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lavi latin teacher | staff dorm f-2

[lovelymayumi-blog]

“Mmm, not your favorite subject? How sad.” She really found that to be more interesting than anything else. But then, how could she keep him interested, was the question. She pursed her lips for a moment, before saying: “What about psychology from throughout history? A win-win. What could you teach me about that?” She didn’t have any questions. Mayumi was more of a learn-as-you-go type of girl. All she wanted was to absorb information, it didn’t matter what it was.

“Hm… but I think it’d be more entertaining to learn in a classroom. How about you show me yours?” Even if it wasn’t Latin, classrooms were the perfect environment in which to learn. Or, do anything, really. Mayumi thoroughly enjoyed the feel of classrooms. And here, a handsome (and young) professor, willing to teach her? It was good. A classroom would be the perfect place to go.

[doki4books-blog]

"Suuure," he rolled out lazily, shifting his weight from right to left. "I can tell ya all 'bout Freud and Piaget and, uh, what's his face? The dog trainin' guy." Pavlov, perhaps. Really, he knew them all by heart now, even if he found a lot of their studies horribly off base or just generally uninteresting. Who really cared about operant or classic conditioning?

Plenty of people, actually. Just not him.

"I s'pose so." It made sense, he guessed. It wasn't as if he had any experience with school what so ever - student, teacher or otherwise - so he might as well follow the people who actually have a clue what they're doing.

Completely disregarding her personal bubble, he looped arms with her and marched down the hallway, towing Mayumi along behind him. "Allow me to lead you to my sanctuary, m'am!"

The school wasn't too overly complicated and he'd already mapped out the areas most crucial to himself - the library, his housing, his classroom, and of course, the cafeteria even if he had a good feeling he was going to end up eating stale chip in his dorm. They passed several classrooms and a row of windows that spanned the entire hallway, letting in natural lighting. He noted it was still mid afternoon and that he should probably get some work done.

But! There were girls to impress and he was quite a bit more preoccupied with that. 

They eventually arrived at a door that had a shiny plague, big white, block letters spelling out 'LATIN'. There was a sticky note hung under it, messy handwriting scrawling out 'professor Lavi' and a little rabbit drawn in the corner. Yes, very, very professional.

Lavi slid his keys into the lock, gave a little twist of his wrist and then flung the door open, giving a happy crow. 

"Heeere we are, Ms...?"

Ah, wow, smooth.

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Well, that wasn’t any fun. She sighed and shook her head a little bit. “Nah~ I think about what’s good for me and my family~ So I obviously do think about other people too~” Just not other people. She unwrapped a lollipop and pressed it between her lips. Her mouth curling into a small smile.

Her grin only grew with time. “Heh, why would I show an exorcist like you civilized behaviour~? After all, you guys just keep getting in the way of Millennie’s plans~” There was no reason to treat any Exorcist with kindness, most of them hadn’t earned it. There were a few who were too much fun to kill off right away, but it didn’t mean that she’d be overly civil to someone who wanted to destroy the Earl’s precious plans.

Road blinked a few times before bursting out in laughter at the question. Silly boy. “No, actually it’s the exact opposite~ I enjoy picking on you Exorcists because you people are fun~” It was true, despite them being normal humans, other than the fact they were chosen by the Innocence, they were extremely amusing. After all, they were the only ones who had a chance to kill the Noah. And even more amusing, they were just about the only people who could put up any sort of fight.

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Where on earth did she even store all of that candy, anyway? Did she just shove it down the front of her dress and - not important right now, right right right. 

"You an' your family are really horrible people." People? Did they even classify as such? "Nothin' you're interested in is good for anyone else - Hell, I wouldn't care what'cha did if it didn't put th'whole world in danger." 

Lavi resisted tossing his arms into the arm and instead kept them tightly bound across his chest. If he were going to convince her of anything and not end up completely unfounded, then he was going to need to keep his reactions to a minimum. In the long run, that was all she wanted, anyway. To weasel a hilarious reaction out of him so she could further mock him and anyone else connected - which, unfortunately, included the entirety of The Order.

