Girl's bathroom, 3rd floor, Saturday evening

[tigerundercover]

The trouble with going around everywhere shapeshifted into having clothes was that you tended to get a little grimy, leading to more showers than your average teenage girl tended to go for. So it was that she ended up spending her Saturday evening steaming up the bathroom. Hey, she didn't really get cold, but that didn't mean her muscles didn't love a good blast of hot water now and then.

She shifted out of habit as she stepped out, and seeing no one else in the bathroom just yet, took her time looking over her usual disguise in the mirror, trying to decide if she wanted to make any adjustments. Maybe add a mole or a birthmark somewhere? Normal people didn't have perfectly clear skin all over, after all. She fluffed her blonde hair a little, making a pouty face at the mirror, then reached up to wipe a little more steam from the surface.

"I wish I could just look like this all the time."

She let out a sigh and relaxed.

Nothing happened.

She was still blonde.

"Oh my god." She grinned at her reflection, rubbing her arms (so smooth!) and waggled her blonde eyebrows at herself. "Oh my god, I'm normal!" She bounced on her toes -- then froze and frowned. "Wait." She tried to shift to her big beefy man look. Nothing happened. She tried to change her hair to brown. Nothing happened.

"Oh my god," she said again, eyes going wide in the mirror. "Oh god, I'm normal." She tugged her too small towel around herself and looked down at it. "Oh god. I don't have any clothes."

She peered out of the bathroom. Her room wasn't that far. She could make it without traumatizing anyone too much, right?

[ooc: yeah, she'll work out the whole "four more wishes" thing eventually. In the meantime, naked blonde Raven trying to sneak through the third floor!]

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[tigerundercover]

"Do a lot of people where you're from get . . . this sort of thing done?" Raven asked.

[theheadkid.livejournal.com]

Travis shook his head. "I was only the second person in the country to have it done. It's experimental."

[tigerundercover]

Raven winced sympathetically. "That couldn't have made anything any easier," she guessed.

[theheadkid.livejournal.com]

"It didn't," he said honestly, shrugging. "But maybe with me being gone so long will help take some of the spotlight off of me when I go back home."

He wasn't sure if that was wishful thinking or not.

"Anyway," he said after a pause. "That was an incredibly long and incredibly detailed way of saying I don't mind the towel. I thought me telling you that right now would be weird. You're not weird."

[tigerundercover]

"I'm pretty sure everyone here is at least a little weird," Raven said. "I just didn't want to make you uncomfortable."

[theheadkid.livejournal.com]

"It doesn't make me uncomfortable," he told her, shaking his head. "I might blush or stammer but that's not due to discomfort. It's more due to me being...well, me."

[tigerundercover]

"You mean you think I'm sexy," Raven said, smiling.

[theheadkid.livejournal.com]

"Well..."

The trailing off was only so he could try and not let his cheeks get too pink. They were warm but he didn't look like a beet.

"Yeah, I mean, of course I do. Yeah."

[tigerundercover]

"That's not an of course," Raven said. "You might not be into skinny blondes." She tilted her head. "I think you're pretty hot, too, you know."

Admittedly, she thought most people were.

[theheadkid.livejournal.com]

Travis chuckled again and looked down at his feet.

"Thanks," he replied, making a face at himself. "But I bet you say that to all the newly alive miracles of medical science."

Kidding.

[tigerundercover]

"Maybe," Raven said. "I mean, you're the first one I ever met, so I can't say for sure."

[theheadkid.livejournal.com]

"Hey, a first," Travis said, throwing his hand up in the air in triumph. "Go me!"

Having someone else's body was good for something.

"You are pretty, though." Wasn't the first girl he'd said that to but it had been awhile. "I like the towel look."

[tigerundercover]

"I better be," Raven said. "I crafted this look very carefully." She looked down at the towel. "Well, not that part. But the rest of it."

[theheadkid.livejournal.com]

"Crafted, huh?" Travis crossed his arms. "Why this look? It's a good look, of course, but what made you choose something like this?"

[tigerundercover]

"You ever hear the phrase 'blondes have more fun'?" Raven asked. "It's extra true when the person you're comparing them to has bright red hair and blue scales."

[theheadkid.livejournal.com]

"Ah." He could see that reasoning. "Is there a phrase for people with sporadic patches of hair? That's how I was when I first woke up again."

Such terrible hair.

"I looked like a Barbie who got a haircut." Travis shuddered.

[tigerundercover]

"Male pattern baldness?" Raven tried. "Did you just cut it all off, or did you do the combover thing?"

[theheadkid.livejournal.com]

"Shaved it till it grew back in," he confirmed with a nod. "Took awhile."

He patted his full head of hair.

"Never again," he added. "I kind of like my hair."

[tigerundercover]

"It's good hair," Raven agreed. ". . . Does your new body have the same kind?"

[theheadkid.livejournal.com]

"The same kind of hair?" he asked to make sure he was following along. "Like the same color, you mean?"

[tigerundercover]

"And, like, texture and things."

[theheadkid.livejournal.com]

Travis...actually thought about it. "I haven't really looked. I mean, there's not a lot of hair on my chest."

He pulled the collar of his shirt away and peered down. "Not really, at least. Same color, though. Brown."

He pulled his shirt up a little, looking down at the hair around his navel. "Looks pretty similar."

[tigerundercover]

"How have you not looked?" Raven asked. "It's your body, now. I'd want to know every inch of it."

That maybe came out wrong.

[theheadkid.livejournal.com]

Travis blushed and dropped his shirt. Couldn't help it. He laughed though and shrugged a shoulder.

"I don't know," he admitted. "For awhile, it was so weird to know it was someone else's body. It was really different. It made me taller, stronger. It had abs."

Something he'd never have. "I just never really looked. I was either scared or distracted. Maybe I'll check it out now though."

[tigerundercover]

"You might as well," Raven said. "Unless you're planning to go get a new one?"