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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[derped.livejournal.com]

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.

[maskingtruth.livejournal.com]

"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.

[derped.livejournal.com]

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.

[head-is-where.livejournal.com]

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.