A homework assignment for a professor - OTA

[aquawayfinder]

Who: Aqua and anyone who wanders into the open lounge
What: Aqua has been tasked to watch Romcoms. Thank you, Emma Frost.
Where: An open public lounge, since she has no clue how to work the DVD player on her computer.
When: Backdated - Middle of the day, April 7th
Warnings: Will add if needed.


Having been assigned by Emma to watch romantic comedies in order to potentially understand the point in having a date when she chaparones prom, Aqua has done what she has always done when facing a task at this school. She went to the library and took out research material.

Armed with every Romcom the school library had in stock, and wondering why the librarian had looked quite so amused, she found a lounge that no one was using and put in the first DVD. She turned on the player, and sat down to watch.

This... lasted a whole minute before she was up and pacing. She really didn't like sitting still. But... she reminded herself, this was a task, a challenge set before her. A skill to learn and master.

So she sat back down and worked on mastery as she watched, focusing both on the movie and the restraint to stay sitting.

Anyone want to come laugh at the confused look on her face?

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[soccerwhisperer]

Tenma was "taking a break" from homework, really. He had other classes to go to later, and soccer practice after that, so there was no time to settle down and do it, honest. Unfortunately for him, the grass outside was still slippery, and all indoor facilities had been booked at the moment for other sports teams that happened to have more members (that cursed greedy basketball team...).

He doesn't poke his head in the lounge, as much as casually stroll in. He stops mid-stride, finding something a little off about the state of the lounge, and couldn't help but gawk.

One of the more serious teachers?

Watching romantic comedies??

"Ummmm?"

He didn't mean it. The sound just came out.

[psykick]

"Master Aqua, I wouldn't have thought you were a romcom fan!"

Rinka had been looking for a place to do some reading for her English class, but what she'd found in the lounge was much more interesting. Friendly but serious Master Aqua watching movies. And not just any movies, romantic comedies. Which Rinka happened to love.

"Though, he is... how do you say in English... dreamboat?"

[shiningscales]

When Caelius stepped into the lounge, he didn't think much of the movie playing. Romantic comedies weren't exactly an interest of his, but it was a public lounge; there was no reason anyone should have any less right to watch them here than anything else.

The intensity of Aqua's expression, on the other hand, did make him double-take, Caelius glancing between Aqua and the television set to verify the content of the movie on-screen. For a woman watching a romcom, she looked awfully severe.

For a moment, he hesitated. Should he... interrupt her? Finally, though, he awkwardly cleared his throat.

"... Miss?"

[koukai_kirai]

Hijikata doesn't spend much time in any of the lounges. He's not a public sort of person, in general -- he does his lounging in his own quarters, by and large, and ventures out mostly when he needs to get something done.

Today, he has something to get done. Specifically, he's looking for something -- a book that Souji hinted was maybe somewhere on this floor. He walks into the room, looks around...

The first odd thing he notices is Aqua, who has always struck him as very serious and professional, boggling at something on screen. Which appears to be... a late-90s starlet whose name he can't call to mind, talking to a B-list actress about her Ideal Man.

Then he sees the stack of similar movies all piled up next to her, and just... looks at her, and raises an eyebrow.