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[With his first week of school in Luceti over, Kurt has taken advantage of the day off to make something a little special. A pizza, in fact. It's for a special little friend he made, so given how ridiculous this is, he's done his best to make the pizza when Kitty wasn't at home to call him out for it. Once it's done, he'll be appearing (quite literally) at building 4, teleporting to the sixth floor to knock on the door of Maes Hughes. Hopefully your daughter warned you that she ordered a pizza for lunch.

After putting up with Brigade shenanigans and generally hanging around the plaza area, he'll even make a voice post. Crazy, innit? This is mostly in response to seeing a certain person claiming to be a demon. Something that... struck him rather odd.]

When you think of a demon, what exactly do they look like in your mind? And [a hesitant pause here] what would you do if you saw one like that?

[LATER after being bombarded with how cool demons are, Kurt says something over the journals that will elicit less freaky responses:]

School wasn't so bad here. I can't believe we actually get homework though. What happens if we fail?

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Mm most people see them as being evil horned creatures with wings. Ah not all of them are like that though. It's a shame that media and culture has given them such a negative name. They're not all bad.

[... what. Demons. With bad publicity. This just...]

Yeah. [He really has no response for this. All of these responses are just making it abundantly clear that Luceti is ridiculous.] Well, that's the media for you, right?

[ Hey Helios doesn't watch TV or deal with publicity too much. But he finds out from his students. Besides he has one the demons with the worst publicity stop by at his castle occasionally. ]

Mm it's a shame really. I always like to give people, er mythical beings too, chances. It's quite funny that most of my human students don't even know they're in school with demons at all! But...once you show them what they are it automatically reverts into hatred or fear. [ He sighs. ] You can't judge a book by it's cover as the saying goes.

I know what that's like. My friends and I are mutants. We went to school for years and had lots of friends. But once people found out who we were... all we had left were each other.

A terrible thing you must have had to go through. It just doesn't seem right, does it? Mm that's why I opened my school in the first place. To help try and make people less afraid of the unknown.

Really? What kind of school is it?

[It's like he's meeting the Dungeons & Dragons version of Xavier.]

Hm ah well it's in a wonderfully beautiful castle in Romania. [ He gives a wistful sigh before he continues. ]

But all my mythological students are given rings that cloak their actual forms, it'd be a messy business to have a dragon traipsing around the grounds you see! But interestingly enough the more my human students begin to believe in them the more apparent they become. It's a interesting phenomenon I must admit.

[He fidgets with his watch. This is all sounding way too familiar.]

What do you mean by more apparent?

Oh you know their true forms being to appear. It generally starts with simple characteristics at first. Such as horns or wings showing up briefly seconds at a time. But as the bond gets stronger so does the person's ability to see them for what they truly are. Yet all the while as students you get to know each other more and more so that finally when you do see them for what they are, it's not as big of a shock.

That... actually sounds like a really nice way to do things. By the time you're friends with someone, really friends, you don't care what they really are anymore.

Yes that's exactly it! [ He'll laugh a little. ] By the time you get to know someone so well it shouldn't really matter what they look like or where they're from. It's been quite a good turn out so far with children. But--ah adults it's a bit harder.

What makes it harder for adults?

Some are quite set in their thoughts and convictions about things. It maybe because they themselves have had a bad experience or were taught differently in their youth. But one bad experience or lesson learned doesn't mean it's entirely true for the community as a whole. Ah--stereotyping I guess you could call it.

That I can understand. Some people become so set in their ways, they never truly get to understand anything more than what they have become used to seeing.

Yes that's exactly it. [ He sighs. ] That's the reason why I opened my school in the first place. Working towards that one day were some of that might change.

That sounds really great! I think the Professor would really like you.

Professor, hm? I assume he runs a school for mutants, correct?

Yeah, kind of. We go to regular school, too. He mostly teaches us how to control our powers.

Interesting. These powers of yours remind me of magic in my world, actually. Only certain people are given the chance to use it. It separates us but at the same time bring us a bit closer to those who share a similar plight.

Yeah... though sometimes, it would be nice to just be like everyone else.

Mm yes it would, wouldn't it? But! I find that everyone is unique in someway or another. Whether it's shown on the outside or inside shouldn't matter.

It shouldn't, but that's not how it always works in the real world. [Being special isn't all that great when your whole childhood is spent hiding from the world.]

It's true and it's not fair that you, or even most of my students back home, have to live in hiding or under a false guise to be accepted. [ He sighs. ] But at least there's a place, somewhere that you can be yourself even if it for only a little while with the outside world still around you.

Yeah. I'd still be hiding away at home if not for the Professor. You're a lot like him. Only with more hair.

Hm he seems like a very nice person. [ He laughs at that though. ] Well Romania does get quite cold so you can never have too much of it! [ That was his attempt at making a...very bad joke. ]

Ah were are my manners. We haven't introduced ourselves, have we? Helios Sprensonne it's been a pleasure.

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