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Tweak says, ""'Y-O-U', not 'U'!""

Tachibana Yoshimi (omgboyskissing) wrote in disappear_rpg,
@ 2009-09-24 23:28:00

Entry tags:

kanaye, kiriko, kozue, yoshimi

Who: Yoshimi, open to all girls and any particularly adventurous boys
What: TEARS
Where: The school bathroom
When: After Misaki's speech
Why: Because crying in front of her whole homeroom would feel even worse.

Just after she's finished crying all over the first four paper towels, Yoshimi stops pretending that she's not upset. She is upset. Of course she's upset. There's not a boy in the school who'd touch her, it's her fault for not fitting in right, and Aoi-san just announced it over the PA system for anyone who didn't know yet. No wonder Furakawa-senpai had been seeing someone else, someone better.

The throwaway line about becoming a famous mangaka doesn't help help; she can hardly draw stick figures. Even if she did have what it took, even if she did get famous, it would be a small consolation prize.

She sniffles, wonders how she'll be able to face the rest of the school after this, and grabs a fifth paper towel.

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omgboyskissing
2009-09-27 01:09 am UTC (link)

Yoshimi sighed and hopped up on the sink next to Kozue. "I don't think it's that bad, but..." She started swinging her feet nervously. "It's just like that shoujo stuff Aoi-san reads, except that the heroine's a hero and stuff. There's still romance and adventure and pretty artwork, just...with two boys instead of a boy and a girl."

She wanted to protest that she was just straight, that it was normal, that a boy could look at two girls doing a lot more than just kissing and that was fine and nobody ran away from him, but there was no point in dwelling on it. She couldn't change the way people thought of it, and she'd be wasting her time if she tried.

She was so lost in her musings on socially acceptable depictions of male and female sexuality that she didn't even notice the makeup kits coming out.

"Wh-what?" Yoshimi, as a rule, did not wear makeup at school. Nanakamado's male population, as a rule, would not touch Yoshimi with a nine and a half foot pole (or so she'd been informed).

Suspecting a correlation, she nodded along with Kozue. Brown eyeliner looked best on her anyway.

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anthesphoria
2009-09-27 04:58 am UTC (link)

Kozue was already digging in her purse; she pulled out several different kinds of makeup, including the aforementioned brown eyeliner, mascara, lipgloss... quite a few things. "I like the cut of your bangs — they flatter your face shape. Do you ever wear your hair in other ways, or it is always braids, though?" A pause. "Just asking."

As she organized on the sink edge, Kozue was appraising the situation: of course, she was already going beyond her mandate of cleaning Yoshimi up so she could get back to class. Wouldn't neatening her up in general fix the problem, too? After all, if boys started approaching her, she'd quickly realize that Misaki had been wrong, and feel better. And there were few girls in their year who had gotten attracting Nanakamado boys down to a science quite like Kozue had.

And sure, she couldn't do everything here in the school toilet, but they could at least get a start, and it would get Yoshi's mind off of the whole boy-repellant thing. Hopefully. Instead of just making her even more sensitive about it: oops. Hope it doesn't go that way.

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apathyisboring
2009-09-27 04:50 pm UTC (link)

Kiriko stood back, looking appraisingly at Yoshimi to evaluate the truth of Kozue's statement and watching her set up for far more than a general cleaning-up. She nodded, eventually. "If you aren't sure how else to wear it, I mean, we could probably help with that too."

She had already figured out where this was going and how it would help Yoshimi. That acting as a good samaritan happened to intersect with one of her spheres of interest was just a happy coincidence, naturally.

"Here, her skin tone's closer to mine," Kiriko said, stepping forward and withdrawing items from her purse. "So use this one. And I think a peach gloss would be better than a rose gloss, in her case..."

For the moment there was nothing they could do about the frumpy wardrobe, but that was correctable, too, provided the help they were giving Yoshimi extended beyond this particular incident in the girl's bathroom.

"You know, if you wanted, Kozue-san and I could teach you how to do this stuff yourself..." She made the offer coolly, with only a faint smile to suggest that she found the prospect of a makeover rather exciting.

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