"That sounds fascinating. Sociologically or biologically or both, depending."

"I'm a biologist by trade, myself. I'm sure the sociological aspect is fascinating but I have less of an idea where to start."

"I'm not a biologist but 'biologist' is kind of a relative term where I'm from, I was genetically engineering pretty butterflies with all the other six-year-olds as a kid, I just didn't make it my life's work."

"--That's adorable and I'm jealous."

"I got this lovely purple gradient on their wings! I can probably dig up the pictures sometime if you want to see."

"I'd love to!"

The next person to sweep into the room is a young man in flowing black robes with a carefully neutral expression hiding disdain for literally everyone else in the room. He definitely plans to bring everyone else to heel, ultimately, but he's not going to start right now, so. He'd really like to not be taking classes with a bunch of Muggles and magical creatures, but you take the opportunities you're given and he really does need to deal with the Voldemort problem. 

The next one is a cheerful but slightly nervous young woman who really hopes this doesn't get too messy. She knows why she's here, but doesn't really reflect on it; she's not a huge fan of the reason but, you know, magic, advanced tech, fun stuff. 

After her comes a light-skinned black woman with big earrings, a leather jacket, and lightly ripped jeans. She surveys the scene with a calm, self-satisfied confidence, and sprawls sideways in her seat when she takes it. 

Underneath the confidence there is a practiced wariness. This is a woman who's gotten in a lot of fights, and ultimately emerged victorious from every one that mattered. She's had to lie, cheat and steal to get where she has in life, but now that she has a solid power base, she can afford to be honorable and kind. And she needs the resources MCU offers to finally defeat her greatest rival, that fucker Lia Malolu. 

The next entrant is pissed off. 

Not at anyone here. It's just sort of a background fact of life, that she's super fucking pissed at her stupid-ass evil petty asshole dickwad ex-boyfriend. 

If this place lets her get out from under his curse, she almost doesn't care what else happens to her. Almost. 

Meanwhile given the givens the curse is definitely going to happen to her here, a bunch. Bleh. 

Also holy shit hot people. Unfairly hot people. Aaaaah. 

Hi, I'm a telepath, I've been reading everyone here at least a little to make sure they weren't planning to, uh, brain-shiv me, do you want to explain your problem a little more so I can see what I can do to help?

You know what, sure. 

Her evil ex-boyfriend is Elexarin. He is literally a god. He was sweet for a while but eventually he turned controlling and possessive and she wanted Out and he was not letting that happen so eventually she killed herself. 

She woke up immortal and cursed. She...gets raped. A lot. It's pretty horrible. She doesn't want to dwell on most of the details. 

It's probably going to happen here, and she would like not that, but also she kind of wants to sleep with any of the unfairly hot people. 

'Kay, so first of all when we're done here I will happily squish your ex like a bug. 

Second of all, what's the definition of rape, here, can it be gamed? 

Third, how do you feel about pain?

The definition of rape is stupidly heteronormative. Basically it involves a guy sticking his dick in her without explicit verbal consent or too-blatant nonverbal consent. She's managed to game it ever but it's sorta difficult to communicate consent in a way the curse won't pick up on, although, okay, telepathic intermediary, promising avenue. 

She's gotten used to pain. It's not the part she hates. 

This could potentially work out remarkably neatly, then. 

She reflects the memory of her conversation with Atali into the new girl's mind. 

You know what, it's not my kink exactly, but count me in. Someone ought to get some use out of this bullshit. 

Excellent. May I share your circumstances with them?

Absolutely. The less I have to say out loud, the more likely this is to work.

She starts walking towards the unfairly beautiful dudes. 

Meanwhile, Edie says to Atali, Hey, guess what?

He isn't actually looking at Elodea, but nevertheless says, You've found someone and are sending her our way?

Yep. She's, uh, not exactly complementary kinks, but

And then she shows him her conversation with Elodea. 

I see. Yes, I think we can work with this. Thank you.

You're welcome. 

Elodea sits down next to Atali. "So I hear I and you guys have complementary problems," she says lightly. 

"I've heard something similar," he says. "Hello."