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[strokeofgenis]

[Genis is feeling all out of sorts. Yes, he'd been told that this massive headache and otherwise feeling completely lethargic and terrible would be gone by tomorrow, and so he would have considered putting this out there until then, but someone had told him that he looked somewhat familiar, that there was some older girl with the same hair colour. And while there were possibly a zillion people in all the infinite worlds out there that he didn't yet know about that had elder girls with a silver-white hair, the description sounded like a shoe-in for Raine. He had to make the post.

[But Genis looks just... terrible. He's tired and just feels just empty, not to mention hungry. You'll see a 12 year old's face just looking like he could use a really really nice sleep. And as a result, he's not afraid to be cranky. Granted, he's always unafraid to be cranky, but that's his excuse at the moment.]

I really hate to gripe about this first thing, but come on. I come straight from one world where I'm hated just for being a half-elf, and now I'm in a world where I'm hated just because I'm not from around here? Greeeeeat. You know, I'm beginning to wonder if there even is a world out there where people don't discriminate against other people for completely stupid reasons.

I mean, what'd you guys even do to the kedan anyway? Did you go out and kidnap everyone's kids or something? Because if it wasn't as big as something like that, I don't know what you could have possibly done to get them to hate you so badly.

[He says this with the most deadpan delivery ever. He then just shakes his head as if just in disbelief that he's already stuck in a world worse than the one he'd just left.]

Okay, at any rate, I don't know who exactly is out there listening to this, but... hey. I'm Genis Sage.  I don't suppose any of you know someone named Raine, would you?  Anyway, as for me, I guess I'm just a student at the moment, though I really haven't been attending school for a while since I've been travelling around my world for the past while with my sister and my friends.  Despite that, I could probably still graduate at the top of my class even without having been diligent on all my homework last year.  [He says this with a remarkable amount of pride despite his general malaise of feeling empty and tired.]

Anyway, I'd say that I'm looking forward to meeting all of you soon, but right now I'm much more interested in waiting for this massive headache to go away first. Though I'm told that's supposed to go away tomorrow, so that's one thing going my way.

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[jinzhong]

[WAIT A DAMN MINUTE.]

You're Raine's brother?

[She'd told Jackie about him, and the resemblance is uncanny. But man, he seems young! Come to think of it...Jackie hasn't really seen any Foreigner kids at all...]

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[gathersnomoss]

Mostly they think we all should have gone home when we finished the job the Emperor asked us to do. And, no, there probably isn't a world like that.

I've met your sister. If no one's mentioned it, she's here.

[highprofilerichkid]

Raine? Yeah, she's here. [Tony can see the resemblance, though this kid is obviously a lot younger. Is Raine the sister he mentioned...?] I can help you find her, if you want. She's staying here at the Hotel and working at the Healer's Guild.

And yeah, the headache goes away in about a day. Any powers you have will come back then, too. The kedan... [He shrugs and smiles wryly.] They're not happy with how we did our job, and they're not happy that we stuck around after we finished it.

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[backwordscompatible]

...for somebody who 'hates' to gripe, that sure was a lot of griping going on.

[But, hey, she gets it. The kid--he definitely looked like a kid, from her perspective--was probably new. Who wouldn't want to grip on their first day?]

[Heck, after two-plus years, there were some days when she still felt like griping.]

There are some herbs you can take, I think. If you know how to boil them into tea properly.

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[denyamenti]

[ Raine told Bakura a little about Genis in one of their conversations before the final battle with Malicant, and the thief finds that yes, it was pretty well accurate. ]

What did we do to the kedan? Only saved their existence, why would anyone think that might earn us a bit of gratitude.

[solo_patria]

Or something.

[The question, tossed in there the way it was, reminds Enjolras of Gavroche and he can't help but grin at the new kid, literal new kid, it seems.]

Raine helped me out of a terrible spot and we did some work together during the war. It is funny, you know what 'just students' can do.

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[valevectorian]

Do you always tell that much about yourself to a whole bunch of likely strangers?

Worlds where no one's fucking discriminated against, be it for stupid reasons or otherwise, don't exist. They're an unrealistic ideal.

[Wow, someone's great at initiating conversations with strangers. That someone is not Accelerator.]