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Post by Jaymie Elderton on Jan 8, 2010 23:57:48 GMT -5
It was early evening by the time Jaymie actually got to his assigned dorm. He fiddled the key out of his pocket, unlocked it, and opened the door.
The first load was the most important things: two large laundry baskets overfilled with clothes and fabric, one on top of the other, with a large red-purple-and-yellow sewing bag balanced on top of that, a bag of yarn, and a very ratty sketchbook. There was still his suitcase, more clothes, hair stuff, books, CDs, computer, and more fabric samples to bring in from the van; he'd also brought a little TV/DVD player in case there wasn't one, but that wouldn't get used tonight.
He dragged these into the room and had gotten them rather far in before he entirely realized the place was already occupied.
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Ozora Rien
Kitty Kat
Academy Senior: Gyrfalcon
Burn the land and boil the sea, you can?t take the sky from me.
Posts: 70
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Post by Ozora Rien on Jan 9, 2010 0:20:11 GMT -5
On a carved perch, watching him with sharp, predatory, very blue eyes was a white gyrfalcon. It tilted its head to the side and gave a curious chirp, then jumped from the perch and shifted. The feathers faded into an odd shimmery fog that grew with the bird's form, coalescing into a white overcoat with a dragon embroidered up one side in a very powerful red, matching red pants, and a deep midnight blue undershirt with solid looking black boots polished to a high shine. The same blue eyes looked at Jaymie from a dark face, framed by hair so blazingly white it had to have taken forever and a day to get bleached (judging by the barest hints of black roots) and a feather, possibly of the same gyrfalcon, dyed a brilliant blue to rival that of the red on his clothing.
"So, you're my new roomie. My last one moved out last year and I've had the room to myself so far this year. I'm Ozora Rien. You would be...?"
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Post by Jaymie Elderton on Jan 9, 2010 0:28:21 GMT -5
Jaymie blinked and stared as the bird turned into a shimmery fog, and the fog turned into a person.
It took him a couple of minutes to react.
"That is an amazing co- wait, you asked me something. Hi. What. You're a- hi."
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Ozora Rien
Kitty Kat
Academy Senior: Gyrfalcon
Burn the land and boil the sea, you can?t take the sky from me.
Posts: 70
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Post by Ozora Rien on Jan 9, 2010 0:43:26 GMT -5
Ozora blinked, "That is an amazing what? And I asked your name, but I could always look through things and find out what it is. It's just generally considered more polite to ask. Besides, if we're going to live together, we should start on the right foot, yes?"
He tilted his head in a very birdlike manner, his hair falling into his face. He brushed it out of the way with a swift motion, his eyes looking almost unblinkingly at his new roommate.
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Post by Jaymie Elderton on Jan 9, 2010 0:56:52 GMT -5
Jaymie grinned wide-eyed at Ozora, as if fascinated by him. "I- wow, you- wow. Hi, sorry, Jaymie Elderton, nice to meet you." He came forward and extended his hand to shake in a stragely elegant motion. "I... nice to meet you. Hah. I'm not usually this tongue-tied."
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Ozora Rien
Kitty Kat
Academy Senior: Gyrfalcon
Burn the land and boil the sea, you can?t take the sky from me.
Posts: 70
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Post by Ozora Rien on Jan 9, 2010 1:10:39 GMT -5
Ozora took his hand and shook it, his own motions somewhat more... predatory in their grace, with a conservation of movement that seemed more about conserving energy than anything.
"I have that affect sometimes, mostly when I'm actually trying though... and mostly because I'm being outragous not... well, normal." He grinned widely, noting Jaymie's... large pile of things that seemed to be missing important elements. "Jeeze, where were you keeping all of that getting it here? Here, let me help you get stuff in. I mostly just have a couple of outfits and school related things... like that damn uniform, so really most of the room is welcome to be filled with your stuff."
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Post by Jaymie Elderton on Jan 9, 2010 1:21:32 GMT -5
"That is... that is not normal to me yet." He laughed. "Thanks; there's a lot more in the van. I figured it was better to have to stuff something in the back of the closet or give it away than be unprepared for something. I might have overshot."
"So... damn. Is it rude for me to ask what you just did? Because that was incredibly cool. Also, I like your coat, the colors are great."
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Ozora Rien
Kitty Kat
Academy Senior: Gyrfalcon
Burn the land and boil the sea, you can?t take the sky from me.
