[OOC: HS AU Plotting Post]

[lockon2urheart]

ENGLISH LITERATURE TEACHER NEIL DYLANDY, AT YOUR SERVICE. He's one of those teachers who's totally easygoing, really familar and friendly with his students, willing to stay behind after class for hours at a time to help with essays, all that good stuff. He's also the teacher who sees no problem with big-brothering his students - if you look even slightly like you need a helping hand or someone to be there for you, Neil will be keeping an eye out for you. Expect for him to try and bring shy students out of their shells, too. Oh, and the hours-after-class thing isn't just for essays; if you need someone to talk to, his door is always open. He can and will privately appoint himself unofficial big brother.

He occasionally flirts with Principal Franzy/Nurse Cuddy/attractive older women on staff, but it's completely harmless and innocent. Oh, and he's oblivious to the gaggle of students crushing on him. Painfully so.

He's also the head of the Sharpshooting Club, with rifles and occasionally other guns. The club is affiliated with the Archery Club (I think?). He tries to organise paintball tournaments and laser-tag battles whenever he can, both within Sharpshooting Club itself and against/with Archery and/or other clubs. Because team-building exercises are fun.

There may or may not be rumours that he was in the Army for a while before he took the teaching job, despite the fact he's only 26. Aside from that, nobody else except people who've can see/have hacked into his files will ever know about the whole tragic-deaths-of-his-parents-and-sister-when-he-was-14 thing.

About the only time he's not Mr-Nice-Guy-Teacher is if he catches you bullying. Don't let him catch you bullying. It won't be pretty.

Mr Batou helped him build a little robot. It's called Haro, it sits on his desk and helps him collate work and stuff. It's very cute.

Oh, and his car is affectionately nicknamed Dynames. If asked, it's because it's a dynamic machine that's never failed him, and so deserved a cool name. Oh, and if need a ride home in the rain or something? It's no trouble. (:

ETA: You may or may not get him mixed up with the other Mr Dylandy, the one from the Art Department. They can be told apart by the fact Lyle's always flecked with paint and other arty things. It probably doesn't help that Neil has no issues asking Lyle to cover him if he has to miss a club lesson or something. He kind of thinks it's funny. :'D

Because of Lyle, though, he doesn't mind his students calling him Neil generally. He'll actively encourage it the closer he is to you.

WOW THAT WAS TL;DR anything anyone wants to add/any plotting/anything?

Comments

[mnkeywrenchjams.livejournal.com]

B-bigbro Lockonnnnnn, are you gonna be all protective of Tidus? ;3; BECAUSE HE LIKES HIDING THE FACT THAT HE MISSES HIS MOM AND HATES HIS DAD A LOT. DDDDD:

[shinra-pwnsjoo.livejournal.com]

... Cross totally messes around with his stuff.

[deadly_garden]

I vote that the family-type staff people should have something like a miniclub or something that sounded good in my head but isn't really coming out very well.

[saiiiiiibaaaaaa.livejournal.com]

o hai fellow English professor o/. Is it cool if Saber focuses mainly on medieval British lit/Arthurian lore? being King Arthur and all, lol

[trinities]

Nena hates him because he told her off for trying to molest setsuna, y/n?

[lockon2urheart]

YES.

/BIG BROTHERS FOREVER.

[lockon2urheart]

CROSS GDI STOP STEALING MY BOARD PENS, I NEED THOSE :|

[platycodon.livejournal.com]

NO. I NEED THEM TO THROW AT STUDENTS.

[lockon2urheart]

LIKE THE NICE CLUB, BUT FOR FAMILY

[lockon2urheart]

sup fellow prof o/. sounds cool to me! Lockon'll stick to later stuff then mainly, though he might have some lessons and stuff on Shakespeare maybe? But other than that, yeah, mostly post-medieval stuff then. :B

[lockon2urheart]

MFY.

And Michael probably hates him for lecturing Nena :'D

I BET HE'S DRAGGED THEM BOTH UP BEFORE FRANZY OR BYAKUYA BEFORE NOW FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTHER, Y/N

[lockon2urheart]

BUT. BUT I NEED THEM TO TEACH STUDENTS, CROSS.

IF YOU WANT RANGED WEAPONS, BUY YOUR OWN PENS. OR SUPER SOAKER, OR A NERF GUN OR SOMETHING.

