"Is he seriously done already? The heck was the point of throwing an assembly for a minute long speech just to tell us how bad we are?"
Aria muttered to herself somewhat annoyed, despite how short the speech had been. She wouldn't have minded if it was some awe-inspiring speech about the "strength of unity" or "the power within them all", or something equally cheesy, because that at least would have gotten her excited for the placement test the next day. But no, didn't seem like they'd be getting a pep talk anytime soon, at least not from Mr. Ozpen.

She looked around the room slowly, taking in some of the more interesting people in the audience, some of which returned her looks in kind, most of them likely wishing they could shoot daggers from their eyes into her. She was used to that look, but she knew half of them didn't have the guts to follow up on it. Sighing slightly, she continued to look around the room for anyone of interest.

Booker sighed mentally at the less than adequate speech. His body was on autopilot while he thought about some of the people he made short conversation with while on the ride to the Academy. Some of them seemed nice, but others don't tolerate Faunus and it sickened him to see people like that. There wasn't anything he could do about it, and it that in mind he simply put his thoughts to rest for the moment. He wouldn't get anywhere by sulking around, so he had to make the best of things and seek out people who'd accept him and his kind.

As the "Speech" Finished, Booker looked around and examined some of the faces in the room, Some of them Faunus like him, and the rest of them human. None of them seemed to glare at him when their eyes connected, but if he ever actually connected eyes with anyone it didn't last more than a second before he looked to someone else, so he didn't know if they were glaring daggers or not. As he looked around, his attention was momentarily captured by another faunus, having dark grey hair and yellow eyes. He sent out a small smile to the woman and continued to look around, knowing that sooner or later he'd have to make friends and teammates.

"so i see like signal that the motivational speech sucked, so Lacie, you better be in my team cos my team needs a cute mascot!" Marumasa grinned cheakily as young girl punched him in the arm and walked off, "i take that as a i'll be there!" now rubbing his shoulder, he inspected the people that stood around socializing, and the few that awkwardly stood there staring at others, "signal.... he's from signal.... she's from signal... a lot of these guys are from signal.... means a lot of these guys hate me" he laughed to himself as he made way for the edge of the room, bumping into a young faunus with brown hair, "sorry.... another signal...." with that he disappeared again.

Marumasa pulled out a small console like object and begin slamming buttons, small noises came out from the device, it was a game about slaying monsters. "take that... pow! pow!" he now and then sounded the actions and shouting a few commands at the small device, "High score" he smiled to himself as he carried on playing, looking aside he saw another faunus standing alone, a girl with grey hair, "why doesn't she go speak to the other awkward faunus..... totally shipping it"

After studying a few faces, Booker went back into a state of thought and nearly blocked everything out, trying to think about the people who made eye contact with him. He wasn't all that good with reading people at the first couple moments of a conversation, but he assumed that he knew enough to be able to sort out who would be best on a team. All of his thoughts were halted and thrown out of his mind as a young with black hair and brown eyes bumped in to him. He didn't mind it, and actually he thanked for being bumped in to, since he could have easily stayed right there in his spot when everyone evacuated the area.

Deciding to follow this person, Booker didn't say anything to him and was close enough to see what he was doing. It confused him a little as to what he was doing with the device in his hands, but it seemed to occupy his time and give him something to do while time continued to flow onward. He was about to tap him on the shoulder and speak up until he had head him talk about an "Awkward Faunus" and paused for a moment, wondering if he meant him. He was even more confused when he said that he was shipping it. He knew what the term meant, but the Cheetah Faunus was still confused as to why this person would just pair people up like that after only mere seconds- possibly less- of confrontation. At least these statements gave him things to talk about, and he tapped the boy shoulder like he planned to.

"Excuse me, but what's that in your hands?" He was completely confused as to what it was. He didn't have any problems with technology in the least, his own weapons could speak for that, but he didn't keep up with technology unless it was something that would change the world, or something along those likes. "I'm not all that familiar with it, but it seems that you're having a good time using it."

Marumasa stopped the game and slowly turned his head towards the faunus speaking to him, his face seemed completely angry, as if rudely interrupted from an important matter, but this face was broken by a small smile, "oh you mean the GameHub? it's a little handheld console that allows me to play games on the go" he smiled softly "well i made on the during my time at signal,... well i took the disk reader from the Gamestation meaning i still used Gamestation chips to store my games but with a little bit of editing i turned a console into a handheld console" his face beamed with admiration of his efforts, "you can give it a go if you like? the game is huntress, you know the game about killing creatures based off of the hunters and huntresses, used to play this game all the time"

