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Jack shrugged. "Yeah, well, to be honest, they only know about White Fang, and not even the White fang is evil, just...misguided." He said, a somewhat sad look touched his face, before he glaced over in the direction with Gaston. "I'm sure he comes from a great family who seem to specialize in pioneering the art of shoving their heads up their own asses, it's always fun to backtalk to them." Jack took off his hat, scratching his head as he spoke.

"Real classy, asshole," Calypso said to the passing shadow of Gaston and his gang. It was quiet, but just loud enough to be heard by the passing mob. "Ever consider there might be faunus aboard this ship, or are you just too stupid to keep your hate speech between you and your skinhead buddies? While I'm sure they find the endless repitition of your dull and witless racism amusing, I do not."

She kept her hands floating above the Furies' holsters and her wings tucked close to her back. If he hadn't already noticed them, it'd make for a hell of a surprise. Come on Prince Charming, take the bait...

"... Hold that thought." Completely forgetting to finish what she'd started with the wild skinheads, she shamelessly inserted herself into the middle of the conversation with a fist just short of Jack's face. "Say that again."

edited 5th Mar '14 9:13:34 PM by KSPAM

Beryl looked on as the rude individual stormed off, offering a hmph! Serves him right, she thought. "Better not let that spoil my day..."

Groups of people large and small all seemed to be socializing to pass the time. Seeing the smiles on their faces as they spoke, Beryl resolved to life her spirits by doing the same. Luckily for her, such a conversation was taking place right beside her!

Observing the weapons spoken of, Beryl offered an "Ooh..." at Dragon Lily. Very privately, she was biting her lip a bit in regards to the other boy's weapons. Poor guy... "My compliments to the maker of such a fine weapon!", she said, referring to Barry. Before she felt odd for chiming in, she took charge and stepped forward with a smile. "I'm Beryl de León. Nice to meet you both!"

"Vacuo? Never been there, I just greet people like this... though some don't like it..." She looked out on to the academy itself "Thanks again!" she said flatted by the compliments and sticking close to her new bud "Its fantastic ain't it?"

Gaston snorted but continued walking, but uttering a very loud: "Man, smells like birdshit here, all of a sudden."

His gangmembers began chuckling stupidly.

"Wow, I could see that really wreckin' those thangs!" Ayers said in response. "Naeg an' Hrunt ain't nearly so complex. Just swords and arms, the classics..."

He watched as the bigots walked off. "Now shucky dern, that's just damn disgraceful. We see them later I might jus' ask fer a fight with him. Without weapons, a' course."

Jack stared at the girl who suddenly appeared behind him...Yay, he was in trouble. He took a deep breath, and repeated it, there was some anger and sadness in his voice. "White Fang isn't evil. Just misguided. Got a problem with that?" He asked, more then willing to have a discussion with another bigot.

"Among other things that I'm near, yes." Finally taking a moment to transfer his focus, he watched the bigots walk off. He only caught the tail end of the conversation but just sighed and rolled his eyes. "But then there are some people who are a tad... unpleasant. Only to be expected, I suppose. After all, it would be criminal for Vale only to have the most beautiful and kind women and not have the disgusting and basest men."

"Some would," Rufuos grunted in regards to the conversation on the White Fang, although he stood off to the side, looking out the window. "I have also heard such descriptions as 'self-righteous', 'fanatical' and 'ran by greedy old war mongers'. Ah yes, and 'not what it used to be'."

Calypso's eyes narrowed. "Yeah, I do."

Not even hesitating, Calypso removed a lump of Dust from the wings she'd been concealing and hurled it with all her might at Gaston. It was a small packet, meant to freeze him solid for comedic effect. As much as she would have liked giving him a story to tell, she didn't feel like opening a hole in the hull of an airtight ship. Not to mention the stain it would leave would never make this place seem quite the same again, which would be a real shame.

"Why thank you," Barry answered, "I'm Barry Saph-Blut and this here is Ayers. What's your weapon, Beryl? What do you think of everything so far? Oh, Ayers, I think those arms are marvellous, there's as much beauty in simplicity as there is anywhere else. And, man, that guy is just rude isn't he? I might have to show him some manners at some point. Faunus aren't my favorite people, and some of them are just creepy, but that is just bad behavior on his part."

"A blade would block the dust thrown by Calypso. "Hey now. No need togo that far." Remus said with a cautioning tone.

Jack was merely staring at the Faunus. "Oh. I suppose you would have a problem." He muttered to himself. Jack paused, "Why are you here?" He asked, the question appearing in his mind as he noted that a bird woman was, on a flying machine...Just seemed odd.

