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Post by Veronique Poulain on May 30, 2009 18:36:49 GMT -5
This is a typical dorm, with light gray walls, one window, two beds, two desks, one television, and a bathroom adjoining to Dorm 206. They may decorate it in any temporary manner they like, such as posters and pictures and things.
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Post by yuuki on Jun 11, 2009 1:09:34 GMT -5
There is a short almost inaudible knock on the door immediately following the opening ceremonies.
After no answer there is another knock on the door a little louder this time. Unmistakeably there compared to the last one.
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Post by Hitomi Gilespi on Jun 11, 2009 1:33:32 GMT -5
Hitomi pulled her earbuds out of her ears, listening for a moment. Was there a... A knock. Hitomi turned off the iPod, lifting herself off of her bed. "I'm coming," she called. "Just give me a second."
Hitomi turned to the mirror, primping quickly to make sure she was presentable. She shuffled to the door, sighing and opening it. "Yeah, what's up?"
She blinked, then smiled. "Oh, hey, Yuuki. Come in."
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Post by yuuki on Jun 11, 2009 1:43:29 GMT -5
Yuuki walks slowly into Hitomi's room. Yuuki starts talking very quietly getting slower "Hey, Hitomi. I was hopeing to ask you a favor. . . "
As Yuuki twiddles her thumbs she looks up with pleading eyes and says very quickly and increasing in volume a good deal "I like Rudeth. I was hoping you could help give me a-make-over-so-that-he-might-look-at-me-as-a-woman-instead-of-a-sister-or-what-ever-it-is-he-thinks-of-me-as."
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Post by Hitomi Gilespi on Jun 11, 2009 2:20:05 GMT -5
Hitomi stared wide-eyed for a moment. "Okay, wait, um..." She shook her head. "Why don't you... sit down, or something, and go from the beginning."
Hitomi wandered back over to her bed, tossing her iPod onto her desk and sitting on her roommate's bed. "So what is it you're needing?"
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Post by yuuki on Jun 11, 2009 2:25:57 GMT -5
Yuuki sits down on a chair for one of the desks looking down at her hands clasped in her lap. She opens her mouth a little "Uhm. . . " she blushes somewhat (something that is not overly common for her).
Yuuki asks "Well this might be easier if I start from at least the other day. Let me ask you two things Hitomi. The first thing I want to ask is how much you have heard of what happened in the woods. The other is how much you know about Rudeth and myself."
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Post by Hitomi Gilespi on Jun 11, 2009 21:11:18 GMT -5
Hitomi raised an eyebrow at her, looking at her strangely. "Wait, what happened in the woods?" she replied, running a piece of hair through her fingers. Yuuki wasn't making any sense, and she really had no idea what any of this had to do with her or Rudeth or a makeover.
Now, of course, Hitomi wasn't stupid -- she had known Yuuki had been head over heels with Rudeth since Hitomi met her. (God only knew the poor girl wore her heart on her sleeve -- it would take a moron not to notice it. Which, apparently, Rudeth was, though that wasn't exactly the issue at hand.)
"Just tell me what happened, okay?" Hitomi said sympathetically. From Yuuki's tone, it sounded bad.
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Post by yuuki on Jun 11, 2009 21:40:04 GMT -5
Yuuki sighs softly and says "Ok. The other day I heard a girl scream 'Rudeth' and so I went running. When I got to the correct floor of the female vampire dorm I turn the corner, and what do I see but Rudeth beginning to kneel down onto one knee in front of a vampire girl on her bed." She pauses for a moment to let that sink in.
Looking up she blushes "At that point about a million things started going through my head. Unable to control myself I turned and ran out of the building into the woods to try to think over everything that was popping in my head. The thing I came to decide that it all ment is that I care more for him than I realized. I think I am really and truly in love with him. I knew I liked him but love was well another category that I hadn't even considered. But the only way to describe the feeling from when I saw or now when I think about him kneeling down in front of another girl is deep jealousy."
