[hr][hr][center][img]https://i.postimg.cc/SR52k84p/54b4e63d635603b22d80f72a4ba2be54.png[/img][hr][img]https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/019c02b1-4686-759e-93a8-ec58d0ea6ae8.webp[/img][hr][@Achronum][@Blizz][@Forsythe][@Kirah][@PatientBean][@Trainerblue192][hr][h3][color=AC3EFF][b]Morning - Sat. January 15th, 2039 - Los Angeles, California[/b][/color][/h3][/center][hr]

[@Forsythe][@Kirah]: 

Jyoti shook her head, giggling as Andy admonished the Mighty Marvels for their behavior. “Being rude is all they know how to do - ‘specially since Em cheated on Rada with Salah.” She grimaced, but there was a certain amount of delight in her eyes - Jyoti [i]lived[/i] for mess like this. And as a screaming match started between Leah and Sabine nearby, she screamed - almost with joy. “Omg, gotta get this, brb!!!!!” she took off, pulling out her phone as quickly as she could, as she started filming. 

As for Vicky’s attack, her luck was still poor. She managed to shape her gigantic snowball onslaught together, but as it was about to go to attack the siren, her teammate Salah scooped up a gigantic ball of light from the air, and flung it in a perfect collision course, ruining the snowball abomination before it could reach Xenia. 

“Awww, that’s too bad. You looked like you really tried there,” Xenia taunted. 

Gideon, meanwhile, [i]thought[/i] she was moving at record speed, scooping up snowballs. What she didn’t know was that Emily Colter was tapdancing in her head, dilating her perception of time, as Gideon moved impossibly slowly, barely making a single snowball a minute, and flinging them in slow motion as well. “Leeeeeeet’s fuuuuuuuuuuuuck shiiiiiiiiiit uuuuuuuuuuuuup!”

In general, though, the fight was lopsided in favor of the Unity Squad - Momchil was an incredible shot, flying up for a better vantage point and sending snowballs off at the Mighty Marvels with deadly precision. Sveva was blasting snowballs out of the sky before they could reach them, and Rada’s metal form made it easy for her to shake off any hits. Losing Jyoti was a big blow, but not enough to shake their morale. 

[hider=Notes][u]The Mighty Marvels[/u]
Arsène Lane (senior) (he/him) - drains people of their energy and can redirect it into himself or allies, and has proposed marriage to Dorian Gray
Emily Colter (sophomore) (she/they) - psychic specializing in making you move very slow 
Paul Feigenbaum (senior) (he/him) - just a boy with a spear 
Xènia Papadopoulos (senior) (she/her) - siren who loves to make you love her 
Salah Qadir (sophomore) (they/them) - can scoop up light like its a solid object and eat it to heal themself 

[u]The Unity Squad[/u]
Momchil Angelov (senior) (they/them) - a bird-person, armed with bow and arrows
Sveva Akerman (freshman) (she/her) - laser eyes like Cyclops
Jyoti Singh (sophomore) (she/her) - the most popular girl of the sophomore class, flight and weather manipulation like Storm
Rada Sternberg (freshman) (she/her) - metal form and super strength like Colossus
Abby Smith (freshman) (they/them) - eats energy like it’s candy, becomes fucking yoked[/hider]

[hr][hr][center][h3][b][color=42A9FF]April Kingston-Gray[/color][/b][/h3][img]https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/019b2a42-176d-736d-87cd-e80ef331aa59.webp[/img]
[hr][b][color=42A9FF]Location:[/color][/b] Margaret Carter - Winter Carnival 
[b][color=42A9FF]Magic Items:[/color][/b] Kingston-Gray Bracelet, River Styx Water, Hair Dying Comb
[b][color=42A9FF]First Day Fit:[/color][/b] [url=https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/019c0288-fffb-75e9-a893-c52428fffbb6.webp]Denim jumpsuit and shorts[/url], [url=https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/019c0289-6076-72bb-aa81-e8cae051d70b.webp]pink streaked hair and orange tinted sunglasses[/url][hr][/center]

April [i]really[/i] had thought they were doing the right thing and that their actions would deescalate the situation. 

Yes, they were aware of Danni’s claustrophobia - but they also knew that he could push through it, that he’d been drilled by Nemo to face this very fear. Danni was the very reason they had only put up walls, rather than forming a cage - hoping that as long as he had access to the sky, he would be okay. He could fly and get out in less than a second. What April didn’t know, however, was that Danni wasn’t the only one with claustrophobia. April found small spaces comforting - when they’d first been adopted, they would crawl and hide in the tiniest places they could possibly find, hiding inside old dressers and armoires kept in the attic. It didn’t occur to them that someone else present might be claustrophobic - and they knew almost everyone there, and only Danni had this fear. 

