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The Xavier Institute Mod Journal ([personal profile] astonishing_xmods) wrote in [community profile] xavier_institute_logs2014-09-01 09:17 pm

Opening Day [OPEN]

WHO: EVERYONE
WHAT: Mingle/Figure out Room Assignments/Meet old friends again
WHERE: The whole campus.
WHEN: September 1st, 2018
WARNING(S): None. If anything goes into warning territory, please create a new log for it.




For all of the newcomers, welcome to Professor Xavier’s Institute of Higher Learning! For all of our returning students and staff, welcome back! Once Professor Xavier’s welcome speech wraps up, it’s time for everyone to get themselves situated in their dorms and, more importantly, get to know your fellow mutants! Even if you’re not sharing rooms, you’ll still be sharing the same campus with each other, so don’t be afraid to get used to all of those new faces! Or even catch up on old ones! You have options; don’t be afraid to use them.

[[ ooc: This is the general mingling post for all of our characters to get settled into their rooms, get to know each other, reminisce with old friends, all that jazz. The log will be split into multiple locations. ]]
tactlesstactician: (don't try to sneak up on me)

[personal profile] tactlesstactician 2014-09-04 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ There is a long moment of silence during which Soren just -- blinks at Bridget. Then he lets out his breath in something of a snort and shakes his head, looking back down at his book. ]

... any powers I should know about?

[ Obviously Bridget has to have some, but not all mutations are really necessary to know about. ]
kickstart_my_heart: (bird in the sky)

[personal profile] kickstart_my_heart 2014-09-04 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
-Bridget raised his finger, signaling for Soren to watch before he quickly unholstered the yoyo hanging off of his hip. With a flick of the wrist, he tossed it into the air, without looping the string on his finger and then just reach out to poke it...

... stopping it completely in place. No movement whatsoever. Even the loose string was suspended in the air.-


Pretty neat, right?
tactlesstactician: (color me intrigued but wary)

[personal profile] tactlesstactician 2014-09-04 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
[ The demonstration does pull him away from his book again to watch.

That - that actually is pretty cool. Soren can see right away how being able to stop things would be useful. ]


Mm. [ He nods, though he wonders... ]

Just stopping things?
kickstart_my_heart: (watch me crank that soulja boy)

[personal profile] kickstart_my_heart 2014-09-05 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Dr. McCoy said something about "kinetic vectors" or whatever. I'm not super up on my physics so I can't say I really knew what he was talking about or how all this works.
tactlesstactician: (blah blah blah)

[personal profile] tactlesstactician 2014-09-05 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[ That -- is actually something Soren has read about and understands, and he looks a bit more interested now. He's quiet for a moment as he thinks about the best way to explain it. ]

If you were to graph the movement of an object over time, at each moment you could break down its movements into up to three directions in the X, Y and Z planes and the rate of its movement in that particular direction at that moment. That combination of direction and magnitude of movement is a vector. Kinetic refers to the energy of motion. So basically you can control the motion of things.

[ tl;dr congratulations, Bridget, your roommate is an antisocial nerd. ]
kickstart_my_heart: (everything you know is wrong)

[personal profile] kickstart_my_heart 2014-09-06 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
Whoa... That... Huh. I can actually make sense of that. -Beast's way of explaining it was significantly more wordy.-
tactlesstactician: (owl head tilt)

[personal profile] tactlesstactician 2014-09-06 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Soren sits up and rolls off his bed to go over to his desk. He plucks an introductory physics textbook off and then holds it out for Bridget to take. ]

... this might help.
kickstart_my_heart: (rockaby sweet baby james)

[personal profile] kickstart_my_heart 2014-09-06 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
-Bridget's eyes lit up, gleefully taking the book. He was only in biology this semester. This would go a long way in helping understand how his powers worked.-

Thank you so much!
tactlesstactician: (a peaceful day to do paperwork)

