Opening Day [OPEN]

[astonishing_xmods]

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. ]]

Comments

[comparative_insanity]

"I might ask you your critical, unbiased view of fashion," he points out mildly. Such as say, Fai, you look like a complete skank wearing that. That way, he'd know exactly what to wear the next time he went out. Things like that were very important, after all.

But he does pull a bit of a rueful face as she hits the problem right on the money, which doesn't surprise him even a little bit. "Several boys, more like it. And several girls too, I have always tried to be very equal opportunities about being really dumb about people." And it indeed seemed that just about everyone, regardless of gender, had ended up being a good candidate for it. "Let's just say that my taste hasn't improved any since the last boyfriend you remember me having. It's more like it's gotten worse. And you're probably better than me, still, at noticing that sort if shit."

[anythingwithstrings]

"...You're going to use my reaction to decide to wear things I think are super slutty." She is not a moron, Fai.

"If its gotten worse, whose saved you from buildings being destroyed because of how homophobic your boyfriend is?" Look, your taste sucks, but your taste can't suck to an equal degree as that. That was a very special level of complicated terrible life choice Maya cannot believe you've repeated. "But I do remember your taste in who to get involved with being rather... hit or miss. With a lot of misses, and very few hits like me."

[comparative_insanity]

"Technically he didn't destroy the building because he was homophobic, he destroyed it because he was having a panic attack." Even after all these years, Fai still seems to feel the need to defend that particular incident. Mind, he doesn't sound defensive anymore, just gently chiding. "The point is... The point is that Lovi was a wildly insecure teenage boy whose internalized homophobia and rough upbringing turned our relationship co-dependent and in the end emotionally abusive. I was an idiot for being together with him, but all in all, it was still pretty mild." Yes, Maya. He really means that. And not because he feels the need to defend Lovi in general, because he doesn't. It's just that he's seen worse.

"I have excellent taste in friends, something you are proof of, but still the worst taste in partners."

[anythingwithstrings]

"I'm pretty sure his issues with his own identity had a pretty big part in the mindset that lead to him having a panic attack that nearly got you killed." Maya wasn't terribly surprised Fai was still defending that jerk, he loved that jerk. No matter how jerkfaced a jerk that jerk was.

"Clearly next time you meet someone you are serious about, your 'little sister,'" which Maya did airquote for dramatic effect, "needs to meet them and approve them. So you don't end up spending a week getting debris out of your hair." Not that she doesn't trust your taste in men or women on a matter of physical beauty, she just thinks you need a second opinion and occasionally a smack with a rolled up newspaper.

Newspapers are still a thing right?

[comparative_insanity]

"Well yes, of course. But somehow I don't feel like blaming him for his mental problems in themselves. Trust me, I have done plenty of blaming for the things he did to me, personally - the emotional abuse - but the panic attack was just an unfortunate accident." Lovino really hadn't meant to hurt him or Feli that time. There had been plenty of times, however, when hurting had been exactly what he was after, and as far as Fai was concerned, crying hysterically in the snow over repeatedly being called a whore had been way more damaging than a concussion could ever be. "He was never a physical abuser in that way." Said with the absolute conviction that came with experience Fai really wished he didn't have."

"But that's what I was after, of course. I already have Feliks and Yuui checking out my partners beforehand, but I think maybe I need someone more cynical at times - and I mean that as a compliment."

[anythingwithstrings]

"Let's not fight about ghosts from our past... there are so many new and different things we can argue about." She'd been gone for five years, while it helped reassure her Fai was still Fai, Lovi wasn't here and wasn't going to be a problem.

"I can handle that, I can also talk about them behind their back in the same room with them while I politely smile at them like this." And she gave Fai a winning, friendly smile that was definitely not fake and definitely not practiced for when she was telling Margot all sorts of snide commentary.