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10 divisions: with added explanation of I think it’s necessary. 
            
            Oceans Crew 
            
            Protectors of Nature(protects nature and helps it heal after missions that cause it to be damaged)
            
            League of Assassins 
            
            Intelligence Network
            
            Knights of Words(basically politicians. Tries to solve problems through talking it out if possible). 
            
            Army of Inmortals(Basically where anyone that’s a fighter and doesn’t fit with a different division goes).
            
            Clean Up Crew(gets rid of evidence of any crimes committed, and forges id’s to allow smooth assimilation into the worlds where their missions take place, especially worlds that are unaware of things like inter-dimensional travel)
            
            Watchers(The strategists, as well as the ones that make sure the strategic plans go smoothly, and make sure contact between members of the Court is smooth.)
            
            Makers(makes anything from weapons to paintings. Responsible for providing weaponry and supplies to the missions). 
            
            Performers of the Night(already explained)
            
            So, all of these make sense, but except for Oceans Crew. But I was set on making 10 Divisions, I just can’t seem to think of a 10th one that makes, well, sense. 

My sister also pointed out that when it comes to the division, I have to consider what it is exactly that each division does. In truth, we came up with a specific purpose, even for the 10th division, Performer’s of the Night(works as distractions, morale, gaining support of civilians, and infiltration.) but, the only one that doesn’t make sense is the 1st division, Oceans Crew. Well, it makes sense because it’s a group made up of all the ocean-related characters. Sure. But, when it comes to this divisions role in the missions to keep the balance across universes, just saying that their job is to protect the oceans, seems too limited, unlike the rest. Especially since not all worlds may even have an ocean. And you could also say that protecting the oceans falls under The Protectors of Nature’s job description.

But basically, writing down my oc’s lore is tiring with how many oc’s I have. But, not only does it serve to finalize the lore, but it also serves to help me realize missing pieces of the lore, as well as things that I can add to the lore. 

I personally see these characters as adults. 19+. All I ask is that Hoyo confirm that they’re adults in a clear way that can’t be argued. Because we don’t want creepy situations, or people being accused of shipping a minor with an adult when that may not even be the case. Same goes for Star Rail Characters. 
            
            Side note: Let me know what you think. Do you think that when a characters birthday passes in real life, they actually grow older in the canon? For example, say that Chongyun was 19 when we meet him in game, and since then I think maybe three of his birthdays have passed. In real time, that would make him 22. I guess this also ties in with how long you think the story of Genshin Impact has taken? Is the time span of the game equivalent to the time the game has been out? Or is it longer, or shorter? 

To some degree, I get it. It is not an unknown concept to me that young appearances are considered more beautiful, and Hoyo wants to make beautiful characters that will sell well. But, to me, this just feels like unnecessary controversy in the community. I meant just state that they’re adults at least and it’d be fine. Take the ship of Chongyun and Xiao for example. I personally think they’d make a good duo romantically or platonically, but there are people that ship these characters romantically. However, some other see Chongyun as being a character under the age of 18, and considering the fact he would then be a minor in a relationship with a thousands of years old guy, that gets creepy. (Personally don’t mind age gap, as long as all parties are at least 18, preferably 19 at the least since 18 is still kinda too close to being a minor. Of course, even if Chongyun was confirmed an adult, there would still be people that don’t like the ship due to age gap, but that’s just normal.* Meanwhile, leaving the age up to people’s own headcanons, can cause more clashes in the community. 

Basically, I bring this up due to certain shorter characters appearances. For some, like Xiao, we know he was around during the Archon War, making him really old, despite the fact that based on appearances, it is unclear if he is below or above 18. It’s like that borderline appearance. Take me irl for example, I am a full on adult, but I’m around the same height as these characters in Genshin and have a young face like them, so I’m mistaken for being under 18, despite being over 18 years old. I feel like this may be a problem, because it gets into creep territory. The thing is, you could say that these characters or 16 or 17, or you could say that they are 18 or 19. Or, idk how accurate it is, but I’ve seen people say that Cyno is around 21, but he looks the same age as all these other characters, so does that mean that the other characters are about 21 as well? 

Okay, I feel like I yap too much about my personal experiences on here. In a way, doing so is also liberating. Heck, I know for a fact that not a lot or people look at my conversation posts on here. Well, if they do, then they don’t comment. But, just writing it out and putting it out there for people to see, whether they see it at all. Is nice. And on the off chance that someone does comment, I get the bonus of having input from a third party. Whether they input be positive or negative. 
            
            Sometimes my personal experiences also translate to my writing. In general, I think it’s easier to write some experience, than trying to write something that you have not experienced. Of course they would be the case, because if you experienced something, then you more closely understand the details and feelings behind it. Even if you used references of people’s personal accounts of scenarios they experienced, for me anyways, the ability to write scenarios will always be easier if you experienced it first hand. I also think that may be part of why a lot of characters turn out ooc in my writing. I subconsciously think that everyone thinks the same way I do. Also, my personal rambling habit transfers to the dialogue of the characters. Some characters, I realize that they’re actually quite similar to me, at least in some ways. In times, I can use this similarity to write the character, but may not be the most accurate as of course, I am not the character, and the character is not me. 
            
            Hmmmm. 

