A Mind Unbound

[Avaria Umbra]

Beacon Academy certainly measured up to what Avaria could find about it in her data banks, which was a very extensive amount of information. The tall tower at its center was certainly an impressive sight, even for the android who had  done and seen many things in her lifetime. She flicked open her scroll and checked the time. She was slightly early, though the person she was supposed to be meeting in the main courtyard seemed the type to be less than punctual, on the few occasions when Avaria had spoken with him. She could have simply read her internal chronometer instead, but she had practiced blending into human soctiety so hard that her small habits would probably never go away. The girl knew she would just have to wait, which made her feel somewhat vulnerable. It was a reasonable response, though, given who she was here to meet.

Avaria looked up from her scroll and saw the hunched form of Beacon's assistant headmaster, a man with whom she'd crossed swords several times. She told herself that she came here on her own terms, but she knew that she'd let herself be talked into it. He was supposed to be taking her to her "team mates" today, students she was supposed to spend her time with. According to her real age, she would probably be put with fourth year students, but given her appearance, she was going to be put into a team with first years. It suited her fine, because she was here to try a chance at a real life, one without the moral grey area of the White Fang. She put a hand on her hip as she waited for the slender man to reach her, using her body language to show her impatience with him at taking his sweet time.

[Casia Rabt]

Strolling down the pathway leading away from the main building came. Bad posture, weird smile, and the unshaven stubble all key towards the assistant headmaster's lazy look."Hey there that's not the face you greet someone with. I'm not even that late see." The purple haired hunter extended his wrist to show his watch which was grossly out of sync with the actual time of day it was. with that out of the way, he dropped the weird expression he swore was a smile and crack a semi-decent smirk."You ready to give the life of a good guy a shot? Cause I'm sure you know it's not as easy as many think." Casia continued before turning on his heels towards the dorm rooms.

To be honest, Casia didn't expect Avaria to take this whole join the good guys into consideration let alone actualy follow through with it bt he wouldn't voice that just yet she had gotten off with a lot because he simply didn't speak up but he felt it'd do Vale better to have someone this skilled on the peoples side as opposed to being against her or leaving her in a cell for who knows how long. He was willing to trust her curiosity would be stronger than her want of chaos.

[Avaria Umbra]

Avaria rolled her eyes when she saw the time on Cassia's watch, and suddenly understood why he wasn't always the most dependable person. She brushed a strand of hair from her face, and before she could open her mouth and object to the 'good guy' remark, the man turned his back and started walking. She picked up the small bag she had brought holding all of her possesions and her weapon, Cursebearer, before following. Her walk was delicate as she tried to keep her metallic 'feet' from punching through her black shoes and into the stone bricks beneath them, as they had done the night she had met Casia. She had taken care to wear the uniform that she was provided because it had longer sleeves than her other outfits, and she had chosen to wear a pair of white gloves to hide the joints of her robotic hands. Her legs were covered by a pair of stockings of the same color.

From the direction they were traveling, it was clear that she wouldn't be getting any kind of welcoming tour. From the schematics she had seen, though there were parts that she wasn't able to access, she could tell that she was being taken straight to the dormatories. She wondered what type of people her team mates would be, and quickly her irritation with Casia had left her in favor of a deeper curousity. The girl was entirely out of her element, and the thought of having a chance at a normal life without wondering if what she was doing was right or wrong continued to entice her. Still, with the formalities of introductions and teams to go through, she felt that it was all a little too rigid. "I hardly find this introduction necessary," she sighed, letting her gigantic axe rest on her shoulder.

[Lucatiel Lazuli]

"I wonder what the new person will be like?" Lucatiel wondered aloud while she busily transcribed her notes from class that day from a piece of looseleaf paper into her notebook. With Xan gone it had left them a man down, and they were forced to wait out their opening missions which irked the girl to no end. She wanted to go out and do the job she was training for, but without a fourth team member it had been deemed 'unsafe'. Aries and Dacre were in the room as well, though she was ignoring them up to this point. There was a noticeable tension in the room from the excitement of meeting somebody new, and she sought to diffuse that tension with her open-ended question.

"I wonder if they're a guy or a girl," she continued, pretty much letting a stream of conciousness flow through her mouth now. She put her pen down and turned the chair around, sliding her headphones off her head and around her neck. She glanced at the alarm clock she kept next to her bed, which read 6:45. It was nearly time for the assistant headmaster, Professor Rabt to arrive with their new team mate in tow, and Lucatiel could feel the collective anticipation in the room skyrocket. 

[Dacre Tyr]

Since they all found out about Xan leaving, the thought of a new teammate left an uneasy feeling in Dacre's gut. They have no idea who this new person would be, how they fought, what their personality was like and if they would blend in well with what's left of this team.They know nothing going in to this especially since the replacement didn't undergo the same initiation that they did. He was laying on his bed facing the ceiling when Lucatiel posed a question, it was what was on everyone's mind but it was enough to break the silence that had gripped the team's room for what seemed like hours. "Let us dare to hope that all will work out, for our sakes.", his eyes never leaving the same spot on the ceiling.

