Flying on Ice open to all Closed

At the boy’s yell, Lillian started to skate over to the group of people. She was ok at skating, she wasn’t falling, but she was most certainly not graceful. When she reached the group she stopped, with a lot of flailing. Lillian smiled nervously at the others and awkwardly waved. She admired all their outfits. They all looked like they could be professional skaters. Meanwhile, Lillian was wearing a plain white long sleeve shirt and jeans. Lillian then softly said, “H-hi! I’m Lillian, what are you guy’s names?” Lillian was suddenly aware of the fact that her stop hadn’t been entirely successful, as she was still slowly gliding. Lillian had absolutely no idea how to fix this. She blushed before asking, “Um, is there a way to stop gliding?” Lillian felt very embarrassed, everyone else looked like they knew what to do, and she was just absolutely clueless. Of course, just then, her legs decided to give out on her and she fell backward onto her back with a yelp. Her first thought was, at least I stopped gliding. Then, as she continued to stay on the ground, she only thought about how she was certain that she could not be any more embarrassed.

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[quote] (hi please note that faye has no idea what pronouns are, sorry.)

[quote] Another Ravenclaw had started to talk to her, so she ripped her eyes away from the ice skater and fixed them on the girl, her strange stare piercing.
“Hello. I know, Grace, she’s very good. I didn’t know people could do that. I don’t even know what she’s doing. I’m Faye, by the way.” She cocked her head and smiled.
“No, I don’t skate. Is that what it’s called, skating? Sounds fun.”

Suddenly, another student dressed as strangely as her approached the duo and started chatting. Faye didn’t understand most of the words she was saying. Pronouns? Like, those things you put instead of names? Weren’t they words?
“Oh, hi. Hello. I’m Faye and, sorry but I don’t understand. What are ‘pronouns’? Don’t they substitute for nouns?”
Faye turned to Grace and looked puzzled. “What does this Simon mean?”

Finally, somebody she recognised, her friend Victoria from the hospital wing, had approached.
“Victoria! Hello! No, I don’t know how to ice skate, honestly, I have no clue what’s going on.” She was going to go into a random monologue about how she didn’t understand but by then Victoria had skated away.

Her eyes darted to the newest thing, a boy grabbing a pair of death skating shoes from a bag and promptly falling as soon as he stood onto the ice. These skates, they were only causing trouble. The boy had screamed at them to come join them on the ice, which made Faye jump out of her skin and wave fists around.
“Well, I would if I knew what you were doing! Honestly, who would attach knives to the bottom of their shoes? Are you codding me?”

[quote] mentioning: @Grace Montare @Simon Corbin @Victoria Asminy Honest @Youssuf Baid

Simon had been sitting in the Common Room, working on a song, when a few younger Hufflepuff students entered and were chatting away about some students ice skating out on the Great Lake. Ice skating?! That caught his interest. Now, granted he had just fit in a hockey game with some friends back in London over Winter Break, but before that it had been a good while since Simon had put on his ice skates and interestingly enough, he thought to pack them with him for a moment just like this.

It was going to take him a couple days to venture out and see if the ice was thick enough. There had been a lot on his plate from handling the death of a close friend, to taking on rat ownership when you weren't the biggest animal person. "You want to come too, Rascal?" he asked the rat who was snuggled up like a lump on the pillow beside him. "Come on, you come too," he said, slipping the rat into his bag. Up the stairs he went to his dormitory to toss on a jacket, to put a coat on Rascal (he had some clothes that once belonged to Clair Fernandez's pet rat Clover), and grabbed his skates.

Usually he didn't go outside too often - being a dhampir and all. Still, someone couldn't avoid it entirely and some days were worth sun exposure over others. An ice skating day certainly was.

Once to the Lake, he saw Winter Wolfhartz, one of his best friends, and... well, a whole lot of students he hadn't met. He took a moment to watch them as he laced up his skates sitting on a fallen tree. Winter was remarkably skilled and most of the others were pretty good as well - with a couple exceptions. Simon wouldn't be able to do all the fancy stuff Winter could do but he had taken skating at a young age and had been a skilled skater since - playing hockey for several years. He could stop in a moment and skate backwards and do a turn or two - nothing that would send him to the next Olympics but it was still fun. "Come on, you can ride in my pocket. I won't fall," he said to Rascal.

There was a front pocket in the jacket he had on and he placed him inside. No, it wouldn't be Simon's intention to always take the animal with him, but right now he was trying to get his weight back up and his happiness restored after all that the little guy had gone through.

