"Uh.. let's see..." Ebisu thought back, trying to remember how the whole thing started. "Oh yeah. I just asked him what his name was. Then I told him he had a weird name," "And I told him my aunt gave it to me," Battler continued. "And then I was too stupid to stop asking questions," Ebisu finished. "I ended up getting the whole history of his family."<br/><br/>"Well, I'm not a witch or anything, so I can't curse people." Battler said, reading his book as he carried on the conversation absently. "Well... that's a lie. I'm basically the guy version of a witch. I can't cast spells, but I can't have them cast on me either." He looked up from his book then with a suddenly hopeful expression. "Maybe that means the curse won't work on me and I won't have to marry that witch..?"<br/><br/>"So... are witches human?" Ebisu asked.<br/><br/>"Huh? I'm not sure," Battler muttered. "Why?"<br/><br/>"I was just curious. 'Cause for a human-dominated world, there are an awful lot of non-humans."<br/><br/>"Like what?" Battler asked, curious.<br/><br/>Ebisu held a finger up and pointed to himself, "Like Graecians."<br/><br/>Battler looked surprised. "Wait, Graecians aren't human?"<br/><br/>Ebisu laughed. "You're kidding, right? Nah, we just look similar. We come from completely different places, though. Like, you came from monkeys and we came from Ice Giants."<br/><br/>"Giants?" Battler asked.<br/><br/>Ebisu grinned. "We shrunk."<br/><br/>------------------------<br/><br/>((Ijemaru's past is awkward, but this is how it was, and I WILL write it down!))<br/><br/>Ijemaru was from an island, Isolated from the rest of Euphoria. But the way the culture on the island worked, it couldn't exist self-contained. No. On his home island, everybody was either homosexual or bisexual. It was a haven for same-sex couples, who would be readily accepted there. If children growing up on the island turned out to be straight, they would simply move away when they were old enough, but usually it was new people moving in, since there wasn't a very high birth rate. Ijemaru had two moms growing up. He didn't have any father that mattered, since Ava (the mother who gave birth to him) got the necessary sperm from a lab. He got his white hair and fair skin from her. His second mother, Amarikalta (Mari), was originally from Sifeed, so she had rich dark skin and (actually) blonde hair. Mari got to name him since Ava got to have him. That was why his name seemed so strange; it wasn't a Euphorian name.<br/><br/>Life was actually quite pleasant back then, and at least half his dream was of having a good time with his moms. It was exciting when their new neighbors had a boy his age. Kosuke only had one mom, and--despite living on Venus, the gay island--she was straight. She came to feel secure, because, although she loved Kosuke, he'd been conceived when she was gang-raped in an alley in Euphoria. She wanted to be as far from sex-crazed guys as she could be. At least, the kind of sex-crazed guys that liked women.<br/><br/>The latter half of his dream was simply playing with Kosuke back when they were both innocent kids. As opposed to the messed-up present, when one of them was a sadistic blood-crazy monster and the other was a demon.