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Ekkehardt Gehring ([personal profile] spelleton) wrote in [community profile] daybreakacademy2019-03-05 03:53 pm

this is probably not what full of beans is supposed to imply

WHO: Ekkehardt, Ren Amamiya, and anyone who needs coffee
WHAT: So much caffeine
WHEN: All through March, in the evenings
WHERE: Somewhere central on campus
NOTES: I'll match you! Also if you want to use this as the basis for other threads between characters that is absolutely fine.



It's a lovely evening, with the sun setting over the mountains and throwing sharp shadows across the Academy. When the sun starts to go down and the lights go up, a new, temporary stall can be found on the school's grounds. Populated with square tables and benches for comfortable communal seating, with candles and old-fashioned looking lamps for light, the distinct smell of good coffee is prevalent; a few modest flyers and a few sandwich board signs proclaim that coffee is provided by the Cafe Club, which is now accepting members and employees from the student body, and the stall is open for business for anyone who might need coffee and a more relaxed space to recover from midterms or to study for finals.

Oh, and Ekkehardt is there too, quietly serving coffee. A stack of paperwork and his laptop on a nearby table suggests that when he's not being one of the waitstaff, he's certainly not wasting his time. You might even catch him working on his laptop instead of serving customers.

Or, if it's a certain time early on in the month, muttering something darkly and brushing stray flecks of glitter off his clothing, but that's probably nothing to worry about, right.
bejustorbedead: (A lot on my mind)

Ky Kiske | OTA

[personal profile] bejustorbedead 2019-03-05 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Ky didn't need to work, and he really didn't need much sleep - he was nursing a mug of coffee which had turned a milk chocolate-color by the cream he mixed in. He was pouring over his own papers, humming softly to himself, pushing to toss a long, loose strand of hair from the table back over his shoulders.

He gives a quiet nod of appreciation to Ekkehardt when the man refills his mug, and if anyone approaches his table, he moves the documents to clear a space for them, before glancing up.

"...Is that glitter?" He asks the man quietly.
Edited 2019-03-06 05:53 (UTC)
nor_iron_bars: Tangled in her hair (I'm like "hot damn")

[personal profile] nor_iron_bars 2019-03-05 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[Jail is, of course, here for Ekkehardt in his time of need.]

Y'know, it's not a bad look for you.

[...Not there to help, mind you. She's just around. Sitting on a table like a gremlin. Taunting him.]

Body glitter's a little retro, sure, but hey- it's always the eighties as long as it's the eighties in your heart.
suddenlybees: (329)

[personal profile] suddenlybees 2019-03-05 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ They should just replace all the water fountains in school with coffee, maybe, with how prevent the drink seems to be around campus— especially when it's exam time, and it was just exam time and it's exam time again and how is that fair?? ]

Ekkehardt~

[ Kano comes trotting up to him sometime mid-afternoon, hands in his pockets and looking curiously at what papers he's working on at the moment; and even more curiously at the glitter, eyes drawn to the shine like a bird miles away. ]

You weren't at the infirmary! I had to come all the way out here to find you!! You're not leaving, are you?
inflictwounds: (Default)

[personal profile] inflictwounds 2019-03-06 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh. Oh, dear.]

Did Avery get to you?

[That seems the most likely culprit.

Hieke is there for the coffe, at least, and he gives Ekkehardt a sympathetic look. That glitter's going to be sticking around for a while.]
eudaimonikos: (but I'm a missile)

ota

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2019-03-06 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Michael doesn't require sleep, so caffeine is just a fun bonus chemical for him. He enjoys the taste, though, so he comes to the cafe to hang out. He brings a stack of papers to grade - with red pen despite what grade he's handing out, because he's a big asshole. When that's finished, he...takes out a small block of wood and starts hacking at it with a knife?]
hippocarnival: (✮ 159 ✮)

[personal profile] hippocarnival 2019-03-06 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Yuya comes up from the side, book bag slipping from his shoulder as he peers at Michael's wood carving with curiosity.]

Hi... what's that? [He points at it.]
eudaimonikos: (nichomachean ethics)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2019-03-06 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
It's wood.

[someone's being deliberately unhelpful!]
hippocarnival: (✮ 144 ✮)

[personal profile] hippocarnival 2019-03-06 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, but what are you carving into the wood? [If you carve your secrets in public, you'll only attract nosy teenagers.]
eudaimonikos: (as you can)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2019-03-06 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
I thought it would be fun to do one of my head, but I don't think I'm good enough at this.

[He considers the wood; it doesn't look like much of anything at the moment, though to be fair he hasn't done too much.]

