2690/Late Night Eats

Late Night Eats
Date of Scene:	13 July 2025
Location:	Mitakihara Ward
Synopsis:	Following a monster fight, Usagi, Mamoru, Amy, and Taro grab a bite to eat.
Cast of Characters:	Usagi Tsukino, Amanda Faust, Taro Yamada, Mamoru Chiba

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Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Another day, another perfectly normal fight -

HAHAHAHA just kidding, of course it wasn't a normal day! Those hardly ever happened! It's been a scorching day, 96 degrees, and Sailor Moon was hoping they could just have some cold soba and snacks and chill out, but no. Not in Tokyo!

"Wah, I can't believe my fuku is a juxedo!"

It's not the first time she's shrieked this, but it might well be the last, because Sailor Moon has gripped her wand, the new one with the wings and crescent moon and pink full moon and swung it wildly, narrow beams of pink light and silver moons and stars flying out in a cone-shape towards the towering empty figure of the denim tuxedo.

"Moon Princess Halation!"

Amanda Faust has posed:
    "How did that even happen?! Why didn't it become a juku?!" Amy exclaims, leaping through the air as she dodges jibbons of denim trying to snatch her. She lands and turns, firing an anti-tank rocket at the jouma, eyes watching it for its next strike. "Has this thing evolved and now it makes clothes into other kinds of denin clothes!?"

Taro Yamada has posed:
An oncoming denim storm is attacked by the swipe of a red blade, Kuiper Belt Cape managing to slice the oncoming jean attack - but one piece is swift enough to slam onto his face, rapidly reforming into a terrible jop hat.

"This can't be happening! I can't go around looking like I'm going to invite people to my barber shop to eat pies!"

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"You look really hot in it," Juxedo Mask says honestly from where he's getting to his feet in his own ripped and dirty Distressed denim tuxedo, "I mean you look really hot. I mean it's 96 degrees out, but you're also hot. Multiple senses of the-- right, Chiba Mamoru, explaining jokes since 2008--"

He watches the cone-shaped Halation slam the towering Juxedo with purification and moon and star emojis, then looks down at himself. "This one may have been my fault. I do actually own a white tie ensemble for real, I just haven't bothered wearing it since I got this henshin? But I put it away with the yukata I was wearing when Jukata struck the festival we were at. And I just took it out again."

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"Of course she looks hot! She's in a custom couture juxedo! Perfectly cut to flatter her physique, in her own colors, it's the style of the century! The comfort and casual fit of denim, the debonair styling of the tuxedo - this is it!"

The Juxedo throws it's empty arms up, neckhole tilted to the sky as it proclaims its genius, even as purification energy begins to take it apart, reducing it to no more than scraps of denim and thread.

"You'll see! You'll all see!"

Sailor Moon is unimpressed with the monster and with her husband. "Mamochan... I can't believe you did this to me - us - of course I'm hot but it's so! Hot! Today!" Multiple civilians on the street had been swept into juxedos, jop hats, and so it's not just about her... even if she is sweating terribly in the multiple denim layers of this suit - the denim pants, undershirt, vest, and jacket, not to mention the denim top hat her tiara had become - "Taro-kun you are the last person who looks terrible right now!"

But she can say all this, and talk mess, because Juxedo has been cut to ribbons, sparkles of light pouring up as the purification seizes the monster and leaves nothing but scraps of fabric.

"Ugh, does anybody have anything that could burn all that and not damage the building? Usually I can't swing my rod without tripping over someone with fire powers..."

Amanda Faust has posed:
    "...I do feel kind of bad for it. It just wanted to be loved, and there are good jeans, I think... but I guess dark energy means it will always come out twisted."

    She looks across the sea of Juxedos. She did get nicked, and pulls off the offending jopera jloves and fancy jhoes. "I can thermite it over concrete or sand or dirt or something, but then what do we just leave all these people without clothes?" Beat. "...I can make clothes, but I think doing that many might be a bit much... also without me around they don't last."

