Why is solid so solid?(Open)

[Nicholas]

Nicholas was trying once again to try and make his shadows solid yet he couldn't seem to find out how to do it. He knew it couldn't of been too easy but he couldn't believe why it was so difficult for him to do it. He didn't even want too much he was just tired of knowing if he was caught by someone in the forest he would basically be dead. With this at least he could try and give them run for their money hopefully. Finally after a few more minutes of trying while all this was going through his head he  sat down on the hard gym  floor and sighed muttering to himself " Why is solid so freaking solid. Why can't it be just alittle less solid." Yeah yeah he knew that was impossible but it would be nice and make this freaking job easier. After about twenty minutes of rest  he tried to make his shadows a thin layer of solid shadow around him however all he could get was the shadows that formed around him formlessly sighing again before jumping hearing the door open. He jumped startled and hoped they weren't watching him fail.

[Joshua Strasser]

Joshua normally didn't have much to do during his days apart from binge watch movies and TV shows or dance around the kitchen by baking or cooking. That sure sounds entertaining and like a worthwhile day to Joshua, but not on a day like today in which the young adult just wanted to escape the confinement of his room while remaining inside - away from the burning sun. That's why he decided the gym was the place to go, as even if he didn't dare practice his abilities he could watch others. Being still new to the school, he didn't know many people either, so it was a good opportunity to talk to others.  Unless, that is, they were practicing their abilities on other students.

When he arrived at the gym, he nervously walked in, clinging to the safety of the walls before he noticed a sole figure with shadows dancing around him lying on the ground. Whatever he was doing, it looked super cool and Josh was pretty envious.  He stood there for a bit, eyeing the guy carefully to try and identify him.  The boy was significantly shorted than Josh and seemed a couple of years younger, with dark green hair that reached down towards his eyes in a messy, almost adorable manner.  He was almost paler than the king of ghosts himself, Josh, and he felt a little challenged for his self-proclaimed title of "palest of the pale".  

"Hey dude, what're you doing with those shadows? That looks really badass!"  Josh smiled brightly at the other student, walking over cautiously.  There were many people on the island that Josh feared for their addiction to confrontation, so Josh was wary and held his Tic-Tac container in his right hand carefully.  Even though it probably wouldn't do much, it gave him a certain feeling of safety.

[Nicholas]

Nicholas groaned while turning around when he heard the new person in the gym and stands there for a few seconds trying to figure out if the guy was serious or not. Finally he decided he was and began walking towards Joshua to meet him and returned his wave sighing before answering " Thanks and all but that is basically me failing at what I was trying to do sooo yeah. Because apparently me and solidity are not going to cooperate together anytime soon." he spoke loud enough hopefully for the guy to hear him. After speaking he looked Joshua up and down and was not surprised at all to see that he was taller than him however he was completely shocked to realize he reviled himself in the pale factor and couldn't help but speaking outloud by now them probably being almost infront of each other. " Wow your almost as pale if not paler than me"

[Joshua Strasser]

Josh, at first, tensed when the other boy hesitated, leaving Josh's comment hanging in the air and the purple-eyed teenager popped open his container that held his hallucinogens, before the other young adult properly spoke. Josh relaxed instantly, shoving his Tic-Tac box down the back pocket of his jeans. From what he understood, the guy could control shadows and was trying to make them solid, but controlling it already looked awesome! "The fact that you can somehow manipulate the movement of darkness is already pretty awesome - I'm sure you'll be able to solidify it with no problem eventually!" Josh smiled brightly, happy to be able to talk to someone. He loved the challenge that was continuing conversations. At Nicholas comment on his skin colour, Josh's eyes lit up with amusement and he chuckled. "I'm just as surprised as you to find someone else as pale as me. I don't blame you for avoiding the sun - it sucks."

Josh offered his hand out towards the younger adult in an attempt for a handshake. "My name's Josh, what's yours?" he asked politely, shifting his weight to his other foot as he looked the boy up and down.

[Nicholas]

Nicholas shrugged his shoulders adjusting his sunglasses a little as well sounding disappointed " Eventually is just like the things that say in the year blah blah blah it is so unspecific you have no clue when it is going to happen. And I would prefer this to happen sooner rather than later." he put one of his hands in his pocket and the other he gestured around him looking quite silly " Not exactly the place I really want to have such a thing be unspecific i mean come on compared to everyone else I would get creamed in a fight." He stood for a second the shook his head " I guess we all have our weaknesses right"

Nicholas then tilted his head and laughed loudly at the sun comment " Dude you couldn't say it to someone that it would be more true than to me. Though come on I mean i understand the heat quality kinda but who wants a giant light source going into your eyes ever?" Nicholas started to chuckle again before seeing the hand put out and shakeing it himself  quickly " Names Nicholas but everyone calls me Nick"

[Joshua Strasser]

Josh shook his head in a way to show his disagreement with Nic's pessimistic response. "You may not know when it'll happen, but many won't even come across the same opportunity to have it occur. You're lucky to even have an 'eventually', even if it's unspecific," he answered calmly, watching him carefully and trying to pick his next words carefully. He shifted his weight onto his left foot as he paused, crossing his arms before continuing. "I'm sure you'd be significantly more useful in a fight than you think," Josh spoke optimistically, slowly nodding as Nick mentioned everyone having weaknesses. You can't imagine. He thought to himself dully, frowning for a short moment as he thought of his powers.

