This dream was weird. Voices don’t usually come so clearly in Andrea’s dreams. The premise is kinda strange too. Oh well, better than the usual dream of still being at boarding school, or a confusing almost sex dream.

“Uhhh sure I guess.” Superpowers seemed cool to play around with, even if they probably wont even remember the dream properly when they woke up.

"Oh? Not even asking questions? Alrighty then~"

The dream figure wraps Andrea up in a warm, soft hug, and plants a kiss on their forehead, and the dream dissolves into formless impressions of comfort and rest...

...When Andrea actually wakes up, there's a very distinct sense of something to reach out and do. Like grabbing something off a mental shelf. There could clearly be more options, plenty of room on the shelf- But for now, there's only one. It feels active, light, cheerful and happy.

Andrea is kind of… emotionally affected by such a strong memory of being hugged and kissed. They haven't been hugged in literal years. Ah, his poor heart. Why do the nice dreams almost make him want to cry.

When he gets over being hopelessly touch starved he notices the weird new sensation. “The fuck?” 

Andrea mentally pokes at the new feeling and suddenly they are a harpy! The first thing they notice is THE HORRIFIC SUDDEN LACK OF HANDS. WHAT THE FUCK WHERE DID HIS HANDS GO! AHHH HIS FEET ARE CLAWS! ALL THESE FEATHERS!

He’s lucky he lives alone or someone might notice his freak out and see a bird person thrashing around under the sheets (that are being sadly torn up by harpy claws).

Once he is done hyperventilating over losing his arms and being part bird. They notice also being a girl. Normally they’d be freaked out by not having their penis anymore, but both of his arms are wings now, and that is kind of a bigger deal.

The freak out takes a while. But eventually Andrea calms down enough to inspect himself (herself?). Waddling unsteadily over on clawed feet to the bathroom to look at themself in the mirror.

Cute… is probably not the first thought he should have. But it is. The body he is now in is seriously heccin cute! He looks like one of those almost unrealistically pretty cosplayers.

The next thing he notices is… well, Andrea is 19, and this is the closest look he has ever gotten at boobs, and since he does not sleep with a shirt on they are on full display, what do you expect him to do? Not look? The lack of penis is suddenly welcome or this would get even more embarrassing than it already is.

”What the actual fuck….” He spends a looooong time looking himself over in the mirror, at the new girl body, at the new bird parts, at where the wings attach to his shoulders. This should look like some body horror but it kinda works somehow?

Andrea spends so long with his freak out and self inspection that he misses morning classes. And that is weirdly the thought he has once he is done looking at himself. He has already missed too many classes this semester! Even worse, he cant show up to class like this!

Then he realises being a bird person is a much bigger deal than just missing classes. They have no arms! How will they do anything, would his family even believe it was him? Is he stuck like this forever?

Well, the spark currently nestled in his head has something to say about that!!!

It's been long enough since you grabbed it that you could just let go of it and change back! Also! You could totally F L Y ! It wouldn't even be hard! And you can carry things with your feet!

Nope, Andrea is not at all curious enough about flight to not change back immediately.

ARMS! HOW I MISSED YOU! Also you too penis ol pal, the feet also get an honourable mention. The claws didn’t seem the best for walking on.

The reality of having bird girl shapeshifting superpowers sinks in. Like literally everyone not massively afraid of heights, they had always wished they could fly, but the fantasy involved flying like superman or green lantern, not by having wings. And just being a bird person is a lot less powerful a powerset than some of the other supers that have appeared. Could still be useful for search and rescue? Were they seriously considering being a superhero? That wasn’t like them at all. But just… not using his power at all seemed like a waste.

The girl he turned into was super cute… very cosplay anime girl… Okay no, the idea of becoming the bird girl version of Jessica Nigri was insane. Plus, the thought of having people take photos of him and pay attention to him made his heart clench, bad idea.

Andrea misses the rest of the days classes. By the end of the afternoon he gets curious enough to poke that mental thingy that turns him back into a bird girl.

He feels incredibly guilty and weird about it, but this time it’s without clothes on. He has access to a girls naked body AND HE IS ALLOWED TO BE CURIOUS, it’s definitely not weird okay?

After a good long while definitely not perving at himself and marvelling at how pretty and cute the human parts of his bird girl form are, he decides to change back to human and get dressed.

He gets an old ipod touch out, the only thing with a camera that Andrea can make sure wont ever connect to the internet, sets it to record, and shifts in front of the camera. This way he can prove he’s not crazy if he wants to tell anyone about this.

Once he’s done definitely not making cute faces at the camera while being a pretty girl, Andrea shifts back to human and goes to bed.

Andrea goes to classes the next day like normal, he really can’t afford to miss too many classes.

He spends part of the night shifting into gird girl form, getting used to having wings for arms and claws for feet and being a girl. 
The rest of the week continues like this.

When the weekend hits, Andrea has realised that no matter what he does with this bird girl form… he is going to need clothes for it (her?, it’s still just him though). None of his boy clothes really fit that body. And he at least needs something to… hide the nips that poke through his shirts. Even if the bird girl form perfectly hides his secret identity it would be way too embarrassing for people to see him with girl nipples poking through a shirt.

He is way too embarrassed to visit a proper mall or department store, so he visits Fred Meyer, they sell clothes there as well as groceries so there’s plausible deniability. He still hoodies up so hopefully nobody will recognise him there.

Once Andrea is there at Fred Meyer and in the womens clothes section, he realises he has no idea how the sizing works! Now there is a very anxious boy nervously wandering the womens section.

Eventually one of the store staff will come up to him. "Hey, do you need help finding anything? For your girlfriend or something?"

Oh god someone is talking to him, he wants to die on the spot.

”I uhhhh… yeah… no! Not girlfriend.. but yeah clothes for a… cousin” LYING IS SO HARD. There is a reason he almost never does it.

”but I don’t know how sizes work…”

"Oh. ...Oh. Well, whatever. If you don't know their size, uh... Lemme see your phone for a sec and I know a good link for that."

“Uhhh sure, thanks” He practically thrusts his phone at her, wanting this social interaction to be over and for the earth to swallow him up entirely.

Typety type. The store clerk makes sure to keep the screen visible and pulls up a women's self-sizing guide.

"There. Once you know your cousin's sizes, it's all kinda... Just right there. It's all good, don't worry... Thank you for shopping at Fred Meyers."

Clerk walks away and seems to consider this Social Event over.

Andrea spends time trying to find suitable basic underclothes and t-shirts and shorts. Having to mime cupping his chest to guess at the sizes needed. This is going to take a decent chunk out of his spare money. Hopefully he can find a way to make some money with bird girl powers to make up for it.

After a painfully awkward moment at the cashiers buying obviously girl clothes despite not being a girl, hoping nobody assumes hes a creep about it, clothes have been purchased!

Andrea has girls clothes, he has a free weekend…. Time to find out what flying is like. He busses to where theres a park-ish area at the edge of town, with a public bathroom to change in.

He has it all planned out, go into a stall, change into slightly too small women's clothes, shift, and hope nobody notices a bird girl come out of the mens room.

Everything works fine! Andrea is now a bird girl at a public park, fully dressed and decent… and his instincts are yelling at him to try flying.

After some stumbling attempts to launch off the ground, Andrea is flying! You wouldn't think the wings would large enough to hold up a human body but there is probably superpower shenanigans going on here. Flying is as awesome as you might think, and for some reason heights are much less scary in this form so Andrea is not even a normal amount of terrified.

Wheeeeee! Flying! This is awesome! Someone might notice a ginormous flying thing over the park though, but Andrea could not think of a more perfect shield for his secret identity than an entirely different body so he isn’t overly worried.

Wow! That is exciting! There's a new hero! Shortly there is a small crowd looking up and pointing and waving. Some are taking pictures.

Oh gosh, attention. A whole crowd of attention. Weirdly enough theres a lot less anxiety about that than normal. The normal part of him wants to fly away and find a another public bathroom to change back in, another part feels kinda bubbly and wants to show off.

It’s not like anyone will know it was him even if he totally fucks up and seems weird in front of these people…

With a slightly clumsy landing, Andrea lands in front of the crowd.

They back off, slightly nervously. But also clap! Someone asks, "Are you a new hero?" Someone else shouts, "That was SO COOL!"

“Uhh thanks!” Gosh their voice is… much cuter in this body. They just never really had a chance to use it before.

”I had… sorta thoughts about being a hero? But its not like I can do that much like this, just fly. For search and rescue you’d probably prefer a helicopter right?” Their feathers fluff up nervously. “I’m still figuring things out…”

"What's your name?"

"My dad's a fireman! He can help you rescue people!"

"Can you sing like a bird?"

Several other people shout questions, they're kind of indistinct.

"Let's give the lady some space, people! One question at a time!" A big guy with a foreman-like demeanor stands in front and waves people back a bit.

His feathers were fluffing up more and more as people crowded him, Andrea gives the foreman looking guy a grateful smile. Being called a “lady” was weeiiiird though.

”I hadn’t really thought of a name yet… Honestly it’s my first day out like this. i don’t have much figured out at all.”

 Can they sing like a bird? It’d be cool if he could. Not that he is going to try it for the first time in public.

Someone askes what her favorite food is, and what she thinks of ordinary birds. Someone asks if they can touch a feather. People kind of want autographs, but they're stymied by the lack of a name. Someone asks to be picked up and carried, you know, to see if it's good for rescuing people, but the foreman-guy pushes against that for safety reasons. (Her spark seems to think it would be both easy and safe though?)

“Chicken fried steak” “I normally don’t like birds much?” “Uhh sure”

He holds out a wing for people to touch if they want.

The normal side of him does think it makes sense to not pick someone up without safety equipment… but he kinda wants to. The new bubbly part of them really wants to.

"Wow, you're so soft!"

The woman holds onto her for a moment, but then steps back with a smile. Several other people look like they also want to try, but are holding back, feeling awkward about it under the foreman-guy's stare.

"Feel free to take off if you have places to be," foreman-guy stage-whispers. "Crowds can be a lot."

Foreman guy is SO NICE… and kinda hot? Wow that is definitely not his usual type but part of his brain wants to pick this guy up and fly off with him and… WHERE DID THOSE THOUGHTS COME FROM. Bad! No! You do not even know his name!

Maybe trying to fly someone is a good idea just so he won’t be thinking about hunky foreman guy.

