School Year Starting Logs: Train + Feast/Sorting!

[shnpc]

WHO: Everyone!
TONE: Anything!
RATING: PG through PG-13
WHEN: The day of September 2nd for the train, and at night for the feast!
WHERE: Hogwarts Express/Platform 9 3/4 and The Great Hall
WHAT: Gotta get back to Hogwarts! Back to witches and wizards and magical feasts! Students and teachers are finally heading back to school on the Hogwarts express, and with the new school year means sorting for the first years!
STATUS: Ongoing!
NOTE: There is a thread for the Train back to Hogwarts, and the Feast, with a subthread for the Sorting! First years can comment to be sorted, and everyone else can greet their new house mates/students!

Comments

[selfhatred]

[The smaller Gryffindor hunches his shoulders as he feels arms wrap around him before breathing a sigh of relief. Tension leaves his shoulders as he reaches up, wrapping his fingers in Gamzee's shirt since his arms have never gone all the way around the other boy's shoulders. It felt good to be hugged like this again, way more than Karkat would ever admit, and he doesn't have to ask if they're still friends like he usually does with Sollux. The best friend is all the confirmation he needs. He's quiet for a minute before he speaks.]

Seriously, if I start acting like a jackass again just slap me around the head or something. I've got no right to dictate what you do or blame someone like I did. Merlin knows I've screwed up more times than I can count so I shouldn't be one to judge.

[mo_cara]

Pretty hard to slap a brother through a book. [points out gently, nuzzling through Karkat's hair, then resting his cheek against the top of the smaller boy's head] ... you ain't got no call to be jealous of nobody. Do you got the knowing of that? You're my best friend. I love Maxim and I love Shinra, but it's different, they're different kinds of friends. Ain't no one the same as you.

[selfhatred]

We're going to be in the same vicinity for the next ten months, doofus. [He tilts his head up into the nuzzle before sighing.] I know. I just got annoyed and I was worried about you getting into trouble and that you wouldn't want to be friends with a lame jerk like me anymore.

[mo_cara]

We ain't never gonna not be friends. [firmly, with the conviction of the young and optimistic] Get any other idea out of your pan, bro.

[selfhatred]

[He sighs again, if only to stop himself from rambling on.]

Okay.

[mo_cara]

Where you sitting, best friend? A motherfucker has got to get his cuddle on, you know?

[selfhatred]

[Karkat gives a small smile.]

Just down the car, where the croaking's coming from. I got a pet frog over the holidays.

[mo_cara]

I read about that. [And there's a brief strain to Gamzee's smile - it had been hard not to say anything, not to talk to his best friend.] You best be introducing me to this leafy bro!

[selfhatred]

[He notices the strain in his smile and feels bad all over again.]

I just saw him and kind of...it was like it was meant to be, y'know? He's about as stubborn and loud as I am.

[mo_cara]

I don't know, that sounds pretty motherfuckin' disbelievable. [teasingly]

[selfhatred]

[Karkat rolls his eyes and shoves Gamzee good naturedly.]

Somewhere out there there's a guy who's a bigger asshole than me. It's possible.

[mo_cara]

That is a lot of shit what got be spilled from one that size. [Gamzee snort-honks a laugh, sort of fluidly going with the shove, like a cat, and then rebounds to wrap an arm around Karkat again.]

How was the cups being?