open ♔ fall/winter socialization log

[wynn]

  

WHO || Everyone! [ota]
WHAT || Shenanigans.  Sorry that it's covering like half a year.  Forgive me.  Let us never speak of it again.    
WHERE || Anywhere in the castle, surrounding environs, London, Andres, etc!
WHEN || Any time in Fall/Winter 2016
HOW || Actionspam

[ The castle can be a happening place, even on more mundane days. This log is for random interactions over the course of these few months. Because not everyone is into parties, ok. Characters who are not currently squired in may also post, as their characters are living in the castle awaiting their ceremonies.  This takes place after the Knights have returned from rescuing Gar in New York City, but before the planned Keijen Blade concert at the beginning of 2017.

You are encouraged to start your own threads and tag around, and feel free to threadjack into any on-going threads that aren't specified as 'closed' in the subject lines since people can enter into rooms even in the middle of what's going on. WE ARE BIG ON THREAD-JACKING HERE. You can also specify 'single thread', meaning you want only one response for all participants, rather than multi-thread, where a number of different scenes/threads can be done as replies to the top prompt.]

On this log:

Section Heads
Failboat Return from NYC | multiple threads
Lance Sweets | Light wing appointments/training area/kitchen/movie rooms
Felicity Braddock | The bar/London/training room/shooting range/library
Kevin Beckman | Front desk
Sark & Sydney | closed
Wynn | everywhere
Jack & Buffy | closed
Hasmed & Solas | closed
Lis'sa (& Gar) | Hoard lab/library
Koraith | common rooms
Christos & Sylar & Katniss | closed
Mark/Alainn/Dana/Michael/Gar | garden
Logan & Scott | TV room
Belle & Gold | closed
Constantine & Zatanna | front lobby
Dante Wilder | Old man bar/training room
Darth Vane | Dungeon
Helen Magnus | Hoard lab/library/bedroom
Jade | Kitchen/training room
Myri | Light wing/training rooms
Lois Lane | London
Alainn O'Rourke | castle

Comments

[nojedi]

It's less about boredom and more about purpose. I joined up to be a part of something. I'm not a part of anything while I'm benched.

[buttholy]

I get it. I really do. That's why I joined, too. I wanted to be a part of something. Help people. And I know how much it sucks to not be able to do anything. That's why I like to train when I don't have anything else going on. So when Wynn does finally ask me to go out there, I can be the best version of myself possible.

[nojedi]

I can only train for so long. In the end, it's not the same as actual experience.

[Not that she really lacks for experience. Fighting a war will certainly give you plenty of that.]

[buttholy]

If you've been waiting a long time, I guess you could go to Wynn. Just ask to be considered for the next mission to be sent out, something like that. But if there's nothing going on, there's nothing going on, y'know?

[nojedi]

I know. [She shakes her head. Patience has never been her strongest point, much to the chagrin of her former masters. Well, not her master. Anakin wasn't extremely patient himself. But many of the others.] I can settle for exploring the city on my own terms for now.

[buttholy]

Cool. If you want to hang out with me, let me know. Not that you're required to or anything.

[nojedi]

No, no! I'd like that. [He's not Anakin. No one could be Anakin. But he seems nice enough, and she has few enough friends here as it is. Anyone who might be able to help her get her bearings is good.]

[buttholy]

Great! Just ... you know. Call or text or come find me whenever you want to head out. [he's trying to be friendly but also not too pushy bc this is his first squire and he wants her to like him :c!!]

[nojedi]

[It's pretty different from her first experience with Anakin, who hadn't intended to sign up for a squire and didn't want her until they did a mission together. But she's different too. No one could possibly replace Anakin for her, and she's not as desperate for a mentor as she was then. She doesn't know if she'd have the patience for a mentor that wanted nothing to do with her.

So she just nods, giving him a small smile.]

Sure, that sounds good.

[buttholy]

Yeah? Good.

[with that out of the way, he finally notices what ... she's watching ...]

That's So Raven, huh?

[nojedi]

Hm? [She blinks, then turns back to the show.] Oh, the holodrama! The... very flat holodrama.

[She misses space technology.]

Yes, I've known Jedi to have similar precognitive abilities.

[buttholy]

[he thinks she means it's emotionally flat, which ... he's not going to argue ok. that's so raven was not the best programming disney has ever given us.]

It's kind of a thing here. I mean, there are psions, you'll probably run into a few around the castle, but there aren't that many of them. And their lives usually aren't ... this cheesy.

[nojedi]

Psions. [She nods, though she doesn't entirely understand. People have powers here that are so different from the ones Jedi have. Even the similar ones are called different things and treated differently.]

I've had a few premonitions, but nothing on the scale of Raven.

[buttholy]

Wow, really? What happened?

[nojedi]

I had a dream a friend was in danger. She... wouldn't take appropriate precautions, but she allowed me to guard her until I found the threat and took care of it.

[buttholy]

Cool. That's lucky then, you were able to help her like that.

[nojedi]

I was a Jedi. It was my job.

[She's not a Jedi anymore, but she probably still would.]

[buttholy]

I guess you'll be ready for being a knight, then. They don't seem that different.

[nojedi]

That's what I'm afraid of. [She looks towards the television, watching Raven's antics.] I left for a reason. I don't want history to repeat itself.

[buttholy]

What happened? [he frowns.] You don't have to answer that if you don't want to.

[nojedi]

It's okay. [She shrugs a shoulder. It still hurts, but so does everything that came after.] I was framed for murder. They... handled it poorly.

[buttholy]

Seriously? Wow, that's awful. I'm sorry that happened to you.

[nojedi]

[She shrugs.]

Considering they're all dead now, it may have saved my life.

[Funny how that doesn't really make her feel better.]

[buttholy]

Oh. Well. [he seems a little taken aback by that, because he's a sensitive soul and maybe also a normal human being.] I know it's not much of a comfort or anything, but I'm glad it saved your life, if it did.

[nojedi]

[She's had a rough time lately. She exhales, trying to let go of her feelings, but mostly just bottling them up somewhere to be dealt with... never.]

They would be galaxies away either way. It's not like I would ever see them again now anyway.

[Obi-Wan. Anakin. Yoda. All her old friends. Gone forever. But it doesn't matter now. Not here, where she's safe from the Empire but also can't do a thing to fight it.]