Club Week! [OPEN]

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WHO: Everyone!
WHAT: Club Week is underway, and now we have booths set up for people to really recruit and get their ideas out there. Several NPC clubs have been set up as well. Plus, once again, if you want to get in on some X-Men team building, now's a great time for it.
WHERE: The school foyer
WHEN: Wednesday after classes
WARNING(S): None. If threads go into warning territory, please make a new post for their continuation


It's about halfway into the second week of school. People are already starting to form friendships, build social circles, and embrace student life on the Xavier campus. The faculty has set up several booths in the foyer after normal classes on Wednesday in order for students to centralize recruiting for their various interest groups. Some familiar names pop up, of course. "Anime Club", "Chess Club", "AV Club", "Soccer Club", "Glee Club", "GSA Club", "Bible Study Club" and others. It's a pretty inclusive school, after all, so why not have a broad representation of interests?

As classes let out, students are encouraged to look around, get involved, and otherwise put forth the foundation of their social lives for the school year. And of course, there's always people looking to put together teams for other purposes, too...

[[ ooc: Feel free to make top levels for your own groups, or just post open top levels with no specific group in mind ]]

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GSD/LGBTQ+ Student Union Sponsor / Helper in all science-y things

[comparative_insanity]

[Well, no one who knows him is probably greatly surprised to see Fai taking on this role. Possibly the students might not be entirely surprised, what with the occasional skirt or dress, but then again he really just wears those because he thinks they're pretty.

At any rate Fai is perched on the side of a table covered in multicolored glitter and a rainbow flag in silk chiffon. You know, suitably tasteful as always. And if you have to talk about his clothes at all, you'd have to do it in terms of side-laced leather pants and a shirt which was probably spray-painted on. Oh, and he has peacock feathers in his hair, which looks white and pearlescent for today.

He also has a huge bowl full of different pins which are free for the taking, with just about any expression of gender, sexuality, personality that anyone can possibly want, along with a number of different mutant pins. Fai has two attached to his shirt, one with "Pan" and one of a stylized Phoenix, which to no one's great surprise has turned into a symbol of mutant defiance in some circles.

Approach him - or just stand still close to the table for long enough - and he'll happily chat your ears off.]

[fuckuimametalbender]

[Toph is coming over, slightly annoyed. A student told her that one of the booths was getting glitter all over everything.

Toph hates glitter]

You better be planning on cleaning all this glitter up!

[comparative_insanity]

[Toph has no soul.]

But of course I will, my dear. I mean, obviously there's all the glitter that has already gotten caught on people's clothes and spread all over the school, can't do too much about that, but I'll definitely clean here.

[fuckuimametalbender]

If Bender gets sick from the glitter, you're paying for the vet.

[The main reason she hates glitter. She's not sure if it's bad for dogs but better safe that sorry]

What's the booth for, anyway?

[comparative_insanity]

It should be safe - it can't really get tangled up inside her. But of course I'd pay, what kind of man do you take me for?

[He gives her shoulder a light, playful nudge.]

And it's the GSD Student Union. For all the extra colorful mutants here~.

[fuckuimametalbender]

GSD? Translation?

[Because she only really knows the acronyms used in everyday speech, and she's never heard GSD before]

[comparative_insanity]

Oops, sorry. It's interchangeable with LGBTQ+, just less of a mouthful.

...and note how I did not make any off-color joke about mouthfuls here, like a good adult.

[fuckuimametalbender]

See, you woulda got points if you hadn't pointed out that you didn't get nasty.

[When Toph is more Adult than you...]

What does GSD stand for? I mean, the other letters make sense but...

[comparative_insanity]

But then how would you know I'm making the effort, hu~uh?

[And it's more fun this way, anyway.]

It's for Gender and Sexual Diversity. That way we won't have to keep adding new letters for every nuance, and we're not leaving anyone out.

[fuckuimametalbender]

That makes a lot more sense. Like, a lot.

[Seriously]

But why the glitter?

[niepokonany]

[Incoming! Still in his ridiculous getup from the Costume Club's table, Feliks appears to fling himself affectionately into Fai's arms.]

Hey, beautiful! I heard you had accessories, and I came running.

[He laughs; he probably helped out with Fai's preparations, since his own took very little time. Very nearly literally hanging off his neck, he beams up at him.]

Got any good ones for me?

[comparative_insanity]

[Fai makes the happiest little sound imaginable, wrapping his arms around Feliks and lifting him up, pirouetting them both around before setting him down once more.]

Honey, I wouldn't be me if I didn't have accessories, right?

[He playfully pinches the tip of Feliks's nose, before pulling the bowl closer.]

There's this one, naturally. ["Fabulous".] And this one, to celebrate the past. ["Born this way."] Oh, wait, and this one is strangely fitting. [He holds up a large, closely worded pin reading, "Gay catholic Polish mutant - Try to say that when you're drunk".]

