DRRR and Friends 2: Electric Boogaloo

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Character(s): Rion, Shinra and Celty
Location: Dorm A211
Rating: PG? Maybe PG-13?
Open/Closed/Finished: Open-ish? The door'll be open at the beginning, if someone wants to poke in.
Summary: Rion's met his roommate, but he hasn't really 'talked' to him. ... or met his fiance.

Rion had ... a day. For the young SeeD cadet, this usually involved paying attention in classes, feeling awkwardly out of place, blushing a lot, and occasionally asking someone to talk for him so he could answer a question. Rion didn't mind the classes part, the learning part - those parts of being a SeeD were awesome. It was the "dealing with other people who were as smart or smarter than he was and bigger than he was and generally better" that was the problem.

But at least he'd gotten back to his dorm okay. Part of him wanted to call his mom or something like that, but he knew that wasn't... really possible, and asking someone like the Commander or the Headmaster to do that would make him look even more like a kid. So instead, he just laid out on his bed, reading over one of the class readings for tomorrow (the Garden Code, which was about as interesting as one could expect). At least his door was open, if anyone wanted to say hello. (Rion wouldn't understand why, though. He wasn't very interesting.)

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Celty blinked, looking at the whiteboard and wondering for a moment if he was mocking her before remembering this was their first meeting and there was no possible way he could know.She tilted her neck to the side and flipped her phone from her cuff, typing quickly into it before flashing the screen at Rion, curiously. She had never before pondered if people could read he messages, but was sure it was not a very easy task due to the number of people who would have to lean in and look. Though, she kept her messages pretty short normally.

"I'm Celty. Nice to meet you."

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"She says it's nice to meet you," Shinra translated for Celty without glancing at the phone's screen. He studied the screen for a moment, then lifted his gaze to Rion's neck region. Hm, no visible defects. Was it a psychological issue? Or a rare birth defect? Or perhaps he was deaf! Mulling over all the possibilities, Shinra tugged Celty gently by the arm to move a little closer so that Rion wouldn't have to write so big anymore.

"What kind of condition do you have?" Shinra went on to ask, unable to hold himself back. He was positively glowing as he moved over to Rion's bedside and borrowed Rion's desk chair for Celty to sit down on, remaining standing himself.

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Celty barely reacted as she was moved along by Shinra's nimble hands. However, Celty's shoulders shot up when Shinra began probing his new roommate in a rather cold, well, scientific manner. Same thing in her opinion. She moved her hand out and touched Shinra's shoulder gently, trying to pull him back some and make him heel, attempting to calm his fanboy-ish tendencies toward physical abnormalities.

'Shinra!' She mentally scolded him.

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Well, okay. Rion was slightly weirded out by this whole situation; he's talking for her like it's the most natural thing in the world, and they're... well, okay, she's also wearing a giant motorcycle mask.

But what kind of condition he had? While he didn't like thinking of it as a 'condition', that was a question he could answer. He started writing, holding it up so both of them could read his response.

I'm mute.

No explanation given other than that. He picked up enough on Shinra's ... look that he was slightly weirded out, like he's being inspected or something. It wasn't a feeling he appreciated, especially because he generally felt like he would fail the sizing-ups and inspections people gave him. After all - look at him.

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"I thought so. But do you know the underlying cause?" Shinra went on to press, though he drew back a little at Celty's prompting. He glanced over his shoulder to give her a placating, apologetic smile. But he couldn't help his curiosity. The two of them would be sharing a space from now on, so Shinra wanted to know all there was to know.

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Well, this is not really a comfortable conversation for him, considering it's the first thing that Shinra's latched onto. He shakes his head, opting instead not to write anything. He knows that it's not anything physical, but considering they haven't known each other for that long, he's not sure that it's any of Shinra's business.

He's starting to look a little nervous, like he's being interrogated.

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Celty sensed a sudden and definite tension filling the room, as if a heavy weight was pressing down on them all. Feeling the awkward silece turn for the worse, she suddenly took Shinra by the hand, sighing to herself inwardly as she pulled him out of the boy's room, stopping in the doorway after she had pushed Shinra out. Standing in the threshold of Rion's door, she put both of her hands in front of her and bowed deeply before turning from him, reclaiming Shinra's hand and taking him out of his dorm room and into the hall, clicking the door shut behind her.