un: werther

[imitationsoul]

This school boasts about forming a last bastion against Nightfall, but all I truly hear are tales of student-on-student violence and poor prevention measures for such incidents. I was brought here under the pretenses of 'channeling my talents more productively', but I can't help wondering if this isn't just a quarantine zone for those who are deemed potentially troublesome. Let them cause trouble for each other, rather than for those in power.

Not that I mind. I've never once considered using my talents 'productively'. That is just synonymous with 'for other people'. I hold no interest in becoming a tool for anyone.

in person option

[ Miach's been going to this school since the start of the semester, and she's spoken to exactly nobody since. She's just... around. A silent new presence on campus, always with a book in hand, never greeting anybody. If that's the kind of person you'd approach, you can find her anywhere, but most commonly in the library.

Note for faculty: Miach got transferred away from her last school for summoning a demon and getting students injured. Faculty would likely be informed of this ahead of time. ]

Comments

[marmoron]

[the small gesture is all cosmo needs to stroll up to miach and press his snout into her extended hand, fluffy tail wagging.]

So you weren't liberated by a human hunter organization to begin with?

[he's a little surprised by that, thoguh he supposes in retrospect there'd been no real basis for that assumption in the first place.]

Does your adoptive family treat you well, at least?

[imitationsoul]

What, worried suddenly?

[ Miach raises an eyebrow at Keith, though it's very brief mockery. There's a soft puppy here demanding her attention and sometimes even Miach is just a girl. Cosmo gets ear-scritches and most of Miach's attention. ]

As best as they can while being completely unprepared and unwilling to deal with an ex-child-slave. It's laughable.

[marmoron]

[the question gets an immediately disgruntled expression from keith who has half a mind to yank cosmo away from miach and continue his lovely day. instead he folds his arms and rolls his eyes slightly.]

About you? Pretty sure you can handle yourself if you made it out of being captured by demons with that attitude. Why'd they even adopt you in the first place if they weren't ready to deal with your baggage?

[imitationsoul]

I had therapy. Surely I must have been 'fixed' then.

[ Oh the sarcasm...

Miach doesn't consider herself broken so much as enlightened. She's seen more than the average person and it's made her unable to become a normal child, one who is unaware of the world's cruelties. ]

[marmoron]

[despite himself keith actually huffs in amusement at that.]

Sounds familiar. Therapy is full of shit.

[imitationsoul]

It just becomes more convenient to say what they want to hear and get discharged faster, in the end.

[ At least that's certainly what she did when she'd caught on to the concept. ]

[marmoron]

I take it you never got to the point where they get mad at you for just saying what they want to hear because you're not taking it seriously enough, huh.

[though in retrospect, he has a feeling that had less to do with the content of what he said so much as how he said it.]

[imitationsoul]

They were too eager to get rid of me for such finesse.

[ And thank god, too. It sounds endlessly annoying. Miach pulls a disapproving face at the thought. ]

What were you in for?

[marmoron]

[... yeah, he should've seen this question coming.]

I... uh... got into a lot of fights. [he offers a shrug.] They seemed to think it was my fault.

[imitationsoul]

Were they wrong?

[ Seems to her that it takes two to tango. She may not support stuffing kids into involuntary therapy thanks to this kind of banality, but she does think Keith should own up to his past. ]