Sorry, no can do. I'm pretty sure your teacher would have my head for it.
[ He makes his way around the counter to crouch in front of Robby. He's vaguely aware that he might get socked for it but, well, it's a risk he's going to have to take. Robby clearly isn't in his right mind, and isn't to be held responsible for whatever he does next, though Kim personally hopes that his nose stays right where it is; it's already crooked enough from being broken a couple of times before. He knows what he had seen earlier, what he had felt, the eerie, constant feeling of something peering out at him from the shadows, the idea that he couldn't trust anyone around him, the scientists...
And all he'd done was go to the party and sit quietly at a table. He wonders if Robby got punished with something worse for daring to organize it in the first place. His deep voice is as calm as it ever is. It's his true superpower, at the end of the day. He can handle his own in a fight well enough, but what he truly deals in is trying to defuse situations before they get to it. You just have to remain calm and work with the situation. ]
It's okay. I'm not going to make you go anywhere, [ he says quietly. ] We're just going to sit right here for a little while. Nobody is coming to get you, and nobody is trying to make you do anything. Just take a deep breath.
[ It might work. It might not. It probably won't. But it's at least step one. ]
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Date: 2023-11-23 09:41 am (UTC)[ He makes his way around the counter to crouch in front of Robby. He's vaguely aware that he might get socked for it but, well, it's a risk he's going to have to take. Robby clearly isn't in his right mind, and isn't to be held responsible for whatever he does next, though Kim personally hopes that his nose stays right where it is; it's already crooked enough from being broken a couple of times before. He knows what he had seen earlier, what he had felt, the eerie, constant feeling of something peering out at him from the shadows, the idea that he couldn't trust anyone around him, the scientists...
And all he'd done was go to the party and sit quietly at a table. He wonders if Robby got punished with something worse for daring to organize it in the first place. His deep voice is as calm as it ever is. It's his true superpower, at the end of the day. He can handle his own in a fight well enough, but what he truly deals in is trying to defuse situations before they get to it. You just have to remain calm and work with the situation. ]
It's okay. I'm not going to make you go anywhere, [ he says quietly. ] We're just going to sit right here for a little while. Nobody is coming to get you, and nobody is trying to make you do anything. Just take a deep breath.
[ It might work. It might not. It probably won't. But it's at least step one. ]