Second Floor Common Room; Saturday Night.

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Turtle was partially bored and Turtle had been sitting in her room, trying to think of even more ways to try to situate herself in a standing where she'd be a good, easy choice for her fellow sophomores to vote in to represent them in the student council. A small rumble from her stomach and a reminder of her sweet tooth had the perfect idea: food, of course! Sweet, to be specific! Cupcakes!

There was one problem. Turtle wasn't exactly much of a cook. Bad cupcakes could have bad results. She considered just going to J,GOB, getting some, and sharing them, but that didn't seem to reflect well on her tenacity. She thought a little harder.

Oh, sure, there were still J,GOB cupcakes there, yes, for those who wouldn't want to wait. But Turtle had also picked up a great many supplies for the opportunity for people to make their own cupcakes to their own tastes, the things scattered all around the kitchen and a ridiculous amount of pans and toppings and everything. Quite a nice spread. And, subtly, a seemingly unfinished "Vote for Turtle" sign placed on the counter, as if Turtle had merely just paused her work for the 'spontaneous' cupcake smörgåsbord.

Now, hopefully some people who could actually make them well would show up. Currently, though, Turtle was trying her hand at ultra-sugar-Pixi-Stix-Gumboreo Cupcakes.


[[ open! come! Make cupcakes! bonus points for exploding ones ]]

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[comelyhonour.livejournal.com]

Beauty was headed toward the stables, textbook and pen in hand, murmuring Latin vocabulary under her breath, when she passed by the door to the common room and noticed that someone was cooking something.

This reminded her that she hadn't had any dinner.

So she stepped in and looked around curiously, wondering if this was one of those times she'd been told of, when her dorm-mates were randomly sharing food.

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Willow came in with one might call a wistful look in her eyes. "Food?"

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"Hi!" Turtle greeting the girl with an exceptionally bright smile as she didn't quite know her yet and this exercise was even better if it was meeting new people. "What's up? Wanna help make cupcakes?"

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"Food!" Turtle answered triumphantly with a grin and a happy wave of her mixing whisk with super sugar batter clinging to it. "I'm making cupcakes. I kinda hope other people will, too, because I've got lots of stuff."

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"Hello," Beauty said in reply, smiling as well, although somewhat less brightly and a little more shyly. "I would be happy to help, but I don't know what it is you're making."

Well, some kind of cakes, obviously. Cakes you made in cups? That was interesting. Maybe cakes you ate in cups. After some of the things she'd seen in the cafeteria, Beauty wasn't ruling anything out.

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"What's ready now?" Willow asked. "Because I am fully prepared to eat frosting direcly from the can if I have to."

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"Oh, that's no problem," Turtle chuckled a little. "I'm not very good at them, myself, but there's a recipe right there," she nodded to one of the several she'd set up for people to follow. "You can just stick to that if you'd prefer, or you can just get crazy and mix it up and see what happens." She put a little bit more of a purple Pixi Stick into her own batter.

"I'm Turtle, by the way," she smiled over at Beauty while she mixed, mixed, mixed. "Turtle Wexler."

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Turtle giggled a little. "Not necessary! There's some already made ones in that box over there." She nodded in the general direction of the table. "From J,GOB, even, not made by me, so they're safe, even."

[comelyhonour.livejournal.com]

Well, Beauty could certainly follow a recipe, so she nodded and set her book and pen aside.

"It's nice to meet you, Turtle Wexler," she said, wondering if it was a nickname and hoping for the poor girl's sake that it was. "I'm Beauty Huston. I live down the hall." Picking up the recipe to look it over, she then turned and snuck a peek at what Turtle was mixing.

Ooh, something purple. That was interesting. Beauty had never had a purple cake before. "What is that?"

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Beauty turned from the recipe she was reading and smiled shyly at the new girl.

At the girl who was new to her. She was the new girl around here, she figured.

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"Pixi Stix!" Turtle bounced a little in a way that suggested that she'd already had many, many of them by this point. "Flavored colored little tubes of sugar. There's a bag of lots of them right over there. I love them; they're just about one of the best inventions ever."

"Just down the hall, huh?" Turtle might have been babbling, a direct result of a sugar high. "That's really cool; I'm a fellow second-floorer, too. I'm in 210! You're new, right? What year are you, Beauty? That's a really nice name, by the way. Beauty. A bit more....picturesque than Turtle, that's for sure."

Bounce.

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"Oh thank goodness," Willow said. She helped herself to a chocolate cupcake. She took a big bite and said, around the mouthful, "Thanks, Turtle."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow waved. "Hi, I'm Willow. Don't mind me if at the moment I appear to be more of a food vacuum than a girl. I assure you this is temporary. Not that there is anything wrong with being a food vacuum if that happens to be your species."

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Staring a little at the somewhat excessive exuberance, Beauty grinned nonetheless and nodded as she sorted through the barrage of questions and information.

"Yes, I'm down in 218, so just a few doors down from you, I guess. I am new, a junior. And thank you, it's a nickname actually, but I guess it's an interesting one. Is...Turtle your real name?"

Possibly she might have to try herself one of these 'pixie sticks'.

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"No problemo!" Turtle bounced, in a way that might have been a good indication of just how much sugar she'd had so far. "I figured it had been a while since just a big conglomeration of cupcakes around here, you know? How ya been, Willow? New semester treating you good so far, yeah?"

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"Nice to meet you Willow, I'm Beauty." Now, that was a pretty name. So much nicer than Honour. "I don't know what a food vacuum is, but it's all right with me if you, um, are one. Even temporarily."

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Oh, crap. Not a sophomore. Turtle's nose wrinkled for a moment as her trap lured in the wrong kind of fly, but maybe Beauty has some sophomore friends that she could help influence, so her smile definitely remained. "Nope!" she answered with a nod of her head. "Sister gave it to me when I was little so it just kind of stuck, and it's infinitely better than my real name, oh man! It's terrible."

[death-of-hope.livejournal.com]

Anemone could hear people in the common room, so she abandoned her reading and wandered across the hall. "What are we doing?"

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"Making cupcakes!" Turtle answered happily, with a sweep of her hand at all the supplies and yummy things and spoons and breakfast cereals and fruitbats and orangutans. "Wanna help? Or you could just sit and eat, too, that's a-okay!"

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Beauty laughed, and nodded in understanding. "That's the same thing as happened to me, except I picked my own nickname. But I did it because I didn't like my given name."

She picked up one of the purple pixi stix and eyed it thoughtfully. "How do you eat them?"

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"So far yes," Willow said. Having finished her first cupcake, she went for another. "All of my classes are on Fridays, which on the one hand is rather lop-sided but on the other leaves me the rest of the week for my own independant study without worrying that I'm interfering with valuable homework time."

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"Baking!" Anemone wandered over and peered at the motley array of supplies. "Wow. Yeah, I'll help. Any type in particular that people want?"

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Just got over a fast," Willow explained around a mouthful of food. "So hungry. And nice to meet you! I take it you're new to Fandom? Or new to me?"

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Turtle, of course, was tempted to ask Beauty what her real name was, but then Turtle would have to give hers, too, and there was no way that was happening. She grinned a little as Beauty gave the Pixi Stix the eye. "Just rip off one of the ends," she instructed. "Be careful that the sugar settles all on the other end so you don't spill a bunch of it, and then just....pour it in your mouth." Turtle reached for a blue one. "Like this." Tilting her head back, she demonstrated, pouring a steady stream of blue sugar into her open mouth. "So good."

[itsjustlanguage.livejournal.com]

Hoshi was headed down the stairs when she smelled something sugary coming from the second floor. She peeked into the common room to see what was going on.