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Natalia Elwyn

"Be careful! If this wrapping falls off, your skin might just do the same!"

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a character in “The Awakening: A New Generation”, originally authored by ililumi., as played by RolePlayGateway

Description

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"Come on, no need to be shy! We're all the same here you know!"

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Name
Natalia Elywn
Nicknames/Aliases
Natalie
Nat
Age
17
Gender
Female
Sexual Orientation
Bisexual
Academy Year
Eleventh
Birth Date
April 28th




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Hair
Black, Reaches Mid Back, Very Straight
Eyes
Dark Brown
Height
5'11"
Weight
145 Pounds
Body Build
Hourglass Shape, Softer Looking
Physical Mutations
N/A
Notable Scars
Multiple Strange Looking Scars, Fingers and Palms
Piercings and Tattoos
Triple Piercings, Both Ears
Casual Wear
For Natalia's casual outfit, she usually seems to wear a loose, thin white t-shirt, with the front usually tucked into the black, somewhat ripped pants that are more fitted around her longer legs. She almost always throws some kind of jacket over her white shirt (unless it's really hot), though the most frequent of all seems to be a more loose denim one. The sleeves on that jacket are always, without a doubt, rolled up to a quarter sleeve. She usually throws on a watch around her wrist. Her earings are normally simple studs. She is always wearing a cloth wrapping around her fingers and hands, as well as wrists. It reaches up to about her elbow.
Face Claim
Sawako Kuronuma – Kimi Ni Todoke





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Personality
Natalia is seen as a rather carefree and laid back person most of the time, not being very loud, but not shyly quiet either. She enjoys to be able to simply relax or just hang out around somewhere with others, friends or acquaintances. She's pretty friendly for the most part, and enjoys meeting and befriending new people. Though it seems that occassionally, Natalia will be determined and/or persistent over certain things if she finds it a fun challenge, which can be good or bad, depending on the situation. She's even rather competitive if she finds a game or a challenge she likes. She is definitely an independent person, and can do perfectly fine on her own, whether it be taking care of herself, or keeping up on school projects/homework. Natalia doesn't seem to handle stress very well, and easily breaks into tears when those come around, though she usually does her best to keep it to herself. She finds lounging around much more enjoyable than being active. Natalia seems to be a bit self conscious about her height, and finds herself rather hurt when people tease her about it, but she usually doesn't talk about it. She doesn't seem to particularly like her power very much, disliking how grotesque and graphic it is, but has grown to accept it over the year she has already spent at the academy. For some reason, Natalia seems to have a sensitive stomach, and is easily nauseated or made sick by all different things.
Strengths
  • She seems like a rather laid back person. It takes a lot for her to get worked up, or anything of the sort (unless a fun challenge comes up).
  • Natalia is a pretty independent person, and can definitely take care of herself if she needs to. She doesn't need help with most things either, including school.
  • While she isn't super active, it doesn't mean that she can avoid any kind of activity at all while being at the school. She's found herself gaining muscle through the rough physical education course, and has even gained some from the power and ability control class that she will occasionally have one on one with Mr. Nakajima (something required by the academy's principle).

Weaknesses
  • Natalia doesn't seem to handle stress very well, and is often left in tears if it gets out of hand (in her mind).
  • She's not entirely sure why, (though she blames it on her power) but she finds herself easily nauseated. Simple things like the sight of blood or injury, or perhaps some conversations or foods, can trigger it.
  • Natalia doesn't have very good control over when she uses her ability, so she's always wearing a specially made cloth wrapping to keep herself from causing accidents or anything of the sort.

Fears
  • Without full control over her power, accidents are bound to happen, and Natalia knows that. It's something that's constantly nagging her in the back of her mind, and why she's always checking to make sure the wrapping around her hands and arms are still in good condition.
  • After being rejected by her entire school and her own friends, Natalia finds the idea of being abandonned again terrifying, and can't even imagine going through that once more.
  • Natalia seems to have a literal fear of spiders, and even small ones will send her off running, and at times screaming as if her life is in danger.




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Power Name
Disintegration
Power Class
Miscellaneous
Power Description
Natalia's ability, disintegration, allows her to "break down" solid objects or people that she comes into direct, physical contact with. The process of disintegration is slow, but effective. Losing physical contact with her target causes her ability's effect to end on that person, until she is able to touch them again. Her ability can only be activated or used through her fingers, palms, and the bottom of her wrist. Attempted use of her ability through anywhere else on her body is known to be impossible, as it does nothing at all.
Power Limitations and Weaknesses
  • Natalia's ability is limited to direct, physical touch only. Once she loses contact with her target, she can no longer use her ability on them (that is, until she manages to create physical contact again).
  • Currently, Natalia is unable to control when she uses her abilities and when she doesn't. Because of this, she's required (by the academy's principle) to wear a cloth double layered wrapping around her fingers, hands, and up to her elbows, just to be safe.
  • Natalia's ability can cause damage even to herself, if she isn't paying attention while her wrapping is off and places her hands down anywhere on her body.
  • Natalia's power is limited through the use of just her fingers and palms, and a little bit of the bottom of her wrist. Trying to use her ability through any other body part has proven completely useless.
  • Natalia's power isn't completed in an instant. It takes quite a lot of time for her break through all of the layers of skin, muscle and bones.
  • Natalia's power doesn't allow her to completely break down an entire layer of skin or muscle at one. The place she comes in contact with her hand is slowly broken down, and it only spreads about an inch or so from her fingers and palms before she has to move her hand again to break another area down again.
  • If Natalia overuses her ability, her own hands can begin to break down. It's noticable when this happens, as the skin begins to peel away in big chunks, and can even get as low as the bones if she goes for too long.
  • Natalia's bones (within her fingers/hands and the wrist) are rather brittle or weak (likely broken down a bit due to her ability), and are known to easily break/snap if she isn't careful.
  • Natalia seems to have sudden bursts of nausea when using her ability. Whether it's actually from the use of her ability, or because Natalia finds it sickening, is unknown.
  • Breaking down bone (in living people) is extremely hard, and a lengthy process. It often takes several hours to even destroy a small section of it.
  • If someone were to somehow disable the use of her hands, she would be unable to fight with her ability anymore.
  • Her ability can only break down solids. Liquids and gasses are impossible to do anything to.




