The Truth Of Her

The Truth Of Her
Date of Scene:	09 September 2023
Location:	Rooftops
Synopsis:	Truth is a mirror, if you have the courage to face it. Takes place directly after scene 397/The Witch That Ate Tokyo
Cast of Characters:	Coco Kiumi, Amanda Faust, Usagi Tsukino, Chiyo Sakai, Mamoru Chiba

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Coco Kiumi has posed:
Coco nods at Sailor Moon's exclamation. "Yes, I don't think you should be trying to convince them to put themselves in the way of danger", she gestures around at the witch's damage, "out of a misguided sense to emulate your heroes. And..." she starts saying before closing her mouth.

She doesn't want to start the discussion about Kyubey all over again, so instead she chooses to address Amy's question. "And I don't know where is the Grief Seed", Coco tells Amy. She certainly missed it in the explosion of light that happened when the witch died. She looks around anyway now that is no longer an issue but she sees none of it still.

She accepts Hematite's offer, forming a circle with everyone else. "Thank you for the lift", she says despite the rude undertone he was carrying towards her. "Wait, do you know something about Gaito or a Sealing Key?" she asks before he goes away.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy blinks at Sailor Moon. "They won't remember, but... didn't you want to be a hero?" Still, she doesn't protest further as she, if no one else does, uses magical girl strength to princess carry Magda to...

    A teleport circle?

    "Oh damn, that was cool!"

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Sailor Moon says, "Absolutely not," Sailor Moon tells Amy bluntly, thinking about how everything in her life that's bad now is because of her stupid broach, stupid powers, and encounters with stupid villains. She doesn't have to take Hematite's hand - he never dropped hers. When the teleport is finished, and they're back at school, she sighs.

"What was all that about monsters dropping rewards, anyway? I've fought tons of dumb monsters and they never gave anything away.""

Chiyo Sakai has posed:
At the suggestion of 'getting out of there' and the offer to teleport comes, Daifuku steps over to reach for Sailor Moon's hand giving it a squeeze. She knew her. She would trust her. It's a sentiment she hopes can be conveyed through the simple touch without having to get into words. If Sailor Moon trusted Hematite then she would too for now.

Just not enuogh to take Hematite's hand. Are you serious? Take the hand of the guy that's acting super protective of Sailor Moon? That just seemed like a dumb idea. No way was she getting in between that--She'd learned her lesson after trying to set up Darien and Usagi.

Stepping away once on the roof she clears her throat at the talk of witches. She only knew a little. Just enough to make them unpleasant. "I don't really know much about it, though I was told by some who were more informed that those 'seeds' they drop need to be 'eaten' by... That." She ends gesturing toward Kyubey.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Absolutely Not! "Huh, really?" Since when do monsters drop loot? Amy huhs? "But you were at the Circus Witch... oh yeah we left in a hurry that time. Well, Witches drop grief seeds -- or, they're supposed to -- which is how us Puella Magi get our powers back." She briefly changes the soul gem to its 'normal' form, its bright red tainted by... the player has lost track, so we'll say less than a quarter of darkness. "Since we're not... mermaid princesses, or tied to planets? Or chosen by fate, or whatever, we don't have unlimited magic." She pulls the grief seed Teresia gave her earlier from her pouch, already mostly full, and... hesitates before touching the gem. "Uhh, Magda, do you need any?"

    Magdas or Amy's or a little of both, the others see the grief seed drain darkness and cleanse soul gems until it is full, and Amy just casually tosses it underhand at Kyubey.

    "...Hunting Witches is something we'd do anyway though, since they're so awful." Amy adds.

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
He still doesn't let go-- but he should, he should get away from them all, now, before he--

"I have to go, I'm sorry. I don't know anything about those, Yellow Pearl Voice," he says, distracted by all the things he's suppressing to still be here, and then he leans to whisper something to Sailor Moon, lets go, and vanishes without managing to look at anyone else.

What did he whisper?

I shouldn't hear this. Call me when you want.

