Meet and Greet [intro #1]

[utopiamods]

As you all crowd onto the platform with your bizarre mix of faces, expressions, clothing and wild theories, you are met by two girls. Both are in uniforms that would match if not for the colour differences - skirt, waistcoat, and a light summer shirt that seems totally inappropriate for the thin layer of snow coating the station platform. Both have a beret with a crest - one's shows a sword, the other's a shield.

At the first lull in the chatter, the taller girl, her uniform red and white, speaks out over the crowd.

"Hey, losers!"

She explains, in short, irritated sentences, that they're prefects, representing the two schools in Rakuen. Santana, Conquest, she says, gesturing to herself with a smile that would be smug if she didn't look so annoyed to be out here. Nanami here is Fortitude, she adds, pointing to the pale girl half-leaning on her other arm. The girl nods.

"We're here to get you sorted and back to campus. If you wanna ask stupid questions, do it on the way. It's freezing out here."

The girl introduced as Nanami interrupts. "When we say your name, please move quickly and quietly to us."

"Yeah, then we can go back to the dorms."

They separate, moving to stand several metres apart, and both pull a list from their waistcoat pocket. Alternating, they start to read out your names.

Comments

[effortless]

[ she takes a moment to order those in her mind. ]

There are many humans because many worlds contain them... Even if one planet was destroyed, there are millions more that contain humans.

[ headtilt ] A dreambubble? Could you possibly explain what you mean by that?

[fabricates]

[Wait wait, what? She ignores her question in favor of asking another one.]

What are you talking about? We created humans. Earth is the only planet with humans, and it's gone. Well, not totally gone. But it's a wasteland.

[effortless]

Oh, how interesting. Let's see... Is it sufficient to say that you have only experienced one possible world? The people around you come from other possibilities. In fact, you might not even exist in most of them.

[fabricates]

That's stupid! Sure, there could be a bunch of alternate doomed timelines for Earth, but that's all they are. Doomed. They're all going to end one way or another, and they were all created by us. You're talking shit like multiple Earths in paradox space and that's just ridiculous.

[She cannot fathom an Earth that she wasn't a part of creating ::::T]

[effortless]

[ it's cute, really. ] And yet... here you are, surrounded by people from worlds you cannot possibly have created.

[fabricates]

Yeah right, they're obviously humans from Earth that died when the meteors hit. So what, is this some place where all the dead convene? Pretty rude that there's a clear lack of the trolls who died on Alternia too! What's the human word for that? Right, I think it's called racism.

[effortless]

How self-centred. I assumed that was a feature of humans, but apparently not...

[fabricates]

How is that self-centered?? And just remember, the traits humans got, they got from us!

[effortless]

You really will have to speak with the Dolorosa... This delusion of yours could prove difficult in the future otherwise.

[fabricates]

The Dolorosa? [She rolls her eyes.] It's not a delusion.

[effortless]

The headmistress of Fortitude. She is a troll, just like yourself, but she is older.

[fabricates]

An adult? Great, just what I need.