Second Floor Common Room: Monday Afternoon

[dark_slippy_thing]

Valentine had a Really Useful Book. Unfortunately, the fact that its only page was a snippet about remembering the things one's mother had said made the aforementioned Really Useful Book... somewhat less than useful. This had to be rectified. It was high time the book got some new pages.

Therefore, Valentine was flipping through television stations, listening to snippets from daytime soaps and trying to pick out anything that might be considered good advice. Clearly, he needed some assistance. The book was looking scared.

(Open!)

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[the_merriest]

Rikku stopped in the doorway. She'd been wandering elsewhere, but she'd poked her head in just to see if she could recognize anyone.

She blinked before breaking into a grin. "Valentine!?"

[dark_slippy_thing]

There was a blinking, grinning someone in the doorway, who apparently knew him, or something of the like. Perhaps his reputation preceded him. Perhaps he really was just that bad with maskless faces.

Whatever the case might have been, he found himself grinning back.

"Person! Who... I should know?"

[the_merriest]

"It can't be you," she said, shaking her head. "Are you still sixteen, then?"

[dark_slippy_thing]

Valentine would have arched an eyebrow at the woman, if it was possible at all for him to do so.

"To the extent of my knowledge, I've been eighteen since February, and I've been me my entire life. Should I be otherwise?"

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"Valentine!" Jack thundered. "You juggler!"

[dark_slippy_thing]

"Yes, yes I am?" Valentine glanced up, turning the television off so that nobody would catch him paying close attention to a particularly twisted episode of meta for Passions.

"So nice of you to be aware of this?"

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"You've thrown enough crap at me for me to remember," he said, picking up a couch pillow and flinging it at that masked man that masked man.

Ooh, metaPassions.

[dark_slippy_thing]

There was a couch pillow being thrown at him.

This, of course, necessitated Valentine catching it and staring at the man.

...

And then throwing the remote control back at him. Because it really seemed the thing to do at the time.

"What the bloody hell was that for?!"

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"Well, there's a face I haven't seen in ages," Sokka chuckled, as he walked into the Common Room. "The great director Valenteen! How has life been treating you?"

[dark_slippy_thing]

Valentine had a feeling that this was a face that he hadn't seen for reasons of twenty years that were currently scrambling his brain somewhat.

"Life has been--" Valentine paused and leaned forward to scrutinize the man standing before him. "Decidedly more short than yours has been at this point, I imagine? As I haven't graduated yet, and whoever you are, you seem to have been there, and done that?"

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"You haven't...? Well, Fandom certainly appears to be having its fun with all of us this weekend." Sokka grinned at him and pointed to his hair which, though different, was still up in a wolftail. "Would it help if I brought you a... uh... soy whip latte?"

[dark_slippy_thing]

Aha! His costume mistress!

"That's a non-whip, low fat soy latte. You know, if you can't even keep the order right, I'm not certain that I should consider promoting you to my personal assistant and possibly even my co-director."

He was grinning rather broadly, now.

[iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

Cassandra wandered into the common room looking around. Oh, hey, it was the juggling guy! She gave him a little wave of greeting.

[dark_slippy_thing]

Aha! Finally, someone wandering into the common room who he recognized and who wasn't twenty years older than she was supposed to be!

"A familiar face! And one that can juggle! Always a good combination!"

The Really Useful Book did not think that this statement would make a good page of advice.

[iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

She smirked and offered a soft, "Hi. How are you?"

[dark_slippy_thing]

"Not too terrible, albeit rather baffled at the influx of older versions of our classmates. Have you noticed?"

[key-of-heart.livejournal.com]

Sora wandered around the old dorms after he landed the Gummi ship and grinned at his old common room. "Valentine!" He grinned brightly. "You still look the same!!"

[dark_slippy_thing]

It was official, now. He and Cassandra were the only two people in the entire world who weren't twenty years older today.

"That would be because I am still the same," he informed grown-up student number nine-thousand. "Everyone else seems to have grown older and gone on and graduated without me."

He stared at this individual for a few moments. Nope. Recognizing faces he knew was difficult enough, placing them twenty years older was never going to happen.

"You'll have to help me out some," he said at last. "Your face is a little beyond me."


(I want to lick your icon.)

[key-of-heart.livejournal.com]

Sora would have normally pouted, but he was too old for that now.

Mostly.

"Aww, come on Valentine! It's me! Sora!"

[dark_slippy_thing]

Well, when Sora put it that way, he most certainly couldn't manage to doubt for a moment that it was true.

"Oh, of course, Sora. How in the world did I not recognize you? You've become so..."

There had to be a word here for this. Somewhere. Really.

"Sora. Ish. Really."


(It's a Square thing. But I will not complain, because NOM.)

[tiger-bouncer.livejournal.com]

Kou yawned, rubbing his eyes as he looked around the common room. "...Unnn...guh!?" He had a momentary spaz-attack when he saw Sora. "Sion! What the hell are you doing here!?"

[key-of-heart.livejournal.com]

Sora looked over and smirked shaking his head. "Man, Kou... after all these years you're still confusing me with him?" he laughed. "It's me, Sora!"

[tiger-bouncer.livejournal.com]

It had been such a long week for Kou. The trials were not going well in the slightest, and he was probably going to have to go home permanently soon. They were requiring too much of his time there, and it was going to cut into his classes if things kept up. He'd figured he could unwind by crashing the the common room with company and the tv. He hadn't banked on the popularity of the common room.

"Whoa. Busy day today, huh? Did I miss something?"

[dark_slippy_thing]

Valentine looked up suspiciously at the next person to enter the common room.

"Only if you've missed the fact that about ninety percent of the people in here are alumni of twenty years or so," he observed dryly. "Or are you one, as well?"

One could never be too sure.

[tiger-bouncer.livejournal.com]

"Uh, no? Considering I'll be about 55 in twenty years...no, God, no." Kou shuddered. "I've been gone. I was in court for the past...what, week and a half? It's rough."