Post by Amuro Hakumi on Jan 8, 2011 4:35:44 GMT -5
"Ha.. Hallyfurn?"
"Nope."
"Hari...fu. Li. En."
"Nope."
"Hallsy... Wallsy?"
"Nah."
"Halty fur reign?"
"No."
A petite girl with shoulder-length, straight black hair reached up with both hands, grasping the sides of her head. She stared at the stupid badger guiding the common room's trap door, a hint of miserable fatalism in her voice.
"I'm never going to get inside the Common Room, am I?"
"Listen, lady. I don't make the rules, y'know? Y'gotta know, like, the password, or whatever, to get in here, or else we'd just have random people and animals-" The badger paused here to glare meaningfully at her backpack, as if expecting some sort of animal to be in there. Was that a common occurrence around here? "just running around everywhere, doing who knows what? Thats why I c'nt just let you in."
One hand snuck into her jacket pocket, reaching past her wand and grabbing a small scrap of parchment. Shakily, she brought it up for her very-dark-burnt-almond (did that count as a color?) to look over. The student she'd met had terrible handwriting. She could hardly tell if that was a 'T', or an 'L', or a 'G'. She'd been too busy thanking whoever it was to really look at the paper, and now here she was. At this rate she'd have to go back and find someone else to help her.
"Hah-re-fu-ri-eh-nu?"
"Not even close."
A small pout reached her light rose lips.
Stupid tanuki wannabe.
Last Edit: Jan 8, 2011 4:36:02 GMT -5 by Amuro Hakumi
Post by Finnegan Darby on Jan 8, 2011 5:28:14 GMT -5
"HA-"
From behind the girl, footsteps could be heard, approaching at such a rapidity the owner could only be moving in a full-out run.
"LI-"
Finny burst onto the scene, forever messy blond hair flinging itself into his eyes as he skidded to a halt in front of the badger-door and next to the girl, his usual beaming grin in place. Yes, as usual, Finnegan Darby was here to save the day.
"-FIRIENNNNN!"
And oh did it need saving. Without him, this girl -- no, cute girl, he corrected himself, after a quick check from the corner of one bright cerulean eye -- would have been stuck out here forever. Or, until someone else happened along. Whatever.
It was quite obvious the badger did not want to allow access of its cherished common room to this ruffian, but he'd given it the password, albeit it slightly broken up and in all caps, and so, with many a grumbling under its breath, the trap door pushed out of the way, revealing the entrance to the common room beneath: a nice ladder to climb down. Budget cuts, remember? Or maybe it'd always been this way.
Who cared!
"I," announced Finny grandly, once he was sure the badger wasn't going to just move back into place and undo all his hard work (read: the uttering of a single word), "am Finnegan Darby, Hufflerpuff Extraordinaire. Are you new?"
It was the most likely thing, but you never knew! That's why he asked, get it? Maybe she'd been there longer than him, but didn't know the password somehow? But wait! Her hair -- dark, and so straight... she must actually be a RAVENCLAW, going off the house hair stereotypes he had made up noticed were a totally real thing and completely what your sorting experience was based off of. Ohh, maybe she just wanted to get in to visit a friend then. Sure!
He could dig it.
[edit: whoops, didn't realize the badger was actually like just carved into the wood even though it totally says it right up there. fix'd]
Post by Amuro Hakumi on Jan 9, 2011 0:47:05 GMT -5
Hakumi stepped back as Finnegan made his grand entrance, nearly knocking her backward with his mere presence, let alone his shout. So that, presumably, was how you pronounced it, considering the trap door moved after he'd shouted it. Grateful, yet still taken aback and in mild shock, Hakumi opened her mouth to thank the boy. She was interrupted, however, by his introduction.
Hufflerpuff Extraordinaire? That sounded... incredible. Instantly, Hakumi felt respect for this golden-haired boy, obviously a great hero, in charge of guiding the new students. Perhaps it was a test to let her struggle against the evil badger, a test of endurance. She hoped she'd passed.
"Yes, sir," She started carefully, not wanting to bring his rightful discipline upon herself. "I am a new Hufflepuff. My name is Hakumi Amuro."
Post by Finnegan Darby on Jan 9, 2011 2:55:30 GMT -5
Sir? Sir? Finny's narrow chest puffed out slightly, and his grin widened.
"Just Finny," he told her. "Or Fin if you like!" He wasn't too picky on the whole nickname thing. Sir was a little much, though. He wasn't a prefect, or whatever, nope, not him!
He took another moment to consider her, his gaze again darting to her airplane black hair. She was a Hufflerpuff... but she didn't have blonde hair? Inconceivable! She would be the only one it seemed. But, hey, that's what hair dye was for, right? She could just bleach it to fit in! Unless, you know, she actually liked it dark. Then, you know, whatever.
What had she been saying again?
OH RIGHT. Introductions, etc.
"Haaakumi," he replied, trying out her name. "Wow! Are you chinese, or something?" She totally looked it. That, or at least some kind of asian. Something! It was totally cool to ask a question like that, right?
Post by Amuro Hakumi on Jan 9, 2011 3:49:33 GMT -5
Finny. While not quite as respectful as she would have hoped, she felt honored that he would allow a new student to not only call him by his first name, but to call him by his nickname. Wonderful. She bowed her head in a show of appreciation, and missed the gaze that he gave to her appearance, specifically to her hair.
She looked back up at him, brown eyes refusing to betray her mild racism towards mainland asia. "No, I am not Chinese. I am Japanese," she said, considering for a second before punctuating her sentence with further explanation. "Specifically, I was born in the Yaeyama District of Okinawa. Due to my father's frequent relocations in order to fulfill the expectations of his business, I was raised in several different areas, however." Fearing she's spoke too much, she felt a blush rise, tinting her cheeks. "I apologize for my talkative, Finny." Unknowingly, she'd messed up in her English. She didn't usually go off like this. She just... She was not Chinese. She maintained a polite, friendly smile while she talked, and more than once her eyes trailed up to that blond mop of hair.