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"Just because I bought it with Obsidian money doesn't mean it started out cursed," Mamoru says, not even bothering to sound defensive, just a little defeated. "It was embezzling. You're the one who told me to embezzle, and now I'm going to ask you to just purify my whole closet just in case."

He sighs. "Blow it up like you blew up Koan's head, Amy-chan. Leave a fine mist. Everyone has to find new clothes. Their clothes just... turned into these things. And now it's everyone. And they can't de-henshin, rip."

Taro Yamada has posed:
"Look, I'm not saying my look has been massacred more than yours, your outfit was gorgeous and this thing is a hack, I'm saying I don't want to look like a caricature from 1886!" Taro shouts back. "It's a crucial difference!"

The offending jop hat is sliced off and then stomped on the ground a few times to make sure it STAYS down.

And then Juxedo disappears into ribbons and sparkles as Moon Halation stops leaving spots on the back of eyelids, and Taro breathes a sigh of relief as the denim menace is finally gone.

"It's too bad it's not the 90s. The love of denim and evil would have made it popular," he sighs, brushing off the denim dust on his coat. "Want me to slice all that stuff up? It's not quite as effective as burning, but it'll be gone."

A pause. "Tuxedo, aren't you loaded?"

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"I don't mean we get everyone else to strip out of their new clothes!" Sailor Moon waves her hands around, making X shapes in the air. "None of that! We're not doing any of that! Those poor unfortunate souls will have to make their peace, because all the clothes shops are closed! I just want us to burn these things because it keeps coming back somehow!"

She drops her henshin, revealing her ordinary outfit - an ironic pair of denim short-shorts and a pink crop top with a tattered rhimestone design and lacy white feather 'wings' starting at the shoulders and following the sides of the bust and back. Her usual 90s fashion has been abandoned in favor of wearing as little as she could reasonably manage while still looking

"Okay, my regular clothes are fine... so now...

She turns in a flash, the feathers on her top flaring. By the time she's facing the group again, she's back in henshin, and thankful that it's been restored to her usual red, blue, and white fuku state.

"Thank goodness I wasn't stuck in that..."

Amanda Faust has posed:
    "It won't mist, it'll turn into tiny little shreds. I'll just thermite it once we've got it all in a pile." And she will, wit whatever it is specifically that they are burning.

    When Kuper Belt Cape opines that the Jimono would have been more popular in the 90s, she somberly agrees, "It's in the wrong one."

    When she sees Usagi's outfit Amy oohs, "Where did you get that top? And why does this thing only attack in hot summer instead of winter?"

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"Okay, but I'm waiting until Amy-chan burns the pile before I'm dropping my henshin," says Juxedo Kamen, crossing his arms. "Since a scrap must have made it onto the yukata I was wearing last summer and transferred to the tuxedo."

He glances aside at Taro and makes a face. "It's complicated. Yes and no. Mostly yes. Wh--" Usagi nixes it, and his eyebrows lift and he shakes his head too. "I'm not that guilty, anyway. I didn't make the youma."

He sighs, crouching to examine, to see that there aren't any spare threads that aren't in the pile. "And here," he produces his top hat (not a jop hat!) and hands it to Amy. "You can put the thermite on the pile and the hat on the thermite. It should contain the explosion."

A beat. "If it doesn't, well, I guess I'll find it someday? --and probably because it's evil."

Taro Yamada has posed:
"There's gotta be some clothing store open! It's not that late at night," Taro says as he henshins back into his ironic jeans and THE RING VS THE GRUDGE T-shirt. "And waving around enough cash money has got to open *something* up. At least enough to protect people from heatstroke?"

Isn't that how being rich works??

He considers Usagi's cute shirt and nods. "You look like you're halfway to henshining in there. It's a good look."