"Don't ya think that might because all of the Earl's plans end with the world gettin' destroyed? I think tha's plenty reason to keep gettin' in the way."

And get in the way they would. Most of the exorcists were notorious for sticking their necks out for the better of others - and, well, a lot ended up getting their asses kicked at first. Akuma were no laughing matter - even the level ones. Mindless as they tended to be, they were driven by that same mindless lust for carnage. Anything that runs haywire to simply fulfill a need is far from reasonable - at least some of the higher levels can speak - and the newer recruits end up hurt. But it's experience, something they all desperately need to face the Noahs and whatever they had cooking.

Giving up his arm crossed vigil, his arms lowered to his sides, hand ghosting vaguely over the holster on his right thigh. After so many years, his innocence had become something of a security blanket.

"M'not gettin' your logic. Please, explain t'me why it's so great to beat on'a bunch of people who really, really don't like ya. We could very well take ya out someday. Sounds like a barrel o'fun."

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ooc; eek okay i need to go

i'll reply to anything i haven't tomorrow etc, etc see y'all around

[lovelymayumi-blog]

“All the books, hm? That’s a lot of reading.” She was thoroughly impressed. Someone with a brain on their head? How refreshing.

“Logistics, though, how boring.” She smiled at him despite. “How about psychology? What do you know about that?” Surely such a thing could not be too well represented in books; words on paper were much different from the thoughts in a head.

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It probably wasn't physically possible for one person to read every single book in the entire world, but he already made a significant dent in the library where he was stationed after only a couple of days - so, maybe, it couldn't be all that far fetched. He might as well roll with it. 

"Kinda comes with the job," he laughed, tousling his hair and sending more of flying it over the top of his headband. 

"Psychology? Not really my favorite subject - m' more of a history buff, really. But I know a thing or two. Does the lovely lady have some questions fer me?" He'd read all of the books that his previous place of work had offered and he'd stacked up what he could. The way the brain worked, synapses and all; myelin sheaths, mental diseases and what different hormones did for each, Piaget's cognitive development theories, the basics, really! If she only had basic questions, he was sure he could answer them somewhat coherently with what he had.

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“Hm… I suppose that’s true. It does make me happy, it’s really fun and entertaining~” Road giggled, hands folding behind her back.

So Allen was here, it looked like there was a whole exorcist party here. How fun! That meant she would be able to have a lot of fun. She especially loved Allen. She was glad to hear he was around. “Yay! Allen’s here!” She bounced happily.

Almost instantly the smile faded. A slight scowl coming to rest on her face. “Oh, how hilarious~” She let out a dry laugh. “I know how to act like a civilized person, when I want too~ But see, that’s the problem. Why would I do so in front a bunch of pathetic humans~?” She asked laughing. She always had a dislike for normal humans.

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Lavi was very, very close to giving up and walking away. He could feel his frustration rising with her every word, boiling thickly under his skin and making his fingers twitch. Wow, he really had gotten soft if he let such trivial things such as words affect him so much. His emotions needed to be reeled in and quickly before he did something he might regret - or, at the very least, slander his position as a bookman's apprentice.

The Old Panda would not be proud.

"See, tha's the problem. All ya think about is what's good for you and nobody else. S'no wonder nobody is all that enthusiastic about you guys." 

Despite all of his bad run ins with her, Lavi was not at all worried for Allen's safety. He knew, he just knew, that he could handle himself - Hell, he'd been dealing with a Noah inside of him ever since Mana's death. Unconsciously, naturally and he could tell that the Brit's constitution was begininng to wane, but it was actually the only thing that had probably kept the Noah and Earl from tearing into him from the very beginning. No, he was not worried about Allen. 

Ah, only a little bit, really, but nothing more.

"I don' think ya do. Not once have I ever seen a sign of this 'civilized behavior'. Why don'tcha put your money where your mouth is, hm?" He crossed his arms over his chest and snorted.

