Preparing for try outs.

[arrogantalloy]

 WHO: Tony, but open to all.
TONE: Easy going.
RATING: PG-13 for possible language
WHEN: August 9th
WHERE: Hogwarts grounds. Roughly where the first years are taught how to ride a broom.
WHAT: Tony's getting ready to be a captain before general try out for quidditch start.
STATUS: Ongoing! 


With Tony being the Captain of Ravenclaw's team this year. Tony decided to take a break from homework and general geniusing, to sit out in the autumn sun while doing some general broom maintenance out on the grass. 

He's absorbed in his work; readjusting twigs, shifting his foot stands and getting on and testing how it moves a few feet off the air.

He's mumbling to himself during the entire process.

"What I wouldn't give for an iPod to work here sometimes"

Is one of the few things he can be heard mumbling aside from extensive thoughts on how the broom should hand'e when he does this thing or that thing to it.

One thing is for sure, he seems to be quite in his element playing with the broom.

Comments

[speterman]

His brows knit together at the 'Stars-in-our-eyes' but instead of commenting on it, he continues with the line of conversation.

"What did you do to it?"

Peter couldn't help it, he thought he was brilliant, and super cool. He was good at everything Peter hoped to be good at. He scratches at the back of his head in thought for a minute.

[arrogantalloy]

Tony gives him a look that said he was very pleased with himself.

"Structurally; The handle is from the Stark 44-speedstrike, it's got a good shape so it does wonders for handling. The bristles from Stark's Revertor 13, because it'll give me a better of the mark speed and can actually maintain it, and I've oiled them so it'll give a smoother flow. And I moved the foot stand up about an inch and a half, which should give me a twenty-five percent turning advantage.

Cosmetically; I moved the Stark logo to the foot stand, and as you can see, painted it metallic bronze and blue."


Tony passes the broom to Peter so he can look at it himself.

[speterman]

Peter takes it, being gentle with how he handles it, knowing how annoying it can be when someone manhandles his work. He chews on his lip, thinking as his eyes scan over it, it looks great but why had he moved the logo to the footstand?

"Moving your logo to the foot stand is going to offset your balance slightly, it might not seem like it but with the momentum you're going to have at the speeds this thing will go, it will probably affect how you make turns. And it possibly could slow you down with more surface area," he pauses, brown eyes flickering to him for a second. "your could save yourself the trouble by moving it to the back of both parts of your foot stand," he points a finger to where he is talking about as he speaks, "it would even it out without adding surface area to slow you down. As well as being extra flashy..."

It only takes him a second to start looking awkward as he hands it back to Tony. "...Sorry, just a suggestion..."

[arrogantalloy]

Tony watches Peter as he gives his thoughts. Then looks at the broom for a moment.

"Good eye, Parker. There's hope for you yet."

Tony makes no move to take the broom as it's handed to him. And instead grabs an apple out of his kit box.

"You planning on trying out for the team?"

He bites into the apple, watching him casually?

[speterman]

"Thanks."

Peter hesitates, unsure of how to take that reaction. He shifts uncomfortably under the gaze and his eyes drop down to the broom.

"Yeah, well, I was thinking about it, might be good at it. Or really bad... either or... you know... "

[arrogantalloy]

"You know a good way to find out. Be giving it a go. One of those keep moving forward things or something. You look like you might be good."

Tony takes another bite out of the apple.

[speterman]

"You think so?" He seems to perk up over this possible praise. "There's no real harm in trying, right?" He offers an optimistic smile as he finally decides to just set the broom down gently in front of Tony.

"It is certainly a lot different from parkour, that's for sure."

[arrogantalloy]

"And if there is any harm, then its worth it when you get it how you want it."

Tony looks at Peter with a quizzical expression.

"Parkour?"

While Tony is something of a genius when it comes to spells, engineering, design, and public speaking. Some muggle things still completely pass him by. Mostly things that have nothing to do with what he's interested in/good at.

[speterman]

He raises an eyebrow at the question.

"Freerunning?" He offers as if that would clear things up. "Basically, I hop about on things... Creatively." He makes a strange face shrugging his shoulders before adding, "it's all about physicals. It's hard to explain, it's kind of a thing you have to see. Erm, otherwise it sounds a bit daft."

[arrogantalloy]

"So. What you're saying is you just act like a frog?"

Tony gives him an incredulous look before picking up his broom and moving it to one side.

"Exhausting and uninteresting maybe. But really, I've seen stupider hobbies."

[speterman]

"More or less, I guess. It builds good strength though, and puzzle solving skills." He laughs it off a little before pointing at one of the windows on the building, closing one eye as he did, as if that would make his vision perfect. "That second story window for example, I could get up there in under two minutes, probably a minute twenty. Wanna see?"

He raises a brown eyebrow at him before adding, "Without magic."

[arrogantalloy]

Tony looked up at the second story, doing quiet calculations in his head, before turning to look at Peter. Then glanced between the two.

"Okay, Chocolate frog says you can't do it in two minutes."

[speterman]

"You can start the timer now." His lips tug up into a smile as he brushes a hand through his cookie monster hair. With a full out grin he stands up. Then in no time he bolts towards the building with speed most people probably wouldn't have pegged the not so athletic looking boy to have. When he's close enough to the wall he all but leaps up using his feet to push up and over to dangle from one of the first story windows and pull himself up with practiced skill, and without even hesitating, there's some window climbing that somewhat looks like spider climbing, a tad bit of wall climbing that doesn't seem to be hard to him at all and then, yep, Tony, that sure is Peter perched precariously in the second floor window and that certainly wasn't two minutes.

The skinny awkward boy is surprisingly good at his hobby and also grinning at Tony and waving. He might have rushed a bit more than he normally would, but who cares, this was Tony Stark he was impressing.

[arrogantalloy]

Tony watches the younger boy do just as he promises and just stares. He's really impressed. And does sort of look it. Though he does try to not look to impressed.

He stands up and walks towards the perched lad, his hands in his pockets. Then stops and looks up at him.

"Oh yeah, you should really try out for Quidditch. And I'll give you two chocolate frogs."

[speterman]

Peter's eyebrows raise to almost be hidden by his currently messy fringe, thoroughly thrilled by his ability to impress the other, ok he could die happy now. He looks around for a moment, trying to map a way down without breaking something and seems to pause in thought before looking at Tony a ghost of a frown on his face.

"Well, when you put it that way, how am I supposed to say no?"

He turns around and shifts so he can grab the edge he's sitting on and dangle from it for a moment, this is going to hurt, this is really going to hurt, he lets go, sliding down the wall, keeping his speed slower than it would normally be by keeping his hands against it but he's still too far up for hopping off a wall to be a good idea and then yeah, Peter, there's a gap there for the window, his hands catch hold of the other window ledge, yep, that hurt, oh man, he's going to have bruises on his hands later or something, play it off Parker.

"Two chocolate frogs, huh?" He smiles as he pulls himself up onto the first story window ledge, once again perching on it, this time crouching (spideystyle), finally turning back to face Tony with a toothy grin. "Thanks! Physics play a big part in this, so it's not that stupid."

[arrogantalloy]

"Well, even I appreciate someone who can make physics interesting to people outside of Ravenclaw."

Tony takes a few steps back just in case Peter wanted to be actually on the ground.

"So, where did you learn about this high flying fun?"