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Leonardo Ascendor // 35 // Witch Professor Of Transfiguration We must take care of our families wherever we find them and whoever they may be, fathers & mothers, siblings, aunts, uncles, friends. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching — they are your family. (( RP Blog for ClearBrook ))

[lascendor]

A small piece of paper, crumpled and crinkled, has made its home deep in the Head of Ascendor's desk.

In scribbled out handwriting, a list of sorts.  

swim in every ocean

visit emperor's corridor, prachov rocks

accept alfie's choices impossible

get an iguana 

go on a roadtrip

live in somewhere that isn't Lothering for at least a year

visit a volcano

learn sign language

start a family

play her favorite song for her IMPOSSIBLE you're doing it. 

play her favorite song

The list continues on... but many items have been scratched out. 

[irma-vogel]

If you’re under forty, you seem close in age to them. Alfie?

I always expect screw-ups. It’s part of my job, actually, to realize people aren’t perfect. 

[lascendor]

Guess you're right. Huh? ....Oh Alfie, he was this dog I used to watch out for for my neighbors way back when. Crazy dog wouldn't listen to a word I said. 

Well, I'm grateful you have the job you do then. 

[ginevra-barnes]

Not seeing what else she could say, Ginevra merely looked back down to her laptop without saying anything else to the man. She continued to read, and every now and then she typed a couple of notes about the study she was reading. As she hears him address her once more, the firebender looks up to meet his eyes "It is, if linguistics and pedagogy are fields of interest for you".

[lascendor]

Leo would be absolutely lying if he said that they were. Both were important in so many way but he couldn't immerse himself in the subjects with as much focus and attention to small detail as Ginevra could. "Not exactly." 

However pedagogy, ah, he really should look into that. "But if you think that seems useful ... help teach students and all that. Would you mind letting me borrow it when you're done?" Really, he should ask Ginevra for any notes she took pertaining to it. There was no way he'd be able to read through it and pick out what he needed. Not with other work piling up. 

[maia-warner-witch]

Don’t pretend like you know me. Of course I’d be gone. I’d never stick around someone knowing that they got hurt because of me. Especially if they were trying to help me. I’d run because it’s safer for everyone around. 

I actually do mind. A lot. I’d like as few people to know about this as possible. You understand, right? 

[lascendor]

I'm not pretending. You got sorted into my House, meaning we share of few personality traits. From class, I think I got the gist of the kind of person you are. And you're smart enough to know that even if you ran they'd use the people you know at this school against you. 

(/ rubs face ) Ok, fine. I won't say a word. I know it's not really any business of mine, but if I had more help then we have a much better chance at keeping you safe. Not only you but other kids here. If your family used that nightmare from hell to get passed us while we were busy dealing with it...

[agnesbattle]

Agnes chuckled. A trickster. Now that seemed more likely than one witch — or hell, even multiple witches — casting a spell that managed to span across the entire school, “It’s really too bad you didn’t study crimonology, Leo,” Agnes chirped with a hint of a smirk, “you would’ve made an excellent detective.” With all the supernatural tomfoolery going on around Clearbrook Academy, they could very well need one of those sometime soon. For now, most of the things that happened were fairly harmless … but what if they escalated beyond that? What if people started getting hurt? Agnes didn’t want to think about that and pushed the thought from her mind, “I wouldn’t put it past our resident trickster  honestly,” she said, referring to their resident trickster. “Wouldn’t be the first time Amara was up to no good.”

A grin appeared on Agnes face. In some respects, she and Leo were always very much on the same wavelength. It was a comforting thing. Everyone felt a little strange or off at times, but whenever they encountered someone resembling certain aspects of themselves they realized that everyone had their quirks and jim-jams. Perhaps that’s why she and Leo always got along. “Exactly,” she smiled. “And hey, sure. Don’t be late. If there’s one thing I’ve learned about myself in our line of work is that I hate tardiness,” Agnes crossed her arms in front of her chest.

