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Tweak says, "Hey stud, want to dance?"

gullywarps (gullywarps) wrote in badwater_rpg,
@ 2009-01-17 16:53:00

Entry tags:

gulliver morris, january, robin chambers

Who: Gully and [You! :O]
What: Gully's bored and finetuning his ~~ability~~ people watching skills.
When: All day, any time on Saturday
Where: The Mall

Things were really starting to look up for this kid. Not that they were down, but, he wasn't anything special, and now he could play video games in the most realistic setting his mind could think of with unbelievable surround sound without having to pay a dime, and he was super close to finally asking the one girl he'd always wanted to date, to, well, go on a date. So yeah, two biggies mean this kid was flying pretty high in inner-awesomeness right now. But he wasn't dumb either. He read comics, religiously. So his understanding? Sure, he seemed to already be capable of a lot with his power, but, he knew he needed to start off small and go big, and there were plenty of theories in his head that needed testing.

So, where does any kid go that needs to do some hardcore studying? The mall. Two bags of mcdonald's wrappers were seated on the bench he occupied, along with some tacos that he was just in the process of eating as he watched people walk by. Some he knew, most he didn't. The first thing he'd been playing with were people's phones. Someone that walked by, he'd trigger some sort of random, generic ringtone. It worked, often leaving people confused. Little things like that had gone by real fast and gotten boring. The next thing he was working on was how many people could be affected, and, how far, if he could notice the distance. So, how to do that inconspicuously? Have a large bird start flying around in the mall.. Okay, so he'd gone and upped himself and done a hawk. Why not? He wanted to make sure he could actually notice when people turned their head to gawk and take pictures.

What could possibly make him stand out though, aside from the awesomely bright purple sweatshirt? Maybe the little fact that while everyone was watching the 'hawk' fly around in a frenzy, he was the only one not caring. He could feel the strain though, because anyone really in at least a 25ft radius that he could notice was being affected. It was a small price to pay right now for his own amusement, a goofy little side grin seemingly plastered onto his face when he wasn't gnawing at the hardshell taco.

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electricrobin
2009-01-18 07:39 pm UTC (link)

He would never come to the mall on his own again. Especially not to buy a woman a birthday gift. What did he know about getting a girl a gift? Clothes didn't work. God forbid he should guess her size and get it wrong. Too small or too big, either way she'd be angry at him thinking it was a comment on her weight. Flowers were romantic, and he didn't want to give that impression. He'd just been wandering around staring in the windows for the past hour. What was that store with the lotions and perfumes? Couldn't go wrong with a pretty set of lotions right?

Robin had been in search of Bath and Body Works when he caught sight of the bird over his head. For everyone else, it was just a strange bird that had gotten stuck inside some how. For a guy that worked with animals for a living though, the way the animal looked and acted just felt -- off for some reason. It took a while to put a finger on it.

He sat down on the bench beside Gully, amused that the younger didn't seem as interested in the creature as everyone else. It was just a bird, after all. "How strange. Those birds usually are naturally much calmer, their flying much smoother..." He commented, mostly to himself as he watched the strange behavior. Robin waited for the animal to settle, wanting to help it, but there was no way he could catch a bird. Especially not one acting so frenzied.

Absently, he thought of Dietre -- How the younger male could create the image of an animal just by thinking it. Sometimes without meaning too. However, they sometimes didn't look or act right either. Perhaps someone else could do that. That or the hawk was really just stuck and freaked out.

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gullywarps
2009-01-20 04:46 pm UTC (link)

He was shopping for a girl? Oh man. Maybe it was a good thing that Robin ended up sitting down with Gully. The kid wasn't gay, in fact, he'd been trying to forever court his best friend, but man did the boy ever act it. Shopping with or for girls? He was a pro. Colors, styles, somehow, he understood it all, with next to no female influence in his life whatsoever.

"Taco?" He questioned. He remembered Robin. The guy was practically a regular at the comic shop, and Gully would never not share his food with someone. Consider it a generous habit. The other's comment though? About the bird? It made Gully frown. He was aiming for likeness, though, in greater detail, there definitely would be a lot missing from the illusion, but from afar, it looked dead on. The behaviors though? It wasn't something Gully had in his head, so he was bluffing the whole thinking of a hawk... which really all came down to his old days of reading Animorphs. This 'hawk', was whatever he could recall from K.A. Applegate's narrations of Tobias. And so far, only one jerk was able to tell fact from fiction.

However, it was slightly uncomfortable having his ability activated and someone sitting next to him. He needed to make the bird go away without simply vanishing. He wasn't by any exits, so there was no way he could illustrate the bird leaving through an opened door. So he did the next best thing, had it swoop low enough to make a few people duck down (which was hard to retain that goofy smirk on his face of sheer entertainment), and then had the bird sharply turn a corner, only to completely just disappear with no indication of it ever being there. And for the people with cameras? Well, they were certainly going to be dissapointed and confused.

Taking a bite from the taco that was already being eaten, he looked up to Robin and smiled as if he hadn't done a damn thing wrong. "So what adventure summons you to the Mall of Miscreants old timer?"

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