What's a young princess to do?

[bunnybrat]

WHO| Chibi-Usa and anyone that comes across her
WHAT| Our pink-haired girl is coming to terms with everything
WHEN| 01- August
WHERE| D7’s floor, the Training Centre, and the Shopping districts
WARNINGS| None


District Seven’s Level

After being told she had been brought here to fight to the death for ‘glorious Panem’, given her communicator and credit card, in a daze Chibi-Usa allowed herself to be directed back to her districts floor and to her room. Once there she slept for the rest of the day willing herself not to cry through most of it.

The next morning she wakes with a start, at first thinking it had all a bad dream, rubbing at her eyes her first thought was to tell her Mama. After all she had just gotten home from staying with Usagi. As she starts to climb out of her bed she thinks maybe that dream meant Usagi needed her again?

It’s then she wakes up properly and looks around the room realising that she really had been kidnapped to another world.

What if she wasn't the only one they brought here?

“Usagi!?” she shouts as she comes running out of the room.

Training Centre

After talking to the people on her floor, Chibi-Usa comes to the training floor to look at it. She really doesn’t like what she sees, just so many weapons and people using them on each other. At least it didn’t look like they were trying to kill each other right now.

To say she was looking wide-eyed and befuddled would be an understatement, after wandering around she sits down on a bench, bringing her legs to her knees and sighing deeply.

“How am I supposed to help everyone here?” She hugs her legs tighter. “Puu, I really wish you were here right now. I even miss Usagi.”

Shopping Districts

Trying to get everything out of her mind, Chibi-Usa takes some time wandering the shopping district looking at a great many things but not actually trying to buy anything. There were so many crazy outfits, and strange things to have she was actually feeling a little overwhelmed at it all.

Where are all the normal clothes?

She soon finds herself standing in front of a window with a dress in the window that looks more like some crazy kind of mix of a pink marshmallow and a rice ball that was covered in glitter. She’s spending a lot of time wondering if it’s something to wear or some joke costume that could be edible.

Comments

[bunnybrat]

She took a moment to contemplate what Mindy says about killing criminals and then asks

"Are you a sailor soldier?" After all, things might be easier to talk about if she and Chibi-Usa were actually the same. That and cleansing monsters sometimes looked like they were being killed too, so maybe that's just how Mindy saw it?

Thinking that she might also have to take an actual life made her shoulders droop. She really didn't want to do that.

[hit_girl_mindy]

"A sailor...what, like the coast guard?" Sailor soldier? What the fuck? "No, I just, you know, stop criminals where I'm from. The real way. I'm kind of a vigilante. Here, I'm less than that, but you don't let the skill die, you just readjust it."

And don't die. That was the important thing.

"Just stick by people who've got your back. You shouldn't be here, all right? This is insane."

[bunnybrat]

"No, it's because the outfit has a sailor collar on it." She rubs at her arm feeling silly describing it for some reason. "But Sailor Soldiers aren't vigilantes, so I guess you aren't."

After listening to Mindy's instructions she nods.

"I think I can do that." There's a pause. "How will I know if they have it?"

[hit_girl_mindy]

She only nodded her head there. NO idea what she was talking about, after all.

"Because there are still people here who care about us kids. Well, you kids anyway. Now me, I can tell who's got me by their eyes. I'm pretty good at telling if a person is a liar or not."

[bunnybrat]

At Mindy's nod, Chibi-Usa decided to drop the Sailor Soldier talk, it was nice to think that she could have been one too at least.

"Really?! How can you tell?" She seems really excited about learning this, after all she's told some pretty damn big lies in her tiny life, and had people sort of lie to her in a big way too, so somehow she feels like knowing this skill could be really helpful.

[hit_girl_mindy]

"Lies are pretty easy. People have tells, you know. They fidget, do a nervous habit sometimes, that kind of shit. But those are the easy ones. See, if you really want to know a liar, you have to look in their eyes. Sometimes you miss it, and then, right there, you can see something fake in the gaze! It takes some time, and a lot of work watching people, but once you get it down, trust me. It helps."

Or just be paranoid. That works too!

[bunnybrat]

"Do you think I could learn how to do it?"

Sure she's not overly paranoid, and trusting to quite frankly an obscene degree, but surely she could learn to tell when people are lying.

[hit_girl_mindy]

"To a certain point, yeah. Now take me, I'm a pretty horrible person, by NORMAL people's standings. It means that I can sort of guess when a person is trying to go the low route. I've seen junkies and murderers, trust me. Anyway, you'd probably have to hone your sense of knowing when someone's 'off.' When they're not having good intentions."

[bunnybrat]

"You don't seem horrible at all." She offers after Mindy explains, after all she can't be horrible at all if she came to Chibi-Usa when she was upset and wants her to feel better.

"But I promise I can practise!" She gives a determined look.

[hit_girl_mindy]

"Seeming and being are two very different things. Keep something in mind kid: not every bad person is going to be cackling in the dark in some weird as getup, twiddling their handlebar mustache. If you want to know how bad I am, just think of, say, you're very best person you know, the person that stops bad things. Imagine they do it by beating the ever loving shit out of their enemy and blowing them up. That's me."

She nodded. "Good. You'll need to know. One thing you don't want to do is go into the Arena blind."

[bunnybrat]

"That. Makes sense, a lot of sense." Chibi-Usa nods at mindy's explanation. Because it was possibly the easiest way for it to explained to the younger girl.

"And you'll help me practise, right? So I don't go in blind?"

[hit_girl_mindy]

It was the only way, of course.

"Yeah, you can count on that. If you're not caring to know about how to fight, and you're serious about that, the least I can do is teach you how to do something so no one tricks you."