What time is it? DORM LOG TIME.

[pitticus.livejournal.com]

Who: sumabura_gakuen
What: Dorm hijinks and etc. Whatever you want.
Where: Student and Teacher dorms, and quite possibly beyond. Do what you need! ✩
When: April 30 - May 15
Warnings: I wrote 'hijinks'. That should explain everything.

Ripped off the last one: Basically, here's what this is: we all know our characters experience downtime after classes and their busy schedules, and this is a good portal for those kinds of miscellaneous dorm-shenanigans to take place. Not only does it give your characters the easy chance to meet new people in a laid-back environment but it's a good mechanism for strengthening CR and the like.

Feel free to begin in any way you please! Plan with (a) fellow player(s) if you'd like! Or, set up a thread and wait for characters to bite! Anything and everything is possible. Harrass your least favorite teacher by throwing oranges at their window! Play your favorite survival horror game at night while subjecting your squeamish friends to your dark tastes! Get into a squabble with your next door neighbors about unappreciated late-hour rackets! Confess your love to the girl of your dreams after class is over! It can all be yours if you make a thread. So have at it! Show this log no mercy.

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[icequeen-aran.livejournal.com]

[She furrows her brow and this is probably the closest expression to vulnerability that her face can muster, especially around Char. Even then, it is very brief. She opts for a half-nod. Indeed, coach is the biggest reason. If there other reasons, she has had an extremely difficult time in seeing them lately pending an in-progress log.]

What made you come back?

[blazinglizard.livejournal.com]

Green hunted me down and made me come back.

[...This feels a bit like his talks with Bulba for some reason. The same faint flutter of honest-answer-please-be-of-use anxiety. Which is weird, as this isn't a scenario where anybody's leaning on him. Trying to help your lost little brother is worlds apart from talking to somebody who's probably already seen ten times as much as you have, after all.]

If you're askin' what's keepin' me from runnin' again... I guess I realized I wasn't any happier for it. I think felt less free when I broke the leash than I ever did when I was here.

[icequeen-aran.livejournal.com]

[Not quite a grumble but she settles back into her comfortable expressionless gaze, no further comment. It seems she might have opposite sentiments, but mulls on his reasons none-the-less.]

[blazinglizard.livejournal.com]

[Yeah, Char's kind of picking up on that. Cue a moment of not-so-comfy silence.]

...I guess I've had people workin' on tamin' me a lot longer'n you have, though. I know you got a Charizard heart in there, so... don't go thinkin' your freedom's something you gotta be ashamed of. If you're feelin' boxed in, then take off and don't ever look back. You don't owe none of us nothin'. Ain't like the world's gonna stop without you.

[Which isn't quite the same thing as saying "nobody will miss you".]

...But if the people you trust are still alive, you should take advantage of that opportunity while it lasts.

[That one's not much more than an embarrassed mumble - it's doubtful Samus ever remembers saying it to him, but it's still not that easy to show even vague, roundabout signs that the one teacher he makes stupid jokes at even had any impact in his life.]

[icequeen-aran.livejournal.com]

...

[Those are certainly words which she will mull over even further, and the mumble she barely catches, but her mind is able to easily fill in what she can't confirm with her ears. There is a very mild look of surprise, perhaps intrigue on her face. She might even be touched somewhere deep down but even she will of course deny this. Just how did this conversation get so heavy? She is not sure, but she is sure her and Char are having a moment which means it is destined to not last very long. After a few more moments of silence Samus emits another grumbly sound, but it is far more akin to a chuckle.]

Consider me officially distracted, Kerosene.

[blazinglizard.livejournal.com]

You're welcome.

[Char just leans back with the usual light, easy grin, not bothering to give the use of his name much acknowledgement. Down by the floor, however, that tail flame's doing some very Charmander-esque happy waving.]

...Y'know, I still got a shot at graduatin' this year.

[Somehow. Cue a brief glance to the stack of F's. Clearly it is a good thing Biomech is not a compulsory class.]

[icequeen-aran.livejournal.com]

You're going to have to work your ass off like anyone else.

[blazinglizard.livejournal.com]

You're forgettin' about my natural genius.

[Hahahaha do you get it that's the joke]

The thing you really should be thinkin' about ain't whether I make it or not, though. It's what comes after that.

[icequeen-aran.livejournal.com]

[Ha ha that was so funny she forgot to laugh. Samus, however, will not think about that very long and instead make him think about it.]

What's going to come after that?

[blazinglizard.livejournal.com]

Maybe next year I'll be teachin'. Then you and me can be co-workers.

[Just... savour that idea for a moment, Samus. Cherish it.]

Maybe I'll take a page from your book and clear the heck outta here. I got teammates back in Viridian that I ain't seen in years.

[icequeen-aran.livejournal.com]

[IT TASTES LIKE NNNNNOOOOO]

I'm thrilled.

[blazinglizard.livejournal.com]

[LOOK FORWARD TO THE STAFF CHRISTMAS PARTY NEXT YEAR.]

What do you think, Biomech? Maybe there is somethin' here that I'm fit to teach. Petty crimes 101 or some shit like that.

[icequeen-aran.livejournal.com]

[HHHUUUGHHHNNN]

Insecticide 101. Setting people on fire 101. The delicate art of kidney punching.

All very valuable life skills that should be passed on to the next generation.

[Can you hear that monotone in her voice Char.]

[blazinglizard.livejournal.com]

Well, they sure as hell did me a lot more good than Chemistry ever did.

Maybe I just won't do nothin' anymore. Quit bein' a human, and just hang around like all the other gym leaders' teams do. Won't be that big of a change, anyway. I didn't do nothin' when I was a student either.

[icequeen-aran.livejournal.com]

You've done a lot. Whether you or I want to admit it is another story.

That's something that's always been in the back of my mind... who's there to hand out badges and do battles while they're staying here?

[blazinglizard.livejournal.com]

Let's not count the shit that'd get anybody arrested, for starters.

[Oh, Biomech. There's that grin again, even if only briefly.]

Nothin' to worry about. Green's got a hell of a lot more Pokemon than just us. You remember Blastoise? There's also, like... at least six other guys. Besides, I got wings now. If it's real important, I can carry Green back to Kanto.

[icequeen-aran.livejournal.com]

I see. [And she's going to subtly eyeball that hole in your wing how is that doing.]

[blazinglizard.livejournal.com]

[It takes him a second to catch on to where she's eyeballing, but. Oh look, that wing is now folding itself up against his back.]

...It looks worse'n it is. I can still fly.

[You can't prove anything.]

[icequeen-aran.livejournal.com]

[LIAR LIAR BUTT ON FIRE]

Uh huh.

[blazinglizard.livejournal.com]

Anyway, they heal up real quick. You've seen me with worse'n this.

[icequeen-aran.livejournal.com]

I've probably caused worse than this.

[is that a hint of a SMUG SMIRK]

[blazinglizard.livejournal.com]

Don't count if I don't remember it. Those ones when I evolved coulda been anybody.