User: #dc143c

[lonered]

[USER: #DC143C]

Hey. Uh. It's Keith.

Something just happened to me, and I don't know if it's happened to anyone else.

I went home. I went home for months. But I'm also not sure I even really left? I've been gone... quiznak, a few days here? Maybe? It's confusing but I swear it's real. I remember all of it.

And more than that, I've got the injuries to back it up. You can't fake a fighter crash injuries under battle wounds just like that. And older scars I didn't have before I...

[He's fine. But the impressively colorful display of bruises and minor cuts that cover most of his body is pretty distinct at the moment, and not something he thinks could come from much besides exactly what he remembers happening. It all matches up perfectly.]

Anyway. I woke up in the woods. I don't remember going out there, but I must have. And someone or something stole my shoes, so that's... also awesome.

Has this happened to anyone else? What the hell is going on?

Oh.

Turns out I'm alive after all, by the way, if anyone was wondering. Back home, I mean.

And I have a mother.

[It has been... a really really weird day. He needs a hug. And to beat the crap out of something, but there's no training deck here so that's unfortunate.]

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[lonered]

Yeah. I mean, she's Galra, so she's supposed to be purple.

That part... wasn't a surprise or anything.

[passio]

[ dextera realizes he doesn't think he's ever met keith in real life, but surely he would notice if someone was purple and walking around. ]

But you're not purple?

[lonered]

No, no I look human. I guess I take after my dad.

[Only in coloration though. Aside from the purple and the pointy ears, he's the spitting image of his mother.]

[passio]

Oh. Interesting.

So you're... half-alien?

[ 'alien' is the conclusion he's come to based on everything he knows about keith, and he hopes that it's the correct one?! ]

[lonered]

Yeah. Half Galra. Which... isn't something anyone here has ever heard of.

Which is probably for the best.

[It is a good and accurate conclusion.]

[passio]

Would you mind explaining to me what a "Galra" is?

[ he gets the feeling that it's... personal, maybe, but keith also seems quite emotionally charged about it! ]

[lonered]

Galra are a race of aliens. And uh, the Galra empire has been taking over most of the known universe for the past ten thousand years, conquering, destroying, enslaving. That sort of thing.

But not all Galra are like that. Some actively fight against the empire.

[passio]

[ put like that, it makes all his problems seem quite small... who cares about the apocalypse of one planet when the known universe is so much bigger than that? it doesn't change a lot about his feelings, in the end, but it's enough for him to pause at his laptop. ]

Oh.

And your mother...?

[lonered]

A member of the Blade of Marmora, the resistance group that's been fighting the empire all along.

[So. Good Galra.]

[passio]

You must be proud. She sounds respectable.

Have you found your shoes yet?

[lonered]

I guess I should be.

No, but someone lent me another pair.