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Research on triplets in Resonance
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What causes the emergency of gifted individuals is a topic of immense interest for obvious reasons. Genetics play a factor, and it’s much more likely than not that a gifted individual knows one or two blood relatives at two or three degree of separation, closer is possible, just unlikely. Not as unlikely as having a gift in the first place, but gifted individuals that have a uncle with a gift outnumber gifted individuals that have a gifted parent by a reliable margin. The obvious exception is pregnancy of multiple babies, when one of the children is gifted the other one(s) are very likely to be. Mixes of gifted and not gifted twins are rare, and similar situations in triplets rarer still, since triplets themselves...

Fernando was losing interest in the article. It didn’t site a single number or statistic, it didn’t even mention that among the global population one in every hundred had a gift. Or that attempts at eugenics with gifted didn't produce any noticeable results. Though the later might have been because the "Super-Interesting" Magazine left here was not an actual scientific journal and was just science-flavored entertainment. Still, he expected more for something in the lobby of a institution that was conducting researching multiples with gifts.

Not that he has any intention to complain, given that they also made the mistake of getting a bunch of preteens and teens with magical powers in the same room. Their hands are full enough.

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And what an excellent mistake it was. 

The arrival of a full set of yet more multiples is delayed when the first one stops short just inside the door to look around at the other teens in the room with the expression of a kid who's been left unsupervised in a candy shop.

"You know what, I take it back, Gabriel. Maybe this study won't be a waste of time, after all." 

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A second boy peers over his shoulder, first one then the other eyebrow rising at the sight inside the room. 

"When you're right, you're right," he comments, smirking. 

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"For god's sake you two, pull your tongues back into your mouths," says yet a third identical voice, his exasperation palpable. 

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The room is large, but crowded, since they needed multiple sets of people. And there is quite a age range. With the youngest being a pair of boys that are nearly identical except for - oddly enough - the shades of their brown-red hair. They are accompanied by their parents, a red-haired woman and a fully grown man that's bouncing for some reason.

Closer to the Anes' age range (and interests), there are quite many teens and twenty somethings. In the distance, sitting on the green couch there is a girl taking notes, next to what - at first glance - appears to be a pair of identical sisters, but who then reveal to be the same girl after one emerges with the other. Close to her, leaning against a blue wall there is a boy with cool white hair, he looks longingly at the notebook girl and is for some reason holding a mirror and talking to another young man who is likely his fraternal twin and a pair fraternal twin girls, one of which dashes across the room and back, to show off her gift.

Nearby in a purple couch, there is the another triplet set, hard to tell what they can do, but one of them appears to be trying his best to make himself the center of the room without even trying too hard. In the same couch (it's a large couch, a lot of people could fit in it) a pair of identical twins, one who is playing with some sort of techno-gauntlet and another who is observing the entire room like he is trying to solve a mystery.

Clad in matching white outfits, two non-identical girls appear to be... not talking to each other, but they are looking and making facial expressions like they were. With no lip movement. One plays with metallic marbles. There is also a pair of blonde fraternal boys, one of which is really buff and who appears to be feeling uncomfortable hot, given how he is lifting his shirt (showing his abs) to fan himself. This despite the air being quite chill. His brother is also good-looking but has a sort of "porn star who never made a facial expression" sort of face.

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Of course, those are the ones in their age range. There are quite many more and - being minors with superpowers - there is a ruckus exploding every other minute, leaving staff quite occupied.

Oh, wait, now that they take a second glance, there is another set of identical triplets over here. In the couch that is silver with vivid purple strikes (the decoration in this lounge is really patch worked).

One of them notices the three coming in and waves them to come over.

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Huh, he'd expected this to get a fair amount of attention - it is a mostly unexplored topic - but not this much. He nudges his brothers out of the way of the door so he can take a better look around, cataloging the gifts he can determine from watching. His attention is caught by the girl with the marbles. Another magnetism gift? If so, he wonders how their gifts differ.

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Hey, identical triplets! More than one set, even. They've never actually met another set before, triplets being rare enough without adding how rare identicals are. He grabs Leco and Gabriel before the latter can leave them for the girl he's watching, pointing out the one who waved. 

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"Huh. Let's go be social, I guess," Leco agrees. The three of them make their way over to the couch. 

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One of them gives them a very meaningful all over look.

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But the one that waved them over talks. "Hey, there. Did you just got here or you arrived earlier and got processed?"

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He gets a very meaningful look right back, along with his brothers. 

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 From this one, too.

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 Gabriel ignores the silent byplay, "We just got here," he says. "Gabriel Anes, and my brothers are Angélo and Aleixo," he adds, waving at each as he names them.  

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 "Angél," the one named thus corrects, distracted from the exchange of meaningful glances.

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"Right. How do we get processed?"

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"Felix Solano, and my brother Fernando and Thomas," he waves.

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Thomas smirks. "Charmed."

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"There is usually someone to greet you by the door, but they are busy with the little gifted." Fernando waves in the direction of a small girl in a sweater so over the top that one barely notices her glowing in a rainbow aura. A boy with a baseball is apparently trying to make her stop.

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"There is a room over there, where they can get an identification badge," he removes his own from a shirt pocket. "I can show you where, only one of you needs to come along." He waves at the free seats near them.

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Gabriel eyes his brothers and sighs internally, "I'll go." He starts off in the direction Felix had pointed out. 

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 Angél flops down on the couch next to Thomas, "We are very charming," he agrees with a grin. 

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Leco joins Angél, watching the chaos with a slight frown. "Should we be helping with this madness, or would we just get in the way," he wonders. It's kind of funny to watch the staff running around like their heads got cut off, but someone might get hurt if this continues. 

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Felix leads the way to the relevant room, more like a nook, where a person takes their information. "You're not from Brazil?" Felix asks after that information is stated.

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"I see. I don't suppose that's your gift?"

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"Not originally. Both of our parents were, but we were born in Canada. We moved back when we were twelve."

 

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