Headmaster Brockert
November 03, 2017 5:12 PM
Returning Feast by Headmaster Brockert
Coming back to school after midterm was always a relief. The holidays were always jampacked with parties being crammed into a tiny two week space. It was a social whirl and Mortimer hated social whirls. Or being social period. If it weren't for the flow of drinks, it would have been intolerable. It felt like hardly a vacation at all.At least so far, this year was going much better than last year. No catastrophies major or minor. No staff quitting though Professor O'Malley was on maternity leave and they still hadn't found a permanent Defense Against the Dark Arts. No dealing with any violent unruly students-though Mortimer still couldn't entirely blame Joe Umland for wanting to hit his brother, he didn't want to have to deal with such thing. The good news was that, he really hadn't had to deal with any students who weren't his granddaughters.
He hoped the second half of the year would go just as smoothly. Mortimer sat at the staff table in his usual place as the students filtered in. Once everyone seemed to be present, he stood up. "Welcome back to Sonora. I hope you had a good break." Hopefully that was starting to sound more believable and less forced and awkward. Truth be told, he could have cared less if they realized he didn't care one way or another about how their breaks went, but he had to give the impression that he did because he was supposed to act like he cared. Why he didn't know, but that was what was expected of him,
But then Mortimer was a pureblood and used to having to do what was expected of him. Whether he liked it or not, such as was the case in dealing with dull functions with dull people when all he really wanted to was read or make models of torture devices. In fact, he'd gotten an actual Chair of Torture, a chair covered in spikes as a gift from his wife for Yule this year. That was the highlight of the entire break. He'd actually felt something akin to excitement.
Mortimer continued. "There are no announcements at this time." With that he sat back down and began to eat.
Subthreads: Falling back on old faithful by Winston Pierce
I wasn't staring by Kir McLeod with Ben Pierce
Glad to be back by Dorian Montoir with Ruby Brockert
Looking forwards (tag a seventh year) by Ginger Pierce with Lauren Song
Keeping it real by Jozua Sparks with Joe Umland
Trespassing (tag Georgia) by Zevalyn Ives with Georgia Kirkly
Good mood by Jasmine Delachene
Asking the usual questions by Isaac Song with Kyte Collindale
Coping. by Lily Spencer
A Bird Fish? by Parker Fitzgerald - Pecari with Ingrid Wolseithcrafte
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Isaac Song
November 11, 2017 6:53 PM
Asking the usual questions by Isaac Song
Isaac loved the snow. He also loved Southern California, but he wished the four seasons were a little more apparent. On his annual snowboarding trip with his best friends, he had been a little disappointed by the lack of snowfall and the sleet that had ruined their trip a little, but here the snow was abundant. He just wished he had his snowboarding gear here and that there were huge hills to go down. Before going into Cascade Hall, Isaac used his suitcase as a makeshift sled and zipped around the gardens for a little bit and any hills he could find before returning to his dorm room drenched and very happy.With a mending charm, he had fixed up his belongings and took a quick shower before going to the Returning Feast. His short black hair was still wet and he wished he knew an effective charm to dry it faster. He'd probably learn it later this semester in Charms now that he was in intermediate classes.
Isaac felt a little awkward walking in right when the Headmaster started his speech, but he quickly took his seat at the Pecari table, though by the time he sat down Headmaster Brockert had finished. He liked how terse Brockert was at times even though he was scary-looking.
The food appeared and Isaac took no time in piling food onto his plate; he was voracious right now after so much exercise. He hadn't really looked at who he was sitting by, but he pretty much knew of everyone in his year by now. "The bonfire's the midsummer activity, right?" he asked, just to confirm. "I'm stoked about that. I love bonfires especially during the summers, so it'll be a great way to celebrate the end of the school year. Did you do anything fun over winter break?"
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Kyte Collindale
November 13, 2017 2:11 PM
Potentially unusual answers by Kyte Collindale
“Yeah,” Kyte grinned, as the younger Pecari beside him talked of his excitement about the bonfire. “Fire is great. I love fire of all kinds.” This, perhaps, would have been a cause for concern to many people, but in Pecari house it probably passed for a relatively normal remark.“It was pretty cool. Midterm is a lot of work - my family are circus performers,” he explained, as he wasn’t sure the third years knew that about them, “so Christmas is a real chance for us to catch up on skills. There’s a lot of corporate gigs - jugglers and stuff for parties, but no shows, and they don’t really let us do the parties because then the child labour people get onto them. Means a lot of the adults are out New Year’s Eve,” he grinned. “That was pretty sweet. My cousins know how to party.
“How about you?” he asked. Whilst he spoke, he piled up his plate with a wide assortment of food, without much mind to whether it went together. A bit of roast chicken, hot dogs, mashed potato, roast potatoes, tortilla chips and salsa… Kyte rarely met foods he didn’t like, and was oblivious to suggested ‘rules’ against things like double carbs. Partly because who didn’t want double, or even triple carbs, because carbs were delicious, and also because he didn’t necessarily know what carbs were. He added a liberal dose of barbecue sauce to the whole meal before tucking in.
