This Job Can Actually Be Fun

Hi I'm Richard. Some people call me Dick, some people call me Robin. I'm 18, I'm a Human, and I'm Rank 1 at Novus Academy.

[professors-odyssey-blog]

Field Trip 1: The Abandoned Place || AXT class

You all find yourselves once again in front of that old door the message to you is clear.

Class today at Room 88. Pack lightly and eat well, we’ll be out for a while.

[novus-boy-wonder]

When Dick arrived at Professor Ulysses's door, instead of knocking or opening it, he read the note posted to it. He felt a ball of nervousness in his stomach transition to an excited adrenaline rush as he headed back to his dorm to pack. Today was the day. The AXT students were taking their first trip and Dick couldn't wait to see what they had in store. 

When he was back in his dorm, he grabbed his backpack and made sure he was properly equipped. He packed a few water bottles, a few fruits and vegetables in case they needed to eat or drink when they got where they were going. He grabbed a few of his shurikens and the grappling hook Thea had gotten him. A few more trinkets and loose items and the boy was headed to room 88. Once he made it, he opened the door and let himself in, but he didn't see the professor or his classmates yet. Figuring they'd show up eventually, the boy took a seat and waited for someone else to join him.

[rravager-deactivated20150826]

Paintball, Bitches

[rravager-deactivated20150826]

imnotfreakingrobinhood:

Oliver knew he’d be late after the little incident, but he didn’t think he’d be this late. Sheesh. He was the last one here. The others all looked like they’d been standing around for a bit and he couldn’t believe he held them up. “Hey, sorry I’m late. The lady at the front desk and I argued forever about why they don’t have arrows. How rude of her to call it a stupid idea.” Though he’d still brought his bow with him, he looked down at the standard issued gun and waved it a bit in his hand. “Nonetheless, i’m here and I’m ready to rock.. How about you guys?”

Rose just rolled her eyes at all the others around her. Of course everyone had to put their two cents in, and make cliche comment. Ah well, she’d be able to shoot them soon anyway, so what did she care? “You were the one to doubt me.” She replied to Falcon with a smirk before turning back to the others. “So, as I asked before, ans apparently no one heard me, I have to ask again. Who is ready to play and who needs to get their shit together?”

[tamaraneanoutlaw]

“I am ready to commence the game!” Kori exclaimed hopping up and down and clapping ecstatically. “Let us go team!” she cheered rallying the troops for the paint ball battle she was full of enthusiasm and invigoration. 

[novus-boy-wonder]

“I’m ready too.” Dick made sure the facemask was tied tightly and double checked his ammo. He stood with his team and waited for the others to indicate they were ready.

[mace-brings-the-thunder-deactiv]

Jaime was sitting in the common room, taking a moment to properly take part in doing a bit of people-watching. He continued to watch as he noticed someone sit close to him “Perhaps my attention span is a bit off, but there seemed to be a feeeeeeew less people running around and such not long ago……”

[novus-boy-wonder]

Dick was on his way back from eating when decided to stop in the common room to see if anything was going on. He saw his friend Jaime and took a seat by him. “No,I noticed that same thing. It feels like we have a different new kid or two every week. I honestly think it’s pretty cool.”

[bornoficeandrage-deactivated201]

Me, Myself and I II Dick and Loki

Loki had refrained from going straight inside the academy, seeing as he’d been given his first opportunity to be on his own since he’d first been banished to this place, settling instead for taking a seat on the banking edge as he tried to find his feet in this place. “Fine….I’ll be fine.” he grunted to himself, praying no-one heard as he closed his eyes to clear his head as he summoned another copy of himself to begin speaking with, managing to conjure the physical, visible form before realizing someone was walking over to him. 

“I had wondered when the welcoming committee would arrive. Either that, or I presume you’re the charming people sent to take me away. “ 

[novus-boy-wonder]

Dick was returning to the academy from picking up some groceries at one of the nearby markets. He’d collected his bag, parked his bike and strolled toward the front gate when he saw a new student, speaking apparently to himself. Literally. He raised a brow from behind sunglassed eyes at the other boy- er boys.

“Well I’m not exactly the welcoming committee, but I wouldn’t mind helping you find your way around if you need help. I know how confusing this place can be at first. I”m Richard. Richard Grayson, friends call me Dick.”