Marumasa shut his mouth for a second then looked closely at the faunus, "wait a second, wait.wait.wait.wait.wait, you came from signal too right?! yes you're the awkard guy i bumped into! names marumasa gald to have met you" he held out his hand offering a hand shake, "well since you approached me you either don't know where to start with introducing yourself orrr everyone here finds you annoying like moi" he grinned and pointed at himself with the other hand, "if it's becuase you don't know who to speak to first yet i suggest it shouldn't be me cos i end up driving people away with the my annoying habit of not shutting up, though i believe a better start is the other faunus standing to the right of us"

"I'm.... I'm good." He waved off the offer to use the device, slowly starting to regret starting up a conversation with this talkative person. Just by listening to the person, he knew clearly why he chose to be quiet most of the time, mainly to avoid people seeing him as an annoyance. He knew he would get over it in time, but as of the moment it was already starting to annoy him just a little. He didn't really listen to him going on about how he made the device, he wasn't really one to love technology like many others, but he did see that if he could turn a brick of a system into a handheld console, he had aptitude for those kinds of things.

He was prepared to say more when he had stopped him almost comically. It was true that he was from Signal, but he was surprised that he had deducted that so fast. Booker had done a pretty good job of keeping himself at a low profile, almost to the point where he could easily miss a day or two and people wouldn't know. He never took advantage of that, but he very easily could if he so wanted. Booker shook the boy's had quickly and set his had back down at his side.

If he was going to be honest with himself, Booker felt a little insulted as Marumasa had thought that people found the Faunus annoying and moved him over to Marumasa for that reason. He wasn't going to say anything about it, but the thought was present in his mind. He would also be honest about that fact that the boy was completely aware of his inability to to stop speaking for more than a few moments. "My name is Booker, and I was just curious about the device." An idea came to the boy as he thought for a quick moment. "Maybe after the room clears, or we find an open area, we can see the other person's weapon?"

Ai never payed attention to these things at Signal so she probably would have tuned out right away had Mr. Ozpin's speech not been so ridiculously short.

"Wait, that was it?" said Ai. She yawned. "I like this guy. He keeps it brief."

Ai looked around. Everyone towered over her. Nothing new, really. Everyone was taller than her at Signal, too. Even the freshmen.

"This sucks! Everyone here is huge," she said to herself. She yawned again. "There's a bed waiting to be slept on somewhere around here..."

" sure i haven't been able to use my babies in a long time, like a month now, maybe... not to sure really, thoughhhh i am a little worried that we may have drifted apart.... and i am worried for anyone that duels me anytime soon, like my talking, my trigger finger never stops" he laughed a little as he put his console away in his pocket and stood up, "let's wait for everyone to go then, i'll go get the twins and meet you back here ok?". With that he disappeared, he already knew he was annoying the faunus so gave him time to rethink about wanting to speak to Marumasa since Marumasa didn't want a repeat of last year, "oof!" Marumasa bumped into a young girl, really confused at why she was here he decided to apologize and go get his weapons, "sorry little one!" he smiled and ran off [i]what's a kid doing here? is she a daughter of a teacher or something?" ignoring this he found his bag and picked it up.

on the walk back people were still talking, though the inside of the are was particularly empty, it was still the middle of the day but most of the students were now at the food hall grabbing a bite to eat, Marumasa was chomping away at a sandwich he had bought with him, [b]"i'm back Booker, surprised you are still here waiting for me, usually people run away the first chance i get"[b] he smiled hoping that Booker will be the first true friend

"Little one? LITTLE ONE?!"

Ai instinctively reached into her pockets for her yo-yos, but stopped half-way.

"Calm down, tiger," she said to herself. "You're at Beacon now. Just play it cool."

Ai took one yo-yo out of her pocket and gave it a few relaxing spins before putting it back. Whoever that guy was, he was a jerk, and a human, and those two things were generally synonymous. Ai turned around and bumped right into a fox-eared Faunus girl she thought she recognized. Of course, like everyone else, she was way taller, so Ai had to look straight up.

"Uh... hi. You're Signal, right?"

Booker simply waited and stayed in the same spot so that Marumasa wouldn't have to go around and look for him. He looked around the area to see any of the people who were still there, many to most of them were leaving the area to go and do other things for the day. As far as he knew the rest of the day was just for them, no classes or anything and they could freely travel the academy as long as they made their way to the ballroom to sleep for the night. They would get their teams and rooms later on, but right now he was just waiting around for Marumasa to make his way back. He had no problem waiting for him, but Booker had assumed that everyone carried their weapon or weapons around all the time. He knew that he did.

Booker looked down at his feet and his shoe based weapons. He had hand made both of them, and although they were a little heavy, it helped him since he was now able to move and walk like he never had them on in the first place. The material that they were mainly comprised of was both light and durable, so if he had used anything else, the weight would have been much more.

