Kraken Campfire, Later Tuesday Night

[the_merriest]

Rikku hoped it wasn't too dark that people wouldn't be able to see that she now had purple hair.

Aly was on her short list of Favorite Teachers Ever.

She hoped the Kraken bathroom had recovered from any possible dye-related mishaps.

Rikku sat in front of the campfire, bouncing to herself. Ready to chat the ear off anybody and everybody who dropped by.



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[turtle-toughguy.livejournal.com]

"You get many mutant skater turtles where you're from then?" He knew what she meant.

[the_merriest]

Rikku laughed. "Mutants, nope. Skaters, not many where I'm from, either, but I'm dating one here. And turtles, no, but then, you guys don't have Ronso or Guado, either." She smiled. "You kinda remind me of someone, too."

[turtle-toughguy.livejournal.com]

"Him?" he pointed a thumb at Donnie.

[the_merriest]

Rikku laughed again, fairly certain he was teasing her and not minding that much. "Not looks like. I mean, you look like both of them, yeah? But a little different. You kinda act like someone else I used to know. That's all. It's nice to meet you, anyway."

[turtle-toughguy.livejournal.com]

"What about Don? He remind you of someone too? If he does, we can probably get a Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion thing going on, Dorothy."

[the_merriest]

"Nope," she said softly, still smiling as if she was amused by something. "And you only kinda remind me of someone, anyway. But Mikey, man, he acts a lot like Jude. Are you always like this?"

[turtle-toughguy.livejournal.com]

"When I'm not in the bathtub. Okay, no, even when I'm in the bathtub. Donatello does machines, I'm cool but rude and Michelangelo is a party dude. It's a thing."

[the_merriest]

Rikku nodded. "I'm hyper and bouncy a lot. Kinda my thing. It's nice to meetcha anyway, I didn't take it personally. Are you liking fandom so far?"

[turtle-toughguy.livejournal.com]

"No," he replied. "I'm here because I have to be. There's worse places, but it aint home."

[the_merriest]

"I'm sorry about that." Rikku shrugged. "I really do like it here. But really, a lot's better than home right now. You never know. You might start liking it. The people are nice, and the workshops are pretty helpful. What ones are you in?"

[turtle-toughguy.livejournal.com]

He had to think about it. "Arts and Crafts, Mercenary stuff and the random one with the guy that says 'whatever' a lot. You?"

[the_merriest]

"Mercenary stuff? That's with Deadpool! He's my mentor. We each got a faculty mentor, like, to teach us stuff. We go sparring. He calls me Li'l Minion and threatens my boyfriend with a shovel. Tell him I said hi, he's awesome." She bounced. "I got one class on treasure hunting, which is really just theft, and one on explosives, and then one on annoying teachers. So it's like, 'Here, Rikku, here's a bunch of stuff you like and are good at, have fun!' If Fate's real and all, maybe it's happy about ... some stuff I did." She shrugged.

[turtle-toughguy.livejournal.com]

Wow, she really did talk faster than Mikey after he'd downed a packet of pixy stix. He didn't even know where to start. "Yeah." So articulate. "This school ain't what I expected. I figured algebra and Deportation," he meant Deportment, "And How to Be Martha Stewart and understand Shakespeare."

[the_merriest]

"Okay. And you're disappointed?" Rikku raised an eyebrow curiously. "Last session I had a class about computer science, and one on Engineering for giant airships and stuff like that, and now I'm learning how to make better explosives. It's practical, and it's stuff I need. Okay, annoying teachers is just for the fun of it, but ..." She shrugged. "You can learn algebra from a book."

[turtle-toughguy.livejournal.com]

"The classes aren't the problem. Well, they're classes, so they're a problem, but it could be a whole lot worse. That's not why I don't wanna be here. I don't wanna be here because it's here. We got sent away for no good reason when there's stuff to do back home that needs to be done. No one should be forced to turn their back on doing the right thing."

[the_merriest]

"Oh. Yeah, you're right about that." Rikku considered that. "Did the person who sent you here have a reason for it? I mean, maybe someone else is doing that, and you're here to learn stuff to do another part of it. Which sucks, but ... a reason you don't like isn't the same as no reason."

[turtle-toughguy.livejournal.com]

"Splinter always has a reason." Raph may have sounded bitter, possibly because he was.

[the_merriest]

Rikku nodded with a wry smile. "Yeah. That's kinda tough, then. You gotta hope you're doing the right thing and cool your heels and ... me, I'm not good with that. I'd rather be out taking on fiends. You know?"