2nd Recipe - Substitute Ingredients

[starofpleiades]

Characters: Kazumi witchofpleiades (in [OU] Jade's body semipotence)
Setting: Various parts of the body swap event, all over the tower
Format: Will match replies
Summary: Kazumi wakes up in the body of a different magical(?) girl. Confusion ensues. Replies from witchofpleiades.
Warnings: None planned...

[Room 3-11, Dorms - Day 1]

[At first, Kazumi barely even notices anything is amiss as she gets up - her body is, more or less the same, and she's half asleep. It's only when she goes to brush her hair and pokes her ears that she notices...]

Huh, what?

[And feeling around, she confirms that yes, she has dog ears. Staring in the mirror, she tries to clear her eyes but everything remains kind of blurry until she squints up close. That. That is not her face at all.]

What's going ooooon!?

[Floor 1, Cafeteria - Any Day]

[Dressed in Jade's dogtier godtier outfit and equipped with glasses, Kazumi is... down in the kitchens of course. She's cooking up a storm as usual, and more than willing to share. If you think it's odd that Jade is cooking so much, you recognize Kazumi's cooking (can people do that???) or are just hungry, come bother her!]

[Floor 25, Meadow - Any Day]

[Kazumi-in-Jade's body is out enjoying this one peaceful floor quietly... right until she sees one of the tinkerbulls go fluttering by. Normally she just feels kind of sorry for them but something about the way this one flies by just... makes her... want to...]

BARKBARKBARKBARKBARKBARKBARKBARKBARKBARKBARKBARKBARKBARKBARKBARKBARK!

[Floor 10, Aquarium - Any Day]

[Kazumi is trying out Jade's space powers... shrinking things down or making them bigger. Mostly trying it on some of the fish, making tiny sharks or humongous minnows. She's giggling and having a lot of fun with it, though she jumps back in surprise when she accidentally makes a fish so big it bursts out of the wall of water, almost hitting her before she quickly shrinks it back down]

Aack! Geez, that was scary...

Comments

[homurosa]

[She slowly shakes her head.]

I've been doing this for three years alongside my daughter. But I've yet to be able to invent any recipes or improvise something like you can.

[witchofpleiades]

Hmm... [It's kind of weird to see someone who looks her age talk about a "daughter"; Kazumi has to remind her its someone else in this girl's body]

Well, making up your own things takes some creativity and imagination... and it's not really something everyone spends a lot of time thinking about! I guess it's really why we have cooks and people who cook. But I think anyone should be able to at least get good with recipes though, if they just practice.

[homurosa]

Creativity...

[She falls silent. Even though she was interested in fashion, she acted mostly in a management capacity. Most of the designs were done by others. She herself never had much creativity. She had been too...stupid for that.]

[witchofpleiades]

Something like that! I guess it helps if you spend a lot of time trying different foods and thinking about it a lot too... well, most people just want to eat something tasty without thinking about it too hard! Which is fine too, of course. It makes me happy that they like it.

[homurosa]

I was always more interested in fashion than in food.

[witchofpleiades]

Ooh, that's neat too! Me and my friends all like really cute clothes, but now that I think of it, none of us are really the kind that can make them.

[homurosa]

Actually, I mostly market them and oversee their production. I haven't designed or made many things personally.

[witchofpleiades]

Still, that sounds like an important job to making it all happen!

[homurosa]

It is a stressful one, though.

[As well as one she had only chosen for the money.]

[witchofpleiades]

Mm... I hope it was rewarding though?

[homurosa]

...Financially.

[witchofpleiades]

Well, I guess that is what having a job is about. You have to take care of your daughter, right?

[homurosa]

...

[The long hours slaving away at a management job she had little experience with or attraction to was one of the reasons she had begun to resent Maria. If that child didn't exist, then...]

Correct.

[If Kazumi can notice, the purple stone on the ring on Rosa's finger seems to have turned a shade darker.]

[witchofpleiades]

I guess being an adult can be tough, huh?

[She does kind of notice, which makes her wonder]

Is that... a Soul Gem?

[homurosa]

...Is that what it is? I...just thought that it would be best if I kept it by my side.

[She has no idea why she is thinking that.]

[witchofpleiades]

I think so! It looks like the ones my friends have...

You haven't spoken with the original owner of your body?

[homurosa]

[She shakes her head. No, not yet.]

[witchofpleiades]

You may want to look for them then. I mean, because I'm not sure, but if that is a Soul Gem... you have to be kind of careful with it! You have magical powers but you need to be careful about using them.

[homurosa]

[Magic? She's had enough of magic. Without even thinking, she pulls the ring off and throws it away at one of the walls.]

[But as the ring sails away, she starts feeling strange. It's like half of her is sitting at the table and the other half is...flying. Then, sight and sound and smell all disappear and all she can feel is the rush of air on her face before landing on the ground.]

[As she lies there, she tries to move, but can't. She doesn't even feel human anymore.]

[Meanwhile, Rosa's current body, with no Soul Gem to control it, collapses to the ground.]

/breaks out account just for icon 1/2

[starofpleiades]

What- wait, don't!

[SCREECH

THAT IS NOT A THING YOU SHOULD DO.]

[witchofpleiades]

[Kazumi runs after the ring, chasing it down the cafeteria WHO MADE THIS PLACE SO BIG until she finally catches up with it, picking it up and running back.

She'd heard Jyuubey mention "within 100 meters" but she hadn't thought about what happened if that limit was broken... coming back, she picks up Rosa's cold hand and slips the ring back on]

Please be okay, please be okay, please be okay...

[homurosa]

[She can feel something soft wrapping around her, and then the sensation of being moved. And suddenly, she can move again.]

[She opens her eyes and sees Kazumi looking at her.]

What...happened?

[witchofpleiades]

[Kazumi breathes a heavy sigh of relief that Rosa woke up]

Oh thank goodness...

You, uh... you disconnected. From your body.

You see, your Soul Gem... is your soul. The body is just a shell controlled by it, within a certain range. If you move out of that range...

[homurosa]

H-how?

[Rosa's hand flies to her ring again as she wonders whether or not she should throw it away. How could she be something so disgusting as a rock?]

[witchofpleiades]

It's... because of the contracts we made to become Puella Magi. We didn't know it at the time, but they pulled our souls out and crystallized them into Soul Gems.