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 Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2023 10:26 pm
Getting the hang of this senshi business was………a challenge? Out in the day-to-day of it all, Gabi felt the same as ever: not really sure of herself or most things about her, but certain enough about the world around her that she could fake it like she wanted to get arrested and locked up in federal prison for counterfeiting legal tender. (She didn’t, really? Because that sounded like it would’ve been A Whole Thing, and a dreadfully tedious one at that. But the metaphorical point still stood.)
But out in North End Park as Lete, though? She didn’t really know. Having Mirrorwraiths drain people didn’t really hurt them—that’s what she was given to understand, anyway? if you didn’t let your wraith kill them, then they’d just go home, sleep it off, and be fine by morning, right?—and anyway, equitable divisions of resources were important? The Mirror needed energy, and these people obviously had a surplus of it, so no harm, no foul.…… Except for all the weirdos in white who seemed to come out of the woodwork and take issue with you existing in their vicinity if you were a Mirror senshi. If not the Order senshi, there were the Knights, and they could be even worse to deal with because they had weapons in addition to their magic.
Tonight, Lete felt a ragingly powerful White Moon aura down a ways in the park, too. Like, what the ********, exactly? All she’d done was power up behind a tree and suddenly, BOOM! Glaring white fluorescent s**t all over her aura sense.… Okay, the pretty, blue-haired person attached to it didn’t seem like much—Lete was probably taller than they were, and all they did was sit around on a bench while flowers blossomed beneath their feet—but an aura like that freaked her out something awful. At least they either didn’t feel her aura or didn’t care enough about some basic b***h-level Mirror senshi to bother chasing when she scampered away.
Once she’s put some distance between them, Lete calmed down……but it didn’t last long. Another White Moon aura flickered on in her aura senses, and seriously? Did these people run around in packs or something? At least this aura didn’t feel so bright and overwhelming.… Still bright, sure, but it felt……a lot closer to Lete’s own aura, in terms of power. She moved slowly, carefully, weaving around the trees and shrubbery while looking for whichever White Moon agent this was. Maybe, unlike some people from that faction, this senshi or Knight could be reasoned with?
Please?
………Lete really, really hoped?
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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2023 11:30 pm
Demeter was continuing to make bad choices, but they seemed to be becoming less bad choices and more like fun and friendly choices. She was meeting some interesting characters, that was for sure. Between the flamboyant Mirror guy and the adorable Mirror gay, she had been having a pretty okay time! So when she felt another Mirror-feeling aura, she perked up, moving towards it. Maybe they were another friendly! The more friends she had, the better, after all, even if they were mostly Mirror-types so far. They didn't seem super active about recruiting and all that. Not like the Negaverse. She shivered involuntarily. She hated them. "Hello!" she called out when she could see someone, someone not messing with any civilians, anyway.
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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2023 11:55 pm
After running into Order senshi who had been significantly less than welcoming to a Mirror senshi deciding to exist in the space that they considered Their City—even though Gabi and her siblings and cousins had all grown up in Destiny City, so by rights, it was their city, too—even being the one technically doing the seeking out didn’t make Lete feel completely certain. When the Order senshi she’d sought out not only turned to face her but waved and called “Hello!” like it was just that easy? Part of her felt like emulating one of the adorable little rabbits that had been all over the city parks a few weeks back and running for a hidey-hole.
But that, Lete reminded herself, would not reflect well on the Dark Mirror Court. It could make them look weak or easily bullyable, and that sounded like the last thing they needed. So, instead, she kept her head high, put on a smile that she hoped would be charming, and slunk up closer to the Order senshi.…… More accurately, to the girl.
The really unfairly cute girl.
The really unfairly cute girl with her really unfairly cute freckles!! s**t, please, help.
“‘Hello’ yourself,” Lete said, raising a hand to give the Order-sided girl a friendly finger-wave. “I’d say ‘What’s a nice girl like you doing in a place like this’……but then that would basically be dragging myself, since……I’m out here, too.”
A sense of humor consistently ranked high on the lists of Most Attractive Qualities In Potential Significant Others Or At Least ********, right?
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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2023 12:15 am
Demeter blushed a bit, beaming. She had no idea that Lete was even flirting, only thinking of being friendly, and finger waved back with a little giggle. "Haha, well, definitely don't be mean to yourself by trying to make fun of me," she responded with another giggle, hiding her smile behind her hand briefly. "I'm tougher than I look, y'know! I'm sure you are too. I'm Demeter, by the way, Senshi of Agriculture!" She flashed a peace sign next to her cheek, tilting her head towards it and winking.
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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2023 1:00 am
……Oh no, she was a dork. The really unfairly cute girl with the freckles, and the adorable haircut, and the thigh-high stockings was a dork, flashing a little peace sign like Leandro did sometimes, and laughing at her own……not really jokes? But statements that were kind of cute, regardless? And……acting? Like Lete? Had not just flirted with her (she thought pretty openly)?
……Did Ms. Demeter of Agriculture not realize that she was being flirted with? Was she playing hard to get? Was she trying to see what would happen, or……?
