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inchargemarge · Site Admin Joined: 25 Apr 2016 Posts: 7943

Mabel was a first year but not unfamiliar with her new school, the concept of mutants and gifted people was something introduced to her quite young. Not long after birth Mabel demonstrated inhuman strength, her parents frightened and at their wits end, just in time members of the mutant community reached out to them. Mabel got to have a higher quality of life because of that, and because of their guidance, she was now going to attend Aviary academy for the gifted. She was very excited, she’d arrived early before the other new students who were now coming in for orientation. She smiled at everyone as she wandered the halls, new kids and seniors, even teachers; that’s just who she is. Bright and warm like the sunflowers tattooed on her body.

She was a cute little thing, petite at barely five foot but somewhat chubby. Her skin was caramel colored from her time spent in the sun, which reflected in the freckles kissing her flesh. Her hair was long and normally thrown up in some type of bun or braid but never catching loose locks of strawberry blonde. She skipped down the stairs in bare feet before bounding toward the auditorium to peek at the newcomers.

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PeanutButterGoddess · Joined: 25 Apr 2016 Posts: 7962

Ransom had by no means an "easy life" up until this point, and considering he was facing the very real reality of being a kidnapping victim (burlap sack over his head and all), he didn't expect it to get any easier.

Ransom was always a bit different from everyone else, especially different from a painfully ordinary family in a backwater town in Arizona. He had shown signs of this "difference" fairly early on in childhood in the way he'd often find himself involuntarily manipulating the "perceived reality" in the room. Sometimes when his parents would argue, the house the family lived in would almost appear to crack and rot; when his older brother was especially mean to him, he'd sometimes well up with so much anger and spite he'd grow twice in height; when his family finally realized he was the one behind the manipulations and they threw him out, it was dark and gloomy wherever he went.

But that was ancient history as far as Ransom was concerned, what wasn't ancient history was the current predicament he was in.

"Listen, if this is because I was staying in that abandoned loft...it was abandoned. I didn't think anyone was using it." He tried to reason with his captor.

"This isn't about the loft." A man said.

"Oh...well, if this is about the stolen mattress, I didn't think it'd be missed considering there were four more like it on the delivery truck." Ransom tried then.

"Wait...what? It doesn't matter. We're here." The man said as the car they were riding in came to a stop. It sounded like the man climbed out of the car and after a handful of moments, the door on Ransom's side of the car opened up and he was helped out. As soon as he was standing on his own feet, the sack was yanked form his head and he was immediately blinded by the sun and blindsided by what the man proceeded to say next.

"Ransom Mavis Porter, you've evaded our constant attempts to contact you and-"

"Oh no-"

"-it was determined by Headmaster Brienna Aviary-"

"-noooooooo-"

"-that it was in your best interest to attend Aviary's Academy for the Gifted so you could learn how to cultivate your gifts and grow into a better person. Also, if you don't attend the program, at this point we'll have no option but to turn you over to the authorities."

Ransom turned to look at a younger man, probably a few years older than him, with dusty brown hair and a musclebound physique that even he couldn't emulate in his wildest dreams. The man didn't seem too terribly interested in arguing or fighting with Ransom, and Ransom wasn't sure he could take him either way (at least not incapacitate him long enough to make a getaway). He simply seemed matter in fact that this was Ransom's reality, the same way Ransom was coming to terms with that this was his reality.

"Well...it would have been nice if you introduced yourself instead of throwing a bag over my head." He said, trying to be indignant still.

"If you'd have responded to any of our recruitment members WITHOUT traumatizing them, I wouldn't have had to put your head in the bag in the first place." The man gave a sarcastic smile before gesturing towards the auditorium where students were currently flooding into.

"You have orientation. Then you get to meet Miss Aviary so we can discuss the terms of your attendance." The man said before giving Ransom a shove forward.

"Wow, you sure are rude, Mister." Ransom pursed his lips, but moved ahead all the same.

As they drew closer to the auditorium, he passed up many of the students with great ease due to his long legs and beanpole physique. The students he didn't immediately pass with lengthy strides, he weaved through with his wiry body. Ransom had been quite a small child, but as he grew older, he grew impossibly taller. Even he himself wasn't sure if this was his power stretching him out to look more "intimdating". As a boy, his hair had always been a ruddy brownish red, but as he grew older, he took pleasure in changing the way his unruly, curled mop looked by the way of manipulating it's color. Currently, it was a bright pink that drew quite a lot of attention.
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inchargemarge · Site Admin Joined: 25 Apr 2016 Posts: 7943

Mable stood on her tip toes to try and see around and over some students, 'oohing' and 'awwing' at some of the other kids. Kids with wings, kids with scales, some made of diamonds. All of which was truly amazing, another kid shoved past her on accident causing her to back peddle a little bit. She reeled back into another student, he seemed infinitely taller than her but as she was about to apologize for her clumsiness she paused.

Her eyes practically turned into stars as she looked up at the boy with marvelous pink hair. She cupped her own cheeks as she beamed up at him.

"Oh my goodness! You're so pretty!" She chirped.

PeanutButterGoddess · Joined: 25 Apr 2016 Posts: 7962

Ransom stumbled a bit when a girl bumped into him, but before he could say or do anything, he found himself being admired by a small bean of a girl who had constellations of freckles on her beautiful tan skin. He immediately flushed at her words and looked around, wondering if truly she could be gawking at him.

"Me?" He sputtered, embarrassed ever so slightly. Despite his height, Ransom was mostly used to being in the background of any given situation.
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inchargemarge · Site Admin Joined: 25 Apr 2016 Posts: 7943

"Of course you, I wish my hair looked like that." Mabel continued to gush. "Are you a new student?" She asked.

PeanutButterGoddess · Joined: 25 Apr 2016 Posts: 7962

"It's not that special, just my p...mm, yeah, I'm new." Ransom nodded, his flush fading. "Are...you?"
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inchargemarge · Site Admin Joined: 25 Apr 2016 Posts: 7943

"I am, did you want to sit with me?" She asked eagerly, gesturing to the auditorium behind her.

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Ransom considered this for a second. He supposed that he didn't really know anyone else and the girl standing in front of him seemed nice enough.

"Sure." He gave a little nod. "Im, uh, Ransom, by the way." He introduced.
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"Mabel." She smiled, offering out her hand. "Is Ransom a family name?" She asked then.

PeanutButterGoddess · Joined: 25 Apr 2016 Posts: 7962

"Actually it was my great granddad's name...or my great great granddad, I can never remember." Ransom admitted, taking Mabel's hand. "Is...Mabel a family name?"
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inchargemarge · Site Admin Joined: 25 Apr 2016 Posts: 7943

"Nope. I guess I just looked like a Mabel." She said with a chuckle and shrug before gesturing at the auditorium for them to get seated.

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Ransom looked at Mabel and gave a conceding shrug of his shoulders. He supposed she did kind of look like a Mabel, whatever that meant. He followed her to their seats, people parting for them when they noted, in shock, his obnoxious height.
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Mabel found them some seats in the middle row before getting situated. Lots of students were still filing in so it would be a hot minute before the opening ceremonies.

She looked all around still, truly bewildered at how many mutants there were in one place.

"Can you believe it? There's so many." She exclaimed aloud.

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"It's kind of hard to believe, honestly. I mean, I knew about the school, they've been trying to get me to come look for awhile now, but I've never met anyone...different like me." Ransom admitted as he looked about the room as well.
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"Me neither." Mable admitted, turning to him then. "I'm the only one in my family and the only one in my town that we know of."

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