New Generation Legacy, Issue 1: Back to School

[Samnell]

"Well you've totally got me beat, I can't read chinese even slightly, and that sentence used up the majority of what I know of the language."

"I had mates back home that spoke natively and that helped some. I get more listening than I can speak out."

"So, what do you guys all think of the uniforms? I mean the blue and white are the UN colors so not much of a chance to escape that, but how about the rest?"

"I had to wear one in Oz, no worries. I don't think the colors will last on mine, though. Everything I wear goes black or white after a bit. Things I wear the most go faster. Tighter things too. I reckon I'll be one color short of regulation soon enough."

 

[Sollir Furryfoot]

Originally posted by Agamon

"Cody's from New York. I like New York. Lots of people," Raph replies. She thinks a moment. "Not the friendliest people though. I greet them as I pass them on the street and they don't say hi back. In fact, sometimes they say other things." She shrugs.

Manjit almost manages a smile in response to Raph.

Cody almost visibly groans as Raph rapidly takes the conversation over. "Even if they've got a nametag, it's still polite to..." he drifts off, realizing she's too enthralled with meeting these new people already. I'll just have a word with her later, the typical "Angels do this and don't do this" speech. he thinks, sighing inwardly. Still, he can't help but smile at her comment about New Yorkers.

"Um, don't be overly worried about my friend's forwardness here." he says, noticing Manjit's step back, "She's really friendly, just curious."

"Hypercognition sounds really interesting, if you learned a language that quickly then, well...wow, I can't wrap my mind around it easily. What's it like, just changing from your perspective before your power to now?" Cody wondered, trying to place himself in the other's shoes.

"Oh, you wanted to know my power?" He pats Raph on the back, "She's it. Kind of. I mean, and we're still figuring it out, but she's my guardian angel. Literally. I just call her, sort of-it's just getting to be not as confusing anymore. But she's definitely her own person, if you couldn't tell."

Smiling awkwardly he tries to shift the subject a bit, "How about you Manjit? What's your ability if you don't mind sharing?"

 

[Hammerhead]

Emmet also can't help but smile as Raph comments about New Yorkers. "Yeah, people are a little nicer on the West Coast, although we don't really greet each other either." Turning back to Cody, Emmet frowns, doing his best to answer his question. "It's difficult to say, and more difficult to adequately measure compared to a proportional increase in strength. I was pretty smart before my Elite breakout, so that also obscures the difference. To use a visual analogy, it's like putting on glasses for the very first time as a kid; things become a lot clearer, sharper. And you didn't realize how limited you could see before you put them on," he tries to explain, tapping his lenses for emphasis. "I suppose that the biggest difference in my behavior would be a commitment to actively use my gifts, instead of just coasting."

"What," Emmet inquires, clearly bewildered. "Please don't take offense," he says to Raph hesitantly, holding up his hands defensively, "But you're not real? I mean, where are you when not here with Cody? Sorry," he says again. "A great deal of Elite powers seem to boggle the scientific mind."

 

[Agamon]

Trilly:

"I think it's more like she's listening to the surface thoughts, you know the stuff you have to do to think?" She looks to Jun Min. "I think that is what I read in some elite fan magazine." She says with a wry grin. She read a lot, but she wasn't so up on the full mechanics of telepathy.

It was a good line to distract Stacy anyway.

"Oh...okay," Stacy says, almost distracted. "But wait...okay, let's just say Layla here decides to pig out on ice cream every day for the next month." Layla makes a face. "No, hear me out, kay, so she puts on a few pounds...just supposing here...okay, and we're, like, shopping, and she, like, tries on some pants, and then asks me, 'Does my butt look fat in these?' and I'm all, 'No way, girl, those look so hot,' but really I'm thinking, 'Ya think? Have another donut, ya cow...' uh, kay, maybe not in those words...

"Anyway, guess what I'm saying is, sometimes what we think and what we say aren't the same thing. And not just to be secretive or just lie, but maybe to not hurt someone's feelings, right?"

"Hmmm..." Jun Min looks at Layla. "We'll be starting those English classes right away, Miss Badawi."

Layla sighs.

"Sorry. Hey, you know the best way to learn English? A cute, English-speaking boyfriend..." Stacy says turning back towards the crowd.


