Fifth Floor Common Room, Monday Night

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Elena was curled up on the couch in the fifth-floor common room, channel-surfing and looking for something interesting to watch.

She had flipped past Golden Oldies twice before actually leaving the channel on long enough to realize the women were all bitching each other out, having blunt discussions of their sex lives, and then eating cheesecake.

Wow. If she lived long enough to be a cranky retiree, she totally wanted that life.

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Rose gave her a Look. "Yeah, that wasn't trying to pick me up. Don't be dim," she said then grinned. "Wasn't my name he was talking about."

She shrugged, deciding more ice cream was a good idea. "She's a bitch, and she's gone. With luck I won't see her for another five years. Too busy off being a legend and all."

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"It's a lot to live up to," Elena said carefully. "If she's a legend, then you have to be twice as good just to not seem like a letdown."

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Rose gave her a sidelong but curious glance. "Yeah. Not that it matters. I'm lucky if I graduate right now." She shrugged. "I don't wanna be like her anyway."

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"It's hard to get expelled from this place," Elena said. She should know; they hadn't ever kicked Reno out. "Or is that what they call it when you get to be a guardian?"

She shook her head. "Don't be like her. Anyone who could just ... blow off their own kid like that? Pretty shitty legend."

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"Yeah, I have to graduate from here and St Vlad's and pass my trials to get my promise mark and be a guardian," Rose clarified. She gave a quick grin. "Not so worried about this one."

She shrugged. "She had to do the job, right? She has an insane number of molijnas - Strigoi kills. Just - meh, whatever, not worth talking about her. Maybe all the legends are kinda shitty at the beginning."

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"The hero thing's way more complex than black-and-white," Elena allowed. "I did some shit for the job that you wouldn't want to hear, but the Company was in charge, so we were the default Good Guys as far as the general public cared to hear of it. Even when we really weren't."

Which, to be honest, was a great deal of the time, but that wasn't the point.

"There were these ecoterrorists blowing things up, and so they were considered to be scary, dangerous criminals. Then they saved the world. They're the Good Guys now. Their body count is just 'collateral damage' and 'necessary evil' and any other gymnastics people want to go through to explain it all away. It's unbelievable."

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Rose's world functioned in almost stark hues of black and white overall, and the idea of her bad guys somehow becoming good was pretty much insane.

"That - had to be quite a turn around," Rose commented, remembering Tseng's statements about changes coming to the Turks. "And probably when the little kids now have kids, they won't even remember the blowing shit up. It'll just be that they saved the world. On unicorns."

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"Probably," Elena said, shrugging it off. "I don't mind them being the good guys. They earned it. It just never ceases to amaze me, how people need their heroes to be squeaky-clean and their villains cardboard cut-outs. So your mom, they call her a legend and they think heroes are supposed to be nice. It's a joke. Life's messier than that."