open ♔ may castle socialization

[wynn]

WHO || Everyone! [ota]
WHAT || Shenanigans.
WHERE || Anywhere in the castle, surrounding environs, London, etc!
WHEN || Any time during May/June [ forward dated]
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.

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:
Vi @ the desk
Klaus @ the desk
Maxwell @ the desk
Aurelius @ Dragon's Fire wing
Gar @ the library
Dovan @ 2nd floor pub
Mark @ castle grounds
Lila @ the firing range
Abigail @ library/grounds/kitchen/training rooms
Spike (Kyp) @ people's rooms
Mars @ the library
Sebastian @ front steps
Alaric @ Dragon's Hoard wing
Myri @ cleric's wing, etc.
Spike @ infirmary/kitchen/outside/etc
Elena @ her room
Buffy & Kyp (and Fred) | Closed
Jack @ the cleric's wing
Kyp @ the dungeon
Spike, Buffy, & Helen | Closed
Rose @ various
Lila & Hook | Closed
Han @ the firing range
Brantley & Andrew | Closed
Vi & Des @ the garden
Failboat @ pancake brunch | Closed
Faye @ the library
Alanna @ the firing range
Jaina's induction party
Alex & Abigail | Closed
The Doctor @ the castle grounds
Elena & Helen | Closed
Dumage & Damon | Closed
Lila, Sylar, & Helen | Closed
Damon @ the bar/various

Comments

[bittersweeter]

We're Russian, we're either pale and blonde or fair and dark. That's it, there's no in between.

[ambitionist]

No redheads in Russia, huh?

[bittersweeter]

Well there's like a flock of them in St Petersburg, but. [ she pulls off her glove to inspect her hand. ] I google a lot. There's info-maps about it and Scandinavian blondes...

[ambitionist]

[he was just making fun of her ~absoluteness~, ok.] You really ought to find better things to google.

[bittersweeter]

I google better things. And then I google the history of the neck tie. What would you do if you were awake for days? [ it's a comment on her googling habits, but also a question as she's perpetually curious. ]

[ambitionist]

I dunno ... probably more of the same things I do while I'm awake now. I've never thought about it.

[bittersweeter]

Well, it gets boring after a while. Sleep is when your brain has time to decompress and wipe everything clean so you can start again the next day with a clean slate. Mine's never clean, so I just get new slates, collecting useless knowledge that never comes in handy. If I was in college I would have taken enough online classes to get a degree in psychology. [ a beat, a little smirk sliding across her lips. ] Imagine that.

[ambitionist]

Yeah? So why don't you?

[bittersweeter]

Who would let a murderer be a psychologist? [ don't be silly, alex. she closes the cover of the gun case. she's very delicate with her weapons. ]

[ambitionist]

That's not all you can do with a degree in psychology. You can get a job at Starbucks, too.

[bittersweeter]

I don't need a degree for that. Just an extreme lack of self-esteem and self-worth. [ which... she has that lack, she just also has an enormous amount of entitlement that counteracts them. but she smirks. it's funny, because being seventeen at the time and her utter refusal to work in a starbucks was one of the reasons she actually joined the knights. ]

[ambitionist]

Eh, maybe. You could still work on your education, though. Who knows, maybe if I had one, I'd be an astronaut right now.

[bittersweeter]

I can't go to college, I have no transcripts or recommendation letters or, you know, legal standing in a world I wasn't born into. And even if I did, I abruptly left school for three years and when I came back I dropped out six months later, so. [ so she doesn't have a super track record for school, no one would accept her without a huge monetary donation or maybe a new gym. probably both. she starts walking out, but she's still talking so she assumes alex will go with. not follow, go with. ] I doubt they even bothered to give me guidance counseling sessions at Wallingford for college prep.

[ambitionist]

[he puts his gun up and starts following after her. so much for target practice he guesses. w/e.] It was just a suggestion.

[bittersweeter]

I know. It's not like I don't want it, but. [ shrug. she's not normal so she doesn't get normal things. her dad isn't here to exist with enough clout to get her into to whatever nyc college she wants.

she can be so smart, but she literally does not realize the knights could pull the same strings. ]

[ambitionist]

You might as well go after the things you want while you can. This place is so sketchy, they could probably forge up anything you needed. [wis 15, ok.]

[bittersweeter]

Lemme guess, you joined up right out of high school? Why don't you go with me? There's not an age limit for astronauts.

[ambitionist]

[he just snorts.] True as that may be, I think that particular ship has sailed. I'll pass.

[bittersweeter]

I've already taken all the classes. [ she has a stack of certificates from coursera and other online purveyors of free classes. she has certificates from carnegie mellon, yo. ] I don't want to take them all again, when the work is already done. I've been here for a over a year and I've taken almost twenty classes. If each class is three credits, then I have nearly sixty credits and that's half a degree right there.

[ambitionist]

You could probably get transfer credits for them. [he shrugs.] I am literally probably the last person to talk to about stuff like that. I was never college-bound. I'm clever, not smart. And my high school transcript was shit.

[bittersweeter]

My high school transcript was remedial classes and demerits from climbing out my dorm window. [ twinsies. ]

[ambitionist]

[he snorts a laugh.] Cute. Actually, I guess my grades for the first two and a half years were okay, but ... my dad died when I was a junior, and I ... I don't know. I stopped caring about school. Or anything.

[bittersweeter]

That sucks.

[ambitionist]

Yeah, well. Story of my life.

[bittersweeter]

That also sucks. Do you want a hug? [ lila zacharov. not the most comforting human being alive.

unless you're sylar. ]