perplexme | Fifty-Eighth Keychain

[Housemates will probably find Roxas in the kitchen with newspapers on the table, a palate of paint, some paper...and a very disgruntled cat who doesn't understand why his human wants him to dip his pretty paws in the wet colors.]

Nea, come on. You were doing really well, too. You can't just give up now.

[There's a hiss from the cat before he swats at the paint palate. Roxas sighs and shakes his head, giving up for now. Artists can be pretty temperamental, after all. Instead he'll focus himself on the journal, opening it up and idly leafing through it. His conversation with Naoto's been on his mind, and he has an important question.]

So...what's the main difference between being a boy and being a girl? I mean, girls can do things boys can, right? So what difference does it make? [He doesn't quite get why people were upset with Naoto for being a girl detective, that's all.] Answer me that.

And answer me this: how come everyone else got a horse last week except for me? Total bummer.

[Filtered to Axel]

I've got something cool to show you, but you have to go to the battle dome with me.

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[Filtered to Xion]

Do you need anything? [He's worried about you, bff dos. He's in overprotective mode now.]

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I guess there are some people who would just say something along the lines of 'it all matters about what's in the pants', except in a more crude way.

If my older brother was here, I'm pretty sure he would have answered it in way too much detail.

Not really. I wanted to get more answers first before I tried again. Why?

...huh. Pretty sure that's not going to help me, but I see your point. Oh well, too late to go back and fix it now.

...[Don't mind the pause, Roxas is just kind of staring and mentally sorting things out.]

Those are both really dumb reasons if those are true. Is it really like that everywhere?

Not really, but it's interesting that a lot of them fall along the same lines. Looks like it's common across all of the worlds, can you believe that?

Ah... I guess you could've called it a robe, maybe? [Not entirely accurate though.]

Yeah, I know, it's a generally unhelpful answer, but some people get a kick out of giving the obvious or crude answer to a question. It's just the way people are.

If you're trying to understand her situation, it'd make more sense to ask her directly about the standards of her society.

Pretty much. If you're a kunoichi, sometimes your job will be given to male shinobi because they're more adept for the job, or they're overall better and more successful for kunoichi despite the fact that it's your area of expertise and not theirs. You get passed up over and over and here and there because you're just a girl. Luckily, since a woman is ruling back home this seems to have lessen up a bit, but sometimes village elders or other jonin that lead the mission still kick you off for an all boy squad.

But that's just my experience. [ STenten is s very bitter with this headcanon!!! ]

You bet. You already there?

It isn't all too surprising really. Even though we're all from different worlds, it seems we are all bound to the same common roles in society as each other so naturally the judgement isn't foreign to any of us.

[Such a pity too]

[Really it's probably only foreign to him because of the things he's seen in the Organization and the like.]

Think the Malnosso have something to do with it? [It's a far-fetched theory, but he has a train of thought with that.]

...it is everywhere. It sounds like what my friend gets to deal with. The detectives where she's from aren't really accepting of her because she's younger and she's a girl, from what she's said anyway.

...so what's a kunoichi and what's a shinobi?

Actually I'm out in the kitchen. Nea and I are in the middle of a lesson.

At least you're not like that, otherwise you would have done it already.

So what other answer do you want to give me?

That's not so bad...

...unless the story behind it was bad. Was it?

...you're not trying to teach the cat to skateboard in the kitchen are you.

I've already asked her. Isn't the first thing about good research is to gather facts from all of your resources?

Of course not, don't be dumb. I'm trying to teach him how to paint.

Yes. However, it's also important to keep the information consistent. A woman's place in a monarchy or a republic wouldn't be perceived the same way, for example.

[CAN YOU HEAR THAT, ROXAS? IT IS THE SOUND OF THE BIGGEST FACEPALM EVER.]

Riiight. I'll be out there in a sec.

Well that's what the sorting process is. Once I get everything, I'd start to pick it all apart and put it into categories to reference later. I guess it's just how I do things.

[HE'S CLOSE TO BEING THE NEXT PICASSO OKAY.]

See you then. [Back to focusing on N-HEY DON'T STEP ON THE TABLE WITH PAINT.]

[So he basically knows what he's doing without really realizing it. In any case, those are good words to hear.]

It's the correct way. If you've any more questions, I will do what I can to provide an answer.

I like to think I usually don't lower myself to that level, so yeah, I'm not like that.

I don't know.. Technically there's some differences between guys and girls, like how they talk in those scientific tests about how guys are better than girls at one thing or another and girls are better at other things.

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