[niepokonany]

[Feliks giggles, and while he's not surprised Fai kept him in mind while he was having these things made, it still just makes him feel good to know he was thinking of him. He gets up on his tiptoes to kiss Fai on the cheek.]

You're the best, I knew I could count on you! I want a phoenix one, too, we totally have to match.

It'd be more challenging if we tried to get people to say it in Polish, though.

[comparative_insanity]

[When is Fai not thinking of Feliks? Not that he actually knows how to put this into words.]

Well, of course you need to have a phoenix, it's so very you. [Bright and fierce and forever rising to fight again.] And of course there are these. [He holds up a couple of pins inspired by Feliks' campaigning.]

And honey, would you really like to hear your beautiful mother tongue slaughtered so?

[niepokonany]

[He removes his arms from Fai just long enough to thoroughly festoon himself with pins, then drapes all over him again pretty much instantaneously.]

That's way better. I thought I was feeling a little naked! Guess I didn't have enough flair-- not that that's what people usually whine about.

[He laughs, bumping his forehead against Fai's (which requires a little pulling Fai down.)]

And yeah, it's hilarious! Americans, they act like you're asking them to read, like, some space alien language or some junk! They make the best faces.

[comparative_insanity]

Well, we can't have TA's walking around practically naked on Club Week, now can we?

[Fai laughs, pressing his finger onto the table and then transferring the glitter he thereby picked up onto Feliks' cheek.]

There, the finishing touch~. [And then he'll get back to their affectionate nuzzling and of course get glitter all over himself too.]

And well, to be fair, Polish does tend to have letters that people aren't all that used to, you know? But that's their fault for being woefully uninformed, right?

Always relevant: http://textsfromlastnight.com/Text-Replies-14112.html

[niepokonany]

[He laughs, now at least, like, 20% more glittery than before, wrapping his arms around Fai's waist and rubbing his cheek against him. You know, as all good friends do.]

It's only got like one or two, and some accents! Most of the letters at least look the sameish.

[And half of them sound different. Whatever, haters gonna hate! He smiles up at Fai, bright as anything, because he's Fai and the whole world is better whenever he's around.]

And thank God we have you here to like, make sure people don't see me like that! What would I do without you, gorgeous?

fai is certainly faishionable

[tactlesstactician]

[ It's not like Soren is here because he wants to join any clubs. He's just curious. Nothing wrong with curiosity.

But walking by this booth, he has to stop and stare a little -- and then sneeze because some of the glitter is floating in the air and got up his nose.

The problem with him sneezing, though, is that his mutation allows him to control air to an extent, and he doesn't always have it under full control, so his sneeze? It winds up creating rather more of a breeze than intended. And that glitter? It goes everywhere --

-- much to his dismay because he sneezes again, making it worse and also preventing him from voicing any sort of complaint about the glitter. ]

Faibulous, even

[comparative_insanity]

Oh dear...

[Fai rushes forward with a rueful laugh, and apparently he doesn't come completely unprepared, since he has a spray bottle with water with him. It seems to clear the glitter out of the air at least somewhat, although some motes still linger here and there.]

So sorry about this - I had a little mixup and accidentally used body glitter instead of the heavier stuff. [He squints at the air, sighing.] I'm going to have to ask Hijikata to clear the particles out of the air again, and he's going to give me a look.

[Oh, wait, is he rambling?] Are you alright?

faintastic

[tactlesstactician]

I'm - I - [ nope, sneezes again. ]

I'm fine. [ But he's giving Fai a very sour look all the same. ]

Why [ sniff ] even use glitter at all?

[eternalprincess]

[Kaguya is hardly unfamiliar with what this all means, considering the city she's from...

For the moment, she is simply looking around, but can be talked to...]

[comparative_insanity]

You know-

[Fai has this tendency of starting conversations as if he is already in the middle of one and had only lost his thread of thought for a moment. By this point in the day, he's pretty covered in glitter himself, and someone has not-entirely-expertly but with obvious effort braided colored beads into his hair.]

-if you haven't at this point vaguely promised to join at least seven clubs, at the very least half of which you're absolutely not considering joining...

...well, you're probably just better at saying no than I ever was.

[He laughs, shrugging. Was there a point? Oh, wait:] Are you enjoying the week so far?

[eternalprincess]

[And Kaguya is a little thrown off by it, and for the moment is wondering how to respond to that.]

...Uh, yes. I have.

[Somewhat distractedly, she picks up one of the buttons with the word 'bisexual' emblazoned on it.]

[comparative_insanity]

[Fai is aware and quite used to the fact that he tends to be a little bit overwhelming at first, but while he can hold his eccentricities back if the situation really calls for it... well, most of the time he just doesn't bother. Most people tend to get used to it after a while.

Now he tilts a little bit to the side to see what she picked up, and smiles.]

We also have bi flag ones, if one wishes to be more discreet, and "Equal opportunities employer" ones, if one wishes to be witty.

[eternalprincess]

[Kaguya's already out, and has been for a while. But still, she's considering the bi flag ones.]

...Maybe I'll get this one and the flag one?