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Re: Nora Valkyrie | RWBY | 11th Grade

[gregorydeegan]

Option A

Gregory had been giving himself a tour of this place, leaning heavily on his staff as he walked, his limp worse than usual today, his leg paining him. He stopped when he heard the familiar, and gleeful, sounds of destruction.

The glee that something hadn't broken, with the implication that it meant breaking it would be all the more fun had him turning his head. And he saw the way she was dressed, and the destruction. "RACHEL!?" he asked, over joyed. Then he saw her face and sank a bit. Ah well, not Rachel Hart, but who knew, this girl could be fun too. And she was kind of cute... Not that he would ever date anyone who reminded him so much of his best friend, that would just be weird.

[not_together_together]

Coming back in from training, no, Nora wasn't expecting to be mistaken for someone else, so it startled her a bit.

"Uh..." Well, but the guy looked disappointed, and even if it was a case of mistaken identity, it would be rude to just kind of... brush him off, so instead she grinned, rather chipper, held out her hand, and chirped, "Nope! I'm not a Rachel, though I think I was friends with one in elementary school. I can't remember if she was the one that I ate all of the cupcakes she brought in for the class party or not. But I am Nora! How are you?"

[gregorydeegan]

"Im feeling a bit lame at the moment," he teased lightly at his own expense. "I'm Gregory. You're pretty awesome."

[not_together_together]

"Lame?" Oh, right, walking stick. Which she notably didn't have. "Boo, bad pun. But! I am pretty awesome. You're probably pretty awesome, too, Greg! Can I call you Greg?"

[gregorydeegan]

"If you don't like puns, I'm pretty sure you wont find me awesome," he said, "but sure, you can call me Greg, I don't mind. So, what's your power?"

[not_together_together]

"I only do jokingly. If that's your thing, that's your thing. I can be friends with people that that's their thing!" and with that tongue twister - don't try saying it three times fast - complete, she grinned and thumped herself on the chest. "I hit things really hard. Okay, well, I guess I can pick up really heavy things and the like. Kind of like The Hulk! You've heard of The Hulk, right? Well, minus the going big, and green, and being really angry. Well, and probably not as strong as him, but if I ever meet him, I want to have an arm wrestling match!"

[gregorydeegan]

Okay, yeah, she was fun. He grinned at her, "You remind me so much of Rachel. One of her two favorite hobbies is breaking things... With her face." He grinned again. "My power is white fire, but only when I get all fired up!"

[not_together_together]

"Her face...?" That just sounded... Painful. But hey, Nora could appreciate someone with a good, solid headbutt. At least she hoped it was a headbutt.... Ooo, maybe they were a werewolf! It took Nora a second to respond - obviously her thought train had derailed at some point. "That sounds like fun! I can punch things, but there's nothing quite as satisfying as giving something a whack with...." She unfolded Magnhild again, and let the massive warhammer rest hammer-side-down on the ground in front of her. "One of these."

She looked him over one more time - obviously the stick wasn't a weapon, and, Nora figured, it probably shouldn't be. "But fire, huh? That's cool. I like my mutant power, but I do wonder sometimes what it'd be like to light things on fire or shoot lasers out of my eyes or control people's thoughts."

[gregorydeegan]

He considered then shrugged. "Every power is different, even when they are similar. I don't know that I'd be me with a different mutation, at this point." He glanced at her hammer. "That's impressive. I use an axe myself."

[not_together_together]

"An axe?" Another grin - and she started looking his slab of wood over. "Does it pop out of here? Does it shoot flames, too?" How much will it destroy, was the real question.

[gregorydeegan]

He grinned. "Actually it's back at my hotel room. Not sure if I'm actually going to be going here, so I didn't bring all my stuff. But as for what it can do..." He grinned. Well, I get all fired up when I use it, but it's more a power for healing."

[not_together_together]

"Wait... healing? Like... cauterizing things?" Fire was hot last she checked. And hot was not usually good for healing.

[gregorydeegan]

He grinned. "I can go get it and show you, if you want." He was not inviting a girl he just met to his room. And if he invited ANYONE who reminded him of Rachel anywhere near his clothing... he really REALLY did not want to be wearing buttless chaps.

[not_together_together]

"Show me what, the axe or the fire?" Okay, she lost track of the conversation. Admittedly, such a task was not, and continues to not be, any kind of difficulty. Nora's thought train could be generously described as 'easily distracted'. "I'm still trying to figure out how you heal with fire. Usually when I set things on fire, it's definitely not to heal them."

[gregorydeegan]

"Oh, THAT I can show without the Axe," he said with a grin. "It's kind of hot." And that look on his face of pride that he made such a bad pun. "Lead on, it's probably better if we have some space."

[not_together_together]

"Booooo," was about all she could say about the new pun. But the control center of the danger room was probably a bit bad, though the actual... danger room itself...

... Well, no one else was using it right at that second, probably no harm in going right back out the open door. She wanted to see! Other people's mutant powers were pretty cool. Especially when she didn't fully understand what they meant.

Through the door she went, with a bouncy jaunt in her step, and swinging her arms a little too wide.

[gregorydeegan]

He chuckled and followed after her. Given his limp, his step was a different sort of bouncy than hers was. His staff clumped the ground behind her as he used it to keep from falling over. He looked around the danger room, fascinated. "So what is this place?"

[not_together_together]

"It's a training room," She replied, jauntily, pirouetting on a toe to walk backward in front of him. "People who are X-Men, or want to be X-Men usually come here to train and get better at facing danger. I wanna be an X-Man! ... So I might have kept on that staff member's case a little to get them to let me in here."

[gregorydeegan]

"I want to be one too, it's why I'm here, considering this school," he admitted. "This is nice, better than the planar space my mom takes her students." He turned to look around the room, and lifted his staff to point at something on a high wall. "What's that?" he asked, walking towards it, staff still raised. He made one step, two steps, plop.

Face plant onto the floor of the danger room. "I need my staff to walk, right," he said with a groan. "I'm so lame."

[not_together_together]

Nora looked around. "Well, I noticed a lot of people seem to be here for a lot of reasons, so I don't want to jump to conclusions. And a planar space? Like a different dimension? OoooOOoooo..."

Which, the 'oo' continued right through the guy tripping, and turned into something of a squeak as he fell. Of course, Nora couldn't leave him on the ground like that, so the first thing she did was jump forward to try to help him back up. That should be pretty easy, given her strength.

"Hey, well, yanno... some people do. But you're not lame. You're lame, but you're not like lame-lame, you know?"

[gregorydeegan]

He grinned at her, and it was clear the lame thing was meant as a joke. He accepted the help. "I forget and fall a lot," he confessed. "I try not to let it get me down." His father would be so proud.

[not_together_together]

"You are just full of puns, left and right, aren't you?" She had to ask, as she helped him to his feet without even the slightest hint of effort on her part. The pun thing was pretty obvious, but she just had to state it.

[gregorydeegan]

"I eat 'um for breakfast, lunch, and dinner," he agreed, playing off of the concept of being full.