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Eisen Wren

The aforementioned student president sighed heavily when Ozpin mentioned his name, and waved at the crowd when Ozpin gestures in his direction. He knew this was coming, but come on did the guy really have to call him out on it? Oh well I suppose this was his job as student council president. He sighed and stood up, when Ozpin dismissed them. Either no one was going to give a rat's ass, or everyone was going to hunt him down for answers.

Why did he become president again? He couldn't remember. Probably some reverse psychology shenanigans from Venus.

It was such a shame that they didn't get put on a team together. Anyway, where was that woman? If he was going to be hounded all day, then so was she, as his fellow council member.

He shot her a text as he navigates through the crowd. Eisen saw Eleanor, but didn't try to get her attention. The used to be teammates, up until this year. Now they were leading a pack they knew nothing about, to go fight monsters of any variety.

The traffic jam lessened as he got out into the open-air breezeway/courtyard. A light autumn wind rustled his untidy black hair. Gray eyes peered through black framed glasses as he examined every student around him.

Eisen took a look at his scroll. Ozpin had sent all the third years the student pictures and names for their new wards.

"Madeline Daygem... Rowan- I know who that is... Siiva ex Machina..."

He mumbled the two females names over and over as he committed the pictures to memory.

Now he had to find them. Although as long as they could find the announcement board with room listings, he'd see them eventually.

Now, where the hell was Venus?

Mentioned: Venus Gyvate . D O V E and Eleanor Wintergreen AquaMarie

--Siiva Ex Machina--
(Open to anyone!)

As the speech ended, Siiva was the one of the first people to head out of the gymnasium. Siiva was one of the first years in Beacon, hailing from Atlas. She was clad in a blue coat and skirt, though parts of her combat outfit can be seen such as the grey tights and gloves. She wasn't exactly human, and she's trying her hardest to keep it hidden. Her first course of action is to find the Team she was assigned in and the room they're staying at.

After a few moments of walking, she spots a bulletin board near the entrance to the main campus, along with a small crowd of students.

"Let's see...Siiva...Siiva...Oh, there!" Siiva peered through the crowd, the optics in her pupils zooming in as she read through the boards looking for her name. "Team W-...W-Wi-DeRS?(WDRS)..." She fell silent for a moment, confused on how to pronounce the damned acronym. "Yeah, let's go with that. Let's see...Led by Sir Wren, members are Miss Daygem, Sir Auburn, and me. Room is..." She muttered to herself as her memory banks jotted them down in her main scroll, which is part of the supercomputers that was conceived as her brain. If she recalls, Wren Eisen is the Student President, right? Then that would leave her with a more than capable group. "I just have to try harder then!" She motivated herself as she then proceeded to the dorms whilst humming a cheery tune.

--Calpoly Panoma--
[Open to anyone!]

It has been a bad day for Calpoly. He was nearly late for the airship and got to the speech a few minutes late due to him falling asleep in the airship. Cal was training so hard in order to be admitted to the academy, so the fatigue must've got to him. Cal lets out a sigh as he got out of the gymnasium, soon searching for the nearest bulletin. However, most of them are crowded with various students.

" 'Scuse me, coming through..." Calpoly muttered as he tried to fit through the crowd, soon finding himself in front of the bulletin board. Fortunately enough, his name was on there as soon as he looked at it! "Okay, team...T.PiNK(TPNK)...Ok, got it." He read the names and the room number he's supposed to be in, soon walking off to find the dormitory, repeating the room number over and over as if memorizing it.

Ashlyn Blackburn
*Paging Miss Mila* Entity.Eclypse

Ashlyn briskly made her way through the crowd to the bulletin to find where she would be staying. She weaved around students, on occasion a hand coming up to try and flick and grab her ear, but she moved fast enough to avoid those types. She then spotted a familiar face, black and white hair unmistakable. "Mila!" She called out as she neared a few feet from her partner. "Been awhile, has it not?" She asked, the tinge of a Mengerie accent apparent. Her hood was currently down and partly open, revealing a currently dark grey undersuit with matching armor coloration due to her cloaks previously having been closed. The faint outline of a four part holster shiouletted against her lean framed held her knives, and her bec was acting almost as a swagger stick for her.

