"Well, ain't that something." Lori muttered, examining the forcefield as it shut behind her. She'd made sure to come in good time, being late on the first day is no first impression to make. She glanced around the campus, and it's greenery, when she heard muttering from just ahead of her. It only took her a moment to recognise what the people around were talking about. And wasn't it just something to see so many spectacular Quirks in one place. Logically she knew most of the world were Quirks but back home the most visibly obvious Quirk was Billy, and he could just change colour. But, ahead of Lori by a ways, Titanium Titan and Metal Maiden were walking what must've been their third sibling. She made a quiet, low whistle, but quickly shook herself out of her awe. She passed ahead of them with only a momentary glance when they stopped to talk to their father.
She was glad to see that she wasn't the first to reach her class, A-4, and immediately picked herself a seat near the dead centre of the class. She turned to the person next to her and smiled a bright, winning smile.
"Good morning. I'm Lori." She held her hand out to shake. She continued to turn and chat amiably with the other students as more of them filed in, including Titanium Titan and Metal Maiden's brother. She made a mental note to find out his actual name, but she wasn't going to abandon a conversation she was already having to do so. That was just rude. Besides, anybody who tried to talk to him was getting met by an unwelcoming glare. She might try another time, when he was maybe in a better mood.
She continued holding court for a while after the bell rang. A good while. She glanced at the door.
"I wonder how long our teacher's gonna be--" She was cut off when an odd looking dog wandered in. She blinked and stared at it.
"Where'd this little guy come from?" She asked the room at large. She only got shrugs and heads shaking for answers. Then the dog leapt at the surly boy, and started licking him. Lori rose from her seat some, to have a better view of the proceedings. He fended it off before giving it a strange command that seemed to placate it.
"Oh, so it's yours?" She asked. It was then that the banging and the smell arose, that preceded the dramatic entrance of their teacher. A jovial, informal, probably drunk man, if the smell and the thermos were anything to go by, Mr Unbreakable explained who he was and... Sidetracked himself near completely when he spotted his nephew, introducing Finn to the class. She suppressed a giggle at the display. Called on to be the first to demonstrate his Quirk, Finn made an impressive show of his hair... Tentacles, for lack of a better term. At least, that's what Lori had thought, as someone who had to briefly duck to avoid a stray one. However, many others in the class commented as if it were somehow disappointing.
"I thought it was pretty neat." Lori stated blandly with a shrug. Mr Unbreakable asked for more volunteers to introduce themselves and demonstrate their Quirks for the class. The first to rise was another girl, a redhead named Angela, who demonstrated her impressive command of fire. Lori applauded politely as she sat back down and glanced around at the other students. Well, the sooner she did it, the sooner it was done.
"Well." Lori stood up from her seat and fidgeted momentarily with her clothes. "I'm Lori Justin, from Mount Juliet Georgia, and I'm Radiance. Most of my Quirks are a little indoor-unfriendly. I mean, unless one of you's got a knife your willing to let me borrow to demonstrate..." She'd meant it sarcastically. She blinked twice in surprise as a few of her classmates immediately checked their person. One held up theirs. At a glance, she couldn't tell if it was genuine or Quirk-created, but it'd more than do.
"That'll do perfect, any good at throwing it?" She asked them. Their face took on a look of vague alarm as they slowly nodded. Lori reached up and tapped her own forehead.
"Right here, if it's not too much trouble?" She said cheerfully. With an unsure glance around at the watching classroom, they drew their arm back and threw the knife carefully end over end at Lori's face. With a small thump and a dull clatter, the knife bounced off of Lori's skin harmlessly, and fell to the floor. She bent, gingerly plucked it up and handed it back.
"Thanks for the assist, darling." She said with a grin. She moved back to her own seat.
"And well." She let her sunshine glow emanate from her person for a few seconds. "And that one's why I'm calling myself Radiance. I can make it into a blast but that's the part that might be unwise indoors." She sat back down with a smile to those around her. She faintly hoped no one would make the connection between the name of her town, her quirk, and that slow-news-day story a year ago about the mountain getting blown up.