“Dark Mirror Lete,” she said, grinning like a Cheshire cat and motioning for Demeter to follow her to a nearby bench. “Senshi of decadence, or that’s what the Eternal Senshi and the Mauvian who Awakened me said.” With one hand, she patted the bench, inviting Demeter to sit. With the other, Lete reached into her subspace for something that she’d only taken along on a silly whim: a tupperware container full of cupcakes, some chocolate, some strawberry chip, and some red velvet. “I don’t know if I’d say these are decadent, exactly? But maybe I’m not the best judge of my own handiwork. Don’t suppose I could get an extra-cute opinion out of such an extra-cute senshi?”
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2023 8:07 pm
Demeter followed her, sitting down on the bench and feeling quite proud of herself. So far, so good. Man, these Mirror folk were awesome. It was just... sad that they chose Chaos. But she wasn't here to get preachy, and that kind of thing was just so totally like, mega rude!! She wasn't befriending them to try and snipe them for Order or something. Sure, it would be nice if they left the darkness, but... Maybe they just needed friends, first. She blushed and giggled at the compliment, twirling some hair around her fingers nervously. She couldn't clock exactly why she felt like, sooo super fluttery right now, but maybe she was just excited to try some baked goods! She loved eating sweets. "Aww, you're so sweet! Maybe as sweet as your cupcakes, though I'll have to just find out in a second," she said, taking a strawberry one with the hand that hadn't been touching her hair. The moment she took a bite, she groaned with delight. "Oh, my god! These are good!"
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Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2023 5:45 pm
……Oh. Oh, no.
Sailor Demeter of Agriculture really had some nerve, being so cute like this, with all her hair twirling and precious little giggles.… It was making Lete’s cheeks and chest feel all warm, while her brain felt thicker than clam chowder and her grasp on language felt like pouring water in a sieve. Seriously, who was this girl and who gave her the right to kill the “Janelle Monae meets Billy Porter, but make them Afro-Cubana” vibe that Lete worked so hard to cultivate and then replace it with a sort of “My brain is made of Jello and I have the linguistic capacity of a fat, stinky baby” vibe!! Which was distinctly NOT as cool of a VIBE!!!
“Thanks, I, uh.…you’re the one who’s sweet, I mean? I mean, I’m glad you like them?” Even as her brain played through stock footage of slow-motion car crashes, Lete made herself keep smiling. Ugggh, goddamnit, zhe was embarrassing zhemself in front of a cute girl!!! s**t s**t s**t s**t s**t s**t s**t—okay, just, ask her about herself!! Girls like to be asked about themselves, right? “So, what kinda magic did the magical cats Awaken in you, huh? Because ‘agriculture’ sounds like a neat sphere, but it’s not as straightforward as, like, ‘temptation’—that’s the eternal senshi who helped Awaken me—or like all the senshi running around with animal spheres? I can think of a lot of things you could do with a sphere like that.…”
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 1:48 pm
Demeter's grin became sheepish and she held up a finger, mouth currently full of cupcake due to simple bad timing. She just wanted to eat more of these delicious treats, okay!! Sailor Lete was so cute, and soooo good at cooking! Baking? Eh. Good food!! That's what mattered!! "Mm, well, right now? It's just, like, healing. I'm a side character in my own life, haha! Playing on support mode only," she joked. She didn't really do video gaming, not in the way she was referring to, anyway, but she knew enough to make a silly joke. It helped, watching fun streamers. "Kinda boring, really!"
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 3:22 pm
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 8:19 pm
Aww. Lete was so concerned! It was so cute! Ahh!! Why did she feel so flustered? What was this? She gave kind of an embarrassed laugh, running her free fingers through her hair again. "Sorry, I don't know what a Phoenix Down is," she admitted, "I don't, um, do video games a lot. I know just enough to make silly jokes, hah. But you're right! That's mean to myself." Humming in thought, she considered the cupcake in front of her. "I, well, prefer my flavors to be like... seasonal?" she said slowly. "Like, cherry stuff in the springtime, pumpkin stuff in the fall and winter. Can never go wrong with chocolate, though!"
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Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2023 9:45 am
Lete nodded, listening attentively. Seasonal flavors made sense enough, she guessed.… Lete didn’t personally put too much stock in them herself, usually making whatever she felt like making at any given moment regardless of what was in season. If she stopped to ask herself what to make instead of listening to a wild impulse, then it was probably because she was making something for someone else.
All the more reason to keep Demeter’s seasonal preference in mind, then. She wouldn’t want to disappoint a girl this cute with the wrong flavors.
“So, I’ll make you something extra special with strawberry for Star Festival then, huh?” Lete grinned. “Because, y’know? Strawberries are a really good summer flavor? And keeping everything seasonally appropriate is super easy to do for somebody as cute as you?”
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Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2023 10:56 pm
Demeter blushed, rubbing the back of her neck. So sweet! "Yeah. Yeah, that sounds nice," she said, beaming. She couldn't wait for it.
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