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ominis considers himself studious, yes.
nose buried in the dust-wrung spine of textbooks as spoken word flies into his well-incomplete database of information, invitations to meet in hogsmeade for a bit of reckless exploration thrown wayward – such is imagination more so than reality, but the sheer principle stands: a gaunt's education trumps teenage desires. well, that is the phrase hammering into the boy's skull as he sits in history of magic, rosy knuckles clenched blanche and shoulders slumped in true, defined defeat.
professor binns, to both his merit and detriment, possesses an extraterrestrial talent in boring even the most resilient of wizards and witches into a slumber so deep, even ominis would consider it quite close to unforgivable.
studious is the gaunt, but he is just as human, just as susceptible to his eyelids fluttering closed at the monotonous drone of, 'gateways between the wizarding and muggle worlds.' a palm under the swell of his cheek, his head lolls a bit too heavy into the unsupported bend of his elbow – a catastrophic chain of events, really, when ominis realizes he's hit the poor student beside him one way or another.
"i was most certainly not asleep," however snide his tone, however stone-like his countenance, the swallow of a yawn and incessant blinking speak the words he dares not to. even so, he is... himself. "i do apologize– i didn't mean to hit you."