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So, I turned 17 today. I completely forgot that was going to happen. In my defense though, my birthday is usually in March and it's only now because it was September instead of May when I arrived in the last world that pulled people in that didn't live there.

... Anyway, for something those of you who haven't known me since before I showed up here might be interested in, does anyone want martial arts lessons? I was training a couple of people back in the last world I was in and it went pretty well there, so I figured I should probably start that up again.

For now compensation is negotiable, since I don't know how many people would even be interested in this in the first place and money here is... weird. Days of the week, time, and how often the lessons happen are going to depend on just how many are interested, but I'll let people know sooner rather than later.

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That's so true it's almost sad.

Well, so much for that idea. What did you usually do for fun back home? Maybe there's a way to adapt that a bit for here. I mean, this city has a bit of everything, it seems like.

Honestly, mostly training. And I guess scaring some of my Dad's students when they saw just what I could do, but that's just linked to that first thing.

Not really anything I can use to come up with birthday plans though.

I did try to pick up some other hobbies in the last place I was in, but well... that place wasn't exactly the most conductive for that happening.

Good grief, Videl, how did you celebrate back home?

[Because it's starting to sound like she's even more hyperfocused than Aqua and Terra.]

... For birthdays or in general?

Well, I was thinking birthdays, but now that you ask I'm a little curious about the other answer too.

Okay, well, for in general stuff, it was mostly just hanging out with the few friends I did have back home.

For birthdays, Dad always threw me a big party, which usually involved a bunch of people coming that I've never met before. You know, since he's famous and all, so it had to be a big stupid event all the time.

Oh, I get it. That makes more sense.

[After all, if she was used to just getting parties thrown for her, she might not have ever had a chance to figure out what she'd like.]

Well, obviously that's not happening here. So... Do you just want to hang out somewhere?

[ Thankfully, she doesn't mind that it isn't happening here. It's a bit of a relief, even if she actually knows enough people to have a decent sized party just of people she's invited now.

... Well, if she's in Prismatica for another year, that'll be something for her to keep in mind.]

Yeah. Hanging out sounds great. I still really haven't explored this place as much as I should, so going around and seeing what's around should be pretty fun.

Okay! Anyplace in particular you want to go?

Only in the kinda vague sense? I haven't really done much on level 1 yet and that seems like it's probably a good place in general to have some fun but again, not really sure on the specifics there.

Alright. Meet me in the gardens and we'll figure things out from there, how's that?

Sounds great! I'll see you soon!

Kairi heads straight for the gardens to meet Videl, pondering places they can go to celebrate. They've got an entire city to explore, so she should be able to find something for them to do.

Though if all else fails, they can just go on a walk through the city. The scenery is definitely nice enough.

When she sees Videl approaching, she raises her head and waves her over. "Over here!"

Videl grins when she sees Kairi, and quickly runs over to the other girl. It was nice, to just be doing something simple like this on her birthday, and not having a million guests over because it was expected of her.

Of course, if she were back home, she'd be home and maybe she wouldn't mind it all that much. Sure, Lunatia was nothing like Duplicity and she could see herself happily living here, but it still wasn't home.

Either way, thinking along those lines were just going to make her even more depressed, so she shot those thoughts down. "Hey Kairi! Thanks for coming to hang out with me on such short notice. Where do you think we should go first?"

"Hey don't worry about it. I'm happy to be here!" And if there's no one else around, well that just proves how important it was for her to take the initiative and invite Videl out somewhere.

"I thought we'd walk in the gardens for a bit. They're so pretty, and it'll give us plenty of time to talk without having to sit around somewhere." It was possible Videl would want to find a place to sit, but judging by what she knew of her so far, Kairi wouldn't place a bet on it.

Yes. Not sitting around definitely seemed like a good idea. It wasn't that she couldn't sit still, but outside of a few specific situations, she didn't really like doing it. "Sounds good to me. It'll be a nice change of pace, getting to actually see some wildlife."

Sure, there were parks in Duplicity, but Duplicity was not Lunatia.

"I mean, it's not like actually walking around outside the city, but that's something you really have to prepare for. It's a pretty harsh world, even for people with abilities." Indeed, given that powers required Chroma, it might be even more dangerous for them if they got careless.

Leading the way into one of the paths through the gardens, Kairi leaned back and breathed in the flower-perfumed air. It always smelled wonderful here, if nothing else.

Videl can't help but smile a little. "Yeah. Trust me, I have no desire to head outside of the city. Not unless there's actually a good reason for us to go ahead and do that." Like say, potential end of the world monsters for them to fight. Or a rescue mission. Stuff like that.

Either way, none of that mattered, and Videl followed after, keeping an eye on the plants as they began to walk past them. "Everything just... looks completely normal. You'd think with the whole 'different' world thing that at least some of the plants would look... well, completely alien."

"The last time I went outside the city was to release the dragons we raised." That had been quite an adventure, definitely not the sort of thing one did just on a lark.

Videl's comment was something Kairi had thought of before, as it happened. "Yeah, it's funny. Even the food is mostly stuff I'd expect to be able to find at home. Granted, you can say the same about most of the worlds me or the others have been to back home, so maybe it's not so surprising."

Videl blinks, about to ask about that before remembering that something like that was mentioned by Izuku already. So... yeah, raising dragons. Right, that was a thing. Not really all that important, or honestly all that weird considering everything else that she's come across before.

"Yeah, I guess. Thinking about it I really don't have that many references of other worlds to go off of. Either ones I experienced or ones I was told about." Still, with what she heard about the people on Namek not even needing to eat it sure seemed like there should be a lot of differences in the types of food available.

"Maybe it's just that we expect things to be different when we leave home. But from what I've found, that's not necessarily the case. Sure some things are different, but it's not at all the huge difference you'd expect."

Then again, it's not like the Prismals are shaped like insects or something. They're pretty close to humans, just... changed.

"Yeah. And for me, it probably has to deal with experience from back home too. Like, I've met people from other worlds even before I started travelling, and most of the aliens I've seen look a lot different from us."

Well, except for the Saiyans, anyway. She really has no idea why Goku and Vegeta look exactly like a normal Earthling.

"Now you've got me curious. What sort of aliens have you seen?"

Since almost everyone she's seen from other worlds has been just plain old human, aside from the King and his friends.

"Well, there's the Namekians, like Picolo and Dende. They're still humanoid, but they have green skin and have antenna that make them kinda look like slug people, I guess. Then there were Shin and Kibito, who technically come from the afterlife despite being alive. Though I guess other than the pointy ears and Shin's purple skin they're not really that different from non-animal Earthlings." There's another pause from her, before she shakes her head.

"And I guess I really should be the last person mentioning anything about aliens looking different, considering there's a bunch of animal people on my world who definitely come from my version of Earth, not another planet."

There's so much she wants to ask about that, but it's not hard to find what to focus in on.

"Wait, from the afterlife, but they're alive... Are they spirits or something? Wait, do spirits count as being alive?"

Question she never thought she'd have to ask. Then again, knowing her life that might have ended up being relevant.

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