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[Open + 1 Closed] johnny come lately
Who: Leo Hamato ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
faceguy & anyone who goes to the secret flying meta high school
What: Leo is brand new to the high school experience, superpowered or otherwise! Say hello?
When: early February
Where: meta high school
Content Warnings: none so far
A: Hallways (morning)
[School was something Leo had never had any interest in. From what he saw on TV and what he heard from April, it was largely a place better avoided. There may be some cool things about it (like team sports), but the rest sounded like a major drag. Besides, learning? He's not a nerd, he doesn't need that stuff!
But his contact at the guild had badgered him about it, saying You're a minor, you should be going to school, blabbity blah, and Leo decided hey, maybe a new experience might be okay. Besides, there were supposed to be teachers here that can help young Metas with their powers, and as much as he hates to admit it, he needs some of that right now. If it sucks, he'll just drop out.
The day before was mostly spent on placement tests and getting a schedule together (they'd also given him a holographic watch to hide his appearance, which he hasn't turned on yet), but today is his first real day of school, ever. And he is faking that he knows what he's doing - again, he's watched a lot of TV.
Of course, the building is pretty big and he's lost.]
Room 218, room 218... yeesh, they gave me all these books but not a map.
[He'll flag down the first person he sees.]
Hey buddy, help a guy out - where's 218?
B: Lunch
[Another thing that TV and April's horror stories have taught him is that cafeteria food is unidentifiable slop (that may or may not be alive). So he's a little surprised when lunch comes and the food looks... fine? Not great, but edible at least.
Still, he can be found poking at a tator tot suspiciously with his fork, like he thinks it might bite him. It seems to be a normal tator tot. It's actually disappointing, in a way. His high school experience is really letting him down so far.
He's by himself. A few of the native Meta kids look at him and wonder, loud enough that he can hear, why he doesn't just use the holographic watch he's clearly wearing to look more human.
He's doing his best to just ignore them.]
C: Study Hall (afternoon)
[Turns out high schoolers don't even get recess. Instead they just get study hall, which is infinitely more lame.
Leo's been placed in remedial classes for almost every subject, and he stares down a worksheet of eighth grade math problems like they have personally offended him. What does he even need this for? His phone has a calculator already!
Instead of continuing the math problems, he rips out a piece of paper from the notebook he'd been given and folds it into a paper airplane. Then he scoots his seat closer to the window and slides it open, just enough that he can send it sailing down over the courtyard below. He watches it all the way down, wondering if he can get the next one to go over the side of the floating school entirely.]
...Oh, nice hang time!
[Wait, he just said that pretty loud - now several people are looking at him.]
...Eh heh, whoops.
Closed to Huvrye
[His first day of school is behind him, and Leo still isn't sure how he feels about it. It was pretty different from what he was expecting (and not just because all his classmates also have superpowers), so he's still mulling over the dissonance between his expectations and reality.
He doesn't really like sitting around his room thinking about it, so he decides to go bother Huvrye. He's guessing he's in, because Leo can see where food delivery guys come into the hotel from his window and one of the places he likes delivered food about twenty minutes ago. (Leo hasn't tried to steal anything since getting caught - he's a good boy!)
So he heads over to Huvrye's room, with only half a plan for what he's even going to say as an excuse for why he's here.
Knock knock knockknockknock!]
faceguy & anyone who goes to the secret flying meta high school What: Leo is brand new to the high school experience, superpowered or otherwise! Say hello?
When: early February
Where: meta high school
Content Warnings: none so far
A: Hallways (morning)
[School was something Leo had never had any interest in. From what he saw on TV and what he heard from April, it was largely a place better avoided. There may be some cool things about it (like team sports), but the rest sounded like a major drag. Besides, learning? He's not a nerd, he doesn't need that stuff!
But his contact at the guild had badgered him about it, saying You're a minor, you should be going to school, blabbity blah, and Leo decided hey, maybe a new experience might be okay. Besides, there were supposed to be teachers here that can help young Metas with their powers, and as much as he hates to admit it, he needs some of that right now. If it sucks, he'll just drop out.
The day before was mostly spent on placement tests and getting a schedule together (they'd also given him a holographic watch to hide his appearance, which he hasn't turned on yet), but today is his first real day of school, ever. And he is faking that he knows what he's doing - again, he's watched a lot of TV.
Of course, the building is pretty big and he's lost.]
Room 218, room 218... yeesh, they gave me all these books but not a map.
[He'll flag down the first person he sees.]
Hey buddy, help a guy out - where's 218?
