Synodiporia Valor Liminal Space

And there she is. 148 cm. Black hair. Eyes like garnets. She slowly pulls off the robotic laser tag gear to reveal what, to her, is basic gym wear-- A dark grey short sleeved shirt, tight, halfway down the arm marked with a UNIKOKORO logo on the shoulder, blue gi pants tied high at the waist, a red ribbon which she's used to put her hair into a bun rather than leave it hanging for someone to grab.

An iron soul with a body to match. She'd be putting her hands in her pockets, if her gi had any; as it is, she rests her hands on her hips, gently, but with purpose. "So you're Bansho and Amano, huh? I'm Mei, please treat me kindly."

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Charlie arrives at about the same time. She stands about 5'8", black fatigue pants and a plain black hoodie making it hard to judge her figure. She pauses to leave her well-broken-in combat boots at the edge of the floor before bowing to the dojo shrine and walking over to join the others.

"Hi, I'm Dynamis, since apparently real names are a security risk here," she says. "So which sort of Queer 101 talk are we having, exactly?"

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"And just who are you calling queer?" Haruki says, gripping hands tight, defensive, as both of them turn to the newcomers.

"Goddamn it, that's right, they're from 1988. Be patient, Discs. It's not an insult, trust me, or it's not one here and it'll be a badge of pride by the time you grow up," the Page of Discs tells everyone. "Though I think the terms in vogue for it for those in the know are different in Japan. My girl Benten knows that I'm certainly not about to beat the yurizoku allegations."

Junko winces. "So, okama," she says, clearly wanting to be anywhere else. "You know I don't actually like being a guy, right? That I got - that it is as Dynamis said super dysphoric for me?"

"Okama is a word of the enemy," the Page of Disks says, sharply. "We do not need it, we will not use it. But try this thought on for size: there are people born the way your curse makes you feel, and any one of the Minor Arcana will fight for everyone to break those curses, too."

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She pauses, irritated, and is about to say something intensely unkind about the use of the word okama before Disks stops her in her tracks. "I would, to boot. And I, like you, am already promised."

It's not even, technically, a lie. The metaphorical collar on her neck proclaims it.

(There's a temptation to slip in an extra knife, she's irritated; but she's long ago learned not to speak unkind words unwisely.)

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Charlie raises her hand at Haruki's comment about who's calling who queer. "I'm calling myself queer," she says. "Because it sounds like part of why we're having this conversation is so you can understand what it would mean if I unpacked my flag collection for you."

Then, after Madame Johnson speaks up about dysphoria, she chimes in again. "I'm one of those people - 'transgender' is the word folks are using where I'm from. I didn't realize I was a girl till after I got busted out of the super-soldier project I grew up as part of."

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mazingetteryuki

As Yuki is stepping about the Liminal Spaces, they cannot help but notice the spot here and the discussion that seems to be going on. They lightly step in, quietly respecting the dojo by using the magic at the core of their being as a Magical Boy to shift into a simple white-belted gi in a tiny unintrusive snow flurry

They wait, tilting their head as Charlie speaks, then cautiously raises their hand

"Uhm, do I count? I am comfortable with my body but also uh... how do I put this... I don't know what Gender I want to be? Like, where I am from the number of Princes is extremely low compared to Princesses and I sometimes feel more Princessly, but also not?"

Yuki may feel a bit like a mess thinking about it now

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"You absolutely count," Charlie says. "You should chase down my teammate Idol, they're non-binary and genderqueer and I dunno what other labels they're using, but yeah. That's part of what being queer means, recognizing how much stuff like gender is just kinda... made up, and that we don't have to fit neatly into someone else's box."

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"And that's just something people discover about themselves later in life?"

His answer is not... incredulous, exactly. Rather, it is desperate, something he doesn't want to believe because...

what if it is true? What then should Haruki Amano, heir to the Amano school of Mugen Senzai Senchou kenpo, do, knowing a man may choose to decide to be otherwise?

All of which, of course, goes right over Junko Bansho's swelled head.

"Yeah, well, I for one am 100% girl, but... well, I have firsthand experience how much being in the wrong body sucks," she says, arms folded. "So, whatever. I can get behind you are who you say you are as just common sense."

(While not speaking to, of course, the yurizoku allegations.)

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Oh. Oh, her heart goes out to this poor fellow.

"Well. You can discover it a lot of times and places. Back home, it's pretty common through middle and high school. They just sort of..." She pauses. "Well, their form changes. Rapidly. Sometimes they come back as they were, sometimes they have odd bits on 'em, sometimes they're way different, and sometimes they look just like if they were a girl form of themselves. Or a boy."

She smiles. She's trying so hard to be a hope. "Like with the martial arts, you don't get married to a technique. You find th' ones you like and arm yourself with joy."

It's at this point that the more observant in the audience might understand she's not just speaking in the generic sense, necessarily.

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There's a voice from up on the ceiling, where Unakite is sitting cross-legged.

"My mom and papa have a tendency to be whatever their gender is at the time—they both caught that disease that Viers was talking about, so they switch when they sneeze—but I know not everyone is like that."

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"The person who runs the trans support group at Menace Memorial was, like, forty when she figured it out," Charlie chimes in. "Some people get the 'I always knew' thing, but most of us need to at least see other trans people to realize it's an option. Otherwise, it's easy to think that just kinda being unhappy with who we are all the time is just... normal. Which, for the record, it's not. You can do stuff about that."

The expression on her face as she looks at Mei and Haruki suggests that the young woman has come to certain conclusions as well. The weird kid on the ceiling gets a bit of side-eye, but that's mostly for sitting on the ceiling rather than coming to hang out with everybody else who doesn't get to treat gravity as optional.

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The look of gratitude that Dynamis sees direct at them and then at Mei Torioi - who possesses The Will To Survive - well.

Haruki, hypocrite that he - if it is he - is, seems to almost have stars in his eyes to look at Mei.

"Huh," says the youngest son of the Amano clan, their heir. And then. "Huh. I - I think I might owe Junko and others an apology."

She folds her arms and glares.

"Several apologies," he amends.

"...fine," she sighs, at last, bowing to her. He returns the gesture. "Look I - I know you've been going through a lot too, and that I'm. You had good reason for me to get under your skin, and I'm sorry for making things worse. But also - as much as I don't know what you are to me, you're my friend, and I want you to be happy. Jerk."

For her part, the page of Discs nods.

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She shrugs, and puts her hands behind her head, and the smile's genuine. "Listen, I'm just glad I could help work this out, though, uhh..."

She looks over at Dynamis as well when she says, "I'm sure I'm about to get a lotta questions from everyone, now. Cept maybe you, Unakite."

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"I mean, I'd love to get your number," Charlie says, "but I was gonna save the bonding over stories that freak out the straights till after we were done with omelet detail here."

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[Yuki just sorta rubs the back of their head, unsure how to continue. But they know for sure that they're glad everyone seems to be getting into understanding eachother! The pure feeling of hearts communicating even when it is difficult is part of what their power is all about; The cleansing power of the Snow to wash away the darkness, fear, and confusion of the Shadows.]

[So they just smile as people make up. To be a proper Magical Boy, sometimes you don't NEED to be in the spotlight but let people heal eachother.]

[Wait-]

[Yuki's head snaps up to Una!]

"H-Hey, Una? Floors are just, like, suggestions to you huh..."

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"They're suggestions to anyone in Liminal Space," Una says. "The difference between you and me is that I know it, which is because I was born here. I had to learn that I couldn't climb on walls without using special skills outside of Liminal Space."

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