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(requested by calligomiles; continuing from this) Utage/Gummy II

The next morning after that encounter, and after some chatting, the trendsetter took her new friend on a shopping trip. As it turned out, Utage’s planned outfit didn’t quite mesh with Gummy’s usual aesthetic; simply put, the Ursus was cute, too cute for the edge the outfit called for. The Nue didn’t see this as much of a loss - after all, her new friend didn’t need to be menacing to be awesome. She could be menacing enough for the both of them.

The chef, however, felt differently as they walked back to her dorm with a new outfit apiece. “Can you teach me to be scary?”

“Eh?” Normally, the trendsetter wouldn’t have acted surprised. Something about being with Rada made her prefer being honest. “Why would you want to be scary?”

“My friends have seen me really mad, and they know I can fight, but when I try to go on missions, the other Operators just call me a kid…andIwanna wearthatoutfit youpickedout awholelot.”

Utage smirked. “It’s alright, Shaw. I’ll teach you how to be scary if you want. Free of charge.”

“Thank you :).” She set her bags on her couch. “I’ll make us some lunch, and then we can start after we eat!”

“Sounds good. I’m gonna go change.” The Nue slipped into the bathroom, did that, and then stared at herself in the mirror for a minute. Partially because she wanted to make sure her outfit looked the way she wanted it to.

Partially, though, because this wasn’t going to be easy. How do you teach someone to be scary? It’s not something she learned to do, it simply was part of who she was, for better or worse. To think someone would want her to tell them how…Then again, she was used to people following in her footsteps at this point.

When the trendsetter emerged from her reflection, Rada had beer and sandwiches on the table. “Ooh, that looks so good on you, Utage!”

“You like it?” She beamed from the compliment; the chef barely even winced. Quick to adapt. That was good. “Thanks. Lunch looks good, too. You usually drink beer this early in the day?”

“It doesn’t do anything to me. I just like the taste.” Considering the Ursus was, well, an Ursus, that perfectly tracked.

After throwing back a couple herself, Utage felt that she might be able to do this after all. “Alright, so let’s start with your expression. For me, my scariest look is this kind of ‘oh shit she’s crazy’ thing where I smile wide like I’m excited about something. You might have more luck with, like, a blank expression, though.”

“You think?” Gummy tried erasing all emotion from her face. “Like this?”

“Yeah, like that! You even blanked your voice, too - I was gonna have you try that later. Nice. So while you’re doing that, if you just tilt your head to one side, like this?” She demonstrated.

The chef followed her lead. “Why is this scary?”

“It’s a thing the innocent characters do in horror flicks when they’re being controlled by something evil. Good way of making use of your natural cuteness to sell the intimidation.” That seemed to have the opposite effect as Rada sat back up. “Don’t like it?”

“I know what would be easier, but the idea is to be actually scary, not innocently scary…I’m not innocent, Utage.”

The weight of those words was, frankly, more terrifying than the expression or flat voice they came with, but it didn’t affect the Nue. Master of fear and personal psychology, after all. “You want that to show when you turn on the fear, then?”

“There’s only a few people I’d want to scare.” She licked her lips subconsciously. “Then again, they won’t be around long enough to tell me how I did, so I guess it’s not that big a deal.”

“Wow.” She made it look effortless.

Gummy cocked her head genuinely this time. “Wow?”

“Wow.” The trendsetter marveled at her for another moment. “So that’s the mask, huh.”

“Eh? Mask? Like the Doctor’s?” Leave it to the psych student to crack the Ursus’ shell.

Utage cracked a genuine smile. “I knew there was more to you than met the eye, but I hadn’t placed it yet. You each dealt with things in your own way, after all.”

“...We did.” The darkness filled the chef’s eyes, and the transformation was complete. “Sonya and Natalya blame themselves, Anna blames the government, and Rosalind, I think, has the same opinion as me: the world. The world’s broken, and we can’t fix it; the best we can do is walk through the shattered glass around us with a smile on our face. Heh, I can tell people that, and say, ‘Now won’t you smile for me?’ That’d be scary, right?”

“Y-yeah. Yeah, it would be.” Fear was not the emotion that the Nue was experiencing at the moment, though.

Rada’s eyes returned to their usual brightness as a smile popped out of nothing and onto her face. “Great!”

“Ahh!” She practically fell out of her chair. “And you can change back so fast! You’re sure you’re an Ursus, because I don’t know anyone outside of my family who can do that.”

“Pretty sure, yep! My parents are both Ursus.” A now unmissable flicker in her eyes as Gummy mentioned them.

The trendsetter could read her like a book now, and she didn’t want to ever set her down. “Wow, just…wow. We should get you that outfit before they sell out.”

“I don’t have the cash right now,” the Ursus replied. “They’ll restock, right?”

“Yeah, eventually.” It did cut down on their date options, certainly.

Rada stretched her arms behind her head. “So, what do you wanna do instead?”

“Well.” Utage stood up, walked to where the chef was sitting, and offered her a hand. “First, I wanna squeeze you like a teddy bear-”

“Yay~” Gummy stood up to make that happen.

The Nue nearly lost her train of thought for a moment. “Heh. And I uh…oh yeah. You’re not, like, seeing anyone, are you?”

“You mean like, do I have a girlfriend?” Or boyfriend…Nah. She said what she meant for sure. “Nope! You can take me on a date if you want~”

“Oh, I do. I really do.” There was no way in hell she’d find another person like Rada anywhere. Not in Higashi, not in Ursus, nowhere on Terra.

Besides, the Ursus didn’t flinch when she smiled anymore…and now that she knew Gummy, Utage had a lot of reasons to smile.

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