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Tyrion Lannister | Game of Thrones

[tywins_son]

[Network]

Good afternoon.

[Here is an unfamiliar face on the intranet - unless, perhaps, you're a frequent reader of U.K. tabloids. Then you might have seen him shit-faced once or thrice. (It's so sad when a prominent, political family turns out a black sheep, isn't it?) He's sitting in a position that does nothing to disguise his small stature, not quite four-and-a-half feet tall. Might as well get that out of the way before the first class.]

My name is Tyrion Lannister - just "Tyrion" will suffice - and I'll be teaching some of you European history. Although, thankfully for both of us, it's late in the year for the beginning of new classes. I'll offer a few topical tutorials until year's end, so I can pretend as well as your other teachers to deserve my job...

[Then, without warning, there's the slightest change in his voice, a smoothing and softening that's likely to be perceptible only after the fact. And suddenly everyone without rock solid mental defenses will have a very hard time not accepting every word he says as an evident truth. At least for a few minutes.

Might as well get showing off his power out of the way, too.]

But I don't imagine you're thinking much about new coursework, what with that exam you've forgotten to study for, hm? Mathematics, wasn't it? And half your grade...well, I'm certain the Xavier Institute offers summer school for cases like yours.

[Action]

Of all the reasons he had accepted Xavier's offer of a position at the Institute, Tyrion had to confess, the chance to see the inner workings of a band of superheroes had ranked high. Teaching? He could take or leave it, depending on how many muffled snickers greeted his first entrance into the classroom. But, really, how many opportunities in life did a man get to sleep above the X-Men's war-room? Or, even better, to fiddle with their super-advanced training room -- the adventure he had slated for this evening.

And so, anyone popping into the Danger Room's control chamber around the dinner hour would find a dwarf watching with quiet interest as he cycled slowly through some of the saved scenarios. (Anyone trying to pop into the actual Room would find the entrance doors locked for the program running inside.) A bottle of beer in hand, he tilted his head at a squad of ninja looking for someone to attack, a Sentinel scanning its empty surroundings and then unloading a few energy blasts just for good measure...

"Really, I expected to have found Summers' stash of hard-light pornography by now."

He'd have to ask someone where that was hidden. And possibly about the finer points of the Room's system.

[globaltaunt]

Well, maybe. I have a few rules and first of them is that if you can't catch it, you can't eat it. I can show you how to gut and clean a fish, but I don't make any promises. Not that you'll catch one and not that you'll be interested in seeing how it worked at the time. I can tell you that no one is just throwing fish away afterward.

[globaltaunt]

It didn't seem like the fish felt like biting this morning, Teemo was a bit lethargic himself. He periodically nodded in and out of sleep, taking sips of coffee between micro-naps. At the slightest sound of intrusion, he woke suddenly, seized by unshakable habits, and held deadly still, blending slyly into the dock, the water and the pallid sunshine.

Only after the initial arresting shock subsided did he venture a glance behind him. It didn't take long to pick out the offender. It was a girl or maybe more accurately a young woman. Of course it was, Teemo sighed to himself. Who was he expecting?

Oh well, not being one to let good company go to waste no matter how impromptu, he cast her several broad waves and called, "Good morning! Care for a coffee?"

[hipsterbane]

"Gah!" Reki started as the hallucination faded before talking to her. It was a good thing she hadn't had any coffee yet or she would have splashed it on herself.

It seemed it was offering her some. Either her hallucinations were more total than she thought or she was talking to another mutant...one shorter than any she'd met before. Well it wasn't like she was that much more normal looking herself, with her stubby grey wings.

"Ah, yeah. Thanks. That's exactly what I could use right now."

[video]

[smulders]

[Simon Kemplar pops abruptly back into the awareness that he has no math test he needs to study for and in fact has never felt the need to study for a math test a few minutes after seeing the message.]

Alright. I can respect the ownage. That was legit.