Coco Kiumi has posed:
Coco nods at Hematite's reply answering before he disappears. "I guess it was worth asking, thanks anyway." Then the figure vanishes, leaving them alone on the rooftop.

Coco takes a look at the Soul Gem as Amy starts cleasing it, finding relief in seeing it a pure red. "That was quite weird for a witch, don't you think?"

Amanda Faust has posed:
    People who haven't seen it before get to see the way that Kyubey functions as a wastebasket for grief seeds. Yup. That just happened. All the while he just keeps that same :3 expression. He starts licking his paw and grooming his ear afterward.

    Amy shrugs, the soul gem magically reshaping to be a small watch-sized thing on her wrist. "All Witches are weird. I'm not sure what would be 'normal' for one. ...I'm not sure that's a concept that applies to things from outside reality."

    This is her headcanon theory about their origin, anyway.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Sailor Moon squeezes Hematite's hand before he goes, and her smile dims just a little. When he vanishes, her hand is still held out just slightly, missing his. She sighs, and then turns to Amy with a frown. "Okay... two things. One, I didn't realize that circus Witch... left something, but you handled it? And two - the Mysterious Knight - that was him who just left - you should be careful with what you say to him. He won't always be your ally."

This is something she's saying to everyone, her voice raised a bit, turning to look at them all, avoiding Chiyo's eyes just a bit, because - well. Chiyo might be the only one who realizes that when she says that, she's only referring to the rest of them. Hematite will always be her ally, she's sure of that, but the rest of them...

The demonstration of the grief seed's power was disconcerting, if only because - "What happens if you don't have one of those? You don't really... die, do you?"

She remembers Yelllow Pearl Voice's sharp condemnation, and as the creature devours the object, she grimaces. "Are you Kyubey?"

Definitely not as cute as Luna. Evil Luna indeed....

Chiyo Sakai has posed:
The explanation of how the Greif Seed works was far more in-depth than what Daifuku had been told before. Seeing it at work was unexpected, too, and she purses her lips a bit feeling uneasy over the situation for some reason. She couldn't quite put her finger on it.

Hematite leaves then, and her expression shifts back to neutrality as much as she can. Though it was hard--In this guise she didn't feel the need to be proper, or mannered, or anything else the constraints of society had burdened her with in her civilian life. This was just her. Raw and unfiltered. Unrestrained.

Which is perhaps why she listens very. Very intently to what Sailor Moon says about the 'Mysterious Knight' she hadn't heard of before. Her head inclines a single time.

"I'll be certain to watch what I say around him."

Then she looks over all of them. "Is everyone all right, by the way?"

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy blinks, and says dryly to Usagi, "Oh, sure, *that* wasn't important to say earlier, but *I'm* the irresponsible one." She's not actually mad though.

> You don't really... die, do you?
    Amy stiffens for the briefest moment before relaxing again, and sighing. She puts one hand on her hip. "Apparently, yes. Although, you've seen Witches. What do you think would happen shortly after if I ran out of magic while fighting one? So it's a rather academic description. ...I mean distinction. Ugh, words."

    Kyubey turns those red eyes toward Usagi. The cheerful little boy's voice responds, "That's me! Girls make contracts with me in order to become magical girls, and have their wishes granted! ...You can't make a contract with me, though. You're already a magical girl."

    He circles around Magda, padding from one shoulder to the other like a cat looking for a comfortable spot.

Coco Kiumi has posed:
Coco nods as Usagi starts explaining the situation with the Mysterious Knight. "I see, I see, so when are you going to drag your beloved to our side?" she comments in a sagely manner. The way he cared for her, the way they looked at each other... It all made sense now.

She approaches Sailor Moon and start whispering conspiratorially close to her. "You know, I am pretty sure I could work out something for you. Sure, I have never had to deal with people on different sides of a conflict, but I am willing not to let that stop me. He is already aiming for the Moon." She winks at the other girl.

Coco goes back smiling to Guardian Daifuku. "Yep, all good here."

