Solar powered skin? Cool. Really cool. Way better than hers was and way more useful, especially for self defence. The most she could say is she wouldn't get lost, or run into a dead end. Yay. "Sounds pretty awesome honestly. Good analogy by the way, you play games much?"

Oh, yeah. Of course that would come up. Well fairs fair, he'd given her some details about his after all. "It's kind of always on. It's what like any basic HUD, health and hunger bars, compass and quest tracker as well as a minimap." That was pretty much the only useful bit to be honest. Knowing where she was had become force of habit, and she had pretty good spacial awareness now because of it.

"Also comes with a party system, for some reason. Oh and a skill list, so I know how good I am at anything. Sounds nice but its a pretty big drag to be honest." You got jaded about yourself when every activity was just grinding a level.

Ignacio chuckled and shrugged his shoulders, "I dabble every now and then. I play Lucifer 3 a lot." He loved Lucifer 3 almost as much as he loved playing Smis on his laptop. He wiggled in his seat a bit and kept eye contact with Alice in Gamerland.

"Ahhh, can you like, log in people as characters?! That would be so cool!" Iggy clapped a couple of times out of joy.

"You have to show me sometime after class is over. We can play games or whatever you want. You just have this...cool, gamer lesbian vibe that every cool guy like me needs." He giggled and turned back to his paper.

Not bad taste, after it's expansion came of Lucifer 3 got pretty damn good. "Nice choice of games there, the Lucifer series has always been a fun one to sit down and play with friends." Although only 3 had the added benefit of couch co-op on a console, which was amazing fun.

"No, can't do that. It really is as useless as it sounds but I'd love to play some games with you, not many others I can really have fun with. Most of the guys think playing games is code for make a move." She'd already slapped one, and had another call her a tease and something weird about nice guys never getting any but screw him anyway.

"You must have a well tuned gaydar then Iggy because I am not just a cool gaming lesbian, I am the cool gaming lesbian of the mansion." Leaning in to whisper very conspiratorially, "There was another but there can be only one. I had to.....deal with her."

Ignacio nodded his head in agreement.

"Ugh, guys," Ignacio rolled his eyes, "but, yes, we should totally play Lucifer 3 together sometime. I'm guessing you're either the Huntress or the Brute. I, myself, is more of the Socresser type." He scratched his forehead with his manicured fingernails.

His eyes grew wide when Alice told him that she was "the" cool gaming lesbian of the Manson. He couldn't deny this. Facts were facts. "Oh, same except everyone knows that I'm the Mansion's pretty boy who's sexuality is questionable." In fact, Ignacio was so skilled in having people questioning his sexuality that he was able to trick himself a couple of times.

"...What did you do with her? Put her in a suitcase and hide her in the attic?"

"Sounds like a plan, always been wanting to give some harder difficulties a go. Christ If I can find another couple of nerds with it we could try a hardcore run. Those get intense." Thank god there were some relatively cool people here. Sure he was waaaaay to cheery but if he could play like he talked, he'd be a good laugh to hang out with.

Yep, he had a big ego but that was fine, she was more than adept deflating those. "Oh but those are the most fun questions. get's you more than a few kisses and.....interesting experiences." Learning about her own sexuality had been a fun road. When the girl you're crushing on not only asks you out but is more than a little forward and confident, well you tend to learn some things.

Tapping the side of her nose, "Can't go spilling all my secrets yet now can I? You'll have to beat me at some games first to earn that knowledge."

"So what is it you do for fun, other than being a great big nerd?" she asked with a smirk. Some people got defensive about being a nerd where she reveled in it. Why be nerdy and not have fun with that? Wear all those nerdy Tee's.

Ignacio never played with more than one person before while video gaming. It would certainly be an interesting experience. "What level of difficulty do you usually play games? I'm guessing something along the lines of medium to extremely difficult." If Alice and Gamerland was as badass at gaming as she let on, then she must've started games on "hard mode". Ignacio himself liked to go easy, then if when he got used to said game or wanted to challenge himself, then he would put the game on "medium/intermediate".

"Haha, I know exactly what you're talking about. There has been a couple of American football players who have looked at me with confusion on their face and saliva in their mouths." Iggy giggled at the distant memory and leaned his side against the back of his seat.

What did Ignacio do for fun? Heh. "Welll, I play volleyball, futbol, I also draw, paint, sing, and other things," Ignacio shrugged his shoulders, "also getting pampered. I love that to no end."

"Depending on the game I'll usually at least start at medium. Get a play through done, learn it's mechanics a bit before going whole hog you know? When it comes to Lucifer though, I've played so much of the older ones I just jumped into hard straight away and have been slowly ramping up the difficulty for a while." She loved the challenge of the games, and how much depth and replayability they had.

Oh she knew those looks. The furtive glances some girls cast at her, the longing at being so open about who they were. "I'd say I don't see the appeal but some of my first crushes were kind of, Amazonian in build." It wasn't until her own growth spurt that she started to catch up.

"Regular renaissance man you are. Next thing you'll be saying you're and inventor and duel master," responding lightly, quite impressed by his list of hobbies. Her's were, well her's were gaming and more gaming.

The teenage Sun god listened closely to what Alice was saying about how she usually played games. It was quite interesting, actually. "Oooh, you know what you should do? Start a ViewTube channel. Therefore, you can get paid for doing what you love! It's a win-win!"