[boywhorunsthroughtime]

"Sounds good to me." If he has to catch the fish before he can dissect it - catch anything, really, before he can: That is just a huge bonus. The hunt will probably be a lot more fun than what comes after that, and it not only being condoned but requested by a teacher...

[globaltaunt]

"How do you take your coffee? I may have some dry creamer."
Teemo unclipped a telescoping cup from his pack, filled it and topped up the thermos lid with surprising ease considering the thermos was nearly half his height. Whether it was the result of practice or natural talent, it obviously wasn't a bother to him. On the contrary, he was as pleased as could be to have the company. She looked so tired and beat, he assumed she must be a student sneaking back onto campus.

"Here we are. If this doesn't wake you up, I'm afraid you're already dead." ,he chuckled holding out the cup in his thickly mittened hands.

[boywhorunsthroughtime]

Feliks's clothes change back just before he can comment on them, and Zag crouches down to pick up his socks. "It's not like you can pick sometimes, you know?

And you can take your hands away from your eyes, I'm not gonna flash you or anything." He rolls his eyes right back at the other boy. "I was already dressed too much for that when you showed up, even."

[niepokonany]

"I already did, God!" The more he looks at the boy, the more he's aware of a nagging feeling that he's missing something about him, but... what?

"Anyway, like, how can you not pick? How is that a thing?"

[hipsterbane]

Reki took the little cup, letting it warm her fingers for a few seconds before sipping. Whoa. Yep, definitely not hallucinating.

"Wow, that's strong." And then the expression of surprise turned to a smile. "Which is how I like it. Are the fish biting?"

More than the fish, she was concerned about the forest's sizeable population of predatory birds. Certainly if one of them could knock Jaime out of the sky, it could do a number on this little guy. She looked up, unconsciously.

[boywhorunsthroughtime]

There is a moment of silence, a pause in which he is obviously feeling uncomfortable, but that passes quickly. "Why do you think people are here? It should be really obvious from there on."

[niepokonany]

"We're here," he said, with a flick of his hair, "because we're like, just too fab for people to handle without getting all jealous. Right?

"No, but seriously--do you like, Hulk out and rip them all off, or what?"

[boywhorunsthroughtime]

Actually he is here because he just might kill himself one day if he doesn't get his mutation under control, but he will hardly say something like that. So let's just gloss over that and move on to the next topic. Even though that way of saying that the uncoolness is not on their end is really eerily familiar. A few years older than him, blond, not sure if guy or girl or neither... who...

"If I would, they'd be in shreds." He shrugs. "I just ...loose them. One moment I'm here but then I'm not and my clothes still are. So when I come back they are at my feet."

[niepokonany]

Yes, Feliks has always understood inherently that he's not a loser, the people who think he's a loser are losers, and also that they're ugly and dumb and need to chill out.

He smirks a little, never really one to know exactly when he should leave well enough alone. "So you like, disappear, but only for a while? I don't know, are you sure you're not just like, a nudist or something? I totally know a dude who shows up to class sometimes and you're just all, 'oh my god, Feli, where are your pants?' and it's not even a power thing, he just spaces on it all the time."

[boywhorunsthroughtime]

...Feli.

Feliks.

Of course, how could he not notice that before. Not like they were something like best friends once upon a time or anything. Zag still isn't entirely sure, but it just has to be.

"Feliks?"

Just disregard the conversation that they were having.

[niepokonany]

And maybe someone could recognize him and his name from the pictures he took after the Sentinels were unveiled--between his own efforts and Fujimaru's computer-y stuff and Tarrlok's money and know-how, they're all over the internet and New York and the very least--but that doesn't explain the sheer shock on the younger boy's face. Feliks stares at him, mouth dropping open slightly as it finally hits him.

"...Zag? I--you're not--ohmigod, is that you?!" How long has it been? He's been in America... seven years?

[boywhorunsthroughtime]

"So you're a mutant on top of anything, too?"

He would have had to sit to put on his shoes anyway, so falling back on his butt and peering up at Feliks from there sounds like a reasonable alternative. Even though it is a bit cold.

