Unashamed Felinity

[Sunar Chugani]

The perks of having a study buddy who turned into a cat should have been obvious to anyone, Sunar thought as he stroked the fur of the animal sitting in his lap. Most students at boarding schools wouldn't have any cats on the premise -- and Hammel didn't allow them, either, when they were pets. But when they were shape-shifting meta humans, well, that was a whole different story. They didn't have any choice but to be there. 

This meant that if you wanted a cat to pet while studying then you needed to befriend the resident feline shifter. Fortunately for Sunar, this hadn't been at all difficult. Some people found V.K. a bit off-putting because of her roughhousing, but he got along with her all right. Certainly well enough that when they both had a test in Mr. Deulane's physics class to study for, she had agreed to study with him. 

"The momentum of an object is defined as its math multiplied by its velocity," He recited, and then frowned at the textbook. "I always mess that formula up."

[V.K Caborn]

A quiet bubbly purr made V.K's ribs vibrate as she felt the sun warming up her fur, her eyes closed as she dozed. Most shapeshifters would find being treated like an animal whilst in animal form insulting, but not this cool cat, heh. V.K enjoyed being petted, as long as she was on good terms with the petter. It was like a free massage, who could complain?

At the moment, V.K was completely comfortable sprawled on Sunar's lap; half of her body was too big to fit on his legs and simply lay still over the grass, her tail lightly flicking in content. They had become good friends after the dodgeball match, the blonde had been ecstatic to find someone who didn't mind her wrestling. Her tense nerves had been leading to claw scratches on the sofa, so it revert to something that used to help, the wrestling, was a big bonus.

Admittedly, V.K had agreed to study with Sunar. Sleeping fifteen hours a day took its toll, so she was slipping behind in most classes. Thankfully, most of the teachers understood this and either ignored her skipping of classes or got students to deliver the work for her. Unfair for some, but it wasn't as if she could help it. You fall asleep for five minutes and wake up two hours later, not good. Of course, V.K couldn't speak whilst in cat form; which limited this study session somewhat but oh well.

The teen opened a single hazel eyes and twitched an ear as she heard Sunar recite a formula. She couldn't remember that one on her own, but V.K knew that momentum meant the force behind your movement? Or something? Too be honest, she had no clue why people bothered with this stuff.

[Sunar Chugani]

"Momentum is a vector quantity," Sunar continued, scratching beneath V.K.'s chin. "Maybe I should have taken notes." 

He had said this for years, since even before coming to Hammel. He swore up and down that he would take notes. He started every class with the full intentions of note taking, and he always had notebook and pen at the ready. 

But somehow his notebooks were full of doodles of airships and ray guns and cacti. On some occasions he even managed drawings that were relevant to the lecture, but that wasn't always enough to remember the finer points he was supposed to be studying. 

"Did you take notes on this, V.K.?" He asked, looking down at the feline in his lap, only to remember that she couldn't talk in cat form. "Uhhh....twitch your tail once for yes and twice for no?"

[V.K Caborn]

V.K opened both of her eyes and turned her gaze upwards towards Sunar before flicking her tail from left to right. Most class work made no sense to her, so she just remembered what the topic was for the day and fell asleep. At night, when she was more awake, V.K would scribble down her own notes based on the topic. In her dorm room there was multiple books stacked on her shelves for each subject. Colourful diagrams and broken down understandings of each lesson were in them. It's why she still got average grades despite sleeping in almost all of the classes.

V.K flopped her head back onto Sunar's leg as she realised that she should have brought them with her. In a plastic bag or something. They were kind of easy to understand; V.K simply read through them the night before the test. She would draw little triangles for each formula. For example; for the momentum of an object, the teen would draw a triangle separated into three sections, one at the top, two at the bottom. Since the momentum was mass times by the velocity, momentum would be in the top section and the mass and the velocity would be side by side at the bottom. Then simply cover the one you want to find and divide or multiply accordingly. 

Twitching an ear, V.K reached forward with a paw and attempted to scratch a similar triangle in the ground. It worked, despite the very wobbly writings. Plus, now her claw hurt from being dragged through the dirt. Oh well, all for science! I have no clue what a vector quantity is though.

[Sunar Chugani]

"You do have notes!" Sunar exclaimed when V.K. flicked her tail once and went still. But then his face fell when he realized that  he couldn't go rifle through her bag for them because she hadn't brought a bag. 

Or notes. 

He should have asked Dev or Connor for their notes. He could even have asked Damien. 

Too late now. 

He watched as she scratched something wobbly into the ground. It looked a bit like a triangle, but he wasn't sure. "Is that your notes?" He asked. "One tail flick for yes, two for no again." 

He tried to think what a triangle might mean. 

"Do you write your notes in secret code?" 

[V.K Caborn]

"Is that your notes?"

