Third Floor Common Room, Sunday Afternoon

[raspberryturk]

Okay. So maybe Reno had slept through Newbie day yesterday. He wasn't going to hold himself at fault, here. He had a new pet. It just so happened to be nocturnal. Playing had to happen, and maybe it happened on into the night. That was just the way of things, dammit.

Today? Today, he was going to make an effort to be social. Or something. He had intended to make it all the way down the stairs and outside, but after the trek from the fourth floor to the third, laziness managed to set in.

So he was going to make himself comfortable in a common room that was not his own, turn on the TV, and he was going to order out for pizza. Because that counted as social. Really.

[Common room open, as common rooms are! Come on in and help yourself to the moddable pizza.]

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[intraspective]

"Didn't see you 'round yesterday," Ino noted. She was bored, and wandering. Thus, wandering on a different floor. "Hi, you."

[raspberryturk]

"Yo, Ino-whose-nam-" Reno made a face. "Ah, to hell with it. You ain't kicked my ass yet anyhow." He smirked a little and shrugged his shoulders. "Yo, Ino. I was plannin' on bein' out and about, but looks like havin' a pet got the better of me. Slept through the whole freakin' picnic. How you been?"

[intraspective]

"My brother's currently a kitten," she said lightly. "A terribly snuggly kitten that's going to mew piteously when I get back to my room. It's frighteningly adorable. That, and I got to talk to like... half the island yesterday. I'm good."

A beat.

"And I'm totally going to kick your ass one day. So not my fault our paths don't cross often, geez."

[raspberryturk]

Reno had to laugh at that.

"See, what we need are freakin' tracking devices, yo. That way, we know where the other person is anytime we wanna beat someone up."

... Well. It seemed like a pretty sound idea to Reno, anyhow.

[intraspective]

...

Ino seriously considered that. Um. "Well," she said. "It'd definitely make it more convenient, you know."

[raspberryturk]

... Come to think of it, it kind of would, wouldn't it?

"Might have to see what kinda strings I can pull to get my hands on somethin' like that. A kickass GPS system for purposes of kickin' ass."

He reached for a slice of pepperoni pizza and smirked.

"See? Every now and then, I actually come up with an idea that doesn't suck, yo."

[intraspective]

"Lie," she advised, grinning and totally deciding if she wanted pizza or not. "Pretend it's for something useful, like a mission or something. Not, really, for random ass-kicking. Though both, clearly, are excellent ideas."

Snagging a slice of cheese pizza, and no, she wasn't asking since he totally had too much pizza 'round for her to ever believe he was eating it all himself, Ino perched on the edge of the couch.

"And," Ino said. "I'm not sure I've heard of any of your so-called bad ideas. So, really, judgement is skewed."

[ashockingbitch]

Ooooh, this common room looked like it had free food. And her cohost. So clearly Jenny was going to check it out. "They got me a new roommate," she whined as she flopped down in a chair. "But I'm pretty sure this one isn't a cheerleader, so I guess that's a plus."

[raspberryturk]

Reno grinned and shoved the pizza box in Jenny's general direction.

"Pretty sure? There ain't no guarantee? I'm still hoggin' my room all to myself, yo. World might end or somethin' if I ever end up havin' to share it with someone."

Or, at least, Reno would be very sad. Woe.

[ashockingbitch]

"You never know," Jenny said around a mouthful of pepperoni. "She could decide to be a cheerleader. But she's big, and I think cheerleaders tend to be more scrawny, so I remain hopeful. You're smart."

[raspberryturk]

"Might have to take to puttin' police tape over your door when she goes out, if she goes and joins the cheer squad," Reno mused.

Not that he was one to talk, really. He was dating a cheerleader, after all.

"That way, you manage to solve the problem of havin' to share your room. At least temporarily, yo."

[ashockingbitch]

"It's a thought," Jenny said. "Not sure how effective it would be."

[raspberryturk]

"Bear traps and electric fencing goes a long way, too," he pointed out.

It was sometimes difficult for even Reno to tell when he'd gone and crossed the line from teasing to speculating in all seriousness.

[ella-obeys.livejournal.com]

Ella had also skipped newbie day. It was a lot of people and a lot of chaos, and she'd a letter from Char to answer, and it just seemed easier to spend the day in her room and figure Rikku would tell her if anything interesting happened.

She did, however, emerge eventually. "Hello, Reno," she said, eyeing the pizza. "Is that for sharing?"

[raspberryturk]

"Help yourself," Reno answered with a sideways grin and a bit of a nod. "Probably better for sharin' in a public place than the last time I felt up to passin' somethin' around, huh?"

This was all said in pretty good spirits, really. Reno fully admitted that he was a lush. It kept things interesting.

[ella-obeys.livejournal.com]

Ella blushed a tiny bit, and took her time separating the mozzarella on her slice from the one next to it. "I was really new here then ..." she said, in a tone of slight protest. "Thank you, though, for saving me cooking for myself."

[raspberryturk]

"Eh, it ain't an issue. Probably wasn't doin' much for the... culture shock, or whatever, huh? Nothin' to worry about." He laughed and shook his head, grabbing another slice of pepperoni. "I don't always do that kinda thing. Normally, I keep my drinkin' to my room or the bar. If I get outta line, smack me or somethin' and let me know it's time to pack up. I won't be insulted or anything."

Reno was user-friendly, see?

[ella-obeys.livejournal.com]

"Culture shock," Ella agreed. "My world is really different, and I hadn't gone to school with boys at all, and, you're, well ..." she gestured to encompass Reno's Reno-ness. "But I wouldn't want to smack you unless you were very out of line indeed."

[raspberryturk]

Reno grinned and took a bite.

"This place has moments of bein' so much like the way I remember my home used to be, sometimes I forget that other people are from places that are totally different, yo. One of these days, I'll get it through my skull not to freak out the newbies by bein', well..." He mirrored the gesture she made, because... really, it summed his Reno-ness up rather thoroughly.

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

Jack wasn't sure how this whole 'big brother' thing was supposed to work, so he was on his way to the roof to think it ove--

...was that pizza?

[raspberryturk]

Why yes, yes it was pizza.

Reno glanced up at Jack with a slightly bemused expression on his face.

"Mine," he informed him, pointing at the many pizza boxes.

Anyone who delighted in drawing phallic symbols on Reno's dorm room door was going to have to work hard to earn his pizza, dammit.

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"So?" he asked. Maybe he could distract him with something. Something shiny.

He saw something in the corner. And blinked a few times. "Yours?" he asked with a head nod.

[raspberryturk]

Reno was going to just stare at Jack. He trusted him about as far as he could throw him.

"The pizza. The pizza's mine." He demonstrated by grabbing a slice. And then eating the slice. And making a point to enjoy the slice. Thoroughly. "Mmm. Pizza."

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

Jack wasn't above throwing things. Or people. There just wasn't a lot of opportunity to do it. Except now, with a washer. Not like he was getting any better at that knuckle-coin thing, and washers were cheaper, and wow did that make a nice sound when it landed in the corner. Reno totally wouldn't notice the throw, Jack was that subtle. Really. Not.

"You hear something?"

[raspberryturk]

Reno raised an eyebrow.

"Somethin' small and metal landin' in that corner? Nope. Didn't hear nothin'. But if you're hearin' things, maybe you should go check."

Reno was lazy, he wasn't stupid.