Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-13593058-20140909011802/@comment-5999656-20140915002045

Oh excellent, peer pressure, Platinum thought sarcastically as she watched the other team move over to the far end of the boxcar with everyone else. She would have rather stayed put, but basic etiquette dictated that she not be a jerkass and go join the group. She'd listened in to the conversation; it wasn't eavesdropping, because it was a rather loud conversation, especially in the echoing train car, but she found herself increasingly annoyed with the airheaded tone of the banter. And the one thing that annoyed Platinum the most was insincerity. Shallowness. All that fake stuff.

And so she sat, not sure whether to join in or not. But she couldn't stay indecisive forever, so she decided in the end to saunter over to the group. She probably wouldn't be doing much speaking anyway, judging by the hyperactivity of some of them. All she'd have to do would be listen and look half-interested.

She glanced at the quieter members of the group, the ones who hadn't spoken at all during the whole trip so far. Platinum was beginning to see a pattern here. For many of the teams in Beacon, there were the overly talkative, incessantly chattering kids as leaders. And to complement them, there were the overly silent dark ones, the ones who had experienced some kind of deep personal tragedy that had shut them up since. It wasn't that hard to figure it out, since Platinum understood the feeling all too well. Admittedly, she didn't like either of these character archetypes much, since they favored one of two far extremes. It was easier, she thought, to get along with people who were deeper than one emotion, people who you couldn't read just by looking at them for five seconds. Depth, that's what she valued. Depth and simplicity, a rare but incredible balance.

Well, there's no need to jump to conclusions, she figured. ''Hopefully once we actually get to Forever Fall and the action starts, I'll see more of these people than they're displaying right now. ''And so she just stood and listened.

''Too many people try to be something they're not by putting up a single front. But that's not how it works. To really hide how you feel, you have to create a completely different personality. Become someone else. Fake it until you make it.'' Platinum sighed briefly, remembering who it was who had told that to her once.