Xaviers!

Posted: **Tue Apr 24, 2018 2:52 pm**

Progress was going well on her projects at the school, so Natalie had decided to take a brief trip downtown just to walk around and look at things. She passed by some restaurants she likes, looking briefly in the windows before walking on down the street.

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Posted: **Tue Apr 24, 2018 8:39 pm**

"Ooooh, Nika!" said a short, red-haired girl coming down the other way. "I swear, you just did that to embarrass me."

Posted: **Tue Apr 24, 2018 9:42 pm**

"Non-sense. I'm sure they have people asking about artisanal, hand squeezed toothpaste all the time." Nika manages with a straight face.

Posted: **Tue Apr 24, 2018 9:51 pm**

"Well, someone has to make it! Somewhere! It might well have been in the back!"

Posted: **Wed Apr 25, 2018 6:40 pm**

Natalie looks up at the conversation, tilting her head as she gauges the concept of 'artisanal toothpaste' and tries to identify the two people discussing it.

Posted: **Wed Apr 25, 2018 6:46 pm**

"Absolutely, next to the guy who wraps toiletpaper onto the little cardboard tubes all day."

Posted: **Wed Apr 25, 2018 7:01 pm**

"You're enjoying yourself," Katarina accused.

Posted: **Thu Apr 26, 2018 4:10 pm**

"I simply have appreciation for my job." she says diplomatically.

Posted: **Thu Apr 26, 2018 6:59 pm**

"Appreciation, my butt," Katrina declared.

Arguing with Nika so much, Katarina wasn't really paying attention to where she was going, and was on a collision course with Natalie.

Posted: **Tue May 01, 2018 2:03 pm**

Natalie is so busy trying to figure out who they are that she doesn't realize she needs to get out of the way or even get adjusted for the collision. She goes down in a heap with Katarina. She's more solid than a young woman of her build should be.

Posted: **Tue May 01, 2018 4:29 pm**

Nika does catch on to the collision about to happen, but she's too slow to stop it. Instead she's quick to grab Natalie by the collar and try to haul her away from Katarina, with little success.

Posted: **Tue May 01, 2018 7:14 pm**

Instinctively -- and as a result of Nika's training -- Katarina went golden when the two went down in a heap, making the pile even heavier and more difficult to move.

Posted: **Tue May 01, 2018 7:23 pm**

Natalie starts trying to help extract herself from the pile, "I'm really sorry. I should have..." She blinks at Katarina being all golden now, which probably makes her less helpful in extracting herself from the situation than she could be.

Posted: **Tue May 01, 2018 8:33 pm**

Nika let's go of Natalie's scruff and grabs her shoulder instead, hard enough to notice how hard it is underneath the fake skin. Most peoples' gut reaction probably would not be 'robot' but most people aren't drilled on Viktor von Doom's methods.

"Careful, y--Katarina! She could be a Doombot!"

Posted: **Tue May 01, 2018 9:06 pm**

"What? But...but it doesn't LOOK like Doom!" Katarina said, trying (and failing) to extricate herself.

Posted: **Tue May 01, 2018 10:21 pm**

"I... what?" Natalie sounds confused. "Doombot? What?" It's really hard to extricate yourself when someone has your shoulder, but she's doing her best and partially succeeding this time.

Posted: **Wed May 02, 2018 4:40 pm**

"Well maybe he... build one that looks like someone else..." she weakly points out. Even she has to admit that it's unlikely. While certainly cunning, Doctor Doom liked to be overly theatric and self-indulgent and Natalie was acting anything but. She releases her grip on her shoulder.

Posted: **Wed May 02, 2018 6:36 pm**

"I am so sorry," Katarina was babbling. "I didn't see you there at all. I wasn't expecting anyone directly in front of me."

Posted: **Wed May 02, 2018 6:47 pm**

"It's alright," Natalie says, dusting herself off. "I was preoccupied and should have moved. My apologies. The gold... you must be one of the students at the school I'm not familiar with."

Posted: **Wed May 02, 2018 7:59 pm**

"Um, yes. And so must you!

I am Katarina and this is my bod....buddy Nika."

Posted: **Wed May 02, 2018 8:09 pm**

"Sorry about that. You're a student yourself?"

Posted: **Wed May 02, 2018 11:30 pm**

Natalie nods, "Since early last term. My name's Natalie."

Posted: **Thu May 03, 2018 2:58 am**

"Well, I apologize for meeting on the wrong foot here.

...Why does Nika think you are a Doombot?"

Posted: **Thu May 03, 2018 4:34 pm**

"That's kind of a long story," Natalie says, lowering her voice a bit and looking around.

Posted: **Thu May 03, 2018 9:00 pm**

Katarina also looked around, confused.

"What are we looking for?"

Posted: **Fri May 04, 2018 4:12 pm**

"People who might overhear, I'd imagine. Are you a robot?" she asks, quietly and with less paranoia in her voice. Still a bit of suspicion though, no need to drop her guard entirely.

Posted: **Fri May 04, 2018 5:33 pm**

"Yes and no," Natalie says. "I'm a technopath currently inhabiting a robot body, if you want to be absolutely precise."

Posted: **Fri May 04, 2018 9:19 pm**

The glazed look Katarina had demonstrated the level to which she understood Natalie's comments.

"That's a....very interesting situation!"

Posted: **Fri May 04, 2018 9:21 pm**

"So... that's a yes. At least I was right about one thing then."

Posted: **Fri May 04, 2018 10:14 pm**

"Not strictly a yes," Natalie says, bristling just slightly. "Just... sort of a yes."

Posted: **Fri May 04, 2018 10:37 pm**

"Sort of a yes? In what way 'sort of a yes'?"

Posted: **Mon May 07, 2018 1:51 pm**

"It's... complicated and not totally understood at the moment. Being a robot implies some sort of programming, which isn't completely what I have going on."

Posted: **Mon May 07, 2018 3:19 pm**

"This is making my head hurt..."

Posted: **Mon May 07, 2018 6:21 pm**

"You're not the one who crashed into anyone!" Katarina pointed out.

Posted: **Mon May 07, 2018 6:34 pm**

"I think she means I'm starting to confuse her."

Posted: **Mon May 07, 2018 6:52 pm**

"You're a robot but not a computer. I don't get it, but I don't think I will."

Posted: **Tue May 08, 2018 4:36 pm**

"Probably for the best not to try then," Natalie says, "I heard something about artisanal toothpaste?"

Posted: **Tue May 08, 2018 5:40 pm**

Katarina blushed -- looking quite odd on a golden statue.

"I...just was coming down to pick up some necessities, that's all..."

Posted: **Tue May 08, 2018 5:48 pm**

"Katarina has lived... bit of a sheltered life in some ways." Nika says diplomatically. "We're getting her used to the real world." she adds, a little less politely and a little more amused.

Posted: **Tue May 08, 2018 5:52 pm**

"To be fair, the real world kind of sucks," Natalie says with a smile, "I imagine it can be quite the adjustment depending on the sheltering."

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