His attention was moved away from his boots as he was once again in the presence of his new friend. He could understand why people would have walked away, but Booker was very calm, patient, and tolerant. It would take quite a lot to get him to snap, possibly like the end of the world or something. He shook his head with a soft smile. "It's nothing to worry about, but shouldn't you have your weapons on you at all times?" It might not have been easier for other students to carry around their weapons, but using two weapons like he did, Booker thought that Marumasa already had them.

"that is very much true but the thing is i left my stuff with Lacie, and the two girls were too heavy to carry around during the ceremony, but no fear from this day on my and the girls are inseparable, and i will be prepared for everything" With that he placed his red suitcase in front of him, slowly unzipping it with anticipation, "i haven't hand them in a long time..... damn i miss them" and without warning he erupted from the ground with two swords.

Tw/o long red dual blades appeared, nice black carbon handles with a long red metal blade with splits down the middle, and a dust containment chamber attached to handle of the blades, "here you go, these are my weapons, and if i do this..." with a quick flick the sword's form changed, and now they were a pair of shotguns, again long red metal tri-barrels, a long red blade along the top of the barrel and a black grip. "they're kind of naked right now wait there." he slammed the shotguns into the bag and pulled them out, attached to them are two large circular ammo cylinders,

"for a hunter i chose rather close ranged firearms, i used to use bows and a hunting rifle, though i liked the shotgun back at home" he swung them around a little and changed them back into swords and then back to guns, and then finally back into swords and swung them around, "when they are in sword form i tend to attach the ammo cylinders to my shoulder pads but... i lost them" he laughed awkwardly, "i need to remake them soon, not too hard to make, like the console i kind of know what i am doing... sometimes i get it wrong" he looked aside, the grey fox faunus remained around, and the shorter faunus was still here, "you have any clue who that kid belongs too, i bumped into her earlier... maybe she's lost?" he looked at her, kind of worried.

Aria had started walking around, still seeking out something of interest. She wasn't really interested in making friends until after the initiation, after all, it'd suck to become friends with someone only for them to get sent home after one day. Scanning her head from side to side as she walked, she took in the numerous faces until she felt something bump into her, it couldn't have been another student, she'd have seen them coming. She stopped for a moment before looking down and seeing the face of a young-looking faunus with short blonde hair and tiger ears poking through her hair. The girl mentioned Signal, and Aria, wanting to at least speak to her on eye level, knelt down to look her in the face.

She had very clear eyes, Aria thought she must have been a child until she glanced at her hands; she had callouses that were the result of practice, the kind that would take years to develop. And she was fairly sure no little kid would ever be admitted to Beacon, genius or not. She felt her foot bump against something as she knelt, and reached around to pick it up. It looked like 2 small discs attached to one another, almost like...a yo-yo? She'd seen her brother mess around with one when they were little, but she never cared to learn to play with them. She responded to the little kitty's question with: "Yup, I'm from Signal...say, is this thing yours?" She said extending her hand with the yo-yo in her palm. "Sorry about bumping into you, my name's Aria. I take it you're from Signal too since you asked?"

As Marumasa was showing off his weapons, Booker took note of them and of of their forms. It was quite interesting to see that he wasn't the only one who had dual weapons, and he also thought about how they could be used. He could have easily used a ruthless "Stab 'n Shoot" style of attack, but he could also use something with more finesse and cunning as well. He halted the thoughts before they could invade his mind further and thought about the last statement, looking around to see a young faunus girl who was without a doubt the shortest one here.

He didn't even bother with things like 'It could be the daughter of a teacher' Or anything along those lines, and instantly thought about a stowaway, looking to find a sibling of some sort. Returning his focus back to Marumasa, he glanced to the young girl to tell him that he would be talking about her. "We should go and ask her, she does seem out of place, and we aren't going to know anything by standing." Silently dismissing himself, he walked over to the girl that the two of them had just been talking about, he looked at her and quickly studied her with his always visible calm smile.

He never had a look of disinterest, or anything relating to it, and it usually saved him from people saying that he was looking at them creepy or odd whenever he chose not to mutter a single word. Looking at the short woman and tilting his head down enough to keep his eyes on her, Booker widened his smile just slightly without saying anything just yet to her.

Ryan kept the speech in mind, he figured that some of the details might be important later. He looked around, noting the other faunus in the room that he could see. He waited until a lot of them had left, not quite sure what exactly he should do, perhaps simply go to the ballroom and wait for the next day? Or meet some of the other students and possibly get to know who might end up being his teammate? He glanced towards the one with the game console and the other with him, seeing them walk towards the small faunus and what seemed to be her friend. They seem to be a group of friends, if there's fellow faunus over there, I'd be best making friends with them...