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History
Born into a small family consisting of herself, her older brother, and her mother and father, the four of them lived together "peacefully" in a slowly growing city located in North America. During that time, it wasn't exactly the most wonderful and happy days. It was only three years after the events with the awakened and the fight for Furushima Academy had started to "calm down," yet even though all of the news programs and other things on the TV told them that everything had been fixed, and that everyone was equal and on good terms now, it was an obvious lie to everyone watching. In no way had everything calmed down, and there was no possible way that everyone was equal and on good terms either. The rising of the many anti-normie organizations had started, as well as the anti-awakened organization becoming much more violent and aggressive. It was constant battle each day, and even if it wasn't happening just outside of your home, it didn't mean that it wasn't happening at all. In fact, plenty of people were being dragged into prison each day for all sorts of things that happened against all of these groups...murder, physical or sexual assault, the list could go on forever. It was hard for the small family; while their parents were trying to protect their two small children, one only several months old, the other only four, they were also unsure if the place they lived in now was even safe for them at all. Even so, they didn't have the money to move, even if they wanted to. Thus, they were stuck living there, just hoping that the chaos would stay clear of their city.
As the years went on, Natalia began to age on, and she began school, where she did well enough, both academically and socially. She had already found herself a small group of friends within the first couple weeks, and she felt accepted enough. She was a pretty active kid as well, and as she got older, she found herself involved in plenty of sports, though mainly volleyball. As time went on, some might even say she was climbing up the ladder to popularity, with her exciting, cheerful personality as well as her involvement in all different areas of her school, and she would nearly make it to the top before she turned exactly the age of fifteen. Everything became a complete disaster from there.
It was on her fifteenth birthday when her and two of her friends had gone out to go have a small celebration with each other. Grab some ice cream or a couple slices of cake at the small, local shop just by their homes, open up the small presents they had gotten her, and then walk home and decide what to do from there. The night had gone perfectly well through all of it, but that ended as they were making their way back to their house, and they were suddenly attacked by a man twice all of their sizes at the time, in both height and size, though he was much muscular than he was overweight. Panic and fear was the only thing the three of them could feel, expecially once they realized nearly no one was out and around the area, save it another man who walked past them without noticing what was going on. They were slowly backed into a corner, with their attacker threatening them in all sorts of ways if they were to call out for help. Suddenly, the man lunged at them, arms outstretched. In a panic, Natalia threw her hands out to protect herself, and as they came in contact with the man's chest, she suddenly heard him let out a scream of agony. Quickly looking up, she found the there were holes in his shirt exactly where she'd placed her hands, and the skin around it was peeling away and falling off, some of it even turning to dust. The man was too startled to even care about the girls anymore, and he had disappeared within seconds. When Natalia looked back, she could only see expressions of fear on her friends' faces, and soon enough, before she could try and even say anything, they'd ran off. She wasn't even sure what had happened, but something inside of her got her up off her feet, and started her way back home.
By the time she'd made it to her home, it was nearly midnight, and she was terrified. Her friends had run away from her, she somehow broke, if that was even the right word, that man's shirt and skin with a simple touch. As she opened the door, she realized she'd even left a faint imprint of her fingers into the knob. Her parents came rushing down the stairs, confused and worried about what was going on after they heard the door slam shut, only to find her on the ground, crying. When they asked her what was going on and lead her over to the living room, she immediately blurted out what came to her mind: she was one of the awakened. The words brought her parents to a stunned silence for a moment, and they tried to make sense of what she was saying, before finally she found herself enveloped in a tight hug from the both of them. Confused but relieved at the same time by their reaction, she slowly passed out into a silent sleep in their arms, finally able to relax, even if it was just a little bit.
The next few weeks were literal hell for Natalia. She was never sure of when she was using her ability or when she wasn't. She could hardly touch anything, and by the first week, she'd already destroyed hundreds of pencils, plenty of school papers, and so many other things that she used everyday of her life. She didn't know how to control it at all, when to make it stop working. That wasn't the only problem either. The two friends that had been with her had already spread the news around the school. Everyone knew, and no one wanted to be around her. The city was still pretty cautious about the awakened, and so, they kept their distance. She felt alone, rejected, and hurt. She only had her family now. Yet, someone in her grade year found her rather curious, and felt bad for her situation...enough so that one day, he approached her as she was walking home alone. Surprised and nervous about him suddenly appearing and actually talking to her like no one else would, she hardly knew how to act, but he didn't seem to mind. In fact, he was totally fine with it. He later introduced himself as William, and soon it seemed like they would have a friendship.
As a year went by, the two of them had grown rather close, and he seemed to have accepted her ability as it was. She had opened up quite a bit more and had gained a more laid back personality, and it seemed as if being one of the awakened hadn't even done anything to her at all. She was just the same as she was before. The two of them found themselves hanging out nearly everyday, seeing movies, playing games (though sometimes that was hard with Natalia's power), going on walks around the city, and so many other things. She felt like she could be open with William, like she could be herself around him and not have to worry about anything at all.
Though, an accident was bound to happen sooner or later with her uncontrollable ability, and it did when they were walking home after a hang out together one night. In an attempt to perhaps hold hands, William had reached and found his grip on hers, but quickly jumped back in shocked surprise, before looking down at his hand to see the skin beginning to peel away. Natalia was horrified at what she'd just done. How could she? To her own friend? She'd hurt him!
Quickly, she cried out several apologies, but before she could run away, he quickly grabbed her shoulders, and shook her several times to get her attention on him. When he told her that it was okay, and that it wasn't her fault, she froze, and stared at him. When the apology came from him, she couldn't even say anything in reply. Had he really said all of that? Really?
After he finally got her home, he had walked her up to the door, given her a quick hug, and then waved as he quickly made his way out and down the street, as if nothing had happened. It was then that she realized maybe what she was wasn't actually that bad. Slowly, the process of her acceptance of herself began, because of William.
It was only several weeks later after those events that the government seemed to take notice, and they sent out a letter to her: an invitation to Furushima Academy. Though it was a hard decision, knowing she had to leave her family and William, they all knew it would be best for her, especially if she wanted to learn to control her abilities. So, she slowly packed her bags, and soon enough, she found herself making her way to Japan, where she would soon be in a school full of all others like her.




Neutral – ◉ ║ Friends – ♪ ║ Enemies – ✗║ Romantic – ♡ ║



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ImageKosei Kasahara ║ ◉ ♪
"He seems a bit jumpy and nervous most of the time. Of course, I haven't really seen him that much or tried to talk to him; maybe he's different once you know him better?"

She finds Kosei to be a rather funny kid with the way he acts and how nervous he seems to be, but all the same, she doesn't try to intrude on his personal life or past. And even so, there are plenty of other students at the academy who are just a scared; most everyone has been through hard times after finding out about their difference in the world, perhaps some are worse than others, but all have suffered unfairly for something they couldn't control. Sometimes they just need some comfort, or a reassuring hand to hold on to while they make their way through their troubles, and Natalia thinks that perhaps Kosei needs someone himself.