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"It might have hurt his feelings," Usagi says, only a little sheepishly. It's not that she likes Darien more than the rest of her friends - she doesn't! Really! Well, not more than Chiyo-chan, anyway! But she wasn't going to risk his feelings for it, not when anything was actually wrong... She's staying in her henshin, because she feels better that way, particularly whent hat not-so-cute creature looks at her. He talks like a little kid - she doesn't like it, at all.

"Well, that sounds like a bad deal. You have to have those prizes from the Witch, but they don't always drop loot, but if you don't get the loot you'll die... it sounds like a bad gacha game."

She has played her share of them! She knows a scam when she hears about one from a biased third party!

"And home it's just girls? What about boys, and like, people who aren't boys or girls?"

This might have turned into a debate, if not for -

"MY WHAT?!"

Her eyes are huge. Her jaw is dropped. As Coco whispers conspirationally, she shrieks in embarassment and starts waving her hands around. "It's not like that!! It's not like that at all!!!!"

Amanda Faust has posed:
    :3 "Humans are not all the same. Those who don't want to fight as a magical girl should not make a contract with me."

> How come it's just magical GIRLS, Kyubey?
    Amy holds a finger to her chin thoughtfully, and opens her mouth, and then USAGI IS SHOUTNG.

    Amy slumps. "Ugh, *teenagers*." But, she considers how she's felt, dealing with matters of the heart. Swept up by Hannah. Wanting to see her again. Hannah's disappearance ripping her heart -- which, it seems, really has become a girl's -- out right before the Circus Witch and HEY WAIT A MINUTE HANNAH IS TRAGAR-CHAN SHE WAS THERE THE WHOLE TIME WHY DID SHE DO THAT?!

    And yeah. And yeah. Feel that feeling and know others go through it too.

    Amy takes a deep breath and lets it out as she stands up straight. "It's okay. You don't have to hide or be ashamed of... whatever your relationship with him is. Even if it's just friends! Boys and girls can be friends. We're all just people and want a lot of the same things. Including friendship."

Coco Kiumi has posed:
"Hey, Sailor Moon, calm down, you can be real with me", Coco smiles at her. "The sooner you are honest with your feelings, the sooner you can start working on grasping your happiness." She brings out a white variant of the Morning Moon Music Box. From where? Who knows, don't question it. "Here, take this music box. It's not magic, but hopefully it will help you come to terms with your feelings. If you change your mind, just let it play in the middle of campus and I will be over in a second, alright?"

Chiyo Sakai has posed:
"She already has a boyf--" No. No stop right there. Daifuku pauses abruptly deciding not to go there. There were too many oddities right now and besides that Usagi was already screeching about it being wrong. She wasn't supposed to know Sailor Moon's secret identity! Or at least not let anyone else know she knew.

Her hand raises to cover her mouth with a fist as she clears her throat awkwardly. "I've seen magical boys too. Are there also Sailor boys?" Is that what they'd be called? Sailors or Seamen? She tries to focus on that instead of the 'boyfriend' thing in general right now. It might be safer.

"Those device users seem to have a fair amount of boys among them."

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"There is nothing to talk about! I don't need a music box! I have no feelings that need to be resolved!!!" She waves her arms around, a whirlwind of activity of just no no no absolutely not - CHIYO-CHAN THE BETRAYAL -

"There are only girls in the Senshi so far - the Sailor Senshi - but that's not the same, because Senshi aren't chosen, they're born." This is not a big secret, as far as she's concerned, and it's a great distraction topic, so -

"What was that about why there had to be girls only for making contracts, Mr. Kyubey?"

Amanda Faust has posed:
Sailor boys! Sailors? Seamen?
    "We're not calling teenage boys that." Amanda protests dryly.

>HEY KYUBEY WHY CAN ONLY SHOUJO BECOME MAHOU SHOUJO?!
    When the camera pans back over there's just a dotted Kyubey-shaped outline that blinks a few times for emphasis to the viewers. Maybe he decided to be elsewhere during all the yelling.

    Amy raises her hand. "Uhhhm. We musta misunderstood, or he misspoke, because I'm a-- err, I'm (ore) a boy." She winces as she says it.

