3rd Floor Common Room | Tuesday Afternoon

[thegreywaren.livejournal.com]

One week plus and Ronan still hadn't made it off the island. For some reason, he wasn't even that surprised. Just bored. And maybe a little lonely but he would never, ever admit that. Not in a million years.

There had been thirty seven messages on his phone this morning. He returned one from Adam but that was it. The rest got ignored. After classes, he'd scooped up Chainsaw and padded his way down to the common room. It was cold and wet outside, not really appropriate weather to go racing in but he'd thought about.

Maybe he'd go later, after he had some food and was bored enough to eat his own hand. Not yet, though. He found some potato chips in the cabinet and was setting them on the back of the couch, watching Chainsaw pretend she was sneaky by wandering completely around the chip until she thought Ronan wasn't look and she took it.

Dumb bird.

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[tigerundercover]

Raven's schedule this semester essentially gave her two weekends, and she was determined to make the most of it. She'd spent the morning exploring the 2015 Baltimore waterfront, for instance, and in a fit of absurdity (for her, anyway) had actually bought some of the tie-in make up for that new show Agent Carter Operative Carson, along with a pile of snacks to bring back to the common room. She'd planned to take over the common room for some girl nail painting time, but Ronan had beaten her to it.

So, you know, she'd take over a chair in the common room for girly nail painting time.

"Hey Ronan, Chainsaw," she greeted as she flopped down and dug into her bag for the nail polish supplies. "How's it going?"

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"Raven," Ronan returned. Chainsaw crunched a potato chip. "You gonna paint a mural?"

He knew what she was doing but he wasn't going to just outright acknowledge that. Too easy. Far too easy. And he thrived on everything hard.

[ sorry had to run to get some food! ]

[tigerundercover]

"On my toes, even," Raven said easily. Sorry, Ronan, she had an older brother. She was used to the hard way. She shifted her mimicked boots into a bare foot and sat up so she could reach her newly formed toes.

Apparently she was planning to look barefoot until that nail polish came back off.

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"Didn't even bother to wear shoes, huh?" Ronan asked since he'd been paying enough attention to notice that. "Must come in handy when it comes to shopping."

[tigerundercover]

"I don't really usually need to," Raven said. She twisted around a little, trying to get a good angle, and finally just made her arm longer. How did normal girls do this? "And it makes it easier to change forms really quick when I need to."

He was probably clever enough to extrapolate that to the rest of her outfit. Raven Darkholme, the secret, unrepentant nudist of Fandom High.

[thegreywaren.livejournal.com]

"That something you have to do a lot?" he wondered, tossing another chip Chainsaw's way. "Switch forms really quickly? That necessary to become someone else quick?"

[tigerundercover]

"Not around here," Raven admitted. "But when you're running from an angry mob, you really don't want to have to take the time to take off your boots."

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"Angry mob?" He sounded vaguely interested. "Must be a popular girl back home. Popular, in this instance, means not popular. In case you missed that."

She probably didn't.

[tigerundercover]

"Oh gosh, thanks for explaining that! I never would have figured that out on my own."

Yeah, irony had, in fact, totally been invented before the 1950s, thanks, Ronan.

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"Just wanted to make sure," he said, smirking widely. "Wouldn't want you to get confused."

Chainsaw squawked.

"No angry mobs around here? Sad, that'd be a fun thing to witness."

[tigerundercover]

"None yet. I suppose you could start a trend."

Don't start a trend, Ronan.

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"You want me to be an angry mob?" He wasn't going to start a trend. "I'm flattered. You barely know me. I could be vicious."

He was.

[tigerundercover]

"I don't care either way." That wasn't true. She didn't want any angry mobs. She'd had enough of those. "You just seemed so disappointed."

[kenselvren]

Jalian wandered in, nodded to Raven, then squinted at her...toe paint? "What are you doing?"

[tigerundercover]

"Painting my toe nails," Raven said, smiling up at her. "It's kind of ridiculous and silly," she admitted. "But sometimes it's fun to be girly for real instead of just pretending."

[kenselvren]

"But...what's it for?" It looked sort of convoluted and weird, and wouldn't your toes normally be in boots anyway?

[tigerundercover]

Not always! Or technically ever, if you were Raven. "Fun," she said. "Like an extra surprise on the end of your foot."

Or, you know, an extra mess to clean up later.

[kenselvren]

"Other than toes?" Jalian grinned. "You could make your knives; that would be a surprise."

[tigerundercover]

Raven considered that. "I don't know, what if I forgot they were knives and did that thing where you scratch your leg with your foot?"

[kenselvren]

"Could you cut yourself?" Jalian asked curiously.

[tigerundercover]

Raven shrugged. "Sure. I'm not immune to sharp things."

[kenselvren]

"It's probably a bad idea, then," Jalian agreed. "Unless you did it just for a moment, to surprise someone else."

You had all your own built-in weapons, Raven! That was awesome, right?

[tigerundercover]

Now that she was learning to actually get creative and make them, it was!

"Depends on who I want to surprise," Raven said. "If someone's attacking me, there's probably better ways to surprise them than with my toes. And if it's someone I want to get close to. . . . Pretty colors probably beat knife toes on that front."

[kenselvren]

"It depends on how much they like knives and colors," Jalian answered, grinning.

She watched the polishing for a moment. "If you change back to shoes, then to toes again, will the paint stay or come back?"

[tigerundercover]

"It'll stay. It's not part of me, so I can't shift it." Raven wiggled her now painted toes. "Which just adds to how silly this all is, but, well. It's nice to get to play around with something that's retro even for my time."