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 At the back, a white-robed girl waits until an opportune moment. In the brief gap where Elodie stops to breathe, she speaks, overriding the conversation without raising her voice. In her right hand, she idly swirls a pair of yin-yang patterned Baoding balls. "Hey. I am..." Her sleeves drop to reveal their length. The outfit is ridiculous and impractical at best for school work, but she wears it with a carelessness that implies she's already done the getting-ink-on-the-sleeves and tripping-over-her-own-feet elsewhere. "Adora Muqi~! And I am here to lead this class to enlightenment~!" She pauses. Waits just a moment. Then doubles up laughing. "Oh man, your faces for a second there. Seriously, I'm Adora. And enlightenment is for-" she faux gags- "Buddhists." K Prime posted:
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"I don't have a middle name. Those are for white people." She pauses. "And black people. And some brownish type people? Whatever, point is WAIT YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT"
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Jul 21, 2014 13:47
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"You learn how to sew."
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Jul 21, 2014 15:52
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"I'll be happy to add a sewing demonstration into my afterschool club, which by the way you should totally come to~" says Adora. "We have plenty of interesting and totally legal activities. Let me get my flyers."
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Jul 21, 2014 16:25
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"I don't really do duty. Let's hear about power."
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Jul 23, 2014 01:45
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Adora bites into her carefully made lunch- bitter melon beef shortribs. She tends to monopolize the kitchen whenever she gets a chance. "Well, it was a pretty demonstration but like, seriously? I mean, I like the idea of being all important and poo poo but there's an old Zhuangzi saying about turtles and mud and ministers that comes to mind." She spits a rib expertly into the empty bowl at her left. "Like, I never asked for this. All I wanted to do with my life was maybe start a decent religious order, have a good time, seek the way, all that jazz. And just 'cause some spiritual lottery bullshit decided I'm supposed to be the DREAM MASTER or whatever I get stuck with this bullshit? Fuckin' loony bin, man."
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"Yeah, turtles! So like, Zhuangzi was walking down a street by a river, right, and these dudes walk up on him and go 'Zhuangzi, man, we need your wisdom and coolness and poo poo in our government.' Zhuangzi looks at 'em like 'man you crazy' and goes, 'see that turtle there?'" She pauses. "So um, context. In the old country turtles are like, sacred if they get old enough, so there's this turtle shell the size of this table preserved in a temple like right there. There's people bowin' to it, and praying for long life, all that jazz right? So the ministers are all 'uhuh' and Zhuangzi is like 'do you think that dead-rear end turtle would rather be there, being respected and worshiped by all these people, or would it rather be alive and playing in that mud over there?' And of course the ministers are all 'it would rather be alive and playing, duh.'" She smiles smugly. "So Zhuangzi leaps into the mud pool and goes 'go away, then. I'd rather be over here, playing in the mud.' And I'm Zhuangzi. I don't want to go be a minister."
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Jul 29, 2014 01:11
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Adora's eyebrows knit together in a perfect moment of confusion. There's perfection in everything. "Um, things that um... geeze lady, where the hell are you from? Australia? No wait, I know they got turtles in Australia." She grabs her phone, searches quickly. "There, that's a turtle." 
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Jul 29, 2014 01:17
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"Uhh.. unless your power is named 'Takeshi' and we're in a castle, I don't think we need any of that stuff..."
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Jul 29, 2014 02:28
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Adora just rolls her eyes and keeps eating, a sly smile on her face. "An excellent demonstration of, like, both the power of uselessness, and the method of acting without thought. Pretty cool, man. You should come by my club sometime."
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Jul 29, 2014 11:27
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"Reputation is a chain. It is much better for everyone if you let him stew in his ridiculous contest." Adora shrugs. "Imagine how silly he will look if you just leave him out there."
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Aug 3, 2014 23:22
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"I'm telling you, this is ridiculous." Adora is reading a book in Chinese, and thus incomprehensible too the others. "Let the ape frolic alone in his field. There is no point in meeting his challenge head-on." Adora closes the book. Though her face doesn't show it, the boy's comments about women have annoyed her. "Instead, why not meet it as the willow does the wind? Does anyone know where his room is?"