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Isaac
November 13, 2017 4:33 PM
Tell me more by Isaac
"Same here," Isaac replied. He remembered almost lighting his house up once at eleven because he was trying to build his own fire in the backyard. His mom didn't enjoy camping in the outdoors much and would never let him touch the fireplace in their house, so he decided to take matters into his own hands. It had worked well enough, but he just hadn't considered the Santa Ana winds or how easily flammable the rest of his yard was. Luckily, his older sister was an expert with the garden hose. It was a secret he and Lauren had sworn to take to their graves. Except he'd told his best friends, so there was that."What, that's so cool! I've never met someone who's family was in the circus. Actually, I don't think I've ever been to a circus. That's super cool though. What do your cousins do when they party?" Isaac imagined adults who drank a lot and went clubbing like he saw in TV and movies. Typical New Year's Eve parties looked like a lot of fun and Isaac couldn't wait till he could join that scene.
"I feel like a lot happened this winter break. A lot of changes, anyway. My friends and I go on a snowboarding trip once a year between Christmas and New Year's. It wasn't that great this year cause it was raining more than it wasn't, but we had a great time together. One of my friends just got a girlfriend so we talked a lot about that. He wanted to bring her, but I didn't think it was the best idea since they just started going out. It was also the first holiday season my little sister wasn't with us, so that was kind of sad. She started school in Korea to be closer to my dad so she's with him during the holiday seasons now I guess."
Apparently he'd had more to say than he'd realized and Isaac stopped to take a breath. "That was a lot, sorry. I can talk a lot sometimes." One thing he loved about his house was how everyone seemed to just get each other, and he didn't feel as bad knowing that there were other people in his house that also liked to talk.
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Kyte
November 13, 2017 6:43 PM
It's all pretty awesome by Kyte
“Thanks,” Kyte grinned, when Isaac exclaimed that what he did was super cool. It was. He never got why Raine was so self-conscious about the whole thing. She was worried people would name call or make fun of them - this was something of a self-fulfilling prophecy, as she, being more self-conscious, and children being able to sense this weakness came in for far more flack, whilst Kyte had always had the easy knack of laughing at himself which stopped other people doing it, plus the added bonus of being male, which made it easier to get away with being goofy. “You’ve never been?” he asked shocked. “What town are you from? We can totally sort you out next summer.“They bring booze and stuff to smoke,” he answered, when asked about partying with his cousins, “We do tricks until people are too wasted. It can be like… crazy, or you can just find space and make it chill, depends what you’re into.
“You’re cool, man,” he shrugged off the apology. “Raine - my twin, Teppenpaw - says I talk too much too, but she hardly says anything, so I figure one of us has to. And how can someone talk ‘too much’? Talking’s fun. It’s nice. It’d suck if people sat around in silence. And you snowboard? That’s pretty rad! What’s the best trick you can do?” he asked. “And lucky your mate…. I wish the girls here were a bit more willing to get casual.”
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Isaac
November 14, 2017 1:49 AM
Sure sounds like it by Isaac
"What sorts of tricks can you do?" he asked curiously. Isaac had never tried to learn how to juggle or do magic tricks on his own, but he thought it was super cool when someone else could do it. "I sometimes see one of my neighbors ride a unicycle sometimes, but that's about as close as I get," he laughed. "I live in Los Angeles. You'd think there'd be a lot of circus performers in Hollywood, but I guess I just don't see them. My mom's never taken us to the circus either, even when we were little. It would be so cool to see you guys perform this summer!" Isaac was stoked he was making friends with really interesting classmates. Some of his peers seemed pretty pretentious--definitely not his style.Kyte's cousins did sound pretty wild. Isaac raised his eyebrows in wonder. "That sounds cool," he said. "I've only seen people do that kinda stuff in movies, and my dad likes to drink a lot. I caught him smoking too, but only when my mom's not around to see or smell it. I'm always down for crazy." Isaac grinned. "Have you ever tried that stuff or do you just do tricks for people?"
"Hey, my sister's in Teppenpaw too. She's a seventh year though. When she's comfortable she can talk a ton, but she's not always super comfortable with everyone. Glad we can relate on that level though." Isaac grinned. Kyte was pretty cool in a number of ways and Isaac was enjoying the older boy's company.
"Probably the hardest thing I know how to do right now is ride a rail. It was hard to learn and keep my balance, but I finally got it last year. My favorite thing to do is just go off jumps as high as I dare to and do method grabs. I wish I could go snowboarding more often, but I don't always have a ride. I can't wait to learn how to drive my mom's car and learn how to Apparate so I can get there on my own. My friend Drake always rents a cabin up there in the winter--he's the one with the girlfriend--and knows how to do a ton of cool tricks since he practically lives there in the winters."
