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[x_butterfly]

Okay, so this is like the cyber version of making the new kid stand up in front of class and spill all their deepest, darkest secret, right? How 21st century of you guys. This is a lot nicer than where I usually wind up. ‘Cause, you know, mansion. I don’t think people with houses like this usually go “oh, that weird girl who sometimes brings decomposing things back to life is just what I need. She’d go with my new vase!” (Please tell me no one is going to try to match me to a vase. If they try to make me wear something with flowers or butterflies or paisley I am so out of here.)

Is there like a no pawning the silver rule? It seems like the kinda place that needs one of those.

I'm probably doing this whole Care Bear share time thing all wrong, huh? Right. Let's start over.

Dear Diary,

I'm Layla. I'm from New York (city, not just the state) from a little place Lame People call Midtown West, but anyone who's family has legit been there forever still calls it Hell's Kitchen. Unless they've converted to yuppism (I hear that's like Scientology but less creepy) but then they're pretty much in the Lame People category anyway. So, yeah, I'm blonde. I skate. I only trip over my own feet like three times a day. And I make zombies.

Okay, so it's basically zombie roadkill but apparently people don't dig the Roadkill Day of the Dead like you'd think they would. I mean, I pretty much just sometimes bring shit back to life. It’s not that creepy really. Unless you’re like really scared of zombies or something, I guess. Killing spiders takes all day sometimes. That’s annoying.

Matt's a total liar, there's no map. But if you people try to get me lost on purpose while I’m busy already getting lost? I will figure out where you sleep and I will put all the zombie rats in your bed because that is so not on. I don’t know if rabies survives death and then rising from the dead. Someone should do a study on that or something. It could be a legit problem these days.

And Muppet Yoda! I know you're out there in cyberland somewhere! You totally skipped something epic in your recruitment speech! Like how you totally are a Kitty Superhero and rescue damsels in towers and throw the smack down on bad guys and wtf, yo? This is totally why Yoda got replaced with tech, you know. You keep failing me! This is like vitally important 411 and shit. But I guess I'll let you slide this time because YodaPhone is here to save me from your total disclosure fail. (I just need a Yoda voice ringtone for him)

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[x-mandelbrot.livejournal.com]

Six? Like in the whole school or just in your graduating class? Because that's bigger than my graduating class right now, at least.

Oh, so you're a delinquent, huh? A reformed delinquent? Or maybe a "reformed" one? Serious points off for having a lame name like the Bad Kids Club. You guys couldn't think of anything better than that?

[x-skin.livejournal.com]

Two of the girls never graduated, so four in my graduating class.

Let's say mostly reformed. I finish law school next year, but I try not to be boring. Bad Kids Club wasn't really a name, it was just kind of a designation and we weren't really trying for a proper one. I guess it is kind of lame.

[x-mandelbrot.livejournal.com]

See so you had more than me. It's just me and Matt's legs graduating together. (the rest of him has to wait another year)

You could've at least picked a name so you didn't get the lame designation. You could even steal from existing names. Like you could've been the Blackhearts.

You're going to law school? So do you have to hand over your soul before or after you take the bar exam? I always wanted to know that.

[x-skin.livejournal.com]

I'm going to declare us the Blackhearts retrospectively.

After, I think. Or maybe it's a gradual process when you start taking money to defend people who do immoral but technically legal stuff. I'm going into human rights and pro bono as far as I can.

[x-mandelbrot.livejournal.com]

Joan Jett is going to sue you for plagiarism or something. But it's okay because you are maybe almost a lawyer! You like how that works out?

Pro bono meaning you will be the most broke ass lawyer ever? You totally need to charge someone or your life of ramen noodles will never end. I get that ramen is kind of awesome but it's not awesome enough to be every meal you ever eat for the rest of your life! See? This is how the soullessness happens. It all starts with a pizza craving...

[x-skin.livejournal.com]

It works out kind of awesome all round.

No, see, I've got it all worked out. First, if the client can afford to pay for the work I'd be doing for them anyway, I'll totally take their money. Second, if they can't afford to pay, there's Legal Aid work so I get paid just not by them. Third, my future business partner is a man with a plan and a trust fund and also my mentor and current boss runs the most well-funded and generously-paying NGO ever. I'm set.

