[Voice//Video] Two-for-one!

[gardeningaia]

[Backdated to Thursday afternoon / Voice / 20% filtered from Claire Farron (good thing she wouldn't know how to hack anyway)]

Say, does anyone know a Claire?

Oh, and Zack? Need to hear from you. I promise I won't laugh at you being ridiculously shorter than me for once~ [So. He might. But just a little, honest!]

[TODAY / Video]

Whoa--whoa!

[Contrary to the icon, that voice sounds like Aerith's normal, female voice, if rather startled...and distant. Right now, the video only shows the fairly blank wall of Aerith's room in building 4. There's a pause, some water running, and then one door down the hallway opens and closes and the door to her room opens. She comes over to the journal immediately, looking over it to turn it on before realizing it already is.]

That's funny. A little too funny! (Why is it turning itself on?! And right after I changed back...in the bathroom. Thank goodness it couldn't catch that.)

[...Aerith is completely unaware that her second effect began nearly as soon as the first ended. So, unaware of what's broadcasting, she simply puts on a smile after a few seconds.]

...All right! I think everything's back to normal for me. So that's an experiment. Well, I've never cared for them much before, and I sure don't now! Changing minds and bodies like it's nothing... the Malnosso are creeps. (But that's so scary. Everything I remember changed.)

Well... I won't let them get to me. [She gives a firm nod, even if there's a touch of uncertainty in her expression.] Is anyone else back to normal? These last for about a week, right? Mm, I'm glad to be female again. I think I'm much cuter this way~

[Responses to the Thursday entry will be handled by male!Aerith; Saturday's entry has a fully normal Aerith...besides the accidentally shared thoughts, of course.]

Comments

[gardenerofgaia.livejournal.com]

He was friendly as always. Zack really isn't someone to let other people feel uncomfortable.

...Hey, so you know about him too! Well, that makes sense. He probably met a lot of people here last time.

[markofthewise]

Yeah, yeah. We met. [KEEP TO THE SUBJECT WOMAN.

Give him a moment to work up the nerve before:] Was it... business as always? Kissing and stuff?

[gardenerofgaia.livejournal.com]

[l-lol sorry for your nerve, Sokka, but that's completely going to embarrass Aerith.] N-no! We've never... [fff actually that's a little embarrassing too.] We're not together anymore. Maybe if... [glowing. She trails off and shakes her head.] A-ah, um... What about you? [oh yeah this helps TOTALLY GET THE SUBJECT OFF HERSELF]

[markofthewise]

[... oh whoops. Looks like there's some ISSUES he doesn't know about. Huh.] Uh. Well... Suki kind of... didn't seem to mind it so much. Not even the kissing. It's kind of confusing.

[gardenerofgaia.livejournal.com]

Suki...your girlfriend? So... she likes you whether you're a boy or girl. That's not so bad, is it? [/POSITIVE SIDE. She does see the awkwardness in this though, so she suggests it tentatively.] And you still thought you two were together?

[markofthewise]

Yeah, the girl me did. So I mean, it's great she likes me either way. But I think she might have liked me better as a girl. [And that's downright distressing.]

[gardenerofgaia.livejournal.com]

...Oh. [Suddenly feeling so much better about her own genderswap. At least that wasn't an issue.] She didn't say anything like that, did she...?

[markofthewise]

... she didn't have to. [HE COULD JUST TELL.]

[gardenerofgaia.livejournal.com]

Ouch. [what do you say to something like that?]

[markofthewise]

.... uh, don't worry about it, though. I mean, I'll figure it out. I mean, obviously she still likes me. That's all that matters.

[gardenerofgaia.livejournal.com]

Yeah! That is important. And maybe it was just because it was something new, you know?

[markofthewise]

Yeah... maybe. Either way, she still likes me. [Even if he's only second best.]

[gardenerofgaia.livejournal.com]

Definitely.

Did you get funny reactions from friends? One of mine thought I was breaking into my own apartment...and he wasn't too happy to find out I was a guy.

[markofthewise]

Some of my friends thought it was hilarious and went to great lengths to make sure I'd be appropriately humiliated afterward.

[gardenerofgaia.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's just no fair. You should get them back later.

[markofthewise]

I'll try, but I don't think anything gets under Toph's skin.