Keep Your Eggs Sunnyside Up!

[sunnysideuprory]

grandduke-maxim‌:

He raised an eyebrow at the girl, wondering what the big deal was until he saw the camera. Quickly he put his hands up in a surrendering position. “My bad,” He apologized, putting his arms down as he began to eat his food. Truthfully he would have been fine with just sitting there in silence and not speaking to her at all. She seemed to believe that he had sat next to her for conversation though. “If I did, wouldn’t I be sitting next to them instead?” He said between bites. “I mean I do have friends, they’re just not here right now.” Maxim defended himself. “Where are all your friends?” 

When he did nothing at all to move out of the way Rory had to fight everything within herself to not jump to immediate and outright annoyance. Like it or not disrespecting a royal could land her in serious trouble and until she knew that he was or wasn’t she supposed that she was going to have to play nice. Ish. “I don’t have friends, I have fans. Much less daunting - people who love you from afar but aren’t around to unnecessarily sit directly in frame of the thing you’re trying to film”

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aviannabrooks‌:

Avianna had no trouble sharing a friendly smile with a stranger, that was, until the stranger gave her smile a reason to stale. She didn’t sound unfriendly, and perhaps she hadn’t meant her words to sting, but Avianna couldn’t help feeling a bit defensive. Even if campus tours were something unusual unless prearranged through mutual connections, surely provisions had been made this year for the new arrivals? And even if Avianna did have an illustrated map saved from the welcome email she’d received upon enrollment, it was far less detailed than she would have liked. “I’ll be honest, I don’t have much practice with maps.” She admitted, keeping her tone light. “Everything back home is on a grid. It’s a lot easier than these sort of winding pathways.” 

Ah. So you’re definitely an American then” Rory acknowledged out loud, “I thought so. These pathways” she said gesturing around them, “have stories that go back centuries. There’s not a single path that doesn’t have some sort of story to tell somewhere along it. Not that that makes it any easier to navigate, I suppose. A grid though? Doesn’t it get confusing walking somewhere where everything is set as a square?”

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aviannabrooks‌:

Who: Avianna Brooks & Anyone.  When: Friday, September 1st, 2028. 2:20pm. Where: Campus main entrance. 

Avianna took a moment to double count the crisp Genovian currency before handing it to the taxi driver, unused to the look of the foreign notes. It was thrilling to be in a different country with its old cobblestoned streets, low buildings, and rolling green landscape. It felt as though Avianna had fallen into an illustration in a children’s fairytale picture book, and she couldn’t help glancing around as she waved at the driver to stay seated and pulled her own bags out of the trunk. “Thanks!” She said, shouldering her backpack and kicking her suitcase so she could drag it behind her. 

Glancing down at her phone, she scrolled through her emails for her dorm information and began walking. “Hey, sorry, you don’t know if there’s a welcoming committee or something around here, do you?” She asked a nearby student, hoping someone might be able to give her directions. 

Rory had been standing near the entrance to scope out the comings and goings of those arriving to St. Amelie. She could only begin to imagine how popular the video she put out about this day was going to be. First off, this was the very first time that non-royals were allowed to come to this prestigious school and secondly she’d spend every day with legit princes and princess’s. All she needed was a particularly attractive one to befriend and bring on her show to make her viewers swoon a little. As a voice called out she turned, wandering if one had perhaps fallen into her lap and smiling brightly just in case they had. 

Thank heaven she was somewhat of a talented actress. Truly, the accent should have been a dead give away that this woman wasn’t anything particularly special. An American, and definitely not a royal one. Americans had politicians though so maybe she was related to one of them and she supposed that she could make that work too. Eventually. “Are you kidding?” she questioned, “Most of the people that go here have friends that go here or some kind of arrangement with their families for tours and such. The rest of us have maps. Did you not get one or are you as hopeless at reading them as I am?”

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grandduke-maxim‌:

Who: Maxim Varnavich Fyodor Maksimov & Anyone 

When: September 4th, around 12:30 pm 

Where: The Dining Hall

It was the first day of classes and the boy had already thought about skipping. Though he knew it was much to early in the semester to do so, and it wasn’t as if he actually wanted to fail his courses. Just because he didn’t particularly like them, didn’t mean he was just going to fail. He wanted to piss off his parents, but he also wasn’t interested in retaking anything. The only way to get through it was to stop and get some lunch in between. Not surprisingly, the dining hall was fairly crowded. There was a significantly larger number of students this year, which meant he would have to take a seat where he could find one. “Do you mind if I sit here? Thanks.” He said, not bothering to wait for a response as he plopped down next to someone. 

“Excuse you!” Rory said incredulously to the stranger who plopped down beside her, “You’re in my shot” she said, indicating the camera in her hands. She was a filmography student after all, and there was definitely no way she could keep the majesty of this dining hall a secret from the curious minds of people who would likely never get to see it themselves. With a sigh she set down her equipment and turned so that she was facing him, “Don’t you have friends or something that you can go bother? This seat was empty for a reason”

[sunnysideuprory]

Let’s welcome [Aurora “Rory” Elizabeth Kenworthy] who is part of the [Freshman] class this year. Isn’t it freaky how much they look like [Freya Mavor] ?! Well, this [Ice Queen] is majoring in [Filmography]. People say they are [+ Investigative] and [+ Determined] but can be [ - Cold ] and [ - Impersonable ]. They are [ Female ] and would love it if you used [ She/her ] as their pronouns. ☓ This student is an [ 18 ] year old commoner from [ Genovia ]… Things are about to get interesting in St. Amelie !!

AESTHETIC

Freshly printed newspapers. Postage Stamps. Finding answers. Asking too many questions. Pretending to care. Precise camera angles. Youtube sensations. Hastily written notes tucked in every corner of the room. Dream journals. Spectacles. Vlogs. 

FAMILY

Rory never knew her father. Elsie Kenworthy hadn’t been ready for motherhood but had been determined to do the best that she could. There was no point though in giving up career for family when she could just combine the two. Rory helped fry her first egg at just two years old and appeared on her mother’s show nearly every episode prior to starting her own Youtube channel at 16. 

It’s always been the two of them and whenever anyone else even tries to join the picture Elsie ends up hurt somehow which Rory refuses to stand for. On camera being personable is easy, but in person her walls are extremely solid and you’re not likely to get a word out of her unless she’s trying to get something out of you.