[lascendor]

"What do you mean 'would've'? I think I'd still make a pretty great one." Leo had thought about it, Once upon a time. Going into the police academy, do that bring justice to all and rescue civilians sort of deal. But he'd probably land himself in more hot water than he could handle with the way he did things. "Amara? You think?" He questioned lightly. It wasn't that farfetched really but Leo wasn't so sure that the trickster would pull something like that. "I don't think she'd let something like that get as out of hand as it did." He mulled over the thought before letting it go. "Well even if it is her, you know Chancellor Pennifold is going to rip her a new one." 

"What? You? Of all people, hate tardiness?" He sighed in an exasperated manner as if this information personally offended him and meant just the end of the world for all involved "Alright, I'll set every alarm on my person to be on time." Leo promised, giving a small salute. Really and truly there were so few people that Leo felt he could absolutely get along with like he could Agnes.

 "Speaking of tardiness though, how's your class this semester? Bad kids, good kids?" 

[bewitchedsavannahthorne-blo-blog]

Savannah couldn’t help but scoff, but instead of retaliating with a lame retort, she took the match and stared at it, the tiny piece of wood trapped between her index finger and thumb, ” A needle?”  That couldn’t be too hard. They were roughly the same shape after all, “Mutant speciem,”  she mumbled in a low voice. The object between her fingers twisted and changed. “Ow!”  The redhead yelped, a tiny drop of blood emerging where the needle had pierced the tip of her finger, “Well eh, at least it worked,”  the pain in her finger was long forgotten, as the young witch marveled at the sight of the needle, “thanks professor A!” 

[lascendor]

Leo grinned. "See? Easy as pie, right?" Now they were working with something. "Here, let me see your hand first." The prick had been small, and not much blood had come out, but the older teacher felt the need to make sure his student was a-okay. The last time he ignored a minor injury with a little blood involved, he had a student pass out on him. "Conligata." He murmured under his breath as he brushed his thumb over the tiny bloodied spot. "There you go." 

"Alright, so you got the match changed into a needle. Good start." He commented, the proud smile still on his lips, taking the needle from here. Turning a small object into something of similar shape and size was relatively easy. "Now how about we try something a little bigger?" He grabbed the smallish vase from the nearby table. "Take this, and try to make it into ... how about your Transfiguration Textbook." They were close in size but, quite obviously, different shape. "It's fine if you don't get the colors right, but if you can manage this then I got a good feeling you pass by the end of the year."

[dakota-nash]

Library Wakeup|| Dakota&Leo

[dakota-nash]

Her ears perked up at coffee. While she had to admit this was awkward as anything coffee would help to make things at least more manageable. She reached out to grab the coffee. Inhaling deeply before she took a healthy sip. It was the perfect temperature and he had made sure to keep the perfect balance of sugar to coffee. 

She set the coffee back down. Sliding it over to him. He obviously hadn’t brought it just for her so she knew well enough not to take away someone else’s coffee. 

"Look, I’m sorry for falling asleep. I just lost track of time. I didn’t mean to bother you. We can just forget the whole thing." 

She knew that wasn’t what he meant but she couldn’t totally bring herself to have that conversation just yet. At least not without a lot of push, or maybe just a really stiff drink. Or 50 stiff drinks. The whole situation was enough to send off the ‘This is awkward’ bells in her head. 

[lascendor]

Leo carefully slid it right back in her direction. "It's fine, take it. You need it more than me I think." They can think of it as a sort of peace offering. Albeit a rather poor excuse of one, but it was something. 

"You weren't bothering me." He corrected with the slightest hint of annoyance tinging his voice, knowing that she was just avoiding it. "Just happened to be in the right place at the wrong time." The book he had come into the library for was long forgotten until now. He should really heed the tone of Dakota's voice and go on his merry way. Go grab that book he'd come by for and just go, but god help him if he wasn't the type to just back down when he felt that he needed to say something. 

