[Mingle-Log] Only non-alcoholic beverages in the punch bowl...

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SHIELD Academy
Open House
Everyone is congregated in the spacious auditorium of the SHIELD Academy. The noise level is probably a decibel below deafening and the lights are probably a little dimmer than what might seem normal for this time in the evening, but it doesn't seem to bother anyone as they just carry on. There are banners strewn about welcoming all first years to a new chapter in their lives while others welcome the others back for another year at the Academy. Refreshments are served up on stage while other tables set up around the massive room are home to pamphlets and flyers for clubs and classes. Special electives and advertisements for training sessions are also littered amongst the tables.

Make a few friends, find old ones, look into clubs that catch your interest. This is open house for all returning students and prospective students, so hang out, hit up others and just mingle!

Comments

Loki Laufeyson | Marvel

[mischiefandlies]

[The trickster's finally a king! Well, a king in the sense of being a senior in the Academy. Beyond that, though, he's still everyone's favourite annoyance trickster.

He leans against one of the refreshment tables with a small grin in place as he looks out at all the new victims faces. He is definitely going to leave a lasting impression this year. However, when told not to do something, he has a tendency to want to do it. So when he was told not to slip vodka into the punch bowl, well... Someone can catch him or just bump into him for a chat!]

Katherine Pierce | Vampire Diaries

[survivingpierce]

Katherine stared out at the auditorium, a bored look on her face. She didn't understand why they insisted on throwing a Welcome party every year. At least she was an upper class-man this year, and she had to put in an appearance, no matter how boring these parties were.

Hannibal Lecter | Hannibal Rising

[camebefore]

Hannibal Lecter shifted his small pack to the other shoulder as he looked around the room. So this was his new home. When it came to the Academy and how it had been touted to him, Hannibal hadn't grown to like or dislike it. It was a place like any other that he would be at no matter how he felt on the matter.

Unlike some of the other new students, it wasn't a lack of courage that held Hannibal back from joining the fray but a need to study before entering. His maroon eyes moved over the other faces, memorizing them to judge them. He wandered from there towards the table of pamphlets and signup sheets, reading them over for anything that might spark his interest.

allison | teen wolf

[industria]

Allison's pleased to have survived her first year. She is, of course, keen on establishing an archery club. Not everyone trains with this weapon, and she supposes it would be nice to have some recreational activities along with the usual school stuff.

You'll find her handing out pamphlets and gathering signatures and email addresses before she takes it to the officials.

Natasha Romanoff | MCU

[spiderette]

As a returning third year, Natasha's a little less impressed by the surroundings than she had been her first time around but still no less excited to be here. As much as she loves summers and spending a few months with her dad, she loves being here, being around her friends all the time. Even if there is homework involved, which she could honestly do with less of, but who couldn't?

She's got herself a drink and a plate of snacks balanced on her knee as she'd been lucky enough to nab one of the chairs lining the edges of the room. Which gives her an awesome location to scope out all the fresh meat new students who were busy orienting themselves for what was probably going to be one of the craziest years of their lives.

Her roommate last year had been a psychic. She knew this for a fact.

And when she's not sitting and watching, she's up and bouncing between the crowds of new and returning students, catching up with friends she hasn't seen in too long and meeting the new ones that seemed interesting enough to catch her eye. She's friendly and laughing, thoroughly enjoying playing the social butterfly. Maybe this year she'll make some friends who don't treat the word 'party' like a bad word and remember to drag their noses out of their books once in a while...

Myka Bering | Warehouse 13

[inmymemorylocked]

Although Myka is a fourth year, her familiarity with the campus and student body hasn't made her all that outgoing. In reality, she is happy to be back after the break; there is only so long she can listen to Tracy talk about cheerleading or school dances, and only so long she can tolerate her father grumping around and acting like nothing she does is good enough. Being back at the Academy is a breath of fresh air in comparison, but one wouldn't think so just by looking at her.

For the time being, Myka is curled up in a seat in the corner of the auditorium, an open book in her lap and her glasses perched on the end of her nose as she leisurely pages through the tome in front of her.

bobbi morse | marvel

[mimid]

Bobbi is, first and foremost, a scientist a heart, an ace student, and an excellent researcher for someone so young. (Not to mention a competitive gymnast.) When it was time for her the other year to finally make a decision on her future, she chose the academy over the science high school, deciding to find a customized balance between academics and training.

Home is home. She remains distant from her family, her brother, and is honestly happy to be back at school.

Bobbi is, as always, a mix between nice and intimidating, slowly making rounds about the room.

Storm | Marvel 616

[storminside]

Ororo's a senior this year, and is likely up to her neck in extra-curricular activities. She does like to keep busy and productive and helpful. And while she normally tends to keep to herself (she's been told she's a tad intimidating), today she makes an effort to mingle. In particular, she's making her rounds around freshmen and newcomers alike, welcoming them to the school with a friendly smile and an offer to answer any questions they might have.

