[b][h3][center][color=ec008c]Anomaly[/color][/center][/h3][/b][center]In the VTOL, en route to mission[/center][hr]
[color=ec008c]"... I guess dads are a trend, huh? I can relate."[/color] Xoxi took a deep breath, exhaling with a gentle sigh as she began to tell the other girls in the VTOL her story. It would've been rude not to tell it, after all. [color=ec008c]"Here goes..."[/color] 

[color=ec008c]"My dad was the main parental figure in my life, after my mom left him for some rich guy. We lived in poverty in a small apartment a town over. Life was tough, but I managed to get through it without making my dad super mad at me. I knew he was taking it harder than I ever could've. If it means anything, the best gift I ever got was a Gamecube with three games when I was 10 years old, and it was a hand-me-down from a thrift store. Still, my dad's smile was the best thing I ever saw when I told him it was great."

"About a year ago, give or take, my mom came into my life again. She told me that she wanted to see what kind of a woman I had become, and she was prepared to offer my dad a large sum of money for me to spend a week with her. My dad took it and sent me off, expecting me to return within a week. I put my stuff down in my mom's husband's estate, only to have a washcloth shoved under my nose."

"I woke up in a hospital a few days later without my arms. I had a very experimental drug injected into both of my arms, causing them to rot off of my body. The doctors left me alone to cope with my loss, when... well... my hands formed."[/color] A ghost hand formed beside Xoxi, waving to the rest of the girls in the ship. [color=ec008c]"I spent a month in the hospital, and when I returned home to my dad, who payed off the entire bill with the money my mom gave him before her incarceration, he saw the news. A drug-bust by the Wards at the time. He sent me here to the Protectorate in order to sign me up for the Wards. I was allowed to join them, and here I am."[/color]

[color=ec008c]"If it means anything, though, that three day coma had a [i]wicked[/i] dream."[/color] Xoxi chuckled, hiding her very subtle sadness with humor. 

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