rakuen | On the platform: Meet the new characters!

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.

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Eventually Santana walks over to her, looking even more annoyed than when they started, "Do you have a name or what?"

Oh, look, it was the yelling person heading her way and looking less than pleased. Resisting the urge to roll her eyes, instead Shizune signs back a response, not even really able to guess what she might have said since it certainly didn't look like a friendly greeting.

[I'm Shizune Hakamichi. I just arrived here by train and it seems I'm supposed to be assigned to a school or something. I don't suppose you can tell me what's going on? Or that you understand what I'm signing?]

[Santana rolls her eyes]

Great more mute people. Spell your name out again please? [oh man, Santana was polite, you must be special or something] Actually, here. [she hands her a PDA] Type it out, or any question.

Shizune went to sign her name, but stopped when the PDA was handed over. She tried to avoid having to resort to this sort of thing... but it would cause to much trouble to turn it down now, not to mention this woman didn't look very patient.

I'm Shizune Hakamichi. I just arrived here by train and it seems I'm supposed to be assigned to a school or something. I don't suppose you can tell me what's going on?

Given that she didn't hear any of what Santana asked her, she just ended up retyping what she'd signed before handing the PDA back.

"Right, the girl with the dumb name. You're in Rakuen now, your school is Conquest, you're going to fight with us and you better not lose. Don't give me any BS about how you being mute will make you a loser, Fortitude has a mute kid too and he does just fine."

Usually Shizune preferred not to make a big deal of it, but she apparently was going to have to spell it out for Santana - literally. Taking back the PDA, she started typing again.

I'm deaf-mute. I can't hear a word you're saying. You'll have to type it out for me.

God, how inconvenient. She snatches her PDA back and types up what she said before.

Right, the girl with the dumb name. You're in Rakuen now, your school is Conquest, you're going to fight with us and you better not lose. Don't give me any BS about how you being mute will make you a loser, Fortitude has a mute kid too and he does just fine.

She takes back the PDA, already prepared for an unfriendly answer but still a bit surprised by how amazingly rude that response is, not bothering to hide her annoyance at it before angrily typing back her response.

Unless we're required to shout out attack names I don't see how being mute would in any way affect my performance. And I've known plenty of losers who can speak and hear just fine.

Santana laughs.

You've got balls, I like that. Some morons like shouting attack names, but that's not required. In fact, silence may actually help you.

Shouting attacks should only happen in anime. The idea of doing it in real life is ridiculous. It's like telling the enemy "I'm over here, shoot me!" before you can shoot them.

Anime is pretty dumb if you ask me. [at least the ones Puck made her watch with him, except for the few that she liked, but no one needs to know that] You never should give away your position.

Exactly. Tactical information is a key part of waging war, so giving it away is practically acting for defeat.

If you have a tactical mind then welcome to Conquest, don't let me down.

[she flashes a competitive grin]

I don't intend to.

I'm holding you to that.

On the platform: Meet the new characters!

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