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Post by Tawny Mitchell on Mar 6, 2018 1:35:22 GMT -5
“Well as twisted as some of our family trees are around here I wouldn’t be surprised if we didn’t wind up being related somewhere down the line you know?” Tawny laughed but she wasn’t lying. The Roman gods’ and their relationships to one another was confusing and best not thought on too long. Anya probably was related somewhere down the line but even if they weren’t blood kin Tawny still liked the girl. If not as a sister then at least as a pretty close friend she liked to hang out with. “It’s cool that your dad helped train you though. He must be pretty good himself if he is helping you out with all of your shows and teaching you new jumps and stuff.”
Tawny glanced over her shoulder as two more people joined their little watch party. She gave both of them a wave and smirked at the girl with her baby carrots. Staying healthy was cool and all but sometimes a girl just had to let herself cut loose and if you couldn’t do that at an Olympic watch party then what was life? “Yo, you guys are just in time. Grab a seat and help yourself to some snacks.”
Glancing back over at Anya as she mentioned not having to fight over the remote Tawny gave her friend a pleased thumbs up. “We’ve got the numbers now. It’d take a horde of Centurions to clear us out and even then I bet they would have trouble.” The new arrivals seemed to be in the spirit as well and at least one seemed to be supporting her favorite player judging by the Blackhawks jersey. “We were just talking about our favorite winter sports. Anya here is a figure skater. I got stakes in the snowboard. How bout you guys? I see we got at least one more hockey fan.”
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Post by Tawny Mitchell on Feb 25, 2018 17:06:07 GMT -5
Tawny stopped spinning long enough to watch the other girl. Anya started going on about centers and speed and other physic-y stuff that seemed complicated. Personally the daughter of Somnia was a “learn by experience” kind of girl and she figured she could get it with enough practice, she had just never had too much opportunity to do so especially since her sport of choice relied on wheels instead of blades.
“Well I can’t say I understand why it works but it looks pretty cool.” Tawny said as Anya put on a little show with her spins. The girl was good. Tawny could tell that she loved it too so all in all she thought it was a good thing they had come here today. As for the spin she decided to give it a shot following Anya’s instructions by getting up some speed and then putting herself into another spin. She began bringing her arms in close and sure enough she started picking up speed. The world began spinning by even faster and that was when Tawny realized she didn’t know how to get out of this.
“Woooah…WoooOOOaAAH…WoooaaaACCCK!” Spinning and spinning Tawny finally couldn’t hold it any longer and went down on her butt chuckling and still turning slowly on the ice until she came to a stop. The ice was hard but she had been through worse wrecks in her time. A few bruises weren’t anything to worry about and she was laughing so it was probably a sign that she wasn’t hurting that badly. “Next time you’re going to have to explain how you don’t blow chunks every time you do that.”
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Post by Tawny Mitchell on Feb 25, 2018 17:02:28 GMT -5
Oops Tawny forgot that the Olympics might be a sensitive subject for Anya who had entertained hopes of going pro. There was always next time but Tawny wasn’t sure how likely it would be for any of them to go to something like the Olympics with all their duties with the Legion. Of course some sports had a little more of a window, when Shawn White retired he was pushing eighty and nearly doing his runs in a wheel chair, but ice skaters were usually pretty young from everything Tawny could remember unless Anya wanted to do Pairs or something like that. “That’s the spirit.” She said giving the girl an encouraging smile. For her part Tawny hoped that things worked out for Anya but you never could tell. “You just make sure you keep practicing until you get your chance.”
As Anya mentioned what they would be watching Tawny nodded. “Snowboarding definitely but I can dig hockey too.” Chuckling to herself the daughter of Somnia grabbed some chips for herself. “Actually I could watch it all really. I just like cheering on the athletes.” Turning her attention back to the tv as the opening ceremony started she slowly began to graze on her snacks as she watched. “You know, I bet there have probably been plenty of demigods that have competed in the Olympics. They did start in Greece after all. I bet you could probably get excused for your legion duties for a while if you knew you were competing.”
