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Yeah, definitely so+meo+ne who+ sho+uld have a lo+ng chat with Aranea. Anyway, the name's Po+rrim Maryam.

 

Fro+m Befo+rus. Which I suppo+se yo+u co+uld co+nsider Alternia? In that it is what Alternia used to+ be befo+re we scratched o+ur sessio+n, so+ it's also+ no+t really Alternia. It's weird time shit.

 

"A place before, replaced by an alternate, perchance?"

 

*frowns* Wow. I guess that means there's a whole lot I don't know about trolls.

 

Yeah. That is what it is, isn't it? Go+d. Our planets are puns. I do+n't kno+w what to+ think abo+ut that.

 

Hey, @THE GREAT PAPYRUS, look!

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Definitely. If yo+u're o+nly familiar with Alternians yo+u're pro+bably go+ing to+ find my so+rt a surprise. Huge o+ne at that. Go+o+d example is ho+w we use the wo+rd culling. Fo+r us it's being placed into+ the custo+dy o+f an o+lder tro+ll who+ is higher up o+n the hemo+spectrum. This can happen fo+r a large variety o+f reaso+ns. Fo+r so+me it's a so+rt o+f punishment, designed to+ teach yo+u "pro+per tro+llish values". Fo+r others its because o+f disabilities, perceived o+r real.

 

Yeah... that's a surprise.

Not really a good one, though. I mean, it's better than a lot of the stuff I've heard about Alternia, but... it also sounds really, really, really patronizing.

 

Yo+u do+n't even kno+w the half o+f it. One o+f my ex-matesprits was basically raised being to+ld that it was her duty to+ help all o+f us lo+wblo+o+ds. Sure, there were o+thers higher up o+n the spectrum than her, but still that's a go+o+d half o+f the co+lo+rs being treated like they can't po+ssibly do+ things o+n their o+wn.

We were also+ as rigid as the Alternians. My blo+o+d co+lo+r? It's jade. Very rare co+lo+r and mo+st o+f the jades bo+rn are female. Our ro+le in the so+ciety is as caretakers o+f the mo+ther grub. So+ o+nce yo+u hit abo+ut 8 sweeps o+f age it was o+ff to+ the bro+o+ding caverns fo+r yo+u, no+ ifs ands o+r buts. This also+ came with a hell o+f a series o+f stereo+types and myths abo+ut us to+o+. We go+t characterized as a specific so+rt o+f nurturing and kind, regardless o+f o+ur actual perso+nalities. There's also+ the fact that yo+u were expected to+ fit so+me so+rt o+f hyperfeminine and demure image. Deviate fro+m that, and well yo+u're just being a child. Or gro+ss. Either o+r. Do+n't even get me started o+n ho+w fetishized my caste was. There was an entire genre o+f po+rn dedicated to+ yo+ung "virgin" jadeblo+o+ds, prime fo+r the caverns. Which was a pro+blem fo+r a large variety o+f reaso+ns, but I'll just leave it with 8 being just barely co+nsidered adult in o+ur culture fo+r no+w.

 

Oh, so you must know Damara, then?

 

Yep. I've kno+wn her fo+r mo+st my quasi-eternal existence!

 

*sighs* Yeah, I wouldn't like that. It sounds like some of the worst parts of being a genie plus some shit I'm glad genies never had. And like why I never really liked being a fairy godparent, even though I was free at the time.

 

The + side is that o+ur blo+o+d is the mo+st fabulo+us co+lo+r.

Anyway, at least it so+unds like yo+u're o+ut o+f that situatio+n no+w. Which is go+o+d.

 

*grins* Yep, I sure am. And it's awesome!

 

Well go+o+d fo+r yo+u! Also+, I've been rude. Never go+t yo+ur name. No+r did I get the name o+f the dashing man who+ kno+ws Megido+.

 

I'm Norm the Genie. *grins* Though you can just call me Norm.

"The Genie" is not really a last name, though it does sorta sound like one. *laughs* All genies are called "The Genie," but I dunno why that it is.

 

Dunno+. Co+uld be a designatio+n o+f yo+ur ro+le and rank given what yo+u've said abo+ut yo+ur life befo+re no+w? We do+ so+mething like that with the titles peo+ple get as they age. Or did. Everyo+ne's dead no+w.

 

Stanford Pines! And this is my wife, Valiska.

 

Wife? That so+me so+rt o+f human wo+rd fo+r quadrantmate? Or am I making assumptio+ns there? Either way it's nice to+ meet yo+u bo+th.

 

*sighs* Yeah, that's probably exactly it. Since, well, even if most humans don't believe in genies, they do know what they are and so saying that I am one would make it really clear to them what they're supposed to do with me. *snorts* I mean, if they can't already tell from the lamp and the tail.