[deadly_garden]

EXACTLY!

We've got enough for something like that, right? Niel being all big brotherly, Kurama being all mama bear/mama hen depending on the circumstances, a couple of other big brotherly type people I'm probably forgetting?

[saiiiiiibaaaaaa.livejournal.com]

That's cool with me! Maybe they can collab on stuff, then, too?

Also, Vince might join the Sharpshooting Club. Still pondering, |3

[trinities]

YYYYY

Plus she's one of those students who's not actually unusually dumb, just doesn't give a shit, so he probably goes NENA. TRY. PLEASE. AT LEAST TRY TO PRETEND YOU'RE PAYING ATTENTION. GIVE ME YOUR PHONE. YES, NOW. NO, YOU CAN HAVE IT BACK AT THE END OF THE DAY. NO, YOU CANNOT FINISH ONE LAST TEXT. I'LL READ IT OUT TO THE CLASS IF YOU DON'T-- OKAY, GIVE IT HERE. LET'S SEE WHAT WAS SO IMPORTANT. "MR STRATOS IS A--" THAT'S NOT FUNNY, NENA.

[parcus.livejournal.com]

BUT, I NEED THEM TO THROW THEM AT MICHAEL. YOU APPROVE OF MICHAEL ABUSE, RIGHT?


... I DON'T BUY ANYTHING.

[lockon2urheart]

KASFIHUASFAHAHAHAHAAHHHAAHAH YES

nena and michael, two of the few students he's ever given up on ever reaching y/n

[maraich]

Maraich wants to be in the gun club.

[trinities]

LMFAO YES by now he's just like

guys

sit in the back of the class, don't make too much noise

i don't care what you do any more

just please turn in things occasionally so i can pass you, i will retire early if i have to have you in my class two years in a row

[nonoise.livejournal.com]

hey Mr Stratos have the tiny moe girl that gets bullied a lot ;3;

[lockon2urheart]

.....WELL YES, BUT WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE MY PENS.


.....THEN STEAL THEM FROM SOMEONE ELSE. OR SEDUCE THEM OR WHATEVER IT IS YOU DO. BUT NOT MY PENS, MAN.

[lockon2urheart]

COME JOIN THE GUN CLUB, MARAICH

I WILL BIG BROTHER YOU FOR BEING A SINGLE MOTHER FATHER MOTHER PARENT.

8D

[lockon2urheart]

you can come hang out in my classroom at lunch and stuff if you want somewhere relatively quiet, nill ;3; /BIG BROTHERS FOREVER

also she'd totally be one of the students that he'd encourage to call him Neil, jsyk.

[lockon2urheart]

...lmfao i had my english lit teacher for four years in HS/College. I think Neil vs The Trinitys for four years might actually kill him.

[lockon2urheart]

I am totally up for this! ENGLISH TEACHERS UNITE FOR MAXIMUM SHAKESPEARE idek

:> steadily growing club is growing :>

[doomedyouth00.livejournal.com]

MR DYLANDY MR DYLANDY

It's totally fine if I fight back when Michael starts beating me up for "kissing his sister", rite? Rite. Awesome.

[gonnabe1st.livejournal.com]

Neil might want to pull a big brother on Mello here since they have similar backgrounds? At least as far as the "most of my family died in a tragic and somewhat violent way" goes. ...unless, of course, he's on the shit list by default for being friends with Michael.

...and are there really two rifle teams/clubs/whatever, or am I misinterpreting something? Because I think I read that Mireille was running one, too.

[breakhisknees.livejournal.com]

WE STEAL FROM THE ONES WE LOVE, BROTEACHER. BESIDES I WILL BE USING THESE AGAINST YOU AT SOME POINT 8D

YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY TEACHER I HIT, MAN.

[halfthetrouble]

Devit is very clearly a TROUBLED YOUNG MAN, but probably also BULLIES PEOPLE TO MAKE HIMSELF FEEL BETTER.

idk if you want to do something with that :> I'M TAKING TOTAL ADVANTAGE OF THIS VIRUS AND TRYING TO GET HIM TO TALK TO MORE PEOPLE

[lockon2urheart]

Somehow I just can't bring myself to condemn someone punching Michael in the face.

I mean.