And to Amy - "Knowing our luck, it would make people wear jikinis and jwimsuits in jinter- dammit, now I'm doing it!"

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"Man, it's like 10! Even here in Mitakihara, things close eventually. These people can go home. Maybe this will get them back sooner than they usually would!"

Normally, Usagi would be a bit more generous to the strangers afflicted the way she had been - but it's late, it's hot, and she's hungry enough to hurl towards hangry soon. Turning towards Mamoru, she nods at his decision to offer his hat, though she's squinting suspiciously at it.

"I'm purifying that hat as soon as she's done," she promises, and then glances at Amy - "I got it off Etsy! It was kind of pricy, but when you want something, you want it, you know? Besides, it's always nice to have a standout piece in your wardrobe!"

It's statements like that that remind you her dad is the editor in chief for a fashion magazine.

"We might not ever be fully rid of it... ubt we can do our best to try. And the sooner we're done, the sooner we can get that soba!"

Amanda Faust has posed:
    "I mean. There shouldn't be an explosion unless something in the pile is wet." She puts the hat on it anyway; it may or may not contain the ensuing shower of sparks (droplets of molten iron, actually, do not touch!), but true to her word, this doesn't so much explode as release a brief, close shower of iron droplets and then turn into a puddle of molten iron and slag which will desummon when they're satisfied the jimono is finally jurnt to jashes.

    She nods at the assessment of a pricy garment being worth it. "Yeah, I had some serious sticker shock when I finally got like, actual clothes... fortunately they were having a sale that day."

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
Juxedo Jamen instantly dehenshins as soon as the not-an-explosion has completed. "I'm not transforming back, that thing is wool and it's still the heat death of the universe," he says from the offending starry blue yukata from last summer. It doesn't match the red tips frosting his hair, but honestly, that's a bed he made on purpose and he is lying in it.

"Are you going to change back into the awesome shirt and cute shorts," he asks Usagi, "after you purify my hat?"

Mamoru glances from Amy to Taro, then pauses, and turrrrns to Usagi. "Do you have your pen?" he asks sweetly. "Even this yukata is too hot."

Taro Yamada has posed:
The jire under the jat is warm and joasty, and soon enough the jimono has been jurnt to jashes. Taro isn't going to stomp on the jashes in case it melts his shoes, but he glares at the offending non-denim nonetheless.

He blinks at the frosted red tips, looks between Mamoru and Usagi, and asks: "Did I miss an occasion?"

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"Moon Princess Halation!"

The purification cone spirals out, surrounding the top hat - the stars and moons dance around the hat, encircling it, and then mist rises up, leaving it purified and sparkly.

"There! And of course I'm changing back - this outfit is still too hot-" And her henshin drops, leaving her in the sparkly crop top and short-shorts. "Hm? Yeah, I've got it! Here, catch~"

And the Disguise Pen is tossed Mamoru's way.

"Nah, you went to the wedding, right! I know I saw you there - and that was the last event~ Mamochan just likes messing with his hair."

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy oooohs appreciatively at the purification display, and dehenshins when Sailor Moon does -- the puddle of iron and slag also disappears -- she's wearing a green cami and a grey knee-length skort -- shorter than the skirts she usually wears -- because of the heat. She's wondering if she should get really short shorts in this heat, certainly.

    Her head 'immediately turns to Mamoru when the pen is mentioned. He might just be changing clothes but the possibility is there and noticing that is a reflex at this point. Not specifically because of Mamorin, the GM saying the party found an unidentified magical belt or a TV in the background playing a scene where the characters come upon magic potions gets the same response.

    Taro asks if he missed an occasion. "Huh? Why?" She glances at him briefly before looking back to Mamoru.

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
Mamoru catches the pen out of the air and says before anyone can stop him, "Moon Power, turn me into--"

"Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Earth!"