I also know briefly of traumatic things my sister has been through, but only a little bit and it’s not all in order. So I want to offer and ear to hear her troubles, if she’s willing to tell me about it. For multiple reasons. I want to make sure I avoid anything that can be triggering of course. I already made a bit of a mistake last year  because I confused her birthday date, and told her happy birthday on her dad’s birthday…and she told me and I was like ‘well happy birthday to him’ and then she basically just um, revealed that her dad has done some really terrible things to her and not to wish him a happy birthday with how bad he is. I still feel bad for that, so I want to avoid mistakes like that. But also, because after my last therapy session when I talked for the first time ever about the traumatic events in my life that I remember. I discovered just how liberating it is to tell someone about your experiences. Especially if that someone hears your experiences and doesn’t tell you that you’re over exaggerating, or that you’re crazy or something. It’s a nice feeling. Especially when for me at least, I can’t work up the will to tell any of these things to others. I don’t wish to put the wait on my friends, nor my new mom. I also, since some of this traumatic experiences involved my dad, don’t want me telling my current mom about it, to break up their marriage or amending. 

Oh jeez, my other fam doesn’t been know I’m not Christian. My bio grandparents do, and judge me for it, but still love me. But um, heck, my non-bio grandma, I love her and she was great to me. But, she has a mini Trump statue in her house, and actually produces both the mini ones, and even tall nearly life size cement statues, of Trump. Like, idk. My bio grandparents also believe in Trump, but at least they don’t have a statue of him. Um anyways, yeah. I’m still struggling to understand myself. 
            
            Um, hm. I should talk to my sister. Like actually have a deep conversation with her. Like, for one I want her to know about my sexuality, gender, and religion. I love all my non-bio siblings but she’s the only one I have frequent contact with. I also want to ask her about what she remembers from my childhood. Like, why my dad and her mom divorced and also if she remembers anything that may have been traumatic for me. My therapist says that traumatic events can affect us, even if we don’t remember. And if my Nana is at all trustworthy in her brief mentions of the past, I may have more traumatic experiences than I remember. And knowing the source is half the path to recovery. 

Also for this idk if I’d want the audience to know the bullied girl is a girl.  Because, I could either go the irony route where the audience gets to experience the irony of the bullies bullying this girl thinking she’s a guy. Or I could go the plot twist route and shock the audience with the reveal. Idk, I’m still not used to writing my own original stories. 

Lectures can be good, because it presents another form of taking in the information that isn’t reading, and it allows you to make your own notes if you need to. It’s more difficult to study your math notes if you didn’t attend/pay attention to the lecture, at least for someone like me. So, yeah math classes taking away your phone is valid in my opinion. And as for people that work better with music. Sure, but all my Highschool math classes, the majority of the class was lecture time, and work was homework, though more often than not you had some time to work on it at the end of class. So, point is, you don’t need to be listening to music during a lecture. As for any extra time during the class period. Work on the homework if you can(personally I do this because I was big, ‘no homework’ policy person), talk to a friend, just chill, read a book, review your notes if you didn’t understand the lesson, ask the teacher questions. In my experience though, there usually wasn’t that much extra time in class after lectures. If not in class, do the homework at home or in another class where you can listen to music, if that’s what you need to help you work. 
            
            That concludes my argument for why math classes taking your phone is valid!

I say I heard that phrase a lot in Highschool, because the people saying it were referring to teachers. TBH, I don’t know of any teacher in my school that was mean or anything. I heard some gossip of one Christian teacher that was like, really against other religions and punish anyone who wasn’t Christian, basically. But, that was just talk I heard in like, sophomore year. Not even sure if she was a real teacher at our school and if she was, she was fired. Like, tbh, I’ve had teachers I disliked. Liked they just rubbed me the wrong way. But I still gave them basic respect. Like, my second art teacher, something about her I just didn’t like. She’d like call people out for being behind on a project very loudly and she’s say it over and over again within like, the span of five minutes, and it kinda just annoyed me tbh. But I never disrespected her even so. (There was also some gossip that she would take students art projects and submit them into contests under her name. But, I never really had any proof that was true, so I just took it as, ‘might be true but don’t know so still going to treat this person with respect.’). I had one math teacher that was a little strict. And by strict I mean, she had us put our phones in little phone pockets when we came into class, not a completely uncommon practice and actually more fair in the math department, because believe me, you want to pay attention in math class. This is coming from someone with ADHD and who zones out, thus being distracted without even having my phone. And someone who has missed a class before, thus missing the lecture, but still had the notes, and didn’t understand that notes at all.

Basically the ‘respect is earned’ phrase I’ve heard throughout Highschool is kind of redundant in a way. Don’t get me wrong, I understand to a degree. But I feel that some of those people that say that,  don’t understand that such simple things as not trashing a persons space, and replying in a none mean way, is respect. So, if they do completely mean such a phrase. What they’re implying, intentionally or not, is basically that they would go into something like a teachers classroom and start drawing on the desks and stuff and talk over the teacher and all that kind of stuff. Because that’s more or less what you’d do if you had no initial respect for someone. Now, higher forms of respect are things that need to be earned. For example, initiating a conversation(now, initiation of a conversation to a stranger you’re meeting for the first time doesn’t necessarily count. And certain topics of conversation may not exactly count. Like, if I asked for directions from someone, I wouldn’t count that as a higher form of respect. I’m thinking more, ‘what’s your favorite color’ type conversations), offering to help complete a task like cleaning up, carrying something, etc; gift giving, and giving compliments, are more so higher forms of respect that need to be earned. For compliments, yes complimenting someone you never talked to before in the hall or the street, is a form of respect to me, because you respect their looks enough to compliment them. 
            
            So, don’t just say ‘respect needs to be earned’ because a normal person would not be disrespectful to someone they just met. If you must, say something like ‘higher forms of respect need to be earned.’ Because lower forms of respect is what we call, basic human decency. 

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@NeoLegend9094 I can read this but I don't have to leave for school until 7:30 (am) so my brain is switched off and all I'm thinking about is the song 'Bye Bye' from Mufasa: the lion king