Simon stepped out onto the ice and began to skate around.

"Oh, hi! My name's Grace! And my pronouns..."
Oh, brother. Simon silently hoped that the Ravenclaw didn't blow up on them. Luckily, she did not, she simply gave them to her.
"Well, in my opinion, it is way funner to skate then to just watch. Even if you end up breaking a few limbs. They could just grow the bones back, simple."
Simon raised her eyebrows at the Ravenclaw's question. "Uh, my pronouns? They or he, i guess..." though that didn't feel quite right. Dang, this was unnecessarily complicated. Luckily, she didn't have time to change her mind as another girl approached them and introduced herself as Faye.
"...Sorry, but I don’t understand. What are ‘pronouns’? Don’t they substitute for nouns?”
Simon sighed. Here we go again- weren't these things taught in first grade? Did she look like an English teacher? "Yeah, i'm talking about personal pronouns, she, he, they- which can also be used for a singular person, f-y-i." Simon said in a bored tone, hoping they didn't try to debate further or they would have a very bad migraine later.

Simon smiled a bit at Winter's response. "I'm fine. I was almost scarred by someone almost breaking their ankles but i'm fine."
Something in Simon's face or tone might have tipped Winter off, because she took Simon's hands in hers and reassured her that she looked great. Simon felt a bit of her anxiety melt away, and she smiled gratefully at the Hufflepuff girl. "Simmy. Huh, i like that."
When Winter offered to teach her some nice tricks, Simon said, "Sure, as long as i don't die." She let Winter lead the way as she asked Winter some questions. "So, how long have you been skating? I have actually only been skating for 1 year but i got the hang of it pretty fast, if i do say so myself." letting herself feel a bit of pride on having caught on so fast. Her friend (ex-friend?) Bruno used to bruise himself on the ice a lot while Simon would skate playful circles around him. She smiled a bit at the memory, then frowned, feeling sad.
HOY! COME AND JOIN US OVER HERE!
Simon then heard a familiar voice that snapped her out of her bittersweet memory and glanced over to see Youssuf. She grinned and waved wildly at him, almost losing her balance as she did so. "Yooooosssuf! Hello! Glad you didn't change your mind." Simon quickly grabbed Winter's hands. "Whew! Almost died there." He also saw Vicky talking to a bunch of people, as usual. Simon grinned and gave them a small wave.
Simon saw another boy enter- a Hufflepuff boy named Simon Kincaid. Everyone knew who he was, even if they didn't talk to him. He was known to be overly friendly, and Simon waved him over. "Hey! You're Simon Kincaid, correct? I'm Simon Corbin- we share the same name!" She let go of Winter to shake his hand.

Mentioned: @Simon Corbin, @Lillian Locile, @Grace Montare, @Winter Wolfhartz, @Victoria Asminy Honest, @Youssuf Baid, @Simon Kincaid

Cheeks red, Pax looked up to see two students in front of them, both looking down at them with mild concern.

"Are you ok?" They both asked.

"Yeah, thank you," Pax muttered, reluctantly accepting the hand to help them up. "Damn, this is really embarrassing. I didn't think I was that clumsy."

Noticing, one of the two looking behind, Pax turned (carefully) to the edge, where another girl had approached. They all stood awkwardly in silence for a second before the one who had helped them up spoke.

"I'm Simon. What' are your names? And pronouns?"

"I'm Pax, and my pronouns are she/they, thanks for asking." Pax replied with a smile. "It's nice to meet you all by the way. I like your outfit." They nodded at Simon's fun choice of clothing. "I wish I could pull something like that off."

After the others exchanged names and pronouns, Simon skated over to meet Winter, and Pax decided to try and follow them, taking small steps on the ice and shuffling forwards. As they carefully waddled, a Ravenclaw girl approached her with a smile. "Hi, I'm Victoria! What's your name? I think you fell, but you know what, I broke my nose in my light skating experience!"

Pax giggled. "I'm Pax, and I go by she/they! What are your pronouns, if you don't mind me asking? Some people have a problem with me going by 'they', they get confused by the idea, but it just sorta makes sense to me. Also, it's good to know that I'm not the only person who made a complete fool of themselves when they first went skating. Not that I meant you were a fool at all! Sorry, I talk a lot when I get nervous."

They looked over their shoulder at a yell that came from one of the people in the centre. "HOY! COME AND JOIN US OVER HERE!" 

