<div class="floatright">(https://i.imgur.com/CbThKQ5.jpg)</div><hr/><strong>Location</strong>: Introduction to Arcane Theory<br/><strong>Tagging</strong>: Tara, OPEN<hr/>Nyx was still trying to sort if that had been some veiled reference to Ender's Game on the part of the professor. But, still, the intended compliment came through handily enough. Nyx wasn't sure there was any such thing as completely at home with 'maybe's and 'fluidity,' but they were willing to admit to a level of comfort. It wasn't exactly that they'd wanted to be familiar with being unmoored. That they had asked for an identity that drifted. Still, some seemed to think it a good thing. They only considered it reality. What else could they be but comfortable with their own nature?<br/><br/>Well, that was nonsense. As the conversation that happened after the eighties fashion reject asked his question proved. Plenty of people lived lives that saw them rejecting their own natures: from closeted conservative politicians to people who forced themselves to accept what made them unhappy. They probably could have led a life like that, but they hadn't. At the teacher's last question, Nyx turned to regard Tara. Tara was exactly something akin to the 'My Fair Lady' stuff. It wasn't anything like a gentle adjustment, they supposed, and more like a rude awakening, but Tara had gone from Normie to Outcast overnight. Nyx was inclined to believe that the studies the professor had mentioned needed further research. They suspected they missed some key details.<br/><br/>As such, they left their friend out of it as they turned and raised their hands,<strong>"Again, I feel like there's something being missed in that perspective. There are those who can learn to be Outcasts, I suppose. Gaining ESP or learning magic. You hear about it, right? But how do these deniers rationalize werewolves and vampires. No offense to any present, most of them were born that way, but those are still conditions that can be passed on no matter what. To any Normie. And, from what I understand, something similar for Native American Skinwalkers."</strong>Some people really seemed to have a bias for witches and such when it came to Outcasts.