New Kid in Town (open)

[Santos Kimura]

This school was different from any he'd ever attended before. Of course he should have expected that. He was at a school for mutants after all. What school could possibly be like this one? "Wow," he breathed out in Japanese, his first language, though he knew English very well. He was glad his parents had sent him here even if it felt as if they were simply shipping him off so he wouldn't be their problem anymore. But he wouldn't think ill of his parents. Neither of them were mutants - to his knowledge - so he didn't expect them to know what to do with a mutant.

He wasn't even sure what to do with himself. Learn control was the first step in his mind. After that, he had no clue. Be a normal teenager? How was that possible? He didn't view himself as a freak. He was proud of his mutation, it made him different. But when people found out, they didn't react the way he wanted. They didn't treat him like he was just another kid. But he was used to that. He could take that. When he thought about it, being 'normal' - no matter what definition of normal used - wasn't worth it. He was made to stand out.

Sighing to himself, Santos stepped inside the large building, a bag slung onto his shoulder. He was the new kid here. He hoped he would be able to make at least a couple friends. Nervously - what was to be expected? He was new - he made his way to the offices. He had to get his room assigned to him and classes. Perhaps this school wouldn't be so different from a boarding school?

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[Athena De Costa]

→ HAVE YOU HEARD THE NEWS THAT YOU'RE DEAD ?
NO ONE EVER HAD MUCH NICE TO SAY ,
( I THINK THEY NEVER LIKED YOU ANYWAY ! ) - - - - - - - - - -

<sup>The white skin was normal – relatively speaking, for humans – but the white hair was anything but. Bright white, and it looked natural – naturally un-natural. Athena eyed the clearly new student as he wandered around the living room; the new kid was younger than him (although most students were, with new mutants coming to Xavier’s as soon as their mutation emerged instead of years afterwards as he had) and looked perhaps unhealthily thin. His skin didn’t have sores on it, or that hollow look to his face that he’d seen in bulimics or anorexics, however, so the shield-producing mutant had to assume that that skinny look was also natural, and still on the healthy side.

The confused look on the kids' face was almost amusing, if he himself hadn’t been very recently in the same shoes. “Hey – you need help?</sup>

[/color]” Athena found himself asking – almost against his own violation. He’d been thinking about steering the kid in the right direction, true enough, but the words had more-or-less blurted out of his mouth as he’d been getting up from the chair he’d crammed himself in to, setting the book in his hand down, open against the arm of the chair, to keep his place as he swung his body up and out of the chair to move towards the white-haired Santos. Sneakers squeaking slightly as the dark-skinned young man strode, Athena smiled welcomingly at the young mutant, offering a hand for him to shake as Athena finished speaking. He hadn’t particularly meant to go out of his way to be helpful, but – well, there wasn’t any going back now, and there certainly wasn’t any harm in being polite.

“I know this place can be kind of intimidating, but it’s not that confusing once you’ve been here a while.[/color]”, he added, face sliding naturally from a smile into a neutrally-pleasant expression as he glanced down the hallway that connect the living room to the inner workings of the mansion – the kitchen, a couple of spare rooms, the laundry room, and a couple of offices were on the first floor, nothing particularly important until the second floor, which held mostly classrooms, and the third, which had more offices and some bigger classrooms. Other wings had the girls’ and boys’ dorms (separated, of course) and the teachers’ rooms as well. The grounds outside were sprawling and lavish – almost every room had a good view of the lawn, and the woods beyond that.[/size]

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( Dead by MCR )
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