[ There's a faint amusement plucking the strands of their tether, as she describes how she'd felt about her transformations. It isn't as though he thinks Lortel incapable of being casual, it's—warming, in a way, to hear her use more colloquial language, the kind any teenager would spout off.
The warmth from that kindles further as she asks after his current state. ]
I think it's less of a dramatic change than either you or Kalmiya have experienced, so it might not be a transformation in that sense. [ Technically it is, but that's splitting hairs. What really matters is whether he counts himself as being alright. ]
Mm, yes and no. I'll be fine, once I get used to it. The fact it's happening at all without my say so, though, is...concerning. [ He grimaces as he rolls his shoulders, feeling the way his shirt catches on the ridges slowly forming along his spine. ]
That it's less dramatic doesn't mean you aren't being transformed. [ rather mildly. she's not trying to contradict him. far from it; she doesn't like that he seems given to invalidating his own experience simply because theirs have been comparatively more extreme.
she'd had such strong feelings about her claws and fur. those feelings haven't even really gone away; they're just a dull roar now, having tumbled to the bottom of the list of things she's truly worried about. in a city full of those changed, she'd hardly unusual, and wasting her time on feeling hideous and unlovable had served no one, and her least of all. ]
I wish I could offer you any advice, but it never truly stopped bothering me before I left. Honestly, it was getting worse. Now I'm this, instead, and it's just a different flavor of the same awful gruel.
Perhaps all I can offer is to tell you not to deal with it alone. It was my roommates' acceptance that ... at least made the psychological component of it easier to bear, at least, for me.
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Date: 2026-02-13 05:38 am (UTC)The warmth from that kindles further as she asks after his current state. ]
I think it's less of a dramatic change than either you or Kalmiya have experienced, so it might not be a transformation in that sense. [ Technically it is, but that's splitting hairs. What really matters is whether he counts himself as being alright. ]
Mm, yes and no. I'll be fine, once I get used to it. The fact it's happening at all without my say so, though, is...concerning. [ He grimaces as he rolls his shoulders, feeling the way his shirt catches on the ridges slowly forming along his spine. ]
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Date: 2026-02-18 02:55 am (UTC)she'd had such strong feelings about her claws and fur. those feelings haven't even really gone away; they're just a dull roar now, having tumbled to the bottom of the list of things she's truly worried about. in a city full of those changed, she'd hardly unusual, and wasting her time on feeling hideous and unlovable had served no one, and her least of all. ]
I wish I could offer you any advice, but it never truly stopped bothering me before I left. Honestly, it was getting worse. Now I'm this, instead, and it's just a different flavor of the same awful gruel.
Perhaps all I can offer is to tell you not to deal with it alone. It was my roommates' acceptance that ... at least made the psychological component of it easier to bear, at least, for me.