The faunus was surprisingly nervous even though odds were that this student was carefully picked. Despite the tension that had enveloped the room, the others looked relatively calm.Perhaps it was in their best interest to retain his composure as well. It never helped to bring about unnecessary worry to the rest of the team. Dacre glanced at his watch, showing a time of 6:45. He sighed, siting up in his bed preparing  himself for the stranger about to enter their lives.

[Aries Cross]

"Whoever they are, they can't be worse than the original asshole." Aries' voice rose from the floor, sounding slightly strained as he concentrated on holding his plank position. They'd been without a fourth for about a week now, Xan having left for some reason that Aries couldn't bother with remembering. "Honestly so long as they don't come off as a complete jerks I won't really mind who it is." He tacked on after a brief pause to catch his breath. Soon his scroll's alarm went off alerting him that he'd reached his set time for holding the plank and allowed himself to collapse onto his chest and rest for a moment. "But what time are they supposed to get here? Cause I'd really like to get down to the gym before the whole day is over." 

[Avaria Umbra]

Avaria walked next to Rabt in silence, pondering what she should say to these "team mates" she was about to meet.  She certainly wasn't short on manners, but it was certainly an awkward situation she was about to step into. The prospect of living with three other individuals was certainly one that didn't thrill her in the slightest, but she knew she would have to make the most of it somehow. The pair of them started up the stairs of what was clearly a dormitory, getting off on the third landing. They walked down the hall for some time before Rabt stopped at one of the red doors, motioning towards it. Avaria was surprised there was no snide remark to accompany the motion, but she supposed it was just as well that there wasn't. without further hesitation, the android turned and opened the door.

What she saw there simultaneously suprised her and yet didn't surprise her at all. The wild variation of individuals from the faunus sitting to the side on a bed, the wirey-haired student laying face-down on the floor, and the blue-haired girl sitting in front of a desk, apparently just finished studying. Avaria knew variation was something Beacon did best, but to think that it would be this varied. While the girl knew that the dorm rooms would be co-ed, it hadn't actually hit her until now, and she was suddenly and uncharacteristically embarrassed by the thought of the other gender sharing her living space, even though she was actually mechanical. She realized she'd almost let the silence drag on for more than a moment, which wouldn't do well for a first impression, so she decided to break it.

"Hello. I'm Avaria Umbra, and I've been assigned to your team," she fixed an expression of quiet confidence to her face, hoping the three before her would readily accept her and make the transition as smooth as possible. If they didn't, or worse yet, wouldn't, it would make things a lot harder for her. The girl set her bag down and let Cursebearer rest on its pommel beside her.

[Casia Rabt]

After delivering the newest student of Beacon Academy to her team it would be on them to work together and prove themselves worthy of the huntsman title. With team ADXL down a member this was a necessary adjustment but it also gave Casia an easy reason to offer up Avaria for admission into Beacon as well onto this team. He figured that if he needed to keep track of her he could talk with one of the students but he'd rather not have the team be put off by her because of his on worries. So he'd leave her alone and check in every so often her new team would learn to accept her or at the very least work together if they wanted to graduate from here.

"Welp kiddies, I'll leave you to showing her around and what not. If you need me I'll be somewhere around the headmaster's office." With that Casia strolled off back down the hall way.

[Exit Casia]

[Lucatiel Lazuli]

Lucatiel looked the girl over when she stepped inside the room. Her axe was comically large, almost to a frightening degree. She was slight, and of similar build to Lucatiel. "Hello, Avaria. I'm Lucatiel. Just ignore these two if they give you trouble, especially this one," Lucatiel cracked a bit of a smile as she lightly pushed against the back of Aries' head with her foot. Her tone of voice conveyed that she was joking, of course, though it was true that she was easily annoyed, even by her own team mates. She rested her chin on her hands, waiting for the other two to introduce themselves. By the looks of things, Avaria would certainly be an interesting addition to the team. Fortunately, she was polite and courteous, and Lucatiel allowed herself a glimmer of hope that they would get along well enough to be good friends.

[Dacre Tyr]

As their new teammate walked through the door, Dacre was certainly surprised to see who it was. She was relatively small but carried an axe way too large for someone her size. He didn't know what he expected but this wasn't it. Despite his initial surprise, the uneasy feeling from before never left. There was no relief or reassurance, just more questions that he wanted answers for.
He was snapped out of his thoughts by Lucatiel introducing herself. "Oh, I'm sorry for my rudeness, I'm Dacre." He kept his introduction simple because he was still preoccupied with why he had a bad feeling about this.

[Aries Cross]

"Hey she just met me!!" Aries yelped back before his face was nudged by his teammate's foot. Pushing Lucateil's foot away he pushed himself onto his feet in order to greet his new teammate proper. "Look I'm Aries and I promise I'm the best part of this team so glad to have you on board... I hope." He'd added that last part of that statement under his breath as he still had his former teammate on the back of his mind even though the guy was gone Aries still held a bad taste in his mouth.

"But yeah in all seriousness welcome to the team Avaria." He offered his hand to the new girl to greet her, after all he'd have plenty of time to get to know her better if they were gonna be on the team and even live together.