Power Swap! : S-Spiders and... French? [OPEN]

[Damien & Darcy Rittley]

That morning had been more than a little.... Jarring.

First, Darcy had woken up to Damien standing over his bed, which had very nearly given him a heart attack in and of itself. Because first, Damien didn't typically stand over his bed watching him sleep, and second... if he had, Darcy would have known because of their Gestalt link.

Of course, the surprise drew a startled, "Damien, what the heck??" from Darcy, which drew only a confused look from the other twin, along with a, "... Since when do you know French?"

Yes, that morning had been strange. And now they'd done the most natural thing they could think of-- go to Hammel. Because someone there would know what was going on, right?

Wrong. No one had any clue why they had lost their power, or why they'd gained random new ones. Stranger still-- there seemed to be a complete epidemic of this phenomena. So, they'd stuck around Hammel to sort've help keep an eye on things. It had nothing whatsoever to do with the fact they'd both just been thrown into strange and unknown waters, and Hammel was a safe spot. Of course. Though if it was, Darcy would admit it well before Damien.

"Well, at least the school isn't in total chaos..." Darcy ventured, being sure to talk in English this time. Man, it was weird having his own thoughts again and knowing that Damien was having his own, different, ones.

Damien only grunted. This whole situation was completely out of control, which made it frustrating beyond belief. And it didn't help that he kept getting random mental notifications of spiders in the near vicinity. Of course... apparently he could also climb walls like Spiderman now... but he was currently too upset to be as excited by that revelation as he might have been. "Let's just focus on making sure no one kills themselves by accident, so other people can focus on fixing this."

Right, they were adults, after all, Darcy reminded himself. Weird that he had to remind himself of it... usually Damien's influence took care of that to an extent. He nodded, though, and glanced around the Courtyard. What if some students had woken up as Gestalts? How strange would that be? Strange and.. well... unpleasant. Plenty of powers could be unpleasant to wake up with, for that matter. So, he prepared to look as official as Damien was looking-- ready to help out.

Of course, he wasn't going to let his spiffy new power go to waste, so any passer-by would hear the twin chatting aloud, switching languages every few minutes (not always on purpose), while the other looked as if he would face-palm... if it wouldn't be unprofessional.

[Daniel Taylor]

Daniel sat in his classroom with a stack of papers. Danni had collected the first drafts from his students. Now he needed to read them and correct the mistakes that the students made. After correcting some papers, Danni needed a break. Plus he needed a snack. Danni got a bag of trail mix from the vending machine outside the cafeteria. He went for a walk before he went back to his correcting.

He went to the courtyard to get some fresh air. Danni strolled around courtyard. There were two people sitting next to each other. They looked a little bewilder. Should Danni go over and see what’s going? Should he just mind his own business? He knew the two were teachers. Danni has seen them around. Being the warm and kindhearted person that he was, Danni went over to see if there was anything he could do. But he didn’t want to feel like he was in intruding.

“Hello,” Danni greeted the twins with a friendly smile. “How are you?” Daniel hoped that he wasn’t in intruding on the twin’s conversation.

[Damien & Darcy Rittley]

Darcy turned when he heard the greeting called to them, but a fellow teacher. He grinned and waved. So weird to be functioning without Damien... "Hola!" Wait. "I mean, hi!" He gave a sheepish smile. "We're... I mean, I'm doing all right." Again, weird to not be speaking for the both of them. Just for himself. He glanced at Damien, who gave a moody nod in the fellow teacher's general direction. "Don't mind him," Darcy said. "He's a little... stressed by the power thing going on."

Stressed. That was an understatement. But of course, Damien wasn't about to vent his frustration. Not here. "Stressed" as he was, he still knew the necessity of keeping a professional air when students were about. More so than when he was merged with Darcy. Darcy's happy-go-lucky-ness had definitely dampened that bit of him.

"How are you getting along?" Darcy asked the other teacher. "Anything wonky happen with you power-wise?" He paused. "I'm Darcy, by the way. This is my brother Damien." Usually Damien's mentality would have prompted him to say that earlier in the conversation. But thankfully, the habit was still there just enough to remember before the conversation progressed too much. "You are...?"