Well… Danni [i]and[/i] Ben. 

[color=42A9FF]“Fuck.”[/color]

April immediately pulled down the ice walls, the ice turning into water that they directed upwards, spreading out in a thin layer above the entire festival. They bit their lip, tongue sticking out slightly in concentration, as they tried to go for a nice, gentle snowfall - and instead, the water fell down as a rain, mixing with the enchanted snow to produce sleet for a moment or two. It wasn’t what they’d wanted to do, but they weren’t going to stress over it.

What they [i]were[/i] going to stress over was giving the new kid a panic attack within the first five minutes of meeting him. 

Danni had flown back to the ground, depositing Ben. He looked incredibly shaken, with tears drying on his face. But compared to before Danni had snatched him up, it was night and day. He was better, but still hurting. [color=42A9FF]“Fuck,”[/color] April repeated again, unease and shame and guilt spreading through them as they hurried over towards Ben. 

[color=42A9FF]“I am so so so so sorry!!”[/color] April bit down on their lip again, as their face flushed. [color=42A9FF]“I didn’t know you were claustrophobic and if I had known, I wouldn’t have put you inside the walls - I just wanted to keep people from filming as the two of them were having a breakdown, a-and I knew Danni would be okay as long as he can fly out, so I thought an open concept sort of situation would work - but I am so so sorry. Are you okay? Is there anything I can do to help? Or um…”[/color]

They faltered, seeing the way Ben was looking at Chase. They were getting in the way of something. Ben seemed nervous about it, too. [color=42A9FF]“You seem busy, I’m gonna give you space, but let me know how to make this up to you any time and I will, okay? Cool, cool, cool…”[/color] 

One of these years they’d have a normal, stress free carnival right? 

April’s phone vibrated and they took it out, glancing at a text from Andy. They replied quickly - 

[hider=@Andy] Maaaaaybe 😬😬😬[/hider]
[hider=@Andy]I kinda fucked up an already fucked up situation 😭😭😭[/hider]
[hider=@Andy]you missed some drama tbh[/hider]
[hider=@Andy]chase showed up with percy here[/hider]
[hider=@Andy]then percy and danni almost broke up[/hider]
[hider=@Andy]also leah and sabine are fighting but I THINK that’s fake… I hope 😅😬😭[/hider]


Dorian watched in horror at how quickly his boyfriend's birthday devolved into chaos. All he had wanted was a singular perfect day to celebrate his boyfriend, and even that was too far out of reach. April had made a small mess of things when the walls came up, tragic good heart wrong scenario type deal, but it grew even larger when they had decided to turn the brown hot chocolate water into a sleet storm. Leah and Sabine were fighting for the spotlight, and Danni had carried away the new kid as he seemed to panic from all the madness. His boyfriend was gone and alone with his bully and ex crush (or so help him it better be an [i]ex[/i] crush) and Dorian was just left there gobsmacked at it all. 

He would have to remember to thank Leah and Sabine later, because had he acted first he would've given all the students a speech about privacy, the importance of it, and the importance of being a hero, all before using his powers to scramble their phones and delete all the data off of them. Not the nicest thing, but sometimes people needed a harsher lesson as a reminder why. In any case, Dorian wished to salvage what little image was left of Excelsior and the Festival. Storming up to April as they finished a couple texts before grabbing her ear and pulling her along. [Color=CC99FF]”I t'ink enough ‘as been done. You're in time out while I fix t'is.”[/color] 

Dorian phased into his sister, taking possession of her body before realizing something as he felt the fit of the outfit. [Color=CC99FF]”Are you wearin’ my jumper?!”[/color] A string of rapid fire mixes of French and Korean came out of him as he began to swirl the snow around them, taking inspiration from an old classic and creating a [url=https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/019c3a11-8fe5-71ba-906d-2ebd14b26a91.webp]whole new outfit out of ice.[/url]
Dorian then focused on the optics of it all. Hot chocolate was ruined for all the students now, and there was a brown slurry everywhere. He rolled his eyes before moving his hands almost instinctually, snagging what he could of the slurry, forcing it down under the snow so that it mixed in with the dirt, while pulling from the humidity around them and creating more snow to turn the brown slosh nightmare into a winter wonderland.