Inside the Room and Mind of Fraulein Fennix - RP post for <lj site="livejournal.com" user="metody_gr

[clockwork_phoenix]

Bella's almighty claimed sideroom is one of the larger ones.

It is so, for a reason. Various mechanical objects and devices litter the room in parts, and in various states of completion, and off to one side is the start of a new portal generator. Bella's managed to clean off most of the black soot from where the first one exploded.

One might notice her sheets from her bed hanging outside her window for that same reason, as well as her more beat up clothing.

This is not, however, what she's doing currently.

As life is never dull for the average Spark (combined with, perhaps, a certain subset of Luck), Bella has a predicament.


"Look, I'll give you the wrench for it, how about that?"

Ding. Ding.

Ding the scorpionish-crab-clank is sitting on Bella's workbench, just out of reach, and he's carrying one of her left boots (Yes, she has more than one, the heeled one to go with the dress for that dance comes to mind). And Ding is holding it up triumphantly in all three claws, both arms and the tail. Having the beaming (n) expression. Ding!

"Then what do you want to trade for it?" Apparently, Bella's grown tired of chasing the Clank around for the boot. That little guy's fast when he needs to be.

Of course, into this comes another factor....

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[gears-of-gold.livejournal.com]

"Pants are strange." She agrees, "I usually wear them when I'm working in the lab on something or out and about doing things, part of the reason I'm going is that I've missed wearing a dress on occasion, believe it or not. They're easier to move in, and usually have better pockets." And unlike a dress, they're more likely to survive laboratory accidents, and, yanno, not get caught in anything. The latter being especially true for Bella, since she works with machines, mechanics, and engines.

"Maybe a little sparkly skull? If it were me," Slightly sheepish look, grinning, though, "I'd probably have a little gear broach or Kintotech Sigil there."

The whole bathroom thing is one of the many reasons a genderswap to Bella herself would cause her to freak.

She's like the Aristans on that: It's fine and dandy if you wanna do it, she's just not going to.

[metody-green.livejournal.com]

He nods. "On the other hand, I've been told that a skirt is vastly more easy to make than pants. Which...only applies if you make your own clothing, really."

"I'm not sure where to find a sparkly skull. Maybe I could do a little bunch of daisies. I was going to wear some in my hair, along with a rose." She kind of gestures over one ear, showing where the flowers would go. "I don't really have a symbol that means me."

[gears-of-gold.livejournal.com]

"Dresses are easier for me to get into, too." For fairly obvious reasons, as Bella has to remove her leg to get into trousers (She technically does for underwear as well, but she can reattach the leg after that, which makes getting into clothing so much easier, even if she has to do it one handed for the majority of it).

"And they're understandably easier to make, just a wrap around cloth, a bit of hemming, and you're done." She shrugs a bit.

She nods, thoughtful, "Either one of those would work really well, and the symbol's more of my family than it is me specifically." Thoughtful, still "Although in the Nexus, a sparkling skull shouldn't be too hard to find--or make for that matter, even if one has to make it out of a little bit of metal."

[metody-green.livejournal.com]

He- she. She pauses a moment and looks to Bella's leg.

"Have you thought about a row of buttons up the hip?" She draws a line up the side of her hip to show what she means. "You could put the one leg on, then button the other up. And yeah, skirts sound like a breeze to make. And they are kind of cool to wear."

She looks down.

"...I just wish this one flared out when I spun around. I always thought that was pretty."

[gears-of-gold.livejournal.com]

She's thoughtful, "I've thought of something similar to that before, but I've never really had a chance to implement it mainly because slicing them off past the knee and leaving it at that is simply quicker, especially with how much I've moved around lately." 'Lately', being in the past few years. "Hell, I've thought about getting specially made pants for it, but considering that I need my leg to be accessible.." she shrugs.

She grins a bit, "The ones that flare out a bit are always fun, and easy to move in."

[metody-green.livejournal.com]

"You could leave the pants on that side down to the knee, but put a row of buttons in anyway. Then you would have access, and you wouldn't have to take off the leg."

She considers her pants a moment.

"Do you get your clothes premade?"

[gears-of-gold.livejournal.com]

"I used to have my clothing tailored afterwards. Knee cut up and hemmed, and the same with the shirt." She explains and gestures to her right shoulder, leaning forward, arms on her knees. "These days, I usually have to cut my pants myself--especially since I got here" An outward gesture with her left hand, meaning the Nexus. Close examination will merit that it's not a pretty cut by any means, just quick, dirty and done with it.

The same applies to the shirt--as both are clothes she found here in the Nexus. Victorian, because, dammit, these were clothes she recognized.

[metody-green.livejournal.com]

"If you start getting looser pants, I can probably do the adjusting for you. I'm not good enough at sewing to do anything special like darts, but believe me, I can alter clothes." Because he doesn't really want to dress like a middle school kid, and that's what he fits into without alterations. Sigh.

[gears-of-gold.livejournal.com]

"Oh, you're good at doing alterations?" She blinks, "And you're willing?"

Apparently, that's all but 'sign me up'.

Although if she had thought of it, she'd make an excuse about getting her out of her pants.