fandomhighdorms | Fourth Floor Common Room; Tuesday Evening.

Setsuna had been in a rather...insanely good mood all day. Particularly insane for her, from her ~~super handwavey~~ morning training to her workshop that afternoon and her ~~super handwavey~~ after workshop afternoon training. And she was still sitting there with energy to spare. As for the source of this unbound energy that even a ridiculous amount of training hours couldn't drain (if anything, they almost seemed to have fueled her more)? Certainly nothing to do with a certain gaining of a boyfriend, an event that probably should have happened ages ago. Nope. Not at all. Just like that event had nothing to do with the fact that she was baking brownies right now. Not like brownies might have any sort of significance there, or that she was making them with Alphonse in mind for that specific reason, or anything. Nope. Not at all.

She was making a lot, though, with everyone else in mind, too, to disguise that she was making any sort of big deal out of this or anything.

And, yes, they are actually edible, thank you.

[[ open! with the warning that she's insanely hyper for a change, because...zomg finally! ]]

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"Hello!" Setsuna gave the boy a bright smile as he entered ~~and someone was finally immune to the lure of the Tex-Mex upstairs~~. "Do you like brownies? Help yourself; I've made a ton of them!"

In fact, while there were two plates cooling, she was slipping another pan into the oven.

"Hi." Adam smiled back, realizing he hadn't met this girl before. ~~Haha! Tex-Mex has nothing on brownies!!~~ "I do. Oh wow, thank you." He meant it, taking a brownie. "I'm Adam, one of the new students."

"I'm Setsuna," she introduced herself in response with a grin, setting the timer and then grabbing a treat for herself while she waited for that batch. "I've been here for quite a while. It's nice to meet you, Adam." She nodded her head before adding, "Your last name wouldn't happen to be Park, would it? I was just talking to someone the other day who mentioned she'd been training with an Adam Park..."

"It's very nice to meet you Setsuna." Adam grinned. "Actually, it just so happens it is." He nodded. "Oh, I'm assuming it was Charlie?"

Setsuna nodded. "That's the one! She mentioned it in our mercenary class. Pretty timely that you'd show up now, huh? Do you live on this floor? I'm over in 421, although I used to be in 412, but I moved recently." There might have been a small, bouncing, buzzing quality to this very rare psuedo-babbling on Setsuna's part.

Adam chuckled. "Yeah, I guess so. I do, yes. I'm in 405. Good to know we're floormates." He grinned, happy to have met another neighbor.

"Who's your roommate?" Setsuna asked, head tilting, ponytail spikes poking the air. "Do you have one? What classes are you taking this semester?"

She paused, and let out a small chuckle. "I don't usually ask so many questions, I'm sorry!"

"I do have one, Billy Kessler. Though I'm not quite sure where he's gotten off to. I haven't seen him for a fews days now." Adam admitted, concerned for his friend. "I'm in Building a Better Fighter, History in Action and the History of Witchcraft. How about you?"

Adam laughed, smiling brightly. "No need to apologize, really."

"Oh! You're Billy's roommate!" Good lord, she was just about practically squee-ing, which was almost unheard of, but Setsuna did catch the burst of excitement and tamed it with small, bashful laugh. "He's my roommate's boyfriend. Ami-chan mentioned that he had some family business to take care of, and it isn't exactly the first time he's just sort of gone off without warning, either."

"Oh, and I'm taking the mercenary class, the ninja class, and, uh..." Her eyes shifted a little at the last one, "Um, arts and crafts..."

"I am, yep." Adam nodded, chuckling. "Oh, I met Ami over the weekend. That's cool." He grinned. "Okay, good to know. I was afraid something might have happened to him."

Adam thought those workshops sounded pretty cool. "I've heard some interesting things about the mercenary workshop. How's the ninja and arts and crafts workshops?"

"It is an interesting class," Setsuna smiled. "I'm actually one of the TAs. The ninja one is a lot of fun; I've been doing that sort of training for a while, though, so some of it feels a little repeative for me, as Yondaime-sensei caters to different levels, and arts and crafts is a fun diversion."

"Oh! I've forgotten..." Her cheerful disposition drained a moment for a slight sneer, "Interdisciplinary Studies..."

"Oh, that's great! I bet that's a fun role to have in that class." Adam grinned. "I'm trained as a ninja too, though possibly not what people might think around here. I'm no assassin, that's for sure." He chuckled. "I've studied Shaolin Kung Fu since I was young."

Adam raised an eyebrow. "Not a fan favorite, I gather?"

"No, not at all," Setsuna's nose scrunched again, and she quickly bounced back to happier topics, because, yay, fighting schools! "I've been trained in the Shinmei Ryuu school since I was young, myself. It's a school that focuses mostly on special sword attacks, but martial arts are a very intrigal part of the training." She gave a very important nod.

"Wow. I'm mostly trained in hand-to-hand combat, but I have been trained in staff and sword fighting." Adam explained.

Because, clearly, she wasn't hyper and babbly enough as it was, Adam had to mention a sword. "Really? What kind of sword? I was trained with a nodachi, which is a Japanese longsword. They're fairly rare, because everyone and their brother tend to learn on katana."

"I have training using a niuweidao, basically a Chinese broadsword." Adam answered. "I'm not so sure on it's rarity, it was pretty common with civilians during the Qing dynasty."

He was intrigued. "I've never seen a nodachi before, if I'm remembering correctly."

Setsuna nodded. "Not a bad sword at all," she smiled. "I actually have Yuunagi...that's my sword...down in the salle, along with my katana...that's Daisuke...and my Western broadsword, Eleanor...down in the salle. If you're interested, I'm more than happy to let you have a look at her. She's a gorgeous piece of work; I've had her since I was ten, although I couldn't get much use out of her then; she was practically taller than I was! She still is pretty tall for my size, but I am short..."

"Wow, those are great swords." Adam admitted, with a smile. "Really? I'm definitely interested, thanks! She sounds like a great sword."

"Thank you," Setsuna's bowed a little bit in smiling gratitude for the compliment. "She truly is."

"You're welcome." Adam grinned, meaning it.

Fourth Floor Common Room; Tuesday Evening.

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