”Uhhh i could try picking someone up? Very slightly off the ground? At like… a hover? That should be safeish right?”

Well, alright then. The original volunteer presses forward, grinning; He's a boy around her age.

"So, just hold my arms out, or...?" He spreads his arms wide and turns his back to Andrea. "Ready!"

Hovering is… harder than Andrea thought. Whatever bullshit physics allows them to fly still makes them work for it physically. But eventually he hovers over to the guy and tries to grab his arms with the foot talons. Hopefully not too hard. And lift them off the ground.

If this is going to become a regular thing they should buy like… a climbing harness for people to wear, That’d be much easier to carry them from than worrying about how sharp the foot talons are.

… Why is carrying someone more satisfying than flying alone. Weird.

Now that her talons are carrying something, there's a sense of - total security? That she definitely won't drop him without actively intending to. And it's like he weighs almost nothing.

He's laughing his head off, too, even just a couple of feet off the ground. Apparently being carried around by his arms isn't hurting him. Probably powers weirdness.

Awww, he’s cute. What if they swooped them away for..

Oh my god stop being randomly thirsty for guys you’ve just met what is wrong with you, this is not normally you.

Andrea puts him down. “That was weirdly easy! Like there’s no way with with normal physics these wings would carry two people, but it wasn’t even harder than flying by myself!”

"It was like I was just floating! I barely felt you. Powers are amazing!"

“Yeah!”

Okay, Andrea is done with people, as much as in this form a bubbly side of him is enjoying this, the regular side of him is so done with this and just wants to go home.

”Okay everyone, I think I’m done for today, bye.” He can’t help but smile at foreman guy before taking off. No need for a bus to go home this time, he lands at somewhere relatively empty with public bathrooms near his apartment and changes back (and changes clothes back too).

How much of the new feelings was a new situation, and how much was being a bird person? Does transforming affect his personality? Those two guys don’t even seem that hot now… and the idea of that crowd makes Andrea feel sick just thinking about it.

He would be more worried if being bird girl wasn’t more fun than being his normal self, the lack of anxiety was… really nice.

… now he is home alone… and has girl clothes ready… he shifts back to bird girl and takes some more videos and pics with his ipod looking cute. Gosh he is so cute like this. He would totally simp for her…him.. however hes supposed to refer to his new body.

He’s feeling bubbly again and on a whim makes a twitter (he will never call it X in his life) profile for his bird person form.

Valkyrie

@realbirdgirl

new super, is part bird, smash the fash.

And he posts some of the cute pics he took.

Among more generic/positive comments, there's always a few of these guys:

Wow, that would be the footjob of a lifetime

But how to make sandwich without hands?

Would smash

Small tits are justice!

Naked is the most aerodynamic right?

Gosh people think shehe is cute! Eeeeeee! he’s never had positive attention like this. Even the creepy comments aren't that bad by twitter standards. 

Of course theres a foot guy, theres ALWAYS a foot guy. He looks at his own taloned feet and nope, that seems like a horrifying thing to have around his guy junk. He has a feeling he could rip open a car door with those things. Way too dangerous to put near anything delicate like that.

Sandwich guy is valid. He would be screwed if he wouldn't turn back into someone with hands.

Small tits are justice nodnod.

He would also smash his bird girl form, also valid.

and the guy fishing for naked pics is so obvious it makes him giggle more than groan.

Wow this is fun do cute girls always have this much fun? 

He spends a lot of the rest of the day on twitter soaking in the dopamine and social validation.

The Algorithm wins again!

'New super' gets a LOT of followers compared to random other new accounts. Especially if she keeps adding more pics. Even the people who call it fake (despite the videos from people in the park) admit the production value of the fakery is pretty good. People are doing Fascism Discourse in replies to her. Twitter has apparently also decided to name her bird form 'greyhawk' for some reason.

But but but… he gave them a name! Valkyrie! You know like the bird coded norse myth (And the digimon)! They even fly in most games! His name is way cooler than greyhawk. His feathers aren't even grey! 

Terrible name, must comment negatively on every tweet that calls him that.

You are trying to control the language used by ten thousand stubborn anonymous idiots.

Good luck.

(She does seem to make some progress, but also invites arguments that Valkyrie is kind of taken? You know, by that girl from Canada who has ice powers and a spear?)

Canada! But thats canada! Its a different country! 

Well he can’t be Isis, because you know, terrorists. 

Tengu? Seems too weeb, and guy coded for such a cute girl.

Garuda is nice and impressive (and another bird digimon), maybe that.

He flies Garuda past people making the “Valkyrie is taken” point.

It doesn't seem to be taken.

Now the internet is using three different names for her: Garuda, Greyhawk, and Valkyrie.

He changes his twitter name to Garuda. Makes a post about it. And then makes a post that greyhawk sucks as a name because she is not grey or a hawk! (They don’t know its a shapeshift form, so he posts as a girl, totally normal)

To make it sink in the next picture he sends has a Garuda bottom text.

Isn't Garuda, like, Indian? Is that cultural appropriation?

I wasn’t norwegian either when I used Valkyrie. But nobody cared about that because I’m white, so Isn’t that the real racism.

haha gottem, take that twitter police.

(The author of this fic does not endorse the teenage urge to be edgy online)

An account with a lot of moderately spicy female portraits and sketches in their posts comments:

omfg I would absolutely love to sketch you some time. I bet you'd look super cute if you were covering yourself with your wings and not much else.

Eeeeee the art is so goooooood. Gosh yes shehe wants people to look at her the way people look at those sketches.

Andrea decides to go for it. Though this is some logistical trouble. All his camera devices are touch screens, and they do not respond to talon taps.

So he has to put on girl underwear as human boy, set up the camera to record, shift to bird girl, pose properly, and shift back. Just to grab a single frame from the video to send them. He doesn’t post the image publicly though, thats too much. But it’s kind of heart racing that people will see a sketch of them almost naked.

He’s too lazy to change out of girl underwear when hes back in human form and messing with the video looking for the right frame to send, and by the time he’s sent the picture he’s too emotionally tired to care. And falls asleep that way.

He’s alone, its not a big deal if he falls asleep in girls undies. Definitely not a big deal. 

In the morning he excitedly checks all his messages and social media responses.

Sammy_Sketches_543 has posted an in-progress rough of her in the same pose she sent over! It's cute, and they're paying a lot of attention to the expression, trying to convey the feeling-cute-and-happy-but-embarrassed look on her face!

Otherwise, the internet is interneting. She has a LOT of random spam and responses. The interest in 'new super, huh' seems to be dying down somewhat though, without any actual Crime Stoppings to her name. 'Garuda' seems to have caught on properly as her name, though.

Aha! Take that greyhawk people!

…. Andrea ends up spending sunday buying a bunch of cuter clothes on amazon, now he has a better idea of girl birds sizes. Something cuter than Fred Meyer store brand stuff. He… probably shouldn’t… he can’t really afford all this. But the high of social validation is a strong drug to someone who’s been too awkward and shy to get positive attention before.

He is noticeably happier in class the next week, though the only people who notice are his professors (who are all really great actually). Evenings are spent being cute online. And following cute cosplay girls to get ideas for pictures and photo tips.

During the middle of the week he hears about a anime con in Spokane Washington. Thats not too far. He thinks about going but crowds bother him… except they didn’t bother him much in the park as bird girl… he could go as bird girl… 

With the anime but real life kind of looks that bird girl has… and the pink hair… she would fit right into the cosplay crowd… and attention is nice instead of scary as bird girl…

Andrea fights back his usual anxiety and decides to go to the con this weekend. Especially after the clothes from amazon arrive and he feels a lot more confident when he tries the cuter clothes on as Garuda for twitter.

@realbirdgirl

Hey, is anyone going to the con in spokane this weekend? 

He is going to need help if he goes… due to the lack of hands he will have. Hopefully someone nice can go with him.

Tiny con, wasn't going to bother

Yeah actually I'm selling my classics collection - rare classic manga, rare opportunity! Listing here - [link]

I'm cosplaying as Asebi from Karasu wa Aruji wo Erabanai!

I think it's gonna be a good one. Looking forward to the Japanese vs Western Religion comparative. Ever notice that you always end up killing God in JRPGs?

@realbirdgirl
Could someone do me a massive solid and go with me and help me with hand related stuff? I want to go but the lack of fingers might make it hard to do stuff. There’s downsides to being a bird person. I’d appreciate the help sooooo much.

Andrea basically counts as disabled without hands! Hopefully someone will help.

killing god is such a cool final boss though. Imagine if narnia ended with killing aslan to stop the apocalypse.

The comparative religion talk sounds cool.

She has A FEW offers for con help, soon enough. And by A FEW we mean dozens and dozens.

(One of them is Sammy_Sketches_543, who finished the illustration based on Andrea's wing pose a couple of days ago.)

I think it's basically a Christianity vs Not That thing! In Christian tradition God is immutable and eternal but in Asian myths gods die all the time.

Eeeeeeeee the art is so gooooood. The bubbly new part of them has decided sammy is the best person ever despite knowing almost nothing about them.

private message: Ohmygosh thank you! I hope i’ll be in good…hands :D

Reply to religion post

unless you get gnostic about it, lets kill the demiurge! Go all Nietzsche on his ass. :P go team lucifer.

I hope so anyway! Are you going to need a hotel room and stuff? Or just visit as a daytrip? I think I'm not going to cosplay and I'll just say I'm a fan if people ask. I bet you're gonna be POPULAR. ...Might want to ask the event staff about flying indoors. I predict they'll be really nervous about it.

(The religion posts wend with more jokes and hot takes, as internet does.)

I was hoping to go both days, but I can do that with day trips. I’m pretty sure I can fly faster than the bus :D I wasn’t planning to fly inside? I could probably hover indoors but my takeoffs are still not the smoothest, I’d worry about bumping into someones stall.

Did… did they offer to set up hotel for them? Would they share?… would they expect something to happen? Sammy has seen the pretty spicy pics for that sketch… Andrea knows he's pretty cute as Garuda and that most guys would wanna try their luck but he does not know how to feel about maybe being creeped on. Wait if he did get a hotel he would need hand help there… it was probably innocent.

Do you really think I’ll be that popular? >.< A lot of the girls there will be way cuter than me, with full costume and makeup and everything. I guess theres not that many supers with animal parts tho.