There's no fancy henshin sequence because it's the disguise pen, it's a light henshin only-- but there's definitely spinning on Mamorin's heel and being considerably shorter but with slightly longer hair and that is a fuku all right, brown skirt and collar, golden gem on tiara and bow, tall high-heeled boots, ocean-from-space-blue bows and boots and the pointed cuffs on her opera gloves. She has no sleeves, and there's a chain around her waist with her pocketwatch hanging from it.

"Well," she says, "this is certainly cooler than the yukata."

Taro Yamada has posed:
"Yeah, I was helping with the catering and sat in the back, away from the explosions. My powers aren't great for helping with, uh, human enemies," Taro says sheepishly about the wedding. "I wasn't sure if this was a honeymoon thing, these days?"

Look, tehy've all been busy! HE had to ask!

"Oh, because he dyed his hair," he explains to Amy, and then a cartoonish henshin noise plays -

And when he looks back, Mamoru is now Mamorin. "That definitely looks like you're going to stay cool in that," he says, nodding sagely. "Is it fun doing that?"

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"Oh, yeah that makes sense, Makochan mentioned that you and Chiyo-chan helped with the cake stuff! Thank you for that! And yeah, I think eating our dark energy probably wouldn't have really worked out well for you, you know?"

Taro is given a bright smile, before Sailor Earth distracts her entirely. "Oh, those are some pretty colors! I like how the gold in your gem and pocket watch play off the blue and brown! I wonder if you'll get these colors again next time?"

She cocks her head, thinking about it, then decides that thinking is less interesting than kissing her husband - wife? - wife!, and pops up on her toes to do just that.

"Nah, it's not exactly like, a good time for a honeymoon, you know? Maybe if things are less stupid later, but for now..." It's just not the time for a honeymoon, but there will come a time later, in the future, when they can have a great honeymoon! She knows it!"

"Okay, now that we're cooled down... let's go get soba! I've been waiting for it!"

Amanda Faust has posed:
    That he dyed his hair? "Yeah, the wedding, did you not see him the whole--" and then Amy's eyes widen at the callout, Mamoru is 'Sailor Earth', as she understands it, so yeah she is excited to see what that'll look like! After the 'henshin sequence', such as it is, Amy's surrounded by flame and then Sailor Chalcopyrite is curiously looking over Earth's costume details. "Ooooh... so you're Earth-colored! That makes sense." she notes with a smile. "Pretty cool!"

    Standing next to someone else in the sailor senshi outfit makes the differences of her own stand out -- red collar and skirt, black bow and ribbon, red chest gem, black choker, but she keeps the gloves from her normal henshin and the boots from her normal henshin are recolored red. She holds up her right hand near Earth's, palm facing herself. "We both went with gloves a little different, huh. Your shoulder thingies are different too."

    Red eyes look at Taro after he asks those words, but there's not excitement or mischief in them, just a faint curiousity. "I think so, but I'm-- we're-- everyone here might be unusual in how we react to it, so I don't know if anyone else's answer can really predict that for you." she admits, plainly.

    Sailor Moon proposes soba and Amy raises her fist in agreement. "We're lucky they're open so late..."

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"It's super fun. If Usako--" Kissu! Oh hello, ~kissu~ and Mamorin is completely distracted, going starry-eyed at the kiss from her wife, little fireworks going off in her brain~

She's just smiling dumbly for a second. Then she laughs at Amy changing, and she models and vogues as her outfit is inspected. "It's not a-- I'm not in my proper henshin, I don't have any powers like this. I do, however, know how to do a Sailor E Kick. And yeah! I didn't have anything really specific in mind, so I guess it's just having a guess..."

Her hair's being discussed, but Usagi likes the colors of her fuku, and that's good because she's Dirt Girl.

