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.

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[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...

[mamarosa]

You are wondering about my appearance, is that correct? I am a different species from you, a troll from the planet called Alternia. Where I am from we all have grey skin and horns, although everyone's horns are different.

[sideburnsftw]

Oh. So that's.

Okay.

So you're an alien.

[mamarosa]

Ah, but to me it is you who is the alien.

[sideburnsftw]

[ a pause, and then a hesitant smile. it's almost like he's forgotten how. ]

I guess so.

[mamarosa]

Is there anything else you would like to ask me? I will answer anything I can.