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Even the planet spins with a tilt

Who: Lorna Dane and OTA
What: wandering around thinking she's a teenager
Where: Heropa, mostly
When: the week of the memory plot
Warnings: Teenage Lorna is adorable, but some threads may become NSFW. These will be marked when necessary.

01 Lorna's House
Lorna was out in the garden, or what would soon be the garden. A book about growing herbs was in the grass next to her, and she looked over at it from time to time.

There were three animals playing in the grass. One was a cat-like creature, the others were actual cats. Now and then Lorna looked up to smile at them.

She hummed as she worked, obviously not afraid to get her hands a little dirty. In fact that was most of the fun. Today she was just clearing out some of the grass so she could fertilize and plant the next day. It was going to be awesome.

02 The Beach
After tending to her garden Lorna decided to take in some sun. So she went out in her bikini and took a cab to the closest pier. She remembered the Pacific ocean so clearly, but had never seen the Atlantic. Hopefully it would be as nice. Surely it would, nature was glorious no matter where you went.

Once she arrived she made a bee line for the sand, doffing her sarong and settling her little cooler on the way to the tide line. She waded in joyfully, her heart light with the wonder of this glorious view.

03 Wildcard

Put up your own starter, or hit me up at nyx.not.nicks@gmail.com or nyxnotnicks on plurk and we'll come up with a way for Lorna to meet your character.

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Charles actually loved the beach now that he could hover with his chair over the sand and not get caught up in it. He made a point visiting whenever he could.

Today, however, wasn't one of those days when he just randomly wandered in. He had landed back with Erik just in time to see people lose their minds, memories, and it worried him. Naturally he reached out to all of them to make sure they were okay and safe.

He hadn't met Lorna properly before they had left for Europe but Erik had told him enough. There was obviously something wrong with the state of her mind.

He paused by her towel at the sand and waited for her to return from the ocean, smiling pleasantly with his hands locked on his lap. "It's a lovely day, isn't it?"

Lorna paused when she saw the man in the hovering wheelchair by her stuff. She smiled at him, waving as she approached. He was a stranger, but what harm could he be?

"It really is." Now that she was close enough to get a look at him he was quite attractive. She assumed he was there to flirt with her, because of course she looked good as well. She gave him a brilliant smile, then went to her little cooler and dug out a Coke. "Drink?"

This was definitely a change from the last time he spoke with her. Charles didn't want to alarm her, so he smiled and shook his head easily.

"No, but thank you."

She didn't know who he was. Charles didn't pry very deeply into her mind at all, just enough to catch a few tell tale signs. He'd been seeing these strange occurrences with other people but this was a completely new one.

"Professor Charles Xavier," he said and offered her his hand in a greeting.

Lorna took his hand, thinking back to before she'd come to this strange new world. "Oh! Bobby told me about you! I was on my way to your school, to be with other mutants!" She's very excited about this, because who wouldn't love to find out they're not alone in the world? Plus now she has superpowers and that is pretty sweet.

Oh, well, this was a curious turn of events. He didn't know anyone called "Bobby" but considering the timeline craziness of this place, it wasn't exactly surprising. The Porter had decided to take people back and forth before.

"I hope only good things," he said with a twinkle of amusement in his eyes. "What should I call you, miss...?" He squeezed her hand firmly and gave a friendly pat to the back of it with his other hand.

[ ooc: I'm sorry this took so long! ]

"I'm Lorna! Lorna Dane. Bobby says your school is the best place for pre like us. I'm just. . . I've thought I was strange all my life, but now I know there are other people like me and it's so exciting!" She squeezed his hand back, giving him a brilliant, unencumbered smile.

"That is why the school is there," Charles said with a delighted smile. "It's enough that we have these abilities that can be difficult to come to terms with but to do so alone is something no one should endure."

"I'm so glad that I'm not alone. Though I haven't been since I woke up here." She giggled, remembering waking up next to Remy. Thankfully she remembered how he'd gotten there or he might have been in trouble! "Is there a version of your school here? Are there other mutants beside Remy and me?"

"Oh, there used to be at least. I'm not sure about the current situation," Charles replied with a bit of a mild shrug. "It's a curious detail about this place. I've been here a handful of times. And one of those times I founded a school, that was then handed down to other people when I left and the last version of me before my time didn't choose to continue with the school. I'm not sure why but I felt like perhaps I should honour that decision and the people now running the school. They're calling it 'Hope'."

