mysicksadlife | [Video] We're a team, right?

[The first clue something is wrong should really be the bright, downright perky smile. If anyone needs more clues, there's the short skirt. And the pom-poms. That's right, it's a cheerleader. Daria Morgendorffer. (Unfortunately, the change has done nothing about the thick, round glasses or the mousy brown hair that looks like she doesn't bother with styling it at all.)

Daria's been gone for awhile, and all she really knows of recent events is that there was a fight. Which means, although she wouldn't have been caught dead doing this a few days ago, doing what she can to raise morale. The same way she'd do it at school.

Which means a cheer. A real, clapping, pom-pom-waving, cheer.]

Go, Luceti!
The team that can't be beat!
Go, Luceti!
The fastest on your feet!

[She gives just a moment's pause before grinning - yes, Daria grins now - at the feed. She is quite proud of her perfect poetry there.]

((ooc: Definite personality change here. Daria is the cheerleader, which coming from a series of high school stereotypes means she'll be acting perky and a bit airheaded.))

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[He hadn't seen her around too often, but she had a much more similar personality to Mai he recalled]

You feeling alright there?

[They could have passed for spiritual twins, really. Right now? Not so much. And after long enough in Luceti, it's probably not too hard to guess why.

Even if Daria herself seems pretty clueless about it at the moment.]

I feel great! [She'll want someone to shoot her once this is all over.] Are you alright? You look sort of weirded out.

[Iroh will blink again at that, this would take a moment to adjust to]

I'm glad to hear it.

Just not used to this...

[He pauses for a second trying to find the right word

-side of you. What brings on the enthusiasm?

[Blink, blink. To her, this is pretty natural now.]

Everyone's been sad since the big fight, haven't they? So I thought it would be nice if someone tried to cheered things up a little.

[Perhaps the explanation does her credit, even if the method is a bit... much.]

[Well people had different reactions to stress and things]

Yes, I suppose they have. It is a very nice gesture indeed.

If you don't keep up morale, how will everyone keep trying to win?

[It's very simplistic - but in a way, she's not entirely wrong. At least her heart's in the right place, even if her head is a bit lacking.]

Yes, keeping up morale is important.

[Though he was suspecting that something might be up]

So, are you working on a few different cheers?

Of course! [It even comes with a little headtilt motion.] I thought I could change all the ones from home to fit Luceti! It's just switching around a few words, right?

[Somehow, the exclamation has about the same inflection as the question.]

Not being familiar with your native folk songs and chants I wouldn't be able to judge that accurately.

[Just going to throw that out there]

I can teach you! [Oh look how excited. How could you possibly say no and dampen that enthusiasm, Iroh?]

That sounds delightful. Though I do have some work to do at the tea shop.

[By using avoidance tactics]

[It is very successful!]

Oh. That's too bad, but I understand. Say, could I come by later? I'd like to try some tea, too!

[Lots of experience in avoiding such things]

Certainly, I would be glad to let you try some tea.

[Something a bit more relaxing and soothing]

Do you have any beer? A good party after a game always has plenty of beer.

[She... didn't mean that as rudely as it sounds.]

I'm afraid not. You would have to go to a different place to find such beverages.

[Entirely different place]

Oh. [Well now that she's said it, it'd be really rude not to go see him, right? And tea can be good, too.] We can have tea. [Especially if she knew he was actually a jock, of a sort. If you count the army time.]

Certainly, that sounds agreeable.

[Tea was much more his pace]

When should I come? [Daria absently winds a strand of hair around a finger while she thinks about it.] Only I need to practice today, too.

[Hey I'm Nine Hundred years old and What Is This?]

I envy your enthusiasm.

[That is the last quality most people would ever have attributed to Daria Morgendorffer, which will make it awkward when they meet again after it wears off sometime.

For now, though, Daria takes the comment as a compliment. Of course.]

I have to be; I'm on the cheerleading squad. Can you imagine a cheerleader without any pep?

[It's terrible that this is the first thing he's seeing of her. It's setting him up for some depression later on]

I can honestly say I've never even seen a cheerleader before, actually. They're... not really prolific in Rome.

Rome?

[Wait for it...]

Why aren't you wearing a toga?

[She is going to hate herself incredibly.]

[Okay now he's just going to pick on her forever and save this video for later laugh sessions]

... Er, that's Ancient Rome. A couple thousand of not a few ten thousand years away from my era. Togas are for college parties only.

[She will beg him to burn it.]

College parties are the most fun anyway. But I don't think they have any here. It's too bad!

[Keep forever]

I wouldn't know too much about that either! Just kind of from hearsay, I didn't really go to college.

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