[mistressxofxmagic-blog]

Pool time || Dick and Zatanna

Zatanna decided to take her mind off of things for a bit and go for a swim. With Bruce back in Gotham she figured she could stay a bit longer. She still had a little unfinished business to attend to and some promises to keep. Once she got to the pool she tossed her towel on the chair and started tying up her hair in a pony-tail when she noticed someone coming, “You joining me for a dip?” She smiled. 

[novus-boy-wonder]

Dick was finishing off a lap in the pool. The acrobat enjoyed swimming. It was a great way to work out without having to worry of dying of a heat stroke. He appeared from under the water and began to tread when he saw Zatanna and heard her question. “Looks like I was here first, so I guess you’re joining me.”

[tamaraneanoutlaw]

Failed / Kori & Richard

[tamaraneanoutlaw]

Kori bit her lip and looked at him. “You really failed?” she asked with imploring green eyes. She couldn’t imagine Dick failing at anything.  

[novus-boy-wonder]

He smiled at her, “I really did. I drove too fast the first time and the second time I drifted around one too many curves for the instructor’s liking. I’ve got a bit of a lead foot.” When Dick was in New York, he learned how to drive, but the only problem was he never learned to drive slow.

[tamaraneanoutlaw]

Concert: Maroon 5 / Kori & Dick

[tamaraneanoutlaw]

Kori squinted she’d learned that different didn’t necessarily mean good. “You didn’t like it” she said biting her lip a bit disappointed but not really that he hadn’t cared for the flavor combination so much as he hadn’t just told her the truth. “I am sorry it was displeasing to your pallet Richard” she added. “It was polite of you to try and spare my feelings but it’s really okay if you don’t like it you can tell me” she said putting a hand on his. “we don’t have to like the same things” she added. 

[novus-boy-wonder]

He smiled and nodded. “You’re right, I-” He was cut off by a familiar voice singing that he was at a payphone trying to call home and an eruption of screams from the fans. Finally the show had started. Dick grinned ear to ear and turned to Kori beaming with excitement. She seemed just as excited if not more so than he was. He joined in with the rest of the frenzied crowd singing along as loud as he could.

“Where have the tiiimes gone? Baby it’s aaaalll wrong, where are the plans we made for two?”

[thecheshirequeenx]

“I don’t have any on me at the moment, if that’s what you’re asking. But a favor is a favor, I’ll find a way to get you one.” Thea promised him. “Mind if I ask what you’re going to use it for or should we just pretend that we never had this conversation and I’ll just get you the hook?”

[novus-boy-wonder]

“Oh, I don’t need it right this scond. Thanks, I appreciate it.” He shrugged before he answred. “I just want a faster way to scale buildings. Climbing is all well and good, but it’s tiring. And it takes too long.” 

[ldyshiva]

shiva & dick

[ldyshiva]

“Perhaps it should be,” Shiva commented, “all your flipping around makes my head hurt.”

[novus-boy-wonder]

“What’s the matter?” Dick laughed back. “Can’t keep up?”

[tamaraneanoutlaw]

Failed / Kori & Richard

[tamaraneanoutlaw]

She heard Richards voice and stopped and turned around she kept her head bent though not wanting to look him in the eye when one so humiliated at failing and two looking such a mess with her puffy red nose and face, not mention she was sure her mascara hadn’t held up. “I-I failed my drivers test” she mumbled putting her hands back up to her face and crying once more. She was so ashamed. 

[novus-boy-wonder]

Dick was concerned, but when he heard the word his features softened. He even gave a small smile. “Oh, is that all? Kori, that’s okay.” He put a hand on her shoulder to comfort her. “Kori that’s no big deal at all. People fail their driver’s tests literally every day. It’s a normal thing. I failed mine twice before I passed it. You can just practice a little bit and take it again. I’m sure you’ll pass it next time.”

[tamaraneanoutlaw]

Concert: Maroon 5 / Kori & Dick

[tamaraneanoutlaw]

Kori grabbed her pretzels and mustard, thanked the cashier and let Richard continue to be her guide. “You’ll try a bite of mine” she said and in no time they found their section. She smiled. “I just can’t wait!” she exclaimed as they took their seats. 

