William Cartwright

· WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT· · 30 · DARK FAIRY · --------------------------------- ❝  We all have a DARK side. Most of us go though life AVOIDING direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which i call the SHADOW SELF. There’s a REASON why. It CARRIES a great deal of  ENERGY❞

[willicmccrtwright]

emmasreeds​:

He certainly had a point, at times it could get very overwhelming but she had gotten very good at blocking out the thoughts she didn’t want infiltrating her mind. “At least you know that I’ll understand whatever you say. Does that help?” She asked with a tilt of her head. “Pretty much, yeah,” Emma laughed, “Did I miss that in the introduction packet or something?” 

“Yeah it does.” Will did manage a small if not tight smile at that because as hard as he found it to speak about certain aspects of himself sometimes, he did know that Emma was there to listen. She was one of the few people he actually willingly sought out for her company. He shared more with her than most. “I thought that bit was like fight club.” Will spoke dryly, a smirk on his lips finally.

[willicmccrtwright]

emmasreeds​:

“It does matter. You know I’m happy to listen if you need an ear. I can’t promise any help but… it does matter.” She replied, hating the fact that she couldn’t help. In general it was something that she hated to admit. “You ever feel like you just don’t connect with them? You’re speaking and everyone is just staring at you with blank faces?” 

“You listen enough. I imagine you also get stuck with enough whether you want to or not.” He knew her abilities after all and honestly, Will didn’t know how he would have coped had he been a mind fairy. Most of the time he could just about handle his own thoughts and emotions without the weight of other peoples too. “Isn’t that teaching in a nutshell?” Will spoke so flatly that it was unclear whether he was being sarcastic or straight.

[willicmccrtwright]

emmasreeds​:

“I wasn’t, it just doesn’t feel like a very big roadblock to me. You fight well enough to teach with your arm so I don’t see why it would be that much of a problem for them.” She spoke in response, “Are they waiting for you to prove yourself or something like that?” 

“No.. it’s nothing like that. It doesn’t matter.” Will answered, brushing it off a little. “So tell me what it is that has been going on with you recently. Anything more interesting than mine and all the better if we do it with alcohol.”

[willicmccrtwright]

charlottesdawsons​:

It was only at the comment that Charlotte really realised how much time she was taking up of the others. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I really can’t stop talking once I start.” She apologised with a sigh, “I just don’t know how I’m going to do this, any of it. It seems so easy in theory but now I’m here, I’m just so lost.” Charlotte spoke, still talking even after apologising for talking too much. “I’m trying. This was never meant to be my job, I’ve never had to care this much.” 

“Look,” Will began with a slight sigh, holding a hand out to pause her. “I’m not saying you can’t discuss this with me, I’m just saying that perhaps it’d be better if it was at a set time when one of isn’t going to get interrupted because they have class... or need to teach it.” In his case at least. “But yeah... I get the feeling you’d be great at an aural exam.” He added with a smirk, attempting to lighten the mood a little. “What was your job supposed to be then?”

[willicmccrtwright]

charlottesdawsons​:

“Is it better to write out everything or try to pick the most important things?” She asked before pausing at his next question. “I… don’t think they take me seriously.” Charlotte admitted, “I haven’t really tried much the last few years but then Lucas died and I had to take his role. I don’t think that they think I’m being serious when I ask for help.” 

“You know... I feel like this more than just a sit down in a cafeteria kind of situation you know?” Because the girl was seriously intense when it came to the questions. It was surprising she hadn’t asked for an in depth thesis on how to write up a report complete with citations at this point. Hearing the girls considers though, he let out a slight sound, rubbing the back of his hair. Perhaps if she didn’t look like such a wounded puppy, he would have advised her to speak to someone else but he couldn’t kick her when she already seemed down. “So now you’re trying to make up for those years? That’s a lot of work you know.”