Cody & Emmet:

Smiling awkwardly he tries to shift the subject a bit, "How about you Manjit? What's your ability if you don't mind sharing?"

"Um...actually, I do mind. Sorry," Manjit says with a look both apologetic and resolute.

"What," Emmet inquires, clearly bewildered. "Please don't take offense," he says to Raph hesitantly, holding up his hands defensively, "But you're not real? I mean, where are you when not here with Cody? Sorry," he says again. "A great deal of Elite powers seem to boggle the scientific mind."

"What? I am so real! Look..." Raph pinches her arm. "Ouch! See, I..." she glances back down and rubs her arm. "Ow, why'd I do that?" She turns and gives Cody a bit of a shove. "And I told you, don't call me your 'power'. You know that drives me buggy.

"Where do I go? ...Ken...tucky...yeah," she says, her knowing grin quite visible. Then her face scrunches up with a sideways glance at Cody. "Right...angels don't do that..." she mumbles to herself. "Actually...I'm not too sure...all I know is it's not like here. Terribly dull. So that help deboggle you, or are you boggled some more?"


Jerry & Clover:

"Oh, wow. Don't feel bad, Kiyana. I can only speak English. The only Russian I know is da, nyet, and comrade," James says with a smile and a shrug. "So what's your ability?"

Kiyana smiles brightly. She shows everyone her hand and it suddenly turns translucent and blue, like water. She turns her palm up and a spinning ball of water forms and grows before exploding into a fine mist. "Practicing that one I have been."

"Whoa, wicked cool!" James exclaims.

 

[Samnell]

Kiyana smiles brightly. She shows everyone her hand and it suddenly turns translucent and blue, like water. She turns her palm up and a spinning ball of water forms and grows before exploding into a fine mist. "Practicing that one I have been.

Jerry's eyes locked on the water as soon as it appeared, completely enthralled. He started when the ball dissolved.

"Incredible... What's it feel like to do that? Do you feel like you're, y'know, a part of the water? Hooked into it?"

 

[KaintheSeeker]

Trilly blinks at Stacy's bizarre but concise line of logic. "You know that's kinda deep, weird delivery but very deep still. Not to mention something I wouldn't have thought of. I mean.. how many of us don't have a little sarcastic inner voice we don't give an outlet to?" She looks over to where the speedster was sitting down. Maybe MOST of us, she thought. Some others seem to have let their inner jerk out already.

"Still, you might speak better english than I speak hindi." She points out to the telepath with a grin. "Still some folks says I don't speak good english anyway."

 

[Agamon]

Jerry's eyes locked on the water as soon as it appeared, completely enthralled. He started when the ball dissolved.

"Incredible... What's it feel like to do that? Do you feel like you're, y'know, a part of the water? Hooked into it?"

"Part of it? I become it, yes?" Kiyana replies with a grin. "Is very strange at first. It happens when I take shower one morning...they find me in Sankt Peterburg...how you say...sewer? Not good time," she ends with a grimace.

 

[Samnell]

"Part of it? I become it, yes?" Kiyana replies with a grin.

Jerry had no grin to answer Kiyana. Actually becoming water... Really being a part of it...

"That's awesome. I've been on water all my life and you get kind of, you know, it's like there's a connection. It's like spiritual. Really turning into it... Wow... Wish I could do that."

 

[Shalimar]

"I guess Kiyana is the girl you'd want to go surfing with." Clover jokes, and then smiles at Kiyana. "That is so corking."

"So how long have you guys been Elites? Hasn't been more than a week for me."

 

[Agamon]

Trilly blinks at Stacy's bizarre but concise line of logic. "You know that's kinda deep, weird delivery but very deep still. Not to mention something I wouldn't have thought of. I mean.. how many of us don't have a little sarcastic inner voice we don't give an outlet to?" She looks over to where the speedster was sitting down. Maybe MOST of us, she thought. Some others seem to have let their inner jerk out already.

Stacy shrugs. "I so lied to my girlfriends all the time...uh, but I'd, like, never lie to you..."

"Still, you might speak better english than I speak hindi." She points out to the telepath with a grin. "Still some folks says I don't speak good english anyway."

"Arabic, actually, though I know a little bit of Hindi," Layle sends. "In English, I can say, 'Hello, my name is Layla'...sort of. After that, not so much. But, yeah, I'm willing to learn. I guess this can be a little weird."