Mask Or Menace - IC Contact Post

[helpdesk_hero]

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[besainted]

[ it was dumb, but it worked. he'll take this smalltalk. ]

Alright, fair enough, no need to brag. It's freezing when you're fresh from a temperate rain forest.

Where in Chicago?

[helpdesk_hero]

Hyde Park. But the temperature here aren't so chilly.

[besainted]

I know the area. I probably know it as a little warmer than how you'd remember it, though. How long did you live there?

[helpdesk_hero]

Until I was around sixteen or so. Ended up in upstate New York after that at a boarding school for mutants.

[besainted]

A long way from home. How was the move?

[helpdesk_hero]

Sudden. Basically I threw some stuff into a duffel bag and got in a car. My parents sent more stuff later.

[besainted]

You kept in contact, right?

[helpdesk_hero]

For as long as I was in upstate New York, yes. My parents came to family weekend, my sister came to spend a few days at the school as well.

[besainted]

Do you miss them?

[ and then sent immediately after: ] Sorry, that's personal. You don't have to get into that.

[helpdesk_hero]

I had a falling out with my parents. As such I hadn't spoken with them in a while before I came here.

[besainted]

I'm sorry to hear it.

[helpdesk_hero]

It is what it is. But thank you.

[besainted]

[ There's a pause; this feels a bit like having overstepped, but this wait sometimes pushes him into being maudlin. And it definitely has his nerves feeling raw, so he can't just stop texting.

After a moment: ] How about mutant boarding school, how was that? I have no idea what to picture.

[helpdesk_hero]

[He will absolutely give Damian this time. Has to be scary.]

Picture a large mansion, the sort you have ‘wings’ in. I lived at the school, roommates with Josh actually. I arrived that summer. Before him.

[besainted]

What were the classes? Was it all relating to learning to manage your powers?

[helpdesk_hero]

Oh it was also a normal high school. My favorite class was drama actually. The teacher was a teleporter. Always made for great entrances.

[besainted]

Drama. What kind of assignments are there in drama?

[helpdesk_hero]

Study of plays. Performances. Soliloquies. All sorts of stuff.

[besainted]

At my school, we called that leisure time.

[helpdesk_hero]

Well we were teens displaced from homes and families. A lot of us couldn’t go home. Me Included. We needed the outlet. The fun. So yeah, it wasn’t leisure time, but it helped.

[besainted]

Well I hope you aced all of the drama tests.

[helpdesk_hero]

I'm perfectly dramatic.

[besainted]

I don't know, you haven't met my boss's dog.

[helpdesk_hero]

I never work with children or animals.

[besainted]

I would usually agree with you, but he's five feet tall and talks, so I'm inclined to cut him a little slack. Even if he is ridiculously dramatic.