[Daniel Taylor]

“I’m getting along fine, I guess.” Daniel did notice some of his students in class were acting a little off. And the hallways had more commotions than normally. Being a non-meta, Daniel didn’t think too much of it. But whatever it was that was going on, it had affected these two. “I’m a non-meta, so I don’t know anything about power thing.”

“I’m Daniel Taylor.” That was a smooth move made by Daniel. Start a conversation without introducing himself. “I’ve started teaching here back in September. Nice to meet you Darcy and Damien.” Daniel stretched his hand out to Darcy to shake.

[Damien & Darcy Rittley]

"Oh.. I figured it was sort've... well..." Darcy considered this, then shrugged. Just because they'd been informed of what was going on didn't mean all of the teachers were up to date yet, he supposed. "Yeah, apparently powers got mixed up somehow. So some people lost their power and got different ones. Like me and Damien." He nudged his brother with his elbow, which drew an unamused grunt from Damien. Darcy continued, "We're Gestalts. Or... were. Now I'm an Omnilingualist, and he has Spider Sense. Which is kind've cool, really..."

Damien turned to glance at his brother. "No, not really," he said stiffly before nodding to Daniel whilst Darcy shook the other teacher's hand vigorously. "What do you teach?" he inquired. Despite the stress of having his power ripped away to be replaced by a freakishly startling new one, he was still determined to be professional. It was what they were paid for, after all.

[Daniel Taylor]

Powers switching. That would explain why Danni’s students were acting the way they were. Some of them were very happy and bouncing with joy. While other students were uncomfortable and sure of what was going on.

Danni guessed being a non-meta, he didn’t have worry about the whole power-switching thing. Which might be the reason why he was just finding out what was going on at the school.

“I teach creative writing.” After shaking hands with Darcy, he offered his hand to Damien. Damien didn’t seem like he was in a good mood, but it was still a kind gesture. “What do you gentlemen teach?”

[Damien & Darcy Rittley]

"Creative writing?" Darcy gawked. "That's awesome! You write stories and stuff then?" That was actually pretty cool. He liked stories, though mostly in video games, so it was cool to meet someone who wrote them. Especially someone who actually worked at the same place he did.

Damien, though not in a good mood at all, still shook the offered hand. He was stressed, but he wouldn't let that effect his professionalism. "We teach Communications," he said. Really, he couldn't help but wonder how that would work out now. Since they weren't the same person anymore, would they really want to keep both of them on? Seemed unlikely... And then what would the laid off twin do? He pushed the thoughts aside to focus on the present. "How long have you taught here?"

[Daniel Taylor]

“Yes, I’m a writer. I started teaching September. Took a little getting use to through.” The only meta Danni knew before he started teacher was his grandfather. When Danni started his job at Hammel, he had entered entire new world. So many different abilities. Abilities and powers that were only thought as fantasy in movies. But here it was, right in front of Danni. Danni liked that he was able to be part of this world as a non-meta. And now something happened. Powers got switched around. The whole school was now in chaos.

“Do you know what happened?”

[Damien & Darcy Rittley]

((OOC: Sorry it's taken so long to reply! College really killed my activity this month XP ))

"What sorts of things do you write?" Darcy asked, thoroughly intrigued. Damien cleared his throat, for some mysterious reason. After a moment's reflection, Darcy realized it was because he'd switched languages again. He frowned a bit, and repeated the question to Daniel, this time ensuring it was in English, and added a, "Sorry, I'm not used to this power yet." He shook his head, then continued in line to the earlier question, "What sorts of stories do you write? Short stories? Books? Have you published things?" Really, it was cool to know a writer, even if he hadn't published a bunch of stuff and gotten famous. He also nodded in answer to Daniel's comment. "It does take a little getting used to. It was pretty weird to go from student to teacher, since we went here."

When the question was put forward, Darcy looked to Damien, expecting him to take a turn talking. Really, it was weird not to have the Gestalt link going on. Typically they shared the talking fairly well. But not that they were "unlinked", Darcy had taken over the talking over, just like when they'd been kids, before merging.

However, Damien caught Darcy's look, and took the cue all the same. "No, we don't know what caused it," he stated. Though not completely opposed to this transition, the disorganization it caused, and loss of professionality, was far from acceptable or wanted. "Until we know we are simply ensuring no one is injured in the meantime."