ImageLucien Ashford ║ ◉
"Ah, he's rather cold, wouldn't you say? He doesn't seem to be interested in trying to even create some kind of positive relationship with anyone. Of course, there's nothing I can do about that...I think."

While she doesn't hate Lucien at all, she doesn't entirely like him either, or at least not particularly right now. He's cold, unfriendly, and almost seems like he has no interest in being around people, or trying to develop any kind of relationship at all...or ever. She finds it to be a hard situation. While she wouldn't mind at least trying to talk to him, have a nice conversation or two, something along those lines, she isn't really sure how to strike one up and keep it going without feeling awkward or as if she's just an annoyance. The other problem is, she only really seems to be around him when she's dragging Nova away, and Lucien doesn't seem to like her little sibling all too much...


ImageAlfred Komatsu ║ ♪
"Alfred? Oh, he's such a sweetheart! He always seems to be going around and helping everyone he can...such a kind person. I wouldn't mind getting to know him one day, if I could."

Natalia, despite the fact that she hasn't exactly talked with him much, if at all, has seen him around enough to know that he's a good person. It didn't take her long to notice that he was always helping others, whether it was emotional or mental, or even just being there to support them with perhaps something like school or a class. She likes that quite a lot, and actually finds herself rather fond of the younger male, though she has yet to try and actually get a real, true conversation going with him. Hopefully one day, when she finds the chance to, and it doesn't seem too awkward for either of them.


ImageNova Aria ║ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪
"Oh little Nova, they're like a little sibling to me! I love when they're around me, or when we're just hanging out. They always help brighten up my day!"

Natalia constantly finds herself hanging around with Nova, no matter where she is, and for the most part, no matter what she's doing. Her short classmate, who she considers to be like a little sibling (despite being nearly an entire year younger than them), is someone she would say is her closest friend, like family. They always seem to be able to cheer her up when she's feeling down, or can get her to laugh no matter what. If they weren't awkward about touching, and she didn't have to worry about her ability possibly harming them by accident, they would be getting plenty of tight hugs from her, that's for sure.


ImageTomimoto Taikan ║ ◉ ✗
"Ah...Taikan is...a challenge, to say the least. I've already seen enough of him and the way he acts towards the other students, and even the teachers themselves, both physically and verbally, to know he's almost nothing but bad news..."

Despite how Natalia is normally pretty accepting of others, she has an incredibly hard time with Taikan. The male definitely sends off an aura of hate and anger, and that's something she doesn't like to be around for very long. His harsh words, insanely short temper, and sudden outbursts often catch Natalia off guard, and quickly send her into complete confusion as to where his anger even came from in the first place. She's seen him around the academy several times already, seemingly always fighting with another. She doesn't exactly appreciate how he treats Nova either, and though there wouldn't be much she could do, she would be quick to defend her little sibling.


ImageKurmochi Keiji ║ ◉
"Keiji is a funny guy, don't you think so? He seems nice enough, but...I don't really appreciate his little pervert personality. Does he not understand what boundaries are?"

Keiji's an interesting person, to say the least, and Natalia knows that well enough herself. Nice, happy, and appearing to be a positive person, while also having an incredibly perverted side that is quick to make Natalia back off or just walk away from him. She isn't interested in his sexual side at all, and is quick to turn him down or shut him out from her mind. Perhaps trying to get him to stop would be nice, but she doubts he would even try quitting his ways at all if she asked...so she's mostly just given up and learned to try to be quick with her words...for the most part.


ImageAbel Coelho ║ ♪
"Abel, I don't want to buy anything from you, but hey, I'm always open for a quick hang out or a conversation."

Natalia knows to be quick to turn down Abel and his offers, especially before he can convince her to buy his things with some crazy persuasion. Though, she does think he'd be a fun person to hang around, maybe become closer friends with him. Of course, that would take time, like any other thing. So for now she just has to be able to get past his flirting (though it isn't really that bad, if she's honest...) and his salesman like nature. There is also something about his power that is actually quite pretty, and it catches her eye very easily.


ImageElias Emerson ║ ♪
"How friendly, and so old fashioned! I quite like his style."

Natalia thinks of Elias as one of her really good friends. They end up being around each other quite a bit because of Nova, which of course, Natalia is completely fine with. The help is very relieving, and Elias is someone she feels at happy around. Not to mention she feels like she can comfortably talk to him as well, and knows that he's someone she can go to if she really needs help with something, and he can do the same, if he needs help too. They have quite a lovely friendship, if she does say so herself.


ImageBardon Hemos ║ ◉ ♪
"Even though he seems really cold and all, Bardon's a pretty nice guy. I've met him once or twice, and I know the academy made a good choice choosing him."

Natalia, in her first year at the academy, occasionally went to see Bardon, though not very much. It was mainly if something maybe happened with her ability...at least, along those lines for the most part. With the small conversations she's had with him, and the times she's seen him around the academy, she knows he's definitely a good person, and only means the best for everyone, despite the rather eerie feelings he gives off when he's there.


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ImageNakana Nao ║ ◉ ♪
"Hm, Nao? I haven't really talked with her much. I see her around the school occasionally though, and she always seems to be with someone, so I'm sure she's a nice person."

Having not talked much with Nao, along with several of the other students, Natalia doesn't exactly know what she's like, though she assumes that the girl is a nice person, especially when she sees her in the hallways of the academy talking with other students and the such. So, Natalia wouldn't mind trying to get to know the fellow awakened girl, and perhaps then, she could manage to get a small friendship started from that.


ImageAkiyama Shizuka ║ ◉ ♪
"Shizuka tends to be rather nervous, or timid, person, though when I've talked with her a couple times, she seems really nice! I wouldn't mind getting to know her, if she would let me..."

She knows Shizuka from several of her classes, but not too much more than that. The girl always seems like she's on the verge of falling into tears and is easily scared, or at least that's what it seems like to Natalia. She hasn't talked to her classmate too much, but at the same time, she would love to get to know the girl better, and even finds herself rather curious of the girl at times, though she won't dig her for information; it would most definitely be rude of her. All the same, Natalia sees Shizuka as a kind girl who she would like to become friends with...if only she could get past the girl's thick, protective shell.


ImageKylie Bennett ║ ◉
"Oh...she doesn't seem to like me very much, but that's okay..."

As strange as it might seem to some, Natalia is actually kind of sad with the fact that Kylie doesn't like her. She's not entirely sure herself why she really cares so much, usually if someone dislikes her so quickly, she'll back off and keep her mind off of it, but not with Kylie. Is it because she never really had a chance to prove herself? Or maybe because she feels like there's something she could do to help Kylie? Or is it something deeper? It's something she won't know for a while.