Posts: 70
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Post by Ozora Rien on Jan 9, 2010 1:36:52 GMT -5
Ozora blinked, "I shifted? That's my other form. My personal power is I keep my clothes between forms. Which avoids all sorts of embarrassment. What do you do? You're new, obviously but so far I haven't seen anything too..."
His voice faded away as he tilted his head to the side. Maybe there was something... an odd feeling, an impression that Ozora had brushed off immediately as just being silly. "Thanks. Took me forever to save up for it, and it's hard to keep it from fading. Same with most of my clothes, which is very sadly not many. This kind of stuff is expensive..."
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Post by Jaymie Elderton on Jan 9, 2010 2:21:56 GMT -5
"Heh, don't say that; you'll make me want to make you a new wardrobe and you'll be my guinea pig until summer." His smile was as warm as a miniature sun.
Jaymie gladly accepted the other boy's help in dragging his stuff out of the van, which was conveniently parked near the back of the dorm for lack of anyplace genuinely appropriate to keep it or any opportunity to send it back to LA.
"I'm not sure what you mean, 'what do I do'?"
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Ozora Rien
Kitty Kat
Academy Senior: Gyrfalcon
Burn the land and boil the sea, you can?t take the sky from me.
Posts: 70
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Post by Ozora Rien on Jan 9, 2010 3:28:53 GMT -5
"You know, why are you at Dunehelden? You saw why I am, so what's your thing? Fashion design doesn't count. We have mages, werecreatures, vampires and I can tell you aren't one of them, and people who hunt rogues of the aforementioned. So what's your special, your magic? Your mojo, whatever? I think I'm running out of words here..."
He settled on his bunk, which looked barely touched, and leaned back with his hands behind his head. He kept watching Jaymie with interest.
"I wouldn't mind being a costume guinea pig. Well, too much. I like playing with clothes and colors," he beamed.
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Post by Jaymie Elderton on Jan 9, 2010 3:49:49 GMT -5
"Oh, that." He finished kicking his sewing stuff under his bed and flopped down onto it, pulling his knees up and laying his head down on them. The thought of sharing a room with somebody had only recently hit him, and he felt kind of awkward. It didn't help that the little voice-thing simultaneously thought Ozora was the best thing ever and kind of scary.
"Well, a couple of years ago I had this dream about a guy who was a bird, and when I woke up I felt a hell of a lot better. Not long after that I realized people were treating me differently and that I could sprout wings. Then my best friend grew raccoon ears not long ago and I decided to check things out." He smirked. "Not sure what that means, but I don't think I'm a vampire either. Presuming you're not shitting me about that."
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Ozora Rien
Kitty Kat
Academy Senior: Gyrfalcon
Burn the land and boil the sea, you can?t take the sky from me.
Posts: 70
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Post by Ozora Rien on Jan 9, 2010 4:03:04 GMT -5
"I just turned into... well actually, transformed from a gyrfalcon. Why would I be lying about vampires? Actually... there's one I've heard of who loves to make clothes. I bet the two of you would get along swimmingly. Sounds... hmm, I think I've heard something like that. But I'm not a teacher, so you really should talk to the professors about that.
"Me, I'm a magical genetic experiment," he said cheerfully. "Actually, I'm the descendent of one, but same thing."
He shifted into a more comfortable sitting position and shrugged again, "There's some interesting mages and stuff around here too. There's a vampire history teacher who glows when the light hits him. It's really cool. He always dresses like he's from the 1700's or something, too."
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Post by Jaymie Elderton on Jan 9, 2010 4:07:08 GMT -5
Jaymie's eyes went wide again as he absorbed that.
Descendant of magical genetic experiments. Glowing vampire history teacher. "This might be the best school ever."
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Ozora Rien
Kitty Kat
Academy Senior: Gyrfalcon
Burn the land and boil the sea, you can?t take the sky from me.
Posts: 70
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Post by Ozora Rien on Jan 9, 2010 4:12:03 GMT -5
Ozora grinned. "Well, I'd like to think so. Been coming here for... three years now. Never had a boring year. Boring classes, hell yeah. Boring year, no."
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Post by Jaymie Elderton on Jan 9, 2010 12:37:20 GMT -5
"What's it like here? I mean, is it anything like a normal school? I met one of the teachers and he seemed pretty decent, but really not normal. It-" eh, no reason to air all his worries to this dude he just met. Ozora. That was what he'd said his name was.
"You got any hobbies?"
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Ozora Rien
Kitty Kat
Academy Senior: Gyrfalcon
Burn the land and boil the sea, you can?t take the sky from me.
