CoMC Lesson #1 - Creature Costumes
 

Welcome to the first Care of Magical Creatures lesson of the term.

The class area has been slightly rearranged, and instead of seeing multiple rows of benches, the seating has been placed to form a large circle. In the middle, you will find nothing but space, which will be used alot in this class.

Lesson numero one will begin soon, so take a seat and chat with your neighbour while you wait. But make sure you don't talk too loudly or Maya won't be glad that no one hears her over the sound of your own voices.

Where is Professor Saylen? Well, she's not in a costume and currently being busy with a creature inside a covered-up crate.

» Remember to please describe what your character is wearing. You can link to a costume, like so, or explain what your character is wearing - 'She has a lion mask, yellow striped tshirt, orange pants, her fluffy slippers and a tail made of a belt... etc. This is so that Maya can know how you all look, to be able to conduct the lesson to the fullest.

Makeup is a plus, and whatever other accessories you can think of. Points will be awarded for creativity and participation. This class is not a Quidditch match, so no need to stress about answering a question first ; )

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Where we're at now:

1.) Three (or six) legged walk!

2.) The walk continues, with music for your pleasure.

Ariana walked up to the circle of benches and sat down next to a girl in a costume, she couldn't see her face. Ariana was wearing a black shirt, really dark blue-black jeans, and flaps of fabric in between her arms and sides, with feathers drawn on, to represent wings. She had used eyeliner on her face to draw feathers, and orange face paint to create a beak-like drawing around her mouth.

A raven for Ravenclaw, she thought. She sat down and smiled at Professor Saylen and the girl, as she took off the head to reveal a- 14 or 15 year old. [b]"Hello Professor,"[b] she said, and then turned to the girl. "Hi.

Well, she really had no idea why they had to dress up as their favorite creature, but, it just meant another project for the Slytherin girl. Yup, another costume project. Except this time she was sure it'd come out better then the viking outfit last year.

Making her way down to the class, wearing a rather blue and scaly looking jacket with dark blue matching scaly pants, and she was in fact, wearing nice looking dark flat shoes. There was no way she was going to go all out for this, but this was all just good enough. Deciding a green undershirt would go nice with the blue, the girl kept her hair down rather wavy and also wore a strange looking funky hat. Her outfit, mostly made out of the clothes she wore with a few charms to get the scaly look. Don't ask her how either. She won't tell ya.

Of course, she was going as a dragon. What else? But not any dragon. A swedish short snout dragon. The dragon with practically the hottest flame. Of course.

She rather liked her outfit. "Good day Professor." she said before...sitting down on one of the circle seats. Circles. Eh.

Kurumi had practically sprinted down from the castle to her first Care of Magical Creatures lesson with, for perhaps the first time this term, her munchkin cat Walnut chasing after her. She just couldn't wait to kick of the new term properly with a creatures class. She had spent so much time on her costume that she had hardly gotten any sleep the night before. After finishing her own costume, she had had to work on Walnut's costume. If he was going to start tagging along in class, he was going to have to participate just like the rest of the student.

Wearing every single red thing that she owned, Kurumi found a seat right smack in the middle where she could see whatever it was Professor Saylen had under the blanket. However, she found it rather hard to sit down due to her costume having a rather large tail. Reaching down, she picked up Walnut and set the pretty in green kitty on her lap.

"Good day, Professor Saylen," Kurumi smiled looking up from under her rather large headdress.

Ella felt embarrassed wearing this but she was still excited about coming to the first Care of Magical Creatures lesson. This was her favourite lesson, after all. So, she arrived, wearing a pig hat and a matching pink outfit with tassels on it. She was glad that she chose this option over her full body costume. It would have been very hot outside if she had done. Hrmmm.... She didn't actually know that pigs were her favourite creature, but she felt like she had to dress as one today. Weird. As well as the hat and the pink outfit (which was already out of her comfort zone), Ella also had a completely painted pink face. She was a pig. Head to toe.

UGHH. "Hello, professor." She smiled politely, then sat on one of the seats that were formed in a circle. She twitched nervously. Hopefully this lesson would turn out to be fun and maybe Ella could enjoy this little dress-up sesh. But for now.. one thing played on her mind;

Ella looked stupid. And she knew this.

Proudly, Emily entered the classroom, pleased at her costume.
She adored it and didn't care she looked silly. She had even painted her face, so it had a dragon down the side of her cheek.
"Hello Professor" she said as she passed the teacher and sat down.
Yep, she was fine with this... as long as no one took her picture and gave it too her sister...

The sixth year sort of, galloped, down the sprawling fields towards the outside classroom. School bag knocking into her side, Wesley skidded to a stop as she reached the circle of benches, heels digging into the soft dirt and grass.

She was dressed as usual - uniform, robes, and badge - but her small hands gripped a kitchen bowl, tipped upside down on her head like a helmet. Messily taped to the container's rim, various Hufflepuff ties, fraying shoelaces, and colorful hair ribbons dangled jauntily.