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Post by Tawny Mitchell on Feb 22, 2018 17:47:21 GMT -5
Tawny chuckled at his explanation but he wasn’t far off from the truth generally speaking. “Yeah dreams are like that. You can’t trust them. Always bringing up the past or something you have on your mind or even something you ate. I should know.” She gave the boy a wink as she skated by doing spins. “Shouldn’t be eating anything gnarly before you go to bed you know?”
All in all Tawny thought that things were going well. She had succeeded in turning Archer’s thoughts to happier things and as far as she could tell he was none the wiser. Her work here was pretty much done even if she was having a lot of fun doing it. Now she just needed to find a way to silently slip out of his head without him knowing or going back to his nightmares. All in a night’s work for a daughter of Somnia. “Maybe you should sit and think about it for a while. Anything’s possible ya know?”
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Post by Tawny Mitchell on Feb 22, 2018 17:39:23 GMT -5
Tawny shrugged. “Seemed like a pretty accurate nickname to me you know?” She watched as Anya circled here. Obviously the girl hadn’t expected her to have a little experience on the ice but when your mom was a snowboarder you got a few opportunities every now and then. Sure, she was no Olympic champion but she could manage on her own. Maybe it was an after effect of her Mercury legacy status but she was just naturally athletic with a lot of these things.
“You’re taking it easy on me huh?” Tawny teased with a chuckle as she watched Anya spin. “I think I got that one.” She said and skated herself out a little and into a slow spin of her own with arms outstretched in a helicopter like motion. “Don’t know how you guys get going so fast though. That doesn’t make any sense.”
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Post by Tawny Mitchell on Feb 22, 2018 17:35:48 GMT -5
Tawny knew her cheering would likely attract more viewers and she didn’t mind one bit. It wasn’t like they had much privacy around here anyways and it was always more fun to watch with someone else so long as that someone didn’t want to change the channel. Fortunately though the girl that entered the rec room and interrupted Tawny’s boisterous cheering was someone who she thought would enjoy watching the Olympics very much.
Hearing the familiar voice behind her Tawny turned and grinned at the new arrival. “You gotta go big or go home if you want to win gold ice girl. That’s what my mom always said anyways.” Tawny’s mom had never gone to the Olympics herself even though the girl thought she probably could have if she had wanted. Still, the two had always made time to watch them when they came on especially the snowboarding where bigger tricks were always better. “Help yourself to some snacks and stuff. I’m sure you’ll want to catch the ice skating huh?
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Post by Tawny Mitchell on Feb 10, 2018 11:54:22 GMT -5
It was finally time. Four years Tawny had been waiting for this moment and it was finally freaking here. It was time for the Winter Olympics and the daughter of Somnia was pumped. Oh sure there were the regular Olympics too and those were pretty cool. Tawny was always up for cheering for the USA any time an event like this came on but the Winter Olympics, those were something special. Maybe it was the fact that she had grown up watching so much snowboarding with her mom, maybe it was just the fact that the Winter Olympics seemed to have all the actual cool sports but whatever the case was it was finally time to stay up late watching snowboarding, skiing, the skeleton, heck even curling, Tawny loved it all.
Decked out in her Team USA gear with little American flags painted on her checks Tawny grabbed her snacks and headed for the barrack’s rec room. Maybe some would think her a little obsessed but the event only came around every four years and she couldn’t help but be excited so once she got to the rec room she flopped down on one of the big couches, set her drinks and chips and dip out around her for the feasting and flipped the TV on with the remote. As it flashed to life it was just in time to catch the Olympic fanfare. They were just about to begin and it was time to start up a hardy chant of “U…S…A…, U…S…A…” She didn’t care who joined her as long as they didn’t want the remote. That she would defend with her life.
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Post by Tawny Mitchell on Feb 10, 2018 11:50:40 GMT -5
“You’re thinking too much son of Mercury.” The blond haired girl said with another chuckle as she kicked away from him setting her board moving again. “A pretty dangerous habit you know?” Thinking wasn’t good especially not now when she was trying to redirect his dreams to better things than his old horror story memories. Oh well, she had better start following her own advice and while she was doing so she might as well have a little fun.
