This One

This One is a member of a very secluded and thoroughly distrusted hivemind species. He encounters a teleportation spell after a transport vessel purportedly crashes on the planet and is launched across the desert where he isn't in range of the hivemind. Once he's retrieved, he's reintegrated, but keeps having troubles - hours of laying alone and isolated left him with a sense of self.

It isn't long before he's brought in for correction, and he snaps. He manages to tear through the facility and locate another transport spell and fucks right on outta there. The spell happens to be a direct transport to Aster Academy of Fracture City and when he apparates on campus, laying pitifully on the ground, it's quite a scene. He's taken in, representatives of the Bar-Japhet visit and mark his eyes, and then he's left to his own devices. He has to go through a myriad of various therapies in order to be able to so much as walk on his own. He picks it all up quickly thanks to muscle memory, but none of his functions were learned, just shared by the hivemind.

This One attends Aster Academy, where he learns Balance magic, tries to figure out how to be a person, and makes a few friends - most notably his best friend Calvin; a happy-go-lucky guy who likes to drag the antisocial This One around to all sorts of activities. He's sympathetic to This One being so othered and learns his extremely subtle mannerisms quickly.

Once he graduates from his primary degree, This One hangs out in Fracture City to continue his social training and learn everything else he possibly can about the sarlem's style of magic. While technically both he and Calvin own the apartment, Calvin heads off to spaceship academy and they're several light-years apart. Upon Calvin's return, they start to split their time between living on Fracture and gallivanting around space while accidentally being heros.