I am incomplete. And none can give me any word but Wait.
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Introduction
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xxxxxA country boy with steady hands, book smarts, snake's eyes, and a heart full of fire.
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History
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xxxxxLael was the third of four children born to Sarah and Abednego Winters, who lived north of the tiny mountain town of Helen, Georgia. His physical mutations were present from birth and earned him no end of trouble, even from his own parents. From an early age, his care was mostly given over to his paternal grandmother Ruth.
xxxxxHe had few friends, the closest of whom was his younger sister Naomi. But even though the people of Helen looked upon his physical mutations with suspicion, they did at least all know him and claim him as one of their own. During the busy tourist seasons of summer and late fall, however, Helen proper became extremely inhospitable to the black boy with snake eyes and wriggling dreadlocks. As such, he spent a lot of time helping his grandmother with housework and crafts, or out in the woods with his little sister or a few good buddies from neighboring homesteads.
xxxxxWhen he was fourteen years old, his grandmother died and his home life deteriorated for a variety of reasons ranging from grief to financial stress to his parents' still-unresolved misgivings about their mutant child. That very winter, he began to manifest telepathic abilities, although he had no idea what they were at first and feared for his sanity...or his soul.
xxxxxFinding little support in his parents, he fled and lived for a time in Charlottesville, homeless and alone save for long-distance contact with his younger sister. It was Naomi who helped him figure out that the voices he heard in his head were actually other people's thoughts, and Naomi who persuaded him to apply to Xavier's School and eventually joined him there when she manifested both psionic powers and snakey features of her own.
xxxxxLael had many adventures and misadventures during his time at Xavier's. He was accidentally sucked into another dimension with a contingent of his schoolmates, then assaulted a government facility with a slightly different continent, becoming one of the Lassiter 16, whose imprisonment was instrumental to the fall of Prometheus. He finally graduated from Xavier's School in Spring of 2024 and was accepted to Cooper Union to study sculpting.
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Powers
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xxxxxLael's eyes have a clear, protective outer layer, similar to a snake's brille, that filters out ultraviolet light, keeps the eyes from drying out and obviates the need to blink. His hair is motile, prehensile, and under his conscious control, giving him a highly adaptable range of extra appendages. He is also a telepath, although his ability to read thoughts is not very strong in itself, nor is its reach very far. He only picks up surface thoughts when he focuses on people near him, and can only dig deeper with significant concentration. The primary strength of his ability is in memory alteration, which took him years to discover and several months of nonconsensual research in a Prometheus lab to master. Though he is cautiously and situationally open his telepathy, he does not often let his aptitude for thorough and lasting memory alteration.
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Skills
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xxxxxLael is an excellent student and has extensive experience with informal academic tutoring. He's a fair hand at throwing pottery, good at whittling, and rapidly gaining a wide spread of fine art techniques. In addition to those, he is competent in basic housekeeping and food preservation. He is what most people would call "handy": decent at troubleshooting everything from leaky plumbing to stalling pickup trucks using fairly minimal tools. He's a decent deer hunter (with bow or rifle) and pretty good at tracking in woodland environments. Has a limited amount of backcountry survival knowledge and basic first aid. Can drive both manual and automatic transmission. Can more than hold his own in a scrap.
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Connections
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Family
Friends
Foes
And everything in between
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Trivia
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- He doesn't blink often. This is possibly more unnerving than the actual shape of his pupils.
- Between his hair and his telepathy, he suffers from persistent and sometimes debilitating headaches.
- If you try touching his hair, it will touch you right back.
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Gallery
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Lael Isaiah Winters
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Codename
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Birthdate
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12/25/2005
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Birthplace
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Helen, GA
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Species
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Mutant
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Affiliation
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Xavier's School
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Alignment
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Quiet-Rowdy
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Powers
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Snake-like eyes, snake-like hair, telepathy/memory manipulation
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Occupation
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College Student
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Registration Status
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None
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Played By
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Jaden Smith
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RP Hooks
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By its Cover - Lael is an excellent student and an even better peer tutor. He will offer his services to struggling classmates--generally in trade for reasonable compensation (monetary or otherwise), though he will do it for free if he really enjoys someone's company.
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Droppin' Eaves - Lael has very little control over his telepathy and will often overhear surface thoughts when he is focusing on someone...for any reason, ranging from attraction to annoyance.