"Anyway it's fun and you should ask to try it too, just not right now, because I'm using it. Moon Power!" she says again, holding the pen up once more, "Turn me into a short punk girl dressed for the heat?" she tries as she trails behind her wife. There's another bright little starry moony henshin and Mamorin is as tall as Usagi now, wearing black denim microshorts and a sleeveless crop top Hi-Standard band logo t-shirt, and her jewelry involves a lot of black leather wristbands with studs type stuff, black nail polish, multiple piercings, dark but expertly applied makeup, and her hair's a fluffy forward-falling fade.

"There," she says sedately, putting on her top hat and adjusting her hornrimmed cat-eye glasses. "Soba, then."

Taro Yamada has posed:
"I mean, I was more worried about the stabbing thing, but eating your dark energy would have ended REALLY bad for me too," Taro says with a thumbs up -

And then the wives are kissing.

Theyre so cute,,, It's an old man thing to think, but it's good to see the youth enjoying young love together!! And young gender?

"It's extra fun doing things with the wife!" he cheers, and watches as the two of them play more dress up, Mamorin turning into a punk with sweet earrings and nail polish. "So you only give the stick a general idea of how to change and it goes from there? I wonder how it knows..."

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"I mean, the stabbing thing gets healed, right? And also, not that I don't care when we get injured, and things, but Mamochan can heal you know? So whatever it took to get us back to normal is just kind of how it goes..."

Grievous injury is still bad, but it's less bad when she can rely on her friends to help her back up!

"Yeah, I was wondering if it was anything like a real henshin, since my other transformations aren't, but that explains it!" It's just a costume, with that special effect of looking and hiding. She gets it.

"Oh! Nice! Okay, so you just have to give it more ideas to limit it... that makes sense, usually I just ask it to make me a thing," and she laughs a little, before glancing at Taro and Amy and shrugging. "It's magic. You could ask Luna though, I'm pretty sure she knows how to make them - she made a lot of our stuff, like our communicators, and all that."

With that little lorebomb dropped, she eyes her now shorter wife up and down then, reaches out, grabs and dips her, and oh she's strong enough for that now, after two years of being a hero and running around and begrudgingly fighting, and gives another kiss.

"You're short enough for that to not look stupid! Man, next time I'm going to be tall!"

Mamorin is tugged back up to her feet, and then Usagi spins around.

"To soba! I want some cold soba!"

Amanda Faust has posed:
    D'aww they are cute together! Well, they always are! But yes, girls cute.

It's fun and you should ask to try it too, just not right now--

    That would be fun though, wouldn't it. Amy can feel something in her magic--ooh, Punk Mamorin!

    Amy's jaw drops as Mamoru is brought down to her and Usagi's height. "It made you shorter?! It can do that after all?!" She passes a hand over Mamorin's head to check as if it might be an illusion. "Luna can make these?!"

    Amy's eyes dance over the outfit, noting details, thinking about what they'd look like on herself, and which parts of the look she'd want to pull off herself -- she's not feeling the microshorts unless it was cosplay or something. As Mamorin starts to follow her wife towards soba, Amy's body and forehead are engulfed in pink sparkles as the senshi outfit does away and leaves her in her own attempt at the look:
    No piercings, black eyeliner with a bit of pale purple eyeshadow, simple black choker, sleeveless red print crop top (a cartoon tiger head winking, with a paw held up making a devils-horns gesture, saying 'nyo' in a speech balloon), the same wristbands and nail polish, and black denim shorts that at least come down most of the way over her thighs. Black sneakers.

    She looks down at herself, but doesn't have a mirror handy. "Does it work on me?" She giggles as Punk Mamorin adds her top hat back to the look.

    She got a bit distracted from complimenting the look by trying to imitate it, but imitation is the sincerest form of flattery...!

    Once they're moving on towards soba, though, her mind drifts back towards her magic...

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
STAR EYES. Right, after that, all Mamorin can really do is shrug helplessly at Amy. "It looks nice?" she says uncertainly to Amy, like she's not sure if that's quite the question that was being asked. "It doesn't look super different from what you usually wear. Maybe like. Those big wide-bore fishnet stockings under the shorts? Or ripped ones? Good eyeliner though."

