DOUZE + [Action/Video]

[tearmeanewone]

[Action] - Locked to Infinite + Gai

[The morning of April 9th brings excitement to House 36. Elizabeth wakes up, feeling maybe a little heavier than she usually does, but after a quick mental assessment brushes it off as nothing more than a desire to stay warm in bed, next to Gai.]

[She pulls brown hair out of her face to check the clock. Well, 8:36AM, it's probably time to get up and make some coffee for the house. A good minute is spent debating rolling over onto Gai and going back to sleep (interspersed with wondering how she got so twisted up in her nightgown--it feels like it's choking her now).]

[In the end, chores win out, but Elizabeth isn't going to completely deny herself. She stretches up and nuzzles up under Gai's jaw and kisses him there.]

Good morn--

[That was significantly lower than her voice usually is.]



[After that bit of fun, Elizabeth comes stumbling awkwardly out of her room--there's a man in Elizabeth's nightgown standing in the hallway and looking horrified.]

Roberrrrt!!

[Booker must never know. Which is clearly why she's screaming for Robert in the middle of the hall. But what could she do? The last thing she needed was Rosalind's thoughts on how to be a man, Booker would probably take one look at her and start drinking.]



[Video]

[The feed starts up, and at least Elizabeth is no longer in a nightgown, but she looks just as panicked.]

No, this isn't a mistake in your journal, it's really me-- [She brings her thimble-covered pinky into the frame and rotates it.] --Elizabeth! But I'm-- I'm a man now!

[Blunt and to the point. She's too freaked out to dance around the problem and break it delicately though.] What do I do?! I don't know how to be a man, I've spent twenty one years being a woman!

[And the best way to learn how to function as a male is to ask the network. Good job, Elizabeth.]



((OOC: All replies will be coming from tearmeadudeone!))

Comments

voice;

[unfringed]

Learn how to pee standing up I suppose. That's going to be your most immediate concern.

And don't get yourself caught in your zipper. That can really ruin your day.

voice;

[tearmeadudeone]

Oh my God...

[Thanks Walter, she really didn't want to think about wrangling-- into pants with a zipper-- ANYWAY.]

Standing up? Why?

voice;

[unfringed]

Because otherwise you have to tuck it in and that's never comfortable for long. Trust me, try it.

voice;

[tearmeadudeone]

N-no! I'm not going to try it! What if... what if I broke it?!

voice;

[unfringed]

My dea--r boy. You can't break that anymore easily than you can break a finger. [He chuckles a little.] Unless you're trying, but then it must be engorged first or you must apply a significant amount of pressure in order to burst something. A little bending is what it's made for.

[deathsdoctor]

[You do realize we'll need the Mulan soundtrack for this.

Don't worry Elizabeth, he'll make a man out of you!]

Well... uh... it's not too hard. Unless you mean being manly. But being a man isn't hard.

[tearmeadudeone]

[THANK GOD SOMEONE'S GOING TO.]

Wait, but what's the difference? ['Manly', 'masculine', 'being a man'... they're all interchangeable, right?]

[deathsdoctor]

Being manly is basically your behaviour. So's being masculine... all in how you act. Don't worry about that.

Being biologically male isn't really different from being biologically female. We have pretty much all the same needs. A few different parts. That's all.

[tearmeadudeone]

Well I can't go running around in a skirt, Booker looked like he was going to faint when he saw me in my nightgown...

But it's those 'different parts' I'm concerned about. I feel like I'm in a stranger's house and I can't get out because I don't know where anything is.

--->filtered

[deathsdoctor]

Really?

[Do you know how many okama are in One Piece, Elizabeth? Men running around in nightgowns is hardly shocking.]

Okay, I'll throw a filter over this. [One completely unhackable filter coming up.] Ask me whatever you need to. I'll give you an answer.

[relictusdeus]

[A decent man, perhaps, would try their very hardest to treat the situation with due seriousness and delicacy. But no one ever said Isaac was a decent man, and one would have to know nothing of him to expect him to keep a grin from curling his lips as he considers the sight.]

Well, you could have done worse. [He remarks too matter-of-factly, and to his credit he hasn't given into chuckling. Not yet.]

[tearmeadudeone]

I could've done worse than what? [She is so lost here. She thinks Isaac is trying to answer her question.]

[relictusdeus]

[He reaches for a glass of wine off-screen, lazily gesturing to the journal with a finger while he's having a sip. It's never too early or late in the day for a small mouthful - although while lingering deep underground he often cannot tell which it happens to be. It would be a strange and novel thing, waking someplace with windows and sunlight filtering through.]

