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Elsa ([personal profile] iceolationqueen) wrote in [community profile] undergrounds2015-06-14 07:48 pm

01 ❄ Magical Grad School [open]

[A] Grading Essays (Redbright)

Elsa is not sure when using proper grammar went out of style, but some of the essays she has to grade are seriously terrible. Why is the Oxford comma optional? And someone actually used the word 'bro' in an attempted serious context. Elsa knows that she's a bit old-fashioned, a bit of a nerd when it comes to grammar, but by God, how hard is it to write properly when writing an essay for school?

She puts down her red pen and rubs her eyes. The dim light in her office (basically a closet) and close scrutiny of the papers in front of her are making her head hurt. And it's been at least 5 hours since she's had any caffeine and she's going to need to rectify that before she starts working on her own research. Elsa carefully packs the essays away in a folder and grabs her backpack, swinging her blonde braid over her shoulder.

In the hallway outside her office, she fights her way against the current of students walking opposite her like a salmon swimming upstream. One of the students accidentally bumps into her, causing her folder to drop to the floor, essays spilling out all over.

"Shoot."

With a sigh, she bends to start picking them all up before they're trampled.


[B] Drinking Coffee (Out and about)

After retrieving the fallen essays, Elsa makes her way to the coffee shop a few blocks over from the University. She likes getting out of the bubble of Redbright and going into the "real world". Being a meta-human, she feels as though she kind of belongs in both worlds, magical and mundane. She has special powers, but the rest of her family does not. And while the relationship between she and her parents is strained, she still speaks to her sister, Anna, on a daily basis.

Which reminds her to check her phone. She fishes it out of her pocket and sees that Anna has indeed texted her. It's typical stuff about school, but Elsa texts her back as she waits in line at the coffee shop. Most of the time their conversations are unexciting, but she enjoys texting her sister and keeping up with what's going on in her life.

When she steps to the counter, she orders a large iced coffee. Even in the dead of winter she orders iced coffee because too much of the hot stuff causes her to overheat very quickly. She needs the caffeine, but not the heat. After the barista prepares her drink, Elsa carries it to a nearby table and pauses to check what Anna has texted her back.


[C] Doing Research (Redbright)

Coffee acquired, Elsa gathers a bunch of books at the library and sits down at a table off to the side. She begins to take notes on anything relevant - specifically related to meta-humans, which is her research area. She hasn't quite nailed down exactly what she wants to research, but she knows she wants it to be about her kind. There are still quite a few questions about meta-humans and how they are created. What makes one sibling "normal" and another sibling have extra-human powers? She wonders if it has to do with genetics and she feels as though the research will lead her there eventually. For now, she's still exploring.

Elsa takes a long swig of the iced coffee and goes back to reading and note-taking. She's technically working but she wouldn't be completely against an interruption.

[OOC: If you would like your character to have previous CR with her at all, just let me know.]
jointheclub: (oh dear)

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[personal profile] jointheclub 2015-06-18 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"Dear me, what a mess." The voice came from a portly man who looked down at the papers with mild regret. "Dreadfully sorry I can't help, but -- at my age, if I went down, chances are I wouldn't be coming back up again. Ah, age and size," he added, patting his expansive waistline.

The real threat seemed to be less his physical condition and more the strain it would put on his various buttons.
jointheclub: (really now!)

[personal profile] jointheclub 2015-06-20 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, he did mean that apology, for a change. A younger by half a century Slughorn might very well have helped. Besides, he didn't want to start the conversation off on the wrong foot.

"Keeping you quite busy, I see? But not, I hope, too busy for a social engagement here and there..."

Not beating around the bush, is our potionmaker.
jointheclub: (a bit of a laugh)

[personal profile] jointheclub 2015-06-24 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"Excellent, excellent, I'd quite hoped you'd say that." Slughorn clapped his hands together in delight. "I won't keep you too long at them, duty calls and all, but it would have been a shame to have one without you. Promising things, I've heard. All good, of course, all good."

At this point Slughorn seemed to be half talking to himself, since she'd already agreed to come.
jointheclub: (and here it is)

[personal profile] jointheclub 2015-06-25 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
"Above my shop, at least until I find more comfortable quarters. Neutral ground, and all -- you know even some of us don't care to come about the Institute too openly and all." Though Slughorn did insist on his comfort as a rule, so she could probably trust that even quarter he didn't consider 'more' comfortable would serve quite nicely indeed.