10809/Waking up on the extended weekend

Waking up on the extended weekend
Date of Scene:	21 January 2020
Location:	Women's Dormitory (East Halls), Second Floor, Xavier's School
Synopsis:	Stepford Twins confuse Gwendolyn and meet Megan.
Cast of Characters:	Dragonfly (Armenteros), Stepford Cuckoos, Pixie

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Dragonfly (Armenteros) has posed:
Early morning at the Xavier mansion can range in intensity from a buzzing hum of activity to sleepy and quiet. This morning is more on the sleepy and quiet sort of spectrum. With today being Martin Luther King day, classes were cancelled and most of the students were taking the time to catch up on sleep after a late Sunday evening in the Rec room. Gwendolyn, on the other hand, was not that much of a night owl, and turned in at her usual time to catch up on sleep and be up early in the morning. Why, you may ask? She runs. She loves to eat and exercises so she can eat.

The tragedy of being a Cajun girl.

Dressed in a hooded sweatshirt and a pair of sweat pants, Gwendolyn trudges up the steps from downstairs and towards her room at the end of the hallway, fluffing her hair with both hands and rocking her head back and forth. Her eyes are covered with a visor similar to Cyclops's, hiding them from view, and she looks less well rested than she did before, and definitely requiring a shower in the near future.

Stepford Cuckoos has posed:
    A late teen blonde steps out of her room and turns with her back to the hall so she can turn the doorknob so that she can close the door without disturbing her roommate inside. Celeste turns after the door is shut and spies Gwendolyn as she's coming up the stairs. "Good morning. I don't think we've met we..." The blonde woman in a overly large t-shirt that she obviously slept in says with a smile as she approaches Gwen and the stair case. "I didn't know there was a runner at the school."

Dragonfly (Armenteros) has posed:
"Morning." Gwendolyn says, giving a small wave with her right hand, the left on the bannister. "Running helps keep my girlish figure and lets me eat all the cajun food I want." Gwendolyn says as she pushes her hood back, revealing the antenna perched on her forehead just below her hairline, scrubbing her fingers through her long, dark brown hair as she makes her way towards her room and towards the blonde in the oversized T-shirt. "I don't think we have." She smiles merrily. "I'm Gwendolyn."

Stepford Cuckoos has posed:
    "Well, nice to meet you. I'm going to get some breakfast." Celeste says with a kind smile and she starts to offer Gwen to come join her but then remembers. "Oh. I am Celeste." The sleepy eyed blonde replies and then is on her way to the stair case and the patter of her barefeet can be heard moving down.

    The sound disappears at the base of the stairs to be replaced not long after with the sound of her coming back up stairs. "Morning." The girl says again to Gwen with a wave and ... a different shirt. Or was she always wearing pink pjs?

Dragonfly (Armenteros) has posed:
"The cook is just getting in, so give him about five minutes before ordering!" Gwendolyn calls as Celest makes her way down the stairs, leaving Gwendolyn alone in the hall. She reaches into her back pocket and starts with the key, looking over as more footsteps and another greeting comes from...Pink Pajama Celeste? Her brow wrinkles a little and she waves, holding the key in her other hand. "Hey Celeste. Cook wasn't serving breakfast yet?" It's the only reason she'd come back. Without the cook, this early breakfast would probably be cereal or whatever pastries were baked last night.

Stepford Cuckoos has posed:
    The girl raises a blonde eyebrow and blinks before shaking her head. "No, not here yet, I'll go back down in about five minutes or so." The blonde says with a shrug of her shoulders as she steps past Gwen's room and towards her own and slips into with an odd sort of wave like a girl would do to her boyfriend in the movies as she rejects him at the door for a good night kiss after a date.

    But not long after that, the door opens again, and the girl this time shuts the door without taking much care about waking her roommate as she steps out and smiles towards Gwen. "Hey there!" She says with an infectuous smile as she points to Gwen. "Love the outfit, we'll have to go running sometime. I used to do it with my sisters all the time but you know how things change, especially around here."

Dragonfly (Armenteros) has posed:
     Key in lock. Lock is opened. Door is opened and then another door is slammed. Gwendolyn looks over at the noise and at Celeste, again, who just came back from downstairs in pink pajamas and apparently just changed in like a quarter-second into something else. She also seems happier and less quiet than before, for some reason. "It's just my running stuff..." Gwendolyn looks down at herself, then over at Celeste. Girl must have some kind of super speed. Wouldn't be the first speedy sort in this place that she's met.

