[Night has fallen on Balamb Garden; the halls of Garden are mostly deserted besides the stray student walking about, and even the usual faculty members are missing from their posts around the school. There's a certain festive energy through the air, the source coming from the Ballroom cheerily decorated located on the second floor ( Read more... )

While I do not celebrate Valentines' Day personally, the sentiment behind it is pleasant enough ( Read more... )

[Ever since classes resumed, Damian'd kept a low profile. He "barely passed" his fighting courses from last quarter, so he figured he should probably step up his game and figure out how to fail-without-actually-failing ( Read more... )

if anyone would like some free cookies, i'll have a table in the cafeteria at lunchtime today. i learned how to make them in home economics and it's the first thing in the kitchen i've been good at making since i left home, so i started making them in my free time too and now i have too many to eat on my own.

mikuru

[Mikuru not only has a table ( Read more... )

Sometimes I can't believe that I've been here since May. But I've gotten the chance to meet a lot of great people that I wouldn't have met otherwise, so I can't complain.

It's also a month away from my birthday and it's on a Saturday, so I'm definitely going to plan something fun that day. Staff and students alike are invited.

[Mikuru, unlike most newcomers, has absolutely no problem with the hows and whys of being in another world and being enrolled as a student in some random school. If anything, she's worried about how her charge back home is going to fare without her.

[But really, her most pressing issue right now is the cold. Mikuru had been on her way home from a ( Read more... )

[Only a little shaken up from the crash emergency landing, it had still taken Rinoa a little while to get ready. Fact is she'd had to junction first, Shiva seeming an ironic but appropriate choice considering just how cold it was already getting. The choice to junction ice magic to Elem-def-J had been an easy one  at least. After that it didn't ( Read more... )

[Anyone in the lobby area might find themselves startled by a sound like that of a gunshot splitting the air.

The cause, oddly enough, is Akiela. She stands on top of the flattened remains of a Grat, who tried to smack her with its feelers and paid the price when she dodged by jumping into the air before, ultimately, coming back down on top of it's ( Read more... )

Bring it on!

[So echoes the challenge issued by the cocky Instructor standing outside the dormitory, fists balled and a grin on his face as he stands guard over the door. Come close enough or catch his attention and he has this to say:]I'll hold down the fort here. Anyone who needs shelter or safety can camp out in the rooms. Anyone who's hurt, ( Read more... )

Alright, I'm bored. After this, it's only one more week of classes before exams, right? And it's all too easy. So, tell you what: I'll help out. If you need a hand and my valuable brain, just ask ( Read more... )