But mingling can get kind of tiring, after a point. So 'Ro is just as likely to be getting some air by a window or straying outside for some fresh air (it's so crowded inside!) to recharge a little bit before heading right back into all the activity. Feel free to catch her either way!

Tommy Merlyn | Arrow

[notjustarichkid]

Tommy's a new transfer to the second year, only having discovered his weirder abilities over the summer. Still, it's not like he's left anything at his old school he'd really miss, and he'd been on the verge of being expelled anyway, even with his dad's bribes, so a fresh start might not be the worst thing in the world.

The auditorium might be crowded, but he's rich, relatively good-looking, and a pretty friendly guy, used to being at least near the centre of attention, so crowds don't really scare him all that much. He'll be around, probably where the most people are, chatting like he's an old hand at this. It's not too different from some of his dad's corporate events, or some of the parties he's sneaked into with Ollie, after all.

That, or he's surreptitiously adding booze to his punch in an out of the way spot somewhere.

[maximoff_girl]

Wanda was awash in new faces. She had lost track of her brother shortly after entering the auditorium (unsurprisingly), and now she was wandering around, alone and more than a bit uncomfortable in the crowed. Picking up, then putting down pamphlets without reading them. Sticking near the walls, her eyes were wide and scanning.

There had to be somebody friendly here... right?

Gwen Stacy| The Amazing Spider-Man

[itsmychoice]

Gwen was probably one of the only ones in the room actually excited to be back at school not just to see her friends, but also for classes to start. She had spent the summer interning at Oscorp and was excited to put some of the things she learned there to use in the lab this year.

She was also running for student government and had spent a few minutes when she got to the party hanging up some posters and handing our flyers. It was never too early to start campaigning, and this would look great on college applications.

The rest of the party she can be found mingling with her friends or if someone asks her out on the dance floor.

Leeloo deSebat | The Fifth Element

[thefifthelement]

Leeloo was excited to be back. As much as she loved Cornelius for taking care of her, the monastery was far too quiet for her tastes. She hated to hurt his feelings as well, so she did her best to be calm, focus, study, relax... but sometimes she wanted to go do something fun and reckless. At least being in school she could see her friends well as be... well, loud.

She can be seen chatting with friends, or mingling from here or there. Asking about how summer went for others or if anyone had done anything interesting. Leeloo loved a good story and anything had to be better then how she spent most of this summer.

Felicity Smoak --> Arrow

[awkwardphrasing]

A party was the last thing Felicity was expecting for orientation and honestly it throws her out of her element much more than she'd like to admit. She knew she should have straightened her hair and wore a better dress, instead she was just in one of her usual skirts and flats. She didn't even have lipstick on.

Quickly, she descends on the snack table looking for coffee and praying that the music won't last forever. It's not really her favorite type and she'd like to be able to hear people coming up behind her if anyone decided freshmen hazing was the way to spend their evening.

Tommy Shepherd // Marvel 616

[speedyavenger]

Tommy, as usual, can't stay in one place, so he darts in and out of the crowd timing his landings perfectly between beats in whatever song is playing just for fun. There's a lot of familiar faces around, as well a new ones and he's mostly just glad that the school will be full again and he can interact with more people than just the summer boarders like himself.

It's so much easier to get away with things when there are more students that could have been the perpetrator.

Lydia Martin | Teen Wolf

[lefthandedgenius]

Of course Lydia is at the Open House, looking fierce as ever. At the moment she's got two crisscrossed stacks of flyers as she makes her way to the activity tables. One for Science Club, one for Mathletes. They're nestled carefully in the crook of her arm, the other is absently twined into a lock of strawberry blonde hair. At least until she gets to the respective club tables, offering a grin to those who loiter there before she turns on her heel to regard the incoming students, both familiar faces and new.

Gale Hawthorne | The Hunger Games

[ensared]

Another year, another welcome party. Gale didn't see much point in it; it generally seemed to leave a lot of the freshmen looking more overwhelmed than anything, and frankly, it got tiring seeing the same stuff every single year. He hardly even glanced at most of the pamphlets being shoved at him, though a few of the new clubs and classes managed to catch his eye.

After a visit to the refreshments table, he walked around the hall for a bit, not really being sociable but at least pretending to. Once that got boring enough, he'd just stay out of the way or head outside to get away from the crowd.

Maya Matlin | Degrassi

[anythingwithstrings]

Maya attempted to look social, the problem is that with new people was they assumed the headphones were her being anti-social. ...And eventually she got bored and started talking without moving her mouth. Or making it look like she's badly dubbed.

