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ellie ❝angry lesbian killing everyone❞ ([personal profile] elliexir) wrote in [community profile] daybreakacademy2019-01-13 10:36 am

CLOSED POST ♞ THE BEGINNING OF THE NOKIA

WHO: Ellie ([personal profile] elliexir) & Peter ([personal profile] made_up_names)
WHERE: Market Square - around the dumpsters :')
WHEN: ~sometime during the first week of school
WHAT: How do you get a new phone? Uh, by dumpster diving, of course?
WARNINGS: It's probably gross.......

[ ellie admits that she's not the easiest person to get along with. she's emotionally closed-off, temperamental, and can be distrusting of others to a certain point. as a result, she doesn't have a lot of friends and can say that she likes many people. so far, though, peter is pretty cool in her book. he's even cooler that he offered to help her get a new phone! which she desperately needs after her old one was taken away, but... this isn't exactly how she imagined it turning out... ]

Okay... this might be the grossest thing I've ever done.

[ standing right next to the dumpsters by the market square, ellie scrunches up her nose. she has done some pretty dumb things before but this miiiiiight take the cake. ]
made_up_names: (gotta jet)

[personal profile] made_up_names 2019-01-13 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Peter gets it, man. Usually he's the awkward nerd in the corner, but now that he's at a magic school he's kind of. Excited? About everything?? And he's excited to help out his new friend in the only way he knows how: dumpster diving.

Okay maybe this isn't actually the best plan he's ever had. But. It sure is better than some of the plans he's ever had. ]


You get used to it after a while. And some of them aren't so bad? Just knock first or you might run into an angry homeless person.

[ Which he always feels genuinely bad about, and tries to help them get to a homeless shelter afterwards!! But. Anyway. He knocks firmly on the side of the dumpster with a surprising amount of strength. ]
made_up_names: (take that i guess)

[personal profile] made_up_names 2019-01-13 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ No homeless people here today. Or raccoons (does France even have raccoons anyway?) He deliberately picked out one that seemed clean, especially since they're after phone parts. Not much food waste behind a tech shop. ]

Back home? All the time. I'd salvage anything that looked useful, or sellable.

[ He lifts up the top of it and levers himself inside. Rustle, rustle... ]
made_up_names: (jeopardy)

[personal profile] made_up_names 2019-01-13 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Here, let him offer her a hand up. Into the dumpster. ]

Oh yeah, tons of it. Mostly broken things, but sometimes people just throw perfectly good stuff out. And even the broken stuff usually has good parts in it.
made_up_names: (too happy to be here)

[personal profile] made_up_names 2019-01-13 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Hey, no insult taken. If anything he grins more, pleased by the compliment. A girl called him wicked smart! That makes this a worthwhile expedition already. ]

This nerd is helping you, so don't knock it, man.

[ He starts sorting through garbage bags, looking for likely goodies. Tablet with a busted screen but intact guts ... yep, that's coming with him. ]

But yeah. I like to think I'm pretty smart? That was like my thing until my powers showed up.
made_up_names: (embarrassing wizards)

[personal profile] made_up_names 2019-01-15 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He's clearly got criteria for what he's after here? Though he goes slow enough that she can follow along with his operation. He checks for outside defects, then usually splits the device open with a penknife to see how the guts look. Anything obviously burnt out is discarded. And anything that looks complicated he usually takes, as long as it's not too screwed up. ]

Hey, I never shoved anyone into lockers. [ A. Pause. And a guilty look ]. I did accidentally break a guy's arm. Super strength is no joke.

[ There's a dent on the dumpster from where his hand was, in fact. Oops. ]
made_up_names: (no larb for you)

[personal profile] made_up_names 2019-01-18 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
[ Whoa, okay. Dial it back there edgelord. But it works, so maybe he doesn't actually care that much. He'll keep passing her things to crack open. ]

Uh - a little more than that? He'd always been a dick to me, pushing me around, saying I looked like a garbage bin. I got mad and shoved him away and - yeah. Way too hard.

[ Not his proudest moment. ]
Edited 2019-01-18 00:00 (UTC)
made_up_names: (weeeelp)

[personal profile] made_up_names 2019-01-18 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean. He was. Don't get me wrong. Biggest dick of them all.

[ He sighs, though, leaning against the inside of the dumpster for a moment. ]

But hurting him - that's on me.
made_up_names: (busted)

[personal profile] made_up_names 2019-01-21 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Well - no. I mean, I did? But not that strong. But it doesn't matter. I still tried to hurt him, so it's my fault he got hurt.
made_up_names: (hurmph)

[personal profile] made_up_names 2019-01-21 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He bows his head. ]

Of course I am. I could've killed him.
made_up_names: (awkward ear touching)

[personal profile] made_up_names 2019-01-24 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
[ Sorry, Ellie. He appreciates it really. ]

Yeah, for sure. I'm really gentle with people.
made_up_names: (meaning what?)

[personal profile] made_up_names 2019-01-24 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ He was exceedingly gentle all through that swing too. ]

... Here? Yeah, I guess so. I can tell someone I have super strength and they'll believe me.