Yuuki continues saying after tilting her head down in shame "Anyway, Rudeth came after me into the woods and so I ran from him not wanting to face him just yet. I apparently found the one gap in the fence around this school. Running into a cave I nearly hit a bear. I slowly backed out but it was too late I had woken it up. Rudeth caught up quickly enough and started facing the thing and I ran to get within howling range. Then I turned around to go back and help him. When I got back Rudeth was hurt and his sword was smashed. I jumped on the bear and held on for a little while. It then tossed me into a tree hard. Thinking to distract the bear, and hopefully get a quick response from Rudeth while the bear was distracted, I turn back into human form just managing to stay conscious long enough to see that Rudeth wasn't moveing. I know Rudeth knows that werewolves will turn back into human shape if killed."
Yuuki flushes deeply while saying, "I also sort of hoped that well my rather exposed form might get a rise out of him, but neither of the desired responses happened."
Yuuki looks down again saying, "I have sort of come to the conclusion that he thinks of me as a sister or something. I was wanting to get a makeover to well change that if possible."
Yuuki glances up at Hitomi, twiddles her thumbs, and taps her foot to the beat of a song that is stuck in her head from earlier.
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Post by Hitomi Gilespi on Jun 11, 2009 22:01:10 GMT -5
Hitomi stared at Yuuki for a while, silent. "Well, I don't know if giving you a makeover will do anything, but I can try if you want," she replied plainly. "What sort of a look are you going for?"
Hitomi was fairly sure a make-over wasn't the right way to impress Rudy -- being something you're not is never the way to get someone to like you -- but she wasn't going to argue.
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Post by yuuki on Jun 11, 2009 22:09:57 GMT -5
Yuuki tense up a little bit before saying "You. . . You don't think it would help?" Looking rather crest fallen she continues "I don't know what else to do to get him to think of me differently. I mean, I was just thinking that maybe if I changed my look so that he didn't recognize me even if it were just for a little while. I might be able to get him to think of me the way I think of him. Unless you have another idea that could change his ideas. The main thing that seems to draw his attention is well beautiful girls." At the end of her last little word she is on the verge of crying.
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Post by Hitomi Gilespi on Jun 11, 2009 22:40:00 GMT -5
Hitomi shook her head, putting one hand on Yuuki's shoulder. "Listen, Yuuki," she began softly, "changing your appearance isn't the answer. Now, think about it. What do all the girls Rudy has been interested in have in common?"
Hitomi smirked. "They're all unattainable. Rudy likes girls in general -- no one is contesting that -- but all the girls that he's gone out of his way for have been out of his reach. Remember that gothic alto who played Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd two years ago? She hated Rudy. And that vampire girl last year? She didn't want to date anyone who wasn't another vampire. Even right now, he thinks he's in love with some mage several years older than him that probably."
She grinned, thinking for a moment. "Make yourself unavailable. Do to him what he did to you. make him jealous."
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Post by yuuki on Jun 11, 2009 22:44:35 GMT -5
Yuuki turns her head to the side thinking for a moment.
Yuuki says "Uhm, isn't that kind of mean though? Even if I wanted to I don't know if I could. I don't even know HOW I would do that for that matter."
She looks down still twidling her thumbs adding meekly "Besides, even if I were less or even unavailable if he thinks of me as his sister would it change anything?
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Post by Hitomi Gilespi on Jun 11, 2009 23:01:59 GMT -5
Hitomi sighed. "Look, Yuuki, trust me." She smirked. "I don't think this is a matter of what you look like to Rudy. You need to make Rudy think you're at least interested in some other guy, and he'll get jealous, especially if he thinks the other guy likes you. And I can teach you how to attract just any random boy you please. And that is about using the image you already have to an advantage."
