Lev/Lyubov raises an eyebrow at the "ma'am". Okay, that's interesting. They would've expected "ma'am" and "Miss" from some of the others here, but not from someone as thoroughly modern-looking as Leon. Hell, never mind modern—by Lev/Lyubov, Leon looks like something out of a fantastika novel, almost. Maybe one of ones that, in Lev/Lyubov's view, and in the view of their husband, put admirable effort into setting up the homoeroticism between brothers-in-arms in the same trench (even if the trench is on a far-flung plenum among the stars and not upon the Bones), only to squander it all on never noticing that's what they set up.
"I appreciate thy consideration," they say, and they can't help grinning, "but like, really, nu? I rather doubt I'd be a woman to thee." They pause, rewind the sentence in their head, consider how it sounds, and with some annoyance at their own hastiness add, "I mean like, unless thou'rt overwintering, and this isn't how thou wish'st to look, nor how thou wish'st to be seen by others?"
[cw: not exactly misgendering, but well-intentioned misunderstanding of gender??]
Lev/Lyubov raises an eyebrow at the "ma'am". Okay, that's interesting. They would've expected "ma'am" and "Miss" from some of the others here, but not from someone as thoroughly modern-looking as Leon. Hell, never mind modern—by Lev/Lyubov, Leon looks like something out of a fantastika novel, almost. Maybe one of ones that, in Lev/Lyubov's view, and in the view of their husband, put admirable effort into setting up the homoeroticism between brothers-in-arms in the same trench (even if the trench is on a far-flung plenum among the stars and not upon the Bones), only to squander it all on never noticing that's what they set up.
"I appreciate thy consideration," they say, and they can't help grinning, "but like, really, nu? I rather doubt I'd be a woman to thee." They pause, rewind the sentence in their head, consider how it sounds, and with some annoyance at their own hastiness add, "I mean like, unless thou'rt overwintering, and this isn't how thou wish'st to look, nor how thou wish'st to be seen by others?"