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[mansionstaff]

Who: YOU
What: SNOW
When: DECEMBER 6th
Where: EVERYWHERE
WHAT: SNOW (BONUS TREE DECORATING)

As a quiet Friday dawned on the school's campus, one could perhaps...feel it in the air. A creeping chill, a silent, barely-detectable indication that yes. Tonight would be the night.



By Saturday morning, the entire academy would be covered in snow.

BUT WAIT



That wasn't all--a large pine tree had made an appearance on the main quad, in desperate need of decoration.

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[punchtheflute]

Sonny liked bars just fine but he was the only person who had gone there because they had free peanuts and cheap pickled eggs.

"Alright!" he replied with a nod. "If you want to sleep, then we can do that. Or just lay there and talk till we drift off."

Because that, to him, sounded like a lovely evening.

He set his cup aside - he'd wash it tomorrow morning - and offered to take hers, too.

[forgetbeam]

"Wh... You can't turn that on me!!"

He performed the actions IN REVERSE.

"Counter attack!"

[butterbelieveamanspromise]

WHOA, IT'S LIKE FORGET BEAM.... ONLY BACKWARDS. Good one, bro. "Wow. It must've worked, 'cause I don't got a single clue what the hell I was supposed to be forgetting in the first place," Mondo retorted.

[forgetbeam]

"No, it doesn't work like that," he insisted, because he was actually five years old. Which at least put him at two years older than Mondo. "It completely deflects the effects of the original."

[butterbelieveamanspromise]

"Wouldn't that be called 'Remember Beam'?"

[forgetbeam]

"No, that's not it at all! There's no way something that ridiculous would ever exist! You're a high school student, grow up!"

[butterbelieveamanspromise]

Mondo dropped the playfulness and took SERIOUS OFFENSE to this remark. "As if 'Forget Beam' is any less ridiculous..."

[raced_god]

"But enough."

Which was what Falcon figured, anyway. Maybe it was easier for Snake to come to terms with everything if he didn't have all the details--the Captain wasn't sure he'd ever be able to let go of that baggage. No regrets, of course, but with that he'd accepted that they'd never be the team they once were.

"You remember enough."

[forgetbeam]

"Obviously it isn't!" Obviously. "You're meddling in powers you don't understand, Browada!"

[gentlesaint]

It felt like the earth hand shifted beneath him when the change took place. Rhys kept his eyes glued on the Snorlax, stuck in wonder.

"You are certainly big! So round, too! It's always interesting to see these kinds of transformations. Hey, I think I see a resemblance- your ears remind me of your hairstyle a bit."

[reservedempath]

She let him have her cup without much of an argument, which meant she was probably minutely okay with the idea of him taking care of her. In actuality, she was thinking about his offer. An invitation to simply lie beside one another and chatter was a good one, but how to accept it. What would that even say about her? When was the last time she'd done that? Likely with Sonny. For with Marie, the Wartortle had pretty much fallen asleep on her.

She and Sonny used to sleep together all the time during summer beneath the trees. Sweet summer romances where nothing ever went wrong, in their own private little world. A world she coveted and held deep within her heart, or what remained of it.

"I'm... good with either, if you're not quite tired enough for sleep yet," she agreed, though it was carefully said, as if she was still thinking about the concept. And she was.

[punchtheflute]

Laax!" Sonny replied with a nod. It was just a 'Yes' to Rhy's observation, really. He'd noticed the similarity too, after all.

He switched back pretty quickly so they could keep talking like normal people. "That's what I normally look like! What about you? Oh, wait, I think you're a Human, right? So you can't change into anything different?"

[punchtheflute]

"I'm kind of sleepy? But I don't think I'll sleep right away." he said, walking over to the bed and turning down the covers. (He was glad he'd taken the time to MAKE the bed this morning. Sometimes he just... didn't.)

He also reached into the drawer of the bedside table and pulled out a little box, from within which he produced a white, plastic strip that he applied to his nose.

"...it's to stop me snorning." he explained, face a little flushed. "I wear them at night so I don't wake Mac."

[reservedempath]

Slipping her hands behind her back, she lost herself in a plethora of thoughts as she watched him. Mostly trying to figure out which side she should sleep on, if he was the sort to move around a lot, or if things would hardly be different from sleeping by herself. She had no way of knowing. Well, not until they reached that point anyway, which she imagined was soon to come.

