Pretty Solid Friend Material ((Open RP))

[busty-robin.livejournal.com]

Hogwarts was great, as far as back-from-the-dead scenarios went. The classes were sparse but interesting, the food was good, and people were adequately prepared for the threat of evil-clowns. Hogwarts was so great, in fact, that it had taken Steph nearly two months to realize her social circle was pretty much composed of old(er!) male vigilantes. It was kind of like hanging out with your uncles, and no one else. The uncles were undoubtedly cool, but still! A gal needed variety.

This was unacceptable. Steph was likeable, dagnabbit! But meeting people was kind of hard. It wasn’t as if she could put up sign, wait around with cookies, and see who was interested.

Hm. Actually, that wasn’t the worst idea she’d ever had. Who didn’t like cookies? Or things written on posterboard?

Steph walked into the great hall, tacked up a sign, and put out cookies and punch (House elves were all kinds of awesome).

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[busty-robin.livejournal.com]

"No extra heads. No extra appendages of any sort, I promise!" She bit into a cookie, as proof. "Next time, I'll just set out board games or something. You think wizards like Uno?"

[rogue-nebari.livejournal.com]

She grins. "Bit of a shame, depending on the appendage." She takes a cookie, eats it, and grabs a few more. She didn't have a clue what the game Uno was, and as her translater microbes translated it as "one," she was a bit confused. "Can't say I know what 'ew-know' is."

[busty-robin.livejournal.com]

Right- Aliens probably didn't play much Uno. They were missing out! "It’s this really high stressed card game. You yell and sabotage other players to try and get rid of all your cards. It's pretty much the best game ever."

[rogue-nebari.livejournal.com]

She grins. "Sounds like an evening on Moya. Except with more getting rid of things and less arguing over food cubes. Care to teach me to play it sometime?"

[busty-robin.livejournal.com]

"Food cubes?" She grimaced. That did not sound too tasty. "Heck yeah! It's really easy to learn. You’ve got opposable thumbs, so that’s already an advantage over some of the students here."

[rogue-nebari.livejournal.com]

She chuckles at the tone of voice. "Yeah, you have no idea how great it is to have not seen a frelling food cube since I got here." She wiggles her thumbs. "Yeah, there is that." She jerks her head at the sign. "So, what's with this?"

[busty-robin.livejournal.com]

Steph shrugged. "I had some poster board, and it seemed like good way to meet people. At the parties around here, people are usually too busy being turned into kids and/or animals to say hi."

[rogue-nebari.livejournal.com]

"Got a point there. Ever try the Ravenclaw or Slytherin bars? Not much of a shortage of people at either, I've noticed. I'm usually at one or the other, these days, and I've never seen it empty." She doesn't particularly care that the statement might make her sound like an alcoholic, because seriously, who doesn't like liquor?

[busty-robin.livejournal.com]

If Steph didn’t bat an eye at the skin tone (aliens were neat!), she sure wasn’t going to scoff at the drinking. "I'm still seventeen, so the bars are technically not an option. Plus, I spend a lot of time training, and that doesn't leave many opportunities to socialize."

[rogue-nebari.livejournal.com]

"Why?" Chiana, who thinks that being a virgin and never having woken up with a hangover at thirteen is a travesty, has never heard of drinking laws and wouldn't give a flying frell if she had. "Training? For what?"

[busty-robin.livejournal.com]

"I've got, like, three-" What was the right word? Authority figure just sounded lame. "-mentors here. Being caught drunk is just not an option."

Oh, fudge. "For magic, mostly. I just found out I was a witch, so there's a lot of catching up to do."

[rogue-nebari.livejournal.com]

"What are they gonna do, ground you?" She rolls her eyes and laughs. "Come on, live a little. And hey, the magic thing's not that hard. Point a wand, mutter a few words, dren happens." She cocks her head and grins. "If half the people here can do a few tricks, anyone can. Seriously, have you seen some of these people? A few of them actually think I'm a human in a costume. Frelling ignorant."

[busty-robin.livejournal.com]

"Oh, they'll do worse. There would be chin ups, and protein bars." And no possibility of a Spoiler Plane! Steph made a face. "Seriously? You'd think people had never seen an alien before."

[rogue-nebari.livejournal.com]

She's genuinely confused. "What's that got to do with anything? Can't you just tell them to frell off?"

She nods, brandishing a cookie for emphasis. "I know! And, I know you probably don't mean anything by it, but I'm a Nebari, not an alien. 'Alien' always sounds weird."

[busty-robin.livejournal.com]

"I could, but then they wouldn't train me." She shrugged. "And there's that whole respecting-them-as-people thing." Ugh. Stephanie Brown had become a nerd.

"Sorry! I'm bad with generalizing. I've never heard of Nebari before. Is it pretty far from Earth? Relatively speaking."

[rogue-nebari.livejournal.com]

"Oh. I guess that makes sense." She still looks dubious.

"Yeah, not a problem. Yeah, pretty far. Had to take a wormhole to get here. Really crappy planet, though, you're not missing out by never hearing about it."

[busty-robin.livejournal.com]

Steph smiled and grabbed another cookie. Junk food was a gift from the heavens.

"How's the jet lag work out with wormholes?"

[rogue-nebari.livejournal.com]

If Chiana could read minds, she would emphatically agree. "Better than you'd think, honestly. You come here on your own, or just sorta sucked in?"

[busty-robin.livejournal.com]

"Kind of sucked in. I think it's an afterlife thing." Steph tried her best not to look emo. Baby steps. "What about you?"

[rogue-nebari.livejournal.com]

"I think I'm one of the few who actually came here by choice. I needed to get away." She grins. "Welcome back to the living, though."

[busty-robin.livejournal.com]

"I know what that's like." Steph grinned, and stretched out her arms, because it was pretty neat that she had muscles to stretch. Being corporeal rocked. "Thanks. It's great to be back!"

[rogue-nebari.livejournal.com]

"I'm Chiana," she finally says, realizing that she hasn't introduced herself yet. "Slytherin."

[busty-robin.livejournal.com]

"I'm, um-" she gestured to the sign "-yup. Steph. Gryffindor. Nice to meet ya!"

[rogue-nebari.livejournal.com]

"You too. So where're you from, other than dead?"

[busty-robin.livejournal.com]

"Gotham City. It's in America, on the northeast coast." She couldn't really call Gotham a great place to live, so she settled on "awesome restaurants. You can get Chinese-food delivered at 4 in the morning."