#syra's school adventures

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breaking news! area student has, after 36 hours of incredibly stressed research and notetaking, finally written an outline and one (1) page of the first draft of her term paper

she now has ~22 hours to complete the other nine (9!!!!) pages she needs to submit for peer review

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For the OC questions (Sorry for being so late, been a busy.. gaming wise, weekend!) 90-100 for Mal 1-10 for Annika 20-30 for Maeve 40-50 for a teenage Syra perhaps?

[Ga]Mal[l] Sullyvan

90. What is their occupation?

Gamall is a full-time Wanderer, which is a type of Valasyr who specializes in wandering between cities, countries, planets, and even universes seeking to harness as much knowledge and power as possible. They are also often called knowledge and power devourers.

Currently, Gamall is a full-time Biologist and freelance Gardener.

91. Do other characters respect your OC, if so, is it out of fear? Or do they respect your OC because they like them?

Depends. His family respects him dearly. From where he came he was respected out of utter fear. But those days are in the past and he is living a new life and earning respect by hard labor.

92. If they were given minutes to live, what would they do? Who would they want to see and say?

Gamall once was in this position, and he had wanted back then to see his former wife Caitlyn and former son Seimei before disappearing. He went and got a few last minutes with them, but he didn't die. He wished he did. For time came to claim Caitlyn eventually, and as for Seimei, he killed the boy when he came seeking "revenge" for the death of his father.

He now has come to the conclusion that if death ever comes for him, it's not like he can prepare for it. So he lives every day as if he only had minutes to live, seeking to amass as much fulfillment as he can, rather by the form of material goods, personal knowledge, spiritual power, hedonistic pleasure, or life experiences.

93. How do they deal with stress?

Gamall is already quite the shittalker and blabbermouth, but when under stress that becomes worse. But he is paradoxal and it mostly depends on the type of stress, it can either be met with agression or silence and either of the two are always foreboding.

94. Do they have a more submissive or dominate personality type?

Versatile personality. Gamall adapts well to the people around him, but he is not a pushover and he despises whoever tries to dominate him by force. He does enjoys playing the sub as much as the dom and though Gamall can actually be very manipulative, it is not on his interests to dominate or command others, usually his manipulation only working to make sure people don't bother him.

95. Do they have a pet?

Currently no. But they'll have a lot of chickens and a lot of cows.

Gamall used to have a horse called Eggplant, but there's a running gag that if he gets a horse it'll die, so... yea, that happened.

96. Do they have a stash of weapons?

Pffft. They don't exactly need too, they can kill you with their mind alone, but this is the type of asshole who will kill you with a duck if you tell him he can't.

97. Where do they live? Who do they live with?

The farmlands. Gamall isn't keen on big cities or places with a lot of people around because it usually means trouble and pain for him and he'd rather not.

98. How do they calm themselves down?

Depends. He has found out that addressing a fireball to whom it may concern is a great way to calm down, but he can't exactly commit capital murder everytime someone annoys him. Gardening currently has been providing him a lot of calm and quiet he needs.

99. Are they co-dependent?

No.

100. Are they a day, or night person?

Night person, it helps that he doesn't need sleep.

1. How do they present themselves to others?

Anika comes off as a smart, kind and fun girl, your level-headed rich girl who's always had everything she needed.

To her dad however, she's a rebelious teenager finally breaking free from a sheltered and controled life. She is finally learning magic rather he wants her to or not and continuing on his footsteps trying to find a way to return Apollo's heart and find a way to save Arlo.

2. Do they like animals?

Yes. Anika had a cat as a child, but due to her mother's illness she had to give away the cat. After her mother passed away, Anika and Apollo adopted a dog. Anika ended up being the one to keep the dog, since Arlo hurt their dog when they tried to take it to Apollo's home.

3. How do they dress?

Anika dresses in a very sporty rich way. She prefers wearing high end sports clothes, leggings, crop tops and track suits, anything she can move well in and exercise in. Sometimes she pairs them with fishnets and accessories that give her a more sporty witch feel.

4. How many languages do they know?

Anika speaks english and spanish.