"I don't ... I don't regret the choice that we made. But I am sorry that you got hurt." A soft sincerity in his voice. Truly, they never meant to become as attached to each other as they did, only to be separated by Leo's own sense of right and wrong, what's important now vs. what will be important in the future. 

[dakota-nash]

Library Wakeup|| Dakota&Leo

[dakota-nash]

Dakota began to nod her head  as a small smile spread over her lips. She could slowly feel her body begin to wake up. She had always been a slow riser one that needed coffee within five minutes if she was going to be any sort of aware for the rest of the morning. But knowing that her french press was all the way back in Graduate village she tried to make due by rubbing her eyes. 

"Mmm, you’ve got a good point." She ran another hand through her hair. As her eyes started to focus she could feel her heart come to a crashing halt. 

Oh shit.

Her hands stopped in her hair before the fell onto the table. She dry swallowed as her mind raced with what exactly it was she was supposed to do in this situation. Granted they had left on pretty cordial terms but that did not mean at all that she was completely fine with the idea. 

A string of curse words began to rattle off in her head as she tried to formulate a plan. Her and Marls had spent a few night discussing what she would do in this plan. But to be honest those were plans that had come about after a lot of alcohol. And bending her way out of here while ficking him off would probably not work in this situation. Plus she liked the library too much to destroy it. 

"So… Hi." She bit her lower lip and looked back up at him. 

[lascendor]

"Whatever it is that you're so nervous about, I promise I won't do it, ok?" Leo did his best to try and calm Dakota before she did something she'd regret in her frazzled frame of mind. Really he didn't mean to, if he'd known it was her up here he really wouldn't have offered to be the one to check. 

Play nice. It was literally the one and only thing they had agreed between each other when they broke it off. Be nice, be civil. If that wasn't possible then just turn away. But despite the awkward tension that hung in the air, Leo would try his damnedest to be the adult here. I mean, how mad could she still be at him? It had been a few months... there was no way, she was still as angry as she had been, right? Fuck, who was he kidding?

"Yea, hi. Want coffee? I swear it's exactly how you like it." He shook the coffee cup he'd gotten from the cafe a few ways down before setting it down within her reach to take or reject. By some coincidence, or maybe it was just an acquired taste he picked up from her, they liked their coffee in the same way. 

"Look, I think we need to talk."

[bewitchedsavannahthorne-blo-blog]

"Because — I suck!” Savannah threw her hands up in the air in exasperation, “I have to practice. It doesn’t really matter what I magically enchant to transfigure itself into something else. As long as it happens. Kinda gettin’ desperate here, professor A.”

[lascendor]

"You don't suck, like you said, just need a little practice Let's start with something a little more simple than turning a vase into microphone." Leo suggested, looking for something a little smaller, fishing in his pocket for his matchbox. "Here, try this." Giving her a match. "Transfigure this into a needle." A simple task that most students could handle. 

[lorenzovalerio]

"I said, do you want to get some coffee. I could use a refill." Lorenzo looked at his colleague side-eyed. "But now, I think that it should be more of an order than a request. You’re half asleep, Leo." He laughed.

[lascendor]

"Don't know what you're talkin' bout. I'm more awake than ever." He lied, shrugging off the sleep with a loud yawn. "But if you're getting refills, I wouldn't hate you if you brought me a cup, too. Just putting that out there."  

[agnesbattle]

"Well, it wasn’t exactly our fault,” Agnes stated, “and by our I’m speaking for the two of us … unless you have a confession to make? You are a witch after all, and rumor has it it was probably a spell that caused all the mayhem …” For a moment, Agnes looked at Leo with an intense gaze before breaking out into a grin, “Just messin’ with ya.”

The metalbender shrugged her shoulders in a nonchalant fashion, “It’s not like I’m looking to be picked up either. But — I heard there was freeze booze, and that sounded like a good deal to me,” she thought for a moment and then said: “We could even pretend to be a couple to keep all the ravenous singles from the mixer at bay!” The words slipped from her lips like she’d just made a grand discovery.

