06 | Accidental video/text

[spiderkid]

[The device is propped up to show a bedroom, where a young girl stands in front of a full length mirror.She is wearing a Hello Kitty shirt that's slightly too small and jeans that are slightly too big, slipping down to reveal a pair of plaid boxers. She's pulling a hairbrush through her hair with some difficulty.

Suddenly, she sees the blinking red light that means the device is recording and drops the hairbrush to run over and grab it.]

Man, don't show people that! [She ends the feed.]


[Some time later, there's a text post to the network.]

does any1 know how to do black girl hair?



[ooc: Genderswap! Replies will come from newspider.]

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[universaltranslator]

[She's laughing to herself, with all the sympathy in the world.]

It can be a real pain in the ass. Can you get to the Welcome Center? I can help you out.

[and then --]

I hope you're not afraid of eagles.

text;

[newspider]

gimme twenty minutes

text;

[universaltranslator]

I'll be here.

>action;

[newspider]

[Soon enough Miles (baseball cap firmly on) walks into the Welcome Center, spotting Nyota immediately. Not that she's easy to miss.]

Hey. Nice bird.

>action;

[universaltranslator]

[Uhura looks up from where she's trying to shove the eagle off her shoulder. She smiles wryly.]

Thanks. But I wish I could get rid of him. So, you need some help with your hair.

[As if that wasn't painfully obvious. Oh honey.]

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[newspider]

You're cursed too, huh?

[He takes the cap off and tries to smoothe it down with his fingers.] Yeah, I pretty much suck at girl stuff.

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[universaltranslator]

Very.

[Oh sweetie. Uhura bites back a grin and stops his hand.]

That's not gonna help. Here, take a seat. Did your mom or sister ever do twists in her hair?

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[newspider]

My mom's Peurto Rican and I'm an only child. [So that's a no, but he sits down.] What are twists?

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[universaltranslator]

Just what they sound like. You take little sections of your hair, and you just give it a little twist. Like this.

[She takes a small lock of hair near the front of Miles' head and twists it. It takes about 10 seconds.]

It's a simple style, but it looks really cute.

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[newspider]

Cool. Yeah, I could do that.

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[universaltranslator]

Why don't you do one side and I'll do the other. It'll go faster that way.

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[newspider]

OK. [And he does, sticking his tongue out slightly in concentration. His side's going to be a bit lumpy and awkward, but he gets all the twists in.]