[willicmccrtwright]

emmasreeds​:

“Maybe some of our next lessons need to be planned in order to knock down that confidence? You know, a touch of a reality check.” Emma suggested with a raise of her eyebrows. “That’s not the only thing you’re good at,” She reassured; although she completely understood where he was coming from with the comment. Emma absolutely got what it meant to not feel like you were doing much, or like there was only one thing that you were good at. 

“I am fairly certain that is something I’d be able to manage but I am not sure the high ups would really approve of my methods of building resilience and humility in their student population.” And he really would have been up shit creek without a paddle if he didn’t have this job. He was bad enough for not knowing what to do with himself without this to distract him. “And please... do not start listing off my winning qualities. I’m aware I am not a lost cause I was more referring to my job qualifications, I really don’t need a cheering section to spell it out for me. Well not in the way you think anyway.”

[willicmccrtwright]

simonafairbank​:

“Horrible. I thought I had been making that obvious?” Simona asked with a tilt of their head. “They sound pretty similar to me. Did you not feel like picking up some extra work? That’s a bit slack of you.” 

“Not that it matters to you or is particularly your business but no. I do my job and then I have my own time. I tend not to allow the two to cross otherwise it impacts the social side of things.” And Will did enjoy having a social life where he could. Work was work to him.

[willicmccrtwright]

charlottesdawsons​:

It hadn’t even crossed her mind that perhaps the other was on their break. Most of the time Charlotte started to talk and didn’t stop for nearly anything. “I want a big mac now,” She laughed. “All I do is word vomiting, in literally everything. I can’t stop myself. So it helps to work the question into the answer and use that as the base?” 

“That’s what I have found. If you remember to refer back to it, it tends to stop you straying too far from what they are actually asking you for.” Will had given up on expecting that he was going to actually get a break at this point. “Don’t you voice this to your tutors?” He asked after a moment, because he was fairly certain it was information any member of staff would give a pupil.

[willicmccrtwright]

emmasreeds​:

“Aren’t they meant to write all these questions down so they don’t have to ask us every five minutes? What happened to that?” She asked with a shake of her head. “What else would you do?” 

“Smug, overconfidence happened to that. Teenagers happened to that.” The whole bloody century happened to that if Will were being honest. “There just seems to be a complete lack of respect for things these days.” Though when she asked what he’d do if he wasn’t teaching, Will gave a bit of a shrug. “I don’t know. I’ve always enjoyed fighting but they’re not keen to put me in these days.” He stated, motioning to his metal arm. “Felt like the one thing I was good at though, honestly.”

[willicmccrtwright]

simonafairbank​:

“I was hoping that maybe you’d accidently admit it,” Simona admitted with a small shrug, they’d happy try again later. “So you can skip a meeting but I can’t skip a class? How does that work?” 

“Are you really that bad at listening? I’d advise you to work on it if you want to do well here.” Will warned them, shaking his head a little at the others words. “I never said anything about skipping a meeting, I just explained that no one wants an extra meeting in their lives. We spend enough time making sure that we are doing what is required so that you all achieve your best.”

[willicmccrtwright]

charlottesdawsons​:

“I just mean late in the day- isn’t it a rule or something to only have specific foods at specific times?” Charlotte asked, snacks at different times didn’t bother her too much but perhaps the ‘rule’ was just something her parents decided. Charlotte nodded to the explanation, she was never any good at school but after her brother’s death and her stepping into his role Charlotte thought that she now had to be good at her work in order to live up to his standards. What William was describing was a lot more effort than Charlotte had ever put into her work, but hearing it all listed out in that way made it seem easier to understand to her. “How do you decide which dot points are important enough to make it in? I always try to add everything just in case and then I’m way over the word limit.” 

This was supposed to be his break. He hadn’t intended on getting in a deep discussion about essay tactics or time management, yet here they were. Probably because the girl looked a little like she was about to overheat from getting worked up. “You wanna tell that to McDonalds given several of their stores are open twenty-four hours a day. I don’t think it occurs to them that there is a time and a place to eat a big mac.” He pointed out before giving a slight sigh. “Well that depends on the question I would imagine. Like when you have a test, the first thing you should be doing is underlining the important words in the question so you make your answers specific to what it says rather than just... word vomiting onto the paper.” He was sure the school had someone around to help with things like this.