You will be that popular. You're an actual super, practically out of an anime besides, and you have enough of that super-supermodel thing going that I can tell. Did you put on makeup before you took that pic you sent me as a reference? Because it looks like you did! I'll plan on daytrips and no hotel arrangements, then. Meet in the line to get in at around 8:30 AM? We should choose passcodes or something so you don't wander through the con with some random creep.

Eeeee compliments. Andrea wishes they could do makeup, feels like a useful thing to know when you can turn into a girl, they just have no idea how. Plus, you need hands to do that. 

Makeup is something you need hands for :( thanks for the compliment though! My passcode will be being the only girl with bird wings :D Do you have any clothes no other con person would have so I can spot you? Or maybe a colourful umbrella so I can see you from the sky?

Nothing I could guarantee? I'll probably be wearing a green raincoat. Passcode that you demand of me can be 'calliope'?

Sure! It’s not supposed to rain I don’t think ,so that should be eye catching.

As long as your account doesn't get hacked now I’ll know if its you, don't click on any suspicious links! :D

The rest of the week passes with Andrea in a very good mood, excited for the con. Even the landlady comments on how he seems happier.

He ends up falling asleep in girl clothes after taking pictures in Garuda form more than once during the week. He tells himself its because he’s too tired to care to take them off. But really he just likes feeling cute in them.

The day of the con approaches. Andrea goes to the same park as before to change clothes and shift. Then decides to fly to Spokane, or at least go as far as he can before he gets tired. It’ll be a good flight test.

Turns out the Garuda form has excellent flight stamina, he makes it all the way there.

He never noticed but his long range eyesight is pretty freaking good in this form, makes a huge difference from shortsighted in human form. Green raincoat… where is the green raincoat…

Green raincoat with hood up, wearing a red backpack, facing away from her, down there in the milling crowd in front of the conference center.

“Excuse me I need to land!” He yells out at the crowd below, hoping they will make some room near sammy_sketches.

A super?!?

This crowd is a lot slower to disperse, and a lot quicker to start bringing out phones for pictures. Cosplayers wave at her, grinning.

Green Raincoat turns around to reveal - a man? Short, messy dark hair, big glasses, but still a distinctly masculine face, in a dignified nerd sort of way.

"Ah! I'm Garuda's volunteer helper today, everyone. Please don't crowd! We're just going to the con same as you! Garuda! Callsign: Calliope!"

Andrea lands and bird waddles over to (presumably)Sammy. Holding out their wings to offer a hug. They aren’t usually a hugger but but the new bubbly part of them that they feel when they are in Garuda form wants to offer a hug. “Hiiiiiiii! It’s so cool to meet in person!”

Sammy will hug with a gentle smile. "Likewise! I hope my fanart was acceptable."

The hug is very very fluffy what with the wings being involved.

“It was SO GOOD! I’d go back to it all the time just to be impressed all over again! Im glad I worked up the courage to send those refs. Your art is amazing!” There might be some excited hopping while Andrea gushes over the art. “If I ever get famous you should be the one to design the merch!”

Oof, big hug.

"Ahaha, I'm really just an illustrator, not a product designer. I don't know that my art would look good on mugs or T-shirts. It's a different skill! Maybe posters?"

Sammy_Sketches looks like they maybe want to not be the center of attention a little bit. Luckily, a group of Magical Girl cosplayers comes up to them to compliment Andrea and wonder if she dressed up specifically for the con or not.

“Haha no these are my normal clothes, I don’t really have any cosplay outfits.” Spinny skirt, tank top, and crop top. Just randomly bought from amazon. Andrea is lucky they look decent and fit because you never know with buying online. But they didn’t want to deal with the INCREDIBLE awkwardness from buying girl clothes in person again.

If the magical girls think the wings and claws are cosplay its very obvious from close up that they are real. Where would you even hide human feet in those talons.

"As Magical Girls, we approve of looking cute no matter how or why!"

"Pff, Leah."

"Who's Leah? I'm Princess Triphone!"

"Fine, fine, your highness."

"Maybe someone will cosplay as you next time," the one in red comments. "That would sure be a thing, huh?"

Andrea demonstratively raises a birb talon. “I know cosplayers are actually users of impossible eldritch magic to make such good outfits, but how would they do the claws! Plus not having hands is actually SUPER inconvenient for con going, I needed a helper.” Grateful smile at Sammy.

The fact they think he is cute is making his cheeks go a little pink. Being Garuda is great, he gets so many compliments. Nobody ever calls him cute when in normal body.

"...Off the top of my head, custom high heels maybe? It'd take some wizardry for sure."

"Well, enjoy the con! Oh, by the way- You're new, right? Well, if anyone is making you uncomfortable with pictures or anything, tell event security right away. I had a guy following me around at a con in San Fran once, and, yeah. It's what they're here for! And we all deserve better than that shit!"

(Sammy, meanwhile, produces their tickets and shows both to Andrea- Purchased online and printed earlier.)

“I already have a designated follower! Plus if anyone annoys me I can just pick them up and fly them away” Andrea does a cartoonish evil laugh.

“Just to be clear that was a joke, I’m not a villain.” With the few supervillain attacks that had happened, he wanted to make that extra clear.

”Though… I do kinda look like I’d be monster of the week for a magical girl show right? One defeated through the power of being shown friendship or something.”

"Aww, no, I think you're more like a scrappy side character!"

"No, no, monster of the week stealing things 'cause she doesn't know any better, then a scrappy side character!"

“Maybe I was tricked by the big bad? Something something bird imprinting on the main villainess and now I think I have to steal to support the ‘flock’? Then the team of friends shows me that real love isn’t exploitative like that. I’d watch that episode.”

"I'd want to workshop it more. Anyway, girls, we'd better get in line right? Doors open in like... Fifteen minutes."

"Yeah..."

"Enjoy the con, Garuda!"

And then the trio of cosplayers leaves.

There are still quite a few people looking at her, but there's a lot of weirdly dressed people around to collect attention too.

A few of them would LOVE to take pictures with Garuda!

Sammy looks to her. "It's up to you. I have a bottle of water and a few granola bars too if you need those."

Andrea is fine taking pictures with other cosplayers! It’s neat! Normally this much attention from so many people would be giving him a panic attack but right now they feel very bubbly as Garuda, the attention is really flattering.

Being himself sucked, being this cute girl who wasn’t scared of people was so much less painful.

And not just other cosplayers, but random con-goers who seem to be collecting pictures of everyone.

It's all very friendly. Sammy tries to stand out of the frame of any pictures.

Andrea knows how that feels. Sadly Andrea can't share the ability to become a bird girl that is less shy.

Pictures pictures pictures.

It's not as tiring as it would be normally to interact with all these people, but it's not a zero amount of tiring.

"Oh, my. What a fine specimen of my kind I see before me. Such wonderful feathers I have not seen in an age and a half! What an unexpected relief to my... Eternal disappointment. Fear not- My gaze is one of respect and not doom today. I, Lilith, the scorned, am here at this quaint gathering to gather fame and influence, to engage in surreptitious commerce, and to scout for new devious plots and plans. It shall be a most enjoyable spectacle, no?"

Whoever this cosplayer is, their acting is on point. A commanding, domineering voice and strong poise combined with an unflinchingly superior expression.

Also this cosplayer is unbearably hot. Hnnhhh abs. Crush me please.

Those fake wings are really nice too! Obviously they don’t look real when there’s real harpy wings to compare them to, but it’s definitely movie quality costuming!

Also, her kind? This cosplayer is more a dark angel than a birb, and she has hands. He wants hands in this form damnit!

”Uhmm hi! I’d sure hope the feathers are nice, they are attached to me after all.”

A smirk. "Quite so. Salutations and may you enjoy this little event... Perhaps I should like to speak again when I need not stay in the character of royalty. But for now my supplicants await. Amusing... But this may be their only chance to meet a queen. Who am I to deny them?"

Some hidden mechanism flaps her wings, and she nods beatifically before marching on.

“I liked the character of royalty…” He mumbles as she leaves. 

Gosh she was pretty, and gave him any amount of attention. He’s so glad he came to this con. And now its finally opening up! Yay! Andrea sticks close to sammy because he has Andrea’s ticket.

Theres so much cool stuff here and Andrea definitely didn’t bring enough cash in his fannypack (a backpack would get in the way of flight) to buy what he wants, not that he had much to spare to begin with after his clothes buying spree.

But those gundam models look so cooooooool. Andrea wants miniature versions of giant robots! And also every single Pokémon branded thing in the world but all the Pokémon merch as always is way out of his price range. Who has $200 for a giant eevee plushie. How would he even get it home if he did?

He wishes he had hands because so many people are playing Switch or 3DS and he wants those streetpass coins damnit! What a wasted opportunity.

Eventually he and Sammy need to break for lunch and rest. Walking (more like waddling) around on talons isn’t the most comfortable, the Garuda form really was meant to fly around instead of walk.

Sammy seems to be having fun basking in the aura of excitement that seems to follow Andrea. He accumulates a big backpack and two big plastic bags over the course of the day.

In the dining hall, Andrea just happens to be at the perfect angle to see a woman purse-snatch, taking someone else's bag just as they had turned to throw away their takeout containers.

“Hey! Thief!” He takes off without thinking, a much smoother takeoff than he has managed while thinking about it, zooming towards the thief. 

The thief(?) scowls at Andrea, hesitates, then looks around theatrically. "What? Wait- Oh my god, I could have sworn this was mine! I picked it up without thinking. Ma'am, I'm sorry, this is yours!"

AGGRESSIVE HOVERING AND BIRD OF PREY GLARING. “You took it from their table.” Yeah how dumb does the thief think he is.

"I mean, yeah, I could have sworn that was where I left mine? It's so busy here."

The owner snatches it back angrily, ("Pay more attention then!") and starts looking through it for anything missing.

(Event Staff are making their way over at a very clear Fast Walk.)

Well event staff have it taken care of. That sure was underwhelming for his first bit of hero work. Stopped crime just with a yell, bird powers not even needed. Could have done that in human form.

He lands back with sammy.

One Event Staff peels away towards her after a quick murmured conversation.

"Hey uh... I'm gonna have to ask you not to fly again. Flying inside the center is actually specifically forbidden by our insurance. I mean, they were thinking about drones, but... We have to think about the safety of the venue and everyone else, so, yeah."

