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The Great Hall is exactly what it's name alludes - an enourmous room, designed for gathering of all the students and staff in the same place. It's walls are lined with photographs of those succesful graduates that later climbed up the ladder in the Gotei 13, reaching the high ranks of Captains and Leiutenants.

Upon entering the hall through the massive oak door, opened wide to greet the new students, you will discover the maplewood tiled floor covered with seating mats, between which long low oak tables are placed. Students may seat wherever they wish.

The right wall of the Great Hall is made nearly entirely of spotlessly clean windows, providing bright sunlight relfecting from the freshly polished wood. Following along the hall's lentgh, neat maple and sakura bonsai are placed, enjoying the lovely sunlight.

Lining the left wall, you can see a slightly lifted podium running adjacent to the wall the hall's whole length. There, on the nicely patterned seating mats, each with a small low table before them, the members of the staff will be seating. In the middle of them, a smaller podium is lifted, denoting the headmaster's place. On the headmistress' right, the deputy headmistress will be sitting, naturally. Other members of staff may seat wherever on the podium they wish.

Caeles strode into the Great Hall, his dark rimmed golden eyes darting around the room as he stopped in the middle of the room. With his shikomizue Zanpakuto held loosely in his left hand, Caeles cracked his neck before deciding to sit down. Absently brushing some of his long hair out of his eyes, Caeles clipped his black umbrella to his belt and idly scratching one of the crack like scars on his face, the pale shinigami walked up to the podium at on the left side of the hall. As he reached the seating mat, Caeles sat down oddly, his left leg what it would be like if he was sitting cross-legged, but his right knee up near his chin. Seated in this odd way to the far left of the Headmistress' postion, the Head Researcher absently rubbed a large scar on his left arm, this one looking like his arm had been shattered and then put back together poorly.

[ Hannelore ]
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Hannelore shyly made her way into the great hall, wandering around nbehind the right hand seating mats to stay out of the way. She was careful to keep her eyes on the floor, making sure she could avoid eye contact with anyone. As she made her way around behind the mats, she hugged herself gently, her hand covering her white armband. It was still true that she would have stood out a little in a crowd due to the pink outlining of her uniform.
Her soft pink hair draped down over her horrizontal zanpaktou, hanging softly around her face and framing her pale skin and nervous disposition. She hoped she could get through the whole ceremony without drawing attention to herself, let alone having to speak or be noticed at all. Her eyes were half closed, at first glance, it would appear that, despite the incredible clenliness, she hadn't gotten much sleep the night before and was struggling against fatigue so she could be here.

Resplendent, that was the first word the popped into Tsubame’s head, yet the sheer size of the Hall was not entirely a surprise. Continuing forward with the soft clap of her geta against the maple floors, she skirted the long tables and relocated to a seat near the front. Tucking her legs beneath her, she dropped gracefully onto one of the seating mats before rearranging her furisode to lie flat against her legs. Finished, her eyes drifted round the Hall, settling first on the briefly met Ryou and then to the entrance. Anxious as she was, Tsubame was wondering exactly where Ryan and Axel had gone. She had been sure that Ryan had followed her. The absence of her acquaintances only help to further her nervousness, this was the luminal moment, the time between remaining a citizen and the beginning of becoming a Shinigami.

Trying her best to remain in her seat and from twitching, Tsubame noticed the needle and thread still placed in her right sleeve. Removing it, her fingers played absently with the thin metal. She needed to repair Ryan’s shirt like she’d offered too, which only made he blush lightly once more. Modesty was issue for her and likely always would be, even if it was only a man taking his shirt off.

[ Hannelore ]
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Hannelore allowed herself a brief glance around the hall, trying to take in as much detail in a short time so she could return her gaze to the floor. Her eyes fell upon the staff podium, how had she not seen it before? As she realised what it was for, she let out a little yelp of embarrassment and began to blush faintly. Quickly scurrying over to the podium, she knelt down comfortably on the furthest mat to the right of he head teacher's seat so she could avoid being closed in. She folded her hands neatly in her lap, now exposing her white armband donning a red cross.
Her gaze quickly returned to the floor and she remained silent, hoping that no one was looking at her or noticing her fairly obvious embarrassment. Thankfully, her silky pink hair helped by draping over her face slightly to hide some of her embarrassment from view.

"Simply Glorious..." is all Zakuro could manage to describe the sheer magnific of this Hall; he was knew the hall would be rather large, but he had no expectations of it looking so palatial.
Zakuro dragged his feet as to take in the wondrous atmosphere. He slid to front of the hall; wanting to take a seat closer to where his new "adventure" would unfold. He plopped onto a nearby long table and deeply yawned with excitement. Now relaxed, his violet eyes carefully scanned the Hall, analyzing who exactly was there. To pass the time he pulled out a book and began immersing himself in it. With every turn of a page; Zakuro anxiousness began to enlarge. One could say, he wanted to explode HURRY UP AND GET THIS SHINDIG STARTED. To contain his excitement, he merely attempted to avert his attention.

Kaede entered the Great Hall, now huddled no more - she had left her hooded cloak outside and now exhibited an ellegant vibrant blue dress. Holding her head up proudly, she walked in gracefully, and observed the student seat slowly filling in. She ascended up to the podium, and adressed the students in a confident businesslike voice. "All students please take your seats. The ceremony will start soon." With that done, she took her place next to the headmistress seat, and sat down with her legs folded on the side.

Lilyth stepped through the threshhold and was instantly struck motionless. Her grey eyes scanned the gorgeous room with wonder and delight. Her jaw fell slightly as she carefully looked over the walls and floors and mats and podium, every bit of the room amazed her. Then she realized that there were others in the room and she blushed slightly, she looked like an idiot gawking at the room like that. She then noticed the woman in blue standing at the front of the room, she looked very important up there. Lilyth made a slight bow to her before slowly walking to a seat near the middle of the room. Her color returned to normal but she still looked around the room as she seated herself confortably on the mat, an anticipating smile playing across her face.