[willicmccrtwright]

emmasreeds​:

“Do you think it would be too much to start handing out a frequently answered questions flyer?” Emma asked, mostly joking but Emma absolutely would make one if the other agreed. “Exactly! What part of note taking don’t they understand? If they write it down they wouldn’t have to ask us, again.” 

“At the rate they are going, I’m may just have fulfil the urge to staple it to their heads.” Will couldn’t help but grumble a little as he sunk further into the seat he’d taken up residence in. “Sometimes I wonder if I’m not in the wrong profession.”

[willicmccrtwright]

charlottesdawsons​:

At the suggestion, Charlotte almost instantaneously regretted her choice of feel good snack. “That sounds so good-  do you think it’s too late for something like that? Or maybe even some kind of pasta?” She asked, now that the idea was on her mind it would be hard for it to be removed. “I have a schedule but it’s not that detailed. I don’t know how much time I need to dedicate to everything, how do I decide what’s more important than something else?” 

“Why would it be too late?” Will asked with a raised eyebrow at the others question. “I’m just saying you’ll find that’ll help you more than ice cream. But then I’m someone who prefers to eat healthily... most of the time anyway.” Even he had his moments of weakness. “Look, I would start by seeing how many essays you have. Then once you have that, you have the introduction, main points and conclusion so it separates into three parts so figure out the right word count needed for each. Then bullet point main things you want to raise for the middle and it will help you figure out approximately how many words you have for each point.” He explained briefly. “And say you had a 1500 word essay, figure out how many days you have until its due date and divide that by the number of words to get a minimum of what you can get away with each day; also taking into account anything else you have coming up.” 

[willicmccrtwright]

simonafairbank​:

Simona wasn’t expecting the teacher to be laying on the other side of the bench and jumped as they heard the voice. “Is that you admitting it?” Simona then asked, attempting to cover up the fact that they jumped with their words. 

“Either you don’t read sarcasm well or I am losing my touch.” Will answered, forcing himself up so that at least he wasn’t so hidden. “Funnily enough, no teacher actually wants to be in a meeting when they don’t have to be.”

[willicmccrtwright]

emmasreeds​:

Compared to almost anyone else, William was the only one that Emma actually believed didn’t have ulterior motives, but even still she asked just in case. “I completely get that, I feel like I’ve only been talking about my classes all week. Has it been the same for you?” 

“I feel as though if I have to repeat myself another time, I may just choose to take a run at the nearest wall, headfirst.” Because sometimes it felt like he was fighting a losing battle with some of his students. “You wouldn’t think some people had worked so hard to get here in the first place.”

[willicmccrtwright]

simonafairbank​:

“I have a conspiracy theory,” Simona announced, barely waiting for the other’s reaction before they started talking again, “I think all the teachers have meetings just so they can plan to have tests and assignments due all on the same day. Seriously, I have three assignments due tomorrow and a test the next day. I think I’m onto something here, what do you think? How many do you have?” 

“Oh yes, that’s exactly what we do. Because that is what we enjoy doing with our spare time.” Will murmured from where he’d been making the most of the good weather, splayed out on one of the benches. Given the fact they were behind it, Will wasn’t surprised they hadn’t spotted him. 

[emmasreeds]

“Look, I do appreciate the coffee but I have to admit it does make me a tad suspicious.” Emma commented, although not suspicious enough to deny the caffeine as she took a sip of it. “What can I help you with?” 

[willicmccrtwright]

“Not everyone has nefarious intentions.” Will pointed out. “I really haven’t the energy to be anything but forthright at the best of times. It’s usually what ends up getting me into trouble.” He stated with a little shrug of his shoulders. “Absolutely nothing. I just... needed some adult conversation for once.”