If I think too hard about what we're doing I'll feel really bad about it (Open/Closed)

[everybodysterrible]

Who: Abby or Bay + Guests.
When: August/September
What: Catch-All for various things.
Warnings: Abby swears, Bay is occasionally casually naked. Individual threads will get warning as they happen.

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[wasalmostdaphne]

Bay finds it curious how different nudity feels when it's reciprocal. She's not had to deal with the concept too much in the past, just in school which was same gender, or with a boyfriend, and the nudity was always going somewhere in particular.

Especially when one of them lived with his mother and a very adamant 'no overnight guests' rule, and the other was on a military base so lingering wasn't exactly acceptable.

So she din't feel Mat had an advantage, clothed when she wasn't, but she certainly found it respectful that he'd be sure they were on the same playing field, as it were.

Bay had had these questions following two interactions lately. She did not feel comfortable diving into one of them, while Adora was someone Mat had certainly seen. She-Ra was another matter, and Bay did not know exactly how much Adora's taller, stronger, much stronger, those thighs. Getting distracted, the point is She-Ra might not be common knowledge.

So Bay just, flipped through the sketchbook she had pulled out to a two page spread where Bay had just- drawn Inej Ghafa a half-dozen times. Handing the sketchbook, open to that page, to Mat. An answer to why she's been having these questions.

[a_better_man]

"Ah."

Mat nods as he looks at the sketchbook. He looks back up before he says anything more, a small smile on his lips. Yes, he can certainly understand. While he has no interest in pursuing the young lady - her connection with Jesper is too intimate for it to feel right - she is very striking.

"Miss Inej is lovely indeed. Any other lasses catch your attention? There's no shortage of'em around here."

And one should really have a decent sample pool for determining this sort of thing. Finding one lady appealing doesn't mean finding all of them appealing.

[wasalmostdaphne]

"She also quickly asked to learn how to sign, and was curious about my language and-" Bay stopped herself from going too far down that giddy feeling you get when gushing about someone new. Someone new who is very interesting and kind and- anyway. She needs to focus on the matter at hand, and if it means something.

"Two others, but I can't really talk about either. It isn't my place." The two arrivals near them in age had both caught Bay's eye in one way or another. Different ways, and neither felt as... personal, as with Inej. Catra in her first visit to the horizon, seemed charmingly adventurous and delightful. And She-Ra was basically a Grecian Statue given life. But in both cases Bay's thoughts for them fell a little short. Catra the street cat and Adora the lost hero were just- in need of some friendship, and baked goods. Nothing that ran around in her mind.

"Of course most of the summoned are nice to look at, I don't really get flustered too often. Just Inej and Rhy have really caused that from me." Maybe she shouldn't have admitted to that. The second one, she was there to talk about the first one. "I don't exactly fall all over every pretty guy I meet either."

She says, to the handsome naked man sitting on her bed with her. Who she's not really interested in sleeping with. Unless it was really cold and then body heat is great.

[a_better_man]

"Rhy certainly has the effect on people! Very handsome, very fun." Hell, Mat had started sleeping with Rhy before he'd even met Jesper. Very worth sporting with, if one got the chance.

"But I'd say it's very likely you like the lasses as much as the lads. You wouldn't be noticing'em otherwise." If there's more than one lady that has caught Bay's eye, there's a reason for it. Mat doesn't think you notice people in that particular fashion unless you're attracted to them. As she said, plenty of folks are pleasant to look at. That doesn't inherently mean attraction.

Bay certainly seems to be describing attraction.

[wasalmostdaphne]

"Do I need a list of who you haven't slept with?" She caught the hint in their, that and they've known each other enough she knows the difference between how she views sex and he does. There's a playfulness to the question that she's trying not to judge too much.

Once the topic is back to her attraction, she frowns. "I don't get what changed, was I always interested and never pursued it? Or is this something that's just- about her?"

Her being the other version, the girl Bay was and wasn't all at once. That's the big change that she's got to face and how it impacts the way her body reacts. The side of he that's just- okay being seen naked. Might just also like women. "And if this is her, what made her okay with this? Or made me not okay with it?"

Worry played all over her face as she tried to work her mind around what was, well, kind of insane and hard to wrap around normally.