Posts: 70
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Post by Ozora Rien on Jan 9, 2010 12:51:10 GMT -5
Ozora stretched and shook his hair out. "Well, there's all the normal subjects, math, science, english, all that. But there's also classes to teach us how to control our magic, and often how to help understand it. And some of the teachers seem more normal than others. Professor Yogo is fairly normal, Smoke is off the wall and hilarious, the Headmistress is someone to fear and not just because she's a vampire. Himmel is... Lazy and often doesn't show up to class. He's supposed to teach art and German, I don't know what they do when he doesn't show up."
He paused, thinking. What hobbies did he have, really? "Um... hobbies... I don't draw or do sports or anything like that... Mostly, I adore flying and cheering people up. I'm also somewhat fond of making a ruckus in class. I'd like to modestly call myself a class clown."
Grinning, he stood up and brushed his coat out. "You've got one very obvious hobby. What else do you do in your spare time?"
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Post by Jaymie Elderton on Jan 9, 2010 13:16:16 GMT -5
"Himmel- it was Himmel I met."
"Flying and clowning around? Sounds pretty fun." He grinned. Ozora sounded like a really easygoing guy. "Other than fashion design- and I guess other than making stuff in general? I party a lot, hang out, watch movies... dress up and screw around. Just stuff, mostly. I'm good at making friends."
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Ozora Rien
Kitty Kat
Academy Senior: Gyrfalcon
Burn the land and boil the sea, you can?t take the sky from me.
Posts: 70
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Post by Ozora Rien on Jan 9, 2010 13:26:21 GMT -5
Ozora grinned, "Looks like they made a good match-up here. One of the mages... um... Aramis I think is his name, he's really quiet and paired up with the healer's nephew. Talk about two opposites. I'm surprised they haven't ever even hurt each other. I think we're going to get along pretty well. It's a pity it's too late to give you a real tour of the castle. Lemme see... you know probably by now the Headmistress is a person to avoid... Ah yes. The librarian. He's protective of the books, doesn't like people and is just generally an irritable person. Be careful with him, he'll throw you out of the library as soon as look at you. The cook is hilarious and loves people who will goof off with him, and who compliment his cooking. Just be careful because he likes to experiment. Other various professors... well, you kind of have to meet them and learn how to deal with them, just like every other high school."
Ozora seemed to have trouble staying in one pose for very long. He shifted, sitting back down again and flicking his hair out of the way. Maybe it's time for another hair cut... I know my roots are showing again, so definitely time to bleach that...
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Post by Jaymie Elderton on Jan 15, 2010 19:13:34 GMT -5
Jaymie flopped back onto his pillows. Mage, healer... "I've had a tour of the castle, anyway. That's how I met that Himmel guy, who also said he was a vampire. I still don't understand half the shit he said... in fact I think he said he was king of the vampires or something, but I know he wasn't serious."
"I'm just waiting for somebody to send me off to look for a left-handed monkey wrench."
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Ozora Rien
Kitty Kat
Academy Senior: Gyrfalcon
Burn the land and boil the sea, you can?t take the sky from me.
Posts: 70
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Post by Ozora Rien on Jan 15, 2010 19:55:24 GMT -5
"Himmel, king?" Ozora started laughing. It took a moment for him to regain him composure and breath. "As for a left-handed monkey wrench... I'm sure someone will think of something more imaginative than that."
He ran his fingers through his hair and worked out a tangle he found, then fixed the feather. Shifting yet again, he stood and started pacing. "I knew that coffee was a bad idea. I always forget how twitchy it makes me."
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Post by Jaymie Elderton on Jan 17, 2010 21:31:35 GMT -5
"Hah. That'll be fun. I'll keep my eye out," Jaymie grinned.
"I wonder how Aura's doing with her roommate..."
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Ozora Rien
Kitty Kat
Academy Senior: Gyrfalcon
Burn the land and boil the sea, you can?t take the sky from me.
Posts: 70
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Post by Ozora Rien on Jan 18, 2010 0:48:24 GMT -5
"You can always ask her tomorrow," Ozora shrugged, beginning to take the braids out of his hair. Probably wouldn't be a good idea to sleep as a bird, considering how Jaymie was reacting to this school. Though, Ozora had certainly reacted the same way when he first came to this crazy school too.
"Normally I sleep on the perch, but I'll sleep normally tonight. Besides, easier to get ready for class and stuff in the morning." He stretched and yawned a little.
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