Fifth Floor Common Room - Saturday Morning - 02/02/08

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Tamaki had been a little lonely in an empty dorm room, so he'd made his way down to the common room to see if anyone was around. Reno was off at Merc Con, so he'd had nobody at all to talk to.

He sat on the couch, munching on a bowl of sugary cereal and jotting down notes for what would be his very first Host Club meeting on Sunday. He even had a few doodles of possible costume themes in the notebook, although they looked like Kindergarten crayon scribbles.

[OOC: Open because that's what common rooms are. Reno's absence modded with permission!]

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[withoutverona]

"Not being myself was horrid," Romeo acknowledged, "but at least there is little fighting here, or little we have seen yet. And sphinxes?" He ran a hand through his hair. "Is it too much to hope those are metaphorical?"

He remembered Frank's conversation with Tommy, but between the slightly different accent and the vagueness of the reference, he didn't connect Valentine with it.

[dark_slippy_thing]

"I imagine it's only metaphorical if one keeps in mind that my world is very much a world with its foundations set in metaphor." Valentine helped himself to a mouthful of cereal before continuing. "So far as I could tell, they were rather quite literal sphinxes."

[withoutverona]

Romeo's mouth would have dropped open had it not contained a bit of orange. After he swallowed, he said, "You shall have to explain to me, how a world can be made of metaphor with sphinxes lurking about. Has this something to do with Queen Mab?"

[dark_slippy_thing]

"You know, I never bothered to learn the names of the queens of the cities of Light and Dark," Valentine admitted. "Though... I rather think it has less to do with them and more to do with a girl from this world- the real world- by the name of Helena."

[withoutverona]

"A lovely name," Romeo nodded. Most things, in his experience, were about girls, even if he had no idea what the cities of light and dark were. "So your world is not-real, then, like the worlds of books?"

[dark_slippy_thing]

"The art of her hand, more accurately," Valentine clarified. "The whole of my world was built up on drawings that she made."

Ah, was. Such an open-ended word, really.

[withoutverona]

"So it was like living inside her mind?" Romeo asked, with a bit of a happy sigh. He could not imagine a more romantic life, really.

[dark_slippy_thing]

"I suppose that's one way of putting it." Valentine managed to not shudder at the thought. "If such is the case, her mind is a frightening place, indeed. Unless the sky eating people is worth smiling over?"

[withoutverona]

"Not so much, no," Romeo said, mood shifting as he considered exactly how frightening such a mind, or such a place, could be. "... the sky does not do that here, does it?"

[dark_slippy_thing]

"Not the last time I checked, no," Valentine stated. "Though Aliens did blow up the school building at graduation last year."

He had spent a week hiding under his bed after that.

"Fandom is mostly harmless, most of the time."

[withoutverona]

"That's more than I can say of home," Romeo answered, though part of his mind was preoccupied with ... "what did the aliens look like?"

[dark_slippy_thing]

"Honestly, I didn't see them. It was the graduating class that fought them off. I'm no fighter, you see. I kept my distance."

A good deal of distance.

"There was quite the pile of rubble where the school once stood, though."

[withoutverona]

"One would imagine," Romeo nodded. "I could not keep my peace in a fight, though. I should have charged an alien."

[dark_slippy_thing]

"Between aliens and dinosaurs and flying dragon-shaped jelly, I don't doubt you'll get your opportunity to charge whatever your heart desires."

[withoutverona]

"The day I moved in," Romeo said, once he got over his shock enough that he could talk again, "someone told me Fandom would break my brain. Would it please you to know you just managed it?"

[dark_slippy_thing]

"I'm flattered to know that I was more effective than being someone else entirely for a weekend could have been." Valentine chuckled a little to himself. "My mind was 'broken' on my very first day here, actually."

[withoutverona]

Romeo shook his head. "'Twas the jelly dragons that did it, and the dinosaurs. But mainly the jelly." He paused. "How did they even hold their shape long enough to fight?"

[dark_slippy_thing]

Valentine shook his head and gave a shrug of his shoulders.

"I only know of them through the Invasions course," he said. "I'm not sure what held them together, but they certainly tasted good."

He paused for a moment to consider.

"If you ate them first, that is."

[withoutverona]

"But could you eat them while they attacked?" Romeo wondered. Somehow, this was stranger to him than anything else.

[dark_slippy_thing]

"Again, I mostly just ran for my life," he confessed. This made him a coward, most likely. But he was an alive coward.

[withoutverona]

And Romeo, who by rights and canon should be a dead fool, understood cowardice no more than he understood celibacy, so he looked rather puzzled as he considered Valentine.

"Well," he finally said. "It sounds as though I shall get to challenge myself against something as odd, soon enough."

[dark_slippy_thing]

Valentine nodded in agreement.

"Knowing Fandom, most certainly you will." He then muttered under his breath, "Better you heroic types than myself."