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| Mood: Feels kind of bad | Tag: Naoko Tanaka | @Thoth ​

Castiel smiled with relief. He was really really glad that a nice person had helped him and not a rude arrogant bastard (like him). If she didn’t like him, she was doing a really good job of not showing it. It made him feel a bit more welcomed if you could call it that. Maybe this girl was just nice.

“That would actually be great,” Castiel replied. He didn’t know that the maps were actually formatted like that. It was really thoughtful of the school to actually do that. It showed that they weren’t just heartless money-grubbing government workers. Castiel didn’t actually know if Manta Carlos had a government or was under one. “Also, what’s your name? I’m Castiel, sorry for being such a dick earlier.” He legitimately felt kind of bad for being so rude to this nice person.
 
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Most people didn't think Naoko was nice, if only because she had the worlds most severe case of resting bitchface. She certainly didn't look welcoming, and most people reacted in response to that.

In truth, she was a good deal nicer than her appearance let on. She considered herself to be professional, and part of that meant being polite to people she didn't really know. It meant not being rude. It meant helping people out.

That was how you got by in life, after all, even if it was often easier in the short term to simply ignore people entirely.

"There aren't a lot of locals, really. So it just makes sense," Naoko added, jabbing a finger down the hallway.

"This way back to the administration wing so we can get you an actual map," she said, starting to walk as she did introductions. "I'm Naoko Tanaka - Tanaka being my family name, for clarification - and you weren't that much of a dick. I've seen lots of people act way more like assholes, mostly because they've been treated so badly in the past."

 
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| Mood: but not that bad | Tag: Naoko Tanaka | @Thoth ​

“So almost everyone here is just here because of their powers, I assume,” Castiel said. It was a bit off that there weren’t a lot of locals. Maybe the locals were the human ones and they’d all been killed? Or something like that? He didn’t have a clue. Maybe they all just moved away because of the supernatural on the island. That seemed plausible, or at least a bit more plausible than them all dying.

Castiel lagged a bit behind her, as it seemed odd to be in front of the person who was guiding her or walk next to someone who he didn’t even know.

Her name was Naoko. Nice to know. He’d assumed she or her parents hailed from some country in Asia. He did tend to see basically every nationality here, which was quite a surprise since he thought it would just be a bunch of rich white guys; but after just a week of being here, he could plainly see this place was diverse as hell. “Yeah, I’ve learned that nearly everyone here has a tragic backstory.”
 
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"Yup," Naoko answered as she walks. "The school makes it really obvious. The classes keep getting bigger the older you get, since you get a lot of teenagers awakening their powers and getting invited to the island. You might have a single class of twenty kids when you start, and end up with ten classes of twenty five kids by the time you graduate high school." That didn't count people who left early, but those people were pretty rare.

"Comes with the territory," she noted. "Humans are scared of things different from themselves, so people with weird and dangerous powers get victimized in a variety of ways. Not everyone has a tragic backstory before they come here, but way more do then you'd find at a normal school, or so I've been told."

Not that she had any experience with normal schools.

"Would it be rude to ask if you've got a tragic backstory?" Naoko asked, glancing over her shoulder at him. Some people didn't. Some people did, and didn't want to talk about it. And some did, and were okay with it enough to talk about it without issue. No way of knowing if she didn't ask, and she was sort of curious since he'd brought it up in the first place.

 
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