[OPEN!]

[thatsmymagic]

Who: Akko + anyone at all!
When: July 1st
Where: All around campus!
What: Akko is already making herself comfortable here on her very first day!
Warnings: Shouldn't be any!



i. aube, 104 + common room

[Day 1 is a doozy, as they say in the industry. That's what's on Akko's mind as she drags her luggage into her room and contemplates everything she's just been told about the Herald's arrival. The most frustrating part of all of it is that it's happening tomorrow and she's too late to help out. But she looks surprisingly determined and optimistic anyway. She'll be ready for next time. And she can help hold down the fort at Daybreak while the majority of their forces are out fighting, right?

Anyway, she takes a good deal of time setting up her room while she thinks about this, leaving the door open to get a breeze going through. One can hear her singing enthusiastically in another language as she lays out all of her clothes, books, and personal items on the desk and bed.

Later, Akko spends some time in the common room's kitchen to make lunch. Except she's an awful cook and you can probably smell the grilled cheese burning from two floors away.]

ii. market square

[Okay so lunch at home was a bust, but the market square has food stalls, and that's all the prompting Akko needs to check it out. But man, there are so many options??? And nothing is particularly familiar food, either. After all, she comes from Japan, and her time in England was spent in a VERY rural location where street foods weren't really a thing. All these sandwiches and salad stalls...where's a girl got to go to get a good piece of dango around here?

That said, Akko is definitely standing in the middle of everything looking extremely awestruck and in the gosh darn way. Maybe help her decide what to eat, or at least guide her out of the way because what's worse than That One Person who stands in the middle of oncoming peoples' way.]

iii. somewhere on the lawn, idk

[It's not all fun and games, though. Akko has to practice to keep her skills sharp, and what better place to do it than just. Outside on the lawn. It's a lovely day, she doesn't see any reason not to.

However it doesn't occur to her that it might be a little alarming to see a person continuously shifting between being human, a ball of brilliant white light, various animals, and then back again. In Luna Nova, that's all people did. Shape shift, heal, repair - alter was the name of the game. One day, it might click that this isn't Luna Nova and the range of skills and races is way more diverse here at Daybreak. Today is not the day.

And if that sight isn't alarming enough, Akko's here to fix that! If you stare long enough without engaging, she just might bounce over your way while beaming.]

Hey! Sorry to bother you, but could I copy you for a second?

iv. wildcard

[Idk man hit me up on discord (azazelbunny#3388) or plurk (azazelbunny) to get a new prompt, or make something up on the fly! I'm flexible.]

Comments

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[rwbyrose]

[ ruby, indeed, smells something burning in aube. she's heading to the common room kitchen when she smells it, and slowly, she peeks her head in to see what's going on. she's kind of hoping there won't be a fire. ]

Everything okay in here?

Re: i

[thatsmymagic]

Hm? Yeah!

[Akko turns around, holding a frying pan with a black square of unidentifiable food in the middle.]

Why do you ask?

[rwbyrose]

Iiiii think it's kinda burnt...

[ JUST A LITTLE.... ]

[thatsmymagic]

Oh, yeah, I guess it's a little well done. ["Well done"] I think I had the heat too high. But that's okay!

[Akko flicks the stovetop off and sets the pan down on an empty burner to begin the process of scraping her meal off of the pan with a spatula. It is, in fact, a process. So she makes pleasant conversation while she works.]

I usually burn stuff on the first try. But I can fix it, so I never actually waste any food.

[rwbyrose]

[ ruby starts getting to work on making herself a ham and cheese sandwich, but she can't help but pause at that last part. "i can fix it."

how. how is akko going to... ]

Are you sure you can fix...that...?

[thatsmymagic]

Mhm! I specialize in metamorphosis magic. You know, rearranging energy into different forms? It's mostly used for shapeshifting and sometimes healing, but there are some cool tricks you can pull off once you've been at it a while!

[And she has been at it a while. Sure, Akko still struggles when casting spells on other people and objects, but that's never stopped her from trying. It's all practice in the end. Chariot said practice makes perfect.

So despite the fact that the air smells like burnt bread and cheese, Akko takes a deep breath and focuses on the unappetizing brick of grilled cheese in front of her. As she holds her hands over it, almost as if warming them by a fire, it begins to glow with a white light. The light grows until it's almost too bright to look at, before rapidly dimming to reveal the results of her work.

An edible grilled cheese sandwich. It's dark, but it's no longer burnt. Maybe that's just personal preference. It has nothing to do with the fact that reversing "damage" to objects is difficult and exhausting. Nothing at all.]

Phew... [She shakes the tingling sensation out of her hands, laughing.] Can't fix the smell, though. That'll just take time!

iii

[alreadyhuman]

[ Vivi is honestly used to weird things happening, so he doesn't mind. He has an armful of books - clearly he had other goals at some point - but there's something new and interesting happening, so he's sort of forgotten about it. ]

Huh...?

Oh! Sure! [ This is a trick he's seen in the Outlands, at least - illusion magic, and occasionally fae trickery to entertain children. ] Do I have to do anything...?

[thatsmymagic]

[Akko has purposely picked someone who looks unlike anything she's ever seen before for this exercise. If nothing else, she likes jumping into the deep end of everything she does. Why should practice be any different?]

Nope, you're fine! [She squints at Vivi.] Hm...okay! I've never seen anyone like you before, so here's hoping I can get this right.

[It's not quite illusion magic, something Vivi might be able to tell once she gets going. Her magic is classified as metamorphosis magic and involves dissolving things into pure energy and re-shaping them. So she's aiming to be a jumble of reconfigured organs inside a Vivi-shaped shell. Which sounds grosser than it feels by far.

