Regitnui

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Zeke wasn't sure why he ended up on the floor. Walking back the steps, he fidgeted with his camera while he tried to figure out whether it was worth being upset about. He'd walked into walls before when he was thinking too much, but this didn't feel like a wall. He had been walking along, thinking about stars, when someone had walked into him. He looked down to see a pile of white and blue clothes with a person in trying to sink into the floor like a puddle, and a black horned hoodie person holding out a hand. She had blue eyes, but not Viola-blue eyes, and a different colour hair. And spikes on her hoodie.

He stood up, ignoring the hand by simply not seeing it, and started poking at the horns. "These are funny," He said, more to himself than the girl inside the hoodie. "Poke, poke," He said, and giggled. Then he remembered that she'd said something. Zeke looked at the rest of the person, tilting his head to try and recognise something. He didn't, but did that mean he wasn't supposed to or that he had forgotten? If he had forgotten, was he supposed to remember? He thought the teacher had explained. But which teacher? He stepped back, retreating away, a pang of concern hitting him. "Um..."

He wanted Viola here. Or Braids. Or Yellow. Or even Icy, even if she was attached to her Seat a lot. Just someone to help him remember if this person was someone he was supposed to remember, or someone he had seen before in different clothes, or... He wrapped his arms around himself, then took a deep breath to stop the panic. "I'm sorry if I don't remember you when I should because I have face blindness and I don't remember people unless they have something else I can remember," He recited hurriedly, his eyes closed like he was expecting to be hit or yelled at, which felt the same minus bruises.

@Crusader Lord@Rune_Alchemist

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@CrabInATree@Sailorsadie I have two or more sites to check and Tvtropes.

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@Sailorsadie This looks like Zeke's favourite teacher.

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@Arya10108909 I'll come up with one when I'm less sleepy.

@Rune_Alchemist Oh dear. Zeke's popular again.

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Alright, I've recapped nicknames, and if anyone wants to run into Zeke while he's wandering the corridors lost in thoughts, you're welcome to.

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Zeke was following a sunbeam. It was reflecting off something near the art classroom, and he wandered off in the complete opposite of the direction the rest of the class was. He'd made a couple of friends so far, and he'd enthusiastically sent his parents pictures of all of them; Yellow, Icy, Icy's Seat, Bookie, Braids... But most of all, he had told them the most about Viola. She made him feel happy, though the way his mom had smiled and his dad had laughed when he told them about her made him worried. Did they know something he didn't? He liked hanging around her, and Braids. That was that.

He ducked around an older student, his eyes fixed on the light, then he raised his camera to photograph the way a beam in the ceiling split the light with a shadow. It actually bent the light a little; he could see the slightly lighter triangle behind the wood that shouldn't actually be lit if light was straight lines. After taking the photo, he turned around and took a photo of the beam from a different angle. It wasn't as interesting, but the class teacher had gone on and on and on and on about composition and context, which meant he wanted Zeke to make his pictures more interesting. Or at least that's what Zeke thought he said. Apparently "normal" people didn't find pictures of speckled rocks and shiny windows interesting. The teacher had praised Zeke's skill with porter-achure, but he'd said that while looking at Viola's picture so Zeke had snatched the camera back.

Zeke pouted. Did he have to try and take a picture of the beam and the light from the top? But he couldn't climb that high. And Viola couldn't do the flying thing, and she wasn't here. So he couldn't, and so Zeke decided to do something else. He started retracing his steps, finding the photography classroom and walking past it in the direction of the gardens. He'd have to ask if his pocket money was enough for a long lens yet. Then he could take photos of the town from the school, and catch the liquid orange sunset from his dorm window, and maybe even start getting the bright stars. He'd seen one that kept changing colours. Red, blue, red, blue. Zeke had tried making a dot that did that, but it just looked purple.

Nickname Translations

Yellow = Jideh/Kalleth (Eye colour)
Icy = Dia/Old Amsterdam (powers)
Icy's Seat = Felix/Zelosse (since Dia sits on his lap. Working on something else)
Bookie = Bhu/Sailorsaddle (Simple sound pun)
Braids = ShiZen/Stern Algorithm (Typical hairstyle)
Viola = Lyra/Pseudo Stygian (She had a violin when they met. He remembers her eyes)

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@Crusader Lord You're the darkness girl! I'll tell you then, of you didn't read it. If Zeke is scared of your character, it's not because of her, it's because of his nyctophobia.

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@Sailorsadie, be warned, Zeke has a habit of nicknaming people. If Bhu's in his class and managed to get his attention, she'd have been nicknamed already. So I'm making one up. @Zelosse, Felix is getting one too.

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@Kalleth, Yeah, sure. Will do. Jordan seems to be the local driver of plot anyway.

@Old Amsterdam Can I say I called it? Well, I called it. I wonder how many couples at the Academy have swapped rooms to be together? And No, Zeke's not going to move into anyone else's dorm yet. He doesn't see the point.

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@Sailorsadie You're welcome to be in the group I mentioned above. Though aren't you the Darkness girl? Zeke has nyctophobia...

Nope, you're good. Especially since she's in Zeke's photography class.