Then she blinked when he addressed her, "Is your snoring really that bad? Or are you just trying to make it easier for Mac?"

[punchtheflute]

"It can be really bad, sometimes." Sonny admitted with a little shrug. "I know it used to bother my team sometimes when we were staying up in Mt. Silver outside of our Pokeballs. But, when we moved here I found out about these little things." he said, holding up the cardboard pack before slipping it back into the drawer and applying the strip to his nose. He was so used to doing it now, he didn't need a mirror or anything.

"You've never heard me snoring when I've napped outside?" he asked. He didn't take them out there because he assumed his snoring would be drowned out by things like cars and birds and other outside-ey noises.

[reservedempath]

"I... Well..."

A good question. Her head tipped and she eyed him with some thought as she tried to remember if it ever truly bothered her. "I honestly think I've never paid attention to it. Or maybe it's because I... don't exactly hear things the way everyone else does. For me, it's a simple... I... don't know how to put it, but it's something I sense all the time, so I suppose it means very little to me. Or it's not noticeable."

Did that even make sense? No. She supposed it didn't. But then Sonny was always kind, so perhaps he'd simply play along with her.

[punchtheflute]

"OK!" He replied. He didn't really get it, no. But she did and that was good enough for him. So long as she wasn't bothered by his snoring that would make this evening even more pleasant.

"I'll wear the snoring strip anyway. Just in case. Um... did you have a side that you wanted to sleep on?" he asked, looking at the bed. It was a single and so not exactly roomy. Which. To his mind just meant more possibilities for snuggling. But he had to keep her comfort in mind too. "If you wanted to sleep on the side that's against the wall? I can pull it away from the wall a little more to give you some extra room?"

Because being stuck between a rock and a hard place was bad, but being stuck between a wall and a Snorlax probably wasn't much better.

[butterbelieveamanspromise]

"You pull an entire of four fuckin' hand signs and yell 'forget forget forget beam', Broniac," said Mondo. "A four-year-old could do it! What don't I understand?"

Ahh, but could a three-year-old like Mondo?

[gentlesaint]

Rhys's smile turned a little wistful. "That's exactly right. This is the only form I've ever known." Being acquainted with the laguz, he was familiar with the concept of people turning into animals and back again. He couldn't help but feel a little envious and wonder what it must be like to be as limber as a cat or as free as a hawk. Pokemon and other creatures foreign to his experience prior to Final Destination City were no different.

He snapped out of his brief reflection to remember that he was being slightly incorrect. "Oh! Of course, with this city's fair share of odd curses, I've been turned into an Ampharos before! I can't ordinarily do that, however."

[punchtheflute]

"Oh! An Ampharos? That's neat! I've met a few ampharoses and they're really sweet Pokémon." he said with a nod. It seemed to fit Rhys very well!

"But being a Human is pretty great anyway. I enjoy it. I think I spend more time as a Human now than I do as a Snorlax. I don't have to eat 900lbs of food as a Human. And my hands are better for using the microwave and TV remote and stuff than my claws are."

Snorlax claws are balls for trying to cook some microwave popcorn then switch the common room TV to an appropriate channel.

[gentlesaint]

One of those facts had Rhys astounded. "900lbs? Oh my goodness, I can barely eat just one of those!"

[punchtheflute]

"Really? One pound!?"

Man. That was borderline starvation!

"I'm going to make you cookies."

Said completely resolutely. They were going to work on getting Rhys some meat on those bones of his.

[reservedempath]

She looked between the two sides with some thought and consideration. What did she want to do? Which side? Did it really make a difference? She didn't think so and it was probably best to be honest.

"Do you have a preference?" she asked. "I don't really mind. I'm find on either side, really. As long as you don't push me out of bed. But then, even if you did, I'm sure I'd just curl up on the floor."

[punchtheflute]

"I wouldn't push you out! I promise!" Sonny replied with a laugh. (She was joking, right? Hopefully she didn't really think he'd do something like that!)

"I think it will be best if I sleep on the side with the wall, so, that way you won't accidentally get smooshed into it. But. Um. We can try it that way and then if you decide you would be more comfy on the other side, we can switch. There's no reason we can't change later."

[gentlesaint]

"O-Oh! That's quite alright! I can't stomach sweets in abundance!" he admitted sheepishly, waving his gloved hands back and forth. "Not that I don't appreciate the thought of you making me cookies... I bet they're quite delicious."