On Boredom

[maskfifteen]

WHO: Ichigo Kurosaki, OPEN for anyone, friendly or obnoxious!
LOCATION: Great Hall
WEEK: 69
TIME: After Class
WHAT: It's a dreary, rainy day. Perfect for reading indoors, right?
RATING: G to start? Depends on who shows up :V

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[chainedlotus]

Sure the dorm was pretty loud because, well, there were 7 of them. Sure some of them were on the quiet side but, there were enough to make up for that and the quiet ones usually leave at the presence of the louder ones.

Their dorm was never a place of study as a result. Which worked well for Ren because, simply saying, he didn't study. He just stumbled across his roommate as he was coming back inside from a quick smoke outside. Attempted to stay dry but, didn't work out as well as he hoped.

Technology wasn't allowed in the school but, they did have alternatives for playing music, thankfully, so Ren decided to completely ignore the personal space bubble that Ichigo had created around himself and let himself be curious to remove the headpiece and put it by his own ear to hear the music his room mate was listening to.

"Classical?"

[maskfifteen]

If someone else didn't study, it didn't bother Ichigo in the slightest. Not his problem, except in a few cases where he never needed to remind them to get to work anyway. Smoking, on the other hand... now that irritated the hell out of him, for reasons he wasn't willing to go into with practically anyone. So, the smell of smoke mixed in with the fresh scent of the rain made his nose wrinkle as his roommate came to join him.

And as if that wasn't irritating enough, Ren had the audacity to just remove one of his earbuds without the slightest invitation or even implication he was welcome to. And to think, some people wondered why Ichigo was so antisocial. He reached back and yanked it from the other boy's ear and fitted it right back into his own, and lucky for everyone involved, resisted the urge to go for his wand.

"It helps me concentrate," he said, with an acerbic tone, "What do you want?"

[chainedlotus]

Ren was fully aware that the smoking bothered people. It took his girlfriend a while to get used to it and even then, when she joined him outside for a smoke she usually avoided being downwind from him because of the stench. To make sure there was no ill will with his roommates right off the bat, Ren didn’t smoke in the dorm…..often. Once in a while he forgot and would light one up while in bed but, he still tried to keep it away from the guys he was stuck living with since they were 11.

“Nothing. Just curious about what you were listening to,” Ren answered honestly, taking a seat on the long bench beside him. Ichigo was similar to Squall when it came to being antisocial and really, all it took was simple conversation to get him to open up. “Which composer was that?”

[maskfifteen]

Ichigo had an understanding with the others: keep it casual and respectful, and social is alright. Get obnoxious, though, and he was going to get glaring, as Natsu and whoever his weekly combatant foe turned out to be. At least Ren was more laid back and unlikely to cause any outright raging, even if he had issues with boundaries that kept him firmly on Ichigo's 'eh, whatever' side.

"Bach." He hadn't asked for company today, but whatever, it was a free table. If Ren expected Ichigo to be bubbly and talkative in being interrupted so rudely, though, he had another thing coming. "Why? Do you even like this kind of music?"

[chainedlotus]

Ren didn't expect anything from Ichigo. Hell, he barely expected a response back from him, much less a question. It was mostly a go with the conversation and see where it went from there. "It's not my favourite," he admitted, "But if I wanna go pro with music, I have to know some different genres other than my own." Although he specialized in punk rock, music was so fickle it was important to understand the trends and what would sell. He knew of Bach but hadn't heard his music before now.

[maskfifteen]

It was hard to miss just how much Ren loved music, but Ichigo was a bit surprised to find the boy actually cared about venturing out into genres outside his favored zone. For that, he'd receive a grudging respect, but not enough of one for Ichigo to roll over and start talking shop. "There's probably some recordings in the library," he shrugged, then looked back to his book. Wizardly radio and other tricks they used for music didn't appeal to the orange-haired boy much: he still preferred the Muggle method.

[chainedlotus]

Taking a look at other music genres wasn't hard but Ren wasn't going to go into more than curiosity and do something like pick up a third or fourth instrument. Guitar and bass was good enough. Humming a bit at the suggestion Ren nodded, "Might do that. I've heard of this DJ in Greece who mixes classical music with trance. Might be worth listening to." Muggle method was good but, sadly, technology was banned from being used inside school grounds so the only option was whatever was on hand.

Convenience in using magic. Yeah right.

[maskfifteen]

As much as foreign, international arts were of interest to him, the fact that this DJ was defiling the classics into horrible, repetitive trance mixes just made Ichigo frown. "Yeah, you do that," he muttered, biting his tongue before he could say something acerbic, "Just don't do it loud when people are trying to study, that's all I ask."

[chainedlotus]

To each their own really. Ren wasn't a fan of trance music either but, dance music with a heavy bass and easy repetitive beat were still quite popular in European music. Still had to know it, despite not really liking all of it. Some stuff were unfortunately quite catchy and, two different genres mixed in to one does tend to speed up the process of listening to them all.

Ren raised an eyebrow at the comment. He was telling the musician who used instruments that created various sounds to keep it quiet. He wasn't good at silencing spells either so that didn't help much either.

Really, best quiet that Ichigo was going to get was if he left and, from the sounds of it, Ren had outstayed his welcome speaking to his roommate. "I'll try my best," Ren nodded with a small grin, packing his stuff together, "Don't wait up for me just in case I get detention for disturbing the peace."