Fortitude Class: Alternian History

[mamarosa]

Characters: Dolorosa + Fortitude students
Format: what ever your heart desires
This log is: open to Fortitude students!
Location: Class rooms
Summary: Come learn about Alternian history from your lovely Headmistress
Warnings: None yet

Dolorosa starts the class by explaining that Alternia has a caste system which influences how the planet is organized. She calls it the hemospectrum and it runs from rust red to tyrian purple, with a only a few outliers usually referred to as mutants. The mutants are usually culled at birth, but that isn't the case for all of them. That story, she tells you, will come later in the semester.

Her lecture for the day is basically a run down of the Hemospecturm, going over each color and class status, explain their amount of influence and the abilities that come along with a certain color. She says that she is a rather rare color, jade blooded, and cuts her finger to show the class her color, explaining that she understands humans only have candy red blood, a cull-worthy color.

If you ask, she will tell stories about the trolls in various colors that she has met, how she has met people who reinforced the stereotypes and proven them wrong, but she won't answer any questions about mutated blood just yet.

Comments

[savedbyasong]

Shion sat taking notes at the beginning, even though this was yet another class he knew nothing about it was fact based and therefore not as difficult as other lessons.

However within a few sentences he was frowning, horrified at what she was telling him. He knew of course than humans had always found ways to separate each other, that No. 6 and it's wall was just one way that they separated those that they thought as worthy humans from everyone else.

But to have such a thing written in your culture through your very blood. Shion raised a hand, "People fight against it right? Are there trolls that work towards equality?"

[veepofchess]

Ah, yes, of course there was unbalanced power and the strong against the weak everywhere. But Lelouch didn't say anything, instead letting Shion do some of the work for him. To be perfectly honest, he was a little tired after all of the preparation he had done the night before for this morning's bombing. He stayed awake, however, as this was becoming a particularly interesting lesson for the day.

He raised his hand dutifully, and when called on, asked, "What is the scale of the Alternian Empire, and the royal family?"

[pencilpremonition]

Becca sits and doodles in her notebook all throughout the lesson. She's seated near to Shion, and she smiles at his question. Still, she's happy to just draw. What she's drawing, though, reveals that she actually has been paying attention--sketches of trolls with different blood colours and notes in the margins. Apparently she just needs pictures to learn things. She's so grateful she got her memory of how to draw back.

When the headmistress cuts her finger, though, Becca immediately pulls out a bandage and goes to the front of the class, readying to wrap up her finger for her and frowning sadly. "Here...you didn't need to do that..."

[knightime]

Dave was resting his head on the desk. He was only half listening since he new a little about it from the conversations he had with the other trolls.

He wasn't terribly interested. Not because it wasn't interesting, but because he found the system utter bull shit. It seemed silly to categorize by the color of their blood.

But still. It wasn't so bad. It was better then school at home.