"Do you know where we are going?" She then asked, slate eyes turning to meetings grey and red of her compatriot. She stopped at the board and leaned on her bec casually, fingers splayed out across it.

Alexander patiently waited for the line to slowly dissipate as multiple students began to continually bump into and trample each other just to get ahead of everyone else. A small chuckle managed to escape the mouth of the giant as due to his experience he knew someone of his size would never be able to make it to the front as his bulkiness provided very little mobility. And with the sight of everyone trampling themselves just to discover their room amused Alxander in a number of ways as it reminded him of his first year attending Beacon where he he also attempted to rush towards the front of the line. Alexander stood out from most of the crowd due to his enormous size and even caught several first year students starring at him because of this. His fellow third year peers and most of the second year juniors were use to his size at this point so there weren't many who would shoot glances at him when they thought he wasn't looking.

After the line began to thin itself out as students began rushing to find their rooms and teammates Alexander eventually made his way to the list. "Team TNPK eh" Alexander said to himself as he began to scan through the list of his fellow teammates. Alexander huffed a bit upon discovering that he had no idea who any of these people were causing a frown to form over his face. He had been hoping that he would have known at least one person amongst his team, but due to the unfamiliar names he could already tell these were all first years causing him to sigh a bit. There of course was nothing wrong with being on a team full of first years, but it meant he would have to play guide when it came to the academies facilities and it's classroom locations. Alexander started to make his way down to his new room as the sight of his Greatsword and shield were clearly seen slung over the back of the colossal third year.

The young man let out a weary sigh as he looked around at the hordes of students around him. Victor hated crowds, being around people generally made him feel uncomfortable, and being in a crowd only amplified his anxiety. After the speech was over Victor tried his best to be on of the first few out, but that only resulted him walking straight into another students weapon, which was sheathed of course. Still running face into a giant axe handle was very, very embarrassing to Victor. Hurrying out of the doorway with a bright red face he went straight for the billboard, and due to his frantic scramble to get away from the crowd Victor was one of the first students to get there. Though by the time he found his name the crowd had already descended on the billboard.

"Eleanor, Mila, Ashlynn," Victor mumbled as he took a second to think about the names. A shocked expression washed over his face as he came to the realization that those were girls names. Victor's bright red face as a million thoughts flew through his head, 'they couldn't put one guy with three other girls?!' or, 'maybe one of thems a guy with a girly name?' to just complete internal screaming, and yes this is Victor's thought process on a daily basis. Quickly turning around and slithering his way through the crowd and twords the dorm. He didn't want to go, but his legs kept moving forward. Looking down at the ground with half of his face buried in his scarf the young man frantically tried to keep calm. He didn't even realize that he was about to walk right into another student. Before Victor realized what was happening it was already too late, he collided with the person. Stumbling backwards. Looking at the girl with silver hair he bumped into Victor choked on his own words as he tried to throw out an apology. He was already on panicking about being the only guy on his team, and now bumping into a girl wasn't helping with his internal screaming.

In truth, Kairn lost track of where he was. He knew he had travelled to the dormitory building, at some point in time, but he had lost memory of which dormitory room he was looking for. He couldn't even remember who else was on his team - except, of course, the reason he was so lost in thought. The name Navi struck bells in his head, but not that loudly. Or, rather, not the name Navi - he knew a fair few Navis from his father dragging him across the world - but the surname of Belnair. It was familiar, yet not - like a taste from one's childhood or rereading an old book left long enough to get dusty on the shelf. His arctic blue eyes, bright sapphires against the white pearls of his sclera, stared miles into the distance as a hand involuntarily stroked his smoky quartz beard - a sign that he was deep in thought. With a sigh, he had almost given up when he felt a slight thump against his chest, causing the greatsword on his back to rattle in its sheath. He had almost forgotten about the huge weight on his back, and the surprise realisation of it made Kairn brace himself with his leg in reaction - a bit like when one suddenly remembers that they're holding something valuable, and quickly tighten their grip on it or when one is carrying shopping home but then remembers the weights on their hand, causing them to shift slightly to accommodate for the forgotten shopping weight.

