Third Floor Common Room, Monday Morning (9 - Noonish)

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Conner had gotten himself some breakfast, and was now fretting a little about the voicemail he'd gotten from Jamie. Too late to do anything about it now, though. So, because he's brilliant like that sometimes, he decided to try and work on his final project for Humor to keep his mind off it. And he might as well start paying up on that wish. Two birds, one stone, and all that.

This meant trucking his laptop and a stack of notes out to the common room. Typing was frustrating, owing to the combination of leather gloves and laptop keyboard.

And just to top it off, when he turned on the TV for background noise?

There was an Abaranger marathon on. It figured.

[OOC: Common-room-ly open, natch. May be subject to bouts of SP.]

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[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally blinked when she entered the common room.

"Is it some sort of Halloween again?"

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Conner stopped stabbing at the backspace key on his laptop and looked up. It probably looked a little freaky with the helmet. "Nope. Not Halloween. Not a costume, either. Just me."

He'd completely forgotten that people weren't going to figure out right away who "me" was.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"And you're who, exactly?" Cally said. "Cause I will scream for Constable Fraser if you're not supposed to be here."

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"It's me, Conner, duh!" Conner exclaimed. Nope, still hadn't made the connection between "face-obscuring helmet" and "effectively anonymous."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally blinked.

"No way," she said.

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"What, you don't believe me?" asked Conner. All the red, you'd think, might have made it obvious, given his usual preference for that color in his civilian wardrobe. Except apparently there was some kind of bizarre law of the cosmos dictating that no one ever, ever picked up on that connection. Well, maybe in Fandom it might be different. "It's me, I swear."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally glanced over at the TV playing Abaranger and back at Conner.

"Wow. So... you're a cosplayer."

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"I'm a what?" asked Conner. "Oh, dude, no, that's Ethan, not me. Besides, he's the one trying to dress like me," he added, pointing at AbaRed on the screen.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Riiiight," Cally said. "Okay, you know, this is pretty sad. Like, totally completely sad."

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"What's sad?" asked Conner, glaring at her.

Not that she could see it.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"That you're sitting here, fanboying Abaranger, and completely denying that's what you're doing," Cally said.

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"That's not what I'm doing!" Conner exclaimed. "Geeks like Ethan and Devin might be into that, but that is so not me. Why would I want to fanboy someone who's playing a character based on me?"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Okay, did you get bit by a gremlin?" Cally asked. "Because seriously... no way Abaranger is based on you."

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Conner sighed, and reached up to undo his helmet. "I have not been bit by a gremlin," he insisted. "And if you don't believe me, ask Bridge or Z sometime. I mean, why else would I keep saying that they're getting things all wrong?"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"I... just thought you were some sort of continuity geek?" Cally said.

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Conner shook his head. "Please. The continuity in Abaranger is a joke compared to the real thing."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally shook her head. "Okay, so, I'm in no mood to play along with your fantasies, okay? So... have fun playing dressup." She headed for the door.

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

On a whim, Conner got up and ran for the door. When everything seemed to be moving in slow motion around him, he grinned. At any rate, he was pretty much a blurred red streak zipping by, and blocked off the doorway before she could get to it.

"Look, I'm not kidding, okay?"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Ohholyfrakpleasetellmeyouhaven'tsummonedanydemonstoanymirrorslately," Cally sputtered.

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"I'm not the one who messes with that stuff," Conner replied. "It's what I can do -- used to be able to -- can do again . . . whatever. It's the power that comes with the Dino Gem, now that it's been recharged. Man, I missed this."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"So... you're a superhero?" Cally said.

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

In the interest of modesty, Conner thought about saying no.

Pfft. Screw that.

"Yep. I used to do the same stuff Bridge and Z are training to do, except they're official. We were more of the vigilante type."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

At around noon or so, Billy passed the door to the common room and had to back up to do a double take. He examined the symbol on Conner's chest carefully to make sure it was nothing he recognized.

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Conner had his helmet back on by now, but he took it off again when he saw Billy double-take. "It's just me," he said. "No need to call security on me or anything. I seem to have a uniform malfunction."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"So... you voluntarily wear an outfit like that?"