ImageAmari Chiharu ║ ◉
"Oh dear, she doesn't like me very much either! There's no way I'll ever get through to her though...she's already made that perfectly clear..."

Natalia has tried to get through to Chiharu before, but it's never really worked out. The girl got aggressive before she could really even do much of anything, which is when Natalia realized that the blonde really, really hated it when people even tried to help her with simple things. It was quite a shock to suddenly be yelled at when all she'd asked was if Chiharu had wanted some help with the homework she'd seemed to be struggling with, before watching her suddenly storm away in an angry fit. She wouldn't mind trying again, but she's still trying to figure out ways to get to her without setting her off again.

So begins...

Natalia Elwyn's Story

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Natalia Elwyen
LOCATION ║ Sports Facilities
CURRENT TIME ║ 7:20 AM
DATE ║ Monday, Sept. 11th 2023

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This morning had been a rather quiet, but relaxed one, if Natalia did say so herself. Despite the early morning bell, she had woken up perfectly fine, and gotten ready for the day well enough, with her typical hairstyle of leaving it down and free, and throwing on the cream sweater, black skirt, and black leggings. Of course, she had to replace the wrapping around her hands and arms, just like any other morning, though most of the cloth on her arms were covered by the sweater this time around, and she was perfectly fine with that.

Now, Natalia was sitting inside of the small English classroom within the academy, near the back corner of the room, a window to the side that she was lucky enough to grab for the first day. While Natalia stared outside through the glass, Miss Maes stood at the front of the room, giving the class her own first day introduction, though most students already knew who she was.

Having already heard the introduction before, Natalia kept her attention on the view outside from the second floor's window, while the gentle, warm rays of the sun kept her somewhat relaxed. Her eyes moved towards the academy's entrance doors though, as they opened, soon revealing a class full of what she guessed were newer, tenth year students. Spotting Mr. Nakajima in the crowd after several moments made it clear that this crowd was the class for power and ability control.

Ah...look at all of them. I wonder how they'll do. It is their first day with that class. Or at least...it looks like it is. Natalia thought to herself, scanning over each of them. From what she could see, most of their espressions looked pretty nervous. That was the dead giveaway to the fact that they were first years.

As they continued to make their way down the path, Natalia suddenly spotted a student with them who had a familiar short height and white colored hair sitting atop their head. Her eyes widened for a short moment, and she quickly sat up, before looking around the classroom. Ah! Nova was supposed to have this class with me, but they still aren't here! They're with the first years! What're they doing!?

Suddenly impatient and almost nervous, Natalia shifted around in her seat, watching as Miss Maes began to come to a close with her introduction. Once the woman was finally finished, Natalia's hand shot up into the air, almost catching the English teacher off guard, especially with her expression.

"Natalia?" She said, looking over at her in confusion. "Are you okay? Do you need something?"

"Huh? Wait, yes, yes I'm fine." Natalia quickly said. "But, um, can I please be excused for several minutes? It's kind of urgent."

Miss Maes stared at her for a moment, and then gave a small nod and a smile. "Sure, but please hurry back. Class has just started. I don't want you missing things already on the first day."

"Thank you!" She quickly said, before standing up from her seat, and hurrying out the classroom door, several stares following her from behind. If she didn't hurry, who knew what kind of trouble Nove would get into. Or, perhaps she shouldn't worry so much, but she couldn't help it...they were like a little sibling to her.

Moving quickly down the staircase to the first floor, out the front doors and then down the path, she soon spotted the sports facilities just a little ways away, and Mr. Nakajima standing there, talking with someone she recognized as Nova no later. She could hear the man talking to the white haired student who'd found themselves in the very wrong class.

"Nova? You aren't in this class this year. Where are you supposed to be right now?"

It seemed that she'd managed to catch them at a good enough time. They hadn't done anything too...bad yet, had they? She sure hoped not.

"Nova!" She quickly called out, before she had arrived by the both of them. "What're you doing here? Don't you know you have English with me first?"

"Ah, Natalia. Wonderful timing." Nakajima said, looking between Nova and her. "I was worried I'd have to leave my students to guide Nova back to the right class, but it seems you've got it figured out."

"Yes, yes, I'll quickly get Nova back to the right class. Thank you Mr. Nakajima." Natalia said, giving a quick nod. She then turned back to Nova, giving them a somewhat stern expression, though it quickly melted into something cheerful and relieved.

"Didn't you know that your first class was English this time?" Natalia said, tilting her head slightly. "You left me all alone in there, you know. I was wondering where you were." Letting out a quiet sigh, Natalia gave a quick shake of her head. "Oh well, it's okay now. Let go get you changed back into the uniform so we can get back to the right class, shall we?" She said, offering a small smile, before she began to move over to where the dressing room entrances were, gently guiding Nova. "Now...which one did you decide to use this year?"

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Date ~ Monday, Sept. 11th 2023 || Location ~ Sports Facilities
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Mr. Nakajima had explained what they were doing for the class, leaving Nova even more confused than before. First she didn't recognise anyone and now they were repeating what they had done last year. She blinked a couple of times, head tilting to the side as a confused look flitted across their face before the man turned his attention to Nova, asking why she was in the class. 'Was I not supposed to be here?'

"Nova!" Perking up at the familiar voice, she turned around, face brightening up as she spied Natalia approaching. She went on to ask if Nova had known about having English with her, and then Mr. Nakajima greeted Nova's sister too. He sounded rather glad for some reason.

"Yes, yes, I'll quickly get Nova back to the right class. Thank you Mr. Nakajima." As the teacher turned his attention to those students he was actually supposed to be teaching, Natalia turned her attention to Nova. A stern look from her older sister prompted Nova's eyes to widen, puppy eyes silently begging Natalia not to be too mad. Maybe. Hopefully. Thankfully she didn't seem too annoyed as her expression soon turned cheerful, and Nova smiled brightly too.

Natalia asked if she knew if English was her first class, tilting her head as she spoke. Nova frowned a little in confusion before shrugging and tilting her head as well. "You left me all alone in there, you know. I was wondering where you were."

She shrunk in on herself slightly at this, awkwardly toeing the ground as she mumbled apologies. But Natalia seemed to shake it off and lead Nova back over to the changing rooms with a small smile.

Skipping alongside her sister, Nova smiled as well, happy to be with Natalia again. Although at the taller girl's question, Nova merely giggled in response before entering the male changing rooms, waving at Natalia as the door closed behind her.

She trailed her fingers over the lockers as she made her way around to hers, looping around the entire room and finding it empty besides her. Reaching her own locker a minute later, she entered the combination before pulling her stuff out. After changing back into her uniform, the white-haired teen shoved the sports clothes back into the locker and closed it. If she wasn't supposed to keep it then she could return them another time.

