Apparel

[Roxana Strix]

Wonder what she wants this time. Roxana thought to herself as she headed to the office room that Elsa had asked her to meet her at. She had been called upon again by one of the princess for help with something. There had been talk about uniform but Roxana had only been half paying attention. Not sure if she was going to buy that all this was going to be was a matter just involving uniforms. The last time Elsa had asked her for help on matter of security and school defense they did that but also started talking about Elsa's feelings for another guy. At least they had talked about something that 'normal' teenage girls talked about. Then again they were just barley teenagers with Elsa being eighteen years old and with Roxana going to turn nineteen soon.

They still had their youth, not that it mattered since they were both expected to be adults at their age by those around them. Elsa just had to deal with those being directly around her while Rox could still get away with being a kid since her organization was not always watching her. Roxana let out a small yawn, feeling a little sleepy since she had stayed up longer then she had wanted to working up on her review. It would be done soon, she just had to do the whole 'cover note' that she put in front of everything and was the first thing that her organization read. "You know there is a big fuss about the uniforms in general, right?" Roxana asked as entered the room after double checking to make sure it was the right one. She was not sure if Elsa was even in the room but she spoke anyways, closing the door behind her.

Her light blue eyes looking around the room with her eyebrows rising a little at what she saw. Different apparel was laid out on tables and there was even a whole mirror setup to see an outfit from all angles at one. So they really were going to be talking about uniforms, interesting. Roxana personally was happy to give her input on what the security squad should end up wearing since she was a member of the group and she thought she had an awesome sense of fashion; while other could disagree. "Looks my room at the end of the week." Roxana muttered under her breath since she ended up laying out all of her clothing at the end of the week to figure out what she would wear for the week or just to have at least sets ready.

[Elsa Bellefonte]

"That would explain the guns then," said Elsa, nodding and pointing to the items in question. For despite Roxana's suspicions and initial reactions, most of the gear scattered about the office just happened to be of a security nature. There were three distinct "packs" that Elsa had to choose from. Two included firearms. Two, but not the same two, included tasers. Elsa still wasn't entirely sure giving their staff either was a good idea, but it looked like she'd have to do one or the other. The padded vests though, those struck her as a good idea no matter what.

"I also don't care much about the fuss these uniforms create," she said, nodding toward one. "The decision for the general uniforms is mostly in my sister's hands. We split the task: she's been working more with the student uniforms, whereas I," Elsa gestured at the piles before nodding at a dummy suited up in nearly full riot gear, "have been focusing on security."

She turned and looked at Roxana, a brow quirked. "Do you really have tasers in your dorm room? That feels like something I should be confiscating..."

[Roxana Strix]

Roxana did have a small amount of surprise in her eyes for a small moment when she heard Elsa bring up the guns and her blue eyes looked to the items. It was not outright weird for security uniforms to have guns on them, but on a school campus it was a little odd. This was a campus with mutants so it was not too far fetch of an idea for the staff to carry some form of a firearm. Plus after the attack on the school the security staff probably would have felt a lot better if they were allowed to carry such a weapon in them instead of having to rely only on their power to protect the school. Roxana still was unsure if she would be in full support of them being able to carry gun, just because while this was a school full of mutants; said mutants were teenagers or young adults. In short, people in the age group to make mistakes.

"I had a feeling you would be the one to handle the new gear for the security." Roxana stated as she moved over and touched the uniforms, figuring out what the materials were made out of and just how useful they would be. Already looking over them she liked most of what she saw. Elsa probably did some research on the matter or just naturally had an eye for this sort of thing. "I like the addition of the padded vest. This model is actually pretty comfortable." Roxana pointed out because yes not all padded vest were comfortable. Not that such a detail mattered because it was about safety over comfort. Roxana could not help but to smile a little at Elsa's question, almost letting out a chuckle, but held it back. Focusing on the uniforms and looking everything over and getting an idea of what Elsa was going for.