Isaac took a breath to drink some juice, but he had a lot to say about Kyte's next comment. "I know what you mean, the girls here are super pretty, but a lot of them are pretty stuck up." Sometimes, when Isaac thought a girl was super pretty, he felt things he'd never experienced before. Sometimes, even if he wasn't doing anything, his thoughts would wander to pretty inappropriate things and he felt embarrassed about it. He guessed it was normal with all the memes he'd read about being a teenage boy, but he never ever ever wanted to talk about it with anyone in his family, even his mom.
"But if you had a choice, who would you date from here?" Isaac asked as he started stuffing his face again. "I mean, if you're not dating anyone already."
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Kyte
November 15, 2017 5:48 PM
Whiskey, women and... more women. And boys. by Kyte
“My main thing is stunt broomstick riding,” Kyte explained when Isaac asked about what tricks he could do, his mind already jumping away from the fact they’d been talking about the tricks going down at the party, where he’d mostly juggled. “So, like acrobatics… I can handstand on one, and jump an obstacle - like the boom goes under a hoop, I jump through it. That kind of thing. It’s pretty much as cool as it sounds,” he grinned. Kyte loved what he did, and saw no reason not to enjoy it, and all the glory that came with it. “I think one of my cousins brought a unicycle round once…. It’s a Muggle thing, right?” he asked, “It was funny. Ours is an all magical circus. I mean, there’s a lot of overlap between the two, and we’ve got nothing against Muggles, just sometimes I don’t know the equipment they use.“More than tried,” he grinned, when Isaac asked whether he joined in with his cousins. “New Year got pretty messy. It was awesome.
“That’s cool! Does the MARS room do snow, or is that too complicated? Maybe you can show me some time if it does, and get some more practise too,” he suggested. He didn’t fully understand all the tricks Isaac mentioned, but that kind of thing was always easier to show than tell, and maybe they could trade some ideas. “Rails are to do with trains, right?” he added. Although he lived pretty much full time in the magical world, he moved around so much and mixed with so many people it was impossible not to cross paths with a few elements of the Muggle world, and learn a bit about it.
“If personality wasn’t a factor, Tasha is pretty hot. And I’ve seen Nevaeh in a swimsuit and that is not something you’ll forget quickly,” Nevaeh’s curves had definitely been something to keep a mental picture of - one that might, perhaps, have got slightly exaggerated over subsequent uses... “She’s pretty cool too. And she has no idea what I look like, which I’m starting to think might be a plus,” he grinned. Kyte wasn’t self-conscious enough to think about or care whether he was ugly, but he was well aware that he wasn’t exactly mainstream attractive. “Oh, and someone was saying that Louis is either gay or not exclusively into Purebloods. Maybe both. Guess it can’t hurt to ask which it is… Who’d you get with if you could?”
OOC - permission obtained from Nevaeh’s author. Scurrilous gossip about Louis at least 50% invented, like all good high school rumours.
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Isaac
November 17, 2017 1:43 AM
I like to think we're on the way to manhood by Isaac
"Dude, that's dope." Isaac had stopped eating for a second to awe at his older housemate. Even though he liked to think of himself as pretty athletic, Isaac had never tried acrobatics or parkour or anything too different from "normal" sports. Kyte lived a pretty interesting life. There was the child in Isaac that wanted to ask if he new friend was famous, but he didn't want to seem dumb or starstruck.The fact that Kyte had tried the stuff his cousins had was also crazy! Isaac was thoroughly impressed. "You live a pretty cool life," he replied. "Mine seems less interesting when you compare." Isaac liked his life a lot, but Kyte's was so different it fascinated him. He really wanted to know what it would be like to be in his shoes for a summer. It sounded so free-spirited. He knew that much freedom wasn't really his thing, but he still liked the sound of it.
"I have no idea if MARS does snow, it's never done it when I've gone in. If it did, complete with snowy hills and all, that'd be so awesome! Yeah, the tricks look cooler in person. These rails aren't like train ones, they're more like...like stair rails. You know, handrails I guess. Except these ones are straight instead of tilted. I skateboard too, but I'm not as good on cement as I am on snow. I should be though, if you think about it, since it doesn't even snow in L.A." Isaac tapped his chin and decided as soon as he got back home he'd start working on skateboarding tricks this summer.
Talking about girls was something a little bit new to Isaac, but he really enjoyed it. There were so many pretty girls here and at home to appreciate. Isaac's eyes drifted to the girls Kyte mentioned, still a little too innocent and shy to imagine girls in swimsuits or other skimpier wear himself.
At Kyte's last bit of gossip, Isaac's eyes snapped back to his housemate. "Really? That'd be kind of a surprise. I thought he'd be straight and into purebloods. Guess you can never tell, huh?
"I think Nevaeh is pretty hot and some of the girls in Crotalus, like Arianna Tate or Cecilia Carey. Arianna Valenti is super cool too and she plays Quidditch. I'm kinda into older girls; the younger ones seem a little more annoying to me." Isaac glanced over at the Teppenpaw table and cracked a grin. "I bet my sister would kill me if she heard me talking like this. My little sister too even if she might not know that much."
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