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[redfightinghood]

Um, hey there. Ah, Ruby Rose, here. I'm new, but you probably figured that.

[Okay, she's definitely a little bit nervous. Ruby's not exactly what one would call a social butterfly - she definitely got comfortable enough with Beacon to make friends there, but that's not really relevant anymore. Once she had any downtime in Atlas, she didn't know what to do with herself. And now, THIS? Is a lot to adjust to.

She fidgets and clears her throat.] So, got a tiny question, here...

I think I kinda get the whole familiars thing, but mine is, well... it puts me in a bit of an odd place.

Basically, has anyone ever gotten anything that should be a soulless killing machine back in their world? That, I don't know, would've been born in power surrounding your world's greatest evil...? [That, back home, she has a power specifically meant to ERADICATE things like the Grimm, AKA the very form her familiar has taken.] Anything like that?

[She realizes she's being very specific here.]

Because I'll be honest, the fact my familiar isn't trying to eat me, or anyone around me, is almost more unnerving than if he was.

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[cameprepared]

...A school for monster hunters?

[...What the fuck?]

[redfightinghood]

Uhhh... yeah!

[She says it really casually, honestly. It's SUPER NORMAL to her.]

The monster that's my familiar, things like it... they've been around for centuries. People generally live in more fortified towns and cities [though that sure doesn't help sometimes, as many demolished ones as she's seen] while us Huntresses and Huntsmen defend against them.

That's just... kinda how things are.

[cameprepared]

That's so wild. Where I'm from, like I said, we've had the one incident.

Is the technology here really different from your own world?

[Are you from, like, a medieval place? That's her mental image now.]

[redfightinghood]

Heh, I wish our stuff was a one-and-done sort of thing.

[Surely, you'll never have to deal with zombies and mutated monsters again, Claire! Be thankful for that at least.]

I'm actually... surprised that there's more technology here than what I'd have expected. I mean, there's no flying airships or floating sky cities that I've seen, but... It's not as bad as I was expecting on my way from that lake.

[A fantasy world, but with modern conveniences and ALSO dystopian science fiction is more along the lines of what Ruby is used to.]

[cameprepared]

[Except three months later. And then a few months later. And...actually bioterrorism and stuff is a running theme in Claire's existence for the next twenty years or so. Whoops.]

Flying sky cities? That sounds like a lot of work for...what, is your home really crowded?

[redfightinghood]

Well... I guess I shouldn't say that in a plural way. It's really just the one. I don't know that it's so much a crowding problem as...

[Some bitterness definitely creeps up into her voice.]

The rich and powerful are a lot safer, there.

[cameprepared]

Of course. Some things don't change, across worlds.

[The rich are going to rich, as her brother puts it.]

[redfightinghood]

Yeah. Guess it'd be too much to hope they would.

[She sighs.]

But. I'm here, for now. Might as well make the most of it.