Removing one hand to swipe some of the hangings aside, the teenager exclaimed in the crouched teacher's direction, "Hello, Professor Saylen!"

That said, she made her way over to Evelyn, taking a seat to the Slytherin's left. "I like your costume, Miss Dragon," she commented, giggles escaping between words. Wesley paused for a brief second, before blurting excitedly, "I'm a jellyfish!"

Jacob walked down the grounds towards the CoMC area. He liked the class... he just never really got into it, it was more of a 'sleep-when-the-professors-not-looking' type class.

But today he was going to pay attention, especially since they had to have costumes on. And Jacob had his Gorilla with a banana costume on.

The weird thing was that himself and everyone else had this junk just laying around their dormitories... it must be a Hogwarts thing. People here were so weird, even after 5 terms he hadn't gotten used to it. And the even weirder thing was, he still had the banana costume from last term in his trunk... why? No body knows... maybe he'll need it at some point. Maybe its just in memory of all the times he'd been attack by cake. So many battles... so much fear... so much good cake gone to waste as it tried to kill him.

Jacob reached the circle of benches, no professor? Alright

Iris grinned. She didn't really like Care of Magical Creatures, but she DEFINITELY made the effort for this lesson. There is a chance of dressing up, so therefore this lesson is going to be fantastic.

The prefect was dressed up... well... she was dressed up as a butterfly. A giant butterfly. Iris had used some Muggle butterfly wings, and transfigured them into giant, iridescent butterfly wings. Sadly, they didn't flutter though. Iris never found the time to figure that one out. Along with the wings, Iris had fashioned herself some antennae, which were a lilac colour, and very curly. For the body of the butterfly, Iris had got her least favourite dress; a purple maxi dress that was just too long for her. Either way, it worked well to make the body. Just for the heck of it, Iris had attacked the maxi dress with glitter, that was also rather iridescent. And just to top it all off, Iris had painted her face lilac, and covered her eyes with silvery glitter.

Smiling at the people that were already there, Iris waved. She probably looked a bit crazy... dressed up like a butterfly that wasn't even a real kind of butterfly. "Hullo Professor Saylen!" Iris called, happily. Seeing Wesley, Iris grinned and skipped over to her. "Heeeey. Nice... costume." She said, warily eyeing the ... thing on Wesley's head.

Savannah walked in to the class in a rather comfortable costume unlike the others. She shifted her fox ears to make them straight and looked at other student's costume but thought hers was the best of them all. She got to thank her sister for the ears and the tail. "Good day Professor." she said, thinking that she should have at least some manners. Savannah waited impatiently but quietly for further intructions.

Simon had had no idea what kind of animal costume to wear to class first, the boy not that into dressing up. But then he had remembered something from a creature class the term before and had an idea. Changing his night robe a deep red and slippin it on over his slacks and red sweater he had almost had a good interpretation of the phoenix from his creature card.

He conjured up a mask once he referenced the bird in a book and wearing it entered the clearing for class. Simon however couldn't help chuckling as he spotted another phoenix already there who on further inspection was his second year friend.

"Looks like we had the same idea huh, Kurumi," he mused with a smile.

You all look wonderful <3
 

Any time now, the students would arrive...and Maya would be enjoying this class a bit too much. She wondered how everyone would be dressed, and if a spoil-sport childe would ignore the dressing up part.

But...seeing something BIG through the corner of her eye, her head turned towards the...thing, only to see a dolphin.

Whoooooa...

Maya had to keep the laughter from escaping her mouth, so she covered it with an akward hand. "Good day...Miss Lewis. Nice costume."

And another one. An a quite artistic costume that was. "Hello, Miss Hartley." HEHE. "Hope that art doesn't smudge."

What was this girl wearing on her head??
Maya wasn't sure, but it did make her want to giggle. "Hello, Miss Flores-Shepard." Nod nod.

Maya's eyes actually widened at this next costume, not because of the choice, but because for a second she thought there was a flame of ball flying towards them all. But it was just, "Miss Hollingberry." And the cat, "I see you found a costume for Walnut." Poor creature. Hehe.

Hehe.

HEHeheHehheee. A pig. "Good day, Miss Ainsworth." Hehehehe. "I like your hat."

Oh, look at that... "Hello hello." Maya greeted the young girl. "Nice dragon on your cheek."

Squint.

Now this... this was... something. Ah, whatever it was, it sure was colorful. Yes. "Good day, Miss Reagan." A few seconds passed as she regarded the costume. "You look colorful."

"Ha!" She coughed, loudly. Maya hadn't meant to laugh out loud like that, even though she didn't really laugh...

He was a monkey! With a BANANA.
That was just...great. "Hello Mister Blunt. I see you brought lunch." Please don't feed the animals.

Oooh, a butterfly. Yes, creative. "Good day Miss Beaumont. Lovely antennae."

