#random things about things.

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Dear Diary.

After Emma was brought back from the Ak'abians, she started a new journal. It wasn't much like a normal journal: rather than describing events, she wrote stories and poems that reflected some aspect of what she was feeling. The stories and poems often featured people she knew. Very little of it was pleasant. Quite a lot of it was pornographic. Ryan packed Emma's journals with the rest of the things she left behind, and after some internal struggle, flipped through them. He didn't do more than that for her earlier journals, but he's read the prose and poetry journal cover to cover. Repeatedly. Especially the pornographic stories that feature himself. That's what he masturbates most often to, these days. He's considered one of those fantasies for when he makes his donation for Darla's insemination (some of them, he's reread so many times that he doesn't need to anymore, he has them memorized, he's made up images for them, all he has to do is close his eyes). He thinks maybe he shouldn't, because it'd be too weird. He thinks maybe he should ask Darla, then he thinks he really shouldn't because that would be really weird. Generally, this train of thought ends with him laughing in a so-I-don't-cry way over what is and isn't weird in his life.

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Home And Family

Talia attends Kalir every day she's able to. She usually meets with descendants of Lonlir's family, and catches up with what's been going on in their lives.

She always visits a very old house, owned by a very old friend.

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Ooh, ooh, I got a crush on you.

For years, Reynaldo has had a crush on someone he saw once and will never see again. This crush has persisted through several dates and flings, a few relationships, and even Isaac. Isaac knows about it. He thinks it's hilarious.

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Gloves.

Evelyn has several pairs of gloves. They have two general purposes: blocking sunlight and looking goth. There's a lot of overlap between them, but some of the ones for blocking sunlight look too utilitarian to fit goth fashion, and some of the goth ones are fishnet, lace, or otherwise see-through. Naturally, she wears them on the appropriate occasions: the utilitarian ones when she wants to go out in sunlight without being burned, and the fancy ones when she wants to look like a human pretending to be a vampire. Every so often, she wears them for no apparent reason.

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Divergence Points

In both Reynaldo and Evelyn's worlds, the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency created a project called Inquiry, the goal of which was to study the supernatural for potential applications in homeland defense. The project expanded, and eventually became a splinter group. In 2020, the Inquiry started several long-term experiments on nonhumans, studying their powers in the hopes of being able to create defenses against them. They kidnapped thousands of nonhumans across the country. The subjects all had one thing in common: they couldn't pass for human. The reason for this was that non-passing nonhumans are less likely to have legal identities and tend to have fewer humans who care about them. It was easier for the Inquiry to make them disappear without legal ramifications. In 2020, Reynaldo was enrolled in a public school, and knew dozens of supernaturally unaware humans. In 2020, Evelyn was homeschooled, and only knew supernaturally aware humans who were used to working outside of human law. By the Inquiry's standards, Evelyn was an acceptable candidate for their research. Reynaldo was not.

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Mmm... Noodle Incident flavored with depressing- tasty!

Ryan and Emma tried using amnesia magic on Emma exactly once. Ryan ended it after fifteen minutes. They never tried again.

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Being Alone Sucks

Isaac wants at least two children. He's not entirely sure how many, sometimes he thinks three or four, sometimes he just thinks "lots," but he's sure that if he has children, he wants at least two. He has a specific reason for this: He saw how isolated his mother and Reynaldo felt, being the only ones of their species. Even Isaac sometimes felt strange, not quite being the same species as either of his parents- but he had his siblings. Whatever species his children are, he thinks they shouldn't have to be the only one of their kind.