04 VXDXX

[sociomonere]

[[ooc; Rather than try to backdate him, here's what I will do! Handwave.

Over the weekend Tallendi went around being a snot and bragging about his pure blood connections: aka his engagement to a known-for-nasty-family the Reynolds. (Black magic, cannibalism, monster hoarding, etc.) His fiancee Bethlehem Reynolds would have graduated recently. Tallendi's probably like a 4th year Slytherin.

Generally he was just... acting like Draco Malfoy, really. Feel free to have been insulted and to have retaliated in any way, feel free to have known Bethle in the school. Feel free. He's going to apologize now.]]

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...look. I know I'm usually a dick, but I'm sorry for being that kind of dick. It doesn't fucking matter who your parents are, or if you're...

[ A pause. A shudder. ]

I'm not proud of... I'm not proud of them. They're fucking awful. I'm not like them. I'm nothing like them.

[ There's a plaintive note in his voice and really very sad look in his eyes that suggests his young age and wounded heart. He swallows roughly, and to crown this whole thing off, he adds cattily, ]

I'm sick of all this witch shit. Give me a break already....

Comments

[brobeforehos]

I'm sure every school's got one of those kids.

[sociomonere]

Surprise. it's fucking me.

[ He was a jerk at his own school too, so overall he's just ashamed of himself. ]

[brobeforehos]

They say acceptance is the first step.

[sociomonere]

Fuckin' steps. There are no more steps. I still have to fuckin' marry that girl.

[ No self-improvement in the world is going to change that. ]

[brobeforehos]

If you get out.

[sociomonere]

Being here is the only thing stopping her. I was never going to out run her.

[ He's having a crisis here. And is really talking to himself more than to her, which is rude. ]

[brobeforehos]

Sounds like a complicated mess.

[not the same concerned tone as usual on her, nope. it's the perfunctory reaction. oh your life must be so hard, no-one's can compare, etc.]

[sociomonere]

It's--

[ It's not complicated, is maybe what he wants to say. They kidnapped him and made him say what they wanted and now he was trapped in it. ]

It really sucks.

[ And he's just going to look totally downtrodden now. ]

[brobeforehos]

[Aw. Mannn. Not another down looking puppy teenager with an attitude to make the cockles of Mae's heart warm a little bit. She doesn't need more causes.

Welp.]

I'm sorry.

[sociomonere]

[ He is very down looking. It's his speciality. ]

This was totally my apology post.

[ His smile is totally limp because he is trying to look less pathetic but not really working it. ]

[brobeforehos]

And I'm sure people will move on and get over that.

[sociomonere]

[ Uuuugh! ]

You're one of those upbeat people.

[brobeforehos]

Not today, so you're safe.

[sociomonere]

You didn't dig the witch-school thing either?

[brobeforehos]

No, I loved it.

[sociomonere]

Why?

[ Because witches, man! ]

[brobeforehos]

I don't know. The magic, the houses, the flying sports teams, the uniforms on the players...

[sociomonere]

Dude, lady. You have totally just let your uniform fetish out of the bag.

[ Dude, what a brat, Tallendi. ]

[anunluckypenny]

It's good of you to apologize. Thank you.

[She was a fifth year Hufflepuff and a mudblood to boot. They might have had an encounter.]

[sociomonere]

[ Oh god. His face actually goes pale. ]

I'm... uh. I'm really sorry, Penny.

[anunluckypenny]

It's okay. Really.

[Y'know, so long as the rumors about cannibalism weren't true.]

[sociomonere]

[ They totes are. ]

Was the rest of the curse, like, okay, I guess?

[anunluckypenny]

[Well, shit.]

Yeah, it was kind of nice. Getting a vacation from this place once in a while is good for the soul.

[sociomonere]

How long have you been here?

[anunluckypenny]

Two years? A little longer, maybe. But I like it here, mostly.