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A new wind blows [OTA]

Who: Giorno and you
What: New student arrival, in person or over the net
When: Starting December 30th
Where: Daybreak Academy
Warnings: None at present

UN: GioGio

Greetings to everyone, I am a new student here and wanted to introduce myself. I am Giorno Giovanna.
I have recently joined this school, coming from my home of Napoli, Italia. If we meet in person please pardon me if I fall into a familiar tongue for some words, with French and Italian being so close it happens to me a bit. I will strive to be at least understandable.
I am pleased to meet everyone and look forward to studying here and getting to know the people I am now living with.
Thank you.

~Giorno

[Around Campus]

Giorno can be found about campus, leisurely strolling or sitting and people watching. Be it in the quad or the shared dormitory space in Aube, floor 4, or even at the library, he keeps his eyes on people, what they are doing and who they are talking to, with a curiosity.

Wherever he is he does his best to exude a sense of belonging, his posture intentionally graceful and artfully relaxed. At five foot eight inches he's not towering, but tall enough to look at least a little older than he is, especially since he is athletically trim, rather than lanky. His blond hair is always neat and cared for, three distinct rings of hair are secured to his hairline in a style reminiscent of victory curls, while the remainder is kept back in a clean short braid, with the very end curled up in a loop to keep the ends from tangling. He has turquoise eyes that seem to study the world around him as he watches, and generous lips that seem quick to smile, even seeming to naturally sit in a happy expression.

His outfit, often in a shade of pink or deep blue, is quite distinctive. The top has a heart shaped cut out which reveals a good portion of his chest, and is decorated with three fist sized pins that are modeled after ladybugs, to attached at the sides of the heart, while the third is set on the center line at his waist. His pants are always matching and cleanly tailored, while his shoes are well kept, with small, matching ladybug decor. All told he has the appearance of a young man who is well put together.

As he people watches he can be seen playing with small objects, like pens or even one of his own pins, and with a shimmer of gold around his hand, they change shape into animals, varying from small snakes and geckos to even kittens, depending on the size of the item he's playing with. The actions seem almost subconscious yet he is always careful about any animal he is holding.

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Giorno blinks at the mention of Hamon, unsure of what exactly that was, but Jolyne's reaction has him responding before he can think better of it. "Oh, I wouldn't want to get in the middle of something that you two are doing!" He didn't want to get in the middle of their time together, especially. Jolyne was unhappy with her real father, and he... well he couldn't blame her to want time with Jonathan, and to guard at least some of it jealously. "That said, Italian all together would be nice." He offers.

It wasn't that he had no interest in Hamon, at least to learn more about his Babbo, but he didn't want to risk alienating Jolyne by being pushed into too many things and making her feel pushed out.

"Oh-" What- "Oh dear! I actually hadn't considered that...should I offer that though, oh dear..." At the very least, as naive as Jonathan can be, he doesn't seem entirely oblivious to the fact that Jolyne is upset about the idea of still more learning.

Well anyway- "But really, it hasn't been nearly as much of a struggle as you fear Jolyne. I was merely making a comment on where our schedule currently stands; it would be rather difficult to study italian as a group, if you could not make it yourself after all."

And like Giorno said, it sounds Nice.

She wants to get up and pace so badly but knows that doing so would give away a lot of how she's feeling and she's not too keen on giving them any of that. For all she's progressed, sometimes she still has those moments and situations where she reverts to how she used to be. Not the best of times.

"It's not as if I don't have all the free time in the world outside of classes. I literally only deal with the self-defense club and the damn mechanics club." Which, really, is fight club and excuses for her to work on her bike. That's it. That's all.

"I'd rather it not get in the way and having to work on two things at once, that seems like a piss poor idea to learn either."

Giorno shifted slight, careful not to dislodge Jonathan or where they were touching hand to wing. He got the feeling that Jolyne didn't like him much at this point, and while that stung, he couldn't blame her if that was the truth. He clearly needed to find the action that would earn her trust still.

"I am not against the idea of us working on things together, but I also understand if you feel it's more than you have time for. I just want you to know I'm open to discussing things in Italian with you, to help." He said, hoping he was taking a properly neutral tone, and not sounding like he was trying to call her out or anything of the sort.

Hmmmm....well, if it's hamon with one and italian with the other...

"I myself am quite alright with it if you choose to sit out," he assures the woman, nodding. "And I am certain that should things change, we'll be happy to study with you." Ah- "Ah- I should get my schedule however, so that we can find a proper time then...as you may have guessed, I meet with Jolyne quite regularly, so I cannot imagine that there will be trouble balancing one matter with the other."