"I don't think you want to know what I have in my room." Roxana pointed out and pretty much made sure that no one really went into her room except for room expectations. Even then she had many things hidden away, but stopped herself from thinking about such things with her mind reading friend around her. "Why did you want me here specifically? Just another thing you felt you wanted my opinion on?" Roxana asked, figuring that had to be it since there were other people that Elsa could have asked that were actually adults on the security squad.

[Elsa Bellefonte]

Elsa smiled as Roxana expressed her feeling on the matter. "What we really need is a trusted security official," she said, looking back at the various items. What they needed were trusted officials, period. Elsa didn't like having to continually rely on her fellow young adults. Even if they were like Roxana: almost overtrained for their position. It didn't surprise Elsa at all to heard that Roxana had an opinion on the various options.

Nor did it surprise her to hear Roxana dodging around the query regarding her room. Elsa waved it off: she had to give Roxana something of a leash, after all. "You and your questions," said Elsa, reaching to adjust the vest that Roxana had been admiring. "And yes, there are other adults on the squad," she looked at Roxana, raising her brows, "as you are an adult too. But to be quite frank, I'm not as interested in what they have to say. It was mostly students who rose to the occasion when things got ugly, and I'm of the opinion that more people around our age are likely to listen and trust me then others," Elsa hesitated, then shook her head.

"For now, I need to see what these look like when they're actually on someone, and I need that someone to be on the security squad. so naturally I summoned one of the new interns," Elsa gestured toward Roxana, a smile pulling at her lips once more.

[Roxana Strix]

Elsa had a good point there on the whole matter about needing a trusted security official. After what happened to the school and how there were very full of the security adults around the campus at the time that stepped up until Roxana had given the order and called upon them. All of which would not have happened if Elsa had not given the orders in the first place. Plus when you were as young as Elsa and you were coming into a lot of power, those older then you either were fine and accepted it with a few question or outright questioned every matter that you did and made it hard to trust them. "I'm sure you will find more with time. For the moment you have me, even if I'm just an intern to them." Roxana said and smirked, but it was mostly to herself since she honestly wanted to laugh over that whole situation. She just found it funny with someone of her skill and background was an intern but it went again with her whole 'sort of an average student' cover.

"You ask me questions." Roxana responded back to Elsa's words about question and it yet again reminded Roxana of the question that she would always ask the Bellefonte girl. She waited for a moment as Elsa spoke about the other adults, pointing out that Roxana was one as well. Roxana didn't look surprise to head that Elsa didn't care what they had to say and her words about how it was people of their age that rose to the occasion, which was very true. "You have a point. You are a little more intimidating to those in your age group then those that are older then you. Yet, those older then you are fools to not see just how wrong they are to not obey you." Roxana pointed out, giving her opinion as well as her organizations; they did have high expectations and hopes for Elsa after all. Roxana noted the hesitation there and made a mental note in the back of her head on the matter.

She was about to ask her typically; yet very important question, but Elsa was not done yet. Speaking about wanting to see what the uniform looked like on someone to be on the security squad and how she summoned on of the new interns. Gesturing at Roxana, basically saying that intern she was talking about was her. Roxana stood there in silence for a moment, just looking at the other girl in a mix of disbelief and 'how dare she' in her blue eyes. "Vera is also another intern that you could have asked to do this." Roxana pointed out and then went to add on the subject at hand. "That smile on your face makes me think you are thinking of me as some human doll you can dress up." Roxana crossed her arms over her chest, looking at Elsa. While of course she admired Elsa's audacity and was slightly amused, she just never, ever did this dress up thing before.

[Elsa Bellefonte]

Oh, Elsa fully intended to make certain that she knew the entire security staff on some level. There were plenty of files to review, and Elsa had already started committing them to memory. Of course, the first step was to get someone with training and experience into the head role... someone they could trust. But that would e for later: they had their own task for now.

