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Slice-of-life High School

A club? Oh no. Definitely not. This was absolutely not going to happen. Sakaki stood abruptly, muttering some none-too-kind words, but as she rose from the desk, her hair caught on something and several strands tore out, accompanied by a slight gasp of surprise and pain and the clatter of a falling chair. They fluttered to the ground, uniformly black until the roots. They were a bright, attention-grabbing orange, the colour of freshly-polished copper. Sakaki suddenly changed profoundly. Her expression changed instantly from entirely impassive to horrifyingly, deeply anguished, the kind of emotional anguish that lasts a lifetime. She made a conscious effort to assume her usual face, but to no avail; everyone sitting there had obviously seen it.

She felt a stinging in the corner of her eyes and a single tear rolled down her face. Gritting her teeth, she rubbed away at her face with her sleeve. This is so completely humiliating. Somehow, though, through long practice, her composure reasserted itself and the incident ended. She swept the hairs from the ground and, seeing no further point to leaving, slumped down into the chair again, idly eating a piece of sushi with no real appetite. Well, there goes my carefully cultivated facade. I'm about to become a laughingstock, aren't I. It was not so much a question as it was a statement of fact.

Harmonica - (Fantasy Based RP)

Gavin's head jerked up and out of his hands and a pensive expression spread across his face.

"They're in a bit of trouble. There wasn't much money in our part of the old city, so we struggled to get by. My little sister was...killed in an industrial accident only a few days before I left. I didn't even get to come to her funeral. On top of that, my parents are pretty old. I don't know if they'll be able to support themselves..."

His face hardened.

"Why? What do you think you're doing with this information?

Slice-of-life High School

TheWindel said
I can kinda see where this story is going. A first year somehow manages to round up a bunch of random people and incorporate them in her club to make new friends, detailing their many wacky adventures. Someone make that an actual anime.

Now that I think about it, it pretty much is. The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya. It's a pretty good anime, and only now am I seeing the similarities.

Slice-of-life High School

TheWindel said
You fools! You've discovered Tanaka's bane of existence! Making a club where people socialize! XD

OH THE HORROR! RUN FOR THE HILLS! FIRE AND BRIMSTONE AND SOCIAL ACTIVITY!

Slice-of-life High School

"Friends, not Foes" sounds cheesy to us, yeah, but I can imagine Hotaru suggesting that so easily. It seems like it would work, y'know?

Harmonica - (Fantasy Based RP)

Gavin stiffened. "That's one hell of a strange ability. So you can see through anybody's eyes? That's...huh. I'm gonna have to remember that."

"How does that even work...?" he muttered under his breath, until remembering that she also had really powerful hearing. Well then. "And yeah, I can be a little bit of a xenophobe, when said aliens are talking like that. You heard what that Sabore guy mentioned, right? About a war? I mean, I have friends back in Harmonica. I have family. Doesn't it seem a little too...convenient to you, all of these abilities and how they work? Think about it. With yours, you are essentially a perfect spy. You don't even need to enter a place to see what's going on. With mine, I can change any metal that has any amount of iron in it. I knew a guy back home who could change the density of atoms around him to make massive bursts of hypercompressed air. Wonder where he went on the holotrains...? Anyway, it seems almost like we were bred, y'know? To fight in a war. But then what do our lives mean?"

As he spoke, he began to motion with his hands to emphasize his points. The bracelet once again slithered around his arms, reaching his hand and jumping from fingertip to fingertip like an electric arc. Gavin sighed.

"But I guess you're right about the obedience part. Hell, these trains are probably bugged and rigged with any number of preventative measures. If we decided to go our own way instead of obey the aliens, they'll probably just vaporize us on the spot, or gas us, or some such thing."

He slumped down, bracing his cheeks on his hands. The metal stopped moving, simply staying in stasis mid-jump.

Slice-of-life High School

Sakaki stopped and closed her eyes. It had been a long, long time since she'd eaten lunch with someone else. She sighed heavily. Why not? It would at least serve to pass the time. She turned around and stared deeply into the girl's eyes for a good three seconds, then slid hers laconically closed once more and dropped her head a fraction of an inch. "I suppose. Your name?" she asked, settling into a desk in front of the one the girl was sitting in. She leaned her head back, letting her long hair pool on the floor. A flash of something other than black may have appeared somewhere in there, but it was gone before it was really there. She had a strange feeling of foreboding. Something bad was approaching, she could feel it. Today was going to be one of those days...

Slice-of-life High School

That actually works really well, because then we have Sakaki, who has no business telling people how to make friends, as a member of a group that does just that. I can see her making somebody feel reeaally awkward. It sounds brilliant. Now who shall suggest it?

But yeah, a better name is probably a good thing.

Slice-of-life High School

So yeah, at this point, Sakaki is just going to become an unwilling tag-along member of whatever club Hotaru is dreaming up. I can't wait, this will be glorious.

Harmonica - (Fantasy Based RP)

Sylverblu said
Irritated with the sudden change in control of the conversation, Sylvia though of how to respond. She took hold of one of the poles on the train to balance herself.Sylvia impulsively started twirling her coin in between her fingers.Sylvia realized that her time was running short, she had to answer now. "Well then, " she said with spite, "You'll have to earn the respect that comes with a name. I was just wondering why, oh I don't know, in the middle of whatever you want to call this, you're chasing someone who was trying to hide their face. Understandable, no? Oh and as for name," Sylvia paused for a moment, and then with the slightest hint of a smirk said, "Evelyn. Nice to meet you."Sylvia stopped twirling her coin and held it in a fist for a moment before putting it away and out stretching her newly freed hand to this "Gavin"

Gavin stared into her eyes as he took her hand and shook it, and one fact instantly became clear in his mind. She's lying. Outwardly, though, he made no movement to betray his conviction. "Nice to meet you as well, Evelyn, though I wish we could've done so on better circumstances. Really though, what's with these freaky aliens anyway? They're acting like we should just obey them without question." His eyes once again narrowed, something he tended to do quite often. "I don't know about them. There's something not quite right about all this, and I mean to find out what it is. Who knows, maybe I'll even run into that kid again." He shook his head to clear the thoughts.

"So, what are you here for? What's your little quirk?" He reached out and touched the steel pole she was grasping, twisting it into a spiral. "I think mine is pretty evident."