Fifth Floor Common Room, Sunday evening

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

After getting back from Colorado, Bruce got some dinner from Ching Tai. Unfortunately, they gave way too much food, so he set up in the common room. If people were hungry, they could take. He could have done that and gone to his room with his food, but he figured that would prevent him from seeing how other people were reacting to the gender switch. And really, his want to be left alone was easily overruled by his curiosity.

While he was in the common room, though, he wasn't touching the TV. It would end up stuck on the Style Network or something if he did. He could deal with being a girl, but that was asking too much.

[OOC: Open like a gender-neutral common room.]

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[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

This was not Scully's day.

She'd been horrified to wake up as a guy, then fascinated, then clinically amazed, but honestly. Among other things?

Permanent bed-head. Apparently.

Walking into the common room, she gave the newcomer a wary look. "Hi."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Good evening," Bruce said, looking up. Catching Scully's look, he decided to break the ice. "Let me guess. You're actually a girl."

Yes, Bruce was leading with the less than astonishing deductions since he couldn't quite guess who the boy actually was yet.

[glacial_queen]

Great. Just great. She'd forgotten from last year that everyone's change in gender made recognizing them via psychic scent that much more difficult. She could do it, it just took awhile.

And a bit of concentration, which was more difficult, as most of her thought capacity was taken up by I'm a male. This is unsupportable.

"Hey," she said, waving and trying to figure out who this was. It would take a second.

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"I hate today, I hate today, I really hate today ..." Quinn, it seemed, was determined to share her misery as she poked through the food. She was a hot guy, but she was still a guy, and that was just wrong. "And I'm taking some egg rolls."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

Well, that was an easy reaction to peg. "Feel free. There's plenty for everyone," Bruce said. "You're not taking today's changes very well, are you?"

[onapalebicycle.livejournal.com]

"We should find whoever is responsible," George suggested, "and hurt them."

There didn't seem to be a single person to blame. That was just going to make this a challenge.

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

"Go for it," Scully said, waving a chopstick at her. "I feel your pain." She paused. "I have no idea who you are. But at least you're cute. I'm Scully."

And my hair sucks.

[glacial_queen]

"Arthur?!"

Even though the same thing had happened to her in her hotel room this morning, Karla couldn't help but be thrown at the appearance of someone she knew. And, honestly, it was a very Arthur expression: Most Displeased with Everything.

"Not Arthur," she said a moment later. Though that still didn't actually leave her with any clue who it was.

[onapalebicycle.livejournal.com]

George hated everything. As in, everything, ever. If you wanted her to list things off, a good place to start would be "my boobs are gone" and "I hate being a boy."

She stomped into the common room that had people in it -- none of whom she recognized, obviously. Wonderful.

"I hate this island," she announced, to no one in particular.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Any special reason why?" Bruce asked in a deadpan. Like anyone hated it for any other reason today.

[glacial_queen]

"Welcome to the club," Karla said with a--fairly masculine--sigh. "Last time this happened, though, it only lasted a day. We should all wake up in our proper bodies tomorrow."

You can come and punch her tomorrow for getting your hopes up, George. If she answers the door, that is.

[sexonyoursheets.livejournal.com]

"I have boobs," Puck announced, wandering into the room. "It's awesome. I love this island."

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

That reaction was not too hard to peg, strangely enough. "Puck, or just somebody who's acting like him?" Quinn asked.

Because of course he should recognize her. Duh. (To be fair, the fact she'd stolen this t-shirt from Finn should help.)

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Congratulations," Bruce said. "But you might upset some people who are missing their own. Just be warned."

[onapalebicycle.livejournal.com]

"I want mine back," George said grumpily. "They're gone. I miss them."

She wasn't, like, a boob fetishist here, but she had had boobs, and now they were gone. In what universe was that fair?

[glacial_queen]

"Great," Karla bitched. "Another male with a better chest now that I do usually. I hate everything forever."

[hotmugofstfu.livejournal.com]

Blackagar waved at the girl in the room, hoping that she--maybe he?--was someone he actually knew.

This was an interesting day so far.

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

Quinn waved back. "Have some Chinese food," she suggested. "It makes this suck a little less. Almost."

[glacial_queen]

Karla had planned to grumpily lock herself in her room all night and brood until the stupid thing wore off. That plan had been discarded as soon as she realized that she didn't have any food in her room. So she set off, hoping to find something edible after a week in Colorado, or, lacking that, people to commiserate with.

Upon finding some of both, Karla discovered that her usual greeting seemed really odd coming from a male. "Kiss ki--oh bloody Hell,"

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Karla?" Bruce guessed. It was a distinctive 75 percent of a greeting. "Not enjoying the experience so far?"

[not_tylerdurden]

Calvin had largely gotten over this morning's freak-out.

Partly.

Somewhat.

In any case, Hobbes was far too amused by the situation for Calvin to stay in his room until his breasts went away again and so he ventured into the common room.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"There's plenty of comfort food if you need it," Bruce said as a way of welcoming the new person in.

[trigons_child]

A boy with bangs of emo and wearing a skirt peeked into the common room to see how other people were handling the change. This had happened before and she knew the next day she would be herself again, but that didn't stop Raven from being self-conscious about how she looked now. It just felt so unnatural.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Raven?" Bruce guessed based on the look. Some of these were easier than others. "Come in. There's plenty of food."

[faithandscience.livejournal.com]

Despite the distraction of his earlier experiments (not dirty. Please, he's from the Victorian era), William was still feeling at odds with Fandom's latest bout of oddness. Oddness or not, he still had an appetite, and was thankful to find that someone else had provided food.

...Of a sort.

"What is this?" he inquired, examining the cartons curiously. He'd never really had a chance to visit Montreal's Chinatown district, much less sample the cusine.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Chinese food," Bruce said. "From Ching Tai in town. They gave enough for everyone, so take all you want."

[notmyownage]

So, somehow, in the process of becoming male, Claudia had only managed to grow, like, an inch, retaining her scrawniness.

But, hey, that just meant her clothes still mostly fit.

She'd gotten nicely past the point of "HOLY CRAP I'M A BOY WITHOUT BEING A DIFFERENT PERSON" bit, and was now on the "this is entertaining and probably temporary" side and looking around for people to ogle.

"Ooo, food!"

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"There's plenty of it to go around," Bruce said. There was no way he'd be able to guess this was Claudia. His cheat of checking the hair to narrow it down was invalid. "Take all you want."

[make-the-shot.livejournal.com]

Proto wasn't a girl. Which was actually rather reassuring. He was having a hard enough time wrapping his head around the idea of anyone else being a girl who wasn't usually.

He'd spent most of the day in his room once he'd figured out what was going on. Nursing a headache. But that wasn't the sort of thing you could keep up forever. So... common room. He could handle that for a bit, right?

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Huh. Somebody who's the proper gender," Bruce mused. "Welcome to a room of confusion."

[exspeedydotcom]

Boobs were not enough to stop Roy tracking down free food, although they were kind of distracting. "Okay," he said when he entered the room and saw a lot of people not looking like they probably normally looked, "Who's who?"

[glacial_queen]

"We've made it into sort of a guessing game," Karla told him with something approaching her usual impish humor. "We have five guesses to win, but there must be hints."