<argylecape> Yeah.

<argylecape> I just wish it was more direct, is all. It's fine.

<GenderBender> Yeah, I'm way more into the indirect route.

<GenderBender> Doing unexpected stuff, using my advantages creatively, having people underestimate me.

<argylecape> Mmhmm.

<argylecape> Good, that's what we're going to need.

<GenderBender> Probably.

<GenderBender> Especially given we're currently not-even-a-ragtag of misfits

<GenderBender> One half-cubist person, one superhero, whoever your friends are

<GenderBender> We're gonna need a lot of creativity.

<argylecape> Yeah.

<argylecape> I bet we can figure it out.

<argylecape> It'll be easier if I can keep fewer secrets, do you mind if I tell my friends about you? I don't think they'll be okay with you knowing much about them, but they might be willing to let me tell you some things once they know you're helping.

<GenderBender> Sure

<GenderBender> Maybe make sure they won't shoot me on sight if they hear about the approximate cubism

<GenderBender> But otherwise I'm too boring to be a secret.

<argylecape> Well, that and the gender thing.

<argylecape> ...you do know about the gender thing, right?

<GenderBender> I mean I'm aware I'm genderfluid?

<GenderBender> It's even my nickname! ^^

<argylecape> Yeah, I figured that part

<argylecape> Most people can't shapeshift like that, though, I'm pretty sure?

<GenderBender> Shapeshift?

<argylecape> Yup.

<argylecape> When I met you you were a girl

<argylecape> And when you visited me the first time you were a boy.

<argylecape> Like, physically.

<GenderBender> What the fuck.

<argylecape> Yeah, my power is kind of creepy, sorry.

<GenderBender> I just did it

<GenderBender> How did I never know I could do it

<argylecape> Well, congratulations.

<argylecape> It took me a while to figure mine out, too.

<GenderBender> Wait, really?

<GenderBender> I'd think it'd be obvious you were suddenly hearing stuff miles away?

<argylecape> You'd think, yeah.

<argylecape> But I had a lot going on when I was a little kid, and it took a while to learn to make sense of what I was hearing.

<GenderBender> Well

<GenderBender> I guess I'm not one to talk

<GenderBender> Although honestly I didn't notice I was cubist or that I spent the last few decades in the SIdeways

<GenderBender> Sideways*

<GenderBender> It's probably just messing with my head.

<argylecape> Hm?

<GenderBender> This whole thing, cubism, shapeshifting, it's probably messing with my head and making me not notice stuff.

<argylecape> Ah.

<argylecape> Maybe.

<argylecape> I can take notes for you if you want? The shapeshifting is the only weird thing I've noticed before today.

<GenderBender> Yes please. I'll also take notes.

<argylecape> That should help too, yeah.

<argylecape> You okay?

<GenderBender> I am uh

<GenderBender> Not really okay with not having control over my brain.

<GenderBender> Really not loving that.

<argylecape> Yeah.

<argylecape> It sounds like it's probably not affecting you that much?

<argylecape> Like, you'd've mentioned if you'd had a bunch of interactions with people that were confusing at the time but made sense now, right?

<argylecape> I've known kids who had hallucinations and seizures where they forgot things and stuff, if something's affecting someone like that it's never tidy.