But she's being tugged along by ~her wife~ and there's cold soba and then

They are *at the place* to get cold soba. Mamorin's digging in her hat for her wallet.

Taro Yamada has posed:
"Yeah, the stabbing thing heals, but I don't want to stab an eight year old! Even if she's actually a thousand! It would be weird," Taro protests, as if stabbing a teenager is any better. "Plus she already is going to feel like shit after going dark for a bit, she doesn't need more reasons to feel weird."

Also. The eight year old definitely could kick his ass. HE is aware of the power scaling. Which is a little embarassing, but, he'll get stronger one day.

Probably.

He hopes.

AS Usagi and Mamoru go hand in hand giggling along, he looks over Amy's looks and... "I don't know enough about girl fashion to evaluate this, but I like it!" Their shirts match now! ish? They've both cot characters printed on them now! "I can take a picture."

....wait. "Does your costume magic work on other people, Amy?"

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Usagi cranes her head to look back at Amy's newest look and she dips her head into a nod and shoots her a thumbs up! "Nice! You look pretty good, though, I feel like punk looks more like, dangerous and sharp? I'm not an expert though."

She's the preppiest girl who ever lived. Who's surprised by this?

"I found this place last summer! They stay open super late because of all the salarymen who come in after hours and the university kids too, I guess, and their cold soba is really good."

She's practically drooling over it already, skipping along with Mamoru once they get closer, though she laughs a little at poor Taro's thoughtfulness.

"Considering she was five... good idea. She is like eight, now, though, and I don't think she really remembers most of it. I don't remember it all super well either, it's all kind of a blur, but, now that she's Chibimoon she's taking it pretty well!"

Waltzing into the small restaurant reveals that the clientele inside are indeed mostly salarymen - there's four tables in here, and two of them are filled with groups of men in suits with loosened ties or slightly unbuttoned shirts, bottles of sake and beer surrounding them. The restaurant is clearly older and the couple behind the counter are too, the menus simple and plain with a short list of dishes. There's all kinds of variation on soba, from hot to cold, in soups, stir fries, and with dipping sauces.

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
Despite the way she's dressed, top hat and microshorts and crop top and all, Mamorin is actually polite and so mild-faced in her greeting, in a practiced and easy way. She unlaces her fingers from Usagi's in order to bow, then treats them to the magic trick of whoops where did the hat go? with a neat little sleight of hand. No sleeves.

She's not sure if it's order first then sit, or sit then order, but the air conditioning is really nice. "One check please," is all she has to say before they order, and when they do order, she gets it cold and peanutty and sweet.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Usagi compliments her look and Amy beams. Maybe it's more dangerous and sharp than her though? "Well, I have so many looks to try! I get it now, this is part of what being a teenager is about, isn't it?" she smiles.

    Once they're moving on towards soba, though, her mind returns to where it was. It would be fun, to be able to have all of them together like this for a bit, rather than one person playing around at a time.

    The way she'd describe preparing and using magic is it's like a key that does or doesn't fit into a keyhole.

    When it's something she can almost do, when she's close to finding something she can do, the 'key' is pressing into one of those concave-face doorknobs, and it's like she's clearly found the doorknob and there should be a keyhole but there isn't, but it's close, like maybe there just isn't a keyhole but maybe if she just moved the key over the hypersurface of the doorknob in some 4th dimension and tried something a little different, she'd find the keyhole, to stretch the metaphor a bit.

    And she's thought about it, but not often seriously, not since finding out why she was always so enamored with the idea of turning into a girl and that it might be horrible for others. But...

Amanda Faust has posed:
--

    Her first Valentines' day with a girlfriend! As she rode the train she was reading manga and looking forward to spending the evening with Hannah, but when a page doesn't load and she notices her surroundings, she overhears an absolutely vile conversation from two guys sitting nearby.