Coco Kiumi has posed:
"Like I said, it's alright, but I won't press it further for now. Just sleep on it, alright?" Coco gives Usagi a comforting smile, making the music box disappear into the same illogical nowhere it came from. Instead she produces a piece of paper and a pen to give Usagi her number. "Here, you can have this if you need me." Usagi knows Coco's true identity.

"Oh, you are born into the role too. That's the same thing for the mermaid princesses. Where are you born from?" she asks curiously. "In our case, we are born from these pearls", she adds, showing Usagi the pearl currently on her E-Pitch microphone.

When Amy announces her origin for everyone to hear, Coco just tells her with a hint of melancholy. "I hope you are confident this is the road you want to travel on, Amy."

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy perhaps misunderstands Coco's meaning. "I'm-- err, I'm fighting alongside them and risking my life. It's... There's no need to keep secrets." Still, she looks away awkwardly, occasionally glancing at Usagi and Daifuku for their reactions.

Chiyo Sakai has posed:
Guardian Daifuku bites her lower look looking toward Sailor Moon in a guilty fashion. Oops! She got cut off at least, and maybe Yellow Pearl didn't hear her over it. Let's hope. She'd still have to apologize properly to Usagi later about that little slip.

Grasping onto the topic of origins again she considers. "I guess I was chosen? But not like with a contract. I found--" The thought dies off as she looks over toward Amy blinking a bit.

"Really?" A bit confused she regards Amy further before she decides to give a shrug. "You, ah, you wear the outfit well."

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Oh no that's worse. That's somehow worse. That's exactly why she winced as the words 'otoko no ko' (boy) left her mouth. Amy physically cringes. She holds out her hands in a 'stop, this is a misunderstanding!' gesture while stepping back. "No, I mean, a boy, not a 'boy'... ugh, language! A man. I mean I *was* a man. I mean..." She looks away, awkward and ashamed. "I'm a magical girl now. And. The physical transformation is permanent. Maybe I shouldn't have said anything, but I thought I was clearing up..." she shakes her head. "Ugh, I don't know..."

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Usagi holds up a hand, asking for silent and - confused. She looks at Amy. She looks at Kyu- oh he's gone. What a coward. And then she frowns a little more and... "I don't get it," she declares after a moment. "You're Amy, right? If you transformed into a girl and you picked a girl name and you wear girl clothes, I think you're just a girl?"

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy is shamefully awaiting judgement for being weird, and gets... something else instead. She blinks at Usagi, stunned. "Wh...what?"

Chiyo Sakai has posed:
Guardian Daifuku has to smile a bit at Sailor Moon's own remark. It was better said than she could have. Frankly she was still trying to connect the string from one point to another in the mental map in her head to figure out what Amy had described. It wasn't working.

"We can call you something else if you want, but if you want to be called Amy then that's who you are."

Coco Kiumi has posed:
Coco just nods silently at the other two's reactions, offering Amy a smile.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"If you have a girl's name and a girl's outfit and a girl's magic apparently," she rolls her eyes a little because that thing sounds dumb, still, "Then you're a girl."

Pause.

"I mean, if you want to be, at least."

Chiyo Sakai has posed:
Guardian Daifuku shifts her weight away from the group to glance off in the direction of the city again. "I'm sorry, I really can't stay to chat much longer. I have other things I need to see to before the day is through." An apologetic smile is offered to the trio, and she focuses breifly on Amy.

"Thank you for sharing that with us. It must have been hard. You're very brave."

Yellow Pearl earns a nod as well, "Take care." And Sailor Moon... Well, she gets a smile. "Things will get better."

That's all she can offer without getting into more detail than ought to be spoken of at the moment. Turning away she jumps off the building to sprint away. No teleporting or flying here sadly.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy winces at the thought of her friends and allies calling her something else. But still... "But..." She looks between the three of them. "I can't just... you can't just... be a girl... I don't... *get* to... I mean... I guess I *get* to, kinda, but it's lying to you all... and I hate lying..."

    If she wants to? Amy shifts unsteadily and drops to her knees. "I... of course I want to... these past couple months have been the best thing that's ever happened to me! But... it can't really be... that..."

