the un edited version of part 1 and 2.
this is for me to remember stuff in the future. so feel free to skip this part.
dinohigh. the bus stops at the gate of the prestigous aged academy. the oldest school in the country. i was given a admission coupon here by my late ancestor estate. aldo it arrived in the family a couple generations past its expiration. it should still be honored since. public education cannot refuse a learned mind. all those years studying. wasting my life away instead of playing with the other kids or playing games. all those missed saturday morning cartoons that will never comeback now that i have free time. that hollowed out childhood filled with nothing but work. has allowed me to ascend to this moment.
where i can grace the halls of a place no human has been in over a 100 years. or more. i straighten my tie. i fold the sleeves on my military style jacket. and tie the shoes of my black boots. and one more thing. opening my medium sized camping bag, i pull out a ski mask. this will be the only thing that makes these pronoun lizards tolerate me. they all hate the look of a skinnys face. our lack of big teeth. our non lizard eyes. our smooth fragile skin. and our weird nose and lack of a muzzle or snoot. this mask will protect my snootless face from discrimination at least partially.
my hair still stuck out since the mask only covered my lower face and forehead. with my bangs falling over the design logo obscuring it. hu-co a human clothing brand. one of the only ones who make clothes for us and only us. every other clothing brand gives us scraps. we are a mere afterthought if we even get there. but to most dinos here we dont exist. the only people who know about humans here it from 2nd hand media usually degrading us. as skinnys rockthrowers spearchuckers and monkeys.
which by the way was super offensive for monkeys. saying they have lower crime rates then we do. and a lower homicide rate for primate on dino crimes. but it wasnt something i was ashamed off. i wasnt "one of the good ones" i wore my alleigances on my sleeve. you see? im a human supremacist i believe mankind can get past any adversity. especially if they are a colorful gay lizard. we are the reason the meteor didnt hit the world and kill the planet. and i demand the respect i deserve. and im here at this school to prove it. one dino at a time. with words or this. looking at my side belt a large hunting knife that curves in 3 angles in a diagonal way with holes inside it and multiple backwards and jagged edges.
my dad got this for me the moment he heard i was going here. in a world where the rules are stacked against you. you tend to not follow them anymore. you will do nothing but cheat yourself out of a fair victory by being non altercative. humans had a long and storied history of violence against other animal peoples. and i dont tend to stop now. besides? girls like bad boys right? thats wat mommy said. i shrug thinking if that was tru or not. girls dont like 9 to 5 desk workers they arent exciting.
I mentally cringe at the thought of how worked up I get about how others perceive me. and how I try to look strong, but? Can you blame me? They will tear me apart. These giant lizards might easily get offended by every microaggression, but get on their bad side, and they will turn you into meaty chunks on the wall.as long as i can act strong they will think im strong i have to get into their head. make them think im a threat but not one big enough to fight back but one big enough to run away from or at least ignore. if im lucky i can maybe even gain some friends by a display of force by beating up the less popular people.i have to keep a close eye on the social heirarchy its the rules of the jungle in this school. species heirarchy is almost as important as your own personal sets of skills. I physically cannot win any fights head-on, so my best options are my words and manipulating their puny reptile brains using their own instincts and nature against them, if i can master reading them i can turn them against each other making sure they leave me! alone. but im gonna have to be smart about this one wrong move and im finished, appearance is everything thats why i spent money i dont have on clothes the wonders of credit card. it ensures my survival now so i can pay my debts of later, its important to dress in an intimidating and rich way most people will not care about killing a poor person but will have 2nd thoughts on a man with lawyers and prestige. popularity should be my main goal. next to making connections and alliances. if im able to use their herd mentality i can easily win them over by saying wats popular or wat they are predisposed by their nature to agree with. usually if that doesnt work i can buy their affections or do tasks or favours for them. another thing i can do is prey on their instincts and urges to fear certain things and behaviour by talking and acting in certain ways. but i have to remember all these are merely a smoke screen of words they hold all the physical power over me and all my threats of violence are empty since