"You nearly make me sound like some kind of comic book villain," said Elsa, raising her brows. "You all seem to think that I'm a step or two away from setting up some sort of gang of supervillains and going on a rampage," she was, but that was hardly the point. She waved it off, because again: they had other things to focus upon.

Which Roxana had finally gotten around to realizing herself. "Vera would actually enjoy this," replied Elsa casually. The casualness had been forced: Elsa also didn't want to play dress-up around Vera. The situation could turn awkward quickly, and Elsa wasn't sure she was quite ready for something like that.

"Besides, we both know I like humiliating you from time to time," said Elsa. She paused for a moment, smiled, and then let out a soft chuckle. "Really though: I need someone's opinion, you're an intern, and you've training enough to know a good kit. So," she gestured, "get looking."

[Roxana Strix]

"Well, if you didn't have friends and people that you could trust, you would very well have the potential to be a 'villain'." Roxana pointed it out, using air quotes around the word villain. She knew all too well with a personality like Elsa's if the girl didn't have anyone, then she certainly would have been on the wrong side of what was right and wrong. That was sort of a grey area, even for Roxana herself. Either way, Roxana was happy that Elsa had her twin sister no matter what to be there for her and keep her from losing the parts of her that made her a good person and not some cold calculating women of power. That pretty much reminded Roxana of herself except the whole 'women of power' thing. She was pretty much a dog with a shock collar around her neck. Anytime she did anything out of line they had ways of putting her in lie that unlike Elsa, she could not gather a team of mutants to make things right.

"I would not say rampage, but you certainly pull a lot of strings." Roxana added after a moment of her mind wondering off to what would she be ordered to do if Elsa went 'off her tracks'. Roxana's had not looked away from Elsa as she brought up Vera and raised an eyebrow at Elsa's words on the subject. Elsa just said that Vera would enjoy this, which just made Roxana want to point out that being enough reason to have Vera come do this sort of thing instead. A thought dawning on her for a moment that had her give a small smile for a moment. "I think she would have been the better choice. That way you could have at least enjoyed yourself. Knowing what I now about Vera, if you played your cards right, you could get lucky." Roxana pointed out and watched Elsa closet as always to see what sort of reaction the other girl would end up giving her on the matter.

She really didn’t see why Elsa would pick her over someone who would enjoy this with and who she knew longer then Roxana. She had to trust Vera a little more than Roxana, right? Roxana let out a sigh as Elsa pointed out how she liked to humiliate Roxana from time to time and that was most certainly true. Roxana didn't understand why Elsa enjoyed it, but she didn't mind it too much in the end. Elsa then added that she needed someone's opinion, that Rox was an intern, and that she had training. Roxana's eyes going to where Elsa gestured and with a sigh she moved to look over what was laid out. "You are seriously using the bare minimum of my skills." Roxana pointed out as her fingers ran along the different sets before picking on out after swamping the pants with another set. "Before I get to trying these one. First, you have a very charming smile. Second, how have you been since this whole being the other headmistress ordeal?" Roxana asked, needing to get those two things out of the way or it was going to bother her.

[Elsa Bellefonte]

Elsa couldn't help but be slightly relieved at the fact that Roxana hadn't quite jumped to conclusions... though she seemed to hint at things slightly toward the end. Elsa just snorted at that, as if the idea of "getting lucky" with Vera was something that was simply ridiculous, and not at all something that she'd actually thought about and would've been terrified of. If it was one thing that the whole Felix thing proved to Elsa, it was that she was in no position to have much of a social life at all.

"I do enjoy using you to your most minimal potential," replied Elsa, nodding. She gestured again toward the clothing. "You'll need to get started changing," Elsa had debated setting up a curtain or what have you, and she had gone through the effort to make sure there was a section of the room that Roxana could tuck into.

As for the questions, well, Elsa didn't see any reason to deign to answer Roxana's silly, "I'm always going to say these stupid things" moments. "Move quickly: We've several to try, and there's plenty more to do in addition to this."