5. How big is their family?

Currently it's just her and her father. Her mother used to be around but she was killed by an unknown dragon who her father refuses to name.

6. What is their purpose in the story?

Anika is Apollo's best friend and girlfriend, she is also a witch and a dragon hunter, who is currently aiding Apollo in finding a cure for Arlo's rot the same way her father before sought her mothers. After her mother's death, Anika decided she had a duty to Apollo to help him save her brother, as it was Anika who lured Arlo to the trap.

7. Do they know how to fight?

Anika is petite, but Anika can kick your ass. Her father taught her kickboxing.

8. What is their back story?

Anika is the only daughter of Isaiah and Melantha Lorenn, she moved with her father to Windenburg when he was offered a position as a principle at the school. She lived a pretty uneventful life despite her father's side work as a dragon hunter and spellcaster. Anika herself was a powerful spellcaster but her father kept her away from the major things he was doing. Eventually, Anika fell to a trick to capture the two child dragons, her best friend Apollo and Arlo.

9. Why is their name, their name?

I really liked the sound of Anika, and since Isaiah and Melantha also had unique names, I wanted Anika to have a name that would feel like she's a girl born into the 1%.

10. Do they have any nick names?

Ani, by Apollo, Queen B(itch) by Arlo. Princess by many of her school peers.

20. What do they look like?

See thee above.

21. What are their hobbies?

Maeve's hobbies include watching football and baseball games, writting research law papers, cooking and working out.

22. What are their ticks?

Their what?

23. Do they like children?

Maeve has five children, her eldest twins Arlo and Apollo, her middle daughter, Syracusia, and her youngest twins Talia and Dimitri.

24. How do they react to being around wild animals?

Maeve is pretty brave and adventurous but as most people she tends to avoid wild foxes and other animals.

25. If they were given the task to prank someone, who would it be, what would they do, and would the prank work?

It would be Mal and it would be the yelling "I feel good!" prank when he was busy spraying bugs, doing the laundry or when he's vacumming.

26. Do they have any survival skills?

Yes, she can pitch a tent, filter water and cook most wilderness food. She also knows how to hunt, since her father enjoyed hunting pigeons, ducks and rabbits. She knows how to make a snare trap.

27. Are they more book smart or street smart?

50/50. She's very book smart when it comes to education and law, but has a lot of street smart when dealing with her clients, and the cases she has. She knows what the jury are more likely to simpathise with and usually builds her case defense around this.

28. How do they get out of a difficult situation?

Usually by trying to solve it. If she can't solve it, she asks for help, but she is not one to run away from a situation.

29. Do they use their body, mind, personality or force to get what they want?

Personality and smarts.

30. What music do they enjoy?

Maeve enjoys rock, old school rock and roll.

40. How do they become who they are?

Syra is the lucky three. She has a very calm and uneventfull life despite what luck befalls are siblings, and she is lucky to get two younger siblings, so she never got very cotroling parents breathing over her shoulder, so she was allowed to be herself. She has a very supporting father in Mal, who supports her every decision, and a big brother who loves her and whenever he is well, Arlo will go with her to do whatever she wants.

41. How was their childhood?

She had a happy childhood. Though they moved when she was a kid, she was young enough for it to not cause a negative impact on her growing up. At the contrary of her older siblings, Syra wasn't forced to go to a private school, and being in public school allowed her to be a regular girl without the pressure of being examplar.

42. Are they close with anyone who is going to screw them over?

One of her friends is a mooch, who's only around her to get good grades and to steal her stuff, she doesn't know this yet.

43.How do they adapt to different situations? Do they adapt at all?

Syra adapts pretty well to her surroundings and situations. She's a versatile girl who knows she has parents and siblings who will help her if she needs.

44. How do they speak? Examples - Are they soft spoken, hot heated, vulgar

Syra is soft spoken, quiet and calm.

45. Are they opposed to violence?

Very much. Syra grew up watching her two older brothers getting into very violent altercations, especially when Arlo was feeling well. She usually would get in the middle of the two. She now knows why they'd fight.

46. When is their birthday?

Syra was born in Autumn, I think.