they also have the social majority and control the public opinion. i have to push them carefully in a way they think i have an advantage while remaining a safe distance from any repurcusions albeit physical or social. so long as i stay in areas where people mutually hate each other they will not be able to single me out. and if that doesnt work i might have to get my hands dirty by sowing division by using existance species to species tensions either contemporary or historical, their physical power has always scared me their sharp teeth and claws has always made me uneasy to be around them. it made me think of tactics to defeat them but each species required a different plan the mentality of each species predisposes them to the attacks their bodys have adapted for in the wild. and i cant forget how their bodies have also been shaped and morphed for the modern day and the not so recent past. such as their new developments of hunting and fighting styles, it kinda sucks how all of human data on dinos are outdated by a 100 million years but thats wat you get when you hide in caves all your existance. their are many people who prefer it stayed that way, me included socializing always kinda wasnt my strong suit but.. i had to learn. Years of bullying have taught me just how much I need to talk my way out of things, and when talking won't work, I have to buy enough time to jump them by surprise or when their guard is down. Any fight that isn't a dirty ambush is almost guaranteed to lose. So I tend to stick in my lane as a scavenger and pick on only the weak. small. alone. like a true caveman hunter. I smile a deep, big smile. It is the human way. to prey on the easy targets. It's how humans survived this long. and that's how I'll survive this school.
the bus driver looks at me lost in my thoughts with a angry face. hay kid wake up stop daydreaming. i dont got all day. wats wrong? feeling nervous at being the only skin chimp at the school? dont be. ever since they started accepting other archosaurs your probably not the highest or lowest sorry sob on the menu. use that to your advantage.
i look at him snapping out of my stupper. i get up quickly. and he offers me a hand to shake as im about to leave, goodbye chimp it was nice knowing you. dont die to quickly. i dont want another one of your kind replacing you i have to drive them here again. and you know how far human towns are to this place. i hate 23 hour drives.
i smirked. soon old fart ill own this place. flashing my coupon card. if i play my cards right i get to inheret a large share of the schools stocks since my family was one of its original investors and owned the land it expanded into all those 100s of years ago. he gave a big smile in return oh wow? big shot eyy. well dont forget your old man when your up on the top. oh and word of advice. avoid staying in the roadside and streets near the schools they are full of gangs. and i didnt get this stab scars for show.
i internally jump in joy. my tricks had worked even on this old crook. all i need to do is show off my percieved wealth and they take me seriously where only a minute ago i was called a slur and openly and freely insulted. it pays to be rich and money and inequality is the only thing keeping me from being on the menu. so long as i can widen percieved gaps between our standing. ill instantly be liked by all these violent fools.
i wave my hand as i get off the bus and he waves back. a bit more friendly. thankful for the advice. i see a bunch of students in leather jackets of differnt patches waiting in the sides of the road with hot rod cars and motorcycles, their scales and feathers where greys and dull shades of color i despised hoodlums junkies trouble makers and thugs but i had to admit they where pleasing to the eye. i admired their dangerous look and wanted to imitate it. but their is only so much a person without fangs wings claws and teeth can do.
a bit further away from the main entrance. in the front gates a drive way into the schools inner roadsides alot more comfy and clean. where the rich familys drop of their brats and princesses and other snobby stuck up jerks.
the people. or rather animals.. as they should be called. who studied here where all shapes and sizes it was like my eyes where being bleached with the highest saturation of obnoxious deviant art color palletes for sonic ocs. everyone was just so damn colorful. feathers frills scales and spikes of every shade and in such intense light. with such expensive looking and detailed clothes. embroidered and embelished to every sleeve and dress and corset. damn the people here where loaded with money. i almost felt powerless to be around here. but they didnt know i was a poor a broke looser. my family had once been like them too a rich uptight powerful house. but we as a species lost that long ago when the pro dino parties in power seized all human owned land that wasnt deemed essential for living. my family made a last ditch effort to save our land by selling it at an extortionately low amount to the school. they happily preyed on our misfortune.