Ears! "Good day, Miss Black. Nice ears." Yep yep. "Goes well with your tail."

Two phoenixes? This was starting out rather well. And he was rather creative as well.



"We will wait a little bit more before starting the class." Maya announced, watching as more and more students arrived.

Before heading down to the grounds for her first Care of Magical Creatures lesson, Sierra Greingoth double-checked her costume, making sure she'd remembered to add in all the accessories she'd planned to, and that she looked like the perfect example of the pet she so dearly wished to have.

Mask? Check. False eyelashes and gold eyeshadow that could just be seen through the eye holes in the mask? Check. Black t-shirt with a cat face? Check? ...and tail? Check.

She'd even worn a pair of black pants and black shoes to top off her look. Yes, she was the perfect example of a black cat--she hoped. Realizing she'd be late if she waited any longer, she hurried down to the grounds and approached the class area. With a glance around at all the other costumes her classmates had decided to wear, Sierra plopped down on one of the benches and...

...sat right on her cat tail, causing her to wrinkle up her face in annoyance and stand up to adjust the costume piece. Tail in hand, she held it as far away from the bench as possible before taking a seat once again.

Although Mia had no idea what dressing up had to do with Care of Magical Creatures but she was up for anything. And the costume she had picked was definitely one of her favourite magical creatures.

Making her way to down to the grounds, Mia made sure to keep in character with her costume and she danced her way over to the Professor. "Good day to you Professor." She said brightly before turning to where the other students were sitting and decided to take a spot beside the big gorilla with the banana in his hand.

"Hello." She said to him/her, Mia couldn't tell who was under that mask, as she sat down beside them.

Kurumi too :)
 

Emmaleigh was SO excited for the first Care of Magical Creatures class of the term. She scurried across the grounds, with her arms wrapped around her messenger bag. It was a little awkward to carry this way, but she couldn't wear it over her shoulders for fear of messing up her wings. When she finally reached the area where the lessons were taught, she smiled at the sight of the other costumes. This was so cool! She made her way over to where Kurumi was before setting her bag down and adjusting the rest of her costume.
"Hello Professor Saylen," she said to the woman, before turning the girl beside her. "Hey Kurumi," she said smiling, and upon seeing the little frog, she asked,"Whos this little guy?"

Iris smiled and nodded. "Thank you, Professor." The prefect then turned and walked away from the professor.

Lovely antennae?! ... What about her lovely WINGS?! That was quite sad.

As she sat down, Iris wondered what it was they were doing in today's lesson that meant they had to dress up as animals.

Sebastian walked into the classroom, a bit embarassed under his frog costume. It was horribly itchy and he had no idea why he even needed to wear a silly costume. He looked around and noticed that some people were wearing only hats. Okay, where was the spirit around here? The Gryffindor walked over to one of the seats and took a seat. If only he knew somebody in here to talk to. Then again, he did see Kurumi but she was talking to the Quidditch Captain. Now, hopefully the class would go by fast that way he could get out of this silly, itchy costume.

Savannah blushed a little. "Thanks!" She said with a grin, and started making a fuss about the tail. "Can't wait for the class the start!" Not mentioning the odd costumes. This is going to be an interesting class...yes...very interesting.

Dianna loved her costume. Really loved it. So much that even if she had a hard time seeing a little bit, she didn't mind at all.

Walking towards the grounds were their usual class takes place, Di in her owl costume found herself a seat. Not before tripping twice.

"Good day, Professor" she smiled, her lips noticeable with a hint of glittery gold.

Ariana smiled at the professor, before- wait, she knows my NAME? How? Ariana tried to ignore this with a smile and an answer. "Oh, it won't. It's permanent, I put a spell on it."

"Thank you for letting me bring him along," Kurumi smiled waving the cat's paw in greeting. "He actually picked out the costume himself.Well, he had picked out the green fabric. Then I did a quick sewing job. Although, I think he wanted to be a dragon..."


Kurumi's eye widened and a huge grin crawled across her face when she saw Simon. "Looks like it," she waved. What was that saying, great minds think alike?

Jamie felt like she could fly if she wanted. She had two wings made out of paper mache on her arms and was dressed in an all white outfit, including her shoes. She even had an owl's beak because she was a snowy white owl, just like her owl Jasmine.

Setting her bag down on the ground near her feet and sticking one foot in the strap so it was well guarded, the Slytherin looked up and over to someone who sat down next to her...

...

Ermm...giggling.

What in the world was she- Oh. That answered her question. "Thank you." she smiled, sitting back up straight. Anyone who had a nice compliment on her outfit was very much welcome to sit next to her. Even if that person happened to be a Hufflepuff. A Hufflepuff Prefect. "So...a jellyfish. Nice." she nodded, smiling ever so slightly.

There was some creatures she just did not know about. One of them, was a jelly fish. Strawberry jelly? Kinda weird.