“Sorry! I took off without thinking. Guess I sorta expected a chase. I’ll stay on the ground while indoors.” His talons are so sore from so much walking though. They weren’t meant for extended walking! Birbs mostly fly places! He wonders if he should rent a scooter next time or something. How would he steer though….

"Sorry! We have to deal with these sorts of things at big events, so it's nothing against you! If you have any accessibility concerns maybe we can see about doing something about it- I see you have a helper here for example. And flying outside should be fine as long as you don't go high enough to interfere with jets, but uh, maybe don't take my word for it."

“I haven’t even tried flying that high. Don’t see thaaaat much appeal? Real birds stay relatively low for a reason. It’ll be fine.” He tries to reassure the event staff.

"Well, I hope you enjoy the rest of the con, then!"

For the next day Andrea is definitely scheduling some more breaks, maybe flying breaks, his poor talons. Or… if he had enough money would someone make him custom bird shoes? Some arch support sounds nice.

He goes back to enjoying the con with sammy.

As the event is winding down for the day Andrea spots the same cosplayer from earlier. She's wearing much less of her costume- The wings are set to the side, and the large costume-legs too, showing tan skin and running shorts. She is sipping a Boba tea, and waves. "Heya, Garuda and friend! This is a good con, isn't it?"

Andrea definitely notices the tanned skin, respectfully appreciating her legs. “It’s fun so far! Sad I didn’t bring much money. The gundams… they call to me.. begging for a new home. And I wouldn’t be able to afford the pokemon swag even if I sold a kidney.”

"Haha. You should see cosplay expenses. Not to mention the labor costs if you need help."

“Yeah I can like… afford rent and food and that’s it. Do you make any money doing it? Like I don't know… fan donations? Patreon? Otherwise how do you afford these things! Movie quality props!” Andrea has seen enough adam savage on youtube to know movie quality props are expensive and labour intensive.

"I do have a Patreon actually. Before I got it, my work was a lot more amateurish."

“Gosh having people pay you to do cool stuff… I don’t have any cool skills, I’m just a bird. It requires almost no effort from me. Except for managing things without hands.” I mean sure Garuda is a cute girl, but just being cute isn’t enough for people to give you money, its money!

"I bet you totally could. You won the metaphorical lottery, powers are powers, yeah? I'm surprised nobody's shown up at the con or on the internet to try and recruit you!"

“I’ve like… flown around a park, and posted some cute pictures online. And the one crime I’ve ever stopped was today and all I did was yell at them for taking a bag. Could have done that as a normal person. Guess I need more exposure? People seem to like me more because I’m a cute girl than because I have wings.” Not that Andrea minds that much, it feels like a bit of a waste of their powers not to use them heroing, but getting attention from being cute is still fun.

Oh, she can't resist a smirk.

"Well, of course. Beauty is a weapon, dearie. Best keep yours sharp. Though I can't speak to real heroics, I suppose. It does seem a bit mad to me."

Slight blush. The pretty cosplayer thinks shehe is beautiful as Garuda? Eeeeee. Getting a compliment like that from someone who was legitimately stunning was so nice. “You’re sharp too, I mean pretty! I mean….” Gosh… suddenly its so hard to talk to girls without stumbling over himself.

"Oh? Do compliment me more. As for yourself, I think some accessories would do you well. Anklets and shoulder decorations, or a hairpin? You've definitely got summer going on. Warm colors, gold, maybe rhinestones."

”I don’t really know much about… any of that. I’ve kinda just been buying random stuff off amazon and hoping it fits.”

Well… if she asked for compliments it’s not creepy right? “I really like your abs… you look really strong.” Not that Garuda isn’t also fit, it’s just more subtle and wiry than obviously muscled, except for her very muscled shoulders.

"Why thank you. Though I must admit... Some of that is elaborate makeup."

“You’re still uhmm… very fit… and it looks nice… and I’ll shut up now…” Becoming a bird girl does not make talking to girls any easier! Ahhhh he feels like such a weiiirddooo.

"I take it you are into women? Tragically, I do not personally share this experience. But I wish you all the best luck. I'm sure there's a cutie out there for you."

AHHHH HE WANTS THE EARTH TO SWALLOW HIM UP. “I’ll just… die of embarrassment now.” He squeaks out.

Sammy please save him from this social death! please! 

"Ah... Let's go find a quiet spot to divvy up our purchases. I'll mail yours to you as we arranged later."

After leading Andrea away: "You alright?"

“Why is talking to girls so harrrrddddd. Ahhhhh. I feel like such a weiiirdoooo.” Sammy is a guy, he gets it, right? Or is Andrea just that much of a loser. “Talking to guys is way easier.” 

"That was a little awkward, yes. My experience was that it was something you have to get used to... And that small mistakes don't really matter. She likes you, just not physically, and that is fine, I suppose?"

Sammy is blushing a bit and looking away.

“I don’t need every pretty girl to be into me. That would be crazy. Just want to not feel like stumbling idiot moron around them.” Awww Sammy is so sweet to try and cheer him up though. The bird urge to pick him up and bring him back to a nest should be ignored. “Guys are easier to talk to. Like you! We only just met today but I’m not putting my foot… errr.. talons in my mouth when I talk to you!”

"...Other girls are just people. I can offer no further advice than that, however." Sammy sighs. "Well, today was fun. If exhausting. Let's get everything sorted so we can both head home and get a good night's rest, yes?"

“Thanks for today!” Winghug! Sammy is great. He hopes they can keep being friends after this. Probably the best person to have sent those less wholesome picture references on a whim.

They separate out the day's purchases and go their separate ways.

...The next morning, Andrea has the oddest feeling. Instead of one figurine on the metaphorical shelf of her power, or one silhouette in the metaphorical closet, there are two. The new one feels just as bouncy as the first, but in a different way. Somehow more tireless athletic and less bubbly cheerful.

Well, Andrea will obviously try the new one. And he shifts.

The first thing he notices are the fangs in his mouth. And then the HANDS! SWEET BABY RAYS HE HAS HANDS AGAIN! Also the fluffy feathers are now fluffy fur. But more importantly hands! Fingers! Opposable thumbs! He can just use his working hands to go get a hand mirror and look himself over!

Oh gosh, he’s some kind of dog girl. The furries will go nuts over this (Not that he didn’t get some attention from furries on twitter as Garuda.). Fluffy animal ears, fluffy legs from the thigh down, fluffy arms from the elbow down, claws, fangs, a fluffy tail. Wolf girl maybe?… the claws and fangs seem a little more… wild, than you'd expect on a dog. The new form is just as cute as the last though. If a bit more sporty tomboy in vibes than the cute pink anime girl that was the bird girl. The dark blue fur and hair sorta work well together though. Hmm wolf girl seems to be similarly sized as bird girl, if a bit taller. His existing girl clothes should fit her?

Andrea experimentally gives his new fluffy wolf ears a touch…ohhh thats kinda sensitive. Wait…. He has hands now… and… all the girl parts… how could he not? Like seriously it’d be crazy not to be curious.

His paw hand things roam lower… cupping the breasts this body has… so this is what they felt like… it’s a little bit sad the first boobs he ever touches had to be his own in another body, instead of another girls, but this was still nice!

And now…the… other parts…Andrea is pretty nervous about this but he isn’t going to just… ignore that he can now know what a vagina feels like. Both to touch one and to have one.

He almost chickens out, but he experimentally feels around with his paw hand things. The fur kinda tickles as it touches somewhere sensitive like that… ohhhh wow… woooooowwwwww. Thats like… the head of his cock levels of sensitive, just by rubbing around there. That can’t be normal right? That has to be a wolf girl thing. No way do girls feel this good or they would never stop touching. He hasn’t even dared to try the clit yet. 

Oh… his paw is getting wet… wow… girl juices… he feels like such a creepy perv right now but its his own body! He’s allowed to do this! He brings his paw up and… damn… that smells good. He’s pretty sure thats not normal, thats probably a wolf thing. But gosh yes his juices smell sooooooo good. Before he realises it he has his fingers in his mouth. God he’s acting like such a freak right now, but this is so hot to be able to touch a girl and taste her even if it was himself.

He goes back to rubbing after he tastes himself, Eventually working up the courage to run a thumb across the clit. OHNONONO wayyyyyy too sensitive. Jesus christ! Thats insane! How can it even be that intense! He doesn’t know whats a girl thing and whats a wolf girl thing, but he is being CAREFUL around this clit in the future.

He’s not brave enough to bring himself to orgasm, and he planned to do day two of the con with Sammy… so sadly he gets ready for the day and flies to the con in spokane.

He finds Sammy and lands near him. “Oh my god you will NEVER GUESS.”

Sammy makes a chinhands pose and seriously considers this.

"...You have defeated a villain or criminal. You have a girlfriend. You won the lottery? Discovered something new about your power. A friend is getting married?"

He pouts. How did he guess! That’s no fun. “The second to last one! Let’s find somewhere quiet so I can show you!”

Sammy laughs. "Well I did make five guesses. That's kind of cheating. Uh..." Sammy looks around. "Hotel room? Mine is a ten minute walk away. Or is this more of a firing range kind of discovery?"

“Like a empty hallway kind of discovery. Twitter will probably find out soon enough. Just thought it would be fun to show you first!” Unless he wanted to go to his hotel room… together… oh my god shut up birdbrain I am not bringing him back to my nest! 

"I don't think there are a lot of empty hallways around here, and badgering event staff into getting in early seems a bit, enh... I promise I have no, ah, lascivious intentions with the hotel room offer? It's just legitimately the most convenient private place I can think of."

Would he even mind it if Sammy did have lascivious intentions. Not cumming that morning was a bad move. Bad hornybrain, go to horny jail. “Okay! Lets go!” Excited bird bouncing. “I could fly us there faster?”

"That sounds fun! I might have a slight ulterior motive, wanting to fly. Aheh. It's the tall Hilton, like five blocks that way." He points. "Let me just check that I have the room key... Yep!"

“Okay, keep your arms and legs inside the ride at all times. Keep your mouth closed while flying because bugs are gross, trust me, also it makes your mouth super dry. Please put up your seat tray tables and this will be a non smoking flight.” Sure he stole this bit from Aladdin, but its a good bit!

The talons gently grip Sammy and off they go! Barely takes any time at all to land in front of the hotel.

"That was fun! You should wear a GoPro and post the videos."

He beeps into the side entrance, then takes the elevator to the sixth floor. there are other people checking in and out at this time of day, and some gawk. A few take pictures of the two of them.

