Otto Meets Gyp, Huzzah! [Ceroo]

[Catigatoroala]

These are the girls' dorms, so you shouldn't be here, Finn, Otto told her wisp teasingly as she dragged her carry-on along the hallway.
     I don't actually have a gender, Miss O'Reilly, replied Finn in the same impish tone.
     True, you don't exactly have any, uh, parts.
     There was silence, and then the two burst into laughter. The Irish girl clamped a hand over her own mouth, and, still trying to quash her bout of giggles, looked hastily for the right dorm room. When she found it, she quickly pushed the door open and went in, trying unsuccessfully to ignore Finn's uproarious laughter in her head.
     No one was in there, but it was clear that one of the beds was occupied already. One side of the dorm had a lot of bright colors and fuzzy pillows, and looked like it belonged to some on the wild, more chaotic side. Otto grinned. Whoever her new roommate was, Otto had a feeling she would like her.
     The frizzy-haired redhead made herself comfortable on her new bed, tossing down her carry-on, kicking off her high tops and flopping onto the mattress, facing up at the ceiling. She lay there, drinking everything in.
     ... Y'know, parts don't mean that much, because sometimes people are born one gender but identify more with the oth-
     Oh, for God's sake, Finn, Otto laughed. Shush already. She paused. But good point.
     For a few more moments, the two enjoyed how wonderfully soft the bed was. Then, with a huff, Otto got up and began unpacking her things. All there really was in her carry-on was her clothes, her combat boots, and some old comic books. After all, she couldn't exactly stuff robots or cars in there. She didn't even have any robots or cars. Which kinda sucked. But hey, now she was in the home of some old rich guy. He probably had some spare stuff that she could mess around with.

[Cerulaen]

Gypsy was excited.
    Dormmates tended to switch around with the years, and even the semesters, so Gypsy had been through a few. She'd been without one all last semester, however, so she was extremely happy to learn that she was getting a new one. And she was supposed to arrive today! She'd have to go make a good impression.
    So, she'd brought the best offering one could in these situations.
    "Incomiiiiiing!" she belted as she came careening down the hall of the girl's dorm in her usual roller blades and into her room, happy to see the door was already open. It would've been hard to open the door and juggle the box of pizza in her hand while going at her speed. Though, she probably could have still managed it. All the same, she practically fell over onto the wood floor trying to avoid the redheaded girl already in the room.
    She grabbed onto one of the bedposts to steady herself. "'Sup?" she asked. She toted the pizza box higher in the air. "Pizza?"

[Catigatoroala]

"Whoa!"
     Otto scrambled back onto her bed as a mass of color came zipping into the room, nearly barging into her. She watched the girl stumble to a stop, her eyebrows pulled together in slight indignation. Who was this, coming out of nowhere and startling the heck out of her like that? Couldn't she find some other dorm room to randomly attack? Oh, wait. Was this person her roommate? The annoyance dissipated instantly, and was replaced by curiosity.
     She sized her up quickly. The girl, with chaotic rainbow dreadlocks on her head and rollerblades on her feet, gave off a kind of weird vibe. She seemed unique. Interesting. The kind of person who got into some pretty awesome adventures. The kind of person Otto would be friends with.

     And she had pizza.

     "Oh, hell yes," said Otto, jumping up with clear, excited blue eyes. When was the last time she had pizza? It felt like it had been way too long.
     Wasn't it a week ago? asked Finn.
     Oh. Yeah. That's way too long to go without pizza.
     Grinning, she took the box off of the rainbow rollerblader's hands. "Don't mind if I do," she said cheerily, opening the box. She frowned. Oh. It was cheese pizza. "Well, that's boring." 
     ...But she'd have to be absolutely crazy to turn down the heavenly food that was pizza, even if there wasn't much on it. She grabbed a slice, and offered it to Rainbow Rollerblader Girl before taking one for herself.
     "So, I'm Otto," she said, trying to talk with a glob of cheesy pizza in her mouth. "Are you my roommate?"

[Cerulaen]

Gypsy regarded who she assumed to be her new roommate cheerily. She had kind of crazy curly red hair, and considering her own expression of hair choice, she rather approved.
  "Sorry about the lack of toppings," she apologized with a shrug, "but I didn't know what you liked, or if you were like...allergic to something, y'know?"
  She accepted the piece the girl offered her, happy that she seemed to be okay with the pizza anyway. She gulped down a bite as the redhead introduced herself. "Otto," she repeated, drawing out the long O sound at the end. "Are you German?" she asked, tilting her head. Then, in answer to her actual question: "I'm Gypsy, and unless you're just in my room for no apparent reason, I'd say yes."
  She glanced around the room. "I hope my color obsession doesn't clash with whatever stuff you have." She did a backbend to look at the room in a different angle, taking another bite of her pizza slice. "I kind of have a thing for crazy."

[Catigatoroala]

Otto looked at her new roomie admiringly. "That's very thoughtful! But I ain't allergic to anything, so no worries. And I'm good with pretty much any food. Like literally any," she said cheerfully. "Except, like, asparagus."
     She laughed lightly when her roomie asked if she was German. "Naw, I'm Irish," she told her proudly. She might be too tall to be a leprechaun, but she always loved her Irish background. She took another bite of pizza and looked on as her roomie, Gypsy, did a backbend. Hell, Otto wished she could be that flexible.
     "Well, I'm down with crazy," she told Gypsy happily, jumping onto her own bed to sit against the wall with her legs in a loose criss-cross pattern. She was gonna like it around here for sure.

[Cerulaen]

"Oh, Irish is cool," Gypsy said with a smile and a bounce back onto her feet. Or upright on her feet, anyway. She used a step of momentum to jump-sit onto her own bed, facing Otto. "And good. If you weren't down with crazy, then I might accidentally make you go insane." Gypsy stuck her tongue out to the wall. "Or at least, that's what Ax always says."
She moved on without missing a beat.
"So, tell me about yourself," she said cheerfully, then straightened up and adjusted invisible spectacles on her face, her expression becoming grave and serious. "Why is it you're here with us today, Miss Otto?" she said in what she imagined a shrink's voice to sound like.

[Catigatoroala]

Otto beamed, happy that her roommate approved of her Irishness. She tilted her head to the side slightly at the mention of some dude named Ax. Who was that, her brother?
She took another bite of pizza, chewing and swallowing quickly so she could answer Gypsy when she asked her to tell her about herself. She grinned when the girl went into interview mode. "Well, Miss Gypsy," she said calmly, scooting to the edge of the bed so she could cross her legs in a very ladylike fashion, "I am here because I-" she paused dramatically "- am a technopath." She nodded seriously once, then tilted her head in thought. "And because it's free."

[Cerulaen]

"Ooh," Gypsy said, breaking her shrink character, "like the evil girl from Sky High!" She paused for a moment, wondering if that wasn't the best comment to make when first meeting someone. She pushed on before she could think about it too much, however. "I've never met a technopath before. What's the coolest thing you've ever made?" Gypsy bounced up and down excitedly. "Wait, can you make me a pancake shooter?" She stopped mid-bounce and put a hand to her chin for a moment, a thoughtful look covering her face. "Or maybe it should be a popcorn ball shooter..."

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