[Roxana Strix]

Roxana didn’t really like to jump to conclusion when she could help it; they made things messy later on in her line of work. She preferred to have at least a fact to back up what she thought in order to be at least a little ‘safe’. Still, she most certainly was going to look into the manner since it made perfect sense to have Vera doing this with Elsa instead and she knew Elsa and Vera did have a bit of history with one another. Not that kind of history of course, but history in terms of knowing one another for more than a year and Roxana had caught them talking to one another. She just made a mental not on the matter and smirked a little at Elsa’s snort on the matter of getting lucky. Roxana keeping her thoughts on the matter hidden as best as she could as she focused on thinking about the uniforms that Elsa had out for the security group.

Roxana shook her head a little at Elsa pointing out that she enjoyed using Roxana’s minimal potential, that was such a thing that Elsa would say. Roxana was not even surprised and just smiled a little at it as she played with her own hair a little bit. “You are more demanding then my organization.” Roxana muttered under her breath, half teasing on the matter as she worked on undo the fastenings to her clothing. She had indeed saw that there area of where she could hide herself away in, but she didn’t feel the need to. When you had been completely naked in front of all sorts of people who looked you over like you were some super breed of dog, you sort of stopped caring what others thought about your body. So Roxana planned to change pretty much right there in front of the gear so she didn’t have to do the whole walking back and forth thing. Plus she figured if Elsa had an issue with Roxana changing in front of her, then Elsa would move or something.

Roxana just simply looked at Elsa for a moment as she changed, making adjustments to the first inform Elsa had lain out so it would fit her properly and be in the correction position. If you didn’t wear your gear right, there it would not be very effective at doing its job. Elsa was a lot like Roxana’s organization in terms of asking her to do things; well telling, but never really answered her question. She supposed she would just as always just try and just have to work that much harder at finding things out on her own when she would not get the answers that she required. Roxana just went for the whole 'just say nothing' sort of deal for the moment, facing Elsa when she was done changing so the other girl could have her look over.

[Elsa Bellefonte]

"Ah, but I haven't sicced my dogs on you to beat you yet," retorted Elsa, keeping her voice light. That incident still bothered Elsa, and she'd already insured that they wouldn't be able to do that again, at least, not easily. Roxana was now technically an employee of the Academy. Strictly speaking, she worked for both Bellefonte and her own organization. But the former gave Elsa enough leeway to cover her, and if the organization did something like that again, well...

let's just say that Elsa was particularly possessive of her toys.

"There's a difference between me and your organization though," said Elsa. She remained watching Roxana for a few moments while the girl started to change, before turning away, mostly bored. No reason to stare, after all. "I'm not going to be beating you if you disobey an order. At absolute worst, I'll give you a tongue lashing, which is a good deal less than the others.

"I'm also assuming that we can pay slightly better," Elsa looked down at her nails, finely manicured bits that they were. That spa day had paid off in that respect. "Also nicer benefits. Unless your organization is planning on giving you impressive gear as well? Wait," she looked over at Roxana, though her gaze was focused on the other girl's face, "is that where all those goodies you supposedly have stashed in your room came from? I'd hate to think that my competition provides better."

[Roxana Strix]

Roxana chuckle a little at Elsa's retort. "Yet, huh?" Roxana asked with a raised eyebrow, but had a small smile on her face. She fully knew what Elsa was hinting at and would of course would not forget the memory. She would never forget when she was punished because it would help her do better in order to avoid punishment. She didn't see it as a big deal and just something that she accepted like a part of her job. She would do her best to prevent upset them again, but sometimes it felt like they would seek out ways for her to fail. Keeping her in line. Roxana did work for the school and still her organization and it was on her organizations orders at that. With her new position Roxana doubted they would do the same kind of punishment as they had done last time to teach her a lesson. They were smart like that and were always able to find a way to punish her without always laying a hand on her.