V.K dipped her head in a nodding motion, flicking her tail across the ground once. She really should have brought her notes with her. Opposable thumbs may not be present but the teen could've carried them in a bag. V.K can simply grab the handles and carry it over, only ending up with a sore neck and mouth. Though that doesn't sound to appealing.

"Do you write your notes in secret code?"

V.K very slowly lifted her head from Sunar's leg and turned to stare at him with a judging look on her face. Yeah, I don't want the government to read my science homework. This feeling of disbelief quickly faded though, V.K hated treating people badly. Unless they deserved it.

Sitting half-up, V.K moved so that her head was between the textbook Sunar was holding and him. Lifting a paw, she jabbed at the word momentum and leaned back down, placing the same paw in the top half of the triangle. She repeated this motion for the words 'mass' and 'velocity' and placed her paw in the bottom left and then the bottom right corners of the triangle. V.K sighed as she nestled back into her comfy position and waited for Sunar to realise what the triangles mean. Science triangles.

[Sunar Chugani]

Sunar watched V.K. in mystified fascination as she pointed first to the book, and then to one angle of the triangle. After she was done he continued to stare at the triangle in the dirt, the gears turning as he tried to make the connection between the textbook and her triangle until...

"Ooooooooh," He breathed. "That's brilliant!" 

He wasn't entirely sure he could remember this next time he had his science notebook on his person though, which was why it was a good thing he always kept pencils in dimensional storage. He thrust his hand into the air and pulled a pencil out of seemingly nowhere, and then scribbled the triangle memorization device in the margins of the textbook. 

"Thanks, V.K.! You're the best."

[V.K Caborn]

V.K purred and began to kneed with her claws, hurriedly stopping once she remembered that she was a wildcat; not some kitten with harmless paws. I guess it is pretty clever. She thought to herself, innocently praising herself for being some help to her friend.

Blinking her hazel eyes, V.K gazed in wonder as Sunar pulled a pen out of nowhere. That trick would never get old. It was so cool. Like a magician with a rabbit and a hat. It's just so... other-wordly; the pen reforming in mid-air.

"Thanks, V.K.! You're the best."

V.K purred and nuzzled into Sunar's leg. Although she knew this wasn't true, compliments were still nice. Giving and receiving them make people happy. Which is why it frustrated V.K when she accidentally compliments those she dislikes. Damn my polite mind.

[Sunar Chugani]

"Okay so...." Sunar furrowed his brow at the triangle on his paper before turning his attention back to the textbook. "Vector quantities refer to both the direction of the medium’s movement as well as the measurement of the scalar quantity."

He dropped the book on the ground, promptly losing his place in it, as he flung his hands into the air. "I don't remember what a Scalar quantity is!" He sighed. "It's a measurement of...of...of...something."

It did not occur to him to look in the back of the textbook to see if there was a definition, or at least a page associated with the term. Instead he was too focused on scowling and trying to dredge up a definition from memory. "It was only on the last test, I ought to remember!"

[V.K Caborn]

"It was only on the last test, I ought to remember!"

V.K glanced up at Sunar with a worried look on her muzzle. The blonde never stressed out for tests, getting average scores after a full-night cram session. However, other people getting stressed, stressed her out. Some sort of cat intuition. Panic = Need To Panic.

She felt her tail flick instinctively and she batted at the book. Bad book. Her claws slid out of her sheath's slightly as her stress began to vent itself. When V.K slowly fell back to her usual mood, the cat-teen reached upwards and lightly patted at Sunar's cheek before rolling off his lap and stretching. Too much studying, 'tis freaking the little laddie out.

[Sunar Chugani]

"Hey!" Sunar objected when she batted at the book, raising it over his head. "I still need that!"

And it might upset the teacher just a little if he returned the book in too awful a condition. Of course, Hammel teachers were much more used to that than other schools, he was sure, what with students involuntarily catching things on fire and turning into puddles of goo. But his power was only likely to get his book lost if he tried to carry it around in his storage, so he supposed he should be somewhat careful with it.

When she patted his lap he chuckled, which turned into a full out laugh as she slid off his lap. "Are you done already?"

[V.K Caborn]

"Are you done already?"

V.K turned to look at Sunar and gave him a slow blink, opening her mouth to give him a purr-like meow. God meowing felt weird, way too animalistic and... vibrate-y. The cat-teen flopped herself onto the ground and rolled around; hopping to her feet like a jack rabbit. She spun twice on the spot and stared at Sunar with her fore-legs on the ground and hind-legs straight, like a dog wanting to play.

Now this felt really weird, cat play involves claws and smacking at each other so the body language for play could be registered as hostility. So, V.K decided to mimic that of a dog's, hoping that Sunar would understand that it was 'time to play' in the simplest manner.

Too much study can cause a lot of stress, you need to take a break once in a while. Sunar's tone had alerted her to slight stress, which in turn caused her to panic. Like the butterfly and the hurricane thing.