allforevil: (THE DEEP BLUE SEA)
ALL FOR ONE ([personal profile] allforevil) wrote in [community profile] myvillainacademy2019-09-16 11:56 am

ORIENTATION

[When you start to stir from your slumber, you awaken to the smell of dust and rotted wood. Your bed is far from comfortable -- lumps in the mattress, a tattered blanket that barely keeps you warm and a pillow almost as hard as a rock-- and you'll immediately see there are others in your room with you.

All of you are confused, surely. "Where am I?" "What place is this?" Questions like that stir through your mind while you take in your surroundings. Something might catch your eye before anything else, though. A coloured chest tied with a bow, a large gift tag is attached to it with your name on it. There's one for everyone in each dorm, and if you open it you'll find:

An old, worn school uniform.
A colourful costume.
And a pamphlet with information about you, about your stay in this Academy, and a map of the layout of the school and the training grounds outside. The descriptions are vague, leaving out important details about your new super powers called "Quirks", a bland description about how you were selected to join the Academy called "VA" (no explanation what it means), and even the map has lame descriptions of locations that don't really give you a good idea of where you're staying.

Before you can start exploring, or chatting away with your neighbors, a voice rings over old intercoms. It sounds low and comforting, like a long lost friend. But there's something about that that feels.. unsettling. A feeling in your gut that this voice was anything but friendly.

"Welcome, students. You must be very confused, but I assure you I'll be able to answer all the questions you have in just a few minutes.

For now, relax, explore, and meet your new classmates who will be staying with you during this semester.

Oh, but..... whatever you do, don't enter the dining room."

The intercom cuts off, leaving you with a cryptic message to think about on top of.. everything else you're dealing with right now.]
swimmerder: (you'll never know if you don't go)

[personal profile] swimmerder 2019-09-19 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
[Well that's an interesting set of reactions. Swim Swim makes way for Sonia, although her stance is prepared in case the girl just bolts out of the room from here or something.]

I'm not sure... Why? Do you know something about it?
seventiesjapan: 9 (9)

[personal profile] seventiesjapan 2019-09-19 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
...it's possible I may know something -- only if this is a place I'm familiar with.

[Which isn't unlikely. Hastily making sure she'd be presentable enough for wandering around, she beckons Swim Swim]

Please, come along. Your company would be welcome.

[She intends to see what she can find around, and Swim Swim surely will be a decent companion for that, she figures. No reason to think she wouldn't be!]
Edited 2019-09-19 03:57 (UTC)
swimmerder: (and they don't stop coming)

[personal profile] swimmerder 2019-09-19 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
[Indeed, there isn't. Swim Swim is pretty intrigued by this lead, so she nods and follows... then keeps going, because she had an idea.]

It will be easy to find the name if we go outside.

[just gotta find the exit. Or a suitably open window. She's not afraid of gravity!!!]
seventiesjapan: 2 (2)

[personal profile] seventiesjapan 2019-09-19 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
That's a good idea. [And makes sense. If not right outside, then near the entrance! Standing in the hallway to try to orientate herself, Sonia picks a direction and starts walking, hoping she's going to get it right] In the meantime, would you like to introduce yourself? My name is Sonia Nevermind.
swimmerder: (the world is gonna roll me)

[personal profile] swimmerder 2019-09-19 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
Call me Swim Swim... [hence the swimsuit, apparently!! Sonia Nevermind is an intriguingly foreign sounding name, almost magical girl-ish, but she's pretty sure that's not the case here. She'll err on the side of needing an explanation.] It's my identity as a magical girl.
seventiesjapan: 13 (13)

[personal profile] seventiesjapan 2019-09-19 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sonia's eyes light up immediately -- not because she recognizes anything other than the general term 'magical girl', but because magical girls are simply something she likes a lot. She doesn't precisely believe Swim Swim 100% at face value, though, but she sure is not letting that show]

What a charming name!

[She says, the current task and heavy mood momentarily forgotten. This single interaction lifted Sonia's spirits quite a bit haha]
Edited 2019-09-19 22:15 (UTC)
swimmerder: (I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed)

[personal profile] swimmerder 2019-09-20 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you...

[She doesn't mind if she doesn't take it completely seriously - because of how magical girls work in her world, she's not even 100% certain Sonia will remember this conversation clearly. But then... she is only replicating the condition of being a magical girl with her quirk, which is not something she knows as much about as far as the rules go.]

... I should tell you since we left it there ... the chests have information too. About 'quirks.' Have you heard of this before?