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Adora opens her mouth, remembers her classmate's allergy to metaphor, and closes it. "Here." She stands a book up by its base. "So, this is a tough thing, right? But, if I push it-" she pushes it, and it falls down. "Right? But this-" she pins a piece of paper upright between two books, then pushes it, making it wobble back and forth. "Something that yields, but with a strong conviction, a strong core- it just comes back." She pulls the paper free. "Against that rear end in a top hat Masterton, we're the paper against the book- he'll crush us if we try to make it about pushing." She flashes a wicked grin. "So we yield in one place and hit him where he's not protecting. Again, I ask: Does anyone know where his room is?"
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Aug 14, 2014 01:10
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"Hmmmm... I'm going to need some supplies." Room.
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Adora opens her mouth and lets the words fall out as they may. Deliberate lying is hard and leads to trip ups- a babble of confusion is far harder to fight. "Oh Ms. Beavers, I locked myself out of my clubroom, you know the one, because I was helping a friend who was being bullied and I just, I just totally forgot my keys inside and I left my stuff in there! Can I borrow the master dorm key? I know it's late and you probably want to leave and I really don't want to be a bother, I'm sorry!" KPrime, ++--+4 = 4 Empathy to weave my way into her heart
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"Of course! Not one thing, I promise!" Nobody said anything about adding things. Like, in this case. Adora smiles. How about say, 10-20 yaoi posters?
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A key, a lock. A room. A handful of posters and a great deal of time. This is gonna be great. KPrime !r fudge+2 Krysmbot KPrime, /++/+2 = 4 Provoke to choose exactly the right ones to make him flip his lid MAXIMUM On her way down the corridor Adora glances out the window. A black bird chases a white bird, leaps upon it, and devours it. Adora smiles. "All is as it should be." KPrime !r fudge+5 Krysmbot KPrime, +/-/+5 = 5 Divination: A woman will win the contest. Aspect created: You're Already Fed for the other's use. Now just to figure out how to get to his room without anyone noticing...
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Adora stands back, looking over her work with approval. "Perfect." Everything in the room has been repositioned for maximum harmony. The bed is now beneath the window, so that the dawn's light can serve as a sort of natural alarm clock. The desk is on the east side, so that natural light can penetrate and make the room as easy as possible to work in. Masterson, of course, has his own room, so there's no worry about balancing the room for the evenness of two partners. This means moving the clothes in the closet so that they are evenly spaced, for maximum accessibility and ease of use. His shoes, thrown about unevenly, have been neatly arranged on the floor. At first glance, the room has experienced nothing but improvements. There has to be balance, after all. Obtaining explicit pornography at St. Raphael's is difficult to impossible. There is, of course, a thriving undermarket in it, and any porn site not blocked by the filters is quickly seized upon by as many students as possible. However, the administrators are just not up to the times when it comes to drawn images. Particularly drawn images of Incredible Gayness- "it's just about two cops facing the world" convinces most casual onlookers. Said drawn images have now been carefully placed in every location a piece of paper could conceivably fit without being visible. In shirt pockets, between pages of looseleaf, in drawers, beneath the mattress, in shoes, beneath the sheets, in sports gear, in textbooks, taped to the underside of chairs and the inside of closet doors- a subtle, but thorough wallpapering of the room. A big, obvious mural only works once. Masterson's going to be picking this stuff out for weeks. Adora grins. Time to make like trees and leaf.
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"Get your butt back to the dorms right now" Adora frowns. This Yamada fellow clearly has too much anger in him. Well, that's fine. She's all finished here anyway. A polite key return, a smile and a profuse thanks, and we're off.
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"I don't know, Alita." Alita. At least it will be a nice, quiet room, thinks Adora. "I don't have one myself. Too much effort." ------------------------- Adora takes the seat at the tail of the table, as far away from Yamada as possible. She digs into the chili with only a little moue of distaste. "So how did things go?" she politely asks Aisling.
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"Oracular, you said?" asks Adora, suddenly interested. "Really? According to what I've been told, I've got some myself..."
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Back in their room, Adora retrieves a small box, and a lighter. "I hope you don't mind if I light up, Alita? It helps with the work."
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Adora looks mildly shocked, then smiles. "Of course."
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"Well, this is gross. Are we perhaps in Mr. Yamada's head?" jokes Adora. On her back has materialized a blade, though with the way it is strapped into its sheath it's hard to tell if she can even draw it.
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"It's clearly a pet, Alita. It might also be transport, though," says Adora questioningly. "What is going on in this area, if I may ask? We are but humble travelers."
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"Sisters of Battle? CQC?" Adora looks perplexed. "Someone has some very weird hobbies."
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