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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[fussyfanged]

[ Well, there was no mistaking that this was Rose. Or that she had the same sort of cane-like apparatus that Terezi carried around. ]

Hello, Rose.

[ She didn't know if Rose alone among the other kids she'd met today would remember her, but it was worth a shot. ]

[overthroen]

{ Sadly not. Rose turns in the direction of the voice. ]

Once again I'm greeted by perfect strangers as an already established acquaintance. May I ask who you are?

[ She's 'looking' directly at Kanaya - she's gotten better about figuring out where voices are coming from - but she wouldn't recognize Kan's facial features anyway. Or her name. Or her existence. ]

[fussyfanged]

[ Just her luck. ]

I've had quite a few friends tell me that today.

I'm Kanaya.

[overthroen]

[ She frowns. ] That's extremely unfortunate. I sincerely hope that I haven't lost track of too many of my friends, but I have no way of knowing for sure.

Did we know each other very well?

[fussyfanged]

If they are memories that this place has taken, perhaps some day you will know for sure.

[ A small smile. ] I believe we did.

[overthroen]

That may be so, though there is the possibility that you come from a point farther in the future than I, and that we've never actually spoken. [ Having forgotten completely about the trolls, she's unaware that they've been communicating in some fashion for years. ]