your shoujo is beginning!

[shirimasen]

[Ah, high school.

A truly wonderful and inspiring time for all. With the school year starting, faceless students mingling about and chatting -- catching up over their summer, or grabbing their friends to congratulate them on getting into the world's top Pokémon Trainer's School -- with the cherry blossoms spinning in the wind from the rows of them lining the school's beautiful golden gates...

Yes, there's truly nothing better!

Except for perhaps the middle school just beside this beautiful campus; there's a small lake between them where the grades intermingle, and the excitement of the day - and maybe even the bell ringing to signify classes, lunch, or break! - is vibrantly in the air!

Just be careful that the principal doesn't see you with your Pokémon out! That would distract the other students, after all...]

[ooc: welcome to the high school au room! also middle school, if your character's not quite aged enough. with uniforms, cheery blossoms, and the exciting promise of an excellent spring for all classes and grades, it's sure to be a blast!

please mingle and thread amongst yourselves, and have a great time! if it's school au, it's free to go!]

Comments

[heroineoftruth]

[Is he really

he is, isn't he.

Hi, N. This girl's not going to stand around and let you harass persistently insist that her fellow underclassmen join your dumb math club. She will instead grab his attention by tapping him on the shoulder.]

Hey!

[extricated]

[ i... it's not harassment! it's just very insistent persuading! ]

Yes? Ah, were you perhaps -- interested in joining?

[ he sounds so excited. please let him down gently. ]

[heroineoftruth]

[Oh honey no...]

Not a bit. [Tact? What's tact? Gentleness? Not a clue about that one either!] And no one else is either!

( one/two )

[extricated]

[ for a few moments, he just smiles vacantly in complete silence -- ]

[extricated]

[ and just before it starts getting (too) creepy, his expression does a 360 and doubles in on itself. ]

I believe you must be exaggerating!

[heroineoftruth]

You're the only one nerdy enough to like [wow look at this totally disgruntled face] math, N.

[extricated]

It's not nerdy! Mathematics... it's the purest way of expressing the laws of the universe...!!

[heroineoftruth]

And you know the saying! Laws were meant to be broken! [No Hilda it's rules not laws --]

[extricated]

[ QUIETLY SCREAMING ON THE INSIDE ]

One shouldn't just go flagrantly breaking laws so flippantly!

[heroineoftruth]

Mathematics only makes people suffer, so it doesn't matter if I break those laws! People would probably love it if I did!

[extricated]

Only because they don't understand... the beauty, the form... it's because of them that our world is the way it is!

[heroineoftruth]

No, our world's the way it is because it was made that way or whatever.

[extricated]

That's a tautology, you know...

[heroineoftruth]

[.......]

Don't insult me! [wait.] What's a tautology.

[extricated]

I wasn't! [ ... this time, at least. ] It's a self-reinforced statement. It's true because it's redundant.

[heroineoftruth]

[Oh.

Which just... basically means...]

So I'm right and the world's just what it is because that's how it is. [That's all she got out of it. That she's right and his dumb math thing is wrong.]

[extricated]

... Never mind. I had thought I could convince you, but... it seems like that is out of my current abilities.

[ this would normally be the point where he challenges you to a Pokémon battle to test your ideals!!! but this is a high school and he will be civilized. m...ostly civilized. ]

[heroineoftruth]

[she'd win anyway --]

I just don't like math. Sorry. [At least she sounds sincere about it? She always feels a little bad when she grinds his dreams into the dust.] ...I guess I could come by and hang out with you, as long as you don't expect me to join it or anything.

[extricated]

[ that's certainly true... ]

... That would be acceptable. [ he doesn't look happy about that at all, okay. there's just a twitch in his lips!! ]

[heroineoftruth]

[yeah okay n don't worry she won't think you're secretly pleased or anything

because she totally wouldn't be secretly pleased over you being secretly happy or whatever]

Then I'll come by when I can! When's it meet? [she has sports clubs to do and whatever so she'll need to make time for him]

[extricated]

On Thursday afternoons! But that can be fixed, if that's not a good time for you.

[ seeing as there is only really him in the club, scheduling is flexible... ]

[heroineoftruth]

[Oh, she has track... Hilda scratches her arm idly.]

How about Wednesday instead? I have track practice on Thursday.

[extricated]

Wednesday is fine, too!

[ speaking of track, though... ]

You really play a lot of sports, I see...

[heroineoftruth]

Not that many! Just, uh... Track, volleyball, basketball, tennis...

[...Four isn't a lot, right?]

[extricated]

Well, I only know how to play lacrosse, so...

[ which really begs the question of whether or not he's good at it, considering men's lacrosse is... kind of violent. ]