    Soon she can't stand it and stands up and tells them off. One says that 'elementary schoolers' should buzz off. She launches into a rant and tells them off more, and tempers get heated, but others on the car are looking and they don't dare hit her, as much as they may want to,

    And she's looking at them, so angry for that one's girlfriend, and in that moment she really does feel they deserve every dark fate she's seen humanity dream up for people in her situation, and she feels her magic slide into the keyhole ready to unlock and gets so scared of what she could do and then her stop is being announced and she ignores whatever the two are saying and moves to the door to be one of the first off.

--

    Gretchen is gathering all of their power and Amy feels for how awful an existence it must be for those two, to be stuck as Witches instead of as girls, and something in her magic responds to the thought of giving them a new body, that feeling of something in the right direction but beyond her power, and she can't do it but Gretchen with all X-Paradise's gathered power and everyone helping can and her magic pours into Gretchen with all the others', cuteness magic that is excellently and efficiently aligned to this part of the task...

--

    Mamoru is hurt, so hurt, and they didn't find Usagi or Chibiusa and everything is so messed up it barely even matters that they are on a ACTUAL FOR REAL SPACESHIP and she just wants to help him and the healers are saying it will take time and they can't do much right now and he's suffering and he's suffered so much and it should stop, and her magic scrapes the doorknob for a keyhole that isn't quite there, in the back of her mind that urge to be useful, to show them how powerful and helpful and useful she can be with the energy taken from that awful planet, in the back of her mind she thinks, damage and wounds don't matter if you remake the body, and she already knows he wouldn't get dysphoric and this might be beyond her power but she's so clever and perhaps Cute magic and dark energy combined and she feels like she's so clever she could figure out how to do anything to show them how clever she is

    and she's not scared of what she could do, but that friends might get mad at her, that her relationship with dear friends could be damaged, because the hooks in her brain aren't all the way in yet, she's sure if she's clever enough all this energy can bridge the gap her magic can't quite cross and solve the present problem but not so sure she can solve and avoid all possible consequences and side effects, and that gives her pause. She'll have to find another way to prove how useful she can be, after a nap and after appreciating that holy shit they're in space on a spaceship.

--

Amanda Faust has posed:
    And now, thanks to the disguise pen and Sailor Eclipse, she's aware that people other than her, even if they're not trans, per se, can not freak out or even be okay in a different body

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    At least, if it's temporary and not some permanent change

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    Taro asked, with possible interest, is it fun -- well, that could just be idle curiousity without actual interest or intent. But Mamorin is encouraging it, friends think this is okay and not a weird thing to do

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    'Does your costume magic work on other people, Amy?'

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    Amy's drawn out of her thoughts and looks up at Taro, face a bit blank as she checks the sounds in her working memory and makes sure she heard that right and gives a preliminary answer,

    "Yes."

    She is completely not focused on soba or the discussion about Chibiusa right now. Strictly speaking, he hasn't exactly said and also they're in a noodle store. There are things to check before seeing if Cute Magic can really do this. (If now is not the time, perhaps Magical Karaoke.)

    "What are you thinking?"

Taro Yamada has posed:
"Five, eight, close enough? I got attacked by a whatever when I was twelve and that sucked, so it's got to be twice as worse for someone half my age," Taro reasons.

He stays at Amy's side in companionable silence. SOmetimes she'd drift off thinking, so he just had to be there for when she finally landed. Was it the dressing up? It was probably the dressing up.

He and Amy had talked about gender stuff now and then, and for her, the clothing and the cuteness was a part of it. For him it was - well, he was just kind of there, wasn't he? A default kind of doll shape, and a default shape was usually a boy, so he was a boy. That was how it worked, right? You got it assigned and then wore it like a name tag when working at a pet shop. Amy had been pretty focused on trying to explore it with him, but like - why not be a boy? What else was he gonna be?