Humming to herself, Nova stood herself in front of a mirror, taking the time to redo her hair and slide the red pins back into place one more. She gave a bright smile once she was happy with her appearance, adjusting her skirt slightly before grabbing her bag before heading back out to meeting with Natalia again.

Opening the door slightly, she peeked out and gave Natalia a mischievous grin before stepping out completely. Making her way over sister, she smiled a little as her gaze flickered over where the other students seemed to be starting the practical part of their lesson, she could vaguely remember flicking marbles at her partner the entire time and giggled at the memory.

Once by Natalia's side, she looked up at the dark-haired girl and smiled. "So, I totally lost my timetable." This admission was accompanied with a laugh as Nova bounced in position a couple of times. "You said English right? You sure we have to go? It's boooring."

Despite her protests, Nova still turned to head in the direction of the school building, walking with light movements. Her gaze flickered to Natalia's hand before she looked up at her sister's face again. Were she not so afraid of contact it was likely she would have latched onto Natalia by now. Instead she hovered close to her sister, simply enjoying being near her for now.

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Natalia Elwyen
LOCATION ║ Academy Building
CURRENT TIME ║ 7:40 AM
DATE ║ Monday, Sept. 11th, 2023

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Nova waited quietly outside of the dressing rooms, leaning against the wall with her arms crossed, watching the students outside just beginning their fighting in the field, just a little ways away. A quiet laugh escaped Natalia's lips as she stared for a moment, remembering the first time she'd been in that class. Ah, look at all of them. I remember my first time doing that. It didn't exactly...end too well... She glanced down at the wrapping around her hands, before her head moved up to see Nova making their out from the locker room. She stood herself up from the wall, and brushed off her skirt a bit, as if something had gotten on it. As she turned to look at Nova, she paused for a moment, blinking several times as she realized that they were wearing a female uniform, not a male uniform (she had expected that after seeing them move into the male dressing room), before she let out another happy laugh.

"So you chose the female uniform this morning, then? You look really pretty in it." She nodded, keeping her smile on her face before she turned to begin their way back to the school's building, where they were supposed to be. Of course, it wasn't too far away, so it wouldn't take them too long to get back into their class. Hopefully Miss Maes would realize what Natalia had been doing once they arrived. She hoped to avoid any kind of punishment (though it wasn't all that likely with the American teacher; she was quite tolerant with the students).

"You lost your schedule?" Natalia said, glancing back with a slight frown on her face. "No wonder you weren't in the right class this morning. You probably had no idea we had English first." She gave a quiet sigh, and then looked up at the doors of the school, opening one and holding it open for Nova to pass through. "Well, that's okay, no big deal. I'm sure everyone will understand. It's quite easy to lose those things." She shrugged, before looking down the hall that lead to the office instead of the stairs to their english class. "Alright, how about instead of going to English right away, which yes, we have to go, we instead go to the office and get you another copy? That way we'll know what all your classes are after English, and you won't end up getting stuck with another one of Mr. Nakajima's classes, okay? Don't want him to have to call me back or anything." She gave a quick laugh. Besides, we should probably compare both of ours to see what classes we have together this year. Let's really hope that we've got a lot of them together again like last year, yeah?"

Glancing up at the clock that hung in the hall as she waited, Natalia let out a quiet "oops," and then looked back down at the floor. Hm...Miss Maes might be upset by the time we get back. I probably took a lot longer than she thought I would... She had been gone for about fifteen minutes now, nearing twenty with each second they spent walking through the halls, and that most definitely wasn't just a quick "several minutes" outside of class. Oh man...please let us off the hook just this time, Miss Maes!

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Date ~ Monday, Sept. 11, 2023 || Location ~ Academy Building
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Natalia's suggestion of heading to the office to pick up a copy of her schedule saw Nova eagerly nodding. If it got her out of sitting through a class as boring as English she would have agreed to nearly anything. With a wide smile tugging at her lips, she walked alongside her sister, humming a quiet but out of tune lullaby. Although it was hard to make out, it seemed to be Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, but Nova had butchered it enough that honestly it could have been anything at this point.

In the hall that lead to the office, Nova heard Natalia mumble something, although despite how close she was she couldn't make out what it was the taller girl was saying. Shrugging it off she skipped a little down the hall before turning back and calling out to Natalia. "Come on!" A giggle followed this up, the white-haired teen spinning a couple of times on the spot before continuing down the corridor.

Ahead of Natalia by several paces, her sister wasn't close enough to stop her. And so the peaceful office was soon disturbed by the door slamming open, a white-haired girl with both hands in the air clearly having been the one to enter.

"Hello? Hi! I'm here to get a copy of my... Uhh... What was it again?" She blinked a couple of times, glancing back at Natalia before remembering suddenly. "Oh! That was it. I lost my schedule and need a copy. Please?" She was polite. Sometimes.

Bouncing in place, Nova's eyes roamed over the office before spotting a window nearby. "Oooh, it looks pretty." Distracted already, she skipped over to the window, peering outside with an expression of wonder on her face. It was just more of the academy, something which Nova had seen plant of times in the past, although this particular view was new to Nova and she was determined to get a good look at it. 'Would look nicer in red though...'

For the time being it seemed as if she was oblivious to the rest of the world. The view from here was more important than a schedule anyway, right?

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Date ~ Monday, Sept. 11, 2023
Location ~ Academy Dormitories → Academy Building
Speech ~ #666999 || Thoughts ~ #A8A5A6

Purple eyes opened before briefly closing again as harsh rays of light poured in through the window. It may have been a school day, but Shizuka wasn't really feeling up to classes. The fact that she had passed out from blood loss the previous night and hadn't awoken until now was proof of that. She didn't need a clock to tell her that she was late, the sunlight and lack of noise from her fellow students told her that much.

Having now adjusted to the light, she allowed her eyes to open fully before lifting up her left hand to inspect the cut from the previous night. The movement hurt, and the scab over the wound split slightly, more blood starting to leak through the wound. If she had been anyone else she may have been slightly unnerved from the wound, but she was well used to this by now. While it stung, the cut certainly didn't bother her as much as it had when she first started doing this.

Hand dropping down to her side once more, Shizuka turned her head to stare at the wall next to her. Stuck to it were sheets of what once was plain white paper, although there were now various symbols scrawled over it in what looked like a reddish-brown paint. Shizuka, however, knew that it was her own blood. She had spent the previous night experimenting with her runes, trying to make an illusion that was more sustainable than her current one. The fact that she had passed out in the middle of writing the last few symbols was proof enough that she had failed in that endeavor.