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Post by yuuki on Jun 11, 2009 23:08:23 GMT -5
Yuuki looks quizzically and skeptically at Hitomi blushing a little saying "I am still not sure." Yuuki pauses for a few moments "If you are sure. The only other thing is I don't know how comfortable I feel about using someone like that. . . "
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Post by Hitomi Gilespi on Jun 12, 2009 4:15:07 GMT -5
Hitomi sighed in exasperation, running her fingers through her hair. Her carefully done corkscrew curls were beginning to flatten and kink. "Look, you're not really using anyone. You don't even have to actually go out with anyone. You just need to make Rudy think you're into someone else, and flirt with other guys."
Hitomi rolled her eyes. "I mean, if you consider that using someone, the majority of the population is guilty. You just need to learn how people think, and use it against them. Boys, especially are easy to manipulate. There's not much going on up there." She tapped Yuuki's forehead for emphasis.
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Post by yuuki on Jun 12, 2009 23:04:13 GMT -5
Yuuki shifts in her seat a bit comfortably. She looks back and Hitomi quiet for a while before saying "Well? If you are sure that is what we need to do. I am still not sure how comfortable with it I am. Of course how comfortable is anyone when trying something new I suppose. How do we start?"
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Post by Hitomi Gilespi on Jun 13, 2009 21:30:41 GMT -5
Hitomi stood, pacing the room thoughtfully. She tapped her lip with her forefinger, gazing at the open window at the late summer scenery. Within the walls, the foliage lacked the strange glimmering aura of the forest. It was almost safe from the peculiarities of the outside world, the strange world that was not her own. Almost. She remembered all too clearly the strange glow surrounding that boy...the boy from earlier in the day. No, even within these walls, there was no assurance of safety.
Hitomi rushed to the window, slamming it shut. "...Just drafty," Hitomi muttered, rubbing her arms. It was an inane notion, but her arms were goosebumped enough, and Yuuki had other matters at hand. She wouldn't push it.
"We'll start..." she began, her voice quaking. She cleared her throat. "We'll have to start by just getting you comfortable with boys, and getting you used to talking to them." She glanced over her should at Yuuki. "I mean, you barely talk to anyone other than Rudy, let alone boys in general."
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Post by yuuki on Jun 15, 2009 20:55:09 GMT -5
Yuuki beings to stiffen and look serious even steely-eyed. Yuuki says "OK, I mean I know I used to have problems with that, but not so much now. If you think we NEED to have that as a starting point then how do you suggest we do it? I mean the only boy I can think of that I really have an issue with being around right now is well Rudeth."
Yuuki looks down at her baggy pants and shirt then looks up rubbing the back of her head asking "Uhm, do you think I could at least get a clothing make over? What I am wearing and what I normally wear really aren't suitable for flirting don't you think?"
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Post by Hitomi Gilespi on Jun 16, 2009 17:04:40 GMT -5
Hitomi shrugged. "Well, I suppose we could do that, but we don't have much to work with." She thought for a moment. "Veronique would never agree to allow us off school property for non-academic purposes, so we have to work with what he have here. You'll need to learn to use accessories of course..." She glanced over the girl and made a face. "And make-up. You don't need much, but a bit of eyeliner and mascara wouldn't hurt, and eyeshadow and lipstick are your friends."
Hitomi continued to explain the finer points of fashion and flirting to Yuuki for a few hours.
((OOC: Cue montage of explanation. Cut most of the dialogue because it would be dreadfully boring.))
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Ariel Hawk
Ireth
Academy Freshman: Mortal
Come away, O human child, to the waters and the wild, with a fairy hand-in-hand...
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Post by Ariel Hawk on Sept 17, 2009 19:51:49 GMT -5
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Ariel shivered and whimpered in a nightmare-filled sleep, her blankets twisting around her body as she tossed and turned.
