Mortimer Brockert
April 03, 2022 11:53 AM
Returning Feast by Mortimer Brockert
Ah the holidays. Same crap, different years. As usual the midterm break had been full of forced socialization, saccharine atmosphere, and putting up with Eustace’s consistently abominable behavior-honestly, he had the child that he had and was unlikely to get another one, so Mortimer wished he would let it go. Anyway, the Headmaster wasn’t necessarily against familiarity, but when it was something that he did not like, well that made it very irritating. Not that he wasn’t constantly irritated in general, but the holiday season somehow managed to be irritating in a very boring way.The only even remotely interesting thing that happened was Topaz putting her own take on the Twelve Days of Christmas-the most irritating holiday song in existence-by taxiderming seven swans a swimming, six geese a-laying, four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree. Obviously she couldn’t taxidermy people, but Mortimer had been forced into attending many society balls and seen plenty of ladies dancing and golden rings.
As usual, he was glad to be back at Sonora, even though most teenagers were totally and completely obnoxious. At least he really didn’t have to interact with them that much. Besides, he firmly believed that education was one of the most important things in life, and so, was passionate-as much as one could ever consider him to be-about making sure that happened. Even if it did mean having to deal with irritating people. Which, come to think of it, was a redundant phrase if Mortimer had ever heard one.
Anyway, once everyone had assembled in the Cascade Hall, he stood up and cast Sonorus on himself. “Welcome back. I hope you have all had a nice break.” Why did he always say that? He really didn’t care. If they had one, great. If not, it wasn’t his problem. The emotional well being of those attending the school, was something that Mortimer was ill-equipped to deal with and not especially invested in, so long as it didn’t affect the safety of the students or cause problems for him in the form of complaints or lawsuits.
He continued. “Before we eat, I have one quick announcement. As you know, the school fair is this year and we have decided to have a carnival.”Which, in the end, was the easiest thing possible.”Also, the school alumni have been invited back to showcase what they have done post-Sonora.” Which could be interesting for some, more so for the potential reunions it would bring than anything career-related that came up.
Subthreads:Aladren
First of many lasts by Ellie Alperton with Rosalynn Tellerman
Back again already? by Lazarus Jareau-Fletcher
Teppenpaw
Year One Round Two by Lenny Pierce with Leviosa Scurlock
Hooray! (Hans) by Liesl Brockert with Hansel Hexenmeister
Pecari
Let's make one thing clear. [Billy] by Reighleigh Mae Thorn with Billy Cobb
Peopling by Oz Spellman with Fortune Ardovini
Peas please by Theo Spurn
Crotalus
Staff
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Mortimer Brockert
Returning Feast
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Ellie Alperton
April 06, 2022 5:51 PM
First of many lasts by Ellie Alperton
It was weird to think that this would be her last feast. When Ellie had started seventh year, graduating had still felt like a long way off. In some ways, it still did—there was a lot to get through before then. But the whole year was peppered with lasts, and they were only going to get more and more as it drew nearer.She considered trying to pull Anya and Freddie together, to have their last feast together. In theory, house seating wasn’t enforced at the Returning Feast. But it wasn’t ever a rule she’d taken advantage of, and it felt weird to pull people away from their house tables and their routines just to say they’d done it once.Her traditions for events were much more to do with how she looked. Even if she was stuck wearing the school robe, she still liked to style herself like it was an occasion, and she had taken care, fixing her hair into a coronet braid. She had spent a lot of the holidays playing with various trans pride eyeshadow looks. A lot of the ones she found online were very big and bold, which wasn’t her style, but they had at least convinced her that the three very distinct eyeshadow colours could look good together, and she had a soft white and blue blend across her main lid with pink at the corner to make an outer v. She’d also done some crafting, and had made some earrings where tassels in those same three colours hung from a large silver hoop. Even if people didn’t know the significance of the colours, it would be clear to anyone with observational skills that they were at least thematic and co-ordinated between her makeup and accessories. And the pride pin next to her head girl badge.
She took a seat at the Aladren table instead, hoping she’d find someone friendly to talk to. She got on well with most of her housemates, and they could usually be relied on to provide an interesting discussion, even if she wasn’t particularly close with any of them. The food appeared, and she surveyed the choices.
“Any recommendations?” she asked her neighbour. “Maybe there’s something I’ve overlooked all these years, and now’s my last chance to try it,” she added, to encourage them away from the generic ‘mac and cheese is always a safe bet’ type answers.
OOC: Ellie's eyeshadow is something like this, but without the pink extending as far.
Her earrings are like this, but with five tassels in the colours and order of the trans pride flag.
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Rosalynn Tellerman
April 14, 2022 7:15 PM
And this really is THE middle now. by Rosalynn Tellerman
Rosalynn arrived back at Sonora for the second half of her entire Sonora life, feeling like she was doing well for herself. She had a solid group of friends in her roommates. She'd been dating Tommy more or less since Orientation. She'd taken over as the Art Club's president, and now she'd started her own Performing Arts club. (If she didn't win Most Creative in the yearbook, she really didn't know what more she could have done for it.) She was doing well in all of her classes, as befit an Aladren, though she didn't think she was quite in the running for valedictorian or anything. She didn't know yet if she'd earn Prefect next year, but she figured she had a good shot at it. (And Isla and Lorena were both her friends so she'd feel more proud of them than disappointed for herself if she didn't get it.)All in all, she figured her first half of her Sonora life had gone just about as perfectly as it possibly could. It made her just a little bit nervous about what was going to go wrong in the second half. She was a fairly optimistic person though, so she was able to brush aside those pessimist thoughts with disbelief that karma actually balanced itself out like that. Some people were just lucky, and she happened to be one of the ones fortune smiled upon.
When the Headmaster gave his short announcement, Rosalynn briefly wondered if her father counted as an alumni - he'd never been a student here, but he had worked here once upon a time. Probably not. Her brother was in that category though, and she kind of wondered if he'd come. He hadn't said anything about it over break, but maybe the alumni hadn't been invited yet.
Food filled the table suddenly, but Rosalynn was well accustomed to both Sonora's feast habits and far more dramatic magics than that, so she just looked over what her choices were when her neighbor spoke to her.
Rosalynn smiled at her, and her eyes widened in delight as she took in the older girl's appearance. "Oh! I love your earrings! Did you make those?" The colorful eyeshadowing was quite nice, too, she thought, but as Art Club President, the earrings were the more pressing to remark upon. "As for food," she glanced around. "I've always liked this rice," she picked it up and offered Ellie the dish. "I don't know what it's called. It does have a bit of a kick to it though, so if you don't like spice, it may not be for you."
OOC: No definite ideas on what the rice might be, but I'm loosely thinking of some Indian rice sides that I've had at work potlucks.
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