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[unpocoloco]

Héctor
UN: OLLIN

STATUS: Graduate Student / Teacher's Assistant

ACCOLADES: I write music, know how to play a few instruments, mostly la guitarra.

BIO: !Hola¡ Soy Héctor. Yo hablo español y un poco inglés. I've come to Daybreak to learn a little about all this magic stuff and help out around the Campus. If you need an odd job taken care of, I'm your guy! (Unless you are la policía. Or someone I have borrowed from. If that is the case, do not contact me, por favor.)

© TESSISAMESS

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No more veil.
I would look into fairy circles.
I'm not sure how else you'll get through without a travel visa.
It's hard enough for me to get one of those let alone someone who's never been human.


Ah yes, that was fun.
I believe I was ten or eleven?
It's a little jumbled in my head now.
But that might be a good age.

When you were exchanged, did you just stay nine the whole time?
You didn't grow at all?

[panpiping]

it’s been some time
might be fun!

oh, no
when we swapped, I was almost two
well
I was one hundred and sixteen
but my exchange was almost two
they gave her back after eight years
in this place, anyway

[unpocoloco]

Oh.
That is strange.
That must have been hard for them all...

It still doesn't excuse how they treated you though.

[panpiping]

I still don’t know
I mean
a lot of changelings I went through the program with
didn’t make it

it’s not unusual for us
to bear the consequences of our parents’ grief
or else they didn’t understand and they’d get scared
or we’d simply die
of natural causes

many children
human and fey
didn’t make it in those days

[unpocoloco]

I know what it is to be an unwanted child.
And to make it by luck alone.

It's not unusual.
But it's still wrong.
It's still painful, in many cases.
I think you're resilient to have made it and be as you are now.
I also think you shouldn't have had to be.

[panpiping]

well
thank you Héctor
and I’m sorry no one was smart or kind enough
to take you in
and love you like they should have

the worst part
(it wasn’t the worst part, that’s a lie
but mostly a joke)
was the DRESSES
too tight in the arms!!
clingy
not swishy at all!!!
except for the skirt

[unpocoloco]

Thank you.
Though, I found my own sort of love and family anyway, so it worked out.

[Now wist just needed theirs.]

Jaja
Mi hija can help with that.
She likes the swishy dresses too.
Nice short sleeves.

[panpiping]

yeah!
you did!!
good job!

yes! yay!
swoosh swoosh swish
and breeches! pants! leggings!
I'm allowed to wear things that are not dresses now!
and all the colors!!
so so many colors
and I don't even have to help dye things the colors!
not that I minded
that was a little fun

[unpocoloco]

Perhaps we can do that someday.
I bet you'd like that tie-dye thing that was popular once.
No more having to wear just one thing or one color.
Though, Imelda may protest anything that's too offensive to her fashion sensibilities.

[panpiping]

yeah! I want to do that!
whatever it is!!

> goodshoes.jpg

????

[unpocoloco]

[He chokes on a laugh.]

Dios mio
Those are beautiful.
She would hate them.
But, that just means wearing them when she's not around.

[panpiping]

hate them?
but they're fluffy!!
they have eyes
what if they look at her with the sadness
of being hated
for simply being

[unpocoloco]

Mi amor does not tend for mercy with inanimate objects
Even when they stare back sadly.
You'll have to ask her about fashion rules.

[panpiping]

but that's terrible...
inanimate objects have memories too
:(

[unpocoloco]

Do they?
Perhaps she'll hear you out if you explain as much.

[He doubts it.]

But I'm sure you can give them love enough for both of you

[panpiping]

of course they do!!
don't be so silly
that's basic memory magic
even some human seers can do it
without practicing!

that's true that's true
as much as I don't like wearing shoes
I can love shoes quite a lot!
these ones...
deserve pets

[unpocoloco]

Well, there's something new I'm learning

Wist,
Has anyone ever mentioned
That you can be adorable sometimes?

[panpiping]

I bet you'd be good at it!
since you are made of memories
more literally than most

:O!!!!
hee hee

[unpocoloco]

At memory magic?
I never thought of trying.
I guess it's worth looking into.

Ah, see, there you are again with it.

[panpiping]

I can help teach you!
it will be lots of fun!

feel free to tell me as many times as you like
it makes me really happy
but you should know...
I think that out of many adorable humans
you are one of the most adorable

[unpocoloco]

Then in that case,
I am ready to learn, professor Wist.

And what an honor that is.
I'm touched, truly.

[panpiping]

...
there is something I would like to ask of you
but it would be best kept to myself
until we are certain about what will happen
probably

it felt most honest to be upfront
about a fey's demands

[unpocoloco]

oh?

You have terms?
I'm not sure I am up for a contract, Wist.
Unless you mean something else.

[panpiping]

don't be silly, Héctor
I don't do Contracts
with a capital C
they aren't any fun at all

[unpocoloco]

[There's some relief there, but also means a sense of worry that's a little more personal.]

Alright. Good.
You're sure you can't tell me, then?
If it's something on your mind,
you can talk to me.