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[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!]

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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.]

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[ Yeah, she's a few years short of some of the crazy stuff she learns to do later on. For now she just falls silent, though she continues to watch Aerith with a slightly dubious expression that... might as well be from her normal and full-grown self. She's still not sure about how Aerith's suddenly a she, or what was up with the thing she just saw. ]

[Aerith doesn't see that expression, still trying to get ideas for little Claire/Lightning's lunch. ...In fact, it even starts popping up in her head as she looks at food: the idea of a grilled cheese sandwich, apples, milk, bananas, would Claire like yogurt...? The images flit in and out quickly, but are easy enough to distinguish for anyone who's seen those foods before.]

[ Even more staring as she finishes off the toast from before, especially when the silly things come back, now with pictures of things Claire is both familiar and unfamiliar with.

Dude, maybe Zack can... read minds and just never told Aerith? But that doesn't explain why it only started just now. Maybe it took some time for her to get the hang of it?

... Maybe he can only read women's minds. HOLY CIE'TH. Should she say something?! ]

Uh... Aerith. Can you... see those?

[ Point. ]

[Aerith looks at Claire. Then looks up at where she's pointing. Of course, by this time, she's no longer thinking about lunch, so those thought bubbles have disappeared.]

[Her confusion mounting and mounting as it gets looped back to her, that last one looks ready to burst the thought bubble it's in. But then with a flashback to Buffy's thought bubbles (fortunately Aerith does not think of when Buffy accidentally showed her their kiss), she realizes what's going on.]

...Oh, those dirty jerks!

[Her thought bubble agrees.]

Edited 2010-11-30 23:04 (UTC)

[ Wide eyes and confused blinking. Claire has no idea whether she should be amused or not. At least she... doesn't have troublesome mind powarz? ]

... Hm. Weird.

I'll say.

...I'm sure you've seen by now that this place can be pretty weird. [Even if Claire hasn't been watching the journals...there's people singing and teleporting to random places.]

Well... yeah.

[ Hey, even if Aerith and whoever else tried to shelter her completely, that would be kind of hard to miss. She's far from stupid too... she can tell she doesn't have the whole picture. She crosses her arms. ]

Even... Phoenix seems kind of weird, here.

[What.] ...You have Phoenix? [Man that is so rare she's never even seen it ~~party got it after she died |D~~]

[ ~~Man, that could have saved them so much grief in the end.~~ Hello, question that doesn't make any sense. Meet face of I have no idea what you just asked there. ]

I have... huh?

Sorry, I must have misunderstood. I thought you said Phoenix was being weird. Is that someone's name?

Yeah... you know, Phoenix, the fal'Cie. The... light in the sky? That's its name.

[ Kind of worrisome that she didn't know that already. Coupled with those strange thought bubbles... well, Claire really hopes she misread 'summon' there. ]

What were you thinking of?

Light in the...during the day, right? That's called the "sun", where I'm from.

What I've heard about Phoenix is that it can be summoned, if you have the right materia. That's why I got confused at first.

What? It's not a bird, it's a fal'Cie! Are you sure you're not thinking about...

[ She trails off into confused silence. No no no, Eidolons are a l'Cie thing, and there hasn't been a Cocoon l'Cie in centuries, right? Not since the War.

And on top of everything, she has no idea what's going on, is in the wrong body, people are saying weird things... she just... shuts down suddenly, quickly approaching tears. ]

...Forget it.

[Oh. Okay that definitely isn't a good reaction. Aerith automatically closes the fridge, taking a few steps to Claire as she looks up at her expression in Zack's face.]

No, I'm sorry, Claire. Can you tell me what's wrong, please? I didn't mean to upset you, but I don't know what a fal'Cie is.

[ It was hard enough for Lightning to wrap her head around people never talking about fal'Cie as an adult, but while she's still in the mindset of such a sheltered kid...? Everything she accepts as true is basically being thrown out the window and that is not a fun state of mind to be in. She puts her hands over her face so she won't have to see Aerith looking at her any more. ]

The fal'Cie... they take care of us. Take care of Cocoon.

[Aerith puts a hand on Claire's upper arm, trying to be calming in at least some way... but she doesn't know anything she can say to reassure her.]

Claire... don't think about it too much. This will make more sense soon.

[ Yeah, that really only makes it worse; she compresses a little, not even trying to fight tears. It's not really Aerith's fault though... this has very likely been building for a bit by now. ]

I just wanna go home. I want to see my family.

I know. I know... [Words aren't nearly enough; with barely a thought, Aerith steps forward again, closing the distance and lifting her arms to hug Claire. She's been missing her own mother since she realized her death.] You're still going to see them. It'll be okay.

Edited 2010-12-09 04:38 (UTC)

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