"It's nice to meet you, Nick." Josh's smile had returned, and he found himself shifting over as to lean against a nearby wall. "I'm sure we'll be anti-sun pals, no problem. I'm the opposite though I think - I appreciate the light but dislike the heat. Why're you against the light?"

[Nicholas]

Nicholas shrugged at the optimistic response Joshua made first " Yeah yeah I know and I am grateful and all. Just gets irritating after awhile of trying to do it" Nicholas then shook his head chuckling when Joshua said he would be better in a fight than he thought. " Maybe though I am not much a fighter. Confrontation in general is not something I normally steer towards" Nicholas smiled chuckling a little as he realized his powers were also anti confrontation as of the moment.

Nicholas then nodded smiling  " It is nice to met you too Joshua." Nicholas sat down in front of Joshua figureing if he was leaning against a wall he could sit down then he smiled at the  name anti-sun pals "Yeah I hope so you seem like a nice guy. Also yeah it has to do with my powers and why I wear sunglasses" He spoke before adjusting his glasses then pointing to the lights. " My eyes don't exactly work well with light. But they do fine with the dark so I wear these so it isn't as hard on them"

[Joshua Strasser]

Josh nodded in acknowledgement when Nick mentioned that it was irritating to try and learn something new, although Josh didn't personally fully agree. He loved to learn more and if he had a power like Nick's he would practice it almost all the time - but that wasn't a luxury Josh had with, at least, one of his three powers. However, there was no disagreement in Josh's eyes as Nick spoke about avoiding confrontation. "I'm in the same boat as you. I despise conflict with every inch of my being. That's the reason I didn't join the whole tournament nonsense," he agreed, shrugging happily. He was glad this guy wasn't just a psycho who loved fighting.

Josh dipped his head when Nick returned the greeting, before sitting down himself next to the guy. At Nick suggesting he was a nice guy, he shrugged half-heartedly even though the comment warmed his heart. He always enjoyed it when people liked him. "Oh? That really is unfortunate, actually. The light isn't as bad as the heat and it sucks you get to miss out on it," he says, a little bit sadly before smiiling. "There's probably controls to the lights in here - if you wanted we could turn them down a little."

[Nicholas]

Nicholas nodded at the mention of violence though it seemed that Joshua hated violence for a different reason. Nicholas knew he would participate in violence as well if he knew really how but hey that was who he was he enjoyed the sense of not being seen as well so why challenge it. As of such Nicholas nodded  towards Joshua's comment and stretched " It is quite common isn't it?"
 
 Then Joshua spoke of the lights and all Nicholas could do was shrug and shake his head " I can enjoy the heat as many as other I guess but personally I like the dark more anyway". He smiled at his next comment and nodded getting up and offering a hand for  Joshua " Told you you were a good guy not many people would remind that was a thing. I mean come on you wouldn't be able to see that well when its that dark now would you?"

[Joshua Strasser]

Despite his previously happy demeanour, the prolonged conversation about conflict caused Josh's eyes to flicker downwards as he began to think about what it brought. The other boy didn't seem quite as hesitant about it as Josh, and he tapped his finger against his leg a little nervously. Every time he engaged in even a small form of conflict, he became almost a deer in the headlights and shut off. It's not like he did on purpose, but he couldn't stop himself from irrational thoughts whenever he felt conflict coming along. This island hadn't helped his fear at all either, due to it having the tendency to be filled with a bunch of psychopaths who enjoy seeing others in pain or prefects who liked exercising control over the population of students and using force if necessary. "Yeah," he murmured, not even sure what Nick was saying when he was referring to something being 'quite common'. A lot of things were common, so he wasn't about to pretend that he had been paying attention and knew what they had just been talking about. He'd gotten lost in thought and that was all it was, except that there was something about fighting. "I think I'll try to avoid getting in the middle of the whole prefect-rebellion thing," he added pointedly, although he really wasn't sure if the rebellion existed. He hadn't heard anything about it, and it didn't sound very influential if it did exist. Regardless, he knew for certain that the prefects did, and he didn't want to get in their way.

Bringing himself back to reality, the black-haired teenager smiled kindly and shook his head when Nick spoke about him being a 'good guy'. "I think your frame of reference might be a little messed up. I mean, on an island filled with psychopaths, anyone even remotely normal could be considered a 'good guy'." He laughed a little at that, before rubbing his purple eyes as he felt a bit of fatigue overcome him. It was always a little difficult to be so social, what with being a natural introvert, but he loved the challenge of just talking even though it could stress him out sometimes. "I don't think I'd mind the dark much, as long as I didn't trip and fall everywhere. I'm not extremely balanced on my feet - I think I'm comparable to one of those gifs where you see a horse trying to walk on ice and flipping out," he had an exact image in mind of what he was referring to, and he smiled some more at the thought. Just out of curiosity, the boy decided to try and see what would happen if he tried to recreate exactly that image with smoke. For the sake of practicing, he shot out smoke from his hand and allowed it to reach the floor and create a small blanket, as a figure that resembled greatly a weird dog-horse emerged from it. The image itself was only two feet tall and maybe three feet long, but Josh focused hard on it as he made the 'horse' appear to try to walk and have it's legs sprawl out from beneath it. It was an amusing image, and Josh was impressed with his own precision, but he didn't feel it properly embodied the gif he was imagining.