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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[onapalebicycle]

George hated everything. As in, everything, ever. If you wanted her to list things off, a good place to start would be "my boobs are gone" and "I hate being a boy."

She stomped into the common room that had people in it -- none of whom she recognized, obviously. Wonderful.

"I hate this island," she announced, to no one in particular.

[willbethenight]

"Any special reason why?" Bruce asked in a deadpan. Like anyone hated it for any other reason today.

[onapalebicycle]

"The weather," George said, entirely deadpan. "I miss all the fucking Seattle rain."

[willbethenight]

"Hold out hope that it'll be worse tomorrow," Bruce suggested.

[onapalebicycle]

"Maybe we can have a snowstorm," she grumbled. "Some kind of world-ending blizzard. I don't even care, any more. So are you usually a girl?"

The questions Fandom made people ask. Seriously.

[willbethenight]

"I'm usually a guy," Bruce said. "But I adjust quickly. I'm Bruce."

[onapalebicycle]

"George," she said, and it seemed more important than ever to specify, "As in, Georgia, as in, usually a girl."

[willbethenight]

"I was able to figure that part out thanks to your sunny disposition," Bruce said. "Your name is actually Georgia?"

[onapalebicycle]

"It is," she said, "but everyone calls me George. Except Daisy, but she just does that to be annoying."

[willbethenight]

"Who's Daisy?" Bruce asked. He was learning something about George, so he figured he might as well try to get more out of here.

[onapalebicycle]

"A ... friend?" George said. "Acquaintance? Someone from back home. We had to room together for a while."

'Friend' was the wrong word for someone you wanted to set on fire.

[willbethenight]

"I see," Bruce said. "Well, I have no interest in being annoying, so I'll stick to 'George.'"

[onapalebicycle]

"It's fine," she said. "It's not using 'Georgia' that makes her annoying, it's -- her, being annoying, and she does that, too, because she's annoying."

It made sense in her head, okay?

[willbethenight]

"I think I understand," Bruce said. "If somebody annoys you already, then anything they do differently from the norm has an extra sting to it."

[onapalebicycle]

"Maybe I just don't like her," George said. "I guess 'Bruce' doesn't really lend itself to nicknames, does it?"

[willbethenight]

"A couple people have tried 'Brucie' without getting maimed," Bruce admitted. "But that adds a syllable, so it doesn't seem to stick."