Roxana listened as Elsa spoke as she changed, noting that Elsa did end up turning away after a moment. Of course not saying anything and just went about her business as the small smile remained on her face at Elsa's words. "Are you sure you want to say something like that. I tend to be a bit rebellious from time to time and you may need to do more than a tongue lashing to keep me in line." Roxana pointed out with still a small smile on her face; she meant every word however. While she did want to protect Elsa, that did not mean she would obey everything she was told to do. She probably would, but sometimes she just didn't listen and it made her wonder what Elsa would do if that situation ever came up. Elsa was young, so she probably would not beat Rox either way and Roxana noted that in the back of her head.

Roxana didn't say anything about the pay, accepting it and not really caring who paid her more. Her organization and family cared about the money more than she did, she just wanted to be praised for when she did a good job. That part of herself disappointed her of course, because it was such a basic and child-like desire to have. "Getting competitive with my organization Elsa? You are certainly interesting women at that." Roxana stated as she made her last adjusts to the uniform and moved around in it a little to get a good feel of it. "Don't worry about competing with them and tell me what you think of this gear. It certainly is made out of a material that you can move around a lot in without getting to hot, but the pants chafe a little bit." Roxana said as she adjusted the pants some more to see if that would help.

[Elsa Bellefonte]

Elsa just waved off the comments of Roxana being rebellious. If Roxana thought she was rebellious, she should try talking to Alexis sometime. There was someone who could rebel. Roxana sometimes resisted, which was the whole point of keeping her close at hand. But no, Elsa didn't think she would ever get to the point where she'd beat Roxana. Beating anyone who worked with or for her struck Elsa as counterproductive.

"Getting?" replied Elsa, quirking a brow. She didn't believe she had to say more than that: Roxana would understand. Elsa wasn't entirely sure she bought the whole idea of international cooperation among mutants. Especially as she knew of several of the other heads of the schools...

The comments about gear drew Elsa from her thoughts. She turned, examining Roxana in the gear. Elsa considered: yes, movement, and it looked like it would blend fairly well. Roxana claimed they could move a bit. Chafing could be an issue though, as could something else:

"How comfortable are you in accessing your power right now?" Elsa asked, looking back up at Roxana. "Do you feel you could do it or is the uniform going to hinder you overmuch? We're going to have to modify them slightly per staff, of course, since obviously we don't want the same sort of uniform for Slade Konrad as they do for Vera," said Elsa, gesturing. Nor did they need to waste as much material protecting Slade, for that matter, but Elsa didn't continue with that.

[Roxana Strix]

Roxana honestly still did not fully understand why Elsa wanted her around and to use her in the ways that she did. She understood that they were friends that Elsa trusted her, and that Roxana had a great deal of experience in many matters. Yet, Roxana still worked for her organization and even still did not always do as she was told. Did you really want someone around you who was like that, who you really could not be sure if they would betray you because of an order. Or did Elsa trust her that much that she did not even consider that Roxana would ever do such a thing. Roxana did kiss Elsa’s cheek, a person sign that she wanted to protect the other girl by choice but… “Right.” Roxana said with a small and short chuckle at Elsa’s simple word. She did get it and would not press the subject any further even if she did find it very interesting.

It was…perhaps flattering that Elsa wanted to be the best in terms of Roxana’s employment, but there had to be more to it, right? Roxana could not help but to think that there was some angle behind it all and her brain was always working to figure out just what else there could possibly be there. Elsa did not touch upon the whole chafing business and instead asked about access ones power. That was most certainly very important for a school full of mutant to actually be able to use their powers when trying to protect the school. That had honestly made the biggest difference in why they school and many of the students were still standing. “I only need my hands to access my power. While I can do it with gloves on, it’s difficult, so for me personally making sure to never have gloves on would be ideal for me to be able to access my power faster.” Roxana answered the question as she flexed her fingers and already started to coat the palm of her hands in crystals.

