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[This is via text because NO ONE SHOULD SEE HIM RIGHT NOW HE'S HIDEOUS and also he's hyper depressed about losing his best friend, but mostly HE'S HIDEOUS. His roots are showing like mad and he's resorted to wearing a beanie. A BEANIE in this weather. It's horrific.]

yeah so glad everything's all back to normal and whatever, but i got an important question:

where can i get some hair bleach and dye? 'cause like hell i'm going out like this

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Not always. It's a skill like any other and can be learned by anyone of sufficient intelligence.

My own specialty is poisons, but I believe Morrigan is expert in restoratives.

well that counts me out then. i barely survive regular school. i don't think i'd be good at whatever it is they do.

also poisons? wtf man what do you do for a job?

I wouldn't say that, necessarily. Are you smart enough to not put the glowing, dangerously reactive, toxic magic metal into your mouth? Then, yes, you're smart enough.

As for myself, I used to be an assassin. These days I work as a masseuse, under Mistress Koralle. A definite step up, socially!

well yeah, but it's not like i'm gonna know what any of those magic metals all. hell i could barely pass regular old chemistry.

...i think i barely passed? i might have failed, i dunno.

[He honestly doesn't know because he never got to his second term exams.]

and uh yeah? not killing people for a living anymore is generally a step up.

[Holy shit, how does he keep meeting these kinds of people...]

Chemistry?

[See reaction of: pretty much any normal person who meets Zevran.]

For a number of reasons, yes. Not the least of which is actually getting paid for my own work.

yeah, you know? science? they teach it in school and force you to learn it even if you're never gonna use it in real life

also you do know how gross it sounds that you got paid to kill people, right? just checkin

Well, you mentioned "modern tech," so I can safely assume that your own world was quite different from mine. What else do they teach in your schools?

Oh, and I wasn't the one who got paid. My master got paid- and quite well, I might add. I saw none of the money and didn't start earning my own until after I escaped.

idk math, science, English, japanese, history, social studies, home ec, PE which is honestly the best subject, computers, uh....art and music? those are the big ones

...what you were like a slave? wtf that's even worse? what the hell what a shitty thing to make you do?? I hope you kicked the shit out of the asshole who used you

[He...understands those words individually?? Can he have a half point for that?]

Really? So, it's more like a college? You wouldn't get such a broad foundation in Thedas; reading, writing, and sums, if you're lucky. Most people barely get that, but then most people are peasants.

Technically, yes, though Crows are offered a number of freedoms that slaves in other parts of the world are not allowed. We were given training, housing, pocket money and a degree of freedom to come and go as we pleased, so long as we did our jobs.

It gave the illusion that we weren't property, but a valuable resource. Many slaves had it much worse. We at least had a sense of self-worth.

[More points than Ryuji probably earned in these classes, so sure.]

no way man, college is sooo much harder and hella expensive. we got a pretty normal education - everyone in Japan gets it.

and uh, we don't really call people "peasants" anymore. it's sorta rude.

so you were more like indentured servants than slaves, but that's still a kind of slavery, man. not cool at all. i'm sorry you had to go through that

I'm sensing a fundamental misunderstanding. To me, your standard education is more akin to a college: a place for a small number of people to come and seek a great deal of knowledge. And yes, by definition, quite expensive, unless the college is a Circle of Magi.

I survived, I escaped, and with a number of marketable of skills, to boot. Many of the trainees did not. So I consider myself to have come out ahead in the long run.

[HAHA HA HAHA...Ah man, you don't even know the worst of it. He's sparing you the literally gory details.

But more importantly: ]

What do you call them, if not peasants?

uh yeah i guess so because colleges for us are where you go after you finish everything else. they're still pretty expensive and not everyone goes, but if you got something you wanna study or you got a job in mind, you go to a university and then they teach you more

[He's going to guess the "marketable skills" were the poison making and killing people thing which is not...really so cool, but if that's all this guy ever knew, is it any wonder he turned out to be an assassin? It's still really messed up, but Ryuji isn't sure if he can be angry anymore. It just seems...sad.]

you call them 'people'? i mean there's regular people and then there's the super rich assholes, but we outnumber them but a ton

[Not just that! Also getting people to tell him personal things without effort. And massage. Also that seems like an awful lot of schooling.]

Of course, they're people, everyone is a person. But what does everyone DO with all of this education? Who grows crops or breeds animals? Do the "super rich assholes" happen to have titles, because if so we just called them nobles.

There's quite a bit of information I'm lacking that seems to be required to understand how things worked on your world.

they still grow crops and breed animals, they just learn to do it better n' smarter and run it as a business, too
there are a lot of farmers and people who got money

and some of the assholes have titles
politicians, company presidents, shitty teachers
but not all of 'em are what you might call "nobles"
they're just people with power, sometimes with noble blood, usually just with a stick up their asses

the world i'm from is complicated - we got a lot of good things going for us like education and medicine and stuff
but we also have a lot of shitty people in it who take and take and still ain't satisfied
it ain't so different from other worlds i think

Mine was more like this one. Kings and nobility, merchants and scholars, physicians and alchemists. This world even has dragons, plague, prostitutes and political intrigue. All I'd need to really feel at home is a pair of holy armies breathing down people's necks and some fish chowder.

At least I have a lead on the fish chowder.

we got elected presidents and prime ministers, but they do just about as much as a king does

[aka nothing much until there's a crisis]

do you really want a pair of holy armies breathing down your neck though? that sounds...intense

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