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Karolina Dean ([personal profile] solarhippie) wrote2019-01-16 07:05 pm

Guidance Counselor's Office, Wednesday

This week, there were no major technical difficulties happening in the guidance counselor's office, and for that, Karolina was thankful.

There were, a however, a lot of apples on her desk. Like a lot. A lot a lot. It was kind of a pyramid of apples, right on her desk, and she was worried about whether touching it would lead to all the apples rolling off onto the floor and into different directions.

"And these aren't even in season," she said incredulously, to no one in particular. As if that was a thing that had ever swayed Fandom before.

[ooc: Open office!]
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[personal profile] notallbluemonks 2019-01-16 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Beau had been taking a little tour of the school campus today, just a sort of casual and apparently disinterested meander. She'd thought she might go check out the library -- not because she was looking for anything, just to surreptitiously see how it stacked up in comparison to the Archive of the Cobalt Soul.

But she couldn't be seen doing that, so she was wandering through the teachers' office wing instead of taking the direct route.

The apple that rolled out into the hallway caught her attention; she scooped it up and tossed it in her hand a few times before leaning through the doorway.

"Hey, you dropped your, uh -- " The pyramid was kind of hard to miss, and she raised her eyebrows in amusement. "You have enough apples there?"

It came out sounding slightly mocking. As usual, she figured that people were going to dislike her anyway, so she might as well make sure she was the one who set the tone for that.
notallbluemonks: (Smirking)

[personal profile] notallbluemonks 2019-01-16 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Beau chuckled roughly and juggled the apple from one hand to the other, back and forth a few times. "Yeah, I'm starting to get the idea that's just the kind of thing you have to put up with every now and then? Could be worse, right? At least you get free food out of it."

She narrowed her eyes thoughtfully; she was pretty sure she'd never seen Karolina around before, but she kind of sounded vaguely familiar.

"'sup," she added, actually managing a bit of a smile, or an attempt at one anyway. "Have we like met? Because I don't remember you, but I kinda feel like we have. Like you sound familiar? Or I could have been hung over at the time and I don't know what I'm talking about, so . . ."
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[personal profile] notallbluemonks 2019-01-17 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
“Wait, that was — ” Beau blinked a few times, then burst out laughing. “Okay, yeah, I remember that. ‘cause, I mean. Yeah. It was like super goth.”

Because of course she would. Honestly, Beau.

“Really effective as costumes go, gotta say,” she added with a nod to the cheery pastel ensemble. “Seriously never would have guessed. I kind of didn’t know about the costume thing ‘cause I’d been here like two days at that point, so I wasn’t in costume or anything? Kinda wish I came up with some kind of smartass answer for that in case people asked, in retrospect. Beau, by the way. I can’t remember if I mentioned that before.”

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[personal profile] notallbluemonks 2019-01-17 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"Does anyone ever really totally settle in here, technically speaking?" asked Beau as she tossed the apple from one hand to the other. "There's always something that comes along to break up the normalness as soon as things start getting boring."

She was possibly trying to show off a little with the juggling, which probably would have gone better if she had more than one apple, but eh.

"It's cool, though. You know, getting used to things, knowing where the booze is, knowing way too many teachers now apparently . . . so you teach here too, or what?"
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[personal profile] notallbluemonks 2019-01-17 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's an actual school position?" Beau genuinely looked impressed by that, or at least a grudgingly less-than-disdainful that was about equivalent for her. If there had been something like that while she was in school, well . . . she would have had to spend less time trying to avoid it in the first place.

"That's pretty cool. I mean, unless you're like using that information against the kids later or something."

And then she went and ruined it, like she did. Sigh.
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[personal profile] notallbluemonks 2019-01-17 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's fair, agreed Beau, who felt kind of bad now about letting her pessimistic tendencies take over since there really was no way to construe Karolina's reaction as anything but sincere. "It's just, you know, information like that is good leverage for certain types of people. Mostly the ones I know." In her own teenage years, also so very long ago.

She spun the apple around in her fingers, took a bite, and made a sound that implied the apple was pretty good, actually.

"But if this is a confidential, no-judgment zone? Yeah. That's pretty cool."
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[personal profile] notallbluemonks 2019-01-17 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
It might have been coincidence that Beau seemed to be smirking the next time she took a bite of the apple. Might have, just like the not-quite-subtle lift of her eyebrows.

"I respect a woman who's that up front about things," she said with a slow grin, because look, it wasn't like she was an expert at subtlety herself. "For real, though. Not a figure of speech. That's a lie, it's both, but anyway."

A little more seriously she added, "I get that, though. About the shitty parents. Wouldn't call mine supervillains exactly, but. Wait. That's not a figure of speech either, is it?"

You never knew around here.
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[personal profile] notallbluemonks 2019-01-17 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Beau's eyes flashed with anger for a brief but unmistakable moment, her lips pressing into a hard line.

"Mine were just assholes who couldn't deal with me not being the kid they wanted," she said, and as hard as she tried to keep her lingering anger about that out of her voice the undercurrent was still there. "But not on that level. What the fuck. So you what, went and did the hero thing to flip them off?"

Another quick grin. "That's good. I like that."

Better than her method of turning criminal, really.
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[personal profile] notallbluemonks 2019-01-18 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh." And now it was Beau's turn to fidget awkwardly, too unsure of how sympathy even worked to know how to respond to that. "That, uh. Kind of sucks. Like the whole shitty situation."

Which was an understatement; she had very strong feelings about adults using kids for some fucked up personal agenda, but she was at least self aware enough to not want to go into a mostly incoherent profanity laden rant right here, and that was close to her own personal damage than she wanted to go anyway.