     "Oh, yeah, I know about changes. That's no reason to stop, though. Hey, you should come running with me, sometime. You said you used to run with your sisters, so why not start again? It'll let you eat all sorts of wonderful foods that would normally pack on the pounds." Gwen is rolling with the punches, it seems.

Stepford Cuckoos has posed:
    "I'd like that. Seeing as we're neighbors it'll be rather easy to meet up and plan." Esme-Celeste says with a huge smile on her pink lips as she moves towards the stairs in a hurry and then down them, her shoes pounding against the steps and out towards the front door it sounds like. Seems they just missed each other for their morning run.

    The door can be heard opening down stairs again as this place seems to be happening like it rarely does. And the blonde is bouncing back up the steps with a coffee cup in one hand and a sack of food in the other and smiles towards Gwen who she assumes is staring at her like most people tend to do, so she quickly explains and holds up the brown back of fast food breakfast and cants her head in a bubbly sort of way. "Got tired of waiting." And she moves towards her door again.

Dragonfly (Armenteros) has posed:
     Okay, wait, wait, wait. Gwendolyn's been keeping count and she's pretty observant, and she's counted four Celestes, each in different clothes, with different attitides, going different directions. So she's either going crazy - a possibility - or there really are four of the same person. Standing in front of her open door, her room dark and silent thanks to the soundproofing and heavy curtains, she watches as Coffee-Celeste comes up with her bag, following her as she makes her way to the other room.

     "I'm sorry but...I don't mean to be rude, but are you like Jamie? Multiple copies of the same person? 'Cause I'd swear I just said hello to you four times now in the past two minutes."

Stepford Cuckoos has posed:
    "No, there's not four of me." Irma says with a furrowed brow and a shake of her head. "That's... no. I'm not like Jamie at all." The girl says thinking such an idea is perposterous. "Sophie, breakfast is-" The door shuts as the girl steps into her room and not a moment later, she walks back out holding a bagel covered in cream cheese in her hand and is wearing a rather fetching pant suit and she then makes sure to finish her bite and leans across the hallway as she notices Gwen and smiles neutrally. "Good morning. Pleasure." Sophie says as she looks down to her wearable tech and frowns. "Sorry about the rush, but I really must be getting to work today. I don't want Misses Storm-Richards getting onto me on my first day."

Dragonfly (Armenteros) has posed:
     Four, and now...five? There's no way she could have dressed /that/ quickly but it seems she must have. Perhaps different dimensions of thought? There certainly aren't five different copies of the same person in that room. But now it's another name, too. Sophie? Celeste? It's enough to make a girl's head spin!

     "Y..yeah, of course. Pleasure. You've gotta teach me that quick-change trick, though. Save me ages getting dressed." Gwendolyn watches as Sophie? Celeste? Someone /else/? makes her way downstairs in a completely different outfit than she was wearing just two seconds before.

Stepford Cuckoos has posed:
    "Quick change trick? Not sure what you are talking about but... sure." Sophie says with a shrug of her shoulders in the grey suit that fits her form wonderfully. The cut doesn't hide her figure but doesn't accentuate it either. She glides down the steps and her foot steps can be heard going out of the main door. Those shoes clack rather loudly.

Dragonfly (Armenteros) has posed:
Gwendolyn is standing just inside the open door of her room, watching Sophie head down the stairs. Gwendolyn is dressed in running gear - sneakers, sweat pants, and a hooded sweatshirt with the logo of the Xavier school plastered across the front. The kind that's licensed but given away to fans. Imagine if they had a basketball team! The shoes clattering down the stairs - attached to Sophie - get Gwendolyn to shake her head and she remains there, watching the door that the other girl came out of, listening, just...curious if another one's just going to pop out.

Pixie has posed:
Megan Gwynn yawns and stretches as she pops out of her room, feeling a little hungry and needing some extra brain food after getting up way too early. Maybe a cup of strong coffee can help her get through her day. As she steps out of her dorm and into the hall, she smiles and nods to Gwen as she passes her room, "Heya, just heading out for a run?" she hasn't spotted Sophie yet, nor does she really know her though she's probably seen her in a few of her classes.

Dragonfly (Armenteros) has posed:
"Just...just getting back, actually, Pixie. Hey do you..." Gwendolyn jerks a thumb towards the door that Sophie just came out of. "Do you know the girl that lives in there? Because I think I'm going a little crazy or I'm still asleep and having a crazy dream or something. I'd /swear/ that I've seen her coming and going, in different outfits, over the past, like, two minutes. At least five different times."

