fandomhighdorms | 4th Floor Common Room, Early Evening

Enter the Jude, who has spent most of the day asleep. Hence bright, chipper, awake, and almost expressing an emotion other than calm.

Ooops, sleeping bro. Maybe he should just sneak - WHAMPF!

That was the doorframe.

"Ow . . ."

Still asleep he hears nothing of this. He's a restless sleeper though and has since rolled off the couch onto the floor with a thud not unlike Jude's.

Jude winced, rubbing absently at his chest. That thud sounded like it might have hurt, having had much experience with the volume and intensity of thuds. He padded over, brow furrowing in a vague semblance of concern. "You okay, bro?" he asked uncertainly, not sure if the boy was awake or not.

He blinks a bit, looking disoriented. "Uh... Where am I?'

"Common room, bro," Jude replied mellowly. "You fell asleep."

"Ughh how embarassing." He looks a little miffed at himself. How stupid is it to fall asleep in the Common Room? Someone could have dumped water on him in his sleep. He's glad no one did.

"Thanks for waking me up."

"No prob, dude." Jude chuckled ~~as the mun curses a wasted opportunity~~. "I was actually trying not to wake you up but then there was a doorframe in the way and ya kinda woke up anyways.

"I'd rather not be sleeping here. Someone could have written on my face with the Sharpies we got."
He nods and sits up, trying to shake off his drowsyness.

Jude chuckled again. "Already there, bro," he drawled, pointing towards his own forehead. The Sharpie hadn't been touched up since yesterday, but his forehead still clearly read 'JUDE'.

"Nice to meet you Jude. I'm Ranma Saotome. I don't think I could write it on my forehead. My handwritting is pretty bad."

"Nice to meetcha, Ranma." Jude flopped into a chair in his usual boneless teenage sprawl. "I totally hear ya on the handwriting. Took me forever to do this."

Ranma stands and stretches his arms and legs, still waking up.

"Think it was worth it?"

"Dunno, bro. Saved me a few introductions. And it means people will probably remember my name better."

Ranma can't help but make a crack. He knows it's rude but he can't resist.

"Sure it's not up there so you don't forget?"

"That too," Jude drawled, deadpan. Or maybe seriously. It's really hard to tell. "The whole nametag thing is really just an excuse."

Laughing at oneself is the national pastime where he's from.

Ranma laughs, glad he wasn't taken too seriously.

"Well don't worry. I'll keep that a secret for you."

((OOC: Would that be Canda? hee))

"Awesome, bro." Jude grinned. Mellowly. Leading to something that more closely resembled a sedate smile.

[[*deadpan* However did you guess. We work so hard on maintaining a veneer of sobriety in all our dealings.]]

"so where are you from?~~Your Canadian charm isn't apparent anough for me to notice~~"

((OOC: Yay Canada! ... and coding. yes.))

"Toronto," Jude replied proudly, hoping he wouldn't have to add 'Canada'. "You?"

[[*waves small flag*]]

"Japan. Anywhere in it. You name it I've probably been there. I was in China too.~~Damn you China..~~ I've just been traveling with my father my whole life."
Ranma vaguely remembers that Toronto is in Canda. He only knows a little of Western Geography. But he wouldn't ask. He'd look it up later.

"Duuuude!" Jude grinned. "Wicked, bro. I was tellin' Sakurazaki that I'd love to go to Japan some time." He chuckled. "That would be awesome."

"It's a great place. A bit hot though. I like it here because it's not so boiling outside all the time... But I can't say I care too much for all this rain. Ah so you're meet Setsuna-san? She's really nice. A little hm... what's the word.... abrupt? She's fun to talk to though. I can speak in Japanese with her."

Jude found it warm here, even with the rain. But he didn't want to reinforce negative stereotypes, so he let it slide. "Yeah, bro, I like her, too," Jude grinned. "She came down and introduced herself. I hope I get to talk to her more. And that's cool that you have someone to talk to. I only know one phrase in Japanese 'cause I hung around Super Terrific Happy Sushi too much and worked there for like a day as a fish."

"So... what phrase is that?" He's curious. Probably will get him killed one day because of course he hates cats.

"Baka no teenager!"

Ranma has a great laugh out of this.

Jude just grinned. ~~He was, after all, the comic relief.~~ He had gotten pretty much the same reaction out of Sakurazaki.

"I take it that that job didn't go so well?"

"Well it wasn't really a job-job," Jude said slowly. "I accidentally taped over Wayne's copy of 'The 77th Samurai' with 'Boardwarriors 3' so we had to find another copy and the only other one belonged to Hiro so we had to work for him for a day and Wyatt mopped the floor and I was a fish." This all said in his usual laidback drawl.

"Ah. TV. Hmm.. you know I played this videogame downstairs the other day. It was pretty cool. I haven't played games for so long and I'm kinda wishing I had some money to buy a gameboy or something. I get really bored here studying English all the time." He tries not to look too excited cuz that's uncool. Uh oh. He's bad at hiding his excitement.

"You can totally come and play in my room," Jude offered. "I have House of a 1000 Dead Guys and Corona and a whole buncha games and extra controllers." He looked around. "I should totally bring it down some time," he mused.

"I'm not very good at them. In fact I made us blow up." But he had fun doing it.

"Perfectly alright, bro," Jude replied magnanimously. "All ya need is practice. I myself have practiced for hours on end to hone my button-mashing skillzs."

"That sounds fun then." He smiles a bit, happy he's nice about it.

"Any time, bro, my door's always open." Jude perked up, hopeful. "Are you a skater?"

He thinks about it for a minute. "I'm not sure what that is... I can balance really well. If that's part of it then I can probably be one."

Jude slumped a little. "Yeah, bro." His reply sounded a bit limp. He had a lot of work to do. "You could be."

"I'm willing to learn. What is it? What do you do?" He's tempted to show Jude how he can hang off a window sill with his feet. But he figures he'll save it.

"Skateboarding, bro." He placed on hand over his heart, looking as solemn as a lanky blond teenager wearing a tuque, baggy shorts, and with his name written on his forehead can look. "It's not just a sport, it's a way of life. The skateboard is but an extension of one's inner self." He chuckled. "And you can pull some pretty awesome tricks on one, too."

[[And now I go crash like a crashing thing that crashes. Night!]]

He looks interested. "Sounds like it could be fun. You should teach me sometime."

((OOC: Nigh nigh Jude-mun))

4th Floor Common Room, Early Evening

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