"Oh Scorpia," Akane says softly--and this, all of it, surprises her. She'd known Scorpia had been part of the Horde of course and that she was also, somehow, a princess... but everything else is new.
"I think you'd be good at it," she volunteers after thinking about it. "I mean, you're good at taking care of your pokemon. So I bet you'd take good care of your people." She frowns a little, biting her lower lip. "I don't suppose they'd let you abdicate if you really didn't think you could do it."
"Uh, I don't know how that would work, really? Like, being connected to one of the runestones is pretty much a family thing. Except maybe for She-Ra's sword. I guess if I had a daughter, once she was old enough, I could retire, but, like, I think the first part is a long time from now."
Scorpia thinks she'd like to be a mom someday, with a woman she loves, but yeah... she's got so much to learn before she'll be ready. She turns to smile up at Akane though.
"Thanks. Knowing you think I can do it helps a lot."
Akane frowns. "But don't you need a husband for that?" she asks. "I mean, I don't know. Maybe it could be a boy who's really a girl, but doesn't have magic to give her the right body. I still don't completely understand how that stuff works, but. I guess that's something that happens? It's part of the whole thing about being perverse in ways that don't hurt people, so it's okay, I think?
"Carly had to explain about that to me. That a lot of the stuff I grew up thinking was bad isn't, it just gets put in the same broad category as things that really are awful and you kind of have to look at what stuff is actually hurting people and what stuff isn't."
"Oh there's magic for that on Etheria! My moms used magic to have me, and my friend Bow has two dads who used magic to have him! And his twelve older siblings! There's magic for people who are born in bodies that don't match too. I mean, sometimes it takes a while, because magic was, like, really hard to find in the Fright Zone and some other places for a long time, but when we won, we brought all the magic back so magic is everywhere now!"
Scorpia frowns and reaches up to awkwardly give Akane a one-armed hug. "I'm so sorry people are so confused in your world. They're wrong to think that love, or being yourself is bad. It's not; it's really good. It's really brave for you to be yourself, knowing that they're so confused and don't understand in your home."
Akane looks away from Scorpia. "That's the thing," she says, in a guilty voice. "I was one of those people. And I was awful to Ranma because I didn't get things. I mean, Ranma was pretty rude back and it didn't help that our parents had arranged everything, but."
She sighs. "And I almost lost Connie's friendship because I didn't get things. That's why Carly had to explain everything to me."
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"I think you'd be good at it," she volunteers after thinking about it. "I mean, you're good at taking care of your pokemon. So I bet you'd take good care of your people." She frowns a little, biting her lower lip. "I don't suppose they'd let you abdicate if you really didn't think you could do it."
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Scorpia thinks she'd like to be a mom someday, with a woman she loves, but yeah... she's got so much to learn before she'll be ready. She turns to smile up at Akane though.
"Thanks. Knowing you think I can do it helps a lot."
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Akane frowns. "But don't you need a husband for that?" she asks. "I mean, I don't know. Maybe it could be a boy who's really a girl, but doesn't have magic to give her the right body. I still don't completely understand how that stuff works, but. I guess that's something that happens? It's part of the whole thing about being perverse in ways that don't hurt people, so it's okay, I think?
"Carly had to explain about that to me. That a lot of the stuff I grew up thinking was bad isn't, it just gets put in the same broad category as things that really are awful and you kind of have to look at what stuff is actually hurting people and what stuff isn't."
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Scorpia frowns and reaches up to awkwardly give Akane a one-armed hug. "I'm so sorry people are so confused in your world. They're wrong to think that love, or being yourself is bad. It's not; it's really good. It's really brave for you to be yourself, knowing that they're so confused and don't understand in your home."
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Akane looks away from Scorpia. "That's the thing," she says, in a guilty voice. "I was one of those people. And I was awful to Ranma because I didn't get things. I mean, Ranma was pretty rude back and it didn't help that our parents had arranged everything, but."
She sighs. "And I almost lost Connie's friendship because I didn't get things. That's why Carly had to explain everything to me."