(Well, sometimes he was a monster, but that didn't really change things. It was putting on a new face for a little bit and being someone Not Taro.)

He wasa mostly thinking about how it would be fun to do dress up with Amy's powers since he would not know where to start with modern fashion, and she did. But it could be a gender thing? Maybe? He'd thought about being a girl and it had seemed uncomfortable, but Mamorin was having a good time. It was.... He didn't know what it was, really. A thought to ponder over cold soba with duck and dipping sauce, splurging a little since he was on Mamorin's yen.

"Well, most of my budget has gone to like, savings accounts or school stuff. I've bought new clothes, but most of it is stuff I like not proper fashion. Do you want to dress me up sometime?"

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Usagi is the one who confidently orders for the four of them - chilled soba with tsuketsuyu for each of them, carrots and cilantro and scallions for flavor and garnish, shrimp for her, Mamoru, and Amy, and sliced duck for Taro at his request and a round of chilled teas as well - not usually what they offered, but given the heat the restaurant is accommodating.

"Okay, they're going to bring it out to us so let's grab a table!"

Everyone's herded over to the table, and she practically melts onto it.

"I've been looking forward to this since before the fight..."

Amanda Faust has posed:
unclick

    Oh she was completely way off base he wasn't thinking the same thing she was at all

    She needs a moment to like, mentally change gears.

    And now she feels bad, because she has thought about using it on other people -- and the magic responds, she can feel if it's something she can do or not -- and she doesn't want to disappoint him but she never felt that click-into-place if thinking about--

    "I don't think it works with guys." she admits, with an apologetic grimace.

    "Well I mean--" She looks over to Shortpunk Mamorin and imagines putting her back in her Sailor Earth outfit. Her sense of cuteness magic says:

click

    "Hmm, that works but--" She looks back to Taro, "But it has been awhile since I tried to see if I could do that, like it wouldn't do tails at first either, and you're... not exactly..." she trails off and focuses.

scrape

    It doesn't exactly feel like a complete no, but it feels far from the metaphorical keyhole. "I don't know." she admits apologetically. "Maybe? It doesn't feel like it'll work now but maybe there's some trick I can figure out to it, or another way I have to look at it. Like I could only do feminine clothes on me until I thought of it as gap moe. And obviously I could just make really oversized clothes for me -- the boyfriend shirt principle -- and then you put them on instead, but it'll be hard for me to judge the fit and might take some tries and experimenting, rather than just being like," she waves at him lightly, "Poof."

    She's walked with them over to the table during all this, and soba is brought over. "Oh nice, shrimp! Thank you!" But before sitting down to eat, she does look at Taro apologetically for his response.

Taro Yamada has posed:
"Thanks for ordering, Usagi!" Taro says, and flops into the chair opposite her. Thank goodness for air conditioning...

And he listens to Amy's explenation with interest, even if he doesn't quite get it all. "So when you're dressing yourself or people up, it has to be 'girl' clothing specifically? Which is tricky since I do wear things that the modern day considers more femeinine, I don't think they are because they weren't when I was a kid, so that self conception gets in the way." Interesting...

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy winces as it's described that way. "Well... I don't know, exactly? No one's ever asked me to like... figure out the limits involving other people before. It must be tied to my Wish and I Wished to be cute, but..." She shakes her head. "There must be more to it."

    She blinks.

    "Well I mean. I'm cute in anything!" That statement could be a self-satisfied smile, but right now, it's a more awkward grin again. Then she looks down at her soba. "But I don't know how it all works."

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"Magic is magic," Usagi says with a shrug, "And yeah, it's no problem, sometimes ordering is hard, and I was the one who knew what I wanted, so..."

She frowns a little, and tries to think... "Maybe, you need to think about how your powers work? What they're for, what they're related to? You got them from Kyubey, and he wanted you to kill Witches, and - well, you know, so... maybe the limits are more to do with those kinds of things? I'm not really the brainy one."