He didn't even notice that the area had cleared out around him - he supposed, however, that if he was just wandering with no real goal he probably would've barely noticed if someone walked into him, or vice versa. A bit like now, to be honest. "Oh, sorry. I was miles away." He barely even recognised what the girl had said to him, let alone reply properly to it. All he could think of doing at this time was apologise, and be done with it. As he looked down, however, and saw the two bunny ears reaching up to his full height, he instantly recognised the girl. With the flame of remembrance clear as day across his face, he smiled a bit before composing himself. There was still the chance that this girl wasn't the same as Navi, and he didn't want to look the fool on his first day. "Say, you don't happen to know where the TNPK room is, do you? I've been looking for a while now, but got distracted...I'm Kairn, by the way. Kairn Gorm."

If this was a normal circumstance, chances were that he wouldn't offer his name. However, with the chance that this girl is, indeed, an old friend of his perhaps the mention of his name was enough to trigger her memory. If not, well...then, she mustn't be anyone he knew. At least, in his mind and train of thought. He offered out a thick, strong gloved hand as he offered his name, as to not be rude to her.

Eisen Wren
With Venus at the Courtyard . D O V E

"Boo~!"

A dark eyebrow cocked when Venus "snuck" up on him and pretended to scare him. Eisen took a second to pretend to jump when she whispered into his ear.

"I overslept!"

"You sleep? I thought you just curled up under a heat lamp and stopped moving until it was time to mess with someone."

He gave her a smile, finally looking up and making eye contact briefly before looking back down at his scroll, pretty sure she hadn't looked at the board yet.

"Did you miss me, Mr. Wren? Do you know who my teammates are, pres? Since you're a very reliable president and all can you show me around the school?"

"I always miss you, but then you show up and I lose interest. You're on Harvest Gold. HARG. Led by Shiying Haumei. Teammates include Aiden Holt and Jade Rayne. Ozpin didn't give me room info."

He slid his scroll up into his blazers breast pocket, then took his glasses off and slid them into the same pocket.

With that done, He and Venus really didn't have anything to do, officially, aside from answering questions from someone fresh off the boat. And no one had come up to ask anything yet.

"I need a nap. And food. Might happen at the same time. Let's go eat."

Eisen didn't wait for her to answer. She'd follow him, or she wouldn't. They did their own things, when they weren't too busy being attached at the hip. She'd join him if she had nothing better to do.

He rubbed his sleepy gray eyes while he walked. Between prepping for the new system at school and going on as many missions as he could cram in, Eisen didn't get a summer break.

This was going to be a rough year.

Eleanor stood against the wall on her tippy toes as she tried to see if she could spot anyone she knew from where she stood. Though she could not see very well over most of the other students. With a small frown, she folded her arms under her chest and lean against the wall as the headmaster finished his speech. Once the speech was over Eleanor stood there as the sea of her fellow students made their way out of the gymnasium. Not wanting to get trampled by the others the short dog Faunus waited until the end to exit the gymnasium.

She sighed not feeling as happy as she did before coming to Beacon. For weeks Eleanor had been counting the days when she would return to school and get to see her teammates, that's all she would talk about. Now with the new changes, she was not just going to get a whole new team, but she was going to lead it too. “Oh my poor team is doomed!” she said covering her face with her gloved hands and she spoke to herself. She was not sure how to feel about the whole situation. She was nervous and unsure how this all would turn out.

Finally making her way to the courtyard she took in a deep breath glad to not be stuck in that large crowd. “Well I guess it would be best to try and find my new team members…” she spoke to herself as she pulled out her scroll. She opened up the document looking at the pictures and files on her new teammates. She figured she would walk around and see if she could spot anyone before heading over to the room of she had no luck finding anyone. She made a note to herself to tackle hug her old teammates when she spotted them, but now she had work to do.

