The Winner Takes It All
LOCATION | Herbology
DATE | 4 September 2025
INTERACTING | @Damien Dragonclaw
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Name Name| MENTIONINGThe air smelled of dirt and late summer blooming plants. It was the 4th of September 2025, only a few days since Jun‘s Second Year at Hogwarts had started. The weather was not yet cold, though the early morning hours were getting colder. There was a soft cool breeze rustling one’s robes when walking among the Grounds, the sun had risen over the trees and Students were walking to class. There was a full moon coming in 3 days, though Jun felt surprisingly calm and well at the moment. The headaches hadn’t set in yet, she didn’t feel too weak; the calm before the storm.
Today’s very first class of the day was Herbology, one of Jun’s favorite subjects. There was something almost relaxing about the scent of different plants and dirt in the air. She liked the exploration of growth patterns, the subjects and plants they learned about in class, the vast variety of magical plants and fungi. Perhaps even more importantly so, Herbology was an easy ‚O‘ on her report card while not being a subject that was too mundane. The spells were possibly not always ones she’d use on the day to day basis, however they were useful in their own ways too.
As Jun shuffled into the Greenhouse reserved for lessons, among her peers, she shouldered her Satchel once again and then chose a desk on the left. It wasn’t in the very front but it also wasn’t in the far back; the perfect middle field.
Today’s lesson was on… Slugs. Ew.. It wasn’t as though Jun terribly disliked slugs or snails or slimy creatures, just that slugs specifically had a rather worm like appearance. The slight disgust one felt was merely psychological, presumably named as something along the lines of evolutionary disgust, due to their slimy, soft bodied, legless appearance. Humans often associate them with contamination, their diet of animal matter or rotten plants and fungi and the fact they carried parasites.. like lungworm.
At that thought, a slight shiver of disgust ran down the Ravenclaw’s spine. They’d surely not learn about the psychological reaction of slugs today and Jun would not be any less focused just because of those little slimy creatures. What she was focused on was another year of being on top of her classes, which had been relatively easy in her first year. Jun did not expect it to be any harder in this time around. Only that she did always have a competitive streak and her writer knew something that she didn’t; this year Herbology wouldn’t just be a matter of relaxing in class. Because what does one do when realizing you’re not the only one striving for the top?
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The Winner Takes It All
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While herbology wasn’t Damien favorite class it was a class he enjoyed dearly, that was due to the fact of the Professor, Sarai Toussaint as well as him finding a deep connection with nature and plants. Maybe it was because he spent hours when he was younger helping his mother in the garden and planting her rose bushes or possibly the fact he would play around in the gardens for hours with butterflies or other animals he found before ultimately tiring himself out and reading a book to end the day. Currently he was writing down everything on the lesson as he didn’t want to miss a beat. Damien may have loved Astronomy the most but Herbology was a close second and he did not plan to fall behind. Damien was taught to be the top of his class as well as his studies so that was something he always did. He believed himself to be a high achiever and wouldn’t stop at noting till he succeeded in his goals as he had standards as well as a family name to uphold, or well he used too he really couldn’t tell anymore as after his father disappointment in him getting into Ravenclaw and not Gryffindor like he has hopped made them more distant and not really talking like the used too, also due to the fact his father said he no longer saw Damien as a son. So maybe Damien has been struggling with that and didn’t have a family name to uphold anymore but he did have a new found family name to uphold and that was him being a proud Ravenclaw and he wanted to make sure everyone knew that told. He slowly began to mumble to himself as he kept writing the lesson in his notes. He planned to succeed at all cost. |
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| IC date: 4th of September | Interactions: @Jun Mayumi Mochizuki |
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The Winner Takes It All
LOCATION | Herbology
DATE | 4 September 2025
INTERACTING | @Damien Dragonclaw
01:03⠀─── ◉ ───────⠀03:13
#e63b7a | DIALOGUE
Name Name| MENTIONINGSo what if Jun looked a fraction obsessed? What was wrong with wanting good - no, top grades? To thrive for achievement and success? Well, the amount of notes that this single Ravenclaw was taking, may have started to border on concerning…
The trick was to train your brains reward system. Jun enjoyed studying as it was, she enjoyed learning new skills and facts, liked solving problems, loved pattern recognition or studying something complex. Through all of this, success had becoming something Jun‘s brain was trained upon. In fact, she had been trained for success since early childhood, no matter the subject or extracurricular.
Something Jun also prided herself upon was focus. Though even on the days where Jun felt all locked in, the young second year was also usually aware of what was going on around her. And so it was no surprise to her, that she noticed the boy that was starting to mumble to himself. She tried to ignore it for a little while until Jun‘s gaze inevitably moved to look at who was reading out his notes.
He had short light brown Hair and blue-grey eyes and…. was a Ravenclaw judging by his uniform. Jun wasn’t sure she had truly noticed him before though since he was in her house, her year and her classes, she must have met him before? Or at least seen him around. Only that she couldn’t sort out a name for him in her head, so she must have either ignored or just not noticed this guy during her first year.
Either way, Jun terribly disliked it when someone mumbled their notes out loud, especially when they seemed to even make sense.
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The Winner Takes It All
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Damien honestly didn’t know where he developed the habit from, he just always seemed to mutter to himself when he was doing something. Rather that was reading his notes on Herbology or any other subject to himself or just painting and having a conversation with his thoughts, he truly didn’t know if he got it from his mother or what but he always did that. Was it annoying ? For him not at all for others though..well that depends if they truly could hear him. Whenever he started mumbling or muttering to himself it was usually very quiet and only to the point where someone had to be near or listen well enough to hear it. Damien honestly knew he had memorized all of his herbology note and much more but he still wanted to make sure he knew everything he could. He hated missing anything or feeling like he missed something because then he would get overwhelmed and stressed out. So he did something to help him calm himself down which was to doodle, a lot of his notes had little doodles on them one doodle was currently a mandrake in a cute little pot, Damien didn’t know why but he enjoyed how the mandrakes looked. Sure their scream was deafening but none the less they looked absolutely adorable to him, which brought him to an interesting question has anyone ever thought about trying to keep a mandrake in their house as a regular plant. He imagined it wouldn’t work out for loads of reasons but he was sure he would ask Professor Toussaint before he left class again today. Speaking of Professor Toussaint Damien felt a strange connection to her, he assumed maybe because he and Alphonse were best friends that he saw her as a mother figure almost, he truly didn’t know but he didn’t mind it as he loved to hear about all of her stories. |
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| IC date: 4th of September | Interactions: @Jun Mayumi Mochizuki |
| English: #0056d6 | Thoughts: Italics |
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