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[ The camera blips up into the curious and earnest face of a teenaged boy, cherry-red hair hanging lank around his face and a slightly different shade of red eyes; his right eye seems flecked with an almost unremarkable scar just above its eyelid, thin but slanting up to nearly touch the brow above it. His expression splits in a little smile, almost sweet except for all his lips hint at the points of serrated teeth beneath them. It's understandably difficult to feel at ease with a smile full of shark's teeth. ]

So this might be a pretty dumb question, but what kinda magic's involved with styling your hair to the point, like, you want it to stay somethin' else? It's gotta exist here, right? I saw a cliff make itself into a bunch of arms before I even got here and bunnies burst outta a flower... So you guys can definitely turn hair colors and freeze it into a particular style, right? Anybody?

[ Listen... a lot of other newbies have been putting out some big questions and it'd be a lie to say Kirishima isn't digging through them, along with talk about war. Still, he feels like maybe a bit of levity is needed.

That isn't to say he doesn't sincerely want someone to tell him spiking up his hair might be a permanent, dyable possibility... cuz he does. ]

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[You, sir, are a Dumbass.]

Nothing you want to pay, if they're anything like the faeries back home.

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[ We'd give him the excuse of being a teenager, but...

Kirishima blinks and perks. Someone actually had experience with those things before they all got yanked over here? ]

What was it like where you're from?

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Granted I mostly dealt with the ones either too weak to offer anything or bound by the rules of the school not to do anything at all, but if they're strong enough to offer deals, they're strong enough to really mess with you.

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Do you have any examples...?

[ Does he really want to know? ]

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Sleeping curses tend to be the most common example. Getting turned into a monster shows up from time to time. They mostly don't do that anymore, but they could.

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But they have to tell you if they're gonna do that stuff, right? That's part of the deal thing?

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Oh, sure, but they don't have to make it obvious.

[Okay, maybe they do back home but he's pretty sure that's a newer thing.]

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HOW do you make 'or I'll turn you into a monster' subtle?!

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Oh, you misunderstood. Usually turning you into a monster isn't the punishment for failing to fulfill your end of the bargain. The example used it school was a man was looking for a partner who'd love him for him, so the faerie turned him into a beast so he couldn't rely on looks. Honestly, it was one of the fairer deals we learned about...

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Ohh... Yeah that's kinda messed up! But that's also a pretty big wish. Asking to change your hair color wouldn't let them mess with you too much, could it?

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Who knows?

[Azul please stop trying to scare the guy.]

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[ It's working. Kirishima chuckles, nervously. ]

So you used to be in school with fairies. Are you-- [ Also a magical creature? ] Going to school here too?

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For now, yes. Why?

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Because I'm going to school here too! It's nice to know who else is around, right? What do you think of it?

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It's school? Comparable to my middle school, nothing like my high school, but my high school's highly specialized and elite so that's not a fair comparison.

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Ah! Hear that FOR SURE, man! What year are you in high school?

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Second, and head of my dorm.