B: Lunch
[Another thing that TV and April's horror stories have taught him is that cafeteria food is unidentifiable slop (that may or may not be alive). So he's a little surprised when lunch comes and the food looks... fine? Not great, but edible at least.
Still, he can be found poking at a tator tot suspiciously with his fork, like he thinks it might bite him. It seems to be a normal tator tot. It's actually disappointing, in a way. His high school experience is really letting him down so far.
He's by himself. A few of the native Meta kids look at him and wonder, loud enough that he can hear, why he doesn't just use the holographic watch he's clearly wearing to look more human.
He's doing his best to just ignore them.]
C: Study Hall (afternoon)
[Turns out high schoolers don't even get recess. Instead they just get study hall, which is infinitely more lame.
Leo's been placed in remedial classes for almost every subject, and he stares down a worksheet of eighth grade math problems like they have personally offended him. What does he even need this for? His phone has a calculator already!
Instead of continuing the math problems, he rips out a piece of paper from the notebook he'd been given and folds it into a paper airplane. Then he scoots his seat closer to the window and slides it open, just enough that he can send it sailing down over the courtyard below. He watches it all the way down, wondering if he can get the next one to go over the side of the floating school entirely.]
...Oh, nice hang time!
[Wait, he just said that pretty loud - now several people are looking at him.]
...Eh heh, whoops.
Closed to Huvrye
[His first day of school is behind him, and Leo still isn't sure how he feels about it. It was pretty different from what he was expecting (and not just because all his classmates also have superpowers), so he's still mulling over the dissonance between his expectations and reality.
He doesn't really like sitting around his room thinking about it, so he decides to go bother Huvrye. He's guessing he's in, because Leo can see where food delivery guys come into the hotel from his window and one of the places he likes delivered food about twenty minutes ago. (Leo hasn't tried to steal anything since getting caught - he's a good boy!)
So he heads over to Huvrye's room, with only half a plan for what he's even going to say as an excuse for why he's here.
Knock knock knockknockknock!]
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Hey Erika!
[He gives her a wave as she comes over.]
Yeah, they wore me down.
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Yeah. I know exactly what you mean there. I thought about trying to avoid school too but... well, they didn't want to listen to me about that.
[Also, Coffret yelling at her a lot was not a thing she would've wanted. And also Tsubomi decided to go to school too, so that helped a lot.
Either way, she starts to unwrap the bandana around her bento box, and looks back up at him.]
At least school has some good points to. Shame about all the hard classes though.
no subject
[He eyes the bento box with curiosity - he's never seen a lunch packed like that in person before. His dad's Japanese, but he wasn't exactly packing them lunches every day.
He'll keep eating his tater tots.]
What are the good points, exactly? I've been trying to find them.
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There's also some white rice and veggies in the box too, of course. But she's definitely going for the meat first.
But before she takes a bite, she figures she should probably answer Leo's question.]
It's the easiest way to make friends at our age! Also there's clubs.
...Well, there were clubs back where I came from anyway. I think there's some here but it's not really the same as a school back in Japan.
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They have sports teams and afterschool clubs I think? That's what I learned from TV anyway.
[He hasn't looked into it here. Maybe they have a basketball team? Or school plays? Do superhero schools care about that kind of thing?
He has no idea.]
Is American school really different from school in Japan?
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Yep, it's a lot different. Back home I was only in junior high, but a third-year junior high student there is a first year high-school student here. [She pauses, thinking about it a bit more. ]
Also, clubs are a lot less important here. Back in Japan clubs were super important and took up a ton of time. And well... high-school's not even required back in Japan. Not that my mom or dad would let me skip high-school, but it's not like here where we're actually forced to go.
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[Which is how he knows they can't keep him here. If he decides to leave, what are they going to do? Arrest him?
...Okay, maybe they can do that, actually. He's not entirely sure how much influence the guilds have. But he won't worry about that right now.]
And then you can get your JED or whatever. [Leo isn't the one from his family who cared about things like school credentials.]
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Honestly, doing that sounds like it'd be a lot harder than just going to school. Also then I'd have to get a job.
[Which, uh, not a thing she really wants to do if it's not making clothes. ]
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[And to get an education but whatever.]
But at least we're all suffering together. [Munching on his tater tots.]
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...Though she's pretty sure that most jobs you can get without finishing high-school really suck and pay like, garbage. ]
Yeah. Like I said, plenty of people to be friends with here!
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[Oops, was that too sarcastic? Time for a subject change.]
You mentioned clubs, are you in one?
[Maybe there's a fashion club.]
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Not yet. I'd join a fashion club but... a fashion club has to exist first and I haven't been able to start one yet.