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The Xavier Institute Mod Journal ([personal profile] astonishing_xmods) wrote in [community profile] xavier_institute_logs2014-12-24 03:21 pm

/puts on the Twisted Sister Christmas Album [OPEN/CLOSED]

WHO: Everyone on campus!
WHAT: Holiday goingons
WHERE: The Institute
WHEN: Threads can be set at any time this week.
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The entire campus is decorated for the holidays in red greens and silvers. It seems just about every major winter holiday is represented in some way. In the main lobby, there's an absolutely gigantic tree done up in a brilliant light display, with Emma Frost's touch added to the star. She's probably off somewhere enjoying a spot of cocoa with her old comrades, even. But really this wasn't so much for the Institute itself, but for all of its students. The ones that had no other home to return to....
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[personal profile] littlewhitelies 2014-12-31 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
“Please, just let me fix it?” She’s not quite begging, but there’s a certain amount of distress AND insistence in her voice. All that sputtering and attempts to clean up just makes her all the more keen on doing something to help and make up for it.

So she tries to dart forward and put the towel on his forehead, with fingers outstretched…
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[personal profile] realmenknitplushies 2015-01-03 10:56 am (UTC)(link)
Crap, crap - he's kind of cornered here - he makes one last attempt at keeping her away -

"Don't! It's-"

Kanji screws his eyes up in a desperate attempt to focus and avert the inevitable. But it's never worked so far. It can't.

The towel might help. (A little. They're hardly known for their insulating possibilities, after all.) But he's not had a good chance to run his battery down, he's just about full of current, and any contact at all is going to result in a surging rush of electricity and sparks across his skin...

A bit like that. Ah.

He takes a breath, steadying his pulse, looking over at M'gann - whatever state she's in, he could feel that could have been quite a shock - with a concerned look right back.

"...It's a powers thing, okay? Shit, are you alright?"
Edited 2015-01-03 11:34 (UTC)
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[personal profile] littlewhitelies 2015-01-05 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
Of all the things M'gann expects when it comes to cleaning someone up, a sudden snap of force running through her hand and up her arm isn't one of them. The sensation packs enough of a punch (and she lacks enough of a center of gravity thanks to floating) that it sends her flying in a wild mid-air tumble across the kitchen. What stops her is the kitchen counter... and a bowl full of dry flour ingredients that goes up in a nice, chalky poof when M'gann thumps into it.

"Uhn?" Is the best response M'gann can give at first, shaking her head back and forth as she blinks her eyes open. That DEFINITELY wasn't what she had planned, and it's a little disorienting-

Even more so when she catches the white color on her skin. M'gann sucks in her breath with a hushed "oh no-" as she draws her hands up close.
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[personal profile] realmenknitplushies 2015-01-05 11:03 am (UTC)(link)
Why's she acting like that over flour? Okay, the situation's a mess - it's a whole lot of a mess - but still... Then again, Kanji can understand anyone feeling out of sorts after a zap. Why couldn't he have gotten the powers that don't hurt people who are just trying to help?

He frowns, starts gathering the bits and pieces around the place. "Whoa. You. You don't look good. Look - I can't help ya clean that stuff off until I can get my own gloves on, but if I take care of the rest of it...? Just take it easy. Don't try'n move for a bit if it's that bad."
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[personal profile] littlewhitelies 2015-01-06 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
Taking it easy is a hard task for M'gann at the moment; all that's going through her head at the moment is that her skin is white somehow and how that's not right at all and this is really really reallyreallyBAD. It doesn't help with how much blood she has pounding in her head, and the 'don't look good' makes her start to curl up into a ball. She ducks her head-

And in doing so bonks it against her hands. It knocks a little of the flour off and she sees a faint patch of green skin underneath. She wipes at her hands to clear off more of that white... and that's when it FINALLY clicks into place with M'gann that there's nothing wrong or malfunctioning with her powers. It's just flour.

The laugh she gives is mostly involuntary, but all that stress has to go somewhere. M'gann looks up with a relieved smile on her face.

"S-sorry, sorry. That just... really threw me off guard for a second." Which is mostly true! "I think I'm okay though."

M'gann flexes her fingers as she speaks, feeling all four points touch her palms. Yep, everything seems to be in working order. Now she just has to show she's alright.

"That was your power, right? My fault; I wasn't thinking things through all the way."
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[personal profile] realmenknitplushies 2015-01-07 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah. Electricity's my thing. I'm ... kinda a live wire." Now Kanji's actually got the room to think about it and work, the various flour piles are getting attacked with a washcloth. "I'm just more glad you're okay than anythin'. But I was tryin' to warn ya... It ain't that I don't want help."

Well, he technically wasn't too keen on having a towel shoved in his face anyway, but still.

"An' I know you meant well. But..." He shrugs slightly. "It ain't that easy sometimes."
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[personal profile] littlewhitelies 2015-01-09 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
"Good to know... and yeah, I think I'm alright. Just got a little shook up from it." She floats back up and onto her feet, dusting herself off. Her flight is a little wobbly, but that might be due more to nerves than anything else.

"Guess we match sort of... though if I'm honest, you look better in white than me." Any comparisons to ghosts of Christmas such and such non-withstanding. "Wish I could help with the mess, though."

She glances towards the floor, before brightening up as an idea occurs to her.

"Hey! What about first taste when I finish baking these?" That's a good peace offering, right?
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[personal profile] realmenknitplushies 2015-01-09 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, at least she's up and about again - he's relieved to say that, and can actually manage a bit of a laugh at her first comment. "Heh. I'll be okay, just gimme a bit." It's just flour, after all, and he's brushing the worst of it off quite happily now things are a bit more settled.

"And you're sure? Well, if you're offerin'... you wanna try one of mine?" Peace offering right back over the shock, and all.
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[personal profile] littlewhitelies 2015-01-11 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah!"

She starts to stretch out her hand, in order to shake on the agreement like people do on TV... but she catches herself after a second, realizes how bad of an idea that is, and quickly draws her hand behind her back. At least she's a quick study in some things.

Instead she picks out spoon from the bowl, already well covered with some cookie dough and chocolate chips, and lets it float over to him.

"The baked things should be even better, but there's that for now. It's really nice to meet another cook, too... even if I'm a little of an amateur."
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[personal profile] realmenknitplushies 2015-01-12 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a tiny hint of a flinch, a glance aside, as she starts to extend her hand - but that's all. He looks a spot embarrassed that he's having to ask for something like that, but what else can he do?

The spoon, however, is accepted quite happily.

"Heh, same. I ain't really much of a baker. I'm better at savoury stuff... these're the first cookies I've actually made."
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[personal profile] littlewhitelies 2015-01-13 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
"They'll turn out great! I bet that the skill translates... maybe." She doesn't see why it wouldn't, when they're similar enough. (Even if some of her own attempts at savory cooking have ended messily.)

"You'll have to teach me sometime-" She pauses, worrying that might sound a little too pushy before adding "if you want to, that is. I can show you how to make more sweet things, too."