On the platform: New characters and old ones that want to come and meet them!

[utopiamods]

As you all crowd onto the platform with your new and still bizarre mix of faces, expressions, clothing and wild theories, you are met by two girls and a boy. All three are in uniforms that would match if not for the colour differences - skirts and trousers, waistcoats, and light summer shirts that seem totally inappropriate for the thin layer of melting slush coating the station platform. Each has a beret with a crest - one girl's shows a sword, the other two have a shield.

At the first lull in the chatter, the shorter girl speaks up, her soft voice somehow cutting over you.

"Excuse me,"

She explains, in precise, quiet sentences, that the three of them are prefects, representing the two schools in Rakuen. Nanami of Fortitude, she says, placing a hand on her own collarbone, with her fellow prefect Lelouch, and Santana of Conquest, here pointing to the boy and the taller girl she's leaning against. The girl nods, looking fairly bored, whilst the boy doesn't appear to be paying much attention.

"We will be sorting you now. When we say your name, please move quickly and quietly to whoever called you."

"Yeah," Santana interrupts, "Then we can go back to the dorms. This'd better be the last lot we get in winter, seriously."

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

Comments

[whitestknight]

[ wow rude. But it would be even ruder to not respond levelly. ] I don't believe that was their intention.

[mrdickery]

Try to respect the dead, would you? [No, he doesn't appreciate Santana insulting what he considers to be an upstanding mother and an outstanding dad. Especially when those people helped raise him when they were still around.

He also knows Flynn well enough that he'll never speak up himself. The fact that Flynn is here at all though both worries and assures him.] It is a pretty weird name though.

[That one? That one's a jibe at his bff.]

[straightupzorra]

Wow, you think he's the only one with dead parents?

[whitestknight]

Leave it, Yuri. [ of course you're here. Whenever anything bizarre happens you always get there first. Or you start it. He takes in Yuri's be-uniformed appearance with surprising calmness.

If you started this he's going to punch you. ]

Miss Santana, would you please explain why it is I am here?

[mrdickery]

[Excuse you. Why do you always assume the worst when it comes to him?] If you're not gonna say it, I will.

[And he rolls his shoulders in an artless shrug. Santana can needle and prick all she wants. So long as it isn't at the people he respects, he can deal.]

[straightupzorra]

You're here to fight for Conquest, and because you're in Conquest, you're expected to be a winner. Can you be a winner, Flynn? [all of this is said with the fakest cheeriness ever]