Action, whenever school is back in session.

[not_good_not_wicked]

Because of a certain clip that kept airing on the news, Marisa had gone from "That one weird girl in my class" to something of a celebrity at school. At first she enjoyed the attention, but as she realized it involved lots of people being afraid to talk to her it quickly started to wear thin. As she toddled down the halls on crutches, some people just stared, lots whispered "Wasn't she on TV?" or the like, some looked nervous. At first she tried actually answering questions, usually with snarky non-answers. After the fifth person asked her why she was walking on crutches when she could fly, anonymously shouted from the crowd in the halls rather than to her face, Marisa heaved a sigh. They wanted a show, she'd give them a fucking show.

She stopped on her way to AP calculus, closed her eyes, then hovered about a foot into the air. As the crowds in the hall parted before her in surprise and silence, she drifted on towards class.

Of course, after the initial surprise wore off this only made the attention worse. At least she didn't have to get around on crutches anymore.

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[dragon_blossom]

Marina hasn't gotten nearly as much attention, but then again, her news appearance went unnoticed by most people who didn't explicitly recognize her. She hadn't even been using a spell at the time, so she was boring compared to the laser witch.

Which is why she had to comment when Marisa started floating by down the hallway. "...fucking showoff."

[not_good_not_wicked]

"You jelly."

[dragon_blossom]

"...extremely. Fuck you." Not sure if she's jelly of attention or flight.

[not_good_not_wicked]

"I probably wouldn't be doing this if I could fuckin' walk."

She appended on to this an infuriatingly carefree shrug.

[dragon_blossom]

"This is why I can't be angry, just jealous." For now. Unless you push her.

[not_good_not_wicked]

"I don't blame you. Flying IS pretty great!"

She's pushing. She can't help it. It's her nature.

[dragon_blossom]

"I had to watch all of you fly around while I was just hoofing it, hitting things with a sword!"

[shiromadoushi]

"Seriously?" was all Bakura had to say as he spotted her floating. "Did you just give up?"

[not_good_not_wicked]

She chuckled, mostly at herself. "Basically."

[shiromadoushi]

He sighed deeply. "Better than crutching about, at least..." he half muttered, shaking his head before pausing to glare at a gawker. "What?" he snapped, sending the underclassman scurrying away. "Goddamned rubberneckers...."

[not_good_not_wicked]

"Eh, let 'em stare. Didn't seem much point after I showed up on the evening news."

[shiromadoushi]

"Still annoying as fuck," Bakura shrugged. "Like you need stalkers?" Like any of them did?

[not_good_not_wicked]

"I think stalkers are going to be part of all our lives now."

She looked down thoughtfully, "I wonder if I can hide where I live from them."

[abhero]

Emil seemed to have flown past the radar - for now at least. When Marisa passed by, just the thought of being in her place scared him shitless and he couldn’t even realize why. Stupid Echoes giving back feelings he didn’t ask for, they didn’t even have the courtesy to come with a context.

So he covered the unease the best way he knew - taking it out on other people.

“Lame. Go higher, put some effort into it.”

[not_good_not_wicked]

"You can go as high as you want when you learn to fly. I don't want to hit my head on the ceiling."

[abhero]

"Long way from here to the ceiling," he said with a shrug. "Now eveyone's gonna ask you to hang decorations and fix things."

[not_good_not_wicked]

"Doesn't mean I have to do it. I can just tell them to fuck off. I could tell YOU to fuck off."

[abhero]

"Yeah you could. Chill, I'm just making conversation." Getting a reaction made him feel better about himself, so he deflated a little.

[not_good_not_wicked]

"And I'm just talking about things I COULD do."

[paradiseshrinemaiden]

Since Reimu had also shown up in the same clip, also flying, she'd been getting a bit more attention than she used to too, if not quite as much. Naturally Reimu was far more annoyed by this than Marisa and only gave non-answers to anyone brave enough to try asking questions. Otherwise, she just glared at them until they backed off. She actually liked that most people were too scared to talk to her though. It didn't make the staring they did instead any less annoying. Or the whispering. At least back home, most people knew how rude that was. Which didn't always stop them, but it did make them less open about it.

So she's looking pretty crabby when she sees Marisa floating. "Got tired of hobbling then?"

[not_good_not_wicked]

"Have you ever tried to get around on crutches? If you're going more than a hundred feet it gets fucking tiring."

She actually gave Reimu a proper look. She looked pissed. "Wow, who peed in your cheerios?"

[paradiseshrinemaiden]

"That's a good point. I'm not exactly saying that you shouldn't do that or anything..." Reimu just sighs.

"And it's just that people keep bothering me and I'm already tired of it." The miko added, frowning, "I guess it was too much to hope that things would get back to something resembling normal once that alien was taken care of..."

Also, her family was making a big deal of things. Fortunately they were taking it fairly well, but she was kind of dreading how her father would react when he eventually found out too...

[not_good_not_wicked]

Marisa's mom, on the other hand, had taken it well. They had a strange and subtle relationship that a lot of people didn't quite get.

In deference to Reimu's current irritation towards all things magical, Marisa dropped to the ground. Standing still wasn't hard on crutches. It was just the walking that was a pain. "After a display like we put on, I don't think anyone's getting anything 'normal' again any time soon."

[paradiseshrinemaiden]

Reimu just grumbles incoherently at that. "I know..." She said, still looking put upon. "If I knew it was going to end up turning into something out of a Kaiju movie, I wouldn't have bothered to show up." Except, well, it wasn't like she'd needed to go out there flying around shooting ofuda and slinging spells at the thing if she hadn't wanted to, so that was a total lie. She couldn't exactly let the thing go rampaging around the city when she could actually do something about it, even if it did mean getting caught on camera.

"... I guess I wouldn't mind so much if people would mind their own business and stop trying to ask stupid questions." She admitted, casting a glance around them at their schoolmates.

[not_good_not_wicked]

"Really?"

Marisa leaned closer to Reimu, looking possibly a little sinister. "You really would have just let things get totally out of hand when there was a chance you could have stopped it?"

After a tense moment, she settled back onto her crutches. "I don't think so."