time, but then what if they're not around to help next time?" If he waited every year to buy Björn a present in the hope that next year he'd have enough money to buy him something that was worthy of his friend, he'd never get him anything.

"Friends and family are different." She stops and considers him for a moment, wondering if he was talking about friends just there or if he would be one of those weird people who consider everyone a friends. "They are a part of your own wellbeing and so on. Though even then - think about it like this. I bet you flew here. They say in the safety instructions that you should place the mask on your own face before helping others, because if you try to help others first and then lose consciouseness before you really get to that, you are useless.

And that applies to most things." Middle ground. They should be able to meet here.

Pretty accurate. Unless they're the opposing team of a hockey match he'll consider everyone a friend - and even then he'll be friendly after the match. But she's brought up a good point and he frowns, and then nods. Some situations are different, but that's a time when she's definitely right. "Most things." He agrees, cheerfully. They can agree to disagree.

She would bet that you're one of those people that spend much-needed money on helping out strangers that got themselves into the trouble that they are in, just because you take pity on them. Even if it only means trouble for you and your friends.

But well. "So, those people that got here with you. Are they all like you?"

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