New Year, New Friends [Open]

[Xeona Hashimoto]

New Year's Eve. The day of hope for the new year, cheer for the good old and promises to try and keep. For Xeona, the promises had been easy to decide. Get new friends. He had just arrived here, and was already feeling left out. He didn't know anybody, and it made him feel bad. He wasn't used at all to being alone, and he was almost on the verge of panic.

"C'mon Xeona... Just calm down..." He lit up a small flame in front of him, and watched it for a brief minute. This couldn't do. He couldn't keep resorting to the fire everytime he was lonley. He had to get socializing. He took a deep breath, extinguished the flame in front of him, and walked up to the closest student. "Hello. I'm Xeona. What's your name?"

[Asher Hayes]

Asher was excited. He was going to celebrate the new year by building a snowman. There was five inches of crisp, white snow outside for him to sculpt with. He had gotten his hat, gloves, and jacket out of his locker and was speed walking down the crowded halls. As he weaved through the masses of students, Asher would occasionally glance out the window and admire the beautiful winter wonderland. His New Years resolution was to be more grateful for the things he has and be outdoors more. So, spending the day frolicking in the snow and building snowmen sounded perfect.

As Asher finally left the building and arrived at the courtyard, he ran right into another student. He quickly apologized and was about to leave when the boy started talking to him. Asher would feel bad if he abandoned him so he stayed. "Hi. I'm Asher. It's nice to meet you." Asher said trying to sound like he wasn't rushing to go somewhere. "You look like you like snow. Help me build a snowman." Before waiting for an answer, Asher grabbed Xeona's arm and started running towards the nearest pile of snow to start his project.

[Xeona Hashimoto]

After Asher had introduced himself, Xeona said "Nice to meet you too Asher!" He was about to say more, but he was caught off-guard by the sudden pull in his right arm. Despite the fact that he didn't know this person, he didn't try to get loose after regaining his balance. Instead, he put in a jokeful comment. "Hey, hold up! You're holding my only right arm!" He chuckled silently to himself. That one was a pretty good one.

As the two got to a fairly large pile of snow, Asher slammed to a halt, catching Xeona off-guard yet again. This time, however, he couldn't regain his balance quick enough, and crashed in the snow pile. When he got up, he made an attempt to look calm, something that's easier said than done when you're steaming mad on the inside. He took off his right glove and ignited a small flame on top of his index finger and used that to melt the snow on his face and arms. "Take it easy... Calm down..."

When he was done, he extinguished the flame, put on his glove and started cleaning his jacket. When he was finished with that as well, he turned to Asher and said: "... Alright, should we start?"

[Asher Hayes]

Asher chuckled a little at Xeona's joke. Not only was it pretty funny but it was also conformation that he was okay with this. He really lucked out that that the student didn't flip out. Asher continued to smile as they made their way to the snow pile. After suddenly stopping, Asher belly flopped straight into the untouched snow mound. At first, he thought that Xeona had also jumped in but later realized (after seeing the pissed off expression on his face) that he probably fell in. Asher asked him if he was okay but assumed he didn't here him. Xeona was concentrated on melting the snow that was still stick to him. Asher was mesmerized by the flame that spawned on his fingertip. He had never seen a pyrokinetic up close and was glad that had changed. Out of curiosity, Asher asked, "So, can you burn yourself with your own flame?".

"We should probably start with a base." Asher made a small snow ball and started rolling it in the snow. "You can either gather sticks and rocks for the face and arms or start on the torso. It's your pick." Asher started rolling again. He weaved through trees, rocks, and other students, until it was at a reasonable size. "Hey Xeona."asher called out, "We're gonna make it over here".

[Lyra Caruso]

There were a million and one reasons Lyra enjoyed the latter months of the year. The best possible holidays were grouped in the autumn and the winter, the ability to play ice hockey was at an all time high and, for intangible reasons, the snow always had some sort of calming effect on the normally sardonic girl. Calming but not without the mischief! The weather, par for the course in New England, had been shifting from unseasonably warm to cold as balls, but a snowstorm had decided to grace Vermont for the New Year.

And that meant melting and freezing over. Which meant way more places to access than usual! Lyra had already scared the hell out of some girls already. What was more fun than playing the illusion of a dead body trapped beneath the school pond? Those screams were worth it!

Having her pranking quota for half the day filled, the girl in a tartan wool coat now simply appears, or more accurately, visibly hoists herself from a frozen puddle on sidewalk. It was clear and done without an ounce of reserve - by now, she's used to startling random people with the manner of how she makes her entrance. Lyra just casually adjusts the hood of her coat and approaches the pair making a snowman. Brown eyes flicked around, judging if there was enough snow to make a snowman of Calvin and Hobbes caliber.

"Not enough." A mutter of disappointment to herself before settling her attention on the pair. Nope, she didn't know these two. Then again, she knew very few people on this campus.

"Yo. What are you two?"

