⁺☆ Study Hall

@ˢ yoo seungwoo /despite the minimal age difference between us i can see a much younger version of myself in you, sighing a little as i know how it feels to be where you are now
it is a great opportunity, but its not going to mean much if you're not happy here and enjoying what you do
/smiles a little at you when you say you'd be happy to have me train you a little like the old days, though i blink when you're insistent on denying my observation
young seungwoo-
/with my nickname for you falling from my lips again i sigh and recognise how you're trying to hide your real feelings and struggles no doubt to not make anyone else have to worry about you
you are important to me. in fact, considering our history, i think all evidence would point to you even being the most important person in my life
don't you think?
/lifts my hand from my pocket, giving you one of my signature thumbs up though my smile falters when you try brush off the help for a book
there's only so much books can-
/about to tell you that especially with the power i've passed down to you, textbooks only help so much, especially when this power i've gifted to you is so rare and unheard of, that practicals are more your friend than pages, i'm stopped when i hear a fellow teacher
"i hope you're not showing your bias again"
/sighs as i know its one of my colleagues from a long time ago, the man not liking me for the fact my superhero persona has been linked to the media so much
no no. of course not
/grins at him, waving a hand for him to head off and after a deadpan expression thrown at us both he heads off, grumbling to himself and looking like he's sorely in need of a nap
ignore him. he's still not a fan of me despite my-
/unable to say the word 'retirement out loud i just nod to you again, tilting my head for you to come and join me, giving you another smile as i do so
grab your stuff and meet me at the beach. its about time we got you back on track with some of your old training, don't you think?
/turning away i lift my hand, heading off to the teacher's room whilst i gesture for you to hurry and go get your things before doing as i've asked and meeting me at the beach, calling out before i disappear entirely
don't be late!

@⭑ ᴴ yoo kihyun /once out in the hall I quietly clear my throat, attempting to regain my composure, my hands smoothing over the fabric of my clothes, tugging at fabric if only for something to worry my hands with when it's clear that the concept of worry is all too apparent; the promise you give me, however, rings rather hollow when I lift my gaze again to look at you, my expression marred by a downward turn of the corner of my round lips/
If you're sure...
/it's almost tacit acceptance in spite of how I've actually felt regarding your state, but when there are questions to answer, I bring a hand to the side of my neck, fingers brushing against my nape as I bow my head/
Well about that--
/tipping my head up again, I look to you with eyes slightly wider at the suggestion, my small stature rocking up onto my toes eagerly, but then settling once more when I open my mouth/
It's been okay. It's a great opportunity, right?
/the thought of training like we used to has me nibbling at my bottom lip, large front teeth all the more apparent and general chipmunk-like appearance in full force while I seem a little more fidgety before you then I would have once/
I wouldn't turn down the chance.
/bringing up both hands, I wave them before my face, palms toward you, my forearms nearly slamming into one another as I try to deny the simple observation, hands moving too quickly in the process, though any sighted person would say the same as you/
No, no, it's okay. I'm okay.
Besides you have more important things to worry about, right?
/forcing those downward corners of my mouth up into a smile, my eyes brighten a little, though it's not so easy to tell if the source is a genuinely happy one, or something else/
I don't want to be a burden on you.
/glancing over my shoulder, I lift a hand, hooking my thumb to gesture behind me again/
Besides, the book learning is... it's helping between practicing alone.

@ˢ yoo seungwoo /when you address me as something so informal, whilst i should probably chide you for it, i find my bias shining through as i merely smile in response
/as you get up i notice the others staring at you and your hastiness in which to get away, turning to follow after you but glancing over my shoulder at those who dare to look longer
/makes a small sound of surprise under my breath, knowing i'm not help in much regard for the students anyway considering they don't know who i am normally
/sighing to myself i look ahead of me as i make my way out the study hall room after you do, letting the door shut gently behind me as i stand to face you finally
/when the first thoughts out your mouth are for my own sake i find myself slowly smiling before i chuckle, shaking my head and then glancing down the hall though no one is around or no one stopping to notice of care much about us
nothing nothing. i'm fine, i promise
/i am indeed /not/ fine but you know at least a sliver of this truth just by looking at me, though it doesn't change the fact its not what i've come here to talk to you about
i came to ask you how you've found settling in here
i haven't been around as much on a personal level for reasons and i'm sorry. things should be slowing down now at least...
so, if you have some time for your old teacher i'd be happy to try fill in any blanks. kinda like your training before you applied here, hmm?
/smiles a little as the dark scleras of my eyes seem to highlight a small shine in my green orbs, a glimpse of happiness for the first time in a while at the thought of being able to help you grow a little more as a student and superhero in your own right
/glancing back at the door, i step out the way when someone comes out, reminding me of the icy treatment i saw you on the receiving end of earlier
and its a stab in the dark, but i'm going to go ahead and guess making friends hasn't been all that easy for you either, huh?
you know you can talk to me about that stuff, right...?