Picking up some speed on her board Tawny jumped up and floated along in the air for what would have been an impossible time in the waking world. Here in her personal playground, or rather Archer’s playground, it was another story altogether and as she floated she performed a series of pretty spectacular board acrobatics for added flair. “So what’s the old noddle trying to tell you hmm? How awesome I am right?” She said as she grabbed the tail of her board and did a series of fairly dramatic fishtail spins.
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Post by Tawny Mitchell on Feb 10, 2018 11:48:40 GMT -5
“Well that was sure a surprise to me. Pretty sweet too.” Tawny said as she helped Anya to her feet. Tawny had tasted enough pavement to know it was never too fun when you fell but fortunately the girl didn’t seem to have done any major damage. In fact she seemed to be just fine now as she spun away. “I’m cool, I’m cool.” Tawny said with a chuckle. “Besides, you seem like you’re doing alright to me.”
Tawny watched as Anya skated away from her and gave a little push off herself to get some forward momentum. “Don’t know ice girl. This is your home turf. I don’t really get out on the ice that much so why don’t you teach me some of those spins and twirls and stuff? Doesn’t have to be anything fancy but let’s see if I can pick up anything you know?”
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Post by Tawny Mitchell on Dec 30, 2017 15:21:53 GMT -5
“I hear that.” Tawny said with a chuckle as Anya mentioned school. “That was always a major drag for me too. Luckily my mom kinda understood and was able to teach me stuff while I was traveling with her but then she shipped me out here which isn’t much better ya know?” School was at least one thing that Tawny found most demigods agreed with. Unfortunately it sucked for just about all of them no matter who their godly parents were.
At least Anya seemed to have found a way to cope as most of them usually did and all things considered she seemed to be doing pretty well for herself. She even still remembered her old skating show. “Seems like it was pretty worth it to me. Then again most of the coolest things are.” Tawny watched as Anya seemed to get an idea and knelt down to touch the ice. She wasn’t sure what the Chione girl was trying to do but as she watched the ice began to coat over with a fresh layer which was pretty daggum impressive...at least until Anya stumbled back obviously a little drained.
“Damn girl I didn’t know you could do the Zamboni thing. Pretty impressive.” Leaning over she offered her hand to the Anya hoping to help her back to her feet after the stumble. “You okay though? Looks like you about wiped out there for a minute and trust me you don’t want me trying to carry you back off the ice. We’d be lucky if I didn’t break both of us in the process.”
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Post by Tawny Mitchell on Dec 3, 2017 0:58:55 GMT -5
Tawny sat near the edge of the rink pulling on her burrowed pair of skates and watching Anya glide and jump across the ice. The girl definitely looked like she was having fun and Tawny hated to ruin her good time but she did kind of want to get out there for a bit. The ice reminded he a little of traveling around with her mom. Snowy mountain peaks, cold air and watching her mom compete. It was always fun but here in sunny California snow and ice was a bit of a rarity and it had been some time since she had traveled on the snowboarding circuit. This was going to be pretty rad she thought.
Skates laced up Tawny stood and gained her balance before walking to the entrance to the ice and easily gliding out on it. Anya looked like she was performing some kind of intricate routine that you might see on the Olympics which considering her background wasn’t too surprising but Tawny watched with interest sort of doing her own thing until she could tell Anya was winding down. “Way to go girl.” Tawny said and as Anya finished she began giving her a few claps of encouragement. “Looks like you’re a natural to me.”
Skating in a little zigzagging pattern Tawny made her way over to the other girl and glided to a stop. “Got hops too. I saw you out here putting on a show with all those spins and jumps. Pretty sweet if you ask me. How long did it take you to learn all that?”
