[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

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

[Cloud smiles slightly- then her eyes narrow. There's something wrong with those images, now that she's looking directly at them. Something...]

Aerith...what are those over your head? Is that an experiment?

[gardenerofgaia.livejournal.com]

Huh? [Sweet moment broken, Aerith looks up.]

You're right, it's another experiment. They show people's thoughts. It's so annoying!

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

[Her thoughts? So then...]

...Aerith, why are you thinking of me as a guy?

[gardenerofgaia.livejournal.com]

[Her face goes blank with surprise for a split-second, but then--] Oh, for goodness' sake--!



[She huffs, wrapping her arms around herself.] Because I hated it when everyone was telling me I should be a girl, so I thought you'd rather not hear that you're supposed to be a guy.

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

[Cloud stares at her thoughts; it takes a moment for what Aerith said to sink in and she scoffs, shifting her weight and opening up her journal again.]

Right.

[gardenerofgaia.livejournal.com]

What is that? It's the same as how I was last week! Now it's so unbelievable?

[...Well. She wouldn't try persuading girl!Cloud. Except for the part where she's acting like she just made that up. :I]

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

[Well yeah because now it's HER.]

You really think I could be a guy? [She shakes out her journal irritably.] I don't even look like a guy when I try to.

[gardenerofgaia.livejournal.com]

That's because it's easier to add those than to hide them. [Guess. Where. She's. Pointing. ...Okay there are other reasons why girl!Cloud doesn't look like a guy when she's trying, but.]

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

[Cloud flushes, scowls and slaps her journal down to cover her breasts as if they were suddenly OUT IN THE OPEN.]

That's not what I mean and you know it.

[gardenerofgaia.livejournal.com]

[Uwaaah, Cloud's so shy~]

What if your guy self looks like a girl when he tries? --When he tries. Otherwise he looks like a guy.

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

Why would my guy self try to look like a girl? [Cloud is pointedly NOT looking at Aerith, so she misses that interesting tidbit there.]

[gardenerofgaia.livejournal.com]

Even if you were a guy, we'd still have to rescue Tifa from that pervert Don.

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

[Cloud falls silent at that. Yeah, even if she were a dude she'd do just about anything to rescue Tifa Lockhart.]

[gardenerofgaia.livejournal.com]

... You can't argue that, hm? [She turns around so she can rest against the couch.] Childhood friends. You two are so sweet.

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

We weren't really friends, you know. [Cloud tilts her head back in time to see that thought bubble, and purses her lips. That's right; Aerith grew up in the labs, and then in the slums. It would be hard to make and keep friends beneath the Plate.]

[gardenerofgaia.livejournal.com]

[And Aerith looks down just then, catching Cloud's eyes with a somewhat incredulous expression on her face.]

What do you mean, I know? You weren't? But-- [...She's sure she's called them that before without either of them correcting her.]

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

Well-

No, I guess you wouldn't.

We weren't. I just kind of stalked her like a creepy weirdo. [...though why did she do that? U-unless she really did have a crush on Tifa, and now things are just so much more complicated than they were ten minutes ago.]

[gardenerofgaia.livejournal.com]

...It doesn't matter. You're friends now. That's what we were talking about, after all; living in the present.

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

I guess you're right.

[Cloud scowls; she's not a man. Is not. ...even though she kind of thinks like one a little and. Maybe wishes she was one sometimes. But.

............well what if she was?]

Am I really supposed to be a guy?

[gardenerofgaia.livejournal.com]

Normally you are. [She gives a small shrug, hands clasped behind her back. This is more awkward than she'd like.] But you're Cloud either way.

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

[Cloud is not quite sure what to make of that information. Now that it's within the realm of possibility she's a little weirded out.]

[gardenerofgaia.livejournal.com]

If it helps, you make a good guy. Even if you don't quite pass for one right now.

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

That...doesn't really help.

[gardenerofgaia.livejournal.com]

[ orz ]

I'm trying!