Good afternoon, I'll be your transfer student for today

[xp_wallflower]

Does anyone ever write a good first introduction? There's always that whole 'God, what am I going to say?' moment of awkwardness, isn't there?

Do I put 'Hi, my name's Lauren.' or 'Hey, this is Laurie and I'll be your new transfer student for today'? That last sounds like I should be saying something along the lines of 'Do you want fries with that?' though. Which is funny, because I was only talking to my friend Helen last month about how I couldn't decide if I wanted to get a part time job at McDonald's or not.

I can still do that, right? Because, much as retail is not exactly my 'career choice of a lifetime', it does give me money for things. (Clothing, a car when I get my driver's license. Okay, maybe not a car but one can dream.) And it beat wearing a chicken suit and standing outside a department store selling their 'crazy prices'. On the minus side, my hair will smell like fries at the end of the day.

So, as you may have realized by now, being psychic (It's funny because it's true! At least of some of you, anyhow.) my name is Laurie. Okay, it's really Lauren but only my Mum calls me that, and only when she's truly peeved at me. (Breaking the best china vase playing tag with the dog levels of peeved.) I'm a transfer student from the local high school (Go Salem Center Rams!) Wow, that sounded special. Truly, I do not win at Cheerleading. Always knew there was a reason I picked cross country running instead.

I assume at this point, it's probably a good point to tell you what my mutant power is. I do this thing with pheromones, don't really understand it much myself right now, something to do with how I smell, affecting people physically. Um, people who know about this kind of thing and are good with the explaining of such, help?

Anyway, that's me. I guess I'll see you all in class at some stage, or around.

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[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Whoa. That was long. Not like TLDR long, but long.

I'm Kyle (Hi KYLE!) - and... whoa on the smelling. Super-nose here. Not like Superman's nose, which would be gross, nose in a jar, but ...

So you smell and it ... what? Turns us into ducks?

[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

*snickers* Okay, I now have this mental image of you collecting comic book character's noses in jars on a shelf. Also, I have this thing for talking a lot. At least, online anyhow. In person, not so much. Power thingie wise...It's kinda weird. They say I've got this chemical I emit that makes people's bodies react to the way I'm feeling at the time. I'm not sure what it'd do to someone with supersmell.

Maybe you'd be able to smell when I was doing it? Which would be kinda cool, since I can't tell when I'm doing it right now. Professor Xavier said that with work I'll start being able to tell.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

So no turning into ducks. Got it. Because being a duck = not cool.

I dunno - we can try it but I guess we'd have to figure out a safe something for you to feel? That's confusing thuogh.

[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

*nods* Maybe not today then. I'm so nervous, it's the whole new school thing. I've got powers training tomorrow though. Maybe we could test it then?

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

I gotta go ask Dr. Moira first, because dude, being grounded for powers expiermenting is only for Forge.

[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

You get grounded here for that? I need to read the little information pack Professor Xavier gave me soon, I'm thinking. What did Forge do?

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

He volunteered to be Marius' lunch!

[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

*ponders* Marius's lunch? Okay, please tell me that that is something totally different from what it sounds like and you guys don't have cannibals living at the school.

[x-rahne.livejournal.com]

Marius's mutation requires bone marrow from other mutants, which he eats through the mouths on his hands. 'Tis a little unusual, but unless he's been starved of it the whole thing is usually quite decorous and really does not hurt much. (Hurts a lot less than standard bone marrow donation, let me tell you.)

[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

And this just answered a question I asked Marius even. So, I get to ask you the other question I asked him as well. What's it like being a wolf? Must be really cool.

[x-rahne.livejournal.com]

Scared me quite a bit at first, as it took me three days to figure out how to change back, but I like it a lot now. Things seem very... vivid in a way they're not in this form, and being able to have fur when I want it (and not otherwise) is very convenient, and so on.