Amazonian built? Those sounded dangerous and hot both at the same time.

"Aw, stop! I'm just Ignacio! I love doing certain things like everyone else around her does. Maybe I'll bring my sketch book with me when we play Lucifer 3."

It was very tempting to do, and something she'd wanted to do at home but she'd never had the opportunity. Her grandmother policed that stuff harshly, an heir couldn't be embarrassing themselves with silly videos. It would bring their precious family name into disrepute. "Maybe, It'd be a lie if I said I didn't want to, but the back end stuff with those channels I also love, being able to mess around with all that tech."

"Sweet, I'd love to check out your skills, always like creative stuff." She was just really bad at it, even her attempts at making costumes were pretty poor so seeing other peoples abilities was really cool."

"There anything you like drawing in particular? Any cute guys or sexy girls you've sketched?" He seemed the type to like drawing people, an hell, if he was any good he might have some good pictures to check out. Purely for science.

"Ohhh," Ignacio nodded his head slowly. His eyes grew wide when an idea made his way inside his mind, "Oh, my God, Alice! What if we did a Viewtube channel together?!" Iggy bounced up and down in his seat excitedly, "we would have so many viewers! Just imagine it! We could review games, play two player games, review other things, have debates, I mean the list is endless!"

"Yep! I sketch a lot of things. Mostly myself in Aztec attire with the Sun behind me, but yeah, cute girls and sexy boys and everything in between! I think I may have a couple of pictures on my phone," Ignacio reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone. He then unlocked it, went to his photos and pulled up a picture of him the front side of the Mansion, "this is what I drew three years ago when I came here." Ignacio showed Alice the picture.

"Woah there Iggy, slow down a little. I haven't even considered if I want to do it at all, no need to be forming a collab without time to think." It was sweet he was so enthusiastic, but she'd literally just met the guy. They had no idea if they'd even be friends, let alone have the kind of chemistry needed to get a channel up and running.

"Damn those are great man, you're pretty good at this." Creative stuff was always cool to her and Iggy had a good eye when it came to drawing. "What made you want to start drawing like this, and how long have you been practicing?"

Hmm, she wondered if he'd ever tried selling prints of his drawings, or take commissions online. "You ever uploaded these to the internet? You could probably get a few people wanting to commission pictures easily. There's a market for talents like yours online." More than a few of her online friends made some extra money selling art, one even managed to fund his PC build with just that.

"Right, right, I'm a very excitable person," Ignacio took a breath and tried his best to calm down. The last thing he wanted to do was scare poor Alice away with his extrovertive nature, [color=#flba3e'"lo seinto, I'm calm now."[/color]

"Gracias, chica británica," he placed his phone on the table, "and, uh, I've been drawing for about two years. It's a good way to relax and calm down," And deal with the self-hate that he was struggling with. Though, that was for another thread.

>> "You ever uploaded these to the internet? You could probably get a few people wanting to commission pictures easily. There's a market for talents like yours online."

Iggy shook his head at her question, "no, but I have thought about it," he shrugged his shoulders and thought for a moment, "Are there any sites for that?"

Chuckling a little, he was like a wounded puppy at her chiding. He was cool, but could do with toning it down a little bit. "Don't worry about it, I'm just used to people a little less, on the skin with emotions. Britain doesn't exactly have a reputation for having an emotive people." Well, England didn't, the other countries certainly had blunt spoken people.

Two years and he hadn't found a site to put them on? Well he was in luck, she knew of plenty that people could use. "I know a fair few, I've got some friends online who sell commissions so I have a decent idea of what goes into it." Yay for online communities.

"Want me to get a few details from them and give you a list of reputable sites to use? Also some tips on how to get started?" You'd think artists would try and discourage other people getting online in a bid to increase the amount they could make, but they were generally pretty supportive. Most of them anyway, you got d---s everywhere.

"Oh?" That only interested Iggy more, "Well, that's definitely different from Latin America. We're all about being up in your face. If you were to go there, I feel like you would feel overwhelmed," Ignacio chuckled at the thought. Aw, Alice cringing and not knowing what to do with the hugs and kisses. That would be a cute picture. Or watching her fawn over the beautiful Latinas down there. That would be funny, too.

"I could make money from just doing something that I enjoy? In America?" Ignacio had to think about that for a second before smiling widely, "I would love to do that! I sometimes do fan fiction art, too. I know that goes high on Stumblr." Iggy liked Stumblr a lot. It had a lot of neat boards and forums.

Iggy nodded his head quickly, "sure! I'd love for you to do that! Thank you so much, Alice!" She was turning out to be a really, really good friend to the teenage Sun god. He'll have to keep her around.

Remind her to never go to Latin American countries. People being all touchy feely would creep her out so much. France was bad enough, but at least they didn't hug you. "Good to know there's a chunk of the world I can just cross off the travel map. No amount of sexy ladies is worth that." Well, almost no amount.

Giving him a grin, "No problem Iggy, I'd do the same for anyone looking to do that kind of stuff. What else are friends for?" He was a good laugh, the overwhelming good cheer aside he was fun to talk too. If his gaming skills could match his attitude, he'd be a great co-op partner. She really needed one right now, too many people at the mansion were just so, normal.

"When the teacher finally comes back and lets us go, fancy some games? I'm bored stiff after all these lessons." She was going to play regardless but playing with someone from time to time was pretty fun.