peterverse | brockton bay, meet glam

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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:

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."

From:

alicornucopia

"She does though. She shouldn't even be alive and she acts like she's so perfect."

From:

mrglam

Blink. "She... what?"

From:

alicornucopia

James looks around to see if there's anyone in earshot.

The place is deserted, but he lowers his voice anyway, "You know they usually just real quietly kill anybody who triggers during a Simurgh attack dose or no dose."

From:

mrglam

"Simurgh attack."

From:

alicornucopia

"She was in London," nods James.

From:

mrglam

"How do you know this?"

From:

alicornucopia

"I was already a Ward when she came in and her dad teleported in and she had some random T-shirt she found on the ground over her face and she was crying and holding a cell phone she'd tinkered into calling him over from wherever he was to get her. The timing was exactly right and Transit had been on vacation to England and everything."