    Well, turn this around, Mallory, imagine it from the other side. Suppose you're hanging out with friends and this guy joins the group, you get to know eachother, he's cool, and then one day, he explains that he used to be a woman but he's actually pretty happy to be a guy and would rather be treated as a guy if they'd accept him. But he, y'know, err, 'she', she insists, doesn't want to lie, or intrude in men's spaces or whatever, but just feels really great to be accepted as a guy and honestly he knows it's weird but he feels like a really *special* girl getting to be one of the guys and have this experience. What would Mallory say to him? Like no offense but how are you a girl? What makes you a girl, hypothetical dude? You were born as one? Wait this example is literally just a trans guy. Who, Mallory has thought-experimented to understand, is someone who is basically in the same situation as if he was turned into a girl, except uh, THAT HAPPENED and... the hypothetical guy would rather be a guy just like he's turned out to prefer being a girl and OH NO.

    OH *NO*.

    oh no

    Returning from his reverie, he looks up at the others. "I'M A GIRL?!"

    She corrects the pronoun, repeating more softly, "I'm a girl."

    "I... I... I was a girl the WHOLE TIME?!"

    Amy drops to her hands and knees, staring at the ground in a whirlwind of shock, relief, and confusion.

Coco Kiumi has posed:
Coco kneels down and looks at Amy straight in the eyes. "Don't you feel better now that you have realised?" she smiles. "Congratulations, Amy", she says, giving the redhead a hug.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Sailor Moon - Usagi - does not really understand the scale of revalation that's occurring. This all seems pretty obvious too her. Her brother Shingo would have hated dressing up as a girl and getting called a girl's name all this time and she probably wouldn't like it too much bif people called her a boy all the time, so -

"Yeah? I know? Um. There, there?"

She walks up and pats Amy on the shoulder.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy lifts her head to look into Coco's eyes. "You knew? How?" And then she's wrapped up in a hug and she closes her eyes and hugs Coco back tightly. At the shoulderpat, she adds, "Thanks... I guess? It's... I'm, this is pretty confusing, um... wh-what do I do now?"

Coco Kiumi has posed:
"The joy you had at being yourself couldn't be faked or mistaken, Amy" Coco replies, making some space for Usagi to pat Amy on the shoulder. "Besides enjoying yourself now you don't have that baggage anymore? Nothing you haven't already been doing. Oh, but if there is anything you feel you have been denying yourself, we can go do that."

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"I mean, you acted like a girl and had a girl's name, so I kinda just figured," Usagi says, with far less wisdom and grace and a lot more bafflement. "I didn't know it was a surprise? Or that you were.... conflicted about it?"

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Now hold on a second, there are clearly a *lot* of guys who would rather be girls, as he's -- she's constantly reminded of how her life is like those stories... but she can puzzle that out later.

    To Coco, she answers, "I can't think of anything... but I guess there will probably be stuff..."

    To Usagi, she answers, "W-well, you haven't been told you're a guy for thirty-six years... And had the body of one... I thought trans people all *knew*!" beat. She lifts one slim, dainty hand and looks at it, smiling wide. "Holy shit, I really lucked out, getting magic." She starts to imagine having this realization in some timeline where she did *not* and her brain just rejects and refuses, she has enough troubles.

    "So I just... damn, I get... this life, instead? I was... I mean I figured I had to, since it kinda came with the magical girl package, a-and I was just, doing what I had to do to help fight evil, but..." she trails off, not really sure where she was going with that.

    "Wait, I acted like a girl?" A smile comes to her face again as she looks up at Usagi, "I mean, I, I wasn't really trying to do anything in particular except not get caught..."

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"I don't really get it," Usagi says simply, because she is, at the end of the day, but a fourteen year old girl. "I mean! You were a girl. Are a girl. I've only known you as a girl." A pause. "I mean, maybe there's someone who could explain it, but I think if you were a boy, you wouldn't have just been okay to go along with having to be a girl now? You could have just kept your boy name and dressed like a boy and enrolled as a boy. But you didn't, so, I guess all trans people don't always know?"

