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[Late in the morning, only just after he had his morning coffee and just fixed toast for breakfast, Teddy had been surprised to find himself being shoved out of the apartment by his own boyfriend. Soon, he found himself blinking at the front door, a piece of cinnamoned toast still in his hand as the post-it note with his name beside Billy's door sign fluttered mournfully to the ground.

He got out a pitiful whine and forlornly posted the note back up before he ushered himself outside, finishing his toast in the meantime.

During the day, Teddy can be found at multiple places. The first is the Battledome, where he fiddles with the settings, some as harmless as a movie theater and some as dangerous as a warzone, but he doesn't fully go through with them. He's merely going through the options for later use. He may mutter to himself about how this must be what the Danger Room is like, and he may even be up for a light spar or something different if someone found him.

The second is Seventh Heaven, where he eats a light lunch of a small burger with fries, and he's a little proud of how he didn't compare it to New York's food outloud. It doen't mean he doesn't think it, though, and he spends more time subtly people watching and listening to conversations than really focusing on food and what the homelife was like. When he's done, he doodles a few musical notes on a napkin, again to possibly be used at a later date, before he stuffs that in his pocket.

The final place is on the roof of the school. He's not doing much of anything up there, just sitting with his legs pulled up and looking out over the village.

Teddy still can't help marveling over how different this place is from what he's used to. There aren't any sounds of car alarms or horns, no distant conversations or laughter, no police sirens or a far off explosion from an invading force (though, Teddy thinks to himself, he ought to be more thankful for the lack of the latter). Occasionally at night, he still wakes up and thinks that it's too quiet, too dark. And he really hopes he's not the only one who thinks that way.

With that thought in mind, Teddy reaches behind him to take the journal, left open in case Billy decides to let him back into the apartment, and decides to address the masses.]

Does anyone else feel seriously out of place here, or am I just being weird? And I don't mean the whole, "being held captive and having to suffer through lame shifts", but just the setting in general. Anyone else out there come from a home that's completely different from a village straight out of Golden Sun?

[He decides then that he'll chat with people for a while, then venture off the roof and see if Billy will allow him back inside. Not that Teddy knows what he did to deserve being kicked outside, but maybe he can beg for forgiveness enough to be let back in.]

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Stay here? [He doesn't sound appalled or concerned. Really, Teddy can understand. If one's home is worse than this or made lasting relationships here, then one would want to stay here.]

I'm sure you're not the only one who'd want to stay here if given the choice. What made it worse for you at home? It's okay if you don't want to answer.

[Pffft he'll just say this.]

Where to begin? The stupid war, or the capturing of people born differently from others to use in it? The ones who're born different are considered monsters and were used to fight or power some big machine things. They look just like any other human, but they're stronger and are basically a reborn god. Luceti doesn't have that problem, even if we're fighting a war here too. [It's much more civil. And enjoyable. They don't exactly discriminate against people here.]

Discrimination, then. Sounds like that's a problem on every world I hear about. [It's bad on his world, too. Against mutants, different races, different sexualities...]

I can see why you'd prefer this place. With everyone exposed to all kinds of races and such open people, there isn't much hate to go around, huh? People aren't afraid of what's different here.

Yeah, that's it. It's like Utopia. Except with a war hanging over our heads, but it's so spacey around here it doesn't seem like anyone really remembers unless they're going out on those missions things and fighting in the drafts. It's pretty hard to forget once you've seen action though.

[And he's seen action from both options. He's very aware, man.]

I haven't seen either of those myself. Not here, at least. [Definitely back at home. All in the span of a few months, at that.] But from what I've heard, it won't take too long before I'm put on either of those things.

Other than those, and the kidnappings and experiments and supposedly evil butthead scientists, it's kind of a slice of heaven for some people, isn't it?

Yeah, pretty much. You don't even see the scientists that often and they're no use when they do talk. Bunch of riddles and big words. The kidnappings are pretty easy to ignore unless it happens to you since a lot of people know they're coming back... not that it makes it any less painful to be poked and prodded like an animal.

[He had pain testing for two weeks, bro. Not a fun time.]

... Wait, has anyone ever tried to stop these kidnappings? [He's going to assume no, if they're "easy to forget". And Teddy has a good idea why, since everything else here is virtually unstoppable. But still...]

The first time they do. Some people fight against the kidnappings and all, but the droids are like, endless. So you can destroy as many as you want but no matter what you're going to be tested on. Otherwise, not really. I think some people are trying to figure out ways to get around it though. [Oh maybe he shouldn't have said that on the unsecure network the Mallos can see.]

[Yeaaah, he can get the gist of that. So he'll just leave that part alone.]

There's no way that droids can be endless. If we can just stay alert and fight them all together...

I'm probably sounding idealistic to a lot of people, aren't I?

Definitely. Even the broadcasted ones are skipped over, especially if they're not really known to people.

[yes, some are shown on the system. it's already too late to do anything by the time someone sees it though.]

I guess if you got a lot of people together, they could stop them... But good luck figuring out who's next.

I guess that would be a problem.

[He doesn't like it. He really doesn't like how someone can just skim over someone clearly in distress, even if it's already too late. Perhaps the people here have grown jaded or used to it, but as someone who's looked up to super heroes and is one himself, he can't possibly ignore something like that. It's just not in his nature.]

We'll stop them someday. There're too many hero types here to not move forward in that.

[... he kind of likes you, ted, it's kind of nice to see someone wanting to take action for once.]

Well, you've got me and Soren here. [There's a trill accompanying the words, agreeing.] As much as I like this place over my home, at least there I could kill people who tried to capture me.

[he was within the past month kidnapped to boot so it's fresh in his memory, such humiliation.]

[Mmm. He can't say he's for killing, but he knows that there are people here who wouldn't hesitate to do so. And who'd likely get tired of people who constantly tell them that it's the wrong thing to do.

So, Teddy lets it slide.]

It's nice to know I've got people on my side. Soren, though...?

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