[novus-boy-wonder]

Once they settled into their seats, Dick watched as Kori covered both pretzels in mustard and offered him a bite of one of them. There was no way he was going to say no to her, so he took a deep breath and took a bite. The boy chewed and let his taste buds really absorb the bitterness of the mustard and the saltiness of the pretzel. It was awful. It tasted terrible, it he wasn’t going to risk hurting her feelings by telling her that. Once he’d chewed it up enough to swallow, he tried to force it down and washed it down with the root beer. He offered her a polite smile.

“That was certainly.. different. Uh, thanks for letting me try it, but I think I’ll stick with my hot dog.” And so should mustard.

[greenlanternval-deactivated2015]

She returned his smirk with a bit of a pout, and let him pull herself up to her feet. “You know, I hear that you can learn just as much from seeing than from doing– that’s why tutorial videos, walkthroughs, and crap like that exist, and stuff like that…” She began to mumble as she trailed off, and figured it would be no use to try and sway him otherwise.

“You’re not letting me out of this, are you?”

[novus-boy-wonder]

“Of course I’m not. Come on, Val, would you rather be watching those how to videos, or making them? I’ll even set the drones to easy.”

The boy jogged over to the control panel and set up the room for the wave fighting simulator. He put the difficult on a four and set it to increase over time. Dick was going to make sure they got their work out, but he didn’t anticipate it being anything they couldn’t handle. Before he pressed the start button, he wanted to make sure Val was ready, so he turned back to her,

“Ready to get this show on the road?”

[somethingwandathiswaycomes-deac]

She laughed. “Um, everyone likes jelly beans?”

[novus-boy-wonder]

“I can’t even argue with that one. I don’t trust people who don’t like them.”

[thecheshirequeenx]

“Alright, what can I do for you?” Thea asked. She was a woman of her words. “As long as it has nothing to do with this,” she stopped to point at her chest. “I’ll do what I can.”

[novus-boy-wonder]

Dick chuckled at her gesture, “It doesn’t, I promise. I was trying to get my hands on a grappling hook and I did some asking, somebody said you might be able to help me?”

[professors-odyssey-blog]

Office Hours || Odyssey and Grayson

[professors-odyssey-blog]

The room’s clutter is beyond anything you imagined. Books, machines, artifacts, and all manner of gewgaws line every shelf, table, or open edifice that seems capable of holding them leaving but a narrow path through the tall isles of books that hem what seems to be far more of a wing of this building than the singular room its position in the school would indicate. It is like a museum to the ancient, new, and unknown, a vault of knowledge wedged in a broom closet.

In the distance you can here the sounds of some creature’s call echoing through the expanse a mix of hollow trumpeting and avian shrieks. In the back you see a door nestled into one of the wall amongst the clutter, a computer hums softly beside the door.

“Hello Mr. Grayson!” calls a familiar voice from beyond the door,

“I wasn’t expecting you but I am in fact here. If you would like to come in and take a seat while I’m finishing up some work in here that would be fine or you can feel free to wait in the foyer until I manage to get this casing loose.”

[novus-boy-wonder]

Dick followed the sound of the voice. He tread carefully through the makeshift walkway. Walking slowly, the boy took note of all of the odd artifacts and collectibles that lined the interior of the room. After Dick walked way farther than what should have even been possible for a normal office, he found the professor busy with his work. Just when the boy was about to speak, the sounds of some kind of- What even was that? He turned his head to the direction of the noise. 

“What was that?”

He turned his head back to the man at the desk.

“Yeah, I just felt like I should come by and talk to you. I saw that you chose me for a leader of a team. I didn’t want to ask you in class because I didn’t want my team to worry, but... why me? I mean, am I cut out to lead?” It was something he’d been having doubts about. He knew he was skilled and could be a great part of a team, but could he lead one?

[novus-boy-wonder]

⊜ (Also s/o to the infernape squad)

Escavalier

They fly around at high speed, striking with their pointed spears. Even when in trouble, they face opponents bravely.

(Infernape Squad for life)

[novus-boy-wonder]

⊜

Ambipom

It is very difficult to dodge the consecutive strikes of its two tails.