She let out a low, dubious laugh instead. "Well, I'm trying something, anyway. Probably not channeling it into anything as positive as you, though. That's like, seriously. That's impressive."
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[personal profile] notallbluemonks 2019-01-18 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, you did," said Beau, "but it's cool. Sometimes I like get distracted and miss out on details so it's kind of not a bad idea to repeat things."

She took another bite of the apple, unsubtly suggestive enough that it would likely give any lurking squirrels some severe secondhand embarrassment.

"I mean, I wasn't that time but, you know. It's fine. Trying stuff is like . . . I'm into it."

And yet you weren't even really trying that time, were you, Beauregard?
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[personal profile] notallbluemonks 2019-01-21 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
“Sure.” Beau stretched a little bit and leaned back against the doorframe, her pierced eyebrow raised slightly in amusement. “I mean, I’m all about that. New experiences, right?”

That she felt some kind of sense of accomplishment about getting that reaction out of Karolina was entirely possible.
notallbluemonks: (Smirking)

[personal profile] notallbluemonks 2019-01-21 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, Beau wasn't generally used to her attempts going this well, which also said something. Fjord probably felt the urge to facepalm right about now.

"Yeah, 'cause that's no fun." She mentally reviewed what had just come out of her mouth, then shrugged and laughed self-mockingly. "I mean, obviously, right?"

She was perfectly aware how awkward that sounded, so she tried to blow past it with a slightly rushed, "Yeah, I don't really know how to talk to people but I was totally hitting on you. You know, full disclosure."

Really, Beau?
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[personal profile] notallbluemonks 2019-01-21 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"I mean --" Beau's eyes went wide too, for a moment, because she'd kind of been expecting to get laughed at or otherwise not well received. "On the same page, good to know. 'cause like, if you weren't into it . . ."

She was an asshole, but not that kind of asshole.
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[personal profile] notallbluemonks 2019-01-22 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
“Yeah, that happens sometimes,” Beau said, and she didn’t actually mean to sound kind of dismissive about it; she was just really bad at actually being reassuring. Her eyebrows twitched up again, and one corner of her mouth quirked into a sly smile. “I’m, uh, good for the practice.”
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[personal profile] notallbluemonks 2019-01-22 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, sure," Beau agreed, looking . . . a little surprised, actually. Things working out in her favor, even despite herself? What was that? "Somewhere more interesting than on campus. I mean, unless you're -- never mind."
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[personal profile] notallbluemonks 2019-01-24 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
It was probably better not to ask, anyway. It would only end in more awkwardness and a squirrel or two just outright dying of embarrassment.

But even Beau, habitually surly as she was, couldn't quite suppress the briefest flash of an actual smile at that.

She stuck her foot out, trying to intercept one of the rolling apples and kick it up into her hand; instead it bounced up into the air at a wild angle and nearly hit her in the nose before she reached out to snag it out of the air and . . . swat it out into the hallway instead.

"I'm working on it, I'm working on it," she said, waving her hand. "That's not like a thing you can do, is it? Just random apples manifesting around you? 'cause I mean, it's kinda cool but also kinda a pain in the ass."

Focus, Beauregard.

"I mean . . . what do you want to do? Get drinks sometime? That's usually my go to but I'd be into other ideas."

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[personal profile] notallbluemonks 2019-01-25 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"I was kind of joking about the powers . . . you're serious about that?" It was hard to tell whether Beau looked more surprised or impressed, but it was definitely both in some proportion, with a touch of doubt mixed in. "Like magic, or something totally different?"

Bowling could quite possibly end up terribly.
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[personal profile] notallbluemonks 2019-01-26 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Beau’s eyebrows had started twitching upwards slightly at the energy shields, and by the time Karolina mentioned the flying she was sporting a wide-eyed expression somewhere between impressed and awed.

“You can fly? That’s hot,” she said, so quickly it was clearly reflex. “Usually in my world when people can do that kind of thing it usually is because of magic. Unless it’s a racial thing — uh, that doesn’t always mean the same thing it does here, but as far as I know I’ve only heard of these bird-people who can. I still forget that this world is mostly just used to all humans all the time, you know? Like, outside of here, I mean. And see, now I kinda want to watch you fly sometime, but did you not know for a while? That you weren’t actually human?”
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[personal profile] notallbluemonks 2019-01-26 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Beau frowned slightly, blinking for a second as she tried to figure out how to respond to that exactly without sounding like a complete asshole.

“Yeah, that’s, uh. I kind of don’t even have a frame of reference to figure out how you’d process all that,” she admitted. Finding out about some of the shady crap her father had gotten up to hadn’t exactly been fun either, but that wasn’t even on the same level. “I mean, wow.”

She rubbed a hand over the back of her head and asked, in a slightly raspier voice than usual, “How did you even handle all of that?”

And not come out of it all angry and bitter, was what she meant, but that part could remain unsaid for now.
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[personal profile] notallbluemonks 2019-01-26 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's fair," Beau said with a tiny but genuine smile of her own.

It was probably best not to go there; she had her own fun self-loathing issues to contend with, after all, and some things were a little uncomfortably close to home.

"I mean, looks like you made it work pretty well for you. And now you're paying it forward here? That's . . . kind of amazing."
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[personal profile] notallbluemonks 2019-01-28 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"I wouldn't know what that's like," Beau said deadpan, as if she wouldn't insist she was fine while bleeding profusely. "But yeah, getting people to talk about their damage is -- I don't have the patience for it, l personally."

She grinned slowly. "So you're saying you would probably have been bored all day if I didn't come by?"

Not the point, Beau.
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[personal profile] notallbluemonks 2019-01-28 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"Good thing about the apples then, I guess," Beau decided. "It was going to be a pretty boring day for me too, otherwise."