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What Makest Thou? - Growing up rural and poor, Lael learned to make many things at his grandmother's knee. He is fondest of pottery, but also a decent hand at whittling, and enjoys sharing both the process and the fruits of his crafts.
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Country Wide - Lael is a Georgia boy with a deep love for country living in general and Appalachian culture in particular, and is always ready to share that love, whether connecting with other country folks or with those who can use a bit of country in their big-city life.
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Logs
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Date
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Title
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Cast
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Mentions
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Mutant Games
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Amber, Lael, Kiri, Sammy
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Whipcrack
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Out of the Cold
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Lael, Sammy
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Jax, Shane
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Monster's Ball
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Bryce, Lael, Nessie, Tok
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Kyinha
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What? Yeah, sure, I'm good / sounds like you've had it rough, though / thank god that's not me
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AJ, Natsumi
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Roscoe, Leonidas, Nahida, Naomi, Lael, Avi, Charles, Harm, Jax
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Tesssting
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Charles, Jax, Joshua
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Harm, Naomi, Daiki, Shane, Ryan, Avi, Lael
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Package Deal
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Harm, Jax
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Naomi, Ryan, Joshua, Avi, Lael, Charles
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Red Flags
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Harm, Joshua
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Nahida, Naomi, Lael, Avi, Jax
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Modern Solutions
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Avi, Harm, Sera, Joshua
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Lael, Taylor, Charles, Naomi
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We Need to Talk
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Avi, Lael, Naomi
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Taylor, Harm, Sriyani, Spencer, Charles
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The seeds of friendship / like new flowers sprouting up / amidst the rubble
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Nahida, Natsumi, Roscoe
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Sriyani, Naomi, Lael, Avi, Charles, Quentin, Scott
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In Which a Hot Dog Has an Unfortunate Beginning and Unfortunate End, and an X-Kid’s Hopes Are Dashed
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Naomi, Roscoe, Taylor
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Lael, Spencer, Nick
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Strong Words
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Bryce, Dallen, Lily
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DJ, Lael
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Brain Freeze
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Hive, Naomi, Roscoe
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Charles, Lael
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In Which You Have Made People Like the Fish of the Sea, Like Crawling Things That Have No Ruler.
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Lucien, Leo, Scramble, Shane, B, DJ, Sera, Nick, Tian-shin, Polaris, Joshua, Skye, Anahita, Desi, Lael, Taylor, Elie
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Tag, Erik, Ion, Avi, Spencer, Nanami, Kelawini, Dusk
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Double Decker
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Hive, Kelawini, Cerebro
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Ryan, Nanami, B, Spencer, Kavalam, Halim, Dusk, Jax, Lael, Naomi
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Super Senior
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Lael, Roscoe
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Charles, Naomi
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White Jesus
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Avi, Bryce, Lael
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Naomi, Dallen, Roscoe, DJ, Lily, Dawson, Jax, Matt, Joshua
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He Doesn't Even Go Here!
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Naomi, Roscoe
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Charles, Lael
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Comparative Faith
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Avi, Naomi
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Spencer, Kitty, Joshua, Alma, Sera, Lael
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Who Says You Can't Go Home
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Lael, Naomi
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Jax, Harm
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In Which Some Patches and Some Labrats Are Heading Toward Becoming a Colorful New Quilt
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Joshua, !Karrie, Karrie, Daiki, Echo, Nahida, Naomi, Sriyani, Taylor
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Dusk, Spencer, Avi, Roscoe, Naomi, Nevaeh, Hive, Gaétan, Leonidas, Lael, Nick, B, Shane
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Polite Treatment
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Harm, Naomi
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Kavalam, Marinov, Lael
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Jammed Up
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Gaétan, Naomi
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Nanami, Lucien, Matt, Jax, Spencer, Lael, Avi
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In Which the People Shouted, and the Trumpets Were Blown. As Soon as the People Heard the Sound of the Trumpets, They Raised a Great Shout, and the Wall Fell Down Flat; so the People Charged Straight Ahead Into the City and Captured it.
