[Author's note: !$%!$%! yuku ate the original version of this. I don't feel like not posting anything tonight, but I may need to edit this later as a result.]
(Time: Morning after the Virtue Event)
I wasn't exactly the sharpest hammer in the bag in the morning. Until I'd both eaten and showered, I might be 'up', but it'd be pushing the definition of the term to call me 'awake'. (I'd even joked that I was at my most dangerous during this time of the day, as at this point I wouldn't be quite up to handling abstract concepts such as "mercy".)
So it wasn't until after I'd gotten out of the shower that I started contemplating how weird this situation really was.
I knew the face in the mirror. It was, after all, my own, at least in a sense. The version of me who went by Alexis Morgan. The same one I'd been playing City of Heroes as the night before. I doubted that was a coincidence. But not just a copy of the game character. There'd always been little details that the creator couldn't handle, or I couldn't figure out how to get the way I wanted them. I wouldn't recognize that face in the mirror.
That didn't explain this outlandish getup I'd woken up in though. Sure, it was fine to go to sleep in a t-shirt and underwear. But I woke up as Alexis Morgan! The *transformed* Alexis Morgan. As a traditional magical girl, being transformed meant a traditional magical girl outfit, and this did not qualify. Okay, sometimes being Alexis also meant waking up *naked*, but this didn't fit that pattern either. This broke the rules I knew, and it was making me kind of nervous.
Well, I knew one way of resetting this system, even though I felt a bit silly doing it. "Lexi Flash!"
Having your clothes tear themselves to shreds around you and reassemble into an entirely new form is a weird feeling, but I felt a lot more comfortable being back in the old sailor fuku. Now maybe I could settle down and try to find out what the hell had happened.
* * *
Unnoticed on the floor by Morgan's bed, a white staff-like object shimmered and dissolved into nothingness. With it's parent mode inactive, it's presence was no longer needed.
(Time: Morning after the Virtue Event)
I wasn't exactly the sharpest hammer in the bag in the morning. Until I'd both eaten and showered, I might be 'up', but it'd be pushing the definition of the term to call me 'awake'. (I'd even joked that I was at my most dangerous during this time of the day, as at this point I wouldn't be quite up to handling abstract concepts such as "mercy".)
So it wasn't until after I'd gotten out of the shower that I started contemplating how weird this situation really was.
I knew the face in the mirror. It was, after all, my own, at least in a sense. The version of me who went by Alexis Morgan. The same one I'd been playing City of Heroes as the night before. I doubted that was a coincidence. But not just a copy of the game character. There'd always been little details that the creator couldn't handle, or I couldn't figure out how to get the way I wanted them. I wouldn't recognize that face in the mirror.
That didn't explain this outlandish getup I'd woken up in though. Sure, it was fine to go to sleep in a t-shirt and underwear. But I woke up as Alexis Morgan! The *transformed* Alexis Morgan. As a traditional magical girl, being transformed meant a traditional magical girl outfit, and this did not qualify. Okay, sometimes being Alexis also meant waking up *naked*, but this didn't fit that pattern either. This broke the rules I knew, and it was making me kind of nervous.
Well, I knew one way of resetting this system, even though I felt a bit silly doing it. "Lexi Flash!"
Having your clothes tear themselves to shreds around you and reassemble into an entirely new form is a weird feeling, but I felt a lot more comfortable being back in the old sailor fuku. Now maybe I could settle down and try to find out what the hell had happened.
* * *
Unnoticed on the floor by Morgan's bed, a white staff-like object shimmered and dissolved into nothingness. With it's parent mode inactive, it's presence was no longer needed.