She let out a soft sigh before sitting herself up, body stiff from the awkward position she had been in on the floor. That done, she glanced down at herself only too see that her shirt hadn't survived unscathed. Dry blood was now splattered across parts of it and by this point it would likely take quite a bit of effort to get the stains out. Shizuka took the shirt off as she stood up, throwing it into the bin. She wasn't overly fond of it anyway.

After cleaning the reopened cut and bandaging it, she set about getting ready for the day, making her way around her room unsteadily. Every time she turned or moved to quickly the room seemed to spin in front of her. It was a rather slow process, and by the time she was done the first lesson of the day was likely half way over. Still, as she finished brushing her hair she found that she didn't really regret the night before. Well, maybe that her experiment had failed, but certainly nothing more.

Grabbing her bag in her bandaged hand, Shizuka made her way out of the dorm, following the path to her first lesson on instinct. English wasn't a subject she disliked as such, but she often found her attention wondering on in those classes. Honestly, she was rather glad that she had brought a couple of small sketchbooks with her. She could pass the time that way if needed. Shizuka found herself rather relieved upon reaching the academy building and spying a clock that stated she was only twenty minutes late for class. Perhaps she wouldn't get in too much trouble after all?

Passing a couple of girls who seemed to be heading in the direction of the office, Shizuka hurried up the stairs towards the classroom and open reaching it she knocked timidly before opening the door. She hadn't looked in the mirror that morning, but her skin was pale enough that she looked sickly, although that was due to the amount of blood she had lost the previous night rather than any sort of illness. Shizuka bowed a little before murmuring out her apologies. "S-Sorry I'm late Miss Maes!"

She maintained the bow as she waited for the teacher to respond, although the stinging of her left hand told her that the cut had reopened once more. Even with her bag in that hand she could see the blood starting to seep through the bandages once more.

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LOCATION ║ Academy Building, Office
CURRENT TIME ║ 7:59 AM
DATE ║ Monday, Sept. 11th, 2023

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Natalia walked closely next to Nova as they both made their ways down to the office, where hopefully the woman who usually sat at the desk would be so kind as to give them a newly printed schedule, as well as some kind of paper for an excuse as to why Natalia took much, much longer than just several minutes.

Maybe I should have accepted that offer from Mr. Nakajima. It sure would be helpful now, with how this is going so far.

As they finally got to the office, Natalia watched, and almost panicked as she watched her white haired classmate suddenly swing open the door, and loud enough that it echoed all the way down the hall, catching one classes attention as one of the teachers peeked out from the room in annoyance, looking right at the dark haired female and making her feel rather guilty, even though she hadn't been the one to do it. She muttered a quick, "sorry, didn't mean to disturb your class or anything," the instructor's way, though they probably wouldn't have heard it anyways. So, she awkwardly slipped into the office where Nova was, shutting the door quickly, but quietly behind them.

She came in just in time to see Nova ask for a new schedule, and then stroll over to the window to go look outside. Natalia quickly walked over to the desk, down at the woman who was typing something onto her computer, likely searching for Nova's schedule. Most of the staff knew who Nova was, the they didn't even have to give their name...which was nice, because it seemed that Nova have forgotten to give it before they'd been distracted by the view outside.

Waiting several moments as the woman began to click several more things with the mouse that sat underneath the palm of her hand, Natalia finally spoke up from her spot, "excuse me, do you think Nova and I could get a note so we don't have to explain to Miss Maes why we took so long to get back to her class? Please?" Natalia said, hoping that the woman would be lenient, or perhaps just wouldn't ask too many questions.

"Hm? The woman looked up from the computer screen, and then gave a nod. "Sure, I'll write one out for you two. Just give me a little bit."

Natalia gave a long sigh of relief, feeling the weight on her shoulders suddenly being lifted, and she felt herself relax. "Thank you very much."

Staying where she was for a moment, until she turned to see Nova still looking out the window, Natalia made her way over to her sibling, and stopped next to them to look out the window as well. It seemed to go on for quite a ways, the school's campus, but outside of the walls was miles and miles of forest. That was something Natalia quite enjoyed. The view was beautiful, especially from her own dorm room. They weren't actually allowed to go outside of the walls of the campus, with the forest being plenty dangerous, especially alone, but from students in the years above her, as well as from experience of her own that occasionally, they went out as a class trip, for either science or physical education. Though, she'd caught rumors that power and ability use class occasionally went out.

"I heard that Mr. Tsunematsu is wanting to take some of his classes on a small hike sometime soon. Wouldn't that be fun?" Natalia said, offering a small smile down to Nova. "I mean, we haven't been in a while, or at least I feel like we haven't been." She herself quite liked going out. It got a bit boring to be stuck within just the campus all the time. A change of scenery was nice every so often.

"Your things are ready, Nova, Natalia." The woman called out to them, setting two papers out on the front of the desk. One, a full schedule of Nova's first term, and the second a half a page of a note for them to be able to get back into class without having to deal with detention or some kind of other punishment for "skipping class." "I do suggest you're quick to get to class...it's going by a lot faster than you might think." The woman gave a quiet laugh, before turning back to the computer and starting to typing again.

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Date ~ Monday, Sept. 11, 2023
Location ~ Sports Facilities → Academy Building, Classroom
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The moment he and Nao were acknowledged by Mr. Nakajima, Lucien turned and headed for the designated meeting area without even glancing back at his sparring partner. Now that the adrenaline from the little match had vanished, he was starting to feel the emotions of everyone around him again. It seemed like he had gotten a little blind to the outside world during the fight. Something he wasn't keen to repeat.

As the teacher spoke up, Lucien wasn't ashamed to admit that he stopped paying attention, although the sudden spike of embarrassment from a red-faced student caught his attention for the briefest moment. Still, it wasn't enough to drag Lucien completely from his mental post-fight review.

Looking back he could easily see the things he had done wrong, one of them being the level he had raised Nao's annoyance too. If he faced her again in the future he would keep that in mind. Although he was hoping not to do so anytime soon.

Dragging himself from his thoughts, he blinked as he noticed that he was in the changing rooms, several other people changing back into their uniform around him. Looking down he saw that he had his own clothes in hand and set about changing into them.

Once dressed and covered to a decent level, Lucien set about unwinding the bandages from his arms. For now his shirt and jumper would cover the scars, and the material was still in a good enough condition to reuse if needed. Now completely ready, Lucien shoved the sports clothes into his locker, closing and locking the door to it afterwards.

As Lucien went to leave the changing rooms, he caught a glimpse of a pale bruise forming around his neck. It seemed Nao had used a tighter grip on his neck than he thought. He shrugged it off for now, however. If it ended up showing more later in the day then he might take the time to wrap something around it. Either way, until it was gone it would serve a reminder to not be so careless in the future.