Sammy's hotel room has one double bed and a Huge Mess of clothes and stuff.

"...Sorry for the mess."

And now Andrea is enfloofed. “Look! Hands! I’m dog instead of bird!” Does a little twirl as the new wolf form.

"Wow! You're not a bird super- You're a transforming super! Oh stars can I take pictures."

“Sure! It’ll be way better than setting my phone down and turning on a timer” Andrea does the classic catgirl paw pose for cuteness effect. “Awoo?” 

Pictures! Several of them!

"I wouldn't mind drawing this either. I really like when there's a realism of form, so to speak..."

“Absolutely make me more sketches. They are so good.” Sammy is good friend friendfriendfriend, cuddle friend?

Oh wow… that urge was pretty strong. At least its not to carry him away to a nest, but dog girl form wants to be all over people Andrea is friendly with.

"I will! At some point. There are so many more things that I want to sketch than I have time for."

“I totally don’t mind posing. The attention is nice. Gosh I feel confident like this. If being a bird was some serious adhd brain, then like this I feel like a champion.” Flexes and enjoys the way muscles ripple. Fuck the wolf girl form is hot. Andrea would do anything to be able to fuck this form. Strong lady hot and he feels stroooonnng like this.

"Your alternate forms come with - instincts? Impressions? Variant powers, probably. I don't think carrying things in your claws would work well like this... You could become quite the media darling. What form will she reveal next?"

“I mean, bird girl could fly even though theres no way wings that small can carry a whole ass person, much less two! Im sure wolf girl has something weird going on with it too.

Being bird girl was suuuuuuper bubbly, the most bubbly, like natural extrovert filled with caffiene. Wolf girl seems… confident, and protective, and I feel like I’m enjoying the attention you are giving me but because I deserve it, not because I really really want people to like me.” Having a cute boy pay such attention to his body was nice though. He does a biiig stretch to see if he notices.

”Fuck…. I’ll need a new super name…”

Does glancing at her belly then averting his eyes count as noticing?

"Something that references the multiple forms, yes? My first instinct is 'Varia' but that's on literally two seconds of thought... Menagerie?"

He grins when he sees Sammy avert his gaze. Normally that would make him blush being noticed like that. Being bubbly was one kind of intoxicating, but this is really nice too. “Don’t know if I’ll get more forms or what I’ll get, might end up weirder than just animal girls.”

Wait a second. Idea. “Hmmm… I wanna try something… if that’s okay with you. You’d get to live the dream of all terminally online people. Wanna pet some animal girl ears? I wanna know what it’s like.”

"Hah. If that's okay with you, I'd be alright to try it. Certainly a unique experience. I will be gentle."

Andrea sits next to Sammy. His tail miiiiiiight be wagging. Come on! He gets headpats! But like, for real legit ones because he’s in a dog girl body. His inner weeb is ecstatic. He’s also a little jelous of Sammy. He also want’s to pat a cute dog girl. Patting yourself doesn’t count. “This is almost more lewd than handholding” Andrea teases.

"...Please don't joke like that too much. I don't want to make things awkward between us, more than internet friends."

Sammy scritches behind the ears and the back of Andrea's head, using well-developed dog petting practice.

Ohhhh thats nice… that’s almost… too nice. Each pet of the fluffy ears is making him want to shudder. Oh yep that’s causing some arousal. Andra has to stop this since Sammy just wants to be friends. “W-well in the interest of things not being awkward, you should stop. It seems this body has anime logic to it. Very sensitive ears.” He’s only a little pink when he asks Sammy to stop.

Gosh he’s glad he’s not his normal self, he would just be a shy embarrassed mess and probably would have just run out of the room if this happened to him normally. It’s so much easier to be brave and honest like this.

"Oh. Good to know... A bit of a shame, but hair petting is fairly, ah, intimate normally anyway..."

He will stop after a moment more. "Perhaps it would depend on context? If you use a back-scratcher or a comb maybe it's just relaxing instead."

“I dunno… I mean context matters to all touches no matter where they are. But they feel pretty sensitive in… that kind of way. It is relaxing, just relaxing and also tingles.” Gosh he feels cuddly right now after that petting. Stupid friend zone. Sammy is kinda cute and the new part of him realllly wants at least to cuddle. 

“Guess we go back to the con?…” He can’t help but sound at least a little dissapointed.

"I can at least hug you. Friends hug. I just..." Pause. "I can talk about if if you give me a minute to gather my thoughts."

“I don’t wanna pressure you into anything! Just was nice and had me feeling cuddly. New sensations are fun. And It’s probably powers related. So like, does that count as impaired? Anyway being friends is cool! Totally don’t have to do anything for my sake.”

He really is surprised he managed to say all that, it’s still embarrassing to talk about but not cripplingly so like he would expect it to be.

"Well, come have a hug at least. Put those arms to use, even if wing-hugs are nice as well."

Awkward scoot closer, and then fluffy hug. Andrea’s tail can’t help but wag a little.

Sammy is good at hugs. Very steady despite his shortness.

"It's perfectly valid to want to be touched. We humans do like to make things complicated though, don't we?"

“Heh, now I can make fun of silly humans now I am a obviously superior doggirl. Y’all aren't even fluffy. Even my bird form is fluffy with soft feathers.” Hugs are niiiicee. Do resist the urge to nuzzle his neck, that would be weird. Andrea bets a pack of these wolf girls would be very very cuddly with each other just going by the urges he has in this body. Like those cute TikToks of a pile of puppies cuddling.

"Are you a human when you're at home?"

Uncomfortable slight flinch. “I can be my old self if I want to… Just… doesn’t happen that often, if I can get away with it… now that I can stay transformed and have hands… It’ll probably be almost never.” Now he’s talking about it, he’s realised he only really stays in Andrea classic flavour for going to class or to post things using fingers. He spends as much time as he can as Garuda… it’s just… easier to not be himself.

“I mean if you could be cute and strong and popular and fluffy, why wouldn't you?”

It is time to un-hug.

"Well, I am me and not you, but... I would, I think. At least sometimes. It'd be thrilling to have powers like yours, but I would find it to be a performance, and grow tired of the publicity and the act. People are different, though! It sounds like you might not be very comfortable with who you were, and found someone new to be. A cheerful bird girl, or a cute dog girl. Which is entirely valid. Some things just... Suck, with no real redeeming qualities, and can be discarded. I only ask because this kind of thing touches on my own reluctance to get involved. I try to keep my life as simple and relaxed as possible, so that I stay comfortable within it. So I avoid... Fraught things. Perhaps that's cowardice of a sort..."

”I just… feel less trapped in my own head when I’m a bubbly fun bird. And the wolf girl form feels much braver than I am… Doubt I’d be able to talk about anything serious like this as myself without panicking.” Man… being his human self does suck the more he looks at it.

”And the publicity is kinda nice… Got cool people who liked my stuff like you. It’s not like I can’t just ignore twitter if I just wanna chill. I dunno, I still have to human mode to get groceries and stuff. Probably still will just because as the wolf person I’d get attention to where I lived. Being able to transform is really great for having a secret identity, heh.”

Platonic side hug to Sammy. “If being myself was chill, I’d just keep everything the same too. I understand that impulse.”

"I almost do want to kiss you. And maybe I'm a bit unfair by asking for slightly edgy photos. It's just... Almost impossible to do something like that and not generate drama some how, some way. I'm not sure if I would regret it, you know?"

“It’s not like I was expecting anything but sketches when I sent you the Garuda pics! Didn’t know we’d ever meet up or anything. You’re allowed to find a girl cute without committing to taking their hand in holy matrimony you know.” Andrea totally does not regret sending those pics, the sketches were amazing and if someone cool like Sammy thought they were hot then thats fine! Sammy is cute, but Andrea has no idea if he likes him in the romantic way that Sammy seems to worry about this turning into a thing if they do stuff.

”Part of me likes the idea of a no drama friend kiss… the urge to lick your cheek is there too heh. But also it’d be my first kiss with a boy so the human part of me would like it to be a liiiitle more special than that. You know, the whole romantic movie moment expectation… which I know is a little silly.” Andrea pats Sammy on the knee. “So it’s fine! Just hanging out is cool. And if I get over needing a movie magic moment. I’d be fine with no drama friend smooches if you would be.”

"Hmm... Agreed. I think that's good enough for now."

One more brief hug.

"Back to the con?"

“Sure! But as Garuda or yet to be named wolf… Guess I should stick to Garuda until I reveal my new form publicly…” Well, they’ve hung out as wolf girl long enough that they can turn back into birb again. Whatever timer thing that limits rapid shifting has run out. “Just turn around when I do so you don’t see my secret identity.”

Sammy will duck into the hotel bathroom.

"You know, I think more supers should just sort of live their life, with powers, than try to do the whole crime fighting thing... There's a lot of toxic ideas bundled up in there, and amateurs make mistakes, you know?"

And now Andrea is birb again! Gosh now with being the bubbly Garuda, the leftover nice feelings from ear pats and hugs sure make him want to cling to Sammy and smooch him. Bad birdbrain! He doesn’t want that.

”Feels kinda a waste though… Like I can fly. I should use that? And I’m sure Wolf form can do something cool too. I mean being super pretty is great too but I should probably use this power for more than twitter likes.” Not that twitter likes aren't great! Basing your feelings of happy on validation from strangers is definitely not at all unhealthy, or it wouldn't feel so nice.

"I bet you can sell flight rides. It's a lot of fun! Or maybe you can be a crane. Those are expensive, I think."

Back towards the elevator.

...Someone in Goku cosplay waiting by the hotel elevator double-takes at them and gasps. "It's Garuda!"

“Uhmmm hi! Yep it’s me.” Someone recognised him from the internet! Eeeee! Micro fame!

"Nice! I had a question I don't think you saw on Twitter. Would you mind if someone wanted to cosplay as you? My little sister likes 'the pretty birdie' and a little wing-arms coat would be a nice way to introduce her to it, I think!"

“Oh uhm sure! I don’t mind at all. Thats adorable.” Awwww a little girl wants to be like Andrea. That makes him feel weirdly fluttery.

"Awesome! Okay! Getting giant feathers is the hard part, I think I'm going to cut them out of felt patterns and sew the tops to the coat..."

Ding! Elevator. Goku Cosplayer will ramble about Garuda costume plans the entire way out to the parking lot if you let him.

