OPEN RP: Breakfast With Morfin (in the Great Hall)

[mightymorfin]

Morfin knows the importance of a nutritious, well-balanced breakfast! He's up bright and early this morning. Arrayed on the table in front of him are a glass of juice, a slice of cantaloupe, and a bowl of Coco PopsAlso sitting on the table is his new pet bunny Horatio, who is breakfasting on a bowlful of timothy hay. Morfin talks earnestly to

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[kusarigama_chan]

Giggling for reasons yet undetermined, but likely to do with the fact she was currently unattended, the miniature Yuki Yubari raced into the Great Hall with pigtails streaming behind her. Her current destination? Breakfast. The desired food item? Ice cream.

However, the thought of ice cream was derailed abruptly at the sight of an animal. And not just any animal... a bunny! Turning two cartwheels in the aisle between two tables - as she was certain it would get her there faster - she screeched to a halt when she reached her destination and then jumped up onto the seat next to Morfin.

"Can I pet your bunny?" she asked, begging with wide eyes.

[teamseaslug]

Osaka looks slowly over and blinks. < Chiyo-chan? Why are you here and not in America right now? > She blinks again and notices that the resemblance is superficial. "You're not Chiyo-chan. Who are you?"

[squeegeetodd]

Squee wandered into the hall and sat down at the table with a bowl of Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs, then plopped Shmee down on the floor beside him. Morfin's bunny caught his interest for a second, but not as much as the little pigtailed girl. He perked up immediatly; there weren't many kids here, let alone ones who were around his own age!

"Hi! Are you new here?"

[kusarigama_chan]

Yuki was surprised at the question from the girl she had never seen before, but answers readily. "Yubari Yuki." The question answered, she then became distracted by the approach of someone she did know. Squee-san!

"No, not new, I'm Yuki," she said, giggling as she moved to stand next to him, bouncing on her toes joyfully. "I had yummy candy yesterday."

[teamseaslug]

Osaka begins to add strawberry jelly to a piece of toast, but stops short when she sees the bunny. She wanders over, still holding the toast and knife, and stares at the bunny for a while. She remembers the bunny's owner from her sorting, but is distracted by the fluffiness. "What's his name?" she finally asks.

[mightymorfin]

"His name is Horatio!" Morfin is so proud of his bunny. "The name of his breed is Dwarf Hotot! He isn't magical or anything so he can't talk ... but I bet he can understand English!" Morfin isn't really clear on the whole concept of animal cognition.

[teamseaslug]

"Dwarf... hot hot. Hop! Dwarf Hop Hop! That's a better breed, since he's a rabbit!" She stares at the bunny for a second. "Hello, Horatio-san. Would you like toast?" She holds out the knife (still smeared with strawberry jelly), realizes after a few seconds what she's doing, and switches to the half-covered toast.

[mightymorfin]

Horatio the rabbit sniffs at the toast and delicately takes a small nibble. Some jam gets on his whiskers and he tries to groom it off his face.

Morfin beams. "Horatio likes it!"

[dib_worm]

Dib wanders through the Great Hall- literally.

He walks straight through the doors and through the corner of a table without really paying attention, musing over recent events but stops when he sees Morfin and the girls, and smiles.

"Hey! Is that a bunny?"

Heedless of his intangible state (thanks to some eeeevil chocolate) he walks over and smiles at Morfin.

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[mightymorfin]

Morfin beams. He remembers his friend Dib from the Masquerade (awful party full of Bad Touches!) "It is! He's a bunny that I got in a Sorting! His name is Horatio. It starts with an H, like Hufflepuff!"

[dib_worm]

Dib believes himself to be sitting at the table, and smiles in reply. "Maybe we should make a new House and Horatio can be a mascot- hey, House starts with H!"

[slothbefouler]

Being trapped in a magic bathroom for three months had left Jack extremely hungry. Following the smell of food, and whistling a jaunty sea chanty, he made his way into the Great Hall, hoping that those little creatures with the big ears were capable of making a decent ragout of beef.

En route to an empty table, he noticed a fellow sitting nearby, eating a bowl of some sort of brown crunchy stuff. He appeared to be in earnest conversation with a rabbit. Another naturalist, Jack thought, though he had never actually seen Stephen talking to his pets. "Those make good eating, you know," he remarked, nodding at the rabbit. "Force a bit of rum down their throats, kills 'em nice and quick, and serve 'em up in a pie."

[mightymorfin]

Morfin is appalled!

"I don't nail snakes to doors anymore and I don't eat pet bunnies," he informed the big man, primly. "This is my bunny Horatio." He looked at Horatio's ears nervously. "He can hear a lot but maybe he didn't hear you say, you know, what you just said." Horatio didn't look afraid so it must all be okay, right? Morfin decided to try to start again.

"I'm Morfin and I'm a Hufflepuff."

[slothbefouler]

"Well, that's a damn waste of good meat, that's all I can say. And what on earth would you be nailing snakes to doors for? That's a mighty strange hobby, if I do say so myself."

Of course, Jack already knew people with strange hobbies, so he was willing to overlook such behavior. He extended a friendly hand. "The name's Aubrey - Captain Jack Aubrey. I'm in Gryffindor, myself."

[kusarigama_chan]

Little Yuki, now sitting under the table oblivious to the world as she drew pictures on the floor with jam, did perk up when she heard a new voice. Doodling a messy interpretation of Morfin's bunny, she dropped the jam jar when she heard the man talk about eating the bunny. Scrambling out from under the table with hands now covered in jam, she sat and glared up - very up - at the tall man.

"EAT THE BUNNY? MEAN! BAD MAN!" she yelled and then lunged for his ankle, teeth bared.

[nemofound]

((Is Morfin still at breakfast? (i.e., is this thread still commanding your attention?) and if so would he appreciate the company of Nemo, Domino and Furryfurrysoft? No worries if not, I'm limited in my RP-time anyway this week/month/etc.))

[mightymorfin]

(( Eep, no, this RP is pretty much abandoned, plus I don't seem to be getting all my LJ notifications *blush* But Morfin will be happy if Nemo comes to the big party/campout he is throwing in honor of the Sorting Hat soon! ))

[nemofound]

((Nifty! I'm not on the comm as much as I once was, but Nemo would love the party! ... you know, Morfin would be an excellent prefect if ever he wanted to run for it, next election cycle.))

((Oh, and one more thing ... ))

[nemofound]

((I just wanted to tell you ... I *never* meant to hurt your feelings (or anyone else's) and I'm sorry if I did.))