Maybe a duck. That's a thing, right? Wooden ducks?
hippocarnival: (✮ 052 ✮)

[personal profile] hippocarnival 2019-03-06 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
I think so? You can make basically anything out of wood. [Whether they have the technical skill to actually accomplish said carving themselves, that's another question.]

It just takes practice, right? Is this a new thing?
eudaimonikos: (a treatise of human nature)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2019-03-06 04:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Got the idea from Mario - [He says in the kind of tone one might use to describe a cryptid encounter] - it's true that I don't usually make real things. Knowing how stuff fits together helps with making realistic illusions, so it's not a bad idea to try.
hippocarnival: (✮ 096 ✮)

[personal profile] hippocarnival 2019-03-06 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
That makes sense. [From the perspective of leaning new magic, but also isn't Michael a demon? He doesn't know how it works for that. Was it innate, or did he actually pick it up later?]

How do you make your illusions?
nor_iron_bars: And in my soul am free (No that ain't your style)

[personal profile] nor_iron_bars 2019-03-06 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[Deadpan:]

Yes.

[The answer is always both, naturally.]

Got any recommendations, or should I just go with the house blend?
eudaimonikos: (a boost over heaven's gate)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2019-03-06 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
It's pretty simple. Just picture how it's gonna be, and then make it!

[aka, either it's innate or he's just bad at explaining]
hippocarnival: (✮ 086 ✮)

[personal profile] hippocarnival 2019-03-06 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[Doesn't he teach a class on this, Yuya thinks.]

Is that how it's always been for you? [Yuya wiggles his fingers.] Like, as long as you can remember you could make illusions?
eudaimonikos: (please come through)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2019-03-06 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[he had zero teaching qualifications]

Yeah. Guess so. [He pauses in what he's doing, tapping the edge of his knife lightly against the wood in thought.] I used to make colored lights, back before there were things to look at.
subconmodo: (H - Shitlord and Tranquility)

OTA

[personal profile] subconmodo 2019-03-06 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
The architect of Ekkehardt's misfortune occasionally looks over to admire his handiwork. Avery's laptop, notepad file filled with half-written ideas for finals (and only partially covering an embroidery tutorial) lies mostly forgotten, the Daemon Contracting professor more than happy to people watch, both hands curled protectively astound his steaming cup of coffee.

A prank perfectly executed and a new source of caffeine on campus. It all adds up to a very good day.

[personal profile] yokeye 2019-03-07 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
Toki has obtained a very large cup of coffee he definitely doesn't need, but since he financed some of the cafe club's start-up, he gets free coffee and will make the most out of it. Avery doesn't look very busy, so he decides now is a good time to discuss things.

"Professor Atchison~! How are you~!?"
suddenlybees: (022)

[personal profile] suddenlybees 2019-03-07 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
That's right, that's why you gotta stay and never leave. What would I do without you otherwise?

[ He swipes his thumb on his tongue and stoops to stick the glitter onto his thumb and wipe it off on the inside of his jacket pocket. Apparently, glitter is worth recycling. ]

I'll let it slide this time, but you're going to have to provide me double next time I'm at the infirmary, as repayment~ Now! I'm curious!! What'cha working on? Are these days you're not going to be working, or what's this?
subconmodo: (H - Sly Guy)

[personal profile] subconmodo 2019-03-07 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
The second he sees that large cup of coffee in Toki's hands, a feeling almost like fear settles itself heavily in Avery's heart. Is he even going to be able to understand the boy at all? Did he even hear him just now or was he hallucinating? He can only imagine that Toki on caffeine would only be audible to a dog or some other animal with specialized hearing.

Although if he buys him enough cups of coffee and sets him on someone else...

"Good evening, Rikugou. I'm well enough. Manage to dig up any memories of your midterm performance?"

[personal profile] yokeye 2019-03-07 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
Perhaps, he's now audible only to daemons. Toki takes the response as an invitation to sit at Avery's table.

"I didn't! I still don't remember it, but I did look it up on the network and you really left yourself open to any race imaginable, so that had to be an intentional loophole! It's was great though! I can't believe I came up with that and then actually won; guess I deserved that A after all~! Speaking of, I wanted to talk about finals because some guy at the cafe in Soleil said sometimes the tests can be counted for up to 75% of your entire grade and I want to know first if that's true, and if it is, what's the minimum grade I'd have to get on the final to get a passing grade over-all, because I think even with the midterm A I'm like a few points off from actually passing, that is unless the midterm grade is also for a large chunk of the overall thing too and I just didn't know about it, so is it?!"

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