Andrea is not good at interrupting people! He’s always scared It’ll be seen as rude. And cosplay is kinda cool to learn about. There will just be polite nodding and appreciative noises as they get rambled to.

"Mr. Son Goku, you should get your phone out if you want to record something interesting. Garuda, back to the con?"

Sammy smirks and holds his arms out as the cosplay guy scrambles for said phone, grinning.

“Tag me if you post it!” And Andrea takes off and grabs Sammy’s shoulders with their claws. Flying back to the con with them.

Flying is very convenient.

The second day of the con is, thankfully or not, fairly uneventful all things considered.

Garuda encounters more fans, a few who came to the con specifically to see her. Some ask for an autograph. One asks for a feather, gets creepy about it, and is escorted out by Event Staff. 

Sammy ends up with a small mountain of merch between the two of them.

Ah creepy dudes. The most female of experiences. It’s one thing to be a anonymous creep on twitter, but in person? Don’t people have shame?

Andrea has to give up on so much cool merch due to relative poverty. He makes for quality with quantity of cheap junk. Sooooo many stickers.

Once the con ends Andrea pulls Sammy aside in the parking lot to give him his number. “You’re super nice and I know you aren’t a serial killer now so It’d be a shame to go back to just twitter dm friends.”

"Friends I can definitely do. Maybe you can join my board game group. They'd get a kick out of it for sure..."

Sammy will recite his number as well. And enter it into Andrea's phone for her if she has it in a pocket.

Awwww he is SO NICE. It really is such a pity Garuda can’t take him back to a nest to keep. “Ehe I could play a werewolf.”

Andrea gives Sammy one last hug, grabs the merch bag with their talons, and heads home.

Andrea basically only human forms for classes now. Now that he can be wolf girl form and have hands around the apartment. He debuts the wolf form on twitter. Soaks in the validation from strangers. And requests name ideas now that he multiple forms.

Even when he does human form he usually doesn’t bother changing out of the girl clothes he’s in when he’s in wolf form. It’s only for class that he goes back to his old wardrobe.

Skirts are comfy okay! He always had texture issues with most pants.

Back at the con Sammy suggested selling rides as a thing he could do, and that is actually a great idea. Definitely not just being considered because he wants more money to buy cute clothes online.

So he buys a safety harness just because it makes sense to have one if you are selling flying rides. It’ll take a few days to arrive so Andrea goes back to twitter to post rather more spicy picture angles as wolf girl now he can actually aim his phone.

A couple of people at uni comment that he seems happier.

The internet continues to internet. Sammy produces a sketch of her wolf form sprinting down a running track on all fours, fangs bared.

Now that she's revealed a second form, she's actually much more popular! People think she's a growth-type super! That would be a huge deal! She gets compared to Everyman instead too, but people insist that Everyman is a really great hero. He stopped this crazy French guy from stealing the Statue of Liberty's torch, you know!

Time passes. News stories: Fears of superpowered damage continue to mount in wake of Zurich Incident. President Barack Obama calls for super-powered individuals to be peaceful citizens. Pfizer announces a new kind of flu vaccine developed in cooperation with Stella Sky, the Space Heroine.

Sure all that is important world news. But why is nobody paying attention to the spicier pics he posted. Underboob! Thighs! Abs! Andrea put a lot of effort into those.

Andrea plans out more of their selling rides thing. They post that they will be in the same park that first had that Garuda sighting selling flights around the park for $20 a pop. He will be able to buy so many cute outfits if this works!

Oh, the spicier pics are DEFINITELY getting a lot of attention. She has attracted plenty of spam and creeps in her DMs in addition to more wholesome messages by now.

Uh, is that SAFE?

[The shut up and take my money meme]

Who cares how often do you get the chance to fly with a superhero

inb4 city sends cops to make you stop

I wonder if drone operator laws apply to bird-girls

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES

Running there now!

I’ve given @Sammy_Sketches_543 rides at the con! My grip is very secure. And I bought some climbing harnesses to clip together for extra safety. It’ll be safer than a zipline! I’ll stay low and at low speed just in case. You probably wouldn’t enjoy my max speeds much unless you get up way higher than where the bugs live. And then I’d worry about air traffic laws. So low and slow around the park for $20.

Is it weird that Andrea finds some of the creepy messages kinda flattering? Like yeah, still gross, still assholes. But being found hot is… nice. Andrea will just ignore how unhealthy that thought seems and shove it wayyyyy down. 

(To be fair there are also plenty of more wholesome compliments! Some people really like her hair, for example.)

Internet wonders when, exactly, she's going to be there. And when she'll decide to stop. Because the hype is real and there might be a LOT of people showing up.

Uhhhhh Saturday at 2pm? Probably until it gets dark? Flying when it’s dark seems unsafe. Don’t worry if it goes well I’ll be out other weekends. This probably isn’t a one time thing.

Surely not that many people will be able to come to a park in some relatively small tourist town in potato country. It’s not the actual middle of nowhere, and spokane washington is an actual city and isn’t that far away. But like, odds that a random person following Garuda online is living nearby should be low.

On the one hand, supers are not actually THAT rare. There's at least a few hundred in all of America. More than one in a million. Also, supers willing to interact with their fans for cash aren't super rare! There's supers who'll do power shows at birthday parties and stuff!

On the other hand, one in a hundred thousand is still rare. And Garuda (internet suggested Menagerie as a new name, but it didn't really stick) is a cute girl super with an internet presence.

Maybe forty thousand people see her plans in total. Of those people, only about two percent live within an hour or two's drive. (And it's only that high because local heroes are more popular and a bunch of people started following her after seeing her at the con.) So about eight hundred. Of those people, nine out of ten are busy or not sufficiently interested.

Maybe eighty people show up. Some of them have Garuda signs.

Yikes…. Well… flying 80 people in an afternoon should be… possible? Andrea is lucky this is bubbly Garuda that he is being right now. As a normal human this many people giving him attention might give him a panic attack.

Swoooosh. Garuda lands in front of the people. “Hi everyone! Make a queue and have your $20 ready to put in my fanny pack. I can’t break bigger bills because I’d need fingers for that. I have a Climbing harness in my backpack for you to strap on for safety that will clip to my harness. You get a lap around the park at pretty low altitude because I don't want to get in trouble with the aviation authorities.” Ohhh his voice is very good at carrying as Garuda, very clear, that’s nice to know.

“Uh sure! Thanks!” Having someone with hands help with harnesses would be a huge help. 5% is like a bad tip worth of money, definitely this would help speed things up and be worth it.

No Andrea, don’t have impure thoughts about muscular tattooed woman, that is not appropriate.

People who complain about wanting more time don’t get to go back in line. And get blacklisted from any possible future events. They get to FLY for $20! Andrea kept the prices way lower than he knows he could have charged because he wanted it to be affordable.

Hopefully if someone tries to film it while being carried they don't drop their phone.

"Cool! Name's Victoria."

It goes a LOT smoother with Victoria's help. Way more than 5% worth smoother. She can swoop down and be back in the air in ten seconds.

Everyone gets a ride! Multiple rides if they get back in line! With the increase in profits, Andrea is definitely tipping another 5%. At 20 bucks a pop and around 150 rides. Thats a lot of money for an afternoons work doing harnesses, and a LOT of money for flying! Eeeee so many cute outfits are possible now.

Andrea is only getting a bit tired by the time the sun starts setting. Mostly from the takeoffs and landings than the flying itself. His legs accchhheee. His wings are mostly fine though.

When the last ride is over Andrea lands and outright flops on the grass next to Victoria. “I didn’t know I even had the muscles that are sore in my legs right now. This is so different from running, I’m used to that pain.”

The crowd and the event attracts some locals too. A news van and some cops come to take a look at one point, but they just take photos and wave rather than try to break it up. The news crew tries to interview her, with mostly softball feelgood questions like 'what is flying like' and 'what do you think of our city', but also 'will you be offering rides again some time?'

"Running would be a right pain in those legs." Victoria drawls in an Australian accent once sunset approaches and the crowd finally disperses for real. "It'd be cool as fuck to have claws, I think. But the grass is always greener on the other side."

“Flying is fun! I don’t really have words to explain the difference between being flown or being on a zipline and flying by yourself though.” “The city is cool. Nice park. Public bathrooms for changing in is appreciated. I like the lake and the little coffee huts everywhere.” Gosh those coffee huts are great when walking to school in the snow. “Maybe next week? Check my twitter for updates.” Andrea is NEVER calling it X. Finally Interviews over!

When Victoria talks more than a few words and without a crowds worth of noise covering it up making the accent noticeable. Andrea is surprised. “A fellow Australian!” His own accent is very weak because of a lot of schooling spent in the states. But it’s still nice to meet someone from home. Oh shit, thats a clue to secret identity. “Uhhhh don’t tell anyone.”

"I figure you're not a bird when you're at home probably, so the accent's a fakeout too, yeah?" Wink.

“The American accent is just sticky! If you live here long enough it’ll get you too!” Andrea already says tomato the wrong way, the American way. His parents mock him relentlessly for it every time he says it. “And yeah when I talked about running I meant with normal legs. I can barely walk well on the talons, the bird waddle is so embarrassing. Garuda is definitely designed to fly everywhere. Picking people up and landing so often has revealed thigh muscle pain I didn't even know could exist.”

Andrea either wants to transform back and rub his legs, or take a scalding bath to relax the muscles. It’s not the hardest job he’s done but he definitely feels like he earned that money.

"Would it have been easier if you could hover while we change out the harnesses? Build you a little platform like we have for ski lifts?"

“Nah probably not. It’s not even that bad I’m just being a baby about it. Plus whatever muscles they are will develop with use.” Andrea is imagining Garuda having EVEN MORE impressive thighs after more lifting flights. Gosh, will he eventually be able to do the watermelon crushing thing he’s seen in gifs?

"Oh good, even super have to deal with that. That salves my pride in these babies."

She flexes her arms.

"I'd be plenty open to doin' this some more. Good money, and it's neat to see powers in action."

…. Appreciate those arms respectfully will save…. Failed. Strong lady hot, time to stare like an idiot.

”U-uhm yeah sure, Next week good?”

"Same time same place? Want me to actually, like, talk to the city and get an event license? They'll probably want their pound of taxes if it becomes a regular thing."

