Rushing Emotions [Open]

Sarah reached the roof of the school to get away from people for awhile so she could try and train with her gift. She was doubtful she'd be able to do much, but she was still going to try. She shivered in the slight breeze. Spring couldn't come fast enough. The Autumn girl walked farther away from the door and peered over the edge. Her stomach churned as she saw how far down it was. The girl quickly stepped away from the railing and sat down to focus on her gift. She closed her eyes and tried to go through her ever-changing emotion. After five minutes of no success, her eyes flung open and she threw her arms up in exasperation. "This is pointless!" she said to the skies.

Sloane felt chipper.  She stepped out of her dorm with earbuds in.  She knew that she would be able to do formal meet n'greet with her dormmates later, today was too beautiful a day to pass a good walk and the possibility to meet new people.  Classic Rock and fresh air would be her day and she was content with that.  She roamed around the various hallways, sometimes stepping outside but she never found herself a nice enough place to just sit back and let the day roll on by.  Then she stumbled on the rooftop entrance stairway.

Sloane was doubtful she would get caught, but all the same, she still felt a little worry.  With a shrug she decided, what the Hell?  She pushed open the door and scaled the steps two at a time to the beat of Fortunate Son.  She reached the top and pushed the door open, a smile on her face as she reached the top, singing to herself rather loudly, "It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no Millionaire son, no." Pushing the door open and realizing someone was there, hearing her sing a song that was like four times older than she was.  At first her face flashed shock, but she quickly relaxed, offering a cool smile at the other girl down by her feet, pulling one earbud from her ear.  Her fast Pittsburgh accent showing as she began to speak "Ya ahlright?"

Sarah turned to the girl. "I'm fine." she said bitterly. She really wasn't, but she didn't know the newcomer. "Some good music you listening to?" she asked, making small talk. Maybe talking to someone would take her mind off of her gift long enough to calm down and try again.

Sloane offered a small smirk as she looked at her feet for a second then back up to the other girl's eyes.  "Anything Classic Rock is kinda my style, ta be honest."  She stepped up to the girl, slowly falling into a sitting position next to her "No use standin' arahnd, I've been walking all day."  She looked at the other girl, her reaction was bitter.  She furrowed her brow for a second before just playing it safe "So, what brings ya up here?"  A her eyes attempted to lock with the other girls, a sincere warm smile growing on her face, how could you feel bad on a day like this one?  She guessed she'd have to find out as the beginning riffs of Cliffs of Dover began ringing in her head.

"I've been trying to practice my gift. It's completely uncontrollable." she replied. "It also has some unneeded side effects." The mood swings were the worst. She couldn't tell how she would feel or react to any given situation. She hated her gift. She questioned why it was her that was picked to have it.

Sloane looked down at her knuckles, her gift was controllable but that was the problem for her, it was all too controlled, the best she could do was make some studs across her knuckles, dangerous in a fight, but they looked kinda comical and really wouldn't do much if the attacker had anything better than their fisticuffs.  She looked back up nodding her head "I don't know much in that dapahtment, but I can tell you it's kinda depressing not being able to do much with your gift when some people are literally shooting lightning bolts or the freakin' Flash.  I don't have too many side effects to mine, I guess the area kinda tingles, like when your hand falls asleep or somethin'." She just shrugged, she couldn't imagine being stuck with an uncontrollable gift and having some type of grotesque side effect to go with it.  But it was sitting right in front of her and unbeknownst to her, was a problem a lot of newbies had.

"My gift is tied heavily with my emotions. I have very frequent mood swings with little to no warning. What I can do is that when I feel a certain emotion strongly, That emotion becomes detached, literally, and becomes a mostly separate version of me who can only feel said emotion." The Autumn explained. Small info dump woo.

Sloane messed with her tongue in her cheek for a second, trying to think about the gift, nodding her head "So, if you're ta say, get really mad, it would manifest a second wholly angry version of yourself..."  That was just plain scary, I mean what if she felt really strongly about something and it caused her to manifest a not so nice emotion?  How easy was it to recall said emotions, she kinda felt gracious to have a very limited power at that moment.

The Autumn girl nodded. "Yup. And that angry version of me would continue to go on a rampage, not that I could do much damage anyway, until I 're-merged' with my other self." she told her. However, Sarah knew that she hadn't been that mad before. Scared, yes. Angry, no.

Sloane raised her eyebrows at this, leaning back a bit as she would look up to the sky. "That sahnds...Dangerous.  At least you're working at it."  Sloane didn't have much to say about her gift.  She had only arrived like a month ago, but she still had to start learning to grasp control of her power, that's why she was here after all.

Sarah gave a short laugh. "I'm not dangerous." she told her. "But yeah, I'm working on it.'