Stepford Cuckoos has posed:
    Sophie's gone, Irma got breakfast, tired of waiting, Esme is out for a run, Celeste is down stairs waiting for the chef to show up or wake up, she doesn't know, so she can get some breakfast and Phoebe is stepping back out of the dorm room, having decided to keep wearing her pink pj's and has her hair in a loose pony tail with strands of blonde hanging loose framing her face.

    "Morning." Phoebe says with a smile and a hand curled up in a fist and rubbing at her eyes again. "Gwen right and ... oh, I love your hair." Phoebe says towards Megan and smiles as she steps closer and reaches out to touch Megan's pink hair.

Pixie has posed:
Megan Gwynn smirks, "Really? What time did you get up, even? That's way crazy!" she just missed the girl downstairs, but smiles at Phoebe as she comments on her hair. "Ooh, thank you! It's natural yannow? Just changed from red to pink one day, it was the oddest thing!" well okay not that odd considering she's a mutant and a fairy but.."Heey, I forget your name, but I'm sure I've seen you in one or two of my classes before."

Dragonfly (Armenteros) has posed:
"Just an hour ago, and I got a lot of sleep, so...yeah, I must just be tired or something." Or something. Gwendolyn sighs and leans against the doorjamb, lifting her visor to rub her eyes before putting it back down again, watching Phoebe comment on Pixie's hair, chuckling a little. "Ate too many strawberries, ran through a field of poppies, or just plain old magic. If there's such a thing in the world." Knowing Illyana and Pixie? There's definitely such a thing.

     Gwendolyn just watched Sophie head downstairs, and now Phoebe and the pink pajamas make an appearance. She looks down the hallway towards the stairs and then over to Phoebe. "Did...didn't you just head downstairs in a pantsuit and loud shoes?"

Stepford Cuckoos has posed:
    "No..." Phoebe says with a lift of her eyebrows towards Megan. "I don't think Pink is natural for hair, but I love it and I ... -" The thought is halted mid sentence and Phoebe takes her hand away from Megan's hair and then slides it into the front pocket of the hooded sweatshirt she wears as PJ's.

    A blue eyed glance is given to Gwen and then a shake of her head, whipping her pony tail back and forth. "No, I'm right here in front of you, how could I have gone down the stairs and appeared back up here..." Phoebe says with a squint of her eyes towards the dragonfly lady with a curious look.

Pixie has posed:
Megan Gwynn blinks slowly, "Ooooh, really..? umm maybe you should get something to eat, or some good strong coffee. I mean.." Okay, she doesn't know much about the Stepford Cuckoos really, although she narrows her eyes curiously upon Phoebe. "Waait, you're saying she was downstairs a moment ago? But..That's not possible. Unless you have a twin?"

Dragonfly (Armenteros) has posed:
Gwendolyn can see that Phoebe is there. There's no denying that. Despite the visor, she's got excellent vision - overactive, in fact - which is why she wears the visor in day-to-day life. And she knows nothing about the Stepford Cuckoos either - she's just met all five of them, one at a time, and still has no idea that there are even five of them. "Okay, so...yeah. I'm...I'm going to go shower and change and get my head straight. I guess. Coffee. Yeah..coffee..."

Stepford Cuckoos has posed:
    "Coffee sounds wonderful right now." Phoebe says and hums to herself at the idea of getting to devour more of that black liquid gold. Something all Frosts have a weakness for. "I will be down stairs waiting for you both, unless you wish to join me now..." Phoebe offers to Megan and then a glance to Gwen, "My sister should already be down there, I'm sure she would enjoy getting to meet you both too."

Pixie has posed:
Megan Gwynn giggles, "Well, I'm headed for the kitchen for a stiff cup of coffee myself, I can weait for you here if you wanna go shower first..What's it like jogging in the winter anyway at 5 in the morning?" she shivers, "Don't think my wings could handle that.." Megs can't help but smirk though, "Ooh, you gotta twin sister then? I knew it! I always thought I'd seen you in more than one place before, or something.."

Dragonfly (Armenteros) has posed:
Wait, sister? That explains so much! Gwendolyn leans her head back against the door frame with a soft thud and giggles. "Jeez, I'm sorry. I'm being mental. You've got a sister. You have to be twins, right? If so, it would explain so much. Seeing you...or people who looked just like you, going back and forth was making me think I was crazy." She lifts a hand. "Give me a few minutes to shower. I just got done with a five mile run and I don't want to glow in the middle of breakfast." Megan gets a grin. "I bundle up. Once you get past the first half mile, your body warms up enough and you don't even notice it. And my wings fold in, so I keep them underneath the sweatshirt. Be back in a second!" And gwendolyn disappears into her room, the door left yawning open as she heads to take a quick shower.