Post by Hadley Institute of the Arts on Jul 4, 2009 19:37:46 GMT -5
"We're outcasts.
"There's no other way to describe it, really. The year is 2005, our kinds have existed for generations - since the dawn of time and human existence, to be precise - and yet, we're persecuted. Why can't we live in peace alongside the 'humans'? We're not contagious. In fact, Gypsies were once a race of people on their own, and if you want to think creatively, they still are. Vampires simply crave life -- we're not something the world should shun. Would humans like it if we just snapped their necks and threw them off bridges because they looked at us wrong? And werewolves can't help that they change at the full moon; half of them don't even like it, but they adjust to their lives. The government - Hell, the world - can just take our 'disease' and shove it somewhere.
"So why do we have to be outcasts?"
-- Madame Athalia Marie Beaumont
[/i]The year is 2005, and all's quiet on the Eastern Front. Or is it?
Hadley Institute for the Arts is a boarding school off the coast of the Northeastern United States, and it hosts a wide variety of people -- a very wide variety. Founded in 1912 by William John Hadley as a school for the arts, it provided a comfortable setting and an easy way to experience culture, whether it was with music, theatre, literature, or traditional canvas art, but it was more than that: it was a place for vampires and werewolves to live, freely and openly, and actually live. William John Hadley founded a place for the "abnormal" children of the world to study the arts of the world and be independent from the scornful, often murderous eye of the government.
As comes with a proper school, curriculum is stressed -- the best professors in all fields of study offered at Hadley Institute are set at the school, opening the minds of the students and helping them express themselves. Gypsies are also welcome at the school, escaping the persecution of the world and its discriminators. There's no telling if they're giving you that scary look because of their clairvoyant abilities, if your best friend is a werewolf (so that's why he didn't come to the midnight party!), or that girl in your third period class is a vampire (I always knew that Kool-Aid looked weird...)
But when you go to Hadley, you learn to get along. There are quite a few disputes, whether it's between humans and vampires or vampires and werewolves, but that's to be expected. In the meantime, escaping the eyes of the government as best as possible, the institute tries its best to avoid a war.
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