open ♔ september castle socialization

[wynn]

WHO || Everyone! [ota]
WHAT || Shenanigans.
WHERE || Anywhere in the castle, surrounding environs, London, etc!
WHEN || First half of September, any time between the September squiring ceremony and the War announcement on September 18th
HOW || Actionspam

[ The castle can be a happening place, even on more mundane days. This log is for random interactions over the course of the first half of the month.    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:
Drax @ the desk
Kate Bishop @ the desk
Sam @ the desk
Henry @ the desk
Kate Bishop @  roof/dining hall/library/grounds/bathrooms/desk/Dragon's Hoard/etc
Abigail @ Movie theater / library /firing range / training room
Francesca & Val'drin | closed
Penelope & Sam @ the woods
Emma Frost @ the library
Spike @ rec room
Lydia, Stiles, Astrid, Adam | closed

Comments

[killingtodeath]

[Rolled int checks to see if Stiles knows/remembers either of them. Survey says yes to Belle, no to Gold.]

Belle? She's Abigail's mentor. So she's dating some old guy, huh?

[theshameofcain]

Far be in from me to question anyone's daddy complexes, but she didn't seem the type.

[killingtodeath]

[He gives a shrug.] Maybe not, but if they're happy, I guess go old guy.

Besides- what type do you think she is?

[theshameofcain]

I dunno. Probably the type who likes those big swoony hunky guys in the romance novels. Librarians love that shit.

[Bambi, no. She makes a face.] My mom loved that shit.

[killingtodeath]

So you think she would be into guys your mom would be into. But still think it's weird that she's into older guys. I'm struggling here, because I've seen that librarian and she's not that much older than us.

[He says as if he and Bambi are even the same age. Or as if Belle is anywhere close to his age. I'm just chalking all of this up to #teenagers.]

[theshameofcain]

When my mom was her age, dip. [She waves a hand.] Whatever... age that is. Early twenties, I guess.

[killingtodeath]

[Stiles shrugs, not really seeing the big deal still.]

Sometimes you don't think people will work together but they just... do.

[says the guy desperately pining after a girl way out of his league.]

[theshameofcain]

[She squints at him.] Oh God, you're a romantic, aren't you?

[Really, the only big deal is that Bambi is about as romantic as pine needles and obviously there's some ulterior motive to a girl like that and a guy like the gimpy sorcerer, BUT...]

[killingtodeath]

May...be..? [He's never really... dated. So that's a hard question to answer.] I guess.

[SHRUG]

[theshameofcain]

You guess. [Eyebrow. She picks up a slice of pizza and laughs.] So young. So innocent.

[killingtodeath]

[Stiles will just grumble into his pizza.]

So what about you? Not into romance, obviously.

[theshameofcain]

I'm into just embracing life with as few complications as possible. Romance complicates things.

[killingtodeath]

Sure, but it's almost not always avoidable. You think 9 year old Stiles wanted to fall in love with a girl who didn't know he existed?

[Wow that got a little more honesty hour than he was planning on. Must be the pizza talking.]

[theshameofcain]

[Ooooh heavy. She knits her brows at him and begins to disembowel her pizza by removing the toppings.] Love's a terminal illness. You hope you never catch it and then you do and it makes your life miserable forever.

[killingtodeath]

[Well, she has a point. Sometimes he feels pretty miserable.]

It's not all bad. I mean, it's not great, but...

[He shrugs, not really having much of an argument. But he wouldn't change how he feels if he could. It might not be easy to feel things for someone who didn't really feel the same back, but he'd rather have that then forget.]

[theshameofcain]

But. [She peels off the cheese and eats it in a very delicate and ladylike manner (not) and then proceeds to tear the crust into pieces so she can feed it to the birds outside later.] There's no cure for it. You just hope it goes into remission or something. Or you catch something else.

[She is taking this metaphor to town, man.] But you sound like you've got the full Sixteen Candles act and you're stuck as Duckie.

[killingtodeath]

[Stiles gives a shrug.]

Maybe.

[Don't make him question his feelings, Bambi. He's comfortable with his unrequited impossible crush dreams.]

[theshameofcain]

[Awww but it's fun. She seems to realize she's smashing his paradigm with a hammer and gives him a shrug of her own as she finishes eating the toppings off her pizza.]

But who knows. The age of the nerd is rising. [She can call him that, because she is equally nerdy.]

[killingtodeath]

[Topic change? Topic change.]

So what are you into around here? Besides making killer pizza.

[theshameofcain]

Research. [shrug] A metric fuckton of research. I just wanna be the smartest one on every mission.

[killingtodeath]

Research on... what, exactly?

[theshameofcain]

Uh. Everything? [#SmartHero] You never know what's gonna be out there, man. Knowing what you're up against is the difference between life and death.

[killingtodeath]

Well, now I see why you don't date. Not exactly a whole lot of time for a social life if you're busy studying everything.

[judging u a little.]

[theshameofcain]

[RUDE.]

Wow. Next mission you're on without an arcane lore guru, you're gonna eat those words. And a bunch of spiderwebs, probably.

[killingtodeath]

See, here's the thing... I don't really think you can be a guru if you study everything. But arcane lore is a cool subject. I'm studying magic, actually. One of the girls in the Dragon's Fire is teaching me.

[One that he will soon learn is kidnapped sob.]