Ashlyn
Entity.Eclypse

"Yeah, it certainly feels like forever..." She agreed. "And I guess you and I both know better than to rush a crowd now." She said with a mischievous grin. "Buuut..." She started before vanishing right before Mila's eyes into mist, darting through the crowd to the board, reappearing right next to it, startling a few first years. "Team... ECAP..." She mumbled, misting back to her friend. When she reformed she started laughing.

"I wish you saw those faces, I love doing that. It always gets them." She then composed herself. "We are team ECAP with an Eleanor and a Victor it seems. Lucky we get to be together still." She said happily.

"So would you like to go to the forms or grab something to eat? I'd be down for both, but I could probably cook something at the dorm as well." She told Mila.

Oh yeah, this was definitely Navi all right. He still remembered the first time the pair had met. It was about five years ago, now - six, nearly, since he was nearly 18 - and his father had begun him working as his apprentice. His father was an electrician at the time - highly valued in a city where sand kept breaking everything - and he was a bit...heavy handed in finding Kairn's vocation in life. He wanted his son to be rich and successful, yes, but he didn't really give Kairn much choice in the matter. Perhaps he just didn't want him to become like Kairn's grandfather - much difference that made. If anytihng, his father drove Kairn to be like his grandfather. He was dragged out in the blazing heat, one day - something that Atlasians are never truly prepared for - and started babbling on about the mechanisms behind air conditioning units. Kairn had no clue what was going on, but he was learning. He was carrying his father's tools behind him when a small girl crashed into him from the side. Of course, he apologised to her - even though it wasn't really his fault - but he found it funny how she just flared up with embarrassment from it all. That was the first time the pair met, and from there friendship was formed. Until he shattered that friendship about two years ago, that is - he had given her not even a week of notice before his dad dragged him elsewhere.

Still, there was little he could do about it now. Perhaps life would've been different if his father stayed in Vacuo, but perhaps he would've also been forced to become an electrician - he was good at it, but he didn't enjoy it. He did, however, enjoy training to be a Hunter. Maybe the sacrifice was worth it. Maybe destiny was at play. Maybe it was luck or coincidence - Kairn was never a spiritual person. His grandfather never did, anyways, and he learned more from his grandfather in two years than he did his whole life as an electrician's apprentice. 'If destiny is real, then it is everyone's destiny to die. I refuse to believe such a malicious creature like 'destiny' exists.' His grandfather may not have been wise, but he was never wrong. Destiny was just a concept that people came up with to explain things they couldn't explain by any other means. Besides, if destiny was real, destiny was the greatest killer known to mankind.

As Navi asked him where his mind was wandering to, he just shrugged his shoulders. He was a terrible liar, and didn't want to tell her the truth. He was thinking about her, and while it was only because the name on the noticeboard reminded him of her it was a little bit creepy. He ended on a bad note, and didn't want to start on another bad note. He learned over the years that, if you cannot lie to save your life, the best way to lie is to not say anything at all.

He couldn't even lie to himself, even when he tried to tell himself that Navi's size compared to his wasn't hilarious. He saw it a little funny when Navi shook his hand - so tiny compared to his own - and he wondered how she was so small compared to him. He even worried a little - was she eating properly? Was she ill? All questions he made a note of asking in due time. For now, he was happy to greet her in a friendly manner. Until, that is, Navi seemed to notice who he was. Now trapped in an embrace from the rabbit girl, with nothing but his hand left out, he awkwardly patted her on the back. He didn;t know what to do. As she bombarded him with angry words, he could only apologise. "I'm sorry. I only knew myself that I was to leave a week beforehand! You were the first person I told." Coughing awkwardly, not knowing what else to say beyond that, he spoke up again in his gruff voice and his Northern accent. "So, how've you been? What team are you on?"

Ashlyn Blackburn
Entity.Eclypse

"To lunch it is!" Ashlyn said happily as she started walking, tossing up her Snare as she walked forward. "And I mean you can't base skill off a name, sadly... But if they made it here, they must at least know how to fight." She reasoned, walking backwards and facing Mila. She was able to weave through the halls rather easily, given how familiar they were. "But if they do happen to be dumb, we haven't faltered before." She said to her. "Oh!" She exclaimed as if remembering something.