[x-mandelbrot.livejournal.com]

So basically you've got two sugar daddies? That's not fair. There's little twink prostitutes trying their hardest to give the blow job of their life so they can get a sugar daddy and here you're monopolizing the market!

[x-skin.livejournal.com]

And I've never even had to sleep with either of them. (Not that I'd mind, you'd understand if you saw them). Really unfair, I know.

[x-mandelbrot.livejournal.com]

You're totally violating the sugar baby code of conduct here. Don't you know you can't be a sugar baby unless your sugar daddy is getting something from you? Sure, it's usually sex but it doesn't have to be. Read them bedtime stories in their old age, pretend you find their decrepit bodies attractive, give pity handjobs every once in a while. There's going to be a sugar baby revolt against you, just wait. All those angry little tramps and high class skanks and twinks? All coming for you with the fury only people totally broke and giving blow jobs to gross, sad, obese men can have. Just you wait.

[x-skin.livejournal.com]

I'll have to think of a way to make it up to them.

[x-mandelbrot.livejournal.com]

Good luck with that one unless you're giving up your sugar daddies.

[xp_daytripper]

Retrospectively as a Blackheart, I agree with the name. 'S better than the Nicotine Twins. ;)

Heya, new girl. I'm Amanda, one of the two who didn't graduate. I work with the smart arse down below who posts song videos at the Snow Valley Centre for Mutant Affairs in Manhattan.

[x-mandelbrot.livejournal.com]

Hello Lady Blackheart! You haven't sold your soul to the law because of sugar daddies though, right? Because I need to draw the line at two. One is passable but having two of you...I'll have to disown someone and you know that shit never ends well. ;)

So you and Random Smartass Nerd are in the city? Awesome. I will miss the city, land of Indian curry and Thai food. What am I going to do with myself? I could become a hipster and be all emo but...uh, yeah, no. So what does a Centre for Mutant Affairs do? And isn't it "center" in this country? Ooooh, are you a dirty Canadian passing as an American? 'Cause that's shady.

[xp_daytripper]

Nope, no soul selling here. Or sugar daddies. Just a hard working research assistant.

There's actually a regular bus run into New York on Saturdays - Jean-Phillipe, the French RA, drives it and can help you out with the hows and whats and the rest of it. So you're not exiled from a decent curry, which is good because Salem Center sucks for Indian. There's a good Chinese place, I seem to remember, tho'. No need for hipster-ness.

And I'm a Brit, not a Canuck, tho' there's one of those handing about the mansion as well. The Centre was named by a Brit, which is why the correct spelling - we research, well, mutant affairs - we advise various interest groups and the like about ways to cater for mutants and such.

[x-mandelbrot.livejournal.com]

Do you research something interesting at least? 'Cause it seems like doing research all day could be awesome or could make you want to gouge out your eyes depending on what you're reading all day.

Really? Awesome! I really can't stand the hipster jeans and elitist indie attitude thing so that's a relief. Curry, you will be mine again!

Okay well you get points for being a Brit. Mostly because Brits make cool TV shows, have awesome accents and are really vulgar (why do people think British people are super proper and shit?). So your research is like, "this is how you deal with a spiky girl who can cut through the desk just by sitting in it" and "this is how not to react to the frogs you're about to dissect coming back to life" and stuff like that?

[xp_daytripper]

Definitely interesting. My 'boss' is an anthropologist. And there's plenty of field work.

Snow Valley's more the big scale sort of thing than the school, which deals with specifics like that. We're more a "mutants in society" gig.

[x-mandelbrot.livejournal.com]

Not like the kind of anthropologist that digs through garbage, right? I thought anthropology was cool once because archaeology is part of it and then I could be like the female Indiana Jones, right? But then I found out some anthropologists go through the trash all day and that was the end of my dream to be Indiana Jones.

So like teaching tolerance and stuff? Being all "they were born this way so stop being a dick" basically? Only, you know, nicer.