open ♔ valentine's day

[romanticidal]

♬ Careless Whisper - George Michael

WHO || Anyone and their special someone [Closed]
WHAT || Various Valentine's Day activities
WHERE ||Anywhere
WHEN || Feb 14th, 2016
HOW || Actionspam or Prose

[ It's Valentine's Day! ( aka Singles Awareness Day )  Assume that all missions that are posted already are going out after this. ♥ ]

Comments

/stumbles in here all late

[watcherjunior]

[ As a fellow singleton, Dawn can understand Caroline's compulsion. Sorta. But instead of cleaning, cause ew cleaning, she's merely in the library keeping busy. She can't help but look over with some mild concern. ] Are you, uh... are you okay?

[highlyemotional]

[ while still aggressively cleaning, ] Why does everyone keep asking me that? Does no one in this castle care about cleanliness?

[watcherjunior]

No! I mean, it's not that at all. [ How does she say this without further aggravating the woman? ] It's just that, y'know, usually when someone is cleaning like that, it's less about cleanliness and more about something... else.

[highlyemotional]

Stress. I'm stress cleaning.

[watcherjunior]

Oh. Yeah, that would definitely be a something else. [ Maybe she shouldn't ask, but maybe... ] Would talking about it with a total stranger who is great at keeping her mouth shut help?

[highlyemotional]

Not really. [ she huffs, pushing her hair out of her face and rocking back to sit on her feet. ] I'm homesick and my stupid mentor is mad at me because I'm nosy.

[watcherjunior]

Mentors should expect their squires to be [ As she speaks, Dawn moves to squat next to Caroline, and promptly fails her balance check (4), landing on her butt. ] --nosy. I'm okay.

[ She folds her legs to sit indian-style. ] Is there something in particular you miss from home, or is it just generally everything?

[highlyemotional]

[ as soon as dawn "sits" (falls with purpose), caroline passes over a lemon scented rag. clean and chat. ]

Everything. My friends, my school, my life. I had a life, you know. I was captain of the cheerleading squad, I was Miss Mystic Falls, I was going to get a scholarship to Whitmore and major in communications and journalism and then be a famous new anchor and people would be like Brian Williams who? I had a plan! [ she'd worked in time off for babies and mothering, too, it was very detailed plan. ]

Now everything sucks.

[watcherjunior]

[ She nods sympathetically as Caroline lists off what sounds like a really great life. ]

It's--yeah, I'm gonna be honest. It does suck. At first. When you have plans like that and a life like that, I imagine it makes this suck even worse. But... you're here. Here being the Knights. There's great people here and work with a purpose and maybe, with time, it sucks less. Maybe even gets good again.

[highlyemotional]

[ her nose scrunches. ]

This plan doesn't feel particularly upwardly mobile.

[watcherjunior]

Well, it's not a full plan plan, more like... an outline. Flexible. To be embellished with more solid upwardly mobile plans.

[highlyemotional]

[ it's a good outline and caroline gets that, but she hasn't had particularly long to come to terms with being a vampire in the first place and now she's here so it's a lot of compounded stress with stress interest. ]

My life is not a ten page paper, I need more than an outline.

[watcherjunior]

I get that. I totally do. [ She pauses in the cleaning to give Caroline her full attention. Hoping that it's a touch more... reassuring? ] But a life isn't built in a day. Much like Rome and the aforementioned ten page paper. Everyone who comes through the Veil has to build from scratch.

[highlyemotional]

[ it is, actually. maybe caroline has realized that dawn is one of those people that have come through the veil and has experience in building from scratch. her shoulders sag, mouth curving down in a frown. ]

The veil is bullshit.

[watcherjunior]

[ Miserably: ] Yeah. The veil blows so freaking hard.

[ Dawn sighs, idly scratching her head. She starts to say something, stops, and continues (ws 5). ] I wish I could remember half the things you do about life before here. That I remembered a home to be homesick over.

[highlyemotional]

[ caroline looks gobsmacked. ] You want to remember? I have to miss my friends for the rest of my life.

[watcherjunior]

Neither option is the easier one. [ She puts down her rag. ] I shouldn't complain. It doesn't matter any way.

[highlyemotional]

It might not... [ which come begrudgingly because caroline loathes the idea of not being able to go home. and, selfishly, she wants to only think about herself, but she rolled for not being a bitch. ] But it's better to complain than hold it all in.

[watcherjunior]

Yeah. [ There's a half-hearted shrug. ] There's gotta be a balance somewhere, between painfully stoic and becoming that person everyone avoids because they so do not want to hear it.

[ She reaches up to tuck her hair behind her ears. ] Do you know what you want to do with the Knights yet? I mean, at least, what sect you may wanna join?

[highlyemotional]

[ caroline latches on to the new topic, even if she has no clear answer. ] Not a clue. They didn't cover this in my career day activities.

[watcherjunior]

Hmm. [ Dawn picks up her rag and starts cleaning a spot she's already cleaned. Shh, she's thinking. ] What would you say your three best strengths are?

[highlyemotional]

I'm punctual and detail oriented. I'm a perfectionist and I will see a project through to its end no matter what. I work well in a group setting and I'm not afraid of a leadership role. I'm someone who thinks positively and can execute difficult tasks. I don't need to be micromanaged. Rather, when given a specific task, I can figure out the best ways to solve the problem in an autonomous manner. And I can control a situation rather than allow a situation to control me.

[ this is a job interview now? no, caroline's just been practicing college interviews since she was five. ]

[watcherjunior]

[ ...whoa. Okay, Dawn isn't expecting that. But she nods all the same, smiling. ] You should talk to someone from the Dragon's Tongue. I think your skills would work well there.

[highlyemotional]

That's what Malina said, too.

[watcherjunior]

Malina? [ God, all these people she doesn't know. ] I don't think I've met her.