Akko's form begins to shimmer and glow, morphing into a ball of white light. After a few moments of hovering there, the light warps into an outline, and then solidifies into the closest copy of Vivi she can manage, having only just met him.]

Ta-da! How'd I do?

[How'd she do?]

[alreadyhuman]

[ Vivi watches with wide eyes as she doesn't just use an illusion, but changes entirely. It's something he's never really seen before, at least not this close - he expects it from some odder denizens of the Outlands, but not humans. ]

Wow! You're me! [ He giggles, clearly delighted (though some deep part of him is uneasy, and he doesn't know why. It's easy to ignore.) ] It's--it's good! It's like looking into a mirror.

[thatsmymagic]

Aw, yeah!

[Some of the tiny details in the clothes are probably off, and anything unfamiliar in nature (ie not flesh) looks almost like plastic if one looks really hard, but she's overjoyed to have succeeded. Cue fist pump.

Unfortunately, copying someone's form in this way comes with caveats. She has a few familiar shapes - ones which she knows how to pilot now - and Vivi's is not one of them. So the fist pump does throw her off balance a bit, but she hop-steps to a stop before she can fall.]

Whew, your center of balance is so different than mine, haha!

[alreadyhuman]

I guess so! [ It's not something he really thinks about, but he supposes that must be right. ] I trip a lot, but since I'm small it's okay since I don't have far to fall. I think?

[ Also, the clothing provides padding. ] Can you change into other things too? Can I see?

I

[notbornguilty]

[Soon enough, there's a knocking at Akko's door.]

Okay, the singing I could tolerate, especially since you're pretty good at it, but that burning smell is where I draw the line. I live in the room above you, and it disrupted my sleep.

[thatsmymagic]

[When Akko opens the door, she's holding a plate with a perfectly normal (if a tad bit dark) grilled cheese sandwich. It definitely does not look as burnt as it smells.]

Ah, eheh...oops. I probably should have opened a window, huh...

[She ducks back into her room to set the plate down before popping back out to head for the window on the other side of the common room.]

I'm sorry I woke you up! It's crazy you could smell it in your sleep, though. You must have a great sense of smell!

[notbornguilty]

Really? Back home, if the chefs were cooking in the kitchen, my whole family could smell it from half the manor away.

[Weiss is holding a mug full of coffee, seemingly straight black.]

[thatsmymagic]

Huh. Maybe it's genetic! [She wrestles open the window to vent some of the smoky smell from the dorm.] You grew up with your very own chefs? That's so awesome!

[Akko's home life was rather humble. The thought of having a team of chefs, having a big huge house, being wealthy at all is. Foreign, but exciting. It doesn't spark any jealousy - quite the contrary, she's happy Weiss could have these rare experiences.]

When I was in Luna Nova, they had chefs working there from all over England, so I really fell out of practice cooking while I was there.

[What she fails to mention is that she was bad at cooking even before she spent 2 years not having to lift a finger towards making her own meals.]

[notbornguilty]

I suppose, but many of them didn't like the family. There was one who put garlic in everything for some reason, something everyone there but my mother hated. He was fired, of course, but the sheer level of pettiness...

i;

[transfusionem]

[Adelaide can smell the burning from all the way up in her room. That's kind of the downside of having super sensitive smell.

Whoever burned their food must have really fucked it up, though.

She makes her way downstairs, poking her head into the kitchen.]

Nothing's burned down, right?

[thatsmymagic]

Hm? [Akko turns around, holding in her hand a pan with a single square of absolutely incinerated grilled cheese. If this bothers or concerns her, she sure doesn't show it.] Nope, everything's fine here!

[The haze of smoke makes her cough.]

Could you open that window over there, though? I think I let my grilled cheese got a little overdone.

[transfusionem]

[Oh, that looks bad. Hopefully the pan can be cleaned...]

Yeah, just a little...

[She will go over to open the window, though, taking in a breath of fresh air.]

Are you new to cooking?

[thatsmymagic]

Nope! Just out of practice.

[She sets the pan down on an empty burner and gets to work scraping the "sandwich" off with a spatula. It's an endeavor. There is time for small talk.]

I probably haven't cooked anything in about two years, come to think of it. But that's okay! It's still edible.

[transfusionem]

[This looks like more than out of practice.]

Really?

[Yikes. She's also not sure she'd classify that sandwich as edible. She raises an eyebrow, but she doesn't question Akko.

Much.]

No offense, but it looks a little like charcoal.

ii

[lovebreaker]

[ Aiko is pretty nervous about the upcoming mission, so instead of talking it out with someone like a normal person, she's going to completely ignore the problem and wander around the market instead. It's fine, probably. There's no reason to bother the others with her issues, especially when they've got to be dealing with their own fears and stuff.

She's so lost in thought that she doesn't see Akko at first, but at least she doesn't bump into her. ]

Oh. Hiya!

[thatsmymagic]

Hm? Oh, hi!

[Conversely, here's someone who is completely confident in the face of potential disaster.]

I'm not in your way, am I? Sorry, there are just so many options here!

[lovebreaker]

Aww, not at all! It's a lot to take in, huh? I know the feeling, I just got here a few days ago!

[ She bounces a little in place, then holds out her hand. ]

So...!! Hi, I'm Aiko! As a fellow new person, it's really nice to meet you!

[thatsmymagic]

You're new? So am I! I just transferred from Luna Nova. [She shakes her hand enthusiastically.] My name is Atsuko Kagari, but please, call me Akko. Heh, Aiko and Akko - our names are only a letter apart!