The monster had her in his grip again, his long arms clutching her against his body. His hands crept along her body, long nails tickling her crawling skin, caressing her chest, her thighs... Her father stood by, struggling against the clawed black hands that erupted from the walls to hold him back. Ariel sobbed in terror as the vampire hissed into her ear. "And what if I lay claim to the child?"
She felt the professor's tongue, hot and wet against her neck, and craned her head away from his reeking breath. He moved one hand to turn her face toward his; his bloodshot yellow eyes staring into hers. His hand held her head in its place as his head lowered, his breath hot on her neck, the tips of his fangs brushing her throat... She looked to her father, who was being forced to his knees under the pressure of the grasping black hands...
"DAD!"
Ariel jolted awake in bed, tears streaming down her face as she gasped for breath. She squirmed and pushed against the blankets that swaddled her, kicking them down to the end of her bed and staring out, wide-eyed, into the blackness of her room.
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Post by Hitomi Gilespi on Sept 20, 2009 17:45:59 GMT -5
The voice called out to her through the thick fog, the dark colors swimming in front of her eyes for brief moments before the room shifted into view. She shook herself into focus, hearing the sharp, tortured screams from her roommate.
Hitomi jumped to her feet, the sheet wrapped around her thin shoulders as she swept to her roommate's side, kneeling by the bed. Hitomi recognized the cold sweats and the tears and the shaking, and she knew what it was like all to well.
"Ariel?" she whispered, her soft voice cracking. "It's alright, Ariel. What happened?"
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Ariel Hawk
Ireth
Academy Freshman: Mortal
Come away, O human child, to the waters and the wild, with a fairy hand-in-hand...
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Post by Ariel Hawk on Sept 20, 2009 17:56:59 GMT -5
Ariel shifted closer to Hitomi's voice in the darkness, wiping a hand across her damp face and hiccupping as she tried to calm down.
"I... had a nightmare," she answered, sniffling and snuggling closer to her roommate. "I'm sorry if I woke you up..."
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Post by Hitomi Gilespi on Sept 20, 2009 20:03:21 GMT -5
"No, it's alright," she replied soothingly, patting down Ariel's wild hair. "You can talk about it if you want. Was it about--" She hesitated, pursing her lips together. "It was about him wasn't it?" she whispered.
Hitomi had not been present, had not even spoken to professor Conall. She had been lucky enough to have signed up for an alternative history course, and had thankfully only heard of him in passing. But she knew, or at least knew as much as anyone else did, and she knew the torment of being forced to relive painful memories.
Hitomi wrapped her sheet around her roommate, pulling the smaller girl into her arms.
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Ariel Hawk
Ireth
Academy Freshman: Mortal
Come away, O human child, to the waters and the wild, with a fairy hand-in-hand...
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Post by Ariel Hawk on Sept 20, 2009 20:06:33 GMT -5
Ariel nodded, leaning against Hitomi, wondering how much detail she should go into about the dream. "Yeah, it was..."
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Post by Hitomi Gilespi on Sept 20, 2009 20:33:59 GMT -5
Hitomi sensed Ariel's hesitation, and she knew that Ariel would need a bit more encouragement.
"If it helps..." Hitomi whispered, "I used to have nightmares sometimes too. I still do, sometimes." She glanced down, tangling the sheets in her small, dainty hands. The room looked strangely sinister in the pale moonlight. "My mother died a few years ago, when I was eleven. We never figured out exactly what killed her..."
Her voice cracked slightly, and she pressed the backs of her hands to her eyes. She would get through this. It would help Ariel to hear about it, and Hitomi had never spoken about it to anyone other than her brother before.
"The police said it was by natural causes. Hitoshi and I...we knew there was something else, but we never figured it out. When we moved, every night for a month, I had nightmares about it. I saw my mother dying in horrible ways, and there was nothing I could do." Hitomi smiled sadly, her gray eyes shining with unshed tears. "But I'm all right now. And I know what it's like."
Hitomi hugged the girl tightly, praying that she was helping and not making it worse.
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