"I'm going to attempt to head over there, wish me luck!"

By some miracle, they managed to make their way to the others without falling back down again, just as another girl slipped over.

"You alright there?" Pax offered a hand, though part of them worried they might just slip right over in the attempt to help. "It's Lillian, right? Oh, and hi again Simon, and hi Winter! Thanks for inviting me out here, it's really nice of you to! Who's your friends?" They looked at the Gryffindor male, presumably the one who had called everyone over, and then at the Hufflepuff who had just stepped onto the ice. "Isn't that Simon Kincaid?"

"Simon Corbin," he repeated the name and placed it pretty quickly but the Gryffindor before him wasn't what was described to him. "You're Clair's new friend." It was more of a statement than a question because he was pretty sure that he got the right person. They were probably the only two Simons in the entire school. "Always nice to meet another Simon," he said as he shook the Gryffindor's hand. Clair Fernandez was one of his best friends and she had mentioned him.

He then glanced over to Winter and smiled widely. "I saw you trying to show everyone up. Don't say you weren't," he teased. Honestly, it was good watching his friend have fun and he knew that she too would have more trouble coming outdoors than the others, so she deserved all the fun she could have while she was out there.

"There's a lot of people here I don't know," he admitted and felt a little bad about that. Simon liked meeting new people at Hogwarts and offering his help where he could. Most of the ones out there were probably first years, and he felt he should have tried to reach out to them by now. "But yeah, 'sup everyone? I'm Simon. Simon Kincaid. Second Year Hufflepuff. We rock," he winked to Winter. The two of them had a LOT in common. Both Second Years. Both Hufflepuffs. Both raised by an aunt. Both a broom racer. Both a dhampir. The similarities could get crazy sometimes.

"If anyone would like any tips on skating, I can offer some assistance." Simon was hoping that some of the ones that he didn't know well would come introduce themselves. He was always eager to meet a new friend.

open to interactions.

Clair had heard of some sort of ice skating thing down at great lake, well the thought of something even half related to home was great, Maybe she missed home a little, and ice skating was something that Clair and her family had always done, every year at home, she had brought her skates with her, and was now happy that she had. Taking her skates, he pulled on her sweater, and then she pulled on a blue hat and a blue winter hat, and then she got Comet and put on her coat, the rabbit then jumped into her backpack "Good Girl!" Clair praised, patting the rabbit, she slipped the backpack on and headed out to the lake.
When she got there her heart flipped over, there was many people but two of the people jumped out at her, Simon.
Both of them were named Simon, Simon Corbin and Simon Kincaid, she quickly put her skates on and headed towards the two, she snuck up behind Simon K, and then hugged him
"hello you big ball of huggable-ness!" She said squishing him, she smiled at Simon C,
"Hey Corbin how are you?" She waved at him, still with on arm around Kincaid.
"Did I interrupt a amazing talk about...." She thought for a moment "Homework?"
Really that was the most Ravenclaw -ish thing she could ever say.
She took her arm of Kincaid, "Or are you two bonding over names?"
She grinned, pulling her hair out of her face, maybe she should have pulled it up.
(wc 264)
Talking to @Simon Kincaid & @Simon Corbin

Interacting with: all present (interactions open) Mentioning: same as above

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Outfit: X (updated) & X

Winter could hear some words being yelled towards her and Simon from those off of the ice but even though she could hear them, she was never one to yell so she just smiled and waved at them. Maybe those who hadn't joined the group of skaters needed help? or maybe they just wanted to make small talk first, either way, that was their choice, and winter would help if they did decide to join. "pfft- you won't die trust me, ill catch you before you even fall!" she let out a small laugh as Simon spoke those words.

Soon enough another person who she would consider a good friend of hers slowly made his way over, it was youssuf! "o-oh hey youssuf! You look great, classic fits you well" she smiled at him "o-oh well my aunt used to be a figure skater! I've been training for about.." she took a hot minute to count the years "hmm- six or seven years?" she replied to simons question with a grin before a yell was heard from Youssuf.

It made her jump slightly until she saw he was calling for all the others to join them over where they all were skating. Little by little people would make their way over, many unknown faces but some she had known, one of them being her best friend, Simon Kincaid! "Simon? I didn't know you could skate!!" winter was so glad that more people were joining and even happier when she realized her dhampir friend had as well! more and more students were coming probably due to curiosity but she was glad and most people were getting along quite well.