"ECAP is supposed to be eucalyptus. It's a plant... Koalas eat? I think that's what it was." She explained to Mila before doing a 180 to push open the door for the both of them. She passed through, propping open the door long enough for both to pass. "What do you want? I'll grab for both of us if you would kindly secure our old table." She said, flashing a wink before waltzing off without hearing her answer.

Looking down to the bunny girl, he could really see how much she's grown. Not much, but she seems to have a fire within her that he has never really seen before. She must have something, anyways, since the Navi he knew from before probably wouldn't have wanted to fight huge monsters for a living. Maybe that just meant he didn't really know her that much. Oh well. Maybe she just wants to be like her brothers or something. Or, maybe like him, she didn't want to do what her parents were wanting her to do, and took this as a way out. Whatever the reason, Kairn could see that something had awoken behind Navi's eyes during the time he was away from her. Maybe he was just holding her back somehow? Kairn was never good at judging such things. Still, even if her heart and soul grew, there was not much else different about her. She was still pretty short, had thin limbs which he suspected probably bruised easily and those adorable lopped bunny ears on top of her head. In appearance, she didn't seem to have changed all that much. Unlike him. He had grown massive during the last couple of years, and not just with height but with muscle mass, and he now has a well kept beard where he was clean shaven before.

He was wearing an old looking military uniform of sorts - not the sort that a regular soldier would wear, though but the sort that someone from the black ops or secret service might wear. It had little armour, maybe enough to cushion a crowbar or a heavy punch, but it was designed mainly for utility than anything else. It was mainly black in colour, except for a small golden nameplate with the faded letters 'A. Gorm' engraved onto it. The most noticeable thing about him was probably, if not definitely, the huge greatsword on his back. Made from a strong looking, darkish metallic metal, it appeared to have some mass to it. Not to mention that the hilt had a trigger built into it - whatever gun was hidden in the greatsword must be a hefty one. He also had two other blades - a sword with what looked like a shotgun ammo drum on his hip, and a small dagger strapped by a holster to his left ribcage. Certainly, a much different look than the one he left behind - a medium build, medium height boy wearing cheap overalls and steelcapped boots carrying a small toolbox. 'Time changes people', his grandfather taught him, 'in more ways than one.'

Kairn nodded gently as Navi spoke, but his eyes widened as she mentioned the team she was to be put on. Whether it was good luck, or bad, chance had deemed it fit to stick them both on the same team. The image of them fighting back to back made Kairn smile as, even though Navi was small and not very physically threatening, he couldn't think of anyone better that he trusted his life with. Except maybe his grandfather, perhaps. "Ah, now isn't that funny - so am I. I've been looking around, and I must say I haven't found my - our - room yet. Erm...hang on, is there a map anywhere?" Kairn started looking around - on his scroll, on the walls, on the nearby doors, looking for any hint to where the room could be.

Jade Rayne
Jade’s head buzzed with excitement as he listened to Ozpins speech. He couldn’t really pay any attention as every other thing in the room was just as interesting to him. He was surrounded by other students that he could be paired with and he couldn’t wait until they were announced. To Jade, it felt like an eternity before the welcome speeches had come to their conclusions and it was time for teams to be announced.

Jade immediately bolted to the board with the posted teams, but had to wait for the sea to clear to find his name. “Jade Rayne, Jade Rayne, Jade Rayne. Where the hell is it?“ he murmured until he located it. “Team HARG. Shiying, Aiden, and Venus. Huh.” The wannabe hunter mused as walked away from the board. “I wonder what they are like.” The teen wondered aloud as he roamed the area trying to spot his teammates.

Ashlyn Blackburn
Entity.Eclypse

"I will!" She called back before going into the line and grabbing them both food. She returned to hide table and set a plate down in front of them. She then looked at her and swapped the plates around. After another moment she frowned and looked at her partner. "What? You can't tell me you don't like both of these? What's on your mind?" She asked her, head tilted slightly. "But if it is the food, then I'll go back." She offered.