murderpuppy: (My heart is ever at your service)
Connla, like all the other children in Mayfield, had to go to school, even if he didn't like it.  He was not exactly what one would call a model student; he was fidgety and full of energy and would rather be running around and playing than sitting behind a desk.  It also didn't help that he was irretrievably lost whenever the teacher told him to read something that was on the board or in a book, on account of the fact that he was an ancient Scot and couldn't read.

He had never turned in a single homework assignment or answered a single question on an exam.  He preferred to draw pictures of bunnies and birds and things like that in the blank spaces.  He thought it made the paper look much better than if it just had a whole bunch of words on it.

A.  After school

Connla was sitting in a tree with a bunch of papers tucked under one arm-- a keen eye might notice that they looked like they'd been torn out of a textbook-- and was folding one of the sheets carefully and with great concentration.  On his lap were the products of previous foldings, and after a few moments, another (slightly wobbly) paper airplane dropped to join the others.  Someone had taught him how to make them during the day, and he had been utterly fascinated by these little things that could fly.  He didn't know what an 'air plain' was, but he liked making them.

When he finally had enough of them, he gathered them up, got into a good position, and...

there was a mass exodus of paper airplanes coming out in all directions from the tree, seemingly all at once.

Hopefully no one was in the way of all that paper zipping about.

B.  action at 310 Miller


Connla was sitting at the table, his homework for the evening in front of him.  His homework didn't require crayons, but those were scattered out messily across the table in front of him.

He was happily drawing and scribbling away, paying absolutely no attention to whatever was printed on the paper.  

The page looked something like this. )
murderpuppy: (The boy mocked the hosts of Ulster)
A.  Action/phone from 919 Bilko

Gilgamesh had invited Connla over for one purpose: to get drunk.

They had succeeded.

An undisclosed amount of alcohol later-- not that Connla would have been coherent enough to count all those bottles even if he had wanted to-- there one drunk boy and one pretending-to-be-drunk boy hanging around.  So, for all intents and purposes, two demigod boys, inebriated, one of whom had gotten the brilliant idea that there was a phone and there were people at the other ends of those phones and why weren't they calling them already.

This could only end well.

B. Everywhere else, doing all the things

Two boys couldn't be expected to stay cooped up in a house all day, especially not when one was drunk and there was mischief to be had.  Especially mischief that involved Lancer and trolling the hell out of him.  Be afraid, Hound of Ulster.  Be very afraid.   So there is, at least, one boy who is sort of weaving as he walked, because wow he didn't know that the ground could get all wobbly like that, and probably laughing at every other thing that Kogil said, because everything was funny now!

For now, at least.  Later might be a different story, and tomorrow would hold all sorts of interesting miseries, but at the moment, Connla was a happy little intoxicated derp boy who was having a damn good time.

There was only one question:

Is your body ready, Mayfield?
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 [Connla was kind of bored.]
 
[When Connla was bored, he found some way to not be bored anymore.  Today, he decided to alleviate his boredom by picking up the phone, pressing some buttons and seeing what happened.]
 
[What happened, of course, is that someone picked up on the other end.]
 
Hello!
 
[He decided to say the first thing that came to his mind.]
 
You know, sometimes people say weird things, but they won't tell me what they mean by it.  
 
[> implying that this isn't one of those times]
 
There was this one time that my mam said that the Gae Bolg was false advertising.
 
 
This was going to be one of those kinds of phone calls. )
 
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((feel free to come across him at any point in time)) 

A.
action at 311 Miller

Connla had been out playing when he had seen a bush covered in purple flowers; they were pretty and sweet-smelling and he thought that they reminded him of not-really-but-sort-of big sister.  A few minutes later, he was running back into the house, his arms full of lilac.  After setting them down on the kitchen table, he climbed up onto the counter to get a tall glass, filled it with water, and put them in.  

Girls liked flowers, right?  So Rin should like it if he put them up in her room, wouldn't she?  He could put them right by her bed, so then she'd definitely see them when she walked in.  

He walked upstairs-- fighting the urge to take the steps two at a time so that he wouldn't spill-- and went to Rin's door.  It took a little creative juggling so that he had a hand free to open it, but he managed well enough, and was able to go in and put the flowers on his big sister's nightstand.  He looked at the display of lilac proudly for a moment or two, nodding to himself-- Rin would definitely like them.  

Now all he had to do was go downstairs and wait for her to get home and see them.

B.  action at 919 Bilko

Connla ran up the steps to the house; Gilgamesh had promised that they would fight, and he'd never fought with a king before, so he was terribly excited for it.  If he was a king, then that had to mean that he was a really good warrior, because it wouldn't be right for there to be a king who didn't know how to fight very well.  Connla was always up for meeting new people and fighting with them, because what is making friends normally.

He thankfully remembered that it was considered polite to knock on the door first and not just barge right in, and, since he wanted to be friends with Gilgamesh, he ought to remember his manners.

So after knocking quite loudly on the door, he waited for it to be answered, bouncing a little on the balls of his feet in barely-contained excitement.

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May. 8th, 2011 05:26 pm
murderpuppy: (My heart is ever at your service)
 A.  (At 311 Miller Street)

When Connla woke up, it was not with a giant hole in his chest, as he had expected.  In fact, much to his surprise, there wasn't a mark on him-- not even the little scars from cuts and scrapes he'd gotten during his training with his mother and his aunt.  It was as though he had never been through any of it; as though it had never happened.

He got out of bed and looked at the strange clothing that he was wearing and the weird room that he was in; it was nothing like anything he'd seen before.

While the technology of the 1950s might look vintage to some, it was far beyond anything that an ancient Scot from before the time of Christ had ever encountered.  Electricity, indoor plumbing, almost every luxury and convenience of the (relatively) modern world was new and interesting.  And Connla was a boy with infinite curiosity.

This probably wouldn't end well.

The young boy wandered downstairs, still looking around in amazement at all the unfamiliar things.

B.

Connla wasn't the kind of boy to stay inside for very long, especially not when there was a new place to explore.  

He wanted to see everything-- or, at least, everything that he could in one day.  So there might just be a blond haired, red eyed kid running through your back yard or knocking on your door because he wants to know what's going on.  Or, if he hasn't found anything that interests him yet, just wandering down the street.

He is also barefoot.

Why?

He just doesn't like shoes.

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