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Posted: **Sat Jan 25, 2020 7:45 pm**

"Wait... That's a real major?" he asked with a laugh and a raised brow.

Posted: **Sun Jan 26, 2020 12:12 am**

"I guess? I dunno mate... like... who the bloody hell wants to be a librarian?"

Posted: **Sun Jan 26, 2020 12:45 am**

"A ginormous friggin nerd is who," he answered.

Posted: **Sun Jan 26, 2020 2:13 am**

"Right?

I shouldn't take the piss I guess. By some people's mark I'm probably weird too."

Posted: **Sun Jan 26, 2020 3:04 am**

"Well, you're not not weird," he smirked.

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2020 12:41 am**

"Hush or I'll punish you by talking to you like a squirrel or something."

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2020 2:42 am**

"And how do you talk tuh a squirrel?"

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2020 2:43 am**

"Same way you talk to a rat, 'cept fancier.

It thinks it's fancier 'cause'a the tail you see."

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2020 3:21 pm**

He brought his monstrous tail around. "Fancier than mine."

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2020 6:05 pm**

"Definitely.... But I mean, they're poncy jerks.

Haven't you seen how dainty they scamper round like they own a public garden?" "

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2020 7:40 pm**

"I've suffered a few people like that. Even punched one in the face."

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2020 8:05 pm**

"Exactly.

Fancy tails put on airs.

Blokes like you and me ain't fake like that."

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2020 8:13 pm**

"Nothing worse than fashionable vermin," he nodded.

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2020 9:15 pm**

Ainsley's face twisted in a fashion it might if he laughed, but his mouth didn't open and he was silent both out loud and in Leo's mind. His shoulders shook heavily.

Posted: **Mon Jan 27, 2020 10:52 pm**

"Dude, you laugh funny," he said, laughing himself, " But then I laugh like an angry boulder."

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2020 4:03 pm**

Ainsley paused.

"Huh. Interesting." He said with a curious sort of tone.

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2020 4:27 pm**

He gave his roommate a perplexed look. "What?"

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2020 6:26 pm**

"My laughter doesn't translate... but seems like everything else is.

Most animals don't laugh, and the animal parts of your brain is what is allowing this....

But you laugh just fine.

I think you needn't worry that you are more animal than man my friend."

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2020 7:05 pm**

"So laughing proves I'm still a person?" he said curiously, "I never thought of that."

Friend? You barely know me.

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2020 9:05 pm**

Some barrier between Leo's conscious thoughts and his unconscious ones kept Ainsley from knowing his personal feelings.

Ainsley shrugged, reaching out to pick up a sketch pad.

"Food for thought."

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2020 9:20 pm**

Noting the sketch pad, he asked, "So whatcha been drawin'?"

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2020 11:41 pm**

"Mostly students." He says, holding out his sketchbook for Leo to peruse. Ainsley's style of choice was semi-realism and he was good at it, but there was an obvious anime influence to his work.

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2020 11:49 pm**

"Otaku much," he smirked as he carefully turned pages like he was afraid he'd tear the sketchbook apart, "Just kiddin'. It's good. I bet semi-anime me would look wicked badass."

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2020 11:51 pm**

"We can find out." He offered, flicking his pencil back and forth.

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2020 11:58 pm**

"Do you need me to pose or anything? 'Cause I totally will."

"Unless you need me naked," he teased.

Posted: **Wed Jan 29, 2020 12:40 am**

"There's No French girls to draw you like.

Unless we are counting the gelatinous cube dating aforementioned librarian." Ainsley replied, making himself comfortable.

"I tend to draw people casual. Just be You."

Posted: **Wed Jan 29, 2020 1:16 am**

He relaxed and sat on the edge of his bed, which creaked loudly. He simply did his best to look casual.

Posted: **Wed Jan 29, 2020 1:40 am**

Ainsley shook his head, smirking. The problem was he was trying to be casual, which made it very.... not.

"Tell me about Boston." He said, tapping his pencil against his pad.

Posted: **Wed Jan 29, 2020 2:15 am**

"I dunno, it's home. I grew up there with my mom. It's a pretty good place to live I guess. It's... old. Not England old but it has more to it than most of America. My mom liked to experience the history of the place, always taking me to museums and stuff when I was a kid like we were friggin' tourists," he said, growing a little sad.

Posted: **Wed Jan 29, 2020 4:18 am**

"It sounds lovely."He observes in return, trying to somewhat distract him from the topic of his mother, which obviously made him sad.

Posted: **Wed Jan 29, 2020 3:28 pm**

"Not the word I'd use but, sure, lovely. One of the best cities to live in. At least I think I read that somewhere. I didn't grow up in the best neighborhood, though not a slum or anything," he continued, moving on to describing his home turf in a mostly positive light.

Posted: **Wed Jan 29, 2020 11:32 pm**

"What did you like best about the city?"

Posted: **Thu Jan 30, 2020 12:09 am**

"The Red Sox," he answered as it were obvious. "And that's the worst thing about movin' here. No friggin' baseball. Soc... football just ain't the same. Not at all!"

He was getting pretty animated now and his accent was getting more pronounced. Though he wasn't yet pahking his cah in da cah pahk.

Posted: **Thu Jan 30, 2020 12:25 am**

"How'd you end up here?" Ainsley asked, not realizing he was probably asking a bad question.

Posted: **Thu Jan 30, 2020 1:17 am**

He immediately locked his positivity away. "After my mom died about four years ago, my aunt and uncle in London took me in. My dad left when I was five, so that was the only family I had."

Posted: **Thu Jan 30, 2020 2:00 am**

"Have you considered moving back to Boston?" Ainsley asked, picking up immediately that he'd asked the wrong thing. "Maybe you could work in that museum."

Posted: **Thu Jan 30, 2020 7:38 pm**

He sounded agitated as he said, "As what? Security? I bet the tour groups would just love that."

"Besides, America isn't any place for obvious mutants these days. And Boston was never great for mutants anyway."

Posted: **Thu Jan 30, 2020 9:08 pm**

Despite his irritation, Ainsley remained cool.

"You could get your major in some kind of museum topic and become a curator." He offered helpfully. "Perhaps not in Boston. Perhaps here, in the UK."

Posted: **Thu Jan 30, 2020 9:22 pm**

"Nah, I can't see me handlin' priceless objects. And that's not just 'cause of the beastly bod. I always had workman's hands. Can't say there's zero interest though."

Posted: **Thu Jan 30, 2020 11:20 pm**

"Is that why you sculpt? Workmans hands?"

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