...How you have turned out.

[tearmeadudeone]

I suppose so...? [She's really tried not to look at herself in the mirror, the first time was too bizarre. But she's also really not picking up on what Isaac is suggesting--the whole thing is so new to her, and she's so disoriented, that the fact that she could be attractive to Isaac doesn't cross her mind.]

I think I look sort of the same though. Except for, you know, I'm taller, wider shoulders, smaller eyes, stronger nose... no breasts... I walk around looking like I've never used my legs before...

[So basically everything is different.]

[relictusdeus]

And therein lies the charm, my dear. [Well, not so much the manner of walking, but it's an amusing thought at the very least. A grey, clawed hand edges into the screen just enough to take the glass from him.]

[Video]

[250mhzwabl]

[The man who answers looks like Jack, more or less. Maybe his facial hair is groomed into a slightly less scruffy approximation of a goatee, maybe his hair is a little long. but the face is the same, as is its look of curious bewilderment, and even despite the altered diction his voice is essentially, unchanged.]

T'would seem some manner of enchantment, at its face. Have you any persons in your acquaintance who might toy with you in such a way, dear . . . lady?

[Video]

[tearmeadudeone]

Uh... Jack?

[He looks like Jack... but the way he talks is just bizarre. And there's a distinct lack of scruff that Elizabeth had really been fond of.]

I don't think so, but who knows. Did you erm... shave, or something?

[Video]

[250mhzwabl]

At the sides, yes. And forgive me - my name is Iofast, gentle lady. Is 'Jack' some Midgardian approximation thereof?

[There was never any telling whose legends would take root and whirl around Midgard, and while it's usually the royal family and their ilk, Iofast cannot help a momentary glimmer of excitement that perhaps he has become a figure of some renown in that realm as well.]

[Video]

[tearmeadudeone]

Your name is whatnow? [Elizabeth cocks an eyebrow and looks very surprised by this development. She double checks the name, the photo, all of it belongs to Jack. She's absolutely sure of it.]

[Unless... unless she's not the only one to be experiencing strange things.]

M... Mr. Iofast, what year is it right now?

action:

[ablankpage]

[The sound of a strange voice wakes Robert, and he dresses enough to be presentable before he heads out.

And sees a young man in a nightgown.

...He doesn't think he's dreaming, but, at the same time, this is all very odd.]

...Can I help you?

action:

[tearmeadudeone]

Oh God! [Elizabeth sees Rosalind come out of her room and she tries to run back into her room before anyone except for Gai or Robert can get a good look at her. But she runs right into the doorway instead--her body is not nearly as slight and fluid as it used to be. She feels like a series of clunky angles right now.]

[Action]

[voidseeing]

[Gai is just starting to emerge from his comfortable sleepy haze when Elizabeth leans up to nuzzle him the same way she always does when they wake up together. There's nothing out of the ordinary about that gesture; certainly nothing that would indicate to him that anything was different in his current muzzy state.

Until she opens her mouth to say 'good morning' in a voice that decidedly isn't Elizabeth's.

Well, on the plus side, he's wide awake now.]

... Elizabeth?

[Action]

[tearmeadudeone]

[Well, at least Gai isn't leaping out of bed and demanding to know who she is.]

[Elizabeth sits bolt upright and immediately realizes why her nightgown isn't fitting right-- it's because her shoulders are much broader. The lack of breasts hasn't helped at all, and Elizabeth is descending very rapidly into Freaking Out.]

What-- what's happened to me?! [Her hair at least feels the same, she still has a severed pinky but her hands are much broader and wider now.]

[Action]

[voidseeing]

[This is definitely new. He realizes what's going on right away, of course - a Shift of some sort - but that knowledge doesn't do much to make the overall situation any less... well, weird.

And judging from Elizabeth's reaction, it's far weirder for her than it is for him.]

It must be a Shift. We've been overdue for one for a while.

[He isn't going to touch her, not just yet. He's not sure how she would react to that, and the last thing he wants is to make her even more uncomfortable than she already is. But he won't pull away, either; instead, he'll just stay lying right where is in the hopes that she'll be at least a little comforted by the fact he isn't upset about her new look.]

[Action]

[tearmeadudeone]

Well it's not a very fair one! If everyone is turning into men, all the men are spared from this! [Elizabeth huffs, upset and embarrassed and too wrapped up in her sudden sex change to notice that Gai isn't quietly gathering himself to leave.]

What am I supposed to do with myself until it ends? I'm not-- I don't know what to do, being like this!