typical dino institutions. leave it to them to teach the next generation and everything after how to rob everyone else but them of anything value. soon i bet mankind would go extinct. these lizards are trying to get rid of us. but im not going down without a fight. i glare at the space around me at no one in particular but rather dino society as a whole. i hate these people. and i hate how they hate me. and i cant do anything about it, gripping my fist.
i do the smart thing. as i approach the main school building. and i move to the shadows. into the bushes behind the trees in the main walkway. ive learned all my life to stay away from the direct gaze of these animals they will always attack you without provocation if they see you in the open. they feel less confident in attacking you when your at the sides or obscured behind something. even then as im hidden the people that walk around me give me angry looks disgusted looks. WHO LET IN THE APE? didnt we ban them? ewwww wats that thing. wat kind of ugly animal is that.
my ears never know any rest everyday is one new insult after another when dinos hate you. that means about a 100 thousand species some i dont even know the names off. all hate you for simply existing and they all hate you in different ways and express it in different ways. but it all feels the same to me now. its like being torn apart from all directions soon it doesnt matter how. all that matters is your being ripped to shreds thats all you feel. not any specific pain handcrafted to hurt you. just im in pain in general.
deep breath. stop thinking about it. ignore wats happening to you i say to myself. i put on a crafted mask to my persona and again im composed. lie or go extinct. those are the rules of the game your born into. but still.. it gets harder everyday.
the insults are everywhere. i just.. cant take it anymore.
look at that thing- ewww its so bland and gross. is its hair black? ewww how boring. imagine being such a bland animal. a particularly pricky bitch triceratops. covered in jewelry says to her friends as they eat snacks at the side of crossing i was walking on. they are talking to someone on the phone who sounds just as obnoxious. ewwwww dont let him see youuu i bet they are jelous of our gorgeous perfect species bodies. with their ugly meat suasage limbs. they are having a deeply invested conversation about how much they hate my kind.
oh> wait no. i re adjust my gaze and see they are talking about a video they are sharing together on the phone laughing at a human being beaten up by a triceratops.
gerrrr i snarl quietly. trikes these savage animals never change. they used to be hated as much as we where but slowly they where elevated to the ranks of respectable dinos while we stayed in our muddy miserable ditch still being hated. she is now saying some horrible and mean things about humans.
ewww gross why would you say that she says? her friend replies sistaaa can you imagine going to school with these chimps. ewww so gross i heard they are like ultra violent. my cousin had one in her school and it killed one of the smaller raptors with its bare hands a can opener. arggh she frowned in disgust the mental image of that is so disgusting. imagine getting a monkeys hands on you. her friend smirked threw the camera in their video call. oh oh i bet your into that doo! do you not want some disgusting freak as a boyfriend. EWWWWW she squeeeled yuckky i cant stand the idea of going to class with one let alone liking one those monsters dont deserve rights we should put them all in zoos so we can throw coconuts at them they would like that anyways since they love throwing rocks cuz they are soo stupid. she giggled a truely girly and inocent laugh
its amazing how natural their hate is. its from the moment they are born a dino despises mankind and they see nothing wrong with it. like its a just and noble thing. i wish we didnt save them. i wish we let them all die. i couldnt contain my anger. how could they say this about us and think its okay. even now she has this innocent look like shes the type to say im not racist i love all dinos everywhere i just hate humans cuz they are scum and then get celebrated as being so open minded and progressive.
people like that where everywhere here. and if i was gonna make a good first impression i needed something on my record to prove i ment business that people couldnt just shit talk me like they did while i was walking to school here today. this wont happen to me everyday for the next 5 years. nooo this ends today. and i know just how it will at least. subside a bit. they wont be able to insult me without feeling at least a tiny bit scared of me. that is my only reprive.
i bring my knife out as the girl continues to watch videos of humans being beat up. as her friend continues to tease her about liking humans even do she clearly hates them. and they laugh cheerfully together about another video of a human being robbed on camera by some thugs. well i hope she can understand where im coming from. when i take something from her.