Finally exiting the changing rooms and getting away from the emotions of his classmates, Lucien headed in the direction of his next class. Not particularly looking forward to this one either. Now he would be stuck in a room of emotional teenagers for however long, rather than being outside where at least he could get away from them if needed.

Still, his expression betrayed none of his thoughts, and the dark-haired teen soon found himself stood outside of his next class. It still seemed to be in session when he arrived, so Lucien waited until the class finished and emptied of people before ducking in, nodding to the teacher in greeting before finding a seat in the corner of the room. Perhaps this time there wouldn't be anyone coming over to annoy him.






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Date ~ Monday, Sept. 11, 2023 || Location ~ Academy Building, Office
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Nova perked up as her sister mentioned something about a hiking trip. 'A trip? I might be able to go this time?' That thought soon had a wide grin threatening to split the white-haired teen's face. Nova's counseling session had clashed with the last trip and she'd had to stay behind and talk about weird stuff to the doctor while everyone else was out having fun. It wasn't fair! But, maybe she could go if there was one?

With her thoughts floating around about a trip outside, Nova barely noticed the receptionist calling out their names, although she did see the paper get put on the desk in the reflection. Red eyes squinted a little as she tried to read her timetable without actually going over to pick it up. Although she quickly gave up on this, attention wandering back to other things. Like the forest beyond the campus grounds. The green looked pretty too! Not as pretty as red but still...

Nova waited until Natalia was distracted with the papers before opening the window, and jumping onto the ledge. The glass pane had barely opened wide enough, but the small teen managed to squeeze through and end up on the ledge the other side.

Laughing loudly, she turned to stick her tongue out at Natalia and the receptionist before sliding off the ledge, onto the ground and taking off at a run. She wanted to visit the forest now!






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Date ~ Monday, Sept. 11, 2023
Location ~ Academy Building, Classroom → Hallway
Speech ~ #666999 || Thoughts ~ #A8A5A6

Thankfully Miss Maes didn't seem too annoyed at Shizuka turning up late, one look at the purple-haired girl's sickly face probably took care of any arguments the motherly teacher had. Shizuka straightened up from the bow and turned to go to her seat near the back of the class, although she was soon ducking her head as her cheeks flushed from the glances her classmates spared her.

Still, she got to her seat without further incident and took her notebook out to start taking down the notes she had missed. Although she barely had time to lift up her pen before Keiji ended up in front of her desk.

Shizuka blinked as he spoke, but by the time what he said had registered he already had her hand in his and was unwrapping the bandages, and of course the blush that had faded was now making itself known again. His comment that she would need stitches saw Shizuka frantically shake her head, but Keiji carried on by standing up and asking her to take off her clothes. 'W-What did he just say?'

With her face perhaps redder than it had been in a long time, Shizuka's breathing picked up a little as she stared up at Keiji with wide, unblinking eyes. Although this lasted all of a few seconds before one of her female classmates called the male a pervert and knocked him to the floor after a book hit his head.

Snapped out of her embarrassed daze, she listened to their teacher ask Keiji something, and his clearly flirty response. But his gesture in her direction along with the comment of her needing to get stitches and volunteering to take her to the nurse's office just saw Shizuka shake her head before shrinking in on herself as several of her classmates spotted the cut across her left palm.

Keiji's reply to Miss Maes not letting him accompany her to the nurse's office did manage to get a small smile out of Shizuka. But since she didn't really want to stay in class and her bandages were useless now that Keiji had taken him off, she quickly shoved her book and pen back into her bag before grabbing it in her right hand and hurrying out of class.

Keiji would likely be pleased to note that the blush he had provoked still lingered on her cheeks.

Out in the hallway once more, Shizuka allowed herself to breathe normally once more. It was cooler than in the classroom and the air allowed the teen to try and take control of her blushing once more, although she didn't have too much success on this front.

Once Shizuka felt more composed, she started to head in the direction of the nurse's office, although she stared at her feet to keep those few students still wandering the hallways from noticing the blush on her face. The curtain of purple that her hair provided did well enough.

As much as she wanted to forget the incident in class ever happened, Shizuka's mind wouldn't stop replaying the whole scene from the classroom. Of course, by the time it replayed for perhaps the third time, she managed to shake her head to clear it from her mind...

...And walked into someone in the process.

Stumbling backwards a couple of steps from the sudden collision, Shizuka looked up to see the dark hair and eyes of one of her classmates, Abel Coelho.

If she had to pick who she preferred over Keiji and Abel, Shizuka's answer would likely by Abel, if only because he perhaps flirted a little less than Keiji did. Still, both tended to say things that prompted her blushes and the girl was sure that one day she would pass out from the blood rushing to her face.

Blinking, Shizuka realised two things at once. One, she had been staring at Abel for a few seconds now. Two, she likely looked a sorry state. She still had an almost abnormally pale tone to her skin accompanied by slightly flushed cheeks which seemed to grow redder with each passing second. There was also her hand to consider as well, although her clenching it into a loose fist merely prompted the blood to slowly trickle between her fingers.

"Oh, um. Sorry. I'll be going now." Completely embarrassed, Shizuka looked down once more, the floor very interesting all of a sudden.

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DATE ║ Monday, Sept. 11th 2023

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Natalia quickly took the papers off the desk, giving the receptionist a quick, "thank you," before turning around, just in time to see Nova jumping out the window through the small opening. Her eyes widened, and she nearly dropped the two sheets of newly printed paper onto the ground.

"Nova!" She quickly yelled out as she ran for the window, stopping right by the opening but already knowing she was much too big to even try and fit through. "Stop it! Where are you going!? Come back, we still need to go to English!" Though, it seemed that Nova wouldn't be listening to her, as they continued running on...towards the gate to the forest.

No! I shouldn't have even mentioned it! Now look what I've done! There's definitely no way we'll get to English now...Miss Maes is going to kill us!

As quickly as she possibly could, Natalia set the papers down on the desk. "I'll be back to get those, thank you!" She said, and then ran for the door, swinging it open almost just as loudly as before, which got her another harsh glare from the teacher in the classroom, though she ran too fast for him to catch her and say anything...which she was much thankful for.

Nova Nova Nova...you really better not get me in trouble! A feeling of frustration but worry came to her mind. She knew Nova didn't exactly...understand what this might do, but Natalia really didn't want to have to deal with a long lecture from Miss Maes about missing class, and possibly an hour of detention after school ended...

