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"Yes!" Tigerly wiggle!

She wraps them in a faint cloud of flame - gives everyone else the vague impression they've vanished entirely - 

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Then: cute girl time! (She actually looks incredibly normal, like a college student ready to go to class - a very peppy college student, but. She's wearing a black skater dress printed with skulls wearing rainbow flower crowns, a red fanny pack in lieu of a belt, knee high rainbow socks, black running shoes with a glowing fiber optic inlay that's slowly circling between colors, several bracelets and a rainbow beaded choker... And no mask whatsoever.)

"Any recommendations?" she asks. "I'm not actually sure which city this is..."

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"Unless you want to meet the local heroes, probably not the Starbucks across the street. Uh, is everyone going to see us leaving...?"

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"Nah, they can't see us already - probably'll think we teleported out or something. And Starbucks gets boring - chains, y'know."

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How the fuck do this tigergirl's powers work, this makes no sense.

"Right. There's uh, a bakery? That we'd have to take the bus to get to. I don't know if you- do buses."

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"I do busses! And I won't even need a bus pass or whatever."

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Let's go catch a bus, then. Does tigergirl's illusion also cover them walking out the front door?

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Yep! She's not an amateur.

"What's your name by the way?"

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"Ellie. What's yours?"

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"Burning Ruby Tiger Decima, when I'm being all tigery. But a pretty girl like you can call me Ruby."

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"That's... creative."

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"Well, I am an artist."

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"Better than Lady Venom and the Outlaw Kid, I'll give you that much."

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" - Who?" Those super do not sound like magical girl names. They're way too lame, for one.

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"They were the ones you fought inside."

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Unsure frown. "Fighting them was weird... Uh, hey, where is this, and like, do you know anything about those two - ?"

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"This is Philadelphia. Those two were small time villains. Kid is Lady Venom's latest sidekick, for the last four months or so. She tends to kinda chew through them."

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Four months is - but the masquerade's been intact, she would've heard if there were powered assholes running around Philly - 

"...So I was fighting a magical girl - Pretty Bubble Sorceress Alicia - and she used some kind of teleport spell on me, and, uh, normal looking humans spitting acid and calling themselves stupid things like Lady Venom is not a feature of the Philadelphia I'm used to. Like I think that would've hit the news?"

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"...I kind of hate that this is my top guess, but parallel worlds exist and two is a weird number of them to be, so it stands to reason that you're from one of those. Where apparently capes call themselves things like 'Pretty Bubble Sorceress'."

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"Capes?"

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"People with powers. Parahumans."

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"It's 'magical girl' or 'monster' where I'm from - nowadays people sometimes use 'meguca' for the generic even though that's totally biased towards magical girls as default."

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Snrk. "I think a lot of capes would be upset if they had to be magical girls."

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"Magical girl powers turning people into girls is actually a weirdly common complaint!"

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"If you don't have to be a girl to start, I can imagine so."

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