Second Floor Common Room, Wednesday Morning

[endsthegame]

Ben had rambled something about cartoons and catchphrases back while they were heading towards Eros, and so Ender was trying to make a concerted effort to at least find out what he'd been talking about.

So: he was out here in the morning, eating cereal from a bowl. And looking increasingly more dubious about the reruns of We're Lyke Spies he was

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[fratboybitch]

Alex didn't have to be awake but he was and that freaking sucked. Trudging down to the common room to try and scrounge up some food, he wandered in, caught sight of what was on the television and raised an eyebrow at Ender.

"Can we watch The Smurfs next?" Alex quipped sarcastically. "Or you got some other cartoon lined up?"

[endsthegame]

"You can watch whatever you like," Ender said, utterly failing to rise to the bait. "I was told I had to check this out, but I'm over it."

[fratboybitch]

"Someone told you to watch this?" Alex asked, unsurprised by the failure to rise to the bait. He'd formed the opinion that Ender was just permanently on Valium or something. "Who told you to watch cartoons? Five year old brother?"

[endsthegame]

"My roommate," Ender said, taking a spoonful of cereal and swallowing it before he said anything else. "I don't have any younger siblings."

Just older ones, but he was still avoiding referring to Peter as one.

[hoorayimrich]

Upon walking into the room, Tony paused and stared at the television. "Wow, that is colorful."

And he'd know. Being from a neatly color coordinated show himself.

[endsthegame]

"Apparently modern-day spies really need to jump out," Ender volunteered, glancing over the back of the couch.

[hoorayimrich]

"I'm pretty sure that can't be right," Tony replies, taking a seat on the arm of said couch. "I'd have heard online if S.H.I.E.L.D. ran around in bright pink."

Geeks would have been all over that crap.

[endsthegame]

"Or maybe you wouldn't have," Ender said. "Maybe bright pink has some strange psychological effect that makes you unable to see it."

Silly teenage boy banter, he could do, after the weekend he'd had.

[twintuitionist]

"Oh wow," Juliet observed as she wandered into the common room. (It wasn't hers, but she had a little free time before class and felt like being around people.) "Those cartoon girls have amazing hair. Are there Pop-Tarts?"

[endsthegame]

"I think there might be some in the top drawer," Ender said. And saw his chance to zap away from the cartoon quickly slipping out of his fingers. Oh well. "Good morning."

[twintuitionist]

He could change the channel: it would just produce an unseemly amount of pouting.

"Top drawer," she murmured, poking through it until she produced a box in triumph. "Yep, you were right. There was this whole sugar craving thing going on."

[endsthegame]

"It's a Wednesday morning in a dorm full of teenagers," Ender proclaimed, "If there wasn't sugar, we'd probably have a riot on our hands."

[kestrelswolf]

Firekeeper was on the prowl. For... breakfast, mostly. Blind Seer was less interested in human breakfast foods, but was by her side as always.

"What," she said slowly, giving the television a dubious look, "is this?"

[endsthegame]

"It's a cartoon," Ender said, greeting her with a quick, wry smile, "Ostensibly about spies. Very colorful ones."

[kestrelswolf]

"Spies is supposed to be quiet," Firekeeper tried to puzzle out. "In background. These- do not look as if they spend much time doing that."

[endsthegame]

"No, that's probably the curious thing about it," Ender agreed, a little amused. "I haven't figured it out yet myself."