There will be a crushing hug in a minute, but for now, this just all is a bit too sudden. It will have to sink in.

[niepokonany]

"It's seriously you?" God, that's crazy! He looks down at him, and something else crosses his mind. "Wow, you're like really short! But... but you were like, my age, right?"

[boywhorunsthroughtime]

"I'm still growing! They said they couldn't make any predictions, but I'm roughly fourteen now or like, my body is, so I can still have a late growth spurt!" Actually, from what they said, it is even rather likely that he'll have a growth spurt once he takes testosterone, but that has no place here. He's pretty sure that Feliks knew about his penis uh, not having grown yet (which had been Zag's assumption regarding that issue for quite a while), but this is not the place to test that. Plus with how selective the blond's memory can be... "And you haven't really gotten that tall, either."

He'll get up and step towards Feliks, using a hand to try and measure their heights. Sure, it's not particularely exact this way, but it has to work for now. "You're shorter than me!" He laughs and then wraps an arm around the other boy's shoulders, shoes lying forgotten on the ground for now. "So, what did I miss?"

[niepokonany]

Feliks pouts a little, and makes his shoes into crazy-tall platform heels, giving his old friend a cheeky, victorious grin. "Well, like, I'm taller now, so there!"

He laughs, though, and throws himself affectionately into his arms. Being around Fai has made him a bit more physically expressive with his affection, though perhaps it's more a change from his recent past than from his childhood--he's always been open, and never had much in the way of well-defined boundaries when they didn't suit him. "It's been forever! You look awesome! Oh my god, I have to tell you about, like, everything--you're gonna love it here, I swear to god, I can wear whatever I want and nobody even says anything!" Or tries to hit him, except in sparring!

[boywhorunsthroughtime]

"So I won't have to beat anyone up for you?" Or in Feliks's name, anyway, not all times that Zag went to beat up someone because they had bothered Feliks it was because the other boy had said a word.

With a grin that is threatening to split his face, he wraps the other arm around Feliks as well.

[niepokonany]

He laughs, walking Zag back towards the building, to find someplace to sit down and catch up. Easily, fluidly, he switches into Polish.

"I got so much better at doing that myself," he confided. "Tons of practice, you know? Like, oh, my god, normal school was just the worst. Here? You're not gonna have too much to worry about. At least, not from the other students.

"Oh god, so like, a couple months ago? You won't believe it, this stupid bitch called me Russian. So I totally decked him, like, BAM! It was awesome!"

[boywhorunsthroughtime]

"Sounds well deserved." Zag doesn't share the the same hatred for his nationality being mistaken for Russian, he's simply not definite enough about it himself (with a bit of luck, it'll be Dutch when he turns 18), but he can totally see where Feliks was coming from. "Too bad that you didn't get a picture. But you have to show me one of these days what you can do - what is your mutation, anyway? I mean it's probably really pretty and girly to suit you, but that's not really telling me much." They have so much to catch up on and he really has no idea where to get started, but basics first is always a good approach.

[niepokonany]

"It's kinda a little complicated to explain, but it's so badass, you're gonna be totally floored!" Feliks has a little trouble resisting the urge to brag among friends, all right?

He reaches into his handbag, and pulls out compact mirror. "Basically? I can imagine things into being different. Like, okay, here's my mirror, right? But maybe I wanna play frisbee, so like, I think it's a frisbee..." And it is, there in his hand. He tosses it and it flies like one, landing gently in the grass. "It's like, a little harder to make stuff real if I'm not touching it, and I can't change people or animals, but it's still super hardcore, right?"

[boywhorunsthroughtime]

"So you couldn't make it grow you a beard?" He'll wander over to the frisbee and poke it with a stick, in a manner that indicates that he feels that it might explode on him. ...He's prodding it very enthiusiastically, though. "Or turn a pony pink, knowing you." Ponies is one of the things about Feliks that he remembers very vividly. If he had to associate him with one thing only, it would probably be that.