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Scott, Chevy, Jax, Fury, Wendy, Lucien, Shane, Gaétan, Taylor, Tag, Boss Chen, Erik, Leo, Elie, Avi, Nevaeh, Naomi, Echo, Nanami, Spencer, Clint, Winona, Terri Pryde, Roscoe, Kitty, Ryan
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Kelawini, Harm, Remi, Leonidas, Lael, Asva, Sriyani, Ion, Polaris, Steve, DJ, Hive, Skye, Heather, Tian-shin, Joshua, Matt
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Prometheus: TITANFALL - eXtraction
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Nahida, Sriyani, Nanami, Dusk, Nevaeh, Ion, Alma, Blink, Ash, Echo, Hive, Matt, Gaétan, Spencer, Avi, Naomi, Harm
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B, Lucien, Jax, Lael
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Jump Start
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Charles, Scott, Spencer
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Jax, Matt, Kyinha, Tian-shin, Alma, Scramble, Dusk, Blink, Ion, Kitty, Polaris, Steve, Ryan, Remi, Leonidas, Asva, Lael, Sriyani, Hive, Winona, Dawson, Lucien
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Extra Credit Dimension
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Avi, Naomi
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Echo, Nahida, Lael, Jax, Maya, Kyinha, Shane
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Of Riots and Rethinking (Or, Best Laid Plans)
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Ryan, Sriyani, Nanami, Lael, Nahida, Lily, Nevaeh, Spencer, Roscoe, Rainy Ogden, Queen Bee, Beau, Gaétan, Kelawini, Naomi, Harm, Echo, Kavalam, Joshua
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Jax
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Of Buddies and Bait (Or, The Very Devout Members of the Lassiter Chapel Youth Group)
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Avi, Echo, Gaétan, Kavalam, Nahida, Nanami, Naomi, Roscoe, Spencer, Sriyani
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Jax, Matt, Leonidas, Lael, Asva, Harm, Remi, Kelawini, Elie, Nevaeh
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Reduce, Reuse, Raincycle
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Beau, Lael, Naomi, Spencer, Rainy
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Nessie
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Of Performances and Prizefights (Or, Spencer Fucking Holland)
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Gaétan, Harm, Kavalam, Nevaeh, Nahida, Roscoe
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Spencer, Leonidas, Avi, Naomi, Lael
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Methods
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Gaétan, Naomi, Elie
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Lael, Joshua, Spencer
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Keeping Watch
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K.C., Cerebro
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Avi, Gaétan, Flèche, Lucien, Spencer, Echo, Kelawini, Nanami, Harm, Remi, Leonidas, Asva, Lael, Naomi, Scott, Charles, DJ, Hive
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Not Monopoly
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Echo, Naomi
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Harm, Kavalam, Astrid, Lael
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Of Care and Community (Or, Shut the Fuck Up)
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Gaétan, Kavalam, Spencer
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Jax, Nanami, Harm, Remi, Leonidas, Lael, Kelawini, Roscoe, Avi, Elie, Lucien
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Of Raids and Realizations (Or, The Children’s Crusade)
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Sera, Spencer, Gaétan, Sriyani, Nanami, Echo, Remi, Avi, Lael, Naomi, Asva, Beau, Kelawini, Kavalam, Brendan, Nahida, Elie, Nevaeh, Scott, Shane, Roscoe, Harm
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Getting Serious
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Lael, Naomi
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Nanami, Gaétan, Echo, Harm, Marcus
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Gossip Bombs
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Nessie, Remi
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Harm, Jax, Kelawini, Nanami, Lael, Naomi, Gaétan, Spencer
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Icecapades
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Asva, Avi, Lael
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Jax
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Of Artwork and Advice (Or, Fury on Ice)
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Avi, Fury, Jax, Kavalam, Lael, Naomi, FitzSimmons
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Spencer, Lucien, Kitty, Ryan, Kieow, Nanami, Kelawini, Scott, B, Marcus
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Gossip Girls
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Nanami, Naomi, Nessie
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Rhydian, Spencer, Remi, Gaétan, Harm, Lael, Avi, Leo
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Double Anxiety
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Beau, Gaétan, Naomi
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Remi, Helo, Lael
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Dating, Discussed
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Harm, Naomi
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Jax, Lael
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Freak Index
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Anole, Naomi, Nick
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Erik, Nessie, Lael, Taylor, Marinov
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Like good stewards of the manifold grace of God, serve one another with whatever gift each of you has received.
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Heather, Leo, Naomi
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Steve, DJ, Lael
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Physical Education
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Avi, Lael, Naomi
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Outside Perspective
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Gaétan, Lael, Perseus
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Will Be Missed
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Lael, Naomi
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Important Secrets
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Avi, Lael
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Of Danger and Decisions (Or, The Devil You Know)
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Kavalam, Lael, Marcus
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