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She is sitting in the library, studying. It's her most common pastime, by hours; spending time with her sister is more enjoyable but Jaromira prefers to socialize more broadly and Katarzyna would only get in the way. This is better on net; the two of them share a room, so it isn't as though her sister's time is entirely hogged by the other girls who call this boarding school "home." Or at least "prison." Katarzyna doesn't mind it, though; the school library is excellent, and basic manners and care for the books has endeared her to the librarian to a sufficient degree to lubricate the interlibrary loans process when there's something she wants to read that they don't have.
Kanimir and Jaromira in Fabulous
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"You look real good. Do you get a lot of boost?" Gabrielle says.
Mercedes coughs. "In our last poll people were against keeping order with sound muting but we can re-run that poll any time. Anyway. If this goes well and we establish something regular with our peers I may also want to organize something like mentorship with middle school and elementary aged magical girls. Thoughts on that?"
"There are pamphlets aimed at those age groups," says Mercedes, "but they might still benefit from more mature and potentially more experienced girls to talk to about their mods, aesthetics, career prospects, that sort of thing."
She considers arguing but decides that since she wants to interact with more rather than less magical girls this would be counter to her interests. "Alright."
"Kind of a big sister little sister thing?" says Natalie.
"Yes, exactly," says Mercedes. "Questions about sister-group plans? Everybody take a permission slip for meeting off campus next week." She hands them out.
Katarzyna takes one. Getting it signed will be...interesting...but it should be doable.
"Now I'm sure everyone's dying to hear about Katarzyna's stylist experience," says Mercedes.
Oh crap.
"I'm not a very good storyteller, but I got permission to record the session. Anyone who wants to give me their email address can see for themselves."
"That seems worth screening during club," says Mercedes, "at least the highlights, can you bring the tape in two weeks?"
"Can you give a quick summary?" Mercedes says. "Five minutes."
...Okay. She can do that.
Her summary is...more dry and technical than most teenage girls would probably prefer.
They listen anyway, but Mercedes cuts her off at about four and a half, and then it's Brooklyn's turn to give a presentation, which is on the subtleties of skin repigmentation vs. tattoos vs. makeup ways to get skin designs.
Skin repigmentation carries point value (but not much) and the other two don't. Makeup can smudge easily, but can get effects that can't be straightforwardly managed with tattoos alone, such as gloss and the cool magnetic nail polish thing which with this one weird trick can be applied to non-nail surfaces that don't have to bend or stretch much. Tattoos are ideal for any situation where they'll serve but can smudge or stretch if left unattended for a long time - not something that newish magical girls constantly updating their looks run into, but it happens with older ones.
That makes sense! Katarzyna makes a note to periodically check tatoos for smudging or stretching.
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When Brooklyn is done everyone gets to the appropriate form of exercise for their body plan!
"Most likely. On the other hand, filling out a mildly obnoxious amount of forms with clear unambiguous answers is still less difficult and unpleasant than conducting an interview with someone who's judging me based on social signals that go over my head."
