From Gimmick Gamer To Gamer Girl (MsBloom x DarkDreamer9110)

[DarkDreamer9110]

Chloe nodded at Alice's comment about Theresa being a straight ally, and again at the comment about it being a shame. Then Alice remarked about Chloe likely not being the first "guy dressed as a girl" that Theresa had seen or served, and Chloe flinched. It didn't feel right to have Alice calling her a guy, even if Chloe had set herself up for that by describing herself as crossdressing.

After Theresa had departed again, Chloe spoke. "Yeah. She's hot. Too bad she's not into girls. Guess we're both shit outta luck with her." She said.

As she realized what she'd said, she paused, then shrugged. "You know what? I'm gonna stand by it. I'm not a guy." She said. "And I mean ... Like, at all. I don't feel right as Sid anymore. Ever. I ... I know it's only been like a week, but I already know I prefer being Chloe. I ... I'm not ready to come out fully just yet, because I want to get more comfortable doing things like publicly and stuff, and I don't know if I want to, uh, pursue anything more than social transitioning yet, but ... I really do think I'm transgender."

 

[MsBloom]

Alice nodded at Chloe's realisation. It did not come as a surprise to her, not after the talk they had had that afternoon when she first helped Sid transform. It might perhaps have begun as a fun challenge for Halloween but on some level Alice now suspected that it might have been more than that, perhaps an alibi for Sid to dress up for the first time, one he could dismiss as exactly that; a challenge for Halloween. At the same time she couldn't help but wonder if that had really been the first time Sid had worn feminine clothes. She could easily imagine him trying on his sister's clothes in secret, drawn to them by a force he might not actually have understood until now ... that he was not the boy he had been assigned to be at birth. It had been so obvious even back at the apartment when he arrived that he was Chloe, even when not presenting femme.

"I can help you with that," she said quite seriously.
"You are like, welcome to visit whenever you feel like it and allow yourself to be Chloe publicly in a place where no one really knows Sid," she added and smiled.
"I don't have that many friends outside of the internet but the ones I do are like cool with the whole LBTQ thing even if perhaps none of them are transpersons per se, but I do have a friend who is non-binary."
She paused and thought back to her previous train of thought from when Sid had transformed into Chloe less than an hour ago; that Chloe looked more girl than she did, and also ... somehow ... seemed to act more girl than Alice usually did.
"As for myself I have to admit I have never really thought about it but earlier when you had done your transformation I ... I dunno ... It sort of made me feel quite masculine even if I can't really say I feel male or anything like that. I don't have any issues with the bits I've got and I don't feel weird about having been assigned female but ... still ... y'know ..."
She paused again and smiled at Theresa when she showed up with their order. And then let her eyes linger at that sway when she walked away to start clearing a table at the other end of the small restaurant.

"How about I call up Aiko and ask if she wants to go out tonight, like to a club or something ... she's been curious about you ever since I agreed to help you with your challenge anyway. Just the three of us and you can ... I dunno ... test Chloe? in a social situation."