Look, eventually anyone would get bored with people giving her dirty looks for her headphones.

Now she was sitting on the archery team's table writing sheet music, not even bothering with the new freshmen. Or any of the people from last year she didn't have some positive experience with. She kinda... had some issues end of last term, but she's over them now and just wants to move on.

Johnny Blake | The Dark Knight Rises

[johnnyblake]

[ Johnny hadn't honestly expected to make it at SHIELD Academy this long, but by way of some serious amount of luck, he's staring down his junior year and he's actually got a relatively clean slate, all things considered.

Lingering on the periphery of the open house, Blake watches the room with the same sort of hawkish attentiveness he's always maintained. There are a lot of familiar faces — the academy isn't quite large enough for him to lose track — but he can't help noticing the first years awkwardly mingling around.

At some point, he scoffs around the licorice he's been chewing (in lieu of a cigarette) and shakes his head as he pushes off of the wall. ]

Man, I was never that clueless...

elsa | frozen

[wellgloved]

( testing c: not officially signed up yet. )

Elsa is anxious. Having transferred in for her third year after years of home schooling - along with the incident she would rather not discuss - she is ill at ease around all these people, adjusting her gloves every few minutes, just to make sure they're still there. It isn't too late to receive help, they told her. What's more important is that it would keep her away from Anna. It was wrong, she knows, not to grieve with her sister over their parents, but she can't allow herself to be around her when she can't control her powers.

She holds her head high, shoulders squared, but she still keeps to the edges of the crowd, perhaps reaching for some food on occasion, but otherwise trying to blend in. Which is difficult when you have shockingly blonde hair and the air tends to chill around you.

James "Bucky" Barnes

[talvi_sotilas]

Sure, he was a second year in age, but Bucky was definitely new.

He was getting taller quickly, and filling out almost as quickly; he was only a little gangly, but throughout the party it was clear he was a little bit baby-giraffe in his spacial awareness.

Unaware of anything extraordinary about himself, Bucky is interested in anything he sees that seems at all unusual, and seems quite gregarious, though every so often he seems to drop out of a conversation for a moment.

Felicia Hardy | The Amazing Spiderman

[felicitousfeloniousfeline]

Felicia entered the room, stopping momentarily in the doorway, hand on her hip, to glance around the room- and, more importantly, to be glanced at. She sized up the student body through the periphery of her vision. Her face, a mixture of alluring mirth and disinterested boredom, revealed none the fierce intellect with which she measured her fellow students.

Once she had been sufficiently ogled, Felicia made her way over to the refreshment table, picked up a drink and lingered, awaiting the first tactless pickup attempt of the evening. It was time to familiarize herself with her new surroundings; determine the social hierarchy, and assert dominance. High School was a jungle and Felicia, a lioness.

Sam Yao | Zombies, Run!

[voiceinthedark]

Sam does not want to be here. Not really. He wants to be back at his normal school with his normal friends and okay, maybe he's also a little homesick but he's sixteen now! Can't let that show. But after his little incident with the hacking and the classified files, he hadn't really been given much choice.

His dad still wasn't talking to him anyway.

Most of the students seem to know each other already too which doesn't make him feel any more comfortable, what with coming in for second year, so he keeps to the edges of the room

Virginia Potts | MCU

[unseasoned]

[It's incredibly difficult to not feel overwhelmed as she looks around the auditorium. Although Virginia is in her third year, she's a new transfer, a total stranger in a crowd of friends, and probably as lost as most of the freshmen running around. This is a chapter of her life she never asked for, but she's here now; she has to be, and all she can do is try and make the most of it.

So after some awkward staring and trying to decide where to begin, Virginia begins moving to the tables, checking out displays, and trying to get a feel for this school in general. She'd been an ambitious student with a lot of determination before. She refuses to let what's happened take that away from her now.]

Sam Wilson || MCU

[thebirdwhisperer]

Sam's not really a party person, not like this anyway, so the crowds are starting to get to him. He's on the periphery of the crowds, mostly, looking for the few familiar faces he expects to find and smiling at people he doesn't know. Someone's gotta keep an eye out for the newcomers after all, make sure no-one takes too much advantage of them.

He's also got a handful of flyers for first aid courses and a couple of the sports teams, baseball and athletics, just in case he spots anyone likely.

[nextdoors]

MJ doesn't have any fliers or plans to rope people into a club or gang or acapella group-- although that would be fun but maybe some other time. Not happening tonight. Tonight is all about catching up with her friends from last year and making new ones and having a good time. Chatting, dancing, hearing a nice long winded story about this club or that one, she doesn't care. Because the summer was awful, thanks for asking. She doesn't want to dwell on it anymore so please drop it and while she loves the city but she actually kinda missed this place.

It's more home than anything for a girl who doesn't really have one.