--you-- NAME YOU’D LIKE TO GO BY? Holo. YOUR PREFERRED PRONOUNS? She/her AGE? 21 TIME ZONE? MST (UTC -7) 1-10 ACTIVITY LEVEL? 5 on average
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CHARACTER? Laura Kinney PREFERRED PRONOUNS? She/her BIRTHDAY (day and month)? February 18 QUESTIONS/REQUESTS YOU HAVE ABOUT THEM?
Could the FC be switched to Courtney Eaton (Chinese/Maori/Cook Islander/English descent) please? The Courtney Eaton FC change requesthas been accepted!
SAMPLE PARA:
X-23 wasn’t used to contemplating what she wanted, only what she did not want, and how to avoid what she did not want. When Wolverine asked if she wanted to go to the Xavier Institute, she said nothing, because she did not know. When he asked what she wanted from the Denny’s menu a few hours later, she knew she did not want pancakes or french toast, so she quickly chose something that was neither of those things, only for the waiter to ask her which of six different ways she wanted her eggs cooked. She felt her heart rate climb, her mind and body working together to force her into a quick reaction, but this was not a fight, flight, or freeze situation; it was eggs. No sound came out of her mouth. X-23—mutant, martial artist, polyglot, acrobat, tracker, and former assassin—had been stymied by egg preparation.
The awkward silence stretched on for seconds that felt much longer to X-23. The waiter seemed to give up on the young woman answering for herself and looked to Logan for an answer instead. “How does your kid like her eggs?”
“I’m not his—! I’m not a—!” X-23 interrupted, launching to her feet with a speed that jostled the table, splashing coffee onto the placemats, making the silverware clang, and causing the waiter to jump a couple feet back with his hands palm outwards in front of his chest to show nonaggression. Her glare softened as she saw the wide eyes of a child sitting in a nearby booth, watching, and she realized that this was a bad place for claws, and that attacking a waiter was a good way to change her destination from school to prison.
“Whoa, I’m sorry Miss, I just thought—you know—didn’t mean any harm,” he stammered.
X-23 was shaking with the effort it took to control herself as she sat stiffly back down. The restaurant was quiet, except for the soft rock playing on the speakers, the background noise of the kitchen equipment, and the oblivious child blowing bubbles in his milk with a straw, but there was never truly silence with her senses. She could hear the waiter’s heartbeat and smell his nervous perspiration.
“I want them like this,” she said tersely, stabbing her pointer finger at a photo on the menu. She did not know how she wanted her eggs, but she knew she did not want someone to speak for her, or assume she could not speak for herself. She did not want to be treated like a child, nor as a weapon, although she did not know what choices that left her with. A person, she supposed—Laura. “I did not mean to alarm you… Jeremy,” she said, glancing at his name tag.
Jeremy smiled, relieved and unnerved. “Sunny side up, no problem, Miss.”
“Laura,” she supplied.
She liked the sound of that, however unfamiliar it was to her lips. She did not know if she deserved the name considering what she did to the woman who gave it to her—Sarah, Mother—but she knew she did not want to think about her right now.
When the waiter returned with their orders, her brown eyes lit up at the sight and smell of the skillet, with steak, peppers, potatoes, cheese, and eggs. She didn’t recall ever getting to eat something that smelled so good, and dug in eagerly, until she reached the eggs. Her face contorted dramatically with repulsion at the slimy texture as she ate them, but she chose to think of it as a lesson learned. Laura Kinney did not know how she liked her eggs cooked, but she did not like them sunny side up.
HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THIS RP? Clicked on a para from AXRPG I wanted to show someone, and saw the page linking to this group instead. Also, Breezus, even though I only saw the message yesterday. #awkward
KEYWORD & FINAL REMARKS?
Eating disorder behavior trigger warnings would be much appreciated. :)