She's apparently accidentally helped with a revelation but! She really doesn't get it. Maybe if she had spent her whole life being someone different, but, she hasn't so...

"So we can still call you Amy, right?"

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy considers this. SOME of the stories do go that way. It is physically possible that she could have, despite the name on the invitation (WAIT, DID THEY KNOW?!), told everyone to call her Mallory and dressed like a guy... hell, with this body type, aside from being a really SHORT guy, she coulda passed! ...For a prepubescent boy, maybe. But puberty could just be hitting 'him' late, it would work for awhile! There are androgynous-looking boys. He could just say he hasn't had his growth spurt yet! (Wait, *is* she going to grow taller? She kind of doesn't want to. Is it okay to want to not get taller? Guys are supposed to want to be tall--but SHE'S NOT A GUY.)

    Amy smiles. Wait, what was she thinking about again? Oh right. "I... could've... done that, but... it just seemed like... it'd be calling more attention to myself. Plus this way maybe I get to experience some girl stuff-- You're *sure* guys aren't curious about that? Not even a little? Like, scientifically? Who *wouldn't* wanna know, right?"

    "Y-yeah of course you can call me Amy. I *picked* it, after all, in case I ever needed a girl's name for some reason."

    "...Okay now that that came out of my mouth I hear it, but do people really not do that? Not at all?"

Coco Kiumi has posed:
"Oh, I have been given that explanation", yells Coco suddenly as Usagi reacts with confusion. "Well, this is actually the marine version I know, but same difference, right?" she comments with an awkward smile. "Now, underwater we have divided in seven kinds of merfolk. But there is also the pure white light of the group, so to speak, because that's what this colour group amounts to." She takes a breath. Explaining it all could help out Amy, but she isn't going to achieve superhuman speed just with that.

"Anyway, this group matures and refines their sense of self as they grow, and their bodies change accordingly, as well as getting a colour allegiance to one of the seven kingdoms. Now you humans can't change bodies on your own, but besides that the principle is the same."

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"Well, I'm just one girl, not even a boy, so I can't say that every boy doesn't feel like that, because that would be kind of rude, but, even if there are boys who want to try out being girls and then realize they're still a boy, or they know they're a boy but still want to see what it's like, if you're happy to be a girl, you're probably just a girl?"

Like, why does it matter if anyone else would feel differently?

"Amy-chan, if you want to be a girl, I think it's because you're a girl. And even if some other you out there in the universe maybe wouldn't want to be, the person you are right now is so why stress?"

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy blinks at Usagi. "Huh? No I meant, like haven't you ever thought about being a guy, or a name, or... people really don't think about this, huh..."

    Coco discusses the white merfolk. "So it's like... they get to figure out who they are and then be it, is what you're saying? Which of the seven kinds they are, kinda like getting to decide between being a guy and a girl? Or to... realize which one you were all along and change your body to fit, rather?"

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"I haven't, not really. I mean, I was a boy once, with my disguise pen, because I was curious, but I never really like, wanted to be a boy. But! We're just a few people. Not like, every people, you know? So don't assume it off of me, and... I guess, that would be pretty cool, Yellow Pearl, to figure it all out, and then look a way. But, I'm pretty lucky, because I pretty much like the way I look?"

Hmmmm. Yeah, she thinks she's fine with the way she looks. And the way she is. The magical girl part is pretty... bad, right now, but, that was apparently not a choice, so..

Coco Kiumi has posed:
Coco nods assertively. "You got the gist of it right: the system of 7 is a separate deal from who you are and how that's expressed in your body, but otherwise once you are ready to have your realisation, your body changes accordingly, and as an aside you also get connected to whichever of the 7 you feel an affiliation towards, but just as an aside."

"I guess it would be pretty cool", Coco muses about Moon's sentence, before turning back to Amy. "Guess one day I will have you visit all seven kingdoms so you can have the whole white merfolk experience", she jokes with a little chuckle.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy smiles at Coco, she's touched. "A generous gift, I promise I'll try my best to appreciate it even if I don't understand a lot of merfolk stuff."

