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justbeingbay ([personal profile] justbeingbay) wrote in [community profile] fandomhighdorms2014-02-15 09:45 am

Third Floor Common Room, Saturday Morning

Dom had been pretty thoroughly annoyed when some random curly-haired kid started banging on his door at way-too-freaking-early o'clock Saturday morning. But that was Fandom: It was never going to let anybody sleep in the day after a dance. Not when it had a chance to screw with people's lives like this.

After he'd talked to Luca for long enough to figure out what was going on, he sent Gert a text and then went on over to the common room. He wasn't some great chef, but give him a box of pancake mix and he could follow the instructions.

Luca insisted on helping, which mostly consisted of dumping half the milk on the counter instead of in the bowl. "And can we put chocolate chips in them?" he asked. "Please?"

Dom glanced over from where he was trying to track down the paper towels. "Tell you what, buddy," he said. "I bet we can put peanut butter and chocolate chips in them."

Luca grinned in satisfaction and kept "helping" as Dominic made what was probably an insane number of pancakes. But he figured they'd get eaten. They always did on weekends like this.

[OOC: Open common room. With pancakes.]
arsenicmauls: (neu: yeah this is okay (pb))

[personal profile] arsenicmauls 2014-02-15 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"And here I was starting to think childlessness was a multiversal constant for every version of me," Gert said as she came into the common room, her phone still in her hand.

She nodded a hello to Dom, then turned to size Luca up. "Hey, you. What's your name? And how weird is this for you?"

[identity profile] andmypetdino.livejournal.com 2014-02-15 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Luca bit his lip thoughtfully at the question. "It'd be a lot more weird except you told me about alternate 'verses," he decided. "And hi. I'm Luca. I'm six. How weird is this for you?"
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[personal profile] arsenicmauls 2014-02-15 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"Extremely," Gert assured him wryly. "But at least there's pancakes to make it better, right?"

Pancakes solved most things.
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[personal profile] arsenicmauls 2014-02-15 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's more than I can say about any batch of pancakes I've made," Gert noted, impressed. "Congrats."

She shot Luca a conspiratorial look. "Tell me we've both gotten better at cooking where you're from. Otherwise you have my deepest sympathies."

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[identity profile] fly-so-serious.livejournal.com 2014-02-15 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Joker edged closer to Gert. "Do you... have any idea what's going on?" he asked softly, gesturing at the kids. "'Cause Creepy McRoboWeird ain't telling me jack."
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[personal profile] arsenicmauls 2014-02-15 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"Multiversal portals went wacky, dropped off a bunch of our alternate universe selves' kids," Gert summarized. She eyed Shepard, then quipped, "Looks like AU-you had a kid with one of those people who pretend to be robots in tourist neighborhoods."
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[identity profile] fly-so-serious.livejournal.com 2014-02-15 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"No," Joker insisted. "No, no, no, please, no. I would never spawn something that creepy!"
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[personal profile] arsenicmauls 2014-02-16 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
"Whoa, calm down," Gert said. "I'm joking. But maybe you don't want to call him creepy where he can hear you, dude."

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[identity profile] famousinspace.livejournal.com 2014-02-15 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Nolan knew he should've been looking for his parents, probably. But he knew how to take care of himself: hey, he'd been around restricted backstage areas and starships his entire life! A little island couldn't hold that many dangers for him, could it.

Also, exploration was fun.

"Ooooooh, pancakes! Cool!"

See? Fun.

[identity profile] islets-of-dr-me.livejournal.com 2014-02-15 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"No, they are warm," Shepard insisted. "They're better that way."

[identity profile] famousinspace.livejournal.com 2014-02-15 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's just an expression," Nolan pointed out. "Means sweet." Wait, that was another colloquialism. "It means I like that there's pancakes."

Growing up around communication across svere cultural boundaires had obviously done something to him.

[identity profile] islets-of-dr-me.livejournal.com 2014-02-16 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
"You are right that pancakes are sweet," Shepard pointed out, "but sweet is not cool."

Certain behavior was expected of synthetic organisms. It was fun to play to the stereotypes in order to mess with people.

[identity profile] famousinspace.livejournal.com 2014-02-16 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah," Nolan replied slowly. "That's why I said it means that I like pancakes. "Because those are just expressions."

[identity profile] andmypetdino.livejournal.com 2014-02-15 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"They got peanut butter and chocolate chips," Luca said, waving a fork for emphasis. "They're the best pancakes ever."

[identity profile] famousinspace.livejournal.com 2014-02-15 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"Awesome." Yeah, Nolan's approval was pretty easy to gain. Even if he suspected some of Mom's chef friends made the best pancakes ever. "Can I have some?"

[identity profile] andmypetdino.livejournal.com 2014-02-16 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
"My dad made lots and lots," Luca nodded proudly. "And I helped."

By making a mess, mostly.

"My name's Luca," he added. "I'm six."

[OOC: ...wtf, self.]
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[identity profile] famousinspace.livejournal.com 2014-02-16 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
"Nolan G.D. Kirk-Adams," Nolan rattled off as he went to get himself some pancakes. "Nine."

Age was kind of like a rank, wasn't it?

[identity profile] fly-so-serious.livejournal.com 2014-02-15 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Joker had been looking worriedly at the stove on the floor above, when Shepard had apparently 'detected the odor of pancakes and extrapolated its source'. Scary kid.

So he headed down a floor, with the creepy gray-skinned child with glowing eyes tagging along. "Can we mooch?" he asked. "I was going to make some... but you can probably do it without burning them."

[identity profile] islets-of-dr-me.livejournal.com 2014-02-15 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"YOUR ROBOT OVERLORD DEMANDS SUSTENANCE," Shepard added, doing his best not to giggle.

[identity profile] andmypetdino.livejournal.com 2014-02-16 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
Luca actually did giggle.

"I CAN TALK LIKE A ROBOT TOO," he said, in his best robot voice. "TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER."

[identity profile] islets-of-dr-me.livejournal.com 2014-02-16 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
"No, that's my thing!" Shepard pouted. "I'm half synthetic, so I get to be the robot overlord!"

[identity profile] fly-so-serious.livejournal.com 2014-02-16 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
"Hey, thanks!" Joker replied. He gave his kid a sidelong glance and cringed. "Eeeeeegh, yeah. Pancakes may help."