Fifth Floor Common Room, Sunday evening

[willbethenight]

After getting back from Colorado, Bruce got some dinner from Ching Tai. Unfortunately, they gave way too much food, so he set up in the common room. If people were hungry, they could take. He could have done that and gone to his room with his food, but he figured that would prevent him from seeing how other people were reacting to the gender switch

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[chief_cheerio]

"I hate today, I hate today, I really hate today ..." Quinn, it seemed, was determined to share her misery as she poked through the food. She was a hot guy, but she was still a guy, and that was just wrong. "And I'm taking some egg rolls."

[willbethenight]

Well, that was an easy reaction to peg. "Feel free. There's plenty for everyone," Bruce said. "You're not taking today's changes very well, are you?"

[chief_cheerio]

Yes, Quinn's 'are you really that much of an idiot' look kind of crossed gender lines.

"I randomly woke up a boy," she said, stabbing a pair of chopsticks deep into a carton of sweet-and-sour pork. "What, it didn't wreck the end of your vacation? Or are you always like that?"

[willbethenight]

"No, I'm normally a bit taller with a deeper voice. I'm Bruce," Bruce said. "But this is pretty far down on the list of worst things that have ever happened to me, so I can deal with it."

Part of that was because having breasts for a day was pretty cool, of course.

[chief_cheerio]

"Then your life must have really sucked," Quinn decided. "This is just ... gross and I'm big and weird and the only clothes that fit are the stuff I sleep in on fat days."

She glanced over. "I'm Quinn. You ... kind of still look like you."

[willbethenight]

"I've had some rough stretches," Bruce said. "And it's actually a little surprising how that worked out. Most people seem a little farther off than I would have guessed. Almost like they're completely different PBs somehow.."

[chief_cheerio]

"I don't spend a lot of time thinking about what my friends would look like if they were different genders," Quinn said with a little shrug. "My coloring's about the same, but I don't look like my dad or anything, thank God.

[willbethenight]

"What, he's not as pretty as you're used to being?" Bruce asked.

There was a compliment in there, too.

[chief_cheerio]

"He just looks like a dad," Quinn answered with a smile and a little shrug. "I'm still pretty this way, I just don't want to see me in a short skirt."

[willbethenight]

"I think we're all fortunate for that. At best it would be awkward. Probably more like indecent," Bruce mused.

[chief_cheerio]

"It'd be like a cheesy comedy skit," Quinn decided. "Not a good look on me. Or anyone."

[willbethenight]

"I'm pretty sure I couldn't pull it off," Bruce agreed. "Well, in this body I could, but that's a different story entirely."

[chief_cheerio]

"Yeah, I think it's better we not start judging by what we can do in these bodies," Quinn decided. "Since these had better be temporary, and everything."

[willbethenight]

"Look at the bright side. You might understand guys a little better by the time this is over," Bruce said.

[chief_cheerio]

"Maybe," Quinn said. "What about you? Are you all in touch with your feminine side?"

[willbethenight]

"Not all in touch, but I think I can appreciate girls a little more," Bruce said. "I had to shop for myself, after all. It was slightly awkward."