    Usagi admitting that first part gets an interested stare. "So what was it like? Setting aside whatever a 'disguise pen' is, what was being a guy like for you? Like c'mon, it's not every day I get to talk to someone who's had an experience like that!"

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"It's just what it sounds like - a magic pen that makes disguises," Usagi explains, like this is obvious and should be Known. Being magical really changes your perception on what's normal... "But I was handsome! Very handsome, that was nice to know. And... that's about it? I mean! I was a little taller, but that was just the disguise, I think; you saw me use the pen before - when I was being a police officer!"

Back when they fought the circus Witch. Of course, to Amy, Usagi had just looked like herself... "It has different levels of disguises, but it's still just a disguise. I still was me, I just looked different."

Amanda Faust has posed:
    'I was handsome and tall, what about it?' Amy stares. There's really no sign of interest or curiousity there. There isn't even the sign of an embarassed teenager awkwardly hiding the stereotypical reaction, because Usagi just. Doesn't. Care? About it.

    Wild.

    "Riiight. I remember wondering why you were dressed as a police officer and why people were taking you seriously, but... magic.

    Amy stands up. "Well. This has been a day. Um... thanks. And uh. I guess after all this I may... need some help learning how to be a girl?" She looks away awkwardly. "Can I um... count on my... this probably isn't the right way to say it, but... fellow girls?" She looks back between the others, "for help with that?"

Coco Kiumi has posed:
"We have already been doing that, haven't we?" Coco smiles, hopefully reassuringly. "But sure, you can come for anything you may need." She expects Usagi will say the same, so Amy will probably be superprepared by the end of it.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"Yeah, of course! But, I don't know if you'll like, need lessons or anything, you're doing pretty good so far. But if you want to go shopping or something, or like, hmm.... maybe your first Girl's Day? Don't be afraid to ask for help!"

She can only be what she is, which is a bunny who simply does not think too deeply about very many things, not without outside intervention. But hanging out and helping out? She's got that!

Amanda Faust has posed:
    She's doing pretty good so far?! Amy's smile lights up even brighter than seen so far and she eagerly nods at the offers, hugging both of them. "Thank you so much!"

    So, they're on the roof of...

    Amy looks around. "OH, your b-- your friend teleported us back to Radiant Heart! Handy. Um." She transforms back to civilian mode, the student uniform but with slacks. "I guess we'll see eachother around?"

    Once she starts to walk off, she circles back, "Ope! Nope! Wait a second. First girl question, how do you all stand sitting in skirts? How is your butt and thighs on the chair *not* uncomfortable?"

    She demonstrates by magicing on the skirt -- she can do school uniforms apparently -- and sitting, and then immediately regretting that she did that on the roof of the school. "Is this. Is this the girl version of toughing stuff out because it shouldn't bother you because you're a man?"

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"Yeah, Mysterious Knight is pretty cool like that, you know? We'll see each other around!" She waves, ready to hop off the roof and head off, when Amy doubles back, and -

Usagi just - laughs. What else can she do, when the vibe of the conversation changes so suddenly? She just drops back onto the roof and laughs, because this day has been so weird and she's needed it to be weird, and different, and -

"Okay, so, first of all, the skirt should be a little longer in the back! And second, you have to make sure you pull it down hbefore you sit, otherwise it might just hop up. And - it shouldn't be uncomfortable, but also, you kind of get used to it? I like shorter skirts, so sometimes I just bring a jacket in case the chair was in the sun and I'll die if I touch it."

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy is good-natured about the laughing. It IS kind of such a topic change but *this one's been bothering her for months come on.* She watches Usagi explain. Standing up and then sitting down careful to sweep the skirt under her with her hands after watching Usagi do it. "Ohhhhh. So that's why sometimes jackets or long tops with short shorts. It's not just to make guys wonder if you're wearing shorts or not." And now she's sitting comfortably in a skirt like a normal girl and it's just such a mundane thing that she laughs and lies back on the roof. "Thanks!"