@ᴴ cai xukun Chaeyoung averted her gaze away when Xukun's eyes widened in surprise, clearly feeling embarassed when he started to bombard her with questions about how the school did not caught on and teached her. Well, the problem was she never really told the school her struggles, she thought she could keep the powers in contain and well not worry the school. If she had told them, maybe they would not even consider her to be a teacher.

"Well, I don't think they... know?" Her tone raised a bit in the end, feeling quite intimidated by the student. She fiddled with her bracelet, the specially made one by a friend of her father's, the bracelet that was said to contain her cryo powers. At the offer, her head snapped back to Xukun, eyes visibly widened. 'You can help me?" She repeated, quite in disbelief. "Really? I would love to know how to control it" She accidentally increased her volume out of excitement, immediately shutting up when she realised heads were turned. "I don't care what methods you have, as long as I can finally take power of this."

@⭑ ᴴ park chaeyoung Xukun was expecting the teacher to say it was new and she was just getting the hang of it. He was expecting her to say that she recently discovered the ability and was trying to see the perks—anything that related to her not knowing about it. But when she explained she has had it since the young age of fifteen his eyes visably widened and his jaw dropped just a little as he tried to form a proper sentence. “You—...no one can teach you? Isn’t that what this school is for? Shouldn’t they have already figured this out for you?” He didn’t mean to bombard the lady with questions but how on earth did they not help her? Putting her at a position to help students when she couldn’t even control one of her own powers...that wasn’t the best thing in his eyes. Plus the sickness surely wasn’t helping. Whenever Xukun got sick it was a wintry wonderland for everyone around him; he would literally sneeze snowflakes. So he felt for Chaeyoung and her struggles. With a slight shake of his head he denied the offer of lunch. “Nah, I think I’ll keep this to myself. I know it won’t do any good to have my fellow peers wondering how capable the staff is to teach them. But, I could try helping you. My methods are more..direct than I’ve seen in class but maybe it could work.”

@ᴴ cai xukun Watching as he crumbled the icy paper, she felt quite guilty as she might have ruined his assignment and the school's assignment are always important. She did not know how to actually say sorry without giving out that it was her fault but now he actually knew that she was the culprit of the ice paper, well given the looks he gave her upon seeing her almost freezing the table.

Chaeyoung flinched internally at his confused look, knowing he was doubting herself as a teacher, making she felt a bit of tang in her chest. At his question,she could not help but feel a bit caught off guard. The student asking their teacher about her powers. "Well.." She started, a soft exhale of breath out of her lips. "This is not a new power. I have had it since I was 15? Well, it came to me very unstable and it is still unstable, no one can teach me how to actually control it." Chaeyoung lifted her hands clutching them together, cold vapours escaping between them before she pulled it apart, stopping them. "Well plus that i am quite sick today, it's not helping certainly." She glanced at Xukun, chewing her lower tier. "Don't tell anyone, they might question me. Well, I can buy you lunch, I guess? as a profit? I don't know"

