prefect debates!

[ugly-old-hat.livejournal.com]

Starter Debate Questions:

1) How will you make your House a better place?
2) Are you experienced? Have you ever been experienced?
3) Teamwork is important. How do you get along with the members of your House?
4) If you were to get your ass kicked, who would you want to do it and why?
5) Who is your hero and why?
6) Where my lasers at?


Rules for the Debate:

A. Any persons currently nominated for Prefect may choose to answer or not answer any questions asked.

B. Any Hogwarts student or staff member, including those running for Prefect, may pose additional questions to any or all nominees. If you would like to ask nominees questions, please ask them now ((OOCly: post them in a comment or comments to this post. Be sure to indicate in your subject line that your comment contains questions, and if they are directed to specific candidates, please indicate that, as well.)) Keep in mind that nominees are not required to answer any questions. Voters may choose to take failure to answer any way they would like.

C. Question answering begins immediately, and lasts until the time the Polls go up, which will be approximately 8:00 p.m. Monday, August 24, 2009. ((OOCly that's 8 pm Eastern Daylight Time. ICly it wouldn't make any sense to specify a time zone since they're all at Hogwarts XD ))

Comments

[best-guitarist.livejournal.com]

"How's it feels to be such a big liars!" Skwisgaar heckled. "And dat crusty guy yous hads de very specials relationships with was yours guitars teacher, idiot. And bys de way, he was totallies dildos, I thinks you knows it. He taught you hows to unlearn de guitars."

[needsanewliver.livejournal.com]

((Skwis-mun encouraged me. :p))

Nathan, who had watched both his bandmates take the stage, still wore the vaguely horrified expression that had been caused by Toki's answer to the ass kicking question. He glanced between Toki and Skwisgaar now, wondering what more it would take for Toki to launch himself off the stage and start beating their lead guitarist to death.

...Because it'd be completely awesome. No one could actually die at Hogwarts, anyway.

And so, naturally, he chimed in, "You just gonna take that, Toki? C'mon, if you're gonna be a prefect, you should stand up for yourself. Skwisgaar seriously just kicked your ass, you know, uh, verbally."

[charlesofdensen.livejournal.com]

Let the record show that Ofdensen is facepalming right now at the antics of Skwisgaar and Toki. "Nathan, don't encourage them," he said flatly.

[needsanewliver.livejournal.com]

"You're not allowed to take away our ability to have tantrums, remember?" Nathan reminded Ofdensen. Securing their Mordhaus picnic table to the ground had been a dirty move. "Come on. This shit is so boring, we need to liven it up."

[charlesofdensen.livejournal.com]

"You're right, I'm not allowed to stop you from having tantrums. I am, however, allowed to stop you from encouraging others to have tantrums. Mainly cause the five of you don't NEED any encouragement."

[needsanewliver.livejournal.com]

"Robot," Nathan muttered. "Hey, that fucking lame therapist we went to said the same thing. Toki shouldn't let us push him around. Are you saying we shouldn't listen to licensed band therapists?"

[charlesofdensen.livejournal.com]

Ofdensen considered this. "Not the insane ones. Not like he was that effective. Look at Dr. Rockso."

[needsanewliver.livejournal.com]

"Ugh, that fucking clown. Hey, why don't you ever give us psychological validation?" he wondered, reminded of the banana stickers. "Isn't that part of your job? If not, it is now. Give us psychological validation that can't be bought off the internet."

[charlesofdensen.livejournal.com]

Ofdensen shook his head in a sad manner, oddly enough. "I have to be the realistic one, Nathan. And even if I could, I wouldn't know how to psychologically validate you."

[best-guitarist.livejournal.com]

"Pfft. Hows you validates any alcomoholics, eh? With alcomohols," Skwisgaar suggested, rolling his eyes as though it were the most obvious answer in the world.

[needsanewliver.livejournal.com]

"HEY," Nathan shot back defensively, then paused. "Yeah, alcohol would totally work." Clearly they both misunderstood what 'psychological validation' actually involved. "Why aren't there any drinks here?"

[charlesofdensen.livejournal.com]

Ofdensen sighed and flagged down a house elf. "A hundred beers...or should I make that two hundred, a hundred for each of you?" he asked, looking at Skwisgaar and Nathan.

[best-guitarist.livejournal.com]

"Three hundreds, exactlies, so you cans drinks with us," Skwisgaar replied, pointedly excluding Toki from their order.

[charlesofdensen.livejournal.com]

Ofdensen looked worried. "I really should be sober Skwisgaar, a fight might break out and I'd need to do damage control."