Rufous turned halfway towards the altercation with the dust.

"base and disgusting... well the were being pretty mean" she said "but disgusting maybe isn't the word... more like mean... yeah, meanies!" she said, not giving it much thought afterwards and pulling a bag of chili coated peanuts from her coat "want some?" she offers.

edited 5th Mar '14 9:39:01 PM by sanojutsu

Calypso's expression soured. "I don't see how that's your call. They weren't talking to you, they were talking to me." Her full attention was returned to Jack and Remus. They had better be prepared. "What's your deal, anyway?"

"Oh, did I forget the number of the giant airship headed towards the grocer's and accidentally hop on the bus to Beacon again? Silly me," Calypso remarked sarcastically. Under nornal circumstances this boy might have actually earned her respect today, but damn if that comment about the White Fang didn't piss her off.

edited 5th Mar '14 9:38:54 PM by KSPAM

Beryl grins a little sheepishly, pointing to what looked to be a metal contraption the size of a thick backpack. "This'd be my weapon, on my back. I'd show you but I think it's best if I kept it a secret for now, eh?", she replies, not really wanting to withdraw such a large weapon in even a moderately sized space.

"Forgive me, Ayers - your weapons receive proper praise as well.", she adds, turning towards the other man with an apologetic posture. "I can tell you put a lot of work into them!"

Remus knocked the frozen blade against his leather shoulder guard, cracking the ice. "I just don't like seeing faunus resort to violence like you did. Sure this dumbass is a racist jerk, but all you'd be doing in attacking him is reassuring his foolish idea that all faunus are like the White Fang."

''"No! No! I didn't mean to offend yo-It's just-Wings! You have wings! Why bother getting on one of these...? And dear god I am a dumbass!" Jack blabbered, getting redder with each comment. He then looked down. "You really want to know what my deal with the White Fang is?" He asked Calypso.

Realizing he was right, Calypso stuttered, then sighed heavily. "Alright, whatever. That still doesn't make what he said," she pointed to Jack, "about the White Fang okay. They're not misguided, they're just bigots of another flag. They're monsters who would kill human and faunus alike to prove their point. There's nothing 'misguided' about them," she said, making airquotes as she did. "And please," she said to Jack, "by all means. Continue."

edited 5th Mar '14 9:45:19 PM by KSPAM

"Well in a place that treats them like shit, I daresay they have a reason to be bigoted!" Jack shot back, all sense of joy was gone from his voice, he was clearly angry. He took a deep breath, calming himself down. "Alright, back in Signal, I had a faunus girlfriend, her name was Frey, she wanted to be a huntress, then, her brother got murdered and she vanished, she reappeared to me, and told me she was going to join the White Fang, to avenge her brother's death." Jack said, it was clearly not a good memory for him. "She was misguided! She wanted justice against the people that killed her brother and thousands more! Is that evil? Is that bigoted?"

edited 5th Mar '14 9:49:32 PM by TroyandHawk

"An army made of anger, ran by old man made of greed," Rufous quoted aloud.

Okay. This conversation stopped here. Keeping her weapons holstered, Calypso just picked Jack up by the collar and shoved him against the window.

"The White Fang killed my family, you asshole. I watched them do it. I watched them set fire to the ghettos while they gunned down innocent women and children. It didn't matter to them if they were human or faunus, if they weren't with the White Fang, they shot them on sight." The rage in her voice was palpable as it hung over every word like a thick red mist. "You wanna know why I hate them? I hate them because they said they were going to free us, to give us a better life, but then they took my brother away from me, took my family away from me. They preach faunus equality but they kill their own just for resisting and don't even think twice about destroying countless lives for the sake of a war no one else asked for. If you ask me, they're worse than humans, worse than Grimm. And if there's one thing in this world that comforts me, it's that killing them is considered a public service."

Gaston jumped about a foot in the air as the Dust almost hit him. He saw who had thrown it, and growled angrily.

"What the hell, birdbrain?! You a Fangy?! Freaking terrorists! The lot of you!"

Remus sheathed his sword as he walked up to Jack and Calypso. "Alright everyone. Lets calm down. Okay? I don't like the White Fang either. They're a bunch of assailed and the world is better off without them. But if you would just calm down for two seconds you would realize Jack here wasn't supporting them. Now lets just take a deep breath, and put the guy down."

He turned towards Gaston momentarily. "I would think twice before making another comment like that lest I decide to kick your ass MYSELF."

edited 5th Mar '14 10:05:07 PM by SolusLupus