As everyone surrounded her she let out a small gulp before talking out and fiddling with her hands ever so slightly. "S-so everyone why don't we go closer to the others on land and see if they'll join us! Then I can show you all how to skate properly and carefully!!" she skated backward, headed towards land. Once she had gotten everyone to follow her closer to the others that hadn't gotten onto the ice just yet she turned to look at them all "Hey guy! you should join us on the ice, I'm going to show everyone how to skate..if you'd like to try you can just use some of the skates that are laid out!" she pointed in the direction of the bag and grinned.

After everyone who would give it a go got onto the slippery icy surface, winter helped them to stand and scooted them over to the rest of the group. "When you skate you should always bend your legs a bit! it helps to keep you balanced... and point your toes in the way you want to go before pushing off with the pick of your skates" she skated in a simple circle and did each of the tips to prove they work. "And last, to stop" she paused whilst looking at everyone, surprised she wasn't freaking out by the number of strangers "E-either spread your feet apart quickly in an emergency or place one foot behind the other sideways to slow down before coming to a complete stop"

"I'm here to help at any time!" she looked to Simon K. and smiled "As well as my friend Simon here!"

Wc: 572

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@Victoria Asminy Honest,
@Youssuf Baid, @Simon Corbin, @Lily Bridges, @Celeste Aurore, @Simon Kincaid , @Pax Zhang, @Faye Simmons, @Grace Montare, @Clair Fernandez& @Lillian Locile

"You aren't that clumsy... only mildly clumsy." Simon reassured the Gryffindor. "I've seen worse."
Simon smiled at their response. Thank god these people weren't pronoun-haters. She was sick and tired of those people and meeting more at Hogwarts would make Simon send a letter to their mum requesting to go home. "Mine's they, thanks for being respectful."
When Pax complimented Simon's clothing, she shyly looked down at the outfit like she had just witnessed it existing. "Oh, uh, thank you, Pax."

Simon smiled. 'Thanks, Winter. I knew you wouldn't let me down."
She glanced over at Youssuf. "It sure does! I saw you slip on the ice there, ouch. Let's hope that's a one time thing."
Simon raised her eyebrows. "That's a long time to be ice skating. Wow, i'm impressed. Why did your aunt stop figure skating?"



"Hi Pax, long time no see!" Simon joked. "And my friends? The Ravenclaw's name is Victoria A. Honest, and the Gryffindor boy is Youssuf, as you may already know."
When Pax mentioned Kincaid, Simon looked over and said "Yep, that's Kincaid, all right."

"Simon Corbin. You're Clair's new friend."
Ack! Simon did not expect Kincaid to know her. Did Clair already tell Simon K about her? What did she say??? Was it bad???? Simon felt their face turn red as she answered him with "Uh, yep! I-I sure am!"
What a dumb answer! She wanted to kick herself but someone else came- Clair herself. She went to hug Kincaid and gave Simon a smile that made her heart melt.
"Y-yep. We were talking about something so secret we can't even tell you." Simon jokingly put her finger over her lips as if they were keeping a secret, and laughed.
Simon skated over to the small group of people Winter was teaching and followed along with them, even though she already had enough experience. Simon wanted to be there so they could call for help in case someone broke a bone or two. She may not be able to do fancy tricks like Winter could, but she could sure skate fast and could probably get help in time.
Winter was a really good teacher, admittedly. Simon was sure that she could make these people into professional skaters if she wished. Simon observed the newbies carefully and turned to Winter. "Hey, you could become a teacher. You and Kincaid. Oh, you two could host lessons if you are interested!"

Simon watched as the other Simon skated off toward where Winter was off helping some of the others and he smiled. Such a Hufflepuff thing of Winter to do. He himself though turned around and smiled to Clair, glad to see she was there. "You know I wouldn't keep any secrets from you," he said and glanced down. They briefly, just briefly, brought up ice skating when he was visiting her home over the holiday break and it seemed she was holding her balance just fine. It wasn't like there at the Great Lake there was a wall to hang onto, so no wall huggers there.

"I don't know how long I'm going to stay out," Simon said and glanced up, indicating the sun was the reason for his decision. Clair was smart and he knew she'd pick up on that, but he wanted her to know in advance that he was only there for a little bit. He'd hate for her to feel he was leaving quickly over something she'd say or do. Heck, the girl couldn't shake him that easily.

"Come on, show me what you've got, Fernandez," Simon said as he began skating backwards, distancing himself from her. He was glad that she had decided to come out and join the ice skating that day.