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Post by Tawny Mitchell on Oct 1, 2017 16:45:21 GMT -5
She could do this. She had done it like a thousand times before with other people and it was easy. Most people were used to weird dreams so her efforts to mess around usually went unnoticed. The problem was that this was the first time the dreams had been so personal and well there was that promise she had made to Archer that she was breaking. Still, it was all for a good cause and she could do this.
Chuckling at his answer Tawny began working her board in a series of easy tricks to pass the time and hopefully distract him from how confused he seemed to be. "You don't sound so sure. Why else would you be out here dude? Unless you came all the way out here to tell me something. You got something on your mind?"
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Post by Tawny Mitchell on Sept 25, 2017 7:09:50 GMT -5
"Yeah you wouldn't be the only one." Tawny said with a chuckle. "Even the folks that have families here don't always grow up training to fight. I mean I knew who my dad was, got lucky there, but I spent more time grabbing sick air off a half pipe than swinging a sword ya know?" Honestly Tawny would have been a little surprised if Anya was even listening to her at this point. She had practically rushed inside at the first opportunity which was fine. Tawny was glad the other girl could enjoy herself for once since arriving in New Rome.
"Yeah I'll get out there with you but you go on and enjoy yourself." She said as she made a shuing gesture in Anya's direction. "I've got to trade my board for some skates and you deserve to enjoy yourself. I'll be out in a minute." Anya had probably been off the ice for a while now and this was a lot bigger deal to her than it was to Tawny. That being the case the skateboarder figured she could give Anya a few minutes to herself. Besides, not everyone carried around a pair of skates in their bag.
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Post by Tawny Mitchell on Sept 4, 2017 17:43:49 GMT -5
Tawny didn’t like where this dream was going at all. Burning houses, crying kids and who were the stiffs on the floor? Tawny didn’t know but she had about enough of this. Archer might have been forced to watch the scene unfold but the daughter of Somnia didn’t play by the same rules that most other folks did. Dreams were here playground and she could fix this. Her promise to Archer aside desperate times called for desperate measures and so long as she kept things chill she didn’t think she could get in too much trouble. Besides, he might not even remember this when he woke up. Some people were like that after all.
Calling up her powers Tawny began to melt the disturbing scene away. No more dead people, no crying kids, no fire. She had seen enough of that and she bet Archer had too. Instead she replaced it with a scene that was a little more her style, an empty skate park with a few ramps and rails where he wouldn’t have to think about whatever place burned in his nightmares. With that finished she decided to make the image complete and skated into view with her traditional showy tactics of board flips and spinning wheelies. As she did so she gave him a friendly smile as he noticed her for the first time and drifted over. “Sup dude? Fancy seeing you here? Come out to see my latest tricks?” Maybe she could convince him she was just a figment of his imagination. In any case it had to be better than the nightmare he had been having.
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Post by Tawny Mitchell on Sept 4, 2017 17:38:00 GMT -5
Tawny chuckled as she pressed on towards the skating rink doing a few tricks on her skateboard as she went. "Well everyone has to have some kind of escape. I'll tell you a secret but even the squares in the Legion, the ones who are like always duty and honor and all that noise. Even they have to take a break sometime." Tawny grinned conspiratorially at Anya figuring that the girl had probably never thought about it before but when you had been around as long as Tawny had herself then you started to notice things. "You'd be surprised what the centurions and praetors get up to around here."
Tawny had been around long enough to know how the game was played that and her mother had told her plenty of stories. Life could get very difficult for you if you didn’t. When you were off duty though, when the training was over and you got to live your own life for a while, well that was when you could finally relax and have a little fun. “Nah you don’t need to stress out about it too much. You just gotta play their game for a while. Out of the armor we all have our own lives to live.”
Rolling to a stop in front of the skating rink Tawny glanced back at Anya to see her reaction up close. It wasn’t necessarily a grand or imposing building but it was big enough. Tawny knew a few kids who came by, had even been by a few times herself since coming to new Rome, it was fun place and she had no doubt Anya would enjoy it here. The only question was how long would it be before Anya rushed in to get to that ice? “Well here we are. What d’ya think?”
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