@⭑ ᴴ park chaeyoung The essay had a poor chance of being salvaged, which caused Xukun to crumble the icy paper and toss is on the desk; making sure it didn’t land near any important assignments. If he had made more progress then maybe he would’ve actually been upset, but the only feeling he was experiencing was amusement as he watched the teacher stumble over her words. He was good at detecting lies but to save Chaeyoung the embarrassment, he let it go. “Hmm...I suppose that is possible..” He was willing to let it go and move on but the formulating under her hand and onto the desk was something he couldn’t miss. With a swift hand movement Xukun pushed away a textbook that rested close to the freezing area and chuckled deeply. “You can’t blame that on someone else...” He stared at Chaeyoung with a look of confusion. How was she a teacher if she couldn’t get a grip on her powers. Yeah, everyone had their off days but this was pushing it. The stern voice yanked him from his thoughts and a slight scoff emitted from his throat. “What would I gain from that? I apologize if this may seem a bit offensive, but I have to ask, is this a new power? You seem to lack control..” He wasn’t trying to be mean, his wording was just blunt and often right to the point.

@⭑ ᴴ yoo kihyun /the time since my enrollment in the school had gone by about as well as could be expected, given the circumstances; the powers I had been given, blessing that they were, came at a cost I was yet to understand, and regardless they were not ones I was innately born with which meant that I had powers enough to be accepted, and yet so little understanding of what I could really do with those powers that I wouldn't have been surprised if my instructors wrote a tiny, zippy young man off as an annoyance more than anything else; it was with that in mind that I came to sit in study hall today, half-hunched over a desk, the side of my hand pressed to a sheet of paper as I scribbled down notes related to the volume of theory seated in front of me, the graphite of the pencil leaving the side of my hand gray as it trailed through preceding lines; the sound of your voice causes me to lift my head, eyes wide and meeting your own peculiar gaze; there's some relief in seeing you, and the way I straighten up in my seat is probably evidence enough of that/
Hyung--
/my voice is soft, and I quietly clear my throat after, a little flustered perhaps in the process and losing track of myself to such a point that I fumble the mechanical pencil in my hand, the implement falling onto the well used notebook; there's a murmur at my elbow, something distasteful I feel, but I opt not to address it from the other student, unaware if it's from the term coming from my lips or in regards to you yourself; drawing my hands aside from the textbook and my notebook when you ask for a moment, I nod, slightly shaggy hair falling across my eyes/
Of course.
/pushing myself up from my chair and out from around the desk, I wring my hands, fingers of my left attempting to brush the gray sheen off of my already pale skin; there's a feeling of eyes on me, one I don't particularly care for, and so I bow my head, making myself even smaller than my already diminutive size for a man my age, before I move past you toward the nearest door; it's without looking back that I move between the desks, attempting to make my way through the least occupied section of the room, easily bending and slipping through the narrow spaces on my way to the door; I only glance over my shoulder once my hand is on the door, and perhaps a bit sheepishly I let myself out, biting my tongue to keep from mentioning that you look like you need rest, instead waiting for you to join me, though the questions that fall immediately from my lips make it clear that I'm already aware of a change in you/
What do you need? What can I do?

@ᴴ cai xukun Chaeyoung eyes darted towards the half frozen essay, not knowing how to explain to the student as she had always feared that students would see her as an incompetent teacher if she had problems stabilising her powers. If she can't stabilise her powers, how is she to teach students to stabilise their powers? Chewing on her lips she looked back at the curious boy infront of her. "uhhh, I don't know?" She blurted out unsurely, failed to cover her tracks. "I mean maybe someone accidentally froze it on the floor? I picked it up and it was already frozen so I don't really know" Her shoulders shrugged, her facial expression trying to be calm and nonchalant about it.

She gave him a nervous smile before placing a hand on his table, to prop herself up but ofcourse, her outburst just had to happen right there. She heard the sound of ice forming under her palm, looking at it before immediately extracting her hand. '' she cursed in her head, now she clearly can't cover up that infront of the student. It was one of those days that she was not feeling well and it had always made her unstable cryogenic powers to be more unstable.

