Third Floor Common Room - Thursday Morning

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

Katara had woken up early and slipped out of her dorm room quietly. She considered going outside for a moment, but she decided to explore the floor she'd ended up on.

Finding herself in a big open room with several couches and tables and quite a few big boxes she had no idea about, she up a small floppy book made out of shiny paper and began to flip through it, looking at the pictures.


[OOC: Open as a Common Room is. Though I might be under periods of SP as it's my first day back at work after a week.]

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[surferboy-09er.livejournal.com]

Dick waved back. "Hey! I'm Dick, new guy."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Welcome to Fandom," she smiled at him. "Didja get all the warnings? It's more than just hazing, you know."

[surferboy-09er.livejournal.com]

"Oh yeah, I got it all. Trolls, aliens, crazy chefs." says Dick "Though I wish they mentioned that in the brochure. I would have packed my ass kicking boots."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"You have ass kicking boots?" After a great deal of rummaging, Dawn pulled an apple out of the fridge and headed over to the cupboards. "Are they steel toed? Magic? Cursed?"

[surferboy-09er.livejournal.com]

"Steel toed. I usually only get to use them when my little brother pisses me off. Neptune isn't really known for the supernatural. Unless you count the Mars family." says Dick "They might be alien."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Mars...nope, no idea." Something about that sounded familiar, but Dawn had only met Veronica a couple of times and last names weren't really her thing. She shook her head. "So, are you here without your brother?"

[surferboy-09er.livejournal.com]

"Yep. Beaver's back home." says Dick "I kinda got sent here as punishment. Apparently being across the country will straighten me up. I really doubt it though."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Wow. Dawn couldn't help but wonder who this kid and his brother had ticked off to end up with those nicknames. "Yeah, I guess you could just be eaten by something during an invasion."

[surferboy-09er.livejournal.com]

"Wow that would freak my dad out. I wonder what that conversation would be like. 'I'm sorry Mr. Casablancas but your son has been eaten by a giant snake.' I don't think he'd believe it." says Dick.

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"He could always request an autopsy on the snake?" Dawn said, giggling. "I think there are even people here who would do it and call it a lab class."

[surferboy-09er.livejournal.com]

"Yeah! I couldn't believe some of the classes I signed up for!" says Dick "Maybe if they had Superheroing in Neptune I would have passed a few classes."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"You want to be a superhero?" Dawn asked.

[surferboy-09er.livejournal.com]

"I believe the real question, Dawn, is who wouldn't want to be a superhero?" asked Dick "With the exception of the tights. I totally have the body to rock them but I'm not all that into wedgies."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"I wouldn't want to be a superhero," Dawn answered immediately, "First, the costumes for girls are usually all Faithesque bondage wear, plus tights, which, just, no, and second, they never have happy lives. It's like, they get these super powers, but they have to give up their friends and families, or watch them die. It sucks, hardcore."

[surferboy-09er.livejournal.com]

Dick secretly disagreed on the girl heroes costumes but he learned that saying so was a one way ticket to getting slapped. "The guys costumes are worse. What, does wearing your underwear outside your pants boost your powers or something?"

"And if I were a superhero I wouldn't go after supervillians. I'd just use my powers for like, getting stuff out of the fridge and opening beer bottles." he said "I'd be my own hero. And my friends, if they asked politely."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Okay, yeah, I don't know what the underwear over the tights thing is about," Dawn admitted, "unless it's to keep them from falling down in the middle of a fight. And I don't know if superheroing works like that. I've never seen 'Beerguy' as a comic book title."

[surferboy-09er.livejournal.com]

"I'm sure one day there will be a accident at the Coors factory and Beerguy will be born." says Dick "Bringing foamy goodness to the people!"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Can you draw? You could bring him to life!"

[surferboy-09er.livejournal.com]

"I'm damn good at fingerpainting but that's as far as my artistic skills go." says Dick "I was the kid that ate crayons for a nickel so the teachers wouldn't really let me go near the art supplies."

He did have a nice collection of nickels though.

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn cracked up. "Okay, so maybe a career as a comic book artist isn't in your future."

[surferboy-09er.livejournal.com]

"Nah, I gotta go for something more exotic. Like a llama wrangler or something." he says, laughing.

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Why llamas?"

[surferboy-09er.livejournal.com]

"They won't eat your face off, like lions or bears." says Dick "But they spit. That sort of perilous. And nasty. So it's not a complete wussy job."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"So you really want to spend your life dodging llama spit?" Dawn asked, with a bit of surprise.

[surferboy-09er.livejournal.com]

"Okay, maybe I'll save that for a summer job." says Dick "I'm pretty sure my dad will kill me if I didn't work for him."