On the platform: Meet the new characters!

[utopiamods]

As you all crowd onto the platform and peer through the thick fog that chills the air, you are met by four girls and five boys. One of the girls is a somewhat humanoid grey-skinned, finned alien, but the rest all seem human. All nine 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 dense fog. They're all sodden and cold, and most are irritable. Each has a beret with a crest pinned to the front - three depicting a shield on green, the other six a sword on red.

At the first lull in the chatter, one sickly-pale, shield-crested girl speaks up, cutting through your conversations with her cold, soft voice.

"Attention, please."

She explains that the nine of them are the current prefects of Rakuen, representing the two schools on the island. Nanami, she points to herself, Yuri and Lelouch of Fortitude; and Santana, Flynn, Feferi, Gino, Nephenee and Kevin of Conquest. She doesn't care to explain why the prefects in red and white outnumber those in green and black two to one.

Santana interrupts, "Yeah, yeah. Look, come over when your name is called so we can all get inside." They all move to stand in two groups some distance away from each other, and the two that spoke read off names from their clipboards.

Comments

Open, talk to Fortitude headmistress

[mamarosa]

[lookin' calm as always]

[markedbeloved]

[Soubi walked over to the headmistress and gave her a nod. He wasn't going to shake her hand though, nor was he going to bow. He was too stubborn to do something like that. He would give her at lest a smile though.]

Headmistress.

[mamarosa]

[she wouldn't ask for anything that formal!]

Forgive me, I do not know your name, but welcome.

[markedbeloved]

Agatsuma Soubi.

[mamarosa]

Which name would you prefer to go by, Agatsuma Soubi?

[markedbeloved]

Agatsuma, Headmistress.

Re: Open, talk to Fortitude headmistress

[mutesician]

[AM I SEEING DOUBLE? Louis is looking back and forth between Dolorosa and Kanaya, very confused right now. Quickly, he scribbles something on his slate and almost rushes up.]

Are you Kanaya's mother? [How come she gets to find family here almost right away? :(]

[mamarosa]

[oh man, a wingbeast that can write and communicate with people, the world is amazing]

I am not her mother, trolls do not have biological children like most other species.

[mutesician]

[So confused. But they look so alike!]

How do you have children then? [Are they made like in those creation myths he's heard? Man, that would be so cool.]

[mamarosa]

Well, while most species require two parties to be together in order to reproduce, trolls just collect genetic materials to be brought to the Mother Grub.

[That makes sense, right?]

[mutesician]

Mother Grub?

[Well...he kind of gets the concept of external fertilization. Fish do that, right?]

[sideburnsftw]

[ ...well aren't you... odd. he can't help the staring, deepest apologies. ]

[mamarosa]

Hello, child, may I help you?

[sideburnsftw]

[ how does approach this. seriously. staring. ]

Um. [ OKAY LET'S START WITH SOMETHING EASY. ] Are you the... headmistress...?

[mamarosa]

I am one of the headmistresses, my school is Fortitude, the Conquest headmistress is Day, but I would be happy to answer any and all questions, at least the ones I am capable of answering.

[sideburnsftw]

Okay. Right. [ ...squints. ] I don't mean to be rude, or. Or unnecessarily blunt or anything, but...

[afraid_of_my_shadow]

[Alex, looking very nervous, made his way to the strange woman who seemed to be in charge.] Ah, y-you're the headmistress? I'm c-confused.

[mamarosa]

Yes, child, I am one of the headmistresses. What can I help you with?

[afraid_of_my_shadow]

Th-this place, i-it's not the s-same world I'm f-from, is it?

[mamarosa]

No, my child, I'm afraid that it is not.

[afraid_of_my_shadow]

It might sound c-crazy, but I u-usually see these things around p-people, sort of like auras, but they look like shadows. D-do you know wh-why I c-can't?

[l3g1sl4t1ng]

[She approaches Dolorosa without hesitation.]

A jade blooded troll~? Oh, what a delightful taste. [Personal space? What is that? She forgot. So she might be circling her with morbid fascination.] But you are a troll. I can see your horns and you are not pink like everyone else.

[mamarosa]

[Dolorosa does not mind the circling, in fact she is a bit intrigued by her]

A troll who dares to wear such a shade of red, I may commend you on your own delightful taste. Yes, I am a troll and I am jade blooded. I am Dolorosa, may I ask your name?

[l3g1sl4t1ng]

It is not like I care for what others think. It is not against the law to wear what I wear. I should know. [She's...you know. That one job with the justice and shit man.]

Neophyte Redglare.

Dolorosa? How peculiar. I feel like I had heard that name somewhere.

[mamarosa]

Such a shade of red would have been blasphemous in my time, easily worthy of death.

But it is nice to meet you, Neophyte Redglare. I would be surprised if you knew my name, it is not something that would be schoolfed, but to know that perhaps you are aware of my circumstances is a bit uplifting.