Turning around a sudden corner and continuing her run through the halls, she nearly found herself running right into two familiar people from her grade: Abel and Shizuka. Her eyes widened for a moment, and she quickly moved to the side, taking several hops back, before putting forward her hands and waving them a bit. She closed her eyes tightly in embarrassment, feeling her face heat up. "I'm so sorry! I was moving too quickly! Sorry sorry!" She quickly said, before turning around and running off again. She didn't really have enough time to stop and have conversation with them at the moment...not when Nova was trying to escape the school grounds.

Oh...oh! What about the guards!? If Nova gets into trouble with them... She shook the thought out of her head. They'll be fine!

She quickly opened the heavy front doors of the academy before she came running out again, and she spotted Nova's head of white hair not horribly far away, but enough that she would have to push herself harder to catch up. "Nova! Wait up! Stop!"

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Date ~ Monday, Sept. 11th 2023 || Location ~ Academy Building, Hallway
Speech ~ #666999 || Thoughts ~ #A8A5A6

Shizuka was started to wonder why she had even left her room this morning. She escaped from one flirt only to find herself in front of another. Abel had started off fairly tamely, tilting her face up and making comment that prompted her blush to brighten, although thankfully he carried on as if he hadn't embarrassed the purple-haired girl.

The taller teen asked why she wasn't in class and Shizuka was about to reply when he trailed off. Following his gaze, she noticed the blood from her cut was now dripping on the floor. 'It wasn't that bad a minute ago, right?' She opened her hand from loose fist to reveal that the cut was now fully opened again, blood seeming to flow freely from the wound.

Abel saying that he would get it was enough to have Shizuka looking up at him again, just in time for the bird on his shoulder to take off in the direction of their classroom.

And for Abel to take off his shirt.

She was already blushing from his earlier comment, but this action caused her cheeks to grow redder until they practically glowed. To make things perhaps worse, Abel carried on as if he hadn't just revealed his chest to her. Him asking if the wound hurt brought the slight stinging of the cut to her attention, although the only sound that left her lips was a stuttered "I... Uhh..." Still, she collected herself enough to hold out her hand to him.

The wide smile he gave her though, was enough to daze the shy girl completely. Shizuka's eyes rolled up as they closed and she stumbled forward a couple of steps before collapsing as if she were a puppet whose strings had been cut. She had thought it might happen at some point, but it seemed as if Shizuka really had passed out from embarrassment.





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Date ~ Monday, Sept. 11th 2023 || Location ~ Academy Grounds
Speech ~ #FF0000 || Thoughts ~ #00ECFF

After a minute or so of running, Nova had decided to skip her way to the gate instead. Humming a little as she did so, the white-haired teen heard Natalia call out for her to stop, though she merely looked over her head and stuck her tongue out as the gate appeared in her range of vision.

Eyes widening in glee, the girl picked up her pace and upon reaching the gate proceeded to climb it, after dropping her bag at the bottom of course, she could levitate it over afterwards. Although climbing perhaps wasn't the easiest of tasks given that she was wearing a skirt. Maybe trousers would be better? But her dorm room was so far away from here...

Barely two feet off the ground, Nova clung to the gate not unlike a monkey as she pondered the decision, silently judging the distance between the dorm, herself and Natalia before pouting a little. 'So, no forest today?' Lowering herself back to the ground, Nova crossed her legs and dug through her bag, pulling out a small pouch a minute later.

Smiling widely, she poured the marbles onto the floor and proceeded to have them make funny shapes as she laughed at them. The fact that these 'funny' shapes were stars, houses and trees didn't deter her in the slightest. "Big Sis! What sorta shapes should I make next?" She called over to Natalia as the marbles made a big smiley face. Even if she hadn't gotten to go to the forest, this was still fun, right?

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Date ~ Monday, Sept. 11, 2023 || Location ~ Academy Grounds
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Nova looked up at Natalia as she came to a stop beside her and sat down. She was clearly out of breath, likely from the run that had left Nova herself still feeling full of energy, then again, Nova always seemed to have energy to spare. Especially after eating and... 'Why does she want me to say sorry to Miss Maes?' Natalia then rambled on about how long they had been gone for and how much trouble they were going to be in.

Nova tilted her head to the side as she watched her sister lay down. Surely it wasn't that bad? "Forty-five minutes?" She blinked as a confused look appeared on her face. "It's not that long, right? Why are you worried? She wouldn't really kill us, right?" An almost scared look appeared on Nova's face for a moment before she started to giggle, doubling over as she full-on laughed.

It was Natalia mentioning the principle that made Nova stop, blinking once before freezing into place. The principle was a scary lady and Nova didn't want to be near her either! Turning, Nova looked down at her sister, reaching over as if to touch her but pausing several inches away from her sweater instead. Natalia seemed annoyed, and Nova hoped that it wasn't because of her.

It was an apologetic look that flashed onto Nova's face next, accompanied by wide eyes that seemed to be starting to tear up. "I'm sorry... Didn't mean to make you angry..." She quickly retracted her arm, pulling her legs up to her chest and hugging them tightly.

As the first couple of tears escaped, the marbles rearranged themselves to turn what was just a moment ago a smiley face into a sad one, complete with tears of its own.

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Natalia Elwyen
LOCATION ║ Academy Grounds
DATE ║ Monday, Sept. 11th 2023

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So the principal seemed to have caught Nova's attention, and Natalia looked over at them, letting out a quiet sigh. They shared the same dislike of the principle, the two of them, which of course she had already known. The woman had a strange feeling about her, not to mention the fact that she was rather scary looking...

Natalia put her hands over her face for a moment, closing her eyes and then shaking her head. Miss Maes probably thought she was lying and just trying to get out of class now, not to mention what all of her classmates would say. "Natalia's such a bad student!" "I can't believe she did that." "Wow, I didn't know Natalia was such a delinquent!" They were definitely going to have a visit to the office, and she didn't even want to start thinking about the detention that would follow...

She quickly shook her head and forced the thoughts away, clapping the sides of her face gently. She quickly sat up and looked over at Nova, but before she could even get anything out of her mouth, she noticed the tears. She blinked several times, and her expression quickly changed to one of panic.

"Nova! Why are you crying? Is everything okay?" But Nova apologizing caught Natalia offguard. She hadn't meant to make Nova cry! She'd only thought that she was letting them know that they would probably be in trouble...though she had acted annoyed...had she been rude? "No! Don't apologize! You didn't do anything wrong... I'm sorry for being so rude!" She would have put her hands on Nova's shoulders, or maybe hugged them, but she knew better. He probably wouldn't like that, as much as she wanted to...

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to upset you." She sighed. "Okay, how about we head back to class now? At least catch the last ten minutes of class, yeah? And then we'll see what Miss Maes wants us to do after class, and deal with it together, okay? Does that sound alright?" She offered a warm smile, hoping they wouldn't be nearly as upset now.