peterverse | brockton bay, meet glam

mxglam posting in

It's the anniversary. Glam would very much not like to celebrate.

It’s their last day on Winslow High - they’re being transferred to Arcadia on Monday - and also their last day without a patrol schedule assigned.

And the PRT released a small announcement on its website about Glam joining the Wards. Now their wiki page doesn’t get erased, of course - they’re no longer speculative. They wonder what it’s got on them.

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From:

mxglam

"Seeya."

They return to their room, turn on their laptop, and email Lorica: "I may be kinda becoming Boots' friend."

Because to hell with it.

From:

thinkering

That's an interesting life choice, replies either Lorica or her bot.

From:

mxglam

Yeah. I dunno, he was upset about stuff, it looked like it might help, and like you said, I'm very well intentioned :)

There's probably something about me in there as well, wanting to make up for my mistakes, but I don't think I'd do it if that was all there was to it.

From:

thinkering

I hope being his friend doesn't mean letting him hit you.

From:

mxglam

Just once, and it wasn't even that strong.

Relative to what Boots was capable of.

Then we talked and went out running on the ocean. Well, he ran, I flew and made platforms appear for him to run on and kept an eye out for potential witnesses.

From:

thinkering

Sounds fun.

From:

mxglam

It was! We got almost to Rockport before turning back.

From:

thinkering

I'm glad you had a good time.

From:

mxglam

Glam is like 65% sure it's the bot.

Yeah. I'm gonna go do stuff now. Later!

They'll bring it up with real Lorica at some point, probably.

From:

thinkering

No reply to that one.

From:

peterxy

The Loen plan dies without ever seeing the light of day as the Protectorate releases a correction and the relevant media is edited to reflect that Glam is in fact not a boy or a girl. The 'mxglam' PHO account gets Verified Cape status, and there's some noise in which they do not in fact take part.

From:

mrglam

Glam enrols in Arcadia High as a boy. They were mostly indifferent to it, but an increasingly loud part of their brain told them that it would be a good idea to look like a cute boy around the straight girl who is the target of their affections and who they know attends Arcadia even if her identity is a secret.

And at school, he actually manages to somehow hang out with Echo- sorry, Willow, and with James. At different times, mostly, Willow tends to give James a wide berth, but there's classes Monday to Friday, more than enough time to divide between people. Afternoons are reserved for "extracurricular activities," which is Arcadia's way of covering for the various Wards' patrolling schedules.

Edited Date: 2016-02-12 07:22 pm (UTC)

From:

alicornucopia

James is firmly Somewhat Below Average. He grumbles extensively about having to keep "you know, people" off his back by managing decent grades. Apparently his coach used to arrange him tutoring for the equivalent reason but now he's on his own.

From:

mrglam

Sadde has never been very high above average, but that is entirely because: lazy. He shows interest in class, sure, but when it comes to actually, you know, doing homework and stuff, he does only about enough that, with his pretty good test grades, he can comfortably pass.

But he has looked into the Youth Guard a little bit more deeply after the... incident... and wouldn't you know, the YG expects mini-capes' grades to not only not fall but actually improve upon joining the Wards. The reasoning behind this is that the Protectorate should "be a positive influence, giving structure and mentorship to the Wards," and so "maintaining the same grades for a prolonged time may still be cause for concern." He's pretty sure this is just to give the YG an excuse to butt in when they don't have any others.

Sadde expresses his contempt for this to James using slightly crasser language than he's typically comfortable with, but suggests that the both of them be study buddies or something. He does have his Winslow tests to prove that he actually knows stuff in spite of what his grades were.

From:

alicornucopia

James will accept tutoring from Sadde. He's not a super great student though.

From:

mrglam

That's alright. Sadde thinks personal attention is more likely to help James do better than regular class does, and he thinks he's good at teaching.

From:

alicornucopia

While struggling through algebra, apropos of nothing: "Oh, if nobody told you if you have to talk about a certain somebody it's 'Laurie'."

From:

mrglam

His brain takes a second to catch up with the change of subject, and when it does, it takes a further second to stop the smile that started spreading on his face. "Gotcha. Laurie our mysterious friend in common."

From:

alicornucopia

"She's not my friend," snorts Boots.

From:

mrglam

"Acquaintance?" He shrugs. "It'd be nice if you were friends. She's great."

From:

alicornucopia

"She sure thinks so," snorts Boots.

From:

mrglam

Shrug. "I can't comment on whether she thinks so," he says, because he has never asked her about it. He could probably hazard a guess about her beliefs on the matter. "But well, it's true. You'd probably like her if you got to know her."

From:

alicornucopia

"She thinks she's better than everybody."

From:

mrglam

"I don't think that's true." Not everybody surely. "She's just... shy's not the best word, but she's not super sociable in general and doesn't really go out of her way to interact with other people. Kinda like the literal opposite of me, there."