Re: Arcade: Gwen & Perry
She'd dyed her hair to make Jason feel less weird around her, and to help her hide from the League, but she kind of liked the copper now. It faded often, given its chemical makeup and the porousness of her hair, but it made her feel different, which she'd never realized would be important. But it was important, especially now, when things had begun to blur in a way she hadn't been expecting (and in a way she was totally hiding from the League scientists). But the alteration of hair color did nothing to alter her mannerisms, which mirrored those of the girl in Mount Olivet Cemetery perfectly. But she wasn't aware of the similar mannerisms, and she had no idea how she sounded in comparison to the dead girl. Jason said she was nothing like her at all. Flash said she was totally like her. Gwen had just kind of given up trying to figure out where the donor ended and she began.
She smiled when he pulled his hand from his pocket. It was a head-duck-tuck-hair-behind-ear smile, and it was confidently shy in a super weird way (she wouldn't have associated those two characteristics). He drifted, and she could tell he was moving, even if he wasn't in her range of vision as she stopped in front of the pinball machine. Okay, that was super weird, but she didn't have a way to explain it. She didn't have any abilities, and she didn't have eyes in the back of her head.
She pushed at the buttons a few times, and then she turned to watch him at the crane machine. The tip of one of her shoes drew circles on the glowing carpet, and she thought he was totally going to come up empty handed. But the crane pulled sideways, and the elephant trunk went up, and she gave him a little clap of her hands. "I'm totally impressed. Are you going to keep the elephant, or should we protest crane machine animal imprisonment?" she asked, leaning back against the pinball machine, and then her expression lit up brightly. She reached into her pocket, and she pulled out $2.50, which she held out to show him. "We can liberate all the elephants. I normally wouldn't condone unfair advantages, but this is a good cause." She gave him an improving and playful little nod. "I think I can make an exception," she finished in a whisper.