Author's Note: Hello and welcome one and all to yet another entry in Glynda's Diary! Now with even more casting gags attached to that one voice actress that I'm still stubbornly refusing to name! Oh, and 100% more invocations of the Tropes Pantheon! Why? Because I spent over eight hours this weekend reading it and I'll be damned if I am the only one whose time is to be wasted by it! In a good way, of course… (please don't smite me Oh-Homura-Sama…). Anyway, I'll get out of your way now so that you may read and hopefully enjoy this rickety pile of references held together with duct-tape and spit, and if you feel like leaving a review, following, or favoriting the story, please do; I always love feedback. Enjoy!
Entry # 54: Age 17
Dear Diary,
So I met another team today – well, when I say 'met' I mean they just transferred in mid-semester – and I chatted with them over lunch. You see, Cinder and – that Minene Uriyuu girl from Team ARME (but Cinder totally started it) – were in detention with Miss Faust for trying to one-up each other's pyrotechnics displays in the Dust lab (although personally I didn't think Miss Faust of all people would have cared, which makes me suspicious…), and Summer, Yin, and Yona got shanghaied into some ridiculous Antic-contest between the Arc brothers – Not that it matters, but the results were ultimately status quo antebellum minus one East Wing (yes, the grand tradition continues…) so that meant that I was at our usual lunch table alone. Alone, that is, until they showed up.
Now I know what you're thinking – and no, this lot are surprisingly sane – well, at least they behave that way… You see, today I was joined at lunch by Team SAKI, composed of one Saki Watanabe, Ayase FREAKING Shinomiya (!), Kanade Tachibana, and Kotomi Ichinose… It was actually all rather pleasant, all told – despite the elevated stress level consequent of my constant wondering about what would be the most tactful way to ask Ayase to sign my stuffed Penguin and possibly give me a hug… One thing did strike me though – sure, there are differences, but on some level, they all sound the same… and you know what? So do Chieri, Yuko, and that Minene chick to… I suppose it's possible that they all come from the same part of this 'Japan' place, but I for one think that seems highly unlikely…
In any event, Ayase's reputation speaks for itself, and given that she's a test pilot for Schnee Mecha Works now, I guess that's how she's gonna go through Beacon…. Please Oh-Mami-Sama, don't make me spar against Ayase's giant robot… The others though, it took some prodding to find out about. That Kanade girl – though they all call her 'Angel' for some reason (although it presumably isn't because she's quite possibly the cutest human being I've seen since Yin Xiao Long and – ehem…) – apparently carries like a cap-ton of Dust operated blades, sonic agitators, and spatial distortion devices that basically add up to the point that she's a freaking ninja – a cute, socially inept ninja who dresses like a schoolgirl and –Agh! Moving on… Definitely the oddest of the bunch was that Kotomi girl though; you know what the first thing she said to me was? She hid behind Ayase and asked me if I was a bully! Me! Glynda Goodwitch! Humph! Once I explained to her – calmly and not at all angrily – that I was in fact not a bully, she was almost as adorable as that Kanade girl though… if even weirder. She's some kind of ditzy genius and claims that she applied to some musical conservatory called 'Julliard' or something like that, but her guidance counselor from her old school shunted her here instead… Her teammates claim that she fights with some kind of weaponized violin – although how one weaponizes a violin escapes me – and when I offhandedly mentioned her later to Andreas Arc, he swore to me up and down that she was some kind of 'Lesser goddess' and I was absolutely never, EVER to provoke her to play her violin in the presence of any living soul. When I asked Kotomi herself however, she claimed that she fought with a magic wand – although she'd yet to perfect her technique…
Finally, Team leader Saki Watanabe, who superficially appeared to be the most normal of the lot of them – not that Ayase Shinomiya is weird or anything because she's in a wheelchair, but she is kind of famous (not Chieri or Lia Nikos famous, but still, famous) – But in all actuality, she's a whole can of worms unto herself… Apparently this is her first time in a big city – there are more people in Beacon alone – she said – than in the entirety of her hometown, and she wanted to come out here to have a little room to breathe, ironically enough. The rules and traditions where she's from are pretty strict the way I here it – something about 'every single individual having the power to lay waste to a civilization' or something like that… Seems like an exaggeration if you ask me, but that said, her powers are real – I know, because she used them instead of silverware at lunch. You see, apparently she's an Esper… A very pretty bisexual Esper… from a village composed entirely of very pretty bisexual Espers… I might have gotten a nosebleed when she came out with that one… but it was very dry in the cafeteria today!
Well anyway, I guess I have to add them to my 'Antic-war' diagram (which I have solely for the purpose of determining the best ways by which to circumvent all the ridiculous chaos that goes on in this school – not that it's working very well) and fortunately for the moment they're neutral parties… We've already got the Brothers Arc, Siegfried, Cinder, a chick with an unhealthy obsession with bombs (smoke bombs, stink bombs laughing gas, tear gas – sky's the limit really), that Belladonna guy, and lest we forget, Emmy Valkyrie in the mix, I don't want to think about how much more absurd life could get here if a Psychic and a Mecha were to get involved – even discounting the other two members… You know, the more I think about this, the more I am forced to consider bringing Yuko on board as the first member of my hypothetical Anti-Antic Task force…
Crossing my fingers in hopes that the new girls don't get any funny ideas…
Glynda
P.S. Although Saki is pretty – NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!