“I would say you have the best idea of making sure to modify each person’s gear set to best work with their powers…” Roxana’s voice dropped off as she rolled her shoulders and then waved her arms. “This is also an addition for me, but ideally my upper part of my gear should be light in order to not get in the way of my speed of throwing my daggers.” Roxana added as she then started to undo the gear so she could try on the other one, figuring Elsa probably still wanted to see what the others looked like on someone. “I kind of want to see you all geared up.” Roxana said with a small smirk as she looked over to Elsa, already picturing what Elsa would look like if she was all ‘battle ready’. It certainly would add to the intimidation level Elsa had going on.

[Elsa Bellefonte]

Elsa nodded, though she mentally logged away a few tidbits. Some of Roxana's spare thoughts were worth making note of, especially the amusement at Elsa's own competitive nature. There was also the comments regarding the powers though, the issues that Elsa wanted to deal directly with.

"I already figured we'd have to do some modifications,' admitted Elsa, nodding once more. "Obviously the various gear would be altered to fit each person wearing it, but we still need to find some sort of standard to give, both to give us a sort of control and to give to people who might need much alteration in their gear for their powers," though Elsa was already picturing the awkwardness that would come with gearing up some of their members. Easy to picture Sorcha in half-cat form wearing some kind of vest. Well, complications would always arise; there just happened to be more when you added mutants into the mixture.

Elsa let out a sharp laugh at Roxana's comment. "That is extremely unlikely to ever happen," she pointed out, "as I don't intent to be in a position where I'll need to wear the gear," which did strike Elsa as being a somewhat ominous statement to make. Somewhere, Fate was making note. "Move around for a bit, let me know if we need to make any adjustments. There's still a few more outfits to try on as well." Elsa gestured in an almost dismissive manner, clearly wanting to get along with what was needed here.

[Roxana Strix]

Roxana simply nodded back to Elsa's words, figuring the other girl had of course already thought of all of that. Many things that Roxana would end saying to the other girl she had a feeling that Elsa already knew. Yet Elsa always still asked her about these things, as if she just wanted to confirm what she already knew. Roxana knew that it was also because she wanted a second opinion on matters. There certainly would have to be modification to the uniform in order to make sure people’s powers were not handed by them or that they were not having to make so many copies of a specific uniform. For Enders Roxana figured something light so his crystal could break through it and for Sorcha something that was good at stretching or at least easy to remove so she could strip with ease before shifting. It was still more than likely that for certain mutants that they were just going to have to make multiple set for.

"Well easy enough to make sure they all have the same color scheme and general matching appearance. They don't have to look one hundred percent like one another, but so long as they look like they could all just be swapped with another piece of someone’s uniform." Roxana pointed out and then went silent for a moment as she thought of something else. "Could always have to sets of uniforms as well. One for the general around the campus and the other when we need to be in 'combat' mode." Roxana said using air quote around the word combat, not really thinking they would end up in an actual all out combat situation any time soon after the events with SPECTRE. At least not yet, but a few months perhaps. Roxana formed a small crystal in the shape of a ball in her hand, not having any problems with her power for sure and was not really concerned with what her uniform would look like so long as she was able to move around with ease.

"That is what I'm hoping, but anything is possible. Not that it matters, I will protect you." Roxana said firmly as she looked at Elsa for a moment before her eyes went back to the crystal ball, changing its color to a blue slowly between her pointer finger and thumb. Roxana did in fact hope Elsa would never be in such a position, but in case she would give her uniform to Elsa and just make sure to keep her alive. Even if her uniform would be a little big on Elsa because of the height difference. Roxana half chuckled at Elsa telling her to move around some more. "What? Do you want me to move around as if in full combat mode? I'm pretty sure the movement that I have done already was enough for me to give a good review on the uniform." Roxana pointed out as she still focused on changing out of what she was currently wearing.

She already told Elsa that it chaffed a little and for her that she would need something a little lighter on her upper body so she could throw her daggers at her maximum speed. "You are making this dress up less like a dress up too. Here I thought we were going to get a little girly for a moment." Roxana added with a small smirk, the desire to give a small tease was there and she acted on it as she went to start changing into the next gear set.