47. Are they quick to judge?

Not really. Syra is very empathetic.

48. Do they have anything they are trying to hide from others?

No.

49. Do they act different around different people?

No.

50.Do they enjoy the arts?

Syra enjoys theater, film and music.

[spandanesia]

Syra Galactis is a story about a young girl who goes to a school for mancers (mancers are people that can use the power of a specific thing or place) and who has a lot of friends: Morrigan Sarao, Cora Meowmeow, Raya Arabicx and many others. She goes on adventures and has lots of fun. Night or days she’s always active and ready to go. Read her story as she goes on the adventure of a lifetime.

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"Dread is an emotion I know well; it's one of my top emotions."

~ my fucking lit professor giving voice to the feelings of an entire generation

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settling in for the first class of my american lit II course, which while not my FIRST choice for class to finish out my final semester, is at least with one of the og stars of my "shit my teacher says" posts from a few semesters ago, so stay tuned for any new delightful nonsense he shares

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i just think that, if you're a university instructor and the university specifically has a system set up with their bookstore to provide a list of required course materials. a list set up WELL in advance of the start of the semester. (y'know, so that students have time to purchase said required materials.) i just think that if an instructor fails to provide a list of required materials to the bookstore and the class says "no required texts" under the course materials page on the bookstore website for the entirety of the summer no matter how many times a student looks at it.

it seems to me if the course suddenly, on The First Day Of Classes, lists FOUR REQUIRED TEXTS (ranging in price from $12 to $34 for used volumes) that the students have in no way been prepared to or had time to purchase. well i think the instructor should simply have to provide the textbooks themself or be fed to a pack of hungry wolves

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if you're ever worried about whether or not you're making a difference in the world with your work, remember that somewhere out there someone is rewriting the mla style guide for like the 10th time

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i hate hate hate the overhead lights in my apartment so i always just use the floor lamp i bought at a thrift store a while back and it's by the armchair i have on one side of the room so usually i just sit there if i need a really good light source for reading or my cross-stitch or whatever, and everything else is fine

but for the last week i've been grumbling to myself about how quickly it gets dark these days and how it's a pain to do homework in the armchair because i don't have a lot of room to set up my books and take notes etc. but it strains my eyes to sit on the couch and read because it's too far away from the lamp

folks. it has just occurred to me that the lamp itself is fully portable and i can just put it next to the couch while i'm reading

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when the professor was 5 minutes late to class for the midterm today and i joked he'd canceled the exam without telling any of us, i didn't actually expect that to be the case and yet here we are. apollo's dodgeball has never rebounded so quickly before

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fucking loveeee group projects for class. love going out of my way to work through 3 people's schedules and email the professor to schedule a time outside of office hours to meet because not all of us would be available during the listed office hours for the required check-in before we present and then being the only one who shows up anyway

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my american literature professor on the topic of various presidents:

"It goes without saying that the Civil War was a big event in American History. (Everyone write that down.) I went to school for like 800 years to be able to impart that knowledge, and now my work is done." [two minutes later] "So Abraham Lincoln was a US President, has anyone heard of him? He was president during the Civil War, write that down too."

"I don't know if Lyndon Johnson even liked The Beatles, it's one of the reasons he wasn't a good president--"

"John F Kennedy was a US President, and he did what no one should ever do: he went to Texas"

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The Latest from my series "shit my lit professor actually said"

I hate washing the dishes- there's no future in it

nobody does smut like medieval french people do smut*

it's colder than a witch's titty out there**

about the british monarchy: a bunch of human hood ornaments. parasites

I'm sort of in the Guillotine Fancier Society***

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one great thing about chicago notation style (aside from literally everything about chicago notation style) is that when your professor assigns a paper in terms of page length, those sexy little footnotes at the bottom of each page do wonders to artificially bloat your page count as a whole

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shaking my brain like an etch-a-sketch hoping to clear out all the gunk so i can focus on writing my responses for my final exam :/

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why the fuck did the english language decide to keep the 'u' in fourth but not in 'forty' ?? is a little consistency too much to ask for?