as the fandom turns

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So, the new kids have had time to settle down, the not news kids are still plugging along so it's time to find out what's going on! How's it going, denizens of Fandom? How are all the new students doing? Anything interesting happening with the not new students? How are the new alumni doing? New love, breakups, makeups, crushes, friends, enemies, adventures? What's going on out there? Tell the world!

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[glacial_queen]

And it's nice to know that there is a gentleman around, at least by Kaeleer's definition of the word.

Whether or not that's good is up for debate.

[bitten_notshy]

My guardian put a lot of energy into making me seem a gentleman. He'd be proud to know the edifice holds.

And, of course, it's always a honour to know a lady such as yourself.

[glacial_queen]

Why thank you. And please pass my compliments to your guardian. His time and effort have been put to good use, though certainly he had excellent material to work with.

[bitten_notshy]

And thanks to you for saying so. I was seven when he found me; my parents had sold me for a servant some two years before.

Sebastien bought me from my keepers out of pity. It saved my life.

[glacial_queen]

Slavery is here, too? How cruel!

If it makes you feel any better. My uncle had my parents killed to take over Glacia, and either sent or allowed males to steal into my room to break me so I can never take Glacia back from him.

He's also done a bunch of other lousy things, like introduce slavery to Glacia. It's like we have a connection!

[bitten_notshy]

It's terribly depressing in the most banal way. Technically, they had indentured servitude in my world's Europe 110 years ago. I would have been freed at 21 under the terms of my original contract, but Sebastien emancipated me when I was 14.

For want of a better term, your uncle sounds like a bastard.

[glacial_queen]

If you'd like, feel free to use: lying son of a whoring bitch.

I'm moderately fond of that one.

[bitten_notshy]

If you don't mind insulting your grandmother, I can certainly keep that one in mind. It does roll off the tongue nicely.

[glacial_queen]

Now, now. There's always the hope that he truly is a bastard and they simply hushed up the scandal.