[isnotabumblebee.livejournal.com]

Skwisgaar of course knew what he was doing when he aimed to piss Toki off- and piss Toki off, he did. Nathan's encouragement seemed to be having the proper effect, but fortunately, Toki remained on the stage thus far, but he did move close to the edge, and was definitely thinking about just jumping off and headbutting Skwisgaar, followed by pummeling his face a few times. Not much more than that though- he 'hated' him far too much to move on to smashing his head in with his boots. The last guy had died and all, and, that would have been a bit too much involving Skwisgaar what with it meaning no more sexy!times. But, he still wasn't quite at the point of doing it yet- still, he wasn't going to just take it, or apologize.

"I is not a liars, Skwisgaar! You didn't puts the food libraries into Hufflepoofs, I did! Yous dildos, Skwisgaar, just because you can't have any specials relationships with anyones you has to go and not let anyone else have anys either!" He glared furiously at Skwisgaar, fists clenched and shaking slightly, tensed, looking as if he might leap off the stage at any moment. He wasn't sure just why that comment had upset him as much as it did. He couldn't really argue the unlearning guitars bit, since he hadn't learned anything, but he'd thought Skwisgaar had apologized over that incident, basically.

[best-guitarist.livejournal.com]

Skwisgaar's heckling had backfired a bit, as Toki's 'specials relationships' comeback hit him in a very strange place. It was likely the can't when he could have as easily used don't.

Of course, it didn't escape his notice that a few veins in Toki's forehead and neck looked about ready to burst, and he was probably teetering on the edge of another psychotic break. But, then, Skwisgaar had never been terribly bright about interpersonal relationships or self preservation, so he wouldn't just back down.

"You reallies thinks dat?"

[isnotabumblebee.livejournal.com]

"That's what it seems like to me, Skwisgaar! I'm not a liar, remembers!" It had seemed like a good comeback, as it wasn't like he'd seen Skwisgaar having any special sorts of relationships with anyone- what they had of course couldn't be special, because that would be seriously gay then, what with the sex and all. But then why was he suddenly feeling a little bad about his accusation? But with Nathan there encouraging him, and everyone watching, he still wasn't going to apologize, and there was no doubt he was slipping dangerously close to a psychotic frenzy.

((Toki's likely to try to beat on Skwis if he's pushed just a little more. XD Nathan could always pull him off until the house-elves intervene. =D))

[best-guitarist.livejournal.com]

((Go for it, do whatever you want to Skwis. XD I hadn't realised before Toki can't actually win, because of Elric. Might as well get him disqualified in a hilarious way?))

There was nothing at all feigned about Skwisgaar's oddly hurt expression this time, though it was barely a flicker before he was scowling, immediately becoming irrationally defensive. Toki had definitely struck a nerve, a really terrible one which Skwisgaar hadn't even realised he had, but he wouldn't be excusing himself to go have one of his sobbing fits yet.

"Then yous ams even more stupider than I thoughts," he said scathingly. "And still a huge lyings liars that lies. You lies better than yous ever play guitars. And I's glad yours dildos guitars teacher is dead, too, so yous can'ts disappoints him even more."

[isnotabumblebee.livejournal.com]

((Yeah, Toki's gotta lose- he might as well get disqualified in a hilariously brutal way. =D He'll feel terrible about it later and want to make up for it I'm sure, if Skwis isn't too freaked out to let Toki near him. XD))

Toki had been doing a relatively good job restraining himself due to those disconcerting twinges of conscience, as he did realize he'd hit Skwisgaar in a pretty nasty place- of course, Skwisgaar had started it, and his retort only served to push Toki over that dangerous edge- he didn't intend to kill Skwisgaar, but he wanted him to shut up, and right then. Being called a liar was upsetting, given that Toki tended to be unusually honest, and lied very badly, and the guitar comments he was used to- but, Skwisgaar managed to hit the perfect nerve as well. The tendency of everyone he came to care about dying was a major contributing factor to his issues, and, it was hard not to think of his actual father as well whenever that nerve got touched.

Which is why instead of shouting anything back, he leaped off the stage, directly at Skwisgaar, and started in just as he planned, with an enraged headbutt to the solar plexus, easily knocking down the slender Swede. Toki was pretty frighteningly ripped compared to most of Dethklok, with only Nathan having much chance of resisting one of his psychotic explosions. He straddled him, leaning over Skwisgaar, one arm supporting himself while he delivered a nasty punch to the jaw, followed by another that was sure to leave a serious black eye.