Andrea hisses through his teeth. “Don’t I need like… a legal identity as Garuda for that?” And here he was… on a student Visa, legally not allowed to work for money. He just did a crime without thinking, sorry IRS! Good thing he has pretty bulletproof secret identities. But then how does a secret identity pay taxes…

"...Point. I don't know how that shit works for superpowered people. Probably they get a lawyer about it. Or ignore it until it becomes a problem."

“I think… wait until someone from the city government asks me about it. And for the state… I’m pretty sure the IRS will still want me to pay taxes even without an identity. The IRS even asks that criminals pay taxes on crimes… and the criminals don’t get in trouble if they do. So I’m sure they’ll take money from ‘Garuda’. I guess I’ll do that?” Maybe Andrea is being an illegal right now by technically working on a student Visa, but he’s not a tax dodger!

"...I'm not sure that's how it works, but what do I know. Well. I'll show up again and do harnesses next Saturday, especially at ten percent not five. It's good money and I'll get to see you in action again."

“Dm me on twitter for plans? I’m not sure I’ll be available every week.” And thats basically as good as getting someones number, these days.

"I don't use that site. Discord?"

“How did you know to come here? I only advertised todays event on twitter?” His existing discord has his real name and socials attached! He really needs to make more Garuda alts. “Give me your discord name and I’ll send you a friend request once I have a Garuda account set up?”

"Saw it on a capes forum. Need any help getting home or anything? Muscle massage? I dunno."

He bites his lip hard… a incredibly fit (and so far very nice) girl was offering to massage him… If he was regular Andrea there is no way he would, bit right now he is Bubbly Garuda.

“I mean… if you are offering…” Shy birb.

"Yeah, should help with the soreness! Really gets the blood flowing if you do it right. I have a blanket you can lie on over there?"

Andrea waddles over on slightly shaky bird feet and lies down. Having to have his arm wings splayed out to lie down he thinks might look a little awkward, but nothing he can do about that.

"Gawd, those wings are cool. Powers. Okay, I want to warn you, I'm not exactly a specialist. I just know the general idea and how tense is too tense. I'll keep it to your legs unless you want me to try back and arms too? Medium to hard pressure. Tell me if it's too much?"

Shy nod. Ahhh hot girl is gonna touch him even if its just for a massage this is still more than has ever happened to him! “Last time I had a massage I was like… 11, and definitely not in a headspace to enjoy it at all. So uhhh who knows if I’ll hate it or love it.”

She starts on Andrea's legs, the parts that aren't talons. Feeling out the muscle groups.

"Well, even if it's not exactly fun it's probably good for you. In a stretching kind of way."

Rubbing with harder pressure, along the feather-covered part of her legs that still have tendon and muscle. There's pressure and a stretching sensation. It hurts, as the over-tense muscles that squeeze and open her claws are pressed again. But she can feel the warmth and looseness that the pain leaves behind.

"Lot of knots here. You've been walking on these? They'll adapt. Can't say I've ever had to be this careful of a massage-ee's feet though! Doing alright?"

“Uhuh.” Nodnod.

Is his face flushed? It feels flushed. This is so weirdly intimate, STOP BEING WIERD AND OVERREACTING JUST BECAUSE SHES HOT.

”It is sorta weird how I go from talons to just… human leg though. At least it’s not like some harpy art where it’s distressingly skinny bird legs.”

"You seem to have pretty human anatomy for the most part. And great overall health. Supported by powers weirdness."

Working the tendons and gently moving her talons and legs for maximum safe stretch... (Ow...)

But nice ow? Maybe? He can’t be so down bad that he develops masochism just to keep enjoying this right? A lot of the pain is in his knees from the landing and picking people up constantly. As well as in the feathery calves and radiating up to the back of Garuda’s human thighs. “Pretty sure it’s mostly power weirdness. God I wish I was this hot… I mean fit, normally.” 

"Ain't nothing wrong with wanting to look good! I'm a total gym nut. I work out really hard to keep it. So I'm a little jealous you get it for free, but it's what it is."

It does seem to be a good ow. She still feels sore in the calves, and the deep pressure hurts, but it feels much more relaxed and warm after. She can feel how the air flows over the leg feathers, cool and pleasant.

Victoria doesn't directly work her knees much, more the muscles and tendons around them. 

"I'm almost done. You're holding up well. Trust me, you'll feel much better in a couple hours!"

“Already feels pretty nice” Is he blushing? Gosh being payed so much attention to by this woman who thinks Garuda, she, him, whatever, looks good is really nice. Andrea might be blushing. Maybe if he was still a boy right now he’d worry about getting hard perhaps, so there’s definitely unobvious perks to being Garuda besides being a cute birb girl.

Now Victoria's hands are working her hamstrings. Kneading, hard rubs all the way up her thigh, and circular pressure. Sometimes her hands get close to her butt.

"I have to wonder just how strong you are."

“I can lift a whole person? Pretty easy? But that might be powers bullshit. Even just flying on these wings doesn’t make sense,”

Andrea is now making faces, and the little gasps of pain might sound suspicious out of context, like an anime fight scene. Having his thighs rubbed like this is… it’s an experience alright. And he would definitely be hard in boymode by now. It’s not sexual pleasure its just… having someone this close, and touching those areas. The context. Does this make him gay since he’s a girl right now? He certainly feels gay. And bird instincts keep telling him to pick her up and fly off with her. Which he ignores like always.

The thigh muscles around the back of the legs felt especially tight so it is making Andrea downright squirm. “Wow… I didn’t even know it was possible to feel some of these muscles.”

Victoria sputters out a laugh.

"I'm glad you can still experience the joys of a good workout!"

She pauses the massage.

"...You know what. Can I ask something? And straight drop it and have it not be weird if you say no?"

“Sure?” He would actually prefer not to be kept in the dark about weird social stuff? Being asked is good whatever it is.

"I'm about done with your legs but I kind of want to keep massaging you. And also kiss you. Because you're being really cute. And it's the first time I met a super and passing up the chance would suck. And I think I noticed you checking me out earlier."

“Eeeep!” Andrea outright squeaks. “I-I uhhmm... I’ve never actually… with a girl… not that I don’t want to? You are so hot ohymgosh, but ahhhhhh what do I do? And keep massaging where? And what if I kiss bad? What do I even say in response to that?” They have devolved into a flustered chattering mess.

"Oh. Well, you say 'yes' if you want to. And 'no' if it's too weird. And if you kiss bad, you... Practice." 

There's a smug tone in her voice.

"I'm always up for practicing physical activities with a buddy."

Her cheeks are pink. “Y-yes then… just uhhmm… don’t know what I’m doing here so…” Lip biting is going on while she waits for her to take the lead.

"Let's just..."

Victoria turns Garuda over, ducking a wing, and scoops her up into her lap.

Then she leans down, one arm cupping her chin, lips slightly parted, and plants a gentle peck on the corner of her lips.

"As I predicted. Cute!"

Oh gosh being in a hot girls lap is… ahhhhh wow yes can she live here now? The kiss and possibly even more the face grabbing makes her blush even deeper and makes her feathers flutter. “I’m having so many feelings right now…”

"Good ones, right?"

The hand supporting her back squeezes a bit. A finger trails down her neck.

If she was still human there was no way she could handle all this without just shutting down from being overwhelmed. But Garuda just feels bubbly about it. Nodding up at her. “You are overwhelming me with nice feelings. Slightly scary in intensity, but nice.” She outright squeezes her thighs together at that finger trailing across her skin. “Nobody has ever like… it’s giving me a lot of tingles.”

"I'm glad. I was scared this would be awkward and was ready to beat feet..."

Mwah. She lingers a bit more this time.

"I like you. You're cheerful and have good sense. And cute, wiggling like that. Let me know if you want me to stop."

Tentative lean into the kiss to kiss back? Gosh girls are great, and soft, and lips. “Well… we are in a public park… he have to stop eventually no matter what. I’m braver like this but not that brave.” Being called cute is… deeply fulfilling. Is that a bird thing? Or just a nobody did it to them as a boy so it’s extra nice now it’s happening to them thing?

"We could go to my place~ It's like five minutes away~ Well, there's something else I'd want to mention first and I have to work up my courage for that..."

Victoria hugs her tight and lets the kissing continue.

"I wonder if it'd feel good to you, for me to run my hands through your feathers. Kinda like hair scritches. Fiction has led me to think good things about wing hugs. Hint hint."

She grins and giggles. “Try it! Having fur petted in my other form was… very much a lot like fiction too. It might be similar!”

Oof yes tight hug, boobs, booooobs against her. Yes. Soft. Soft girl nice yes. So gay for girls. Andrea gets so few hugs and this one is extra nice.

Victoria starts tracing her hands through the feathers. It feels tingly and nice.

"They're so soft..."

They absolutely fluff up as they are touched. Andrea shivers in her lap. “It’s very good… not massage good, but good.” Which is admitting the massage was hot but it’s fine for her to know that now.

Victoria keeps rubbing gently through Andrea's feathers, fascinated by the softness.

.....Andrea might notice something bulging where she's sitting in Victoria's lap.

Is she… really? But Andrea couldn’t tell at all! Like at all! Shes so hot! Not that it precludes her from hotness, but like… he sorta expected to be able to tell? After quick consideration his mind returns with a ‘Girl still is super hot, and you’d be into it if she was a guy.’

”Is that a banana in your pocket or….” They have to do the joke, they have to, there’s no possible way she could hold back from making that joke.

"Aw, hell."

Victoria budges Andrea out of her lap, shifting uncomfortably.

"Gimmie a sec to think?"

“I’m sorry! I didn’t mean to upset you!” Nooooo, denied lap! Lap was nice! She wanted to live there from now on! “I’m sorry I just… the joke was right there. I’m sorry if it made you feel bad.” Sad sad guilty looking birb.

"...I was thinking about telling you if we were gonna do much more kissing anyway... It's just, would have preferred to tell you instead of you finding out. It can go badly when people find out. Plenty are nice, but sometimes. Not. But yeah, I used to be a man. It's part of why I'm so buff still. Put a lot of effort into shaving and makeup and mannerisms, to balance how muscley working out and sports make me. And I take hormones."

Sigh. Headpat. "But I haven't had surgery. So I do still have a penis. And it's best if you hear that before we start taking off any clothes or going to any bases."

Ohhh headpat. She will appreciatively nuzzle against headpat to show she is still very much into her and doesn’t mind. “I could not tell from looking at you. You are girlbuff. Caused many impure thoughts when I met you~ It was honestly… kinda of a nice surprise? Not that uhh… the other parts aren’t also fun. I don’t know, my sexuality is weird, but I definitely didn’t want this to stop….” Pleading eyes up at her. Hopefully she doesn’t feel too bad?

