fandomhighdorms | 3rd Floor Common Room : Sunday Afternoon

It'd been a week on the island and nothing catastrophic had happened yet. Theo wasn't sure if he wanted to call that a win but it wasn't a bad start. Thom and Kiori had been amused by the antics of the island and they were already trying to find time to come out there. Things back home were...the same. His friends were keeping Dr. Brockton up to date on his progress and his parents were...off at another seminar.

Of course.

"Cartoons!" Dev bellowed, making Theo outwardly wince at the volume. "We never get to watch cartoons!"

"That's because there's nothing of value in them, Dev," Ange said, rubbing her head like the long suffering Elysian that she was. "There are so many better things to watch."

"There's value in that they're funny," Dev growled, almost pouting. "What do you want to watch? Something about plants?"

"Well, plants are qu -- "

"NO!"

"Cut it out!" Theo snapped, rubbing his temple and frowning. "We're just not going to watch anything!"

And with that, Theo stabbed the remote control and shut the television off. So, now he was just sitting in the common room with the television off and two arguing entities in his head.

His first foray into a common room had gone so well!

[Common room is open. Feel free to have heard Theo shout at no one.]

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Snow was celebrating her first successful week on the island as well. Despite a scare with one of her teachers looking almost exactly like the huntsman Ravenna had sent after her, she'd been settling in, even though she didn't understand half the things around her. The showers were a marvelous invention, though.

She'd been going down the stairs from the fifth floor when she heard the shouting coming from the third. Peeking into the common room, she said, "Hello? Are you all right?"

Theo looked up, a little startled since the room had been quiet before. He blinked a few times and seemed to focus.

"Oh. Uh." He glanced around and realized that she'd probably heard him shouting at no one. "Yeah. The movie on TV was really bad. I just had to let it be known out loud."

Good lie, Theo, good lie.

"TV, that is what that is, right?" Snow said, pointing at the television. She had absolutely no idea how it worked, and it had scared her at first, but she'd been assured it was harmless.

Theo looked over at where she was pointing to make sure she wasn't pointing at a chair or something before he said anything. Didn't want to tell her wrong or something.

"Yeah, that's a TV. Didn't have those where you were from?" Theo guessed. In his head, Ange was interested in this new person while Dev just wanted to watch cartoons.

Snow shook her head. "No," she said. "I've never seen anything like that before I came here. Or the lights, or the showers . . . it's all very strange to me."

"Must be some severe culture shock," Theo said. He was kind of relieved that he hadn't had to deal with anything like that. He figured he'd just end up freaking out and running away.

"Strange good or strange bad?" he wondered. "Or just strange you're not sure yet because it's new?"

Raven gave her roommate a slightly concerned smile as she came in. "Modern television is a little terrible, huh?" she asked. "Though I don't know that you have to give up on it completely."

"I don't think I could give up on it completely." There were things he did like to watch, after all. "It's just really bad right now. I just had to make my outrage known."

Ange was shaking her head at the lying he was doing. Dev was just cheering him on.

"You're clearly very passionate about it," Raven teased gently. "What were you watching? So I'll know to stay away from it."

"Good, I think," Snow said. "The lights are safer than candles, and the hot water in the showers is wonderful. It is just a little hard to understand sometimes, like the television. I don't know how we are seeing those people on it."

It was technology, not magic, or so she'd been told, but she didn't understand the difference.

"The news."

It was the first thing that came to mind and probably not Theo's best lie ever. True, the news was pretty bad sometimes but there were things that were a lot worse.

"Just lots of dumb stuff going on in the world today. It deserved to be yelled at even if it makes me look like a crazy person."

"Well, see it's -- "

Theo stopped himself and thought better of it. "Yeah, I shouldn't try and explain it to you because I'm just gonna confuse you even more and I don't wanna do that. I'll probably just confuse myself too."

He would. "I'm Theo, by the way."

Raven frowned. "What kind of dumb things? It's not nuclear, is it?"

Nuclear warfare was pretty much the threat where she was from. She'd been enjoying the fact that it didn't seem to be so, here.

Oh man, now he was going to have to come up with another lie. He wasn't great at this but he was in it now.

"No, no, nothing like that," he assured her with a shake of his head. "Just lots of...stock market things."

"Oh Theo, the stock market?" Ange sighed and shook her head. "I refuse to help you with this."

Dev shook his head. "I got nothing, kid."

"Snow White," Snow said, smiling shyly. "We have a class together. Cultural Appreciation. You said your favorite food was Hot Pockets, but I have no idea what those are. How does one eat a pocket?"

She had so much to learn about this world.

"Oooh, are the hot girls who can't sing back on?" Cade asked eagerly.

"Right!" Okay, he remembered her now. Wow, he was a bonehead. "Sorry. Things have been so crazy this week and I just -- "

Forgot.

Theo cleared his throat. "Um, a Hot Pocket is...well, it's like different meals wrapped up in cooked bread and served in a helpful hand sized shape so you can eat it on the go."

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Cade gave her a wave. "Snow, right?"

Now Raven was just confused. "Do you . . . invest?"

"...no?" Theo had no idea, to be honest. "The TV's off. So, maybe they are but I don't know. You can try it if you want."

Yeah, Theo was too.

"No." So, the lie continued to fall apart. "But, I bet people who do are just really upset right now! It looks bad."

"Oh." Yeah, Raven now had no idea what to make of this conversation. Which called for a change of subject. "So I was thinking I might cook something."

"Hey!" Cade said. "Have you found Liara yet?"

"Some girl from Finnlinn--" not right, Cade, "pranced around on the show with her pink underwear showing yesterday. It was quality entertainment."

Good call, Raven!

"You can cook?" Theo latched onto the change in subject quickly. "I can't. What would you cook?"

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