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Room 202, Thursday Morning

Jun 18, 2015 08:18

Alluka surveyed the empty side of her room seriously. Her panda was on her lap. Her bunny and her giraffe were hiding under her pillow. (The pillow was doing a rather poor job of hiding them, but all of them present in the room had agreed to pretend ( Read more... )

where: room 202, who: ringo \o, what: toy games

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soniaroadsqueen June 18 2015, 14:40:49 UTC

Ever since their shopping trip a couple of weeks ago, Ringo had been trying to figure out what, if anything, she should say or do about her growing suspicion regarding Alluka's (lack of) understanding of traditional gender dynamics. Maybe she should do nothing! After all, Alluka seemed happy and content, and that should be good enough. Except that Ringo didn't want her friend being surprised if someone else brought it up at some point ( ... )

that_oldsaying June 18 2015, 14:48:40 UTC

All conversation inside abruptly ceased at the sound of the knock. Alluka blinked and looked at her toys, which blinked back at her. Then she slid off her panda's bed and hurried over to the door.

It was still super weird when people actually visited her!

She opened the door and peered out, then beamed. "Hi, Ringo! Hi!"

soniaroadsqueen June 18 2015, 14:50:05 UTC

Alluka's excitement helped overcome a pretty good amount of Ringo's hesitation, and she grinned back. "Hey, Alluka. I'm not interrupting you or anything, am I?"

that_oldsaying June 18 2015, 14:51:56 UTC

She shook her head and bounced back so that Ringo could come in.

"Nope!" she said happily. "We were just celebrating my panda getting her own bed!"

soniaroadsqueen June 18 2015, 15:04:50 UTC

"Oh, that's pretty great for her," Ringo smiled as she stepped through the door and glanced over at the cluster of animals. "She's probably pretty excited."

that_oldsaying June 18 2015, 15:28:09 UTC

"She's super excited," Alluka declared and hopped back to the bed on the empty-looking side of the room. "Right?"

"Super excited!" her panda said, waving her arms around.

Alluka beamed at Ringo. "See?"

soniaroadsqueen June 18 2015, 15:51:33 UTC

That was, actually, pretty impressive, and Ringo's eyebrows rose in appreciation. "I do see!"

She grinned. Then her expression sobered slightly as she recalled what had brought her here. "Hey," she said, voice growing a bit more serious. "Do you have some time to talk? You don't have anywhere to be or anything, do you?"

that_oldsaying June 18 2015, 16:00:12 UTC

Alluka picked up her bunny and hugged it, taking its spot on her panda's bed.

"I'm totally free!" she said, fidgeting a little. "Just celebrating, but my panda doesn't mind if we do more of that later, if you want to talk! She likes you, after all."

soniaroadsqueen June 18 2015, 16:26:01 UTC

"Awww, that's sweet. I like her, too." She was certainly very cute, at the very least.

Ringo stepped into the room and walked over to stand near Alluka's bed. "Can we sit down? This could take a little bit."

that_oldsaying June 18 2015, 16:32:22 UTC

She hugged her bunny for a moment longer and then gravely picked up her giraffe too, kissed her panda, and left it behind as she brought the other toys with her.

Alluka offered Bubbles over to Ringo to hug and took a seat on her bed. Ringo could do the same, she guessed, as Alluka looked up at her friend with big blue eyes.

"Am I in trouble? Was, was I bad?"

soniaroadsqueen June 18 2015, 19:23:21 UTC

Ringo's eyes widened in surprise and mild alarm. "No, no," she said quickly, not having intended to give that impression at all. "You haven't done anything bad at all."

She shook her head and offered Alluka what she hoped was a reassuring smile. "I just have a serious topic I want to discuss."

that_oldsaying June 18 2015, 19:41:20 UTC

"Okaaaay," she said, rather doubtfully. Serious topics rarely equaled good things for her. "I'll do my best to listen!"

soniaroadsqueen June 18 2015, 19:46:38 UTC

Hey, this wasn't easy for Ringo, either. In fact, she felt herself taking a deep breath before plunging onward.

"That's all you need to do."

Another deep breath. "Okay, so. Um. What do you know about the difference between boys and girls?" Ringo asked, trying not to let all the words come out in a rush.

that_oldsaying June 18 2015, 20:39:17 UTC

Alluka blinked at her.

"Boys are boys and girls are girls."

Duh.

soniaroadsqueen June 18 2015, 20:45:58 UTC

"That's true," Ringo nodded, a burst of amusement suffusing her smile. "But why? What makes them different?"

that_oldsaying June 18 2015, 20:50:20 UTC

Now that was a... harder question. She pondered it carefully.

"They're different because they're boys," she settled on. "And, and they're usually the knights in stories and my brothers get to leave their rooms."

Which was also a difference, but not one that had anything to do with her being a girl and them being boys.

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