"Well, if you're not making faces and calling me a crossdresser that's an improvement over some incidents... Okay, Jesus. I try to be chill about this. What do I care what Karens think, right? If you like it, well, that actually feels kind of nice. Warm. So we can kiss more at least. I haven't had a girlfriend since before I started all this, though."

Squirming happens. Now that the girlfriend word is brought up. “Girlfriend? I uhhh… is this that serious? I-I don’t know if I uhh… and secret identity…” RELATIONSHIP PRESSURE NOW? Did Andrea misread this so hard?

"What? Oh, I'm not saying you're my girlfriend now. Not unless you want to be! But, uh... If any clothes start coming off, I'd probably want you to be? Is. More what I meant."

Victoria is blushing and looking away now.

"I mean, we can kiss and massage and my brain can consider it just a date, or even just hanging out with friends, but... Anything more and... Aaaaugh. I'm scaring you off."

“Kiss and massage is good and fun! I just… never done relationship and don’t know you that well, though you are super nice! Just…” Pouts at her. “Can I please just get back in your lap before I ruin things with my dumb mouth?”

She facepalms and takes a deep breath. "Yeah, okay, sorry. The kissin's fun even if it doesn't lead to anything else, right? C'mere then."

Happy scootch into her lap. Fluttering her feathers as she leans up for another kiss. “I bet we can get pretty far with our clothes still on… I-if thats okay!” The attempt at flirting transitioning into nervousness she’s gonna ruin things again.

She smiles.

"I can massage your back and shoulders? And... Wings?"

“When you did my legs it felt really nice for… obvious reasons. So sure!” Andrea wiggles in her lap and leans forward. Her ridiculously muscular shoulders for her body type on full view.

Victoria laughs and rubs her hands over Andrea's shoulders, getting a feel for the musculature.

"You really ought to lie on your front again if I'm going to massage you seriously!"

“But then it’s harder to turn around and kiss…” And she sounds terribly disappointed by that prospect. Kissing is very good. “Plus maybe it’s more about being touched by a hot girl than actually getting massaged~.” 

"Oh really. Such impure motives. That deserves a tickle attack."

Her hands dance over Andrea's sides.

“Eeep nooooo-ooo?” That’s way less unpleasant than it usually is? “Sorry I’m just… differently ticklish as Garuda?” The tickles feel more nice than tickley and irritating. Is it because she has feathers? “It’s doing something but what it’s doing isn't making me feel ticklish.”

Evil grins. “Haha, now I can have all the impure motives I want with no conseuqence! Oogle your sexy muscles much as I want mwahahaha.”

"Huh! Mission failed... I guess my massage will have to do after all. That or combing through your feathers. It's nice to just touch someone oleasantly sometimes you know?"

Back to a gentle shoulder massage, then. Kneading around the worst knots. 

“The tickles were kinda nice though? If not ticklish. Fingers running across my skin is pleasant and good no matter which way it happens. Feathers was also very relaxing… like having my hair touched.” More massage results in a happy and slightly wiggly bird girl in her lap

Victoria kisses the back of her neck, pressing against her back and putting her hands around Andrea's belly, then whispers in her ear, "Any other kind of touch you would enjoy~?"

Oh wow her ears are so sensitive to hot breath and sexy voice and wow gosh she is lucky shes not human because she would be instantly hard and it would be super obvious in these clothes. Also being held like that, new favourite thing. “Hnnhh. Y-yes there would be… right now I think literally anything you do to me will make me horny…”

"Heee. I love it. I'm getting horny too."

She does her best cute moan into Andrea's ear.

"I could maybe be convinced to take back the girlfriend thing. Because you really are unfairly hot."

The moan in her ear causes outright whimpering as well as all her feathers to fluff up. “Oh fuck your voice is… I think I maybe have a new kink?” Wiggle wiggle wiggle, possibly against any things that might be felt underneath Andrea. “It’s not like we couldn’t try dates afterwards…”

Oh, she's definitely wiggling against something.

"Good." She swaps and whispers into the other ear. "Ahn... Mwah. What if I said right now counts as the first date? And we can touch each other in all the nice ways we want. I'll make you moan. All I need is a yes."

“Yes~” She lets out the most breathy submissive yes. God yes she want’s to be touched by this gorgeous muscular woman who drives all the hesitancy she would normally have over something like this out of her with the pure power of making Andrea desperately down bad for her. She outright grinds against the bulge against her butt. This is so bad to do in a public park bit it’s VERY hard to care right now.

Victoria stands up, carrying Andrea with her.

"Let's get to my apartment, then~?"

She pats herself down and smoothens out her feathers a little, face still very flushed. “Wanna fly there? If you show me google maps I can get us there fast.” Also the bird part of her desperately wants to carry this gorgeous woman away and have her fertilise her eggs.

"Ooh, I get to fly too! Here... There we go."

"Trun right. Then turn left in three quarters of a mile." Instructs her phone. 

Andrea takes off and picks her up and zooms her to her place, going MUCH faster than the speeds she showed in the park. Desperate to get there with her. Flying with someone she plans to do stuff with is so weirdly fulfilling and feels a little possessive. My mate, mine, pretty mate all mine.

Andrea drops her off and lands and practically vibrates with excitement to get inside.

It's a low-rise apartment block. Someone on a balcony is staring at them with a hard-to-read expression. Victoria waves at them and whispers, "Ignore her. Just a Karen," Even as she works with a door badge to get past the front door.

"I'm in 201. So right upstairs."

A quick jog up said stairs, and she unlocks that door too, to reveal a modest low-end studio apartment. Kitchenette, bed, desk with a laptop on it. Kinda small. Looks lived-in, but at least not a total sty.

"Home, sweet, home..."

Andrea flomps on the bed and wiggles her hips. “Oh dear a bird has flown in from outside and landed on your bed, whatever shall you do?~” Was that too silly? Maybe. She feels silly and giddy though.

"Well this chick looks an awful lot like a cute, kissable girl to me..."

Victora follows her to the bed and slaps her butt lightly. Then flomps next to her and kisses her on the lips again.

"So obviously I'm gonna kiss her. Everywhere."

The butt slap absolutely gets a noise out of her. Well she is discovering she likes ALL sorts of things today. Kiss~ kiss so nice~ pretty girl lips soft so nice~ happy~

 “Everywhere?” Hopeful squeak?

The answer to that is a pair of hands working to get her shirt off, and lips and hands trailing down her neck, upper chest, and then to her breasts, where they lovingly linger and tease.

“Fuck fuck fuck” She whimpers as her skin tingles soooo fucking much. Her nipples are rock hard before they are even reached. “I feel so sensitive… and helpless without hands… its hot.”

"You'll just have to endure whatever I throw at you~ Hehe. But uh- Out of character for one sec, say stop and I absolutely will."

Lick. Pinch.

"And I bet those talons are scary when you want them to be anyway, so you must actually like being helpless, huh~?"

Lick is lovely, she enjoys that alot. Pinch is very contrasty and makes the residual lick tingles much stronger. “If you’ll make me feel like that more then yeah… helpless against you~ I might be kinda into the idea of being taken advantage of? Maybe? In character of course. The pinch was kinda fun too? Just like… this is all very new to me so I'm figuring out what I enjoy in real time here.“

"Okay. I can slow down and do snuggles if you like. Or scritch your feathers more. I don't wanna hurt you by mistake, you know?"

Whisper: "Only if you're into that..."

She grins up at her, very giddy right now. “I might be! Wanna try?”

"...In fact, nah. I was kind of teasing. Sorry. I think maybe keep it simple for the first date. Licking and kissing and rubbing."

(Her hands are still busy.)

“Second date can bring out the horrible torture implements then~ Joking! I just enjoyed the little nipple pinch so was curious.” The hands touching produce squirming and breathy noises. “Hnnhhh this touching is super nice but I’m also really really horny right now and feel impatient.”

"Hmmmm~?"

Oh, so maybe she'll get all cutely excited if Victoria moves her kissing steadily downward and tries to get her pants off~?

Yes that will get her cutely excited! Andrea’s eyes go wide and she wiggles her hips to help the pants come off faster. Once they come off it is obvious she is aroused, a little damp patch darkening her violet boyshorts.

 “Ohgoshgosh” She is rambling now, she’s about to loose her virginity! Oral definitely counts for girls. and she’s excited instead of terrified out of her mind and once again she is grateful for being Garuda right now and instead of their normal self.

"D'aww. It gives me a rush to see you so excited! I hope I live up to the hype!"

One of Victoria's hands rubs against her labia over the underwear for a bit, teasing the sensation to come, before those come off too. Victoria admires the flower that is revealed.

"So I kinda want to say it out loud... I'd like to lick your pussy and use my fingers there to get you off. That alright with you?"

Eager nodding. Though even shifted into the bubbly Garuda it is a liiiiitle embarrassing to have someone seeing her down there. She wishes she could cover her face with hands she doesn't have. “Uhm yes! Just… never had that done before… I’m not even that used to orgasms in general… so uhhh, it’s a cliche but be gentle?” Well it’s true if she means vagina orgasms, having had all of one with a vagina while trying out the wolf form. Penis orgasms were different enough to be a different category.

"I will be gentle." Victoria smirks...

And gets to work. Her fingers probe lightly, experimentally, and she plants gentle kisses along Andrea's sex.

Andrea is very squirmy at that. Having to make herself not squeeze her thighs around Victoria. It was more from the intimacy of the kisses than the actual physical pleasure of being touched, but the intimacy was doing it for her.

“Hnnhh” Soft little whimpers escaping her.

"You're really really pretty, you know?" Kiss. "Adorable, even. It's lovely to kiss someone who appreciates it." Kiss, with a bit of gentle suction.

Victoria's arms come up to wrap firmly around her thighs. She'll keep taking it slow, delighting in paying Andrea's pussy steady appreciation.

Okay she can’t help but squeeze her thighs now. The praise made her feel as floaty as the kisses did. “O-ohmygod this is… nothing like doing it myself…” Her hips buck slightly with each kiss, as if to prolong the contact. “The compliments are really doing it for me… I can barely think…”

She is so glad she is Garuda right now, they could never admit any of this out loud if they were still Andrea.