Opening Day [OPEN]

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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. ]]

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[niepokonany]

Oops. In his defense, he didn't know you two had a thing -- it was a little before his time, perhaps, or just off his radar.

"Anything! I mean, anything you'd actually wanna ask, and that we know."

And apparently, 5 years after everything, Feliks is still at least close enough with Fai to feel comfortable answering for him as a 'we'.

[anythingwithstrings]

"I mean are you two together? And how much trouble did Fai get into in the past five years?"

The 'we' was still fairly hopeful, but Maya's got this terrible relationship with hope she doesn't want to deal with. So she just waits for the skinny on what happened to all her friends.

[niepokonany]

That was precisely what Feliks was hoping to avoid having to answer.

"Huh? I, uh... oh, wow, seriously?"

He laughs, like that's going to convince Maya after some of the things she's heard.

"No way, he's like my best friend! And about as much as you think. He got a tramp stamp, and he's dated like half the losers in New England 'cause he's like a magnet for them, and I haven't seen him in about a million years 'cause he spent all summer studying some kind of science-y stuff on some island somewhere?"

[anythingwithstrings]

"I could replay exactly what you two were like? I do remember in vivid detail, and could give it to you in surround sound."

She focused on teasing, because focusing on how sad all that sounded. The half the losers in New England bit anyway, as that was clearly Fai trying to prove something to himself. Everything else just sounded like Fai, especially the tramp stamp. "You'll also have to describe the tattoo... and tell me if he accidentally blew up the island at all."

[niepokonany]

"I--I don't think you have to-- I mean, we're the same as always, you know?" He doesn't want to know exactly how he sounded. He already knows exactly what he would hear in his own voice, and what Fai never seems to hear or has the decency to pretend he doesn't.

"Anyway, the island was still there when I visited like 6 weeks ago. I guess I can't really make any promises about more recently, though? His science stuff does get kinda explodey sometimes. The tramp stamp... It's his old code name. He's 'Glamour' now, FYI."

[anythingwithstrings]

This is the face of a girl that is not calling you a doofus really loudly in her mind because Feliks and Fai are clearly morons when it comes to each other. Cause, to Maya, 'the same as always' means clearly not able to make the obvious move of going out with each other like adults, which you two are now so you have no excuses!

"Of course he would pick a stripper name for his codename, I shouldn't even be a little surprised."

[niepokonany]

Feliks is so very, very used to ignoring precisely that face. People have been giving it to them constantly for 5 years and a bit, after all!

He laughs at her comment, though, in a big, sudden burst that he struggles (and fails) to get under control. "I know, right? It's like, I told him that, but he totally didn't take me seriously!" Because he'd clearly been joking, probably.

[anythingwithstrings]

"Or he did it on purpose," Maya shrugged, it was just as likely. Fai was about as shameless as they come after all. "So if you and Fai are just friends, any special guy in your life?"

Maya was trying to be polite, but all the catching up just made it worse.

[niepokonany]

"I mean, that could totally have been a thing. He did look kinda smug." But he did that anyway, sometimes.

"And... no, not so much? I just, like, haven't met anyone fierce enough to handle me yet!" He smiled, bright, used to that lie. "I go on dates sometimes, but I'm still looking around."

[anythingwithstrings]

Fai's general default was smug. Figuring out the actual smugness from the presentation of smugness was the issue.

"Well, I was frozen for five years, so there aren't any real updates on my dating situation. You have to have better than 'dates sometimes.'"

[niepokonany]

Feliks knows the difference, instinctively. He knows Fai better than several actual telepaths that they've been acquainted with.

"And I don't know, none of them were really worth telling you about? There haven't actually been any second dates so far, that's how lame most of them were."

Not a single second date. He's 22 now.

[anythingwithstrings]

"Most? Not all of them? What about the ones that weren't lame like 'most?'"

Word choices, they matter. Maya's very big on what people say. And she was looking for a better explanation for 22 and no second dates is.

[niepokonany]

For a few moments, he really tries to figure out if there were some of them that he would classify as 'less lame'. He considers this for as long as he can stand to (a few seconds), then shakes his head.

"Okay, all of them were lame!"

[anythingwithstrings]

"Stop going out with losers."

Practical advice from a practical girl whose had zero luck with boys in her life.

[niepokonany]

"God, don't think I haven't thought about it."

He makes a little face. Not going out with guys he thinks are losers would mean really conspicuously not going out with anyone, and like, that would look like giving up, wouldn't it?

[anythingwithstrings]

"Then why haven't you done it, doofus."

Waiting isn't giving up, its waiting.

[niepokonany]

God, he wishes he were talking about anything but this.

"Oh, you know -- like, they say someone's out there for everyone, you just have to keep looking, right?"

Try not to think too hard on that. Feliks does!

[anythingwithstrings]

"If it's that narrow odds, I probably missed them during my little nap. And now their dating me would be illegal."

So you have no room to complain about this topic of discussion.

[niepokonany]

"What, like there are no guys your age now? Maybe you didn't meet them before because they used to be too young!"

[anythingwithstrings]

"It'll be very hard to meet boys while I'm out with friends if all my friends are five years older than me so I can't go into clubs with them."

Nothing but practical.

[niepokonany]

"So we'll take you out to stuff besides clubs! Like, I heard there's a pretty rad music festival coming up soonish. And we'll always have the mall, right?"

Feliks might be 5 years older now, but he doesn't look it, isn't a teacher, and is blond enough to pass for her relative anyway.