Fighting is bad, Setsuna. Leave it to Principal Franziska and her whip.

(But if he hits you first/tries to, you can totally call self-defense.)

[lockon2urheart]

Neil's friends with Michael's dad. Mello's not auto-shitlisted. :> Lockon will totally try to big brother him into THE PATH OF NOT BEING A DOUCHE though 8Db

There was some initial conflict because we both called shooting club, but we decided on Mireille doing Archery club and affiliating, as far as I knew: here. idk if she changed her mind or forgot or whatever, I'm trying to get in contact with her right now BUT TAGS BEING DOWN ISN'T HELPING sob.

[lockon2urheart]

NEIL WILL TRY TO REACH HIS ~*INNER GOODNESS*~ AND HELP HIM, SINCE HE IS A TROUBLED YOUNG MAN. it depends on Devit as to whether that CARRIES ON or HELPS or anything :'D

IT KIND OF AMUSES ME THAT NEIL WILL BE TRYING TO WORK WITH...MOST OF MICHAEL'S FRIENDS...WHILE HEAVILY DISLIKING MICHAEL HIMSELF.

LMFAO SAME HERE, this is such an awesome virus :>

[attorneyatlol]

l-lol Devit and Michael are not friends 8|;; THEY HATE EACH OTHER. MICHAEL TRIED TO TELL HIM HE NEEDED A DRESS TO WORLD-HOP, AND TYKI PLAYED ALONG, TOO. DO YOU KNOW HOW TRAUMATIZING THAT WAS? MICHAEL IS DEVIT'S ENEMY.

anyway. It may or may not help, but it's worth a shot. :'D DEVIT ONLY WANTS LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE don't you understand ;;

[gonnabe1st.livejournal.com]

Which will work surprisingly well, mind you! Cause Mello isn't that much of a jerk in this AU. This'll be fun, Mello might drop by after soccer practice all -_-' faising.

Oh, okay. Because I saw Mireille doing a signup post for- well, it wasn't archery, and that confused me a little. Anyway, Mello can drop by the Sharpshooting Club occasionally?

[ipsissimusx.livejournal.com]

setsuna, not even mr. dylandy can save you from mr. marian's rage.

[bare-my-fangs.livejournal.com]

Devit, man. I thought we were bros. Why you gonna be like that?

[lockon2urheart]

cross, i know michael's your kid and you love him and all, but you can't blame setsuna for fighting back :|

[lockon2urheart]

LOOK DON'T JUDGE ME I DON'T STALK AS MUCH AS I SHOULD, I THINK I SOMEHOW MIXED UP TYKI AND DEVIT IN MY HEAD...WHILE STILL REALISING THEY WERE DIFFERENT PEOPLE. IDEK. b-but lol, dresshop

:'D HE CAN GIVE IT A GO hopefully he can avoid falling into the same I GIVE UP, HE'S CLEARLY A LOST CASE OF A LITTLE ASSHOLE as Michael has :>

[maraich]

HE COULD USE A BIG BROTHER TO HELP HIM SHOOT THINGS.

[nonoise.livejournal.com]

... she so would hide in his room sometimes when she's not attached at the hip to Alle ;^; ♥ and he'd be the only teacher she allowed to get mildly close to her, even though if she saw him after she was bullied she'd be like /RUNS AWAY ;;

fff it would take a lot of encouraging :'D

[doomedyouth00.livejournal.com]

screw you mr marian. i didn't do anything wrong >8|

[ipsissimusx.livejournal.com]

>B| get away from my little girl. /launches board marker at

[doomedyouth00.livejournal.com]

Gladly

/ducks. too slow, old man :|

[grey_grief]

And because I just had a brainstorm!

Think it'd be alright to have an eight year old on the sharpshooting team? She's really quite good~

[gonnabe1st.livejournal.com]

Oh heeeey... that might be how she happened upon her illegal contact. "An 8 year-old on the shooting range? Unusual..."

[grey_grief]

Oh ho~ Stars likes this idea! It must be done!

[lockon2urheart]

/IS OVERPROTECTIVE OF THE LITTLE SHOOTING PRODIGY FOREVER?

[grey_grief]

YAY!

ALSO HAKUBA'S HER ONLY FAMILY, SHE'S AN ORPHAN WITH A DEAD OLDER SISTER, JSYK.