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[circumsutus]

Who: Dr. Stein and you!
Where: The plaza
When: Right after his arrival! (Tuesday, Jan 29)
Status: Open

[There are some people who don't mind getting soaked to the skin. There are some people who do mind it. Stein is one of those people who acts a bit like a wet cat, removing his lab coat and shaking it out, carding his hands through his hair and trying to flick out the water, and making an annoyed expression at the general wetness involved in arriving in Vatheon.

This does mean that the tall, scarred man with the metal bolt stuck through his head is not exactly looking where he's going.]

Comments

[heartandsoul]

[Oh hey, there's a familiar face.

Now how long is she going to see this familiar face is the question.

It's sort of an awkward moment where she was going to the coral anyway to refresh herself and just...runs into him. Hi, Stein, here's a bitty (well, less bitty than he'd remember but anybody is bitty compared to him) student looking up at you.]

...Hello, Professor.

[circumsutus]

[Maka if you're literally running into him he's gonna drop that lab coat on your head.]

Hello, Maka.

[heartandsoul]

[YEAH WELL

she'll take it and neatly fold it. Shut up.]

Welcome to Vatheon, or I guess I should say "welcome back" but I doubt you remember being here.

[circumsutus]

[It's dripping wet. How pleasant.]

Unfortunately, I don't. Is this a common occurrence?

[heartandsoul]

Very common.

[K, Professa, let's head on over here so she can get some towels for you.]

I'm guessing you haven't gotten the rundown yet? This is Vatheon, it's a city in a bubble under the ocean, we're all trapped here until further notice and everything is free to us.

[A beat before she turns back, holding a stack of towels out to him.]

Ah, and your lab is here, but somebody else is occupying it.

[symmetrophile]

[The first day that Kid noticed there were more people gathered in the Plaza looking lost and soaked to the bone marked the week that the young grim reaper visited each and every day wandering through the crowd, occasionally to help the Welcoming Committee pass out dry towels and brochures.

Something to do, really, while he scoured through the faces in the crowd, hoping to find someone.

Two someones, actually.

Although he ended each day disappointed, not enough to keep him from trying again. Which leads to now, when there's a certain shinigami skateboarding leisurely through the plaza, until he comes to a gradual halt mere feet from a familiar face.

This certainly beats that puzzle he had to solve just to get out of his own bedroom.]

...Professor.

[circumsutus]

[Stein is busy wringing out his coat, but he looks up with a (somewhat fake, as usual) smile.]

Kid. What a surprise.

[symmetrophile]

Likewise.

[Other students might be swayed (for or against) by that smile. Not Kid, who has regarded Stein with the same endlessly receptive sobriety whether he was visibly sane or not.]

You've just arrived, I assume, so this may come in handy.

[TAKE YOUR DAMN TOWEL.]

[circumsutus]

[Thank Death for that towel. Literally, in this case.]

Thank you.

[And he'll just towel off his hair.]

Mind briefing me on the situation?

[terribubblykoi]

[ Feferi hadn't seen him, not looking where she was going either as she seemed utterly absorbed in reading something on her SFC. The collision of creepy small alien girl and even more creepy human man was inevitable, and she makes an indignant sound when she bounces right off them.

Oh, now is clearly a great time for excellent troll social skills. ]

Oh my glub, watch where you're-- [ Wait, indignation needs set off to the side. ] You have a screw in your head!

[ Because he couldn't possibly have known that. ]

[circumsutus]

[... ... Stein looks down at the troll girl and smiles.]

I do. It helps me think.

[terribubblykoi]

Huh.

[ That's pretty impressive! She grins right back up at him and laughs. ]

You'd think more humans would do that!

[circumsutus]

Oh, most humans don't need it. [Stein is not most humans.]

So, if you're not human, what are you?

[halfhearted]

[He hadn’t been paying much attention either. Vanitas was bedecked in full on skirted armor and helmet glory and assuming that people would know better than to walk in to him.

He had been opening up a portal to abscond to the forest when he did walk in to the professor. Seriously wet newbie. What gives?]

Watch where you’re going. [Totally Stein’s fault! Vanitas will regain his personal space as he looked over what the coral dragged in. It looked like a raggedy hobo. With a screw in his freaking head.] Can’t say you are the weirdest I’ve seen. You definitely rank up there though.

[circumsutus]

[His head tilts sideways, curious.]

The feeling's mutual.

[halfhearted]

[He had the urge to just yank on the giant screw.]

Would anything come out if that is removed? [He'll just finish going dark aura as he opened up his portal.]

[circumsutus]

Forward, aren't you?

[zipperlips]

[Well, it's lucky that Kurloz was looking. Or at least, he was aware of it, because he doesn't step out of Stein's way, just puts his hands up to stop the professor from stumbling into him completely.

As soon as Stein's stopped, Kurloz starts examining the stictches on his face and clothes, and particularly the bolt in his head.]

[circumsutus]

[A costume of some kind? The stitching over the mouth is interesting, intentionally muting the... young man.]

Nice horns.

[zipperlips]

[Kurloz nods, thanks, then points at Stein's screw and gives it a thumbs up. He's got some pretty cool ornamentation going himself.]

[circumsutus]

[He taps the head of the screw with a finger.]

It helps me think.

[toreadorkabull]

-=the bull horned boy with metal legs is sort of used to getting bumped into, considering his horns reach well past his shoulders.

he's all so sort of used to landing on the ground when knocked over, though most people don't expect the loud metal clank he makes when his robobutt hits the ground=-

Ahh... Sorry.

-=says the kid on the ground=-

[circumsutus]

[And the tall, intimidating adult human looks down at the troll on the ground. One, two long moments of looming. Then a smile.]

It's fine. I wasn't looking where I was going.

[toreadorkabull]

Haha, neither was I. I guess. I am usually getter, at dodging.

-=tav sits up and rolls himself over so he can look up at the stranger. strange...er. very strange. wow. not so say that he didn't have his own array of screws in his body but that one was impressive=-

Woah...

[circumsutus]

I'm sure you are. [He holds a hand out for the boy to grab.]

Come on, up.