If something about him bothers her, she's doing a fairly good job of hiding it. But in reality it's mostly the idea of someone coming in and taking attention away from her from someone that actually gives a shit about her that rubs her the wrong way. Is it petty? Absolutely. Does she care that it is? Nope.

But she's quiet as she listens to the both of them before finally deciding to stand and pace. Just let her get the energy out, it'll be better in the long run for everyone right now. "Right. I... just need to get into the swing of things first before I even know what the fuck free time I even have this time around." Answer is, still, a lot. But this is an easier lie.

Jonathan's welcome acceptance is nice, and he certainly feels something that hurt long ago ease, deep inside his soul, but he wasn't about to hunt it down, scared of what he'd find along the way. It's Jolyne that has him worried still. She is the more guarded of the two, though he wondered if that wasn't just who she was, from what she had experienced. Even if he can consider it that way, a part of him wants to make sure that things go as smoothly as possible, no one liked the addition of a person who ruined their family after all.

"It's nothing that needs to be sorted right now, really. I, at least, don't plan to leave any time soon, perhaps it would be good to let classes begin, and get used to schedules?" He offers, smiling a bit. "Besides, I'm still adjusting to being here myself. It's not something I can say I know exactly how it will be yet. I am used to boarding schools, but with the kind of classes that are here? That is very new to me." He points out, hoping to make it seem less like it's her responsibility to find a reason.

"Right." Understood, of course. Honest answers or otherwise.

"That would be a wise decision, yes- while things may seem simple on the outset after all, once classes begin there's no telling how busy each of us shall be. We'll simply need to keep the other abreast of whether or not a window of time that can be utilized for any meetings closes or opens." Now. As for the classes...

"I will confess, many of my classes are a simple matter of catching up with what's changed over the years," Jonathan laughs. "Though I have been doing my best to try and take lessons relevant to the matter of 'candles', due to the connections to hamon! There seems to be a class for just about anything imaginable, I feel."

Unfortunately, it's something that tends to happen with her when something gives her any reason to be guarded again. But she doesn't seem hostile even if she's absolutely keeping up that wall once more. The little mercies and it's certainly a place to start.

"Yeah, well, that tends to happen when you've been gone as long as you have." No shit, Jolyne. "Most of my shit's pretty... normal, I guess? I dunno. Kinda catching up with some stuff due to not great circumstances of the last bits of high school, but it's not a huge deal." Hilariously she's not too far behind since some subjects come a lot easier than someone would guess from her.

He can do this new subject, talking about school, that was a good, neutral. "I ended up starting a year late, so you could say I'm a year behind." he says with a slight shrug, as if this was just a normal thing that happened. Then it occurs to him that he didn't have a reason to be delayed, except the truth, and 'my parents forgot' seemed like it would unlock a host of questions he really didn't want to answer.

He is quiet and mostly subtle in his panic, eyes going wide briefly as the realization hits before he's doing everything he can to calm himself down, heart still pounding hard from the physical jerk that realization had put him through.

Fortunately, Jonathan quite misses how Giorno fears the statement to sound. So instead he just laughs. "Well, it seems that of all of us, I have quite a lot of catching up to do then! I'll have to work hard to get there, won't I?"

That, or he's deliberately not drawing attention to it. It's a mystery really.

Jonathan, you probably tried to cover that up. But Jolyne's honing in on it instead, because of course she is. She's used to people trying to cover shit up and she's stopped her pacing to face Giorno and try to stare him down as much as she can. She's not the most intimidating person without knowing what she can do, but she certainly tries.

"How'd you end up starting a year late?" And completely ignoring grandbat.

Of course she not only caught onto that, but asked. He wanted to avoid the deeper things connected to it, but he had a gut feeling that if he tried to back out of answering this he'd effect how Jolyne interacted with him from here on out. And not in a positive way.

"Oh, it was just... forgotten about." He explained with a small shrug, as if it was the most simple thing, common to anyone. If he played it off as minor, maybe that would be the end of it. It was tempting to pray that would be the end of it.

He is suspecting, just a little, that this may be a sore topic. Jonathan's thumb-claws tap anxiously together, and he tilts his head as he studies the other.

"Well," he eventually says. "We certainly won't pry into details," he offers- for while he may want to know, he can also tell that Giorno is less than inclined to share on it. "What matters after all is that we're taking our classes, in the same building, no matter the year or form of study!"

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