Weekly Update - Apr12th - Apr18th

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OOC

⊗ APPS are still open and will remain so through the 14th! That means there's still time to go play on the Test Drive Meme, too!

SCHOOL NEWS

⊗ Winter is over; Prom is coming.

⊗ Zian would like all future junior superheroes to report for a mandatory check-up.

⊗ So far the most eligible date to the big dance is the local terrorist leader living in the sub-levels. Liir is so smooth.

⊗ Feliks and Fai don't need prom dates, though, because they finally got hitched.

⊗ Meanwhile, the school is gearing up for the first student government elections since the Institute's re-opening! You can sign characters up for election (or plot general shenanigans) here! (Bear in mind, students can nominate themselves or their classmates, so people who wouldn't put their name forward themselves might still end up on the ballot!)

⊗ Shindou wants to hit someone with a stick someone to beat him up a sparring partner.

⊗ If ya'll don't have some fodder for the RUMOR MILL during prom season, I don't know what to do with ya.

AROUND THE WORLD

⊗ With MLF-led riots having been put down on both the East and West coasts and organized activity by the group seemingly halted, the Kelly administration is publicly declaring victory in stemming the conflict between pro- and anti-mutant protesters.

⊗ Congressional opposition and pro-Registration pundits, however, have pushed back by noting that the MLF's leadership remains at large and could resurface at any time. Calls for Kelly to identify and bring into custody all high-level, American MLF leaders - most notably, the mysterious Claudine Renko - have become increasingly heated as open conflict continues to draw into a lull.

⊗ News reports about Ms. Renko are all incredibly vague, however, with no details as to her origins, intentions, or even nationality. Officially, her whereabouts are unknown, and the Kelly administration has publicly sought to downplay her significance within the MLF.

⊗ That being said, observant students might notice unmarked vehicles lurking around near the boundaries of the Institute campus with suspicious regularity...

Comments

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Shindou stuff:

1. Shindou's birthday is coming up later this month, and he'll be getting a visit from his parents to celebrate! And by "celebrate" I mean "make him totally lose it," since they're overdue for a talk about how playing superhero at a school that froze him in time for five years is maybe not something they approve of.

He'll be in panic mode about potentially being transferred away from the Institute going into May, if anyone wants either awkward encounters with Shindou's super-upper crust parents or just some overwrought stressing from him afterwards.

2. A lot of that stress is going to be funneled into his X-Training, so that might get pushed to borderline self-destructive levels, if ya'll want in on either dangerous enabling or intervention kinda stuff afterwards.

3. Tentatively interested in having him get nominated for 10th grade class rep? He wouldn't do it himself, though, so someone else would have to put his name forward, and then he would hate it but feel obliged to at least not withdraw.

4. Kid needs a date for the prom. This could either be cute and relaxing or painfully awkward or just a series of completely bad decisions! I'm open for all of the above, and Shindou's going to have so much else going on that any of them would be plausible.