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But I'm smiling so hard. Aki you precious.

[quote=Fox of Spades]Wow, what has Nowhere done to these cuties ;A; //shot[/quote]
Stabbed them with shrapnel, tossed them around into walls, broke their bones and their spirits - Obviously.

I still find it hard to imagine Leila as any sort of a fighter ahaha I thought the deranged math professor we came up with in the chat was the consensus for a future Leila but man this is amazing too.

Looking forward to that post in the afternoon!

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As some of you may have already heard through the chat group.

Leila's life before the train was...rather uneventful, really. There was that time of drama when the genius thing started being noticeable and the family having a hard time dealing with it, but that was when she was like, six, seven years old?

She lived in that complex ever since. Her parents were the kind of people who were so busy their schedules are laid out by the second (and without exception, by someone other than themselves because they have better things to be doing than arranging schedules) so she didn't really get to meet them much. Her parents considered her to be mad more than anything else, so one could probably say her living complex was more like a self-built asylum since they decided it would've damaged the reputation of the family and its business if they sent her to an actual one? But yeah, I suppose you are free to pull the "princess in a tower" symbolism here.

A little batch of people monitor her living - mostly so that she didn't randomly get lost or die somewhere by accident. Most of them are just sent there as a temporary station, except a few, like old man James some of you might remember from further back in the IC on the old guild, who are assigned to the living complex permanently, and Leila actually got to know a few of them over time. Might as well say they're her family in a way, and the complex is more like a self-constructed host family instead. Less tragic than the idea of just being locked up I guess?

All that from her actual perspective was much less dramatic than it'd sound because she honestly didn't care back then and was just happy to have her tea and her books. And she also considered a supply of food and a place to rest without needing to fight for it to be really great. She didn't really mind the restricted environment because there was already enough in the Library to keep her engaged for a lifetime, so yeah.

Then there was the train and it messed everything up.

Her family probably thinks she's dead by now, even though the news would likely only get to her parents officially some time later after they discover her missing because it takes time to relay news through the hierarchy of something as large as her family. They'll naturally be outraged and some people will likely loose their jobs, and then a funeral will be held so that no-one accuses them of being entirely heartless, although that'd be done probably as low-profile as possible. The parent's [i]aren't[/i] entirely heartless anyways and will take some time getting over it but granted their character it'll probably take much shorter than you'd expect from people who just lost one of their children.

Not sure if Leila would regret boarding the train - she actually got to see a world much different to what she's seen so far, and she's enjoying that. Truth be told the amazement will be similar if she simply just got thrown out into the human world since she's way detached, but then the suspicion that it's not the human world also makes her inner misanthropist feel that bit better (hah). The constant threat of death she'll have to deal with, I suppose?

Yeah Leila's backstory is underdeveloped and unrealistic to the max ahah.
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