[personal profile] tactlesstactician 2014-09-06 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
... [ Soren makes a noise of acknowledgement and then sits down on his bed again, pulling a leg up and wrapping his arms around it as he rests his chin on his knee. ]

If you haven't learned the math for it, I have math books too...
Edited (then I hit reply too soon) 2014-09-06 23:41 (UTC)
kickstart_my_heart: (cuz only the good die young)

[personal profile] kickstart_my_heart 2014-09-06 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh no, lad, MATHS I've got. Dad was an engineer, right? He made sure my brother and I were well up on our maths. I woulda started on Algebra early but... well. Homeless for a year and all.
tactlesstactician: (blah blah blah)

[personal profile] tactlesstactician 2014-09-06 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah. . . . for a year? Something happen to your father?
kickstart_my_heart: (terrified by nature's mocking stare)

[personal profile] kickstart_my_heart 2014-09-07 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
W-well, no, he's fine... I just ran away.
tactlesstactician: (Default)

[personal profile] tactlesstactician 2014-09-07 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
[ Soren just kind of stares at Bridget for a moment. ]

Why? Didn't like mutants?
kickstart_my_heart: (like actors in a photograph)

[personal profile] kickstart_my_heart 2014-09-07 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
... Didn't like the feeling of being a bird in a cage. I can't watch everything from home. I can't be locked away forever, no matter how much dad said it was for my own good...

I want to find my own path in life.
tactlesstactician: (do you ever wonder who you are)

[personal profile] tactlesstactician 2014-09-07 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
I see.

[ Soren heaves a sigh. ]

But you brought the robot bear with you.
kickstart_my_heart: (bird in the sky)

[personal profile] kickstart_my_heart 2014-09-07 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
Well... I like having something to cuddle with at night, if I'm gonna be honest. I've had Roger since I was little.
tactlesstactician: (my cheeks are cold)

[personal profile] tactlesstactician 2014-09-07 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ Envy sparks briefly in Soren's expression, but he quickly stifles it. ]

... will you ever go back?
kickstart_my_heart: (everybody's starry eyed)

[personal profile] kickstart_my_heart 2014-09-07 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
... Don't know. I love my dad... and I know he loves me... but right now, I gotta be my own person. Dunno where that's gonna take me.
tactlesstactician: (what resemblance to rajaion...)

[personal profile] tactlesstactician 2014-09-07 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
[ He nods and remains in pensive silence for a time after that.

Who knows where time and this place will take any of them, really...?

Eventually, if Bridget doesn't have anything further to say, Soren will flop back on his stomach (careful not to roll onto his back) to resume reading his book. ]
kickstart_my_heart: (rockaby sweet baby james)

[personal profile] kickstart_my_heart 2014-09-07 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
-Bridget set the book aside, laying on his own bed and letting out a sigh.-

So, uh... Whatcha readin'?
tactlesstactician: (why does this book have typos)

I went and stared at my bookshelf and then just picked a high school textbook at random

[personal profile] tactlesstactician 2014-09-07 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Turns a page. ]

The Unfinished Nation. . . . it's one of the history textbooks.
kickstart_my_heart: (everything you know is wrong)

[personal profile] kickstart_my_heart 2014-09-07 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
... Oh bugger. American history. My dad only briefly touched on it, and usually only in the context of advancements in science and engineering.
tactlesstactician: under i for idiot (your picture is in the dictionary)

[personal profile] tactlesstactician 2014-09-07 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm. I didn't attend school most of my life, so I'm mostly just trying to get caught up on things I would have learned here. [ here being America. ]
kickstart_my_heart: (when the sun shines we shine together)

[personal profile] kickstart_my_heart 2014-09-08 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
Mm... Do you think we could study together, then?
tactlesstactician: (color me intrigued but wary)

[personal profile] tactlesstactician 2014-09-08 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
... [ Soren hesitates, chewing on his lip. ]

What do you do when you study together?

[ What does one do? He's used to just reading and taking notes. ]

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