[Asher Hayes]

Xeona and Asher's snowman was coming along wonderfully. He had already finished the base and was collecting twigs, pebbles and anything else they could possibly use to embellish their snow creation. After gathering supplies, Asher than started on the torso. He started it just like the base but made the snowball slightly smaller. Asher was just about to put the snowy sphere on when he was suddenly interrupted. Whoever it was scared the shit out of him and made him almost drop the snowball. If it weren't for his telekinesis saving it from it's horrible fate, Asher would have been pissed off and would make the person regret what they had done. Luckily, there was no need for him to be in that mood. After actually putting the torso on, Asher turned around to see who it was.

He had no clue who this girl was and from the bratty tone in her voice, he wasn't sure if we wanted to. "My name's Asher and that's Xeona." he said as he pointed to his snowman partner. "We're building a snow man. Do you want to help or just watch?". Not really caring about her answer, Asher went straight back to construction. He was usually very friendly towards everyone but some people got on her nerves. And this girl was one of them.

[Xeona Hashimoto]

"If I'm not careful, yes. Although, I guess that I may become..." He lighted a small flame next to his left cheek. "...arrogant..." He drove it a bit closer. "...overconfident..." Why was he doing this again? Just to show off? This wasn't like him, not like him at all... Was he going mad or something? It was first now that he started to feel the heat, and not in a good way. He quickly extinguished the flame and said "...or just driven mad."

He then set out to find some sticks and stones. It wasn't really that hard, and he found what they needed pretty quickly. When he got back, he placed the things where Asher had pointed out, when he heard a voice calling out. At first he didn't think it was to the two snowman builders, but after a quick look-around, he started thinking otherwise. "I'm Xeona. Pyrokinetic. And you are?"

[Lyra Caruso]

Lyra quirked an eyebrow at the two, not obliging to answer to who she was just yet. Maybe because one was oddly dismissive of her and the other openly introduced himself as a pyro-thing. Or maybe because someone actually answered her question correctly! Whatever the reason, the honesty was much appreciated for the time being. There was still time to observe them a while longer.

"Ash and Xeo, eh?" She cemented their nicknames for life right then and there. A cheery smirk crosses her face, as if something was funny but obviously in her head. "Odd names."

She shrugged off the dangling thought and her gaze flicks at the snowman in the making. It was actualy coming along rather nicely and it stirred some hazy winter memories of sibling snow-man building escapades before it delved into the inevitable snowball battle of Back Bay. The want to actually work on the damn thing was actually starting to override her usual caustic demeanor. In fact, she had beant down and started packing snow together to make the head.

Oh right, there was still a lingering question, wasn't there? "I'm Lyra. Tell me you're gonna do something interesting with all this."

She makes a one hand-wave motion to the snowman in progress. If she was meant to help, there was no way she was gonna do the usual boring Frosty the Snowman!

[Xeona Hashimoto]

When Xeona heard his supposed "new" nickname, he let out a friendly chuckle. "Don't think that you're the first one with that nickname, Lyra-san." A nickname for a nickname. At least it seemed like she wanted to help them out with the snowman! "I really have no idea how we are going to build it... It's quite embarrassing, knowing that..."

Then it struck him that he had said what his power was, but the two others hadn't. "So.. what are you two?"

[Asher Hayes]

Asher realized he'd been a little rude to the slightly sassy girl. He was tired and in a little bit of a funk. The reason Asher wanted to build a snowman was to clear his head and return to his usual energetic and happy state. At the sound of the girl saying his name, Asher spun around quickly. Xeona was talking to her. This made him feel even worse. He was never never the crabby person that refused to participate. Asher was the one that controlled the conversation and ended up talking over everyone. Being isolated gave him a weird feeling in his stomach. Asher stopped working on the snowman and started towards the pair. He was going to give this girl another shot.

Asher reached earshot of the conversation right as Xeona asked about their powers. He decided to be creative in his response. Using his telekinesis, Asher created and threw a snowball at the girl to grab her attention. "I'm a telekinetic." He then created another snowball with his powers and pelted Xeona. "Sorry about being a douche back there. What'd I miss?"

[Lyra Caruso]

“It’s not rocket science, Xeo.” The brunette said flatly and sighed in exasperation. Luckily for the two, Lyra had the know-how of snow building. “Now of this had been an igloo we’re making, I’d getcha. And even that’s not hard to do either. The base has enough density, so it should hold the torso and the head just fine.”

Dark eyes shot a gaze briefly at the other one, who had said very little in the meantime before Xeo’s question caught her attention again. Oh, this one DID get the gist of it! Before she was able to respond, she feels and hears the POMF of a snowball hitting her shoulder. The brunette blinked and shifted her gaze to the other one, muttering some sort of swear in Italian between clenched teeth…then a cheery smile crosses her face.

“Good to see you got the sand out of your vagina, Ash.” And with a thumbs up even! “You didn’t miss too much other than tossing around ideas on what to make that isn’t the plain standard snowman. Wicked abilities, by the way.”

Lyra packs more snow to the mass of snow she had started to collect, comparing it to the base. Nope, needed to add a little more before she perked her head up.

"Xeo," She'd even point at him. "Melt some snow close by."