So what am I, then? The cousin that occasionally visits from out-of-state?
What's weird is that from my perspective, teaflower and Faustwolf are still newer members, and most of the newest members (basically, anyone who considers tea and Faust as old members) are still wearing diapers.
So then, from your perspective, when following along with the not-very-serious idea of a "Compendium Family," everyone you ever truly knew and loved, save for Zeality and perhaps Crono'99 & Lord J esq, is dead or departed, while meanwhile Zeality continues to father new children on a monthly basis (most of whom run off soon after birth, never to be seen again) despite being extremely old, for the purposes of this thread, that is. Pops, you unfaithful lecher, you!
I view the Compendium as more of a school than anything else. L'Académie Compendium.
Most of the former classes have graduated and moved on, but every now and then students come back as faculty. In this scheme, Z would be the President, Faust would be Vice-President/Provost, and V would be the current Interim Dean of Students (the former Dean of Students being Greylensman). Chrono '99, myself, and Zeality and more recently Faustwolf are also on the Board of Trustees (J was there too, but he resigned some time ago).
A few other people work various other areas of the faculty (jsondag is one of our leading engineering research professors at the moment), but most of the newer members are students, some doing research, others doing literary and creative works, and a few even participating in student government or important university projects and working closely with the faculty.
