branding lady, meet meek little lamb

[mxglam]

Glam isn't allowed to actually patrol the following day (it's a Sunday), so they mostly browse the 'net and read books. Echo's busy with her family (and she is allowed to go out patrolling), and Lorica's... doing something.

They're slightly worried about the fact that Yates hasn't replied to their email, but it's the weekend, so maybe that's why.

Has she replied to the email by Monday?

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[mrglam]

"I'd be more than happy to provide but my stuff only lasts half an hour after I stop paying attention."

[peterxy]

"But if you go out on patrol with someone else in your Glam persona you could probably help them out," Dauntless points out.

[alicornucopia]

"What kinda Tinkery stuff would you make?" wonders Boots.

[msglam]

"Depends? Can't be anything that gives very detailed feedback, my power doesn't like it when people squint too hard at it, but when I started out I was using Tinkery stun guns."

[alicornucopia]

"We know how that went," says Boots darkly.

[msglam]

[mrglam]

"That problem has been patched."

[msecho]

"Lorica?" Echo guesses.

[msglam]

She nods.

[alicornucopia]

"Why does Lorica help you?" wonders Windflower.

[msglam]

"I... never actually asked." Which means she never asked what the public story would be. "We ran into each other a few times, she helped me out with the Leviathan laser, my power allows for a lot of creativity and she likes testing it? I'm not sure."

[alicornucopia]

"I've got a guess," sneers Boots.

[peterxy]

"James," sighs Dauntless.

[alicornucopia]

Boots doesn't acknowledge the rebuke.

[msglam]

"Well, in any case, guess I'm not being weird about this anymore."

[alicornucopia]

"What do you really look like when you're not using any powers?" asks Windflower.

[msglam]

She sighs. And points at Loen.

[alicornucopia]

"If you'd never got powers or your powers didn't let you do your freak fag thing would you still be as weird about your 'real' 'gender'?" wonders Boots, complete with air quotes.

[peterxy]

"James, am I going to have to write you up again?"

[mrglam]

"I would," Loen says, trying to be appeasing. "The gender thing was there before the power. It was actually how I first noticed the power manifesting."

[alicornucopia]

"It answered me, if it doesn't care how I talk why should you?" Boots says with an illustrative gesture at Loen.

[peterxy]

"It?"

[mrglam]

"...I do care if you call me 'it,' though." Points at self. "He." Points at Glam. "She."

[alicornucopia]

"Make up your mind, one day you didn't want to be a normal word and now you want to be all of the normal words?" says Boots, flinging up his hands. "Why do you get to dictate how people talk, if I wanted to be called 'your majesty' I'd get laughed out of the room but it's super important that you're the right, what's the word, nonnouns?"

"Pronouns," says Windflower.

"Pronouns!"

[msglam]

"Isn't it important to you? You said yourself that if someone called you 'she' it'd irritate you, I feel like I have the right to be irritated as well. If it helps, I won't mind if you don't call me 'your majesty.'"