INTRO LOG

[mediumatlarge]

[[Exactly what it says on the tin! This is just an initial log to sort of get things started and is largely freeform, open to (but not limited to):

-Meetings before classes start
-First day business
-Dorm shenanigans meetings
-First classes in progress
-or whatever the heck else you want to do for beginning-of-term things!

There's a CR meme up now for some initial planning if you like, or feel free to just hop in here.]]

Comments

[ex_outofcontrol435]

[The wheels are turning in John's head now, and turning fast. This kid could be worth more than just playground bully shit.

Way more.]

How old are you?

[poweryetunknown]

Fifteen. Why?

[ex_outofcontrol435]

Shit. You've got a couple of years before you start any real training. They'll work with the mental side, but nothing that'll do you any good in a fight. I don't even start the hardcore stuff until next year.

[He glances away idly.]

Too bad, huh. So much wasted time around here.

[poweryetunknown]

Why not just train on your own?

[ex_outofcontrol435]

I practice, yeah. But training means more than just throwing fire around or seeing how hot you can get it to burn beside something without leaving scorch marks. It takes more than one person.

[This is going to be way too easy. And it'll all seem like Neku's idea.]

[poweryetunknown]

[But trust. How do.]

Look, if you want me to kick your ass just say so.

[He grins, though. He's only sort of joking.]

[ex_outofcontrol435]

Nah. [An even more idle shake of his head.] Fighting just looks like fighting. It'll get busted up every time, and nothing we say'll make any difference. I've got the reputation, you're looking to start it.

[poweryetunknown]

Right. But where the hell would you do training here that the teachers aren't gonna see that doesn't look like fighting?

[ex_outofcontrol435]

You can throw things. I can shoot them. You think of anything, let me know.

[And to cinch it, he starts to wander away, like that's the end of the conversation. If Neku follows, he'll know he's got his first recruit.]

[poweryetunknown]

[... It's not like he has anywhere else to be. He follows along. His main issue is that they might get caught.]

[ex_outofcontrol435]

[... well, it's good enough.]

Alright, you got most of it, I'll spoonfeed you the rest. Target practice. You're getting your aim down, I'm getting my control down, and everything we're hitting is inanimate. We can sell it as goddamn anger management.

[poweryetunknown]

[He tries not to flinch at that. Dick.]

Sure, why not? We just gotta find something. Maybe trash.

[ex_outofcontrol435]

[He got his scorn, now John'll reward him a little.]

Yeah, that's good. We're even cleaning the place up free of charge. We're gonna look like model citizens while we beat their system right under their noses.

[poweryetunknown]

Something like that.

Classes don't start for another day or two, right?

[ex_outofcontrol435]

Tomorrow. Why, what're you thinking?

[poweryetunknown]

Getting in practice early.

[ex_outofcontrol435]

I'll talk to 'em. I'm still the senior student, even if I've got the rep right now, and I can play it off as trying to change my ways. They see any fire flying right now and we're both going into detention.

[He sighs, rolling his eyes a bit.]

I know, playing the game. But we don't want this dead in the water, right?

[poweryetunknown]

Yeah, I guess. You'd know more of the people to talk to.

[ex_outofcontrol435]

That too. You go to the wrong teacher and say "John Allerdyce suggested" and you'll be signed up for Big Brothers and Sisters in no time to shake that influence off.

[poweryetunknown]

[He wrinkles his nose. Yeah no thanks.]

[ex_outofcontrol435]

[And now he's laughing. This is no friendship - he's thinking of the kid as a recruit, either for himself or for someone more powerful that he knows must be out there - but he'll be fun to have around, at least. Enough attitude to be amusing, not so much that he'll be a problem.]

You don't have to keep your head down for long. Just long enough that it doesn't like we're starting a gang instead of training.

[poweryetunknown]

True. It's annoying as hell, though.