Post by Finnegan Darby on Jan 9, 2011 4:16:50 GMT -5
She spoke, first just a little, then a whole bunch, going off in ch japanese at parts -- yahehyama? what did that mean? -- and then apologizing for her rambling, which, to be honest, he really didn't mind at all. He had a tendency to do the same thing, didn't he?
Yeahhh, he did. Hahah. Of course no one ever minded when he went off like a burst dam, because of just how plain awesome every word that spilled out was. Of course.
"It's totally fine!" he assured her, completely missing her improper English. What? Fin couldn't even pronounce his own house right, let alone catch another on their speaking habits.
"Ooh, ooh!" Eager, he was all but jumping up and down in his excitement to ask her his next question. A totally awesome question, of course. "How do you say my name in japanese?"
It'd probably be something long and like... epic sounding. Yashimototakilakidodo. Something. DUDE. He could totally change his name to that and like make Cy say the whole thing every time they hung out which was totally all the time 'cause they were totally bee-eff-eff.
Dude, what was she looking at? Something behind him? Curious, Finny twisted to look. Nothing there but... broom closet.
Post by Amuro Hakumi on Jan 9, 2011 4:27:12 GMT -5
"Your... name?" She thought, for a moment. Finnegan Darby, Hufflerpuff Extraordinaire, as he put it. Wouldn't that remain... mostly the same? She didn't want to fail him, though, not so soon after meeting him, so she put herself up to the challenge. She stood there for a few moments, a spider rustling about on the ceiling above her head. She didn't notice it, of course, her attention focused on the task at hand.
Finally, she seemed to come to a decision.
"Your name would be... Tensai Ha-fa-a-pa-fu Da-a-bii Fi-na-ge-n-sama." She nodded, pleased with herself.
The spider slid down on a silky string, finally landing on the top of her head, but she still didn't noticed. She smiled at him, confused as to why he had looked behind him. Was there a secret passage there, too? She had heard there were many in this castle, but two in the same place? That was quite a circumstance!
Post by Finnegan Darby on Jan 9, 2011 19:37:06 GMT -5
Whoa, that was even cooler than the name he'd made up! Best was, he had no idea what she'd said! That was a whole lot of consonants-followed-by-vowels-followed-by-consonants-etc that he couldn't understand. But that was the point, right?
"Cool!" he burst out, still trying to memorize all of that. "Man, so awesome!" How had it started? Ten... Happy... Fap... Day.. OH WELL. He could always ask her again later, or something. Yeah!
He opened his mouth to ask if she wanted to move their conversation, you know, down into the common room, since that's where she'd been headed in the first place, and it was definitely a lot more comfortable than standing around in some dusty old closet. Man, the common room had all those nice cushions, and the fun broccoli still floating around, and just- it was just awesome. Anyway, he opened his mouth, but only got that far because then he caught sight of the spider, perched happily atop her dark head like it belonged there.
Ohhh. She really was a hufflepufler, then.
"You have a bug pet too!" he cheered, quite happy. Her bug and Lorraine's could meet and become best friends, he was sure. He pointed to the spider, pacing about on its long limbs, and asked, "What's his name?"
Post by Amuro Hakumi on Jan 9, 2011 20:16:59 GMT -5
"A bug pet?" She asked, confused. What was whose name? She tried to look at where he was pointing, but when she turned, there was nothing behind her but closet wall. She turned back to him, confused, and that was when the spider decided to make its presence known. He slid down her forehead, crawling on the bridge of her nose until it was squatting right above both of her nostrils. Her eyes looked down at it, a little crossed in their effort to see what was crawling on her face. She raised a hand, allowing the spider to crawl on it.
"O... Oh.."
Was this what the school distributed to students as a pet, as a companion? A familiar? Her familiar was... A spider?
She couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. Her only experience with spiders thus far had been shooing them out of the nearest doorway or window, for 'good luck' as her grandmother had always told her. It was bad luck to smash them, to kill them, of course, so she had always taken great care to guide them outside, where they were less likely to be squashed by her clumsy father's slippers or be swept up during her mother's cleaning. But now, to have one as her familiar? Well, if the Hufflerpuff Extraordinaire said it was so, then it was so. She would have to name him something suitable, so as not to disappoint the impressive blond superior in front of her.
"His name is," She started, agreeing with Finny that it was a boy. She paused, to allow herself more time to think, and finally spoke once she had made up her mind.
"Finnegan Junior."
She smiled at him, a light blush crossing her face. Would he be pleased? She would take great care of her new familiar, whether she liked spiders or not.
Post by Finnegan Darby on Jan 9, 2011 21:14:55 GMT -5
Finnegan Junior! Wow, he had an heir so quickly, and he was only fourteen! Sweet. "Do your best," he told the spider sternly, though his tone was pretty much ruined by the big grin still on his face.
"So!" A hand waved to the still-open trapdoor behind them; Finny held in a laugh, imagining how pissed off the badger probably was by now, still sitting there all open and waiting for them. Ha!
"You wanna go in, or what? Finnegan Junior is totally welcome too, of course. Maybe there'll even be other hufflerpuffs that you can meet and stuff!" He wanted to tell her about Lorraine and her similar pet, that darling Garfunkle the Second (aka SPOT), but he figured he shouldn't spoil the surprise. She had a pet spider, so of course she'd love Garfunkle, right? Unless, shit, she was japanese, huh, what if she tried to like eat Garfunkle? Japanese did that, right? Ate stuff raw?
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