Normal humans? What exactly constituted as normal? He himself was a man with the ability to read through any sort of ancient text and have it down pat; a man who could make a tiny, palmsized hammer grow ten times its size and swing it around as if it were nothing. No, there wasn't anything normal about that, but it wasn't as if he were, say, some sort of alien? Or the living dead or something else equally as ridiculous.

By all means, he should not be considered normal.

"S'that why you pick on all the exorcists? Cause we're borin'?"

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F - 2

Finally V had found his room, took him some time but with the help of passing students and staff he had finally found it. F - 2. The place where he would be living for, possibly, a few years. Twirling the key in his hand, he hesitated slightly. They had said that V was going to live with a roommate, there wasn’t much to worry about really, it’s just what questions would he would ask him?

There might be one question that could be a trigger, if anything was asked about his past life. Well he would just have to live with this stranger, eventually they would become friends, right?

With a large intake of breath, the key moved up to unlock the door to his new home. Hopefully the other wouldn’t be home, but that wasn’t likely. “Hello?” Observing the room, he spotted two beds opposite to each other, a desk, and two closets. After looking around, and checking to see if his roommate was actually in the room, he walked in and started to unpack his clothes.

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Lavi had already found the room a bit ago and quite to his liking, actually! He'd already jumped on the bed - to test the sturdiness, of course -, scooted under it to dig out any trash tucked away, and had carefully stacked all of his most precious books to the ceiling. Now all he had left was throwing stray papers around the room to make a carpet of half done theories and history time lines to make it just like his room back at The Order.

Despite moving around as much as he had as a kid, familiarity was something that he treasured. And if he could make this whole rendezvous out into the world without the old man any more bearable, it was by the way of making things exactly as they had been in his personal quarters.

When he heard the door click open, he rolled off the bed, hit the ground with a grunt before rising swiftly to his feet. Lavi gave a cheeky grin, offering a fake salute at V's entrance.

"Yoooo! Guessin' you're my new roommate?"

As stupid as he seemed at times, he wasn't completely ignorant to the things around him and he had been extra careful to keep his organized chaos confined to his side of the room. It wouldn't do him any good to make a bad impression on the first day, now would it?

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lovelymayumi replied to your post: “You’re pretty young to be a teacher, hm?”

“Smart, hm? I don’t take Latin, though, Sir. That all you can teach?”

"Hmmm," he hummed, tipping his head to the side. "Well, it's the only class I officially teach. But, ha, who cares 'bout logistics? I can teach whatever ya like me to."

"Aaaanythin' you want, I mean it! I've read all th'books." Lavi gave a wink - or, well, what could be perceived as a wink with the eye patch and all.

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"Eh~? You make it sound like all I do is make people miserable~" That's because she did though... "Wait, Allen's here?!" There was an almost eager note to her voice. "What a coincidence that you came to teach. I came to learn~"

"It is, because it makes you happy. It doesn't really matter what it does t'other people."

"He's 'round here." He flaps a hand, knowing Allen can handle himself if Road does decide to pay him a visit. Road had always been impartial to Allen, so Lavi was pretty positive she wouldn't do anything detrimental to the little guy's health. 

"Oh? Are ya takin' a 'how to behave like a civilized person' class? That'd probably do you a lot of good." Hopefully she doesn't have Latin.

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"Yes~ Are you here to play, Bookman~?" [No! She will not go away. :I]

"No. I'm here to teach." More or less.

"I'm guessin' you're here to make everyone else miserable, right? S'all you Noah do, anyway. Or are ya here to pick on the 'Sprout? or Yuu?" He may or may not be incredibly bitter about the whole 'trap you inside your mind' thing.

(no omg help i'm being harassed by little girl in revealing clothing) 

[doki4books-blog]

"Oh~ If it isn't one of my favourite play toys~"

"No."

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"You're pretty young to be a teacher, hm?"

"Nah, I don't think so. Never really been to school before anyway, ya know? I moved around a lot with the old man."

"Figured I might as well jus' jump on in. Don't let my good looks fool ya, I'm pretty smart. I could even give you some private tutoring lessons."