Chaeyoung's orbs settled onto Xukun's icy eyes. "Student, please don't tell anyone." She said sternly, trying to be intimidating in hopes to scare the boy but she doubt her face could even pull that off

@⭑ ᴴ park chaeyoung Xukun sat in the corner of the room, alone and surrounded by papers. All the work at the academy was easy compared to what he had previously been trained for but they gave so much. He had never had this much homework in any school—fake or real—he attended and it was a mood killer. Maybe they thought if they kept everyone busy that the students wouldn’t go around using their powers on each other. Whatever the reasoning was—it . With a heavy sigh he started to rifle through all the papers scattered on the desk. He was looking for an unfinished essay on why powers should be used for good and not evil. The paper was unfinished because Xukun couldn’t sit down and write it without scoffing at the prompt. But now, with all of his other pressing assignments completed, he needed to bull his way to another “A”. The boy was so immersed in finding the assignment that he didn’t notice the teacher approaching his study corner. The tap on his back was a surprise to the boy and he turned with an irritated expression, wondering who would have the audacity to touch him. He kept his body temperature freezing for a reason, so that tap should’ve been enough to give their hand a taste of frost bite—but upon glancing at the seemingly okay hand and the other holding a frozen paper, Xukun looked up at the teacher with curious eyes. “Yes, I am..” he stated softly, his irritation leaving as quick as it came once he saw Chaeyoung standing there. “Miss Park...did you just freeze my essay..? I mean I know it’s incomplete but..” He asked with a curious tone, sentence trailing off as he took the paper and looked to see how bad the damage was.

@ᴴ cai xukun Holding the papers in her hand, she glanced onto the name of the owner, the student that she was searching the whole school for. Pursing her lips in thought, she decided to let her feet head towards the big doors of the study hall, hoping she could actually find him there. She found a paper with instructions on it for an assignment, dropped onto the floor. She picked it up, thinking it would be very important to the student. She even had to go to the school websites for teachers to look up for the face of the student.

Chaeyoung opened the doors to the study hall, seeing few students minding their own business studying or discussing. the woman was greeted a few times by the student, while her light orbs scanned the wide premises for someone that looks like the owner. Her eyes soon fell upon a boy that looked like the picture she looked up. She soon approached him, tapping on his back.
"Are you Cai Xukun? I think this is yours?" She held out the papers to him before she widened her eyes as she saw that half of it was covered with a layer of ice. 'Dang it.' She mentally slapped her forehead, biting her lip before looking at him, a sheepish smile on her face. "Well, I'm sorry."

@ˢ yoo seungwoo /as its been a little while since you enrolled and a lot of things have happened since you passed the entrance exam, we've barely had the time to talk especially since i'm still in my first year of teaching and trying to find a balance between that and other responsibilities
/considering i've been fading out of the limelight more and more in the hero world it comes as no surprise that when 'full force' appears it sends waves through the media, the same going for today as i've just return from spending a couple hours out on the streets bagging a couple of lesser villains when the police seemed to be struggling to get it under control
/the couple hours was probably a moment too much spent to help in my hero form considering my current state, coughing specs of blood into the back of my hand before i brush it away, sighing under my breath as i have a moment alone and don't need to smile for just a minute
/walking down the hallways, the suit that seems two sizes too big for me hangs off of my lanky form, the teacher job kind of needing the attire, especially when i've been offered the job as a kind of favour in the first place with the minimal members of staff knowing my real identity
/stopping outside of one of the study hall classes, i fish the crumpled schedule out of my trouser pocket, unfolding it and squinting at the paper before my vision focuses and i see i seem to be in the right place
/pushing open the sliding door, i stand in the doorway for a moment and scan the desks and tables, finding the classroom is fairly empty other than a few students dotted about, some in pairs but most keeping to themselves for study hall
/spotting a familiar face, i'm inconsequential in this form at least to the students who don't even bother with more than a glance in my general direction, fine by me as i weave around the desks as i return the crumpled piece of paper back to my trouser pocket
/standing in front of your desk i tilt my head, gazing down at you with those strangely coloured eyes of mine, the scleras so dark they almost look navy blue or black whilst my pupils are a bright green, almost as if there's an eerie glow coming from behind them, something that often makes those who don't know me reluctant to hold eye contact
young seungwoo
/despite there not being that big of an age gap between us technically, i know i definitely feel older thanks to how i've aged beyond my years and the general poor health of my wrecked body, one that has me lifting one hand from my pocket
got a minute to talk?
/jutting up my thumb in my signature thumbs up pose, i tilt my head once more, scraggly hair falling around those unusually coloured eyes of mine whilst i wait for you to respond

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