Fourth floor common room- Thursday evening

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Gwen figured that as a treat for surviving most of her first week here (literally and figuratively), she'd just use a little bit of the spending money she'd been given before coming here to order a pizza, because she didn't feel like trying to cook.

When the delivery guy showed up with several she'd figured they were for deliveries elsewhere, but then there was a conversation including sentences such as "I only ordered one. One small," and "I'm not paying for all these," and "How do you even make money?"

Long story short, Gwen had a bunch of pizzas and she was only one girl so someone was going to have to help her with these.

[Possibly a little slow till after work but whatever, open CR!]

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"You're telling me," Gwen said. She'd ordered one small! One! Small! What was this service? "Grab some, there's no way I can eat it all."

And okay wow, that was some hair.

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Rapunzel grinned at her, a little relieved that she didn't have to broach the question of whether the pizza was all Gwen's. (Maybe she was stockpiling for winter! Rapunzel didn't know how pizza worked!)

"Thank you," she said gratefully, scampering over to grab some after tugging her hair in so none of it was out in the hallway, at least. "Are you new? I'm just guessing 'cause I haven't seen you before, but I also might be totally rude and unobservant, too, if you're not new."

She would feel really bad, if that was the case.

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"Yeah, I'm new. Gwen," she said. It was weird to introduce herself to so many people. Usually she just tried to avoid them all and hope they didn't pipe up in class so she didn't have to listen to them. "Guessing you're not new then?"

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"Only not-new because of your batch of new people," she said with a nod and a bright smile. "Rapunzel, and this is Pascal," she added, gesturing to the chameleon on her shoulder, who also waved. "I've been here a whole...summer. Already. Wow, that went really fast. But anyway, hi."

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"Hi," Gwen said, peering at Pascal. "Is that your pet, or your roommate or something?" She knew already to ask.

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"He doesn't like the P-word," Rapunzel said, rolling her eyes. "It's apparently kind of demeaning. But yeah, he's not my roommate. Isn't that weird, how that's a thing that happens here? Or did you not know that that's a thing? Because it is. People turning into animals, I mean."

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"Yeah, the girl who wears the wings all the time mentioned it." And Gwen still thought Alana's wings were just a good costume. Like maybe she was boho. "This place just keeps bringing the weird."

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"I think her wings are real," Rapunzel offered thoughtfully, tilting her head. "If you mean Alana. I've had classes with her. They're like, always on."

And she didn't see why they wouldn't be real, considering. She'd seen stranger things.

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"Huh. Seriously?" Huh again. "Buying clothes must suck."

She'd seen stranger things, too, really.

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"Right?" Rapunzel agreed, eyes wide. "You'd have to cut holes in everything. It's a shame."

She paused, reflective, and added, "But I think I'd be okay with cutting holes in my dresses if I got to fly." Not that Alana could, but she didn't know that.

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"It might depend on how much of a hassle it was to get dressed in the morning," Gwen mused. "I can't believe I'm actually seriously thinking about this."

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"I wonder if they get cold," Rapunzel said, not at all in disbelief that she was seriously thinking about this. "Or if they fold, like a bird's wings. Like if they do, maybe you could just wear stuff over them. It'd make it hard to fly, though, if you needed to."

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"Yeah, probably. It'd be rude to ask her, though," Gwen said. Which she was sorry about because she was curious, but she also didn't want to put anybody on the spot like they owed her answers.

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"You think?" Rapunzel looked thoughtful. "I dunno, people ask me stuff about my hair all the time and I never feel like they're being rude, just like...you know, it's something they've never seen before. I mean, it'd probably depend on the question and how you asked, too."

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"I mean, I just figured you liked your hair that way," Gwen said. Or that she belonged to some religion that insisted on never cutting your hair.

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"There's something to be said for the not-invasive approach," Rapunzel admitted. "I always appreciate the people who don't ask. I mean, in a place where Pascal could actually be my transformed roommate, it's kind of nice to have people just get used to seeing the thing that makes you feel weird, even if I personally don't mind answering questions about it."

She was still kind of getting used to that, at all, even after a whole summer.

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"...You know I have to ask why it makes you feel weird now, right?" Gwen said. It was right there, she couldn't let that go.

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"Have you ever met anyone else with seventy feet of hair?" Rapunzel asked, raising her eyebrows. "'Cause I haven't. I'm not even normal at home, so."

She shrugged happily, flouncing onto a couch with her pizza. "So where're you from, anyway?" Look at that segue. Like a pro.

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"New York. Which is apparently different from everybody else's New York?" Probably a good thing, given that whole mutant-caused biblical-type flood thing. "You?"

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"Corona," she said cheerfully. "I know some people from New York! Is it really as big and loud as everyone says?"

She was personally super-intimidated by the idea of cities that big, but that didn't mean they weren't really neat, still.

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"Manhattan is," Gwen replied. "I'm from Queens, which is a lot quieter. You can have houses instead of everyone on top of each other."

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"And you're from this time, right? If not, you're adapting really well," Rapunzel said encouragingly.

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"Yeah, I'm from now. And things back home are sort of crazy so that's making it easier to deal with the crazy here," Gwen said. "I'll adjust just fine."

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"Good crazy or bad crazy or just expect-the-unexpected crazy, like here?" Rapunzel checked.

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"I'm from where he's from," Gwen said, pointing to Johnny and figuring he'd probably already told her about his superheroics. "But a different universe or whatever."