Mikasa Ackerman, 16 years old, was involved in many fights and turmoil back at her previous High School, obviously to which her guardians deemed unnacceptable, which resulted in her adoptive parents sending her to a new school. And today was her first day.
Mikasa wasn't hoping for much when she stood at the entrance in her new uniform, gazing up at the sign which read, 'BirdWood Academy'. Mikasa cringed at the lack of creativity in its name and carried on walking. When she walked through the gate and into the courtyard, she was met with beady eyes from everyone, and they were all on her. She was always quite nonchalant and antisocial so she just covered her face with a strand of her long, shining black hair and carried on walking. It was strange. No one else looked like she did - they all had very enthusiastically coloured hair and her's was just...black. It seemed she was the only Asian within the academy- or so she thought, until she saw someone standing next to a drastically taller boy with brown her and aqua blue eyes, the boy behind the two of them had blonde hair and more of the gleaming blue-eyes look. The short boy next to the brown-haired boy exchanged glances with Mikasa but didn't really smile. Mikasa didn't smile back. He had black hair, just like her but had a rather gloomy look.
Mikasa quietly scoffed and rolled her eyes as he continued to ignore the fact she was trying to be friendly by giving him a tiny smile, and so walked off into the school. She was told by the Headmaster to come straight to his office when she first arrived, so she went to reception to get some directions.
"Hello?" She mumbled, peeping through the window that atop said 'Reception Desk'.
"Ah! Hellooo!~" Jumped an excited woman with glasses, presumably in her middle ages.
"Eh..Um," Mikasa cleared her throat at the sudden scare and carried on, "Could you possibly tell me where the Headmaster's office is?"
"Why, yes I can!" The lady beamed back. "Straight down that hall and to the right." She pointed, standing up and exposing her nametag. It read, 'Hange Zoë'.
"Ah, thankyou." Mikasa smiled.
She followed the woman's directions, and sure enough she found the room. She knocked on the door to the reply of "Come in." from a deep-voiced man.
Mikasa opened the door and there was a a blond man with rather...bushy eyebrows. He looked stern in matter of 'facial expression' as his eyes never trailed off from her as she closed the door behind her and sat down.
"Hello...Mikasa, is it?" The man asked.
"Yes." Mikasa replied shortly.
"Well, welcome to BirdWood Academy. I'm Erwin, your principal. And, second name, please?" He introduced, asking the question and bringing out a piece of parchment and a pen, waiting for her answer.
"Ackerman. Mikasa Ackerman." She stated, sitting up straight.
"Ackerman, you say? So, you're part of the clan?" Erwin whispered, resting his head on his hand.
"Clan? What? I was just given this second name because my mother's was Ackerman. What do you mean, 'clan'?" Mikasa asked, very confused.
Erwin was silent for a moment before he clapped his hands together slowly.
"You don't know? Well, just forget I said anything about a clan. Don't mention it to anyone. Anyway, let's talk about how you're going to navigate yourself around the school." Erwin tried desperately to change the subject. "Well, since you're new and it's the middle of exam season, you will need to become accustomed to the building quickly. This is why I am going to assign you a guide; they will help you through your first few weeks until you learn your way around. Which gender would you prefer to be your guide? A female or a male?"
"Uhh, female?" Mikasa shrugged. She didn't really care that much.
"Alright then." Replied Erwin, turning on a microphine and speaking into it.
"Annie Leonhardt to the Principal's office please." He said, then proceeded to let go of the button and silently turn to me to make small talk.
"So, why did you decide to move here, Mikasa?" He asked, genuinely sounding interested in what she had to say.
"It wasn't up to me. It was my adoptive parents. They thought it was unacceptable that I was participating in the majority of fights that happened in my old school. So they kinda want me to...change my character, I guess?" Mikasa squeaked at the end as she rested her head - bored - onto the desk.
She continued to stare at the beautifully coloured picture that was hung upon the wall - it was a bird, not one that Mikasa had ever seen before, with its tail feathers spread out like an eagle's wings and each feather and the vibrant colour it was painted with told its own story as a whole. Erwin seemed to catch on to what had caught her eye and turned to look at the painting.
"Ah, 'Bird of Feeling', my best piece yet. You like it, hm?" He smiled, looking back at her.
"Uh, yeah, it's actually like nothing I've seen before. You painted this?" She pointed at the principal.
"Well, you see, before I became a man of many accomplishments that you see today, I took on the roles of various jobs, one of which, was being an Artist. All of us have some way of releasing all the stress from our bodies, and Art was mine."
"Yeah, we do have ways of relieving stress." Mikasa added, reminding her self of all of the martial arts groups she was a part of.
"You called?" A blonde-haired girl askes whilst closing the door behind her.
The girl exchanged glances with Mikasa and smiled. "New girl, I presume?"
The girl pointed at Mikasa and looked at Erwin.
"Yes. New girl. She will need a guide, and I'm aware that you know your way around the school like it's your own house." Erwin smiled.
"Alright, come on, new girl." The girl gestured towards herself and walked out of the room, to which Mikasa pursued.
"So, what's your name?" She asked.
"Mikasa, and yours?" Mikasa replied, slightly glancing at her sideways whilst they walked down the hall, multi-tasking as Mikasa found her locker number that was stated in her letter and stored her bags away.
"I'm Annie Leonhardt. Nice to meet you." Annie replied after, sticking her hand out for a handshake, to which Mikasa co-operated.
"So, I'm sure you don't really care about direction, right?" Chuckled Annie as she turned to look at Mikasa.
"Not really. I'm not even sure if I care about school at this point." Mikasa sighed.
"Hey, how about I introduce you to some of my friends?" Annie suggested.
"If you want." Mikasa shrugged back.
Annie walked outside into the courtyard as Mikasa followed closely behind, moving faster having dropped her bags off in her new locker.