[lascendor]

"Nope, my hands are clean." He stated, putting his hands in the air to emphasize his innocence. "So that's the theory they got." Really it probably wouldn't be far off. Though it had to be multiple witches for something as extensive as the nightmares that raided their school. "I was thinking witch, fae, and a trickster." Although with someone as rare as a trickster, he couldn't see the benefit they would get from attacking here. 

"Free anything is always a good deal in my book." He raised an eyebrow at her proposal. It wasn't a bad idea, actually. Both could drink their fill in peace, Leo wouldn't have to worry about politely turning down offers and Agnes didn't need to beat anyone off her with a bat. "Alright, sounds like a win-win to me. Pick you up at eight?" He winked teasingly, grinning.  

[irma-vogel]

Or perhaps they just don’t have any respect for you. It’s often difficult for some students to see younger professors as deserving of as much respect as older faculty members. 

No, I suppose not. If you ever do start, though, you will have me to deal with. Everyone needs guidance, no matter the age. 

[lascendor]

I'm not exactly that close to their age. I mean, I can see some of the graduates not listening after a while, but freshmen? I'm closer to their parents' age than them. Whatever, I'll make them listen, somehow. Should be easier than trying to get Alfie to listen. 

Always can count on you, Irma. It's nice that someone expects me to screw up rather than be perfect. 

[ginevra-barnes]

"I wasn’t talking to you" the linguistics teacher states simply, looking up from the her laptop’s monitor to look at the professor across from her place at the teachers’ lounge “I was merely reading out loud a study on non-native features in near-native speakers”.

[lascendor]

"Oh." He lamely replied. "Think I should get my ears checked." Lately it seemed he was hearing things that just weren't. Mistaking voices to be aimed at him, hearing people say his name, and the like. 

"Anything interesting?" Linguistics were not quite his forte but important enough that nearly anything Ginevra read up on had some useful bit for him here and there, if he'd just pay attention enough. 

[maia-warner-witch]

If someone was hurt do you think that I’d be standing in front of you wasting my time? No, I’d be so far gone that I’d never be found again. 

I know who’s trying to hurt me and if you didn’t have such a listening problem then you might know that too. I did say it before, but clearly I just need to expect to have to say everything twice. My family hired them because I’m part human. It’s a blemish on the pureblood famous name and I need to be killed to make things right again. Where? Everywhere, they were all through the school when all that weird stuff was going on. 

[lascendor]

No you wouldn't. You're not the type of person to run away like that. You'd be sitting by them if someone else was hurt. 

Look, I'm sorry. No excuse I can say will dissolve my fault that I should be listening when you're in need. Because you're part human? Didn't think there were still families that thought that way. When all the weird stu- ... Shit. Great. I hate to ask this of you but would you mind if I let higher faculty know about this? If you haven't already said anything to them yet.   

[sunlitcas]

[lascendor]

make me choose ↳ sugarcas asked: dean’s smile or sam’s smile?

[lascendor]

It's fine. You'll get the hang of it. 

But, uh, any particular reason you're set on transfiguring this specific thing?

[maia-warner-witch]

No. Yes and no. Everyone’s fine. Don’t worry about that. 

I like to deal with things myself, but I’m not going to lie to you, I’m a little tipsy and you’re just sitting her. My mouth is working faster than my head. Now excuse me for being rude, but I don’t believe. I believe that you’re saying whatever bullshit you need to say so that you can ignore me and move on to the next thing you want to pay attention to. The only details that can help is that I’m going to be assassinated. 

[lascendor]

If someone got hurt, if you did, I do have to worry about that. Who was with you?

Maia, keeping you all safe is a part of my job. If you ask for help I am going to give you all the help I can give. You're not going to be ignored, this is a damn serious issue. I get that you want to handle it on your own, I do, it's what I do with my own problems. (/ rubs face ) But this really isn't something anyone should be on their own with. And no, there's no "going to be assassinated". We'll figure this out. We'll find who's trying to hurt you and deal with that problem before you get hurt. Where did they attack you last week? I'll investigate myself if I have to.