He gave a smile that was sweet and bright at the same time. He had no reservations about this. "But I do take students outside my work hours and try to help that way."

He paused and then asked because oh he was curious: "Remy? I don't think I'm familiar with him."

He sounded like a good person. Lorna smiled and nodded, listening intently. When he asked about Remy she blushed a bit, but answered, grinning widely. "He's my roommate, apparently. He was there when I woke up and he helped explain things. He seems very nice."

The fact that they'd been in bed together was not important, she didn't think, nor particularly any of Charles's business.

No, it definitely wasn't any business of Charles, who was mostly interested in Remy because Lorna had named him another mutant. He tried to go out of his way to learn something about everyone who came from their universe, or the various versions of it.

"And he's from back home? He also goes to the school?"

"He said we were on a team together? But he didn't mention the school. I don't know, maybe I graduated?" She shrugged. "But he's a mutant, and he makes good french toast. That's about all I remember right now."

She's definitely a little out of it. Charles doesn't call attention to it. He'll have to meet Remy on his own time somehow. Because he's a little worried about Lorna right now.

"What're you going to do here in this place? There's no mutant school here."

Lorna pauses. She didn't quite know, actually. After a minute she shrugs. "Go to regular school, get my degree, maybe become a professor myself." She thought she would be a good teacher, in time. She certainly had a passion for her subject! Maybe her magnetic powers would give her a leg up in the geophysics field.

Raina is stretched out on the beach, enjoying some sun. Heropa might have been miserable for the hair with its humidity, but it is nice to be able to maintain a nice healthy glow during the winter months just by stepping through the porter.

She spots Lorna walking by, pulling down her sunglasses just to comment: "What a lovely shade of hair. Is that your natural color?"

Lorna isn't used to people talking to her about her new hair color yet. She touches the strands closest to her face and chuckles. "Yeah. Thank you. Your hair is nice too."

"Oh no. Give the humidity some time and it will definitely be a mess. I used to live out here in Heropa, but I can say I am glad that I moved out." Raina pats the empty space on the towel beside her.

"I'm guessing you're an imPort. Is this the city they assigned you to?"

Lorna happily sits next to Raina, giving her a sunny smile. "Yeah, I guess? I don't remember, but my house is here, apparently. Where do you live now? Did you come to visit someone or just enjoy the beach?"

As of yet, Archie has not noticed Lorna. He has Mightyena out, the hyena-dog-thing digging at something in the sand nearby. Hopefully she won't get hit by the debris.

"What? What are you doing?" he asks the dog, crouching next to it. Mightynea barks in reply.

"Hidden item? You don't have Pickup!"

The strange animal catches Lorna's attention. She can't help but stare, but that doesn't satisfy her curiosity. So she walks over, smiling brightly. "That's an amazing dog! What's its name?"

"Oh!"

He jumps when Lorna approaches. He was really focused on watching Mightyenea.

"He's called Mighty-- wait, Lorna? You know him!"

She frowned, then shook her head. "I don't? I've never seen anything like him before? But there are strange animals here. There's a pink cat at my house, Remy called it May."

Lorna shrugged, then held her hand out for the mightyenea to sniff. It had to be friendly if it was a pet, right?

"That's... Skitty. A Skitty I gave to you, it's called May, after--"

He closes his eyes. Never mind.

"Did something happen? Are you alright?"

"I'm alright. But something definitely happened. I'm apparently supposed to remember a whole lot of stuff that I don't. But May is in good hands, I promise I'm taking the best care of her."

He grins a little.

"I'm not worried at all. I gave her to you because I knew you could look after her no matter what," he says with a nod. "I'm sure your memory will come back."

"I'm okay if it doesn't. It doesn't bother me not to remember things that I never experienced, if that makes sense? It's just weird looking in mirrors and seeing my older self looking back at me."

"At least you're takin' it we--"

..."Older?"

"Yeah, by like, a lot. I remember being 19. I guess I'm in my thirties here?" She shrugged. It was weird and she tried not to think about it.

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omg I'm so sorry for being a slacker about this thread

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