2nd Floor Common Room | Sunday Morning

[pursuedthestars]

There was weird stuff happening on the island again and Jim wasn't affected. He'd woken up as himself and he'd stayed himself and he was still currently himself while sprawled on one of the couches in the common room.

Considering classes were done for the term, he probably should have still been asleep instead of up this early and out of bed but he couldn't resist the allure of possibly seeing some people he knew acting like people they weren't. He was an opportunistic jackass that way. But, he didn't think he could be blamed. If people were gonna go all weird, he had the right to laugh at them if they did stupid stuff, right?

Right.

He figured he had to be properly awake to do anything though so he was eating some 'borrowed' cereal and watching some motivational on TV to get himself going. Except all the TV was doing was boring him so he hoped the cereal was really magic or something to make up for it.

[Jim's normal and the CR's open]

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[genesishero]

"Is it just me, or are people being weird again?"

Evan could be a very observant little guy when he set his mind to it, and, while he'd kind of holed himself up and just quietly read in his room yesterday, listening to today's radio broadcast had him kind of twitchy. Naturally, he was out and investigating the crazy.

... While, at the same time, kind of hoping not to actually run into any. Evan was a dreamer, sometimes.

[pursuedthestars]

"It's not just you," Jim told him, glancing up over the rim of his cereal bowl. "There's something going on and it's hilarious."

Well, the radio sounded hilarious, at least.

[genesishero]

"Well, hilarious or not, I'm glad whatever it is managed to miss me, this time," Evan decided, before making his way over to the couch and claiming a corner of it for himself. "It sounds like people think they've been kidnapped or something. Not really my idea of a great time."

[pursuedthestars]

"Doesn't this stuff usually right itself after a few days?" Jim asked, glancing over at Evan. "I mean, this place seems to be a tease. Gives you a few days of strange behavior and then takes it away."

Not that he minded especially when it came to things like dungeons and stuff.

"They shouldn't be acting this way for too much longer," he continued. "Back to normal and just living with the embarrassment."

[genesishero]

Yeah, Evan hadn't been a huge fan of the dungeon, really.

"It's just another one of those temporary things, then?" These were Evan's big, hopeful eyes, Jim. See them, all big and hopeful? "Like when people change genders or turn into little kids or animals? I haven't been here for people turning into totally new people before, but if this isn't actually weird, um... weirdness... for the island, then I guess I shouldn't worry too much."

[pursuedthestars]

Yeah, Jim was getting strong puppy vibes from this one what with those eyes. Jim tried to give him what he hoped was a reassuring smile. He could do that when he wanted to.

"If this isn't temporary, then I'll kiss my roommate on the mouth," Jim quipped with a more mischievous smile now. "And Jackson would probably like it because I'm that good. But, yeah, I don't think we've got anything to worry about here. If this place actually took the people we knew away forever, well, it'd be a pretty crappy island, wouldn't it?"

[genesishero]

"Well, it hasn't really been doing us any favors lately," Evan replied, but Jim's smile and his quipping had done the trick, and he was giving a little smile back, in turn. "But even when people get hurt around here, they usually get better. So that's not too bad, I suppose. Just so long as it gives us a break from the really serious stuff for a while."

Otherwise, Evan might as well just go back to the Jean Grey School, instead.

[whenshewasnice]

Helen had managed coffee in town, so when she breezed into the common room, her only intention was to snag some more art supplies without engaging in interaction with any random people she had no interest in.

Sure, that would work.

[pursuedthestars]

"I think it's just having some fun," Jim said, finishing up his cereal and settling the bowl on his lap. "Can islands get bored? Maybe its bored or something and this is how it gets its kicks."

That was weird to think about, though. "If this kind of thing isn't affecting everyone, then I think we're in the clear with it just being a temporary embarrassment for people."

[pursuedthestars]

"Wow, you have really let yourself go," Jim announced once he'd seen past that hair and figured out who was underneath that mop. "Wow."

Hilarious. She was going to kill him when she was back but this was funny.

[genesishero]

"Islands can totally get bored," Evan replied with at least some sense of certainty on the matter. "My last school was built on a plot of land that got bored all the time."

In fairness, Krakoa was a little more than just dirt.

"So... if it's just harmless amusement, then it's probably okay. Still, I'm glad I'm not one of the people wandering around not even knowing where I'm at."

[pursuedthestars]

"You've lived on an island that got bored before you came to this place?" asked Jim, raising an eyebrow. "Wow and here I thought I was from a strange place."

Strange was relative, of course.

[genesishero]

"Well, it wasn't really an island, but it was a patch of land," Evan explained, smiling a little. "Krakoa was weird even for where I'm from, though. Like... like a mutant piece of ground. It would get angry when students did things like pee in the flower beds, but I always got along with it fine."

Evan liked to read under trees. Krakoa was lonely, and happened to make trees grow. This worked out nicely for both of them.

[justbeingbay]

Daphne had passed the day before with no sighting of Marty's storm troopers -- but also without much more of a clue where she was. To be honest, she was almost annoying the crazy freedom of it.

She wandered into the common room, flipped a wave at the people there, and started looking for some breakfast.

[pursuedthestars]

"People used to pee in the flower beds?" Jim snickered. "Were they drunk or just going through an amusing stage of rebellion? I could think of better ways to rebel of course. Those poor flowers."

[pursuedthestars]

And see, Jim recognized her too but he wasn't sure if she was her or if she'd just gotten lucky and the person she was right now looked the same as the person she normally was.

"Morning," he said conversationally. "How's it going there?"

[genesishero]

"They were probably just being jerks," Evan decided, after a moment of consideration. "Usually it was the school bullies finding themselves being thrown around the school grounds by... um... the school grounds."

Evan would take Krakoa's side every time.

[justbeingbay]

Daphne hadn't been looking at him, so she'd missed the first half of that. "I'm good," she said, hoping he had been talking to her. "How are you?"

Between the evudent lack of recognition and the fact her voice itself was different -- thicker, with a deaf accent -- it was pretty clear she had not gotten lucky.

[whenshewasnice]

She also had jeans with holes in them. And a t-shirt that was actually fitted to her body instead of hanging loosely off her. Yeah. Not Natalie.

But it was nice to know the unimpressed look had made the transition over. "Excuse me?"

[pursuedthestars]

"Interesting way to handle discipline," Jim decided with an amused nod. "Probably cheaper than hiring fifty security guards who failed out of high school and now feel powerful because they've got a plastic badge and a baton."

It was safe to say Jim had run into those kinds of guys before.

[pursuedthestars]

Yeah, that wasn't what he'd been expecting. Jim raised an eyebrow but said nothing else for the moment.

"Good," he answered. "So, what's your name? I don't think I've seen you around and I'd remember someone as pretty as you."

He could still flirt with her!

[pursuedthestars]

"You've got a few...hundred tangles in your hair, there," Jim said, pointing to her hair. "Might wanna take a brush to that."

[whenshewasnice]

"Why?" Helen asked, mock sweetly. "So I fit in better with your idea of what a woman should look like?"

Her hair was clean (... mostly) and that was good enough for her.

[genesishero]

"There are places that actually use security like that?"

... It was safe to assume that Evan was a tiny bit sheltered.

[pursuedthestars]

"So, I've heard," he said, chuckling. "A lot of places where I come from have them."

And he was from the future! The future! They needed better security in some places.

"They're not very effective."