Ryan waited a little before walking towards the group, scratching the back of his head slightly. Pretty awkward walking up to a random group of people, but it might be worth it in the long run. He looked through the people there, trying to find who he thought was the leader or the friendliest. He figured the one smiling at the others was, and decided to try using his semblence to explain that he was new there and planned on making a few friends. He tried his semblence, hoping the man would understand the instant information on his intentions. (Hope you're okay with it Pyroman, if not, I'll just have him explain himself vocally)

"i guess i will take my leave actually, erm.. i'm not good at speaking to chicks, and especially in groups"he shyfully laughed as he walked towards the girls with him, shortly another faunus appeared, "yer difinetly going now.. so maybe we can speak again soon... like maybe we'll be in the same team or something?" he laughed and walked away, though a chatter box Marumasa hated crowds and felt like he needed to impress girls when he spoke to them so he avoided doing so as he ends embarrassing himself more than impressing anyone, erm maybe i will find Lacie or something.. though she is probably with the other guys from signal... best stay away from them he sighed, Lacie was the only girl he felt comfortable around, but that was because of her tomboyish attitude. The signal lot made him feel out of place as they were all rich and powerful including Lacie, where as Marumasa was a poor hunter's boy, Marumasa always felt out of place, kind of like hanging out with a group of faunus, he felt out of place.

after wondering around for a while he found himself standing in the food hall, buying some hot chocolate he sat down at a table and sipped away at the drink. He had pulled his console out again and began jamming at the buttons again, but failing the mission he returned it back to his bag, "need to be more quiet.. scaring people away... damnnnnit" he smiled at himself realizing how crazy he sounded speaking to himself, but he didn't really care how insane he looked.

"Gimme dat! That's my weapon."

Ai snatched her yo-yo back from Aria. She pinwheeled the yo-yo and finished by skyrocketing it straight into her pocket. All just for show.

"I saw you a few times back at Signal," said Ai, stretching out her hand to shake, "I never forget a Faunus face. I'm Ai Huang. Wanna be friends?"

Ai pointed her thumb back at the cheetah Faunus with the combat boots.

"And who's this guy?", she said, looking back, "Stop staring at me with that stupid grin on your face and say something. You wanna be friends too?"

Booker was prepareing to say something to the smaller girl who had just spoken to him, but something appearing in his head had stopped him completely. His smile faded quickly as he thought about the information he knew wasn't his own. He looked around to see someone standing from a little distance and looked at him, wordlessly telling him to come over by motioning him over.

He then turned back to Ai with his blank and emotionless face. "Sure." He said simply, his voice now lacking all emotion whatsoever since she didn't seem to like the smile that he had put on. "A friend of mine said he ran in to you not too long ago, and mistook you for a child, but what I see now is telling me that it isn't the case. I apologize for him." He said blandly, glancing back over to the boy who had communicated telepathically with him to see if he was any closer or not.

Aria was a bit stunned that the girl was a bit...well...blunt, to put it in a certain way. She extended her hand and shook Ai's, nodding and saying: "Sure thing Ai. Gotta ask though...you use Yo-Yos as weapons? I guess I've seen everything now." She couldn't help but think of her own little sister when she saw Ai, heck if she didn't know any better she could have sworn Ai WAS Sasha's age, almost behaved like it too with how straight forward and childish she was. The Yo-Yos didn't help much.

She turned her head when Ai snapped at the cheetah faunus who had been smiling, she found it a bit weird, three faunus meeting in the course of about 4 minutes, but then again some of the people here wouldn't want to associate with them anyways. She was a bit unnerved when the guy's slight smile changed to a rather blank face, and she stood to stand on his level, she was just a bit taller than him, ears not included. "Ai here's from Signal too, I'm Aria." She said extending her hand as Ai had done before.

Ryan nodded to Booker, walking over and glancing around at the group. "Sorry about that, it was kind of an interruption. Don't worry, it's a one-way thing, so I didn't learn anything about you while doing that." He nodded to Booker as he said this before looking around at the others, prepared to explain what he was talking about if questioned at all, and if not, he wouldn't have to worry about it in the first place. He glanced at the yo-yo weapons, thinking how unique they seemed, but believing the idea would work quite well if used by a skilled practitioner.

Marumasa finished his drink and started to wonder around the Academy to map his surroundings. Marumasa was very talented at remembering the layout of areas around him, every corridor, every door and room, he would be able to make his way to a classroom in his sleep... if ever needed. he walked along, music blaring out of his headphones, "uh oh i want some more oh~ uh o what are you waiting for, take a bite out my hea~-" he stood still as he looked down see the group of faunas speaking, "That Booker kid knows how to make friends, i should really go down and speak to them but- groups aren't really my thing.... and i am talking to myself again.. i'm such an oddball........" He made way towards the group but stopped Though i speak a lot... maybe they'll be like the guys from signal.... But he carried on walking towards them regardless, "hey Booker!"