[needsanewliver.livejournal.com]

((Jumping in now by request. XD And Skwis is obviously just knocked out, FYI, as decided by Skwis-mun, haha. So, go ahead and comment next.))

This was exactly what these boring-ass debates needed. Nathan watched with amusement as Skwisgaar's guitar went flying and clattered a few feet away as Toki started beating on him, but his expression gradually returned to his earlier horrified look when he realised Skwisgaar wasn't actually fighting back at all... or even moving after a while. And he was looking awfully bloody.

He got behind Toki and utilised some good old-fashioned 'hug therapy', which kept Toki's arms safely pinned to his sides as Nathan bodily lifted him away so he wouldn't get any ideas about trying kicking next. While Toki was obviously the most in shape member of Dethklok, Nathan still had the strength advantage.

"Holy shit, that was fucking brutal," he said with a bizarre note of approval in his voice, then paused, still holding Toki above the ground. He tightened his arms slightly, to the point of making it at least a little painful for Toki. "Wow, you're a dick. Skwisgaar's what, a hundred fucking pounds wet? Congratulations, Toki, you just killed our lead guitarist." He knew Skwisgaar had to be perfectly fine aside from being a bit bruised and bloody and probably concussed, but couldn't help himself. Murderface would probably be proud of his ability to pit people against each other.

[isnotabumblebee.livejournal.com]

((Hahaha, Nathan's definitely had an entertaining day, even if Skwis, Toki, and Ofdensen haven't. =D))

Toki had stopped actually thinking in his psychotic rage- he didn't wonder why Skwisgaar wasn't fighting back, and hadn't actually realized that he'd already knocked him out- when he entered this state, all his pent-up aggression caused by his disturbing childhood, the frequent abuse directed at him, and his generally horrible luck took over. He'd never found a healthier way of dealing with it. Luckily, that vague sense of conscience still lingered, and he'd lightened his blows somewhat, not that these wouldn't leave some impressive bruises. Or not that it was really noticeable that he'd relented slightly- his all-out brutal mode was so savage that even a reduction of it was pretty nasty.

As Nathan grappled him, Toki struggled somewhat, attempting to kick back towards the singer a couple of times before he ceased struggling and stared in horror at the mess he'd made of Skwisgaar. Nathan's apparent approval didn't help delay the onset of remorse at all- it only increased his own horror at his actions, especially the suggestion that he'd just killed him. He wasn't moving, and Toki was too emotional to closely inspect Skwisgaar to take note of breathing. He just took Nathan's word for it, and struggling against Nathan, just wanting to get away from everything and hide- maybe it would all go away then, and this would never have happened, and Skwisgaar would be alive again. He started wailing, "I didn't means to kills him! I didn't means to kills him! Don't be deads, Skwisgaar, please don't be deads!"

It was of course then that Toki actually started crying.

[charlesofdensen.livejournal.com]

And this is why I'm not having the beer Ofdensen thought but didn't say.

He did crouch down to check Skwisgaar's pulse. "He's still alive Toki." He had to be detached here, now was not the time to lose his cool. He leaned close to Skwisgaar's mouth. "Still breathing too, but I still need to get him to the Hospital Wing. Nathan, try to calm Toki down. I'll be at the hospital wing with Skwisgaar if I'm needed."

He conjured a stretcher and with the help of a blond man (who introduced himself as Sweden, Ofdensen noting the point so he can talk to him later), got Skwisgaar out of there and heading to the hospital wing.

[needsanewliver.livejournal.com]

Oh god, of course Toki had to turn on the waterworks. The horrible wailing was nearly as bad, with how painfully high-pitched and strangely Rockzo-like Toki's voice went whenever he was upset. Nathan just groaned and hoped he wouldn't get covered in tears and snot.

"Did you hear him? He's fine, Toki. You must not have been trying hard enough." He wouldn't even mind Ofdensen spoiling his fun if it meant Toki would knock off the crying. "You've, uh, probably been disqualified anyway for being a dick, so there's no reason for us to stick around." Without releasing Toki just yet, he summoned a couple house-elves and told them to clean up all the blood. Then when he finally did drop Toki, he immediately took him by the arm and started dragging him out of the Great Hall whether he wanted to go or not, only stopping to pick up Skwisgaar's mysteriously undamaged guitar.

"You can give this to Skwisgaar whenever he wakes up. Come on, let's go to the Hospital Wing." Not just so he could enjoy more of Toki's trauma over mangling Skwisgaar, but because he figured Ofdensen could use the help handling Skwisgaar whenever he came to. He was bound to be belligerent, so it may as well be directed at the person responsible.