Day 41: Women's Showers

[revolutionise]

Utena was very, very glad that the patients were finally being allowed to go to the showers. Even for a girl more used to sweating than many in her gender, two days without a shower was definitely enough to make her feel stickier and stinkier than she preferred to be. Especially after all the running around and tearing apart of rooms she, Celes and Edward had done the night before.

I really hope those rooms magically turned clean this morning or something, like every other place in here seems to, Utena thought at that, hoping that no patients had awoken to the rather desperate-looking remains of a break-and-enter.

Taking a wash towel from one of the baskets, Utena headed for a free showerhead.

[Free. Limit: Any]

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[see-my-back.livejournal.com]

What was that guy's problem anyway? What a pain in the ass. At least it had managed to distract her from her problems, but she sure wasn't feeling any better. Besides that, it wasn't like she was the only one in this place with pink hair! There was another girl in the showers already that had it too!

She was a little shy about the group showering, but it didn't bother her much. Sakura had been to onsen before and they had plenty of public baths in Konoha, so it wasn't a big deal. It actually felt really good to be able to clean up.

[Free for threading, might be moving to courtyard later.]

[see-my-back.livejournal.com]

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[kagurazuki.livejournal.com]

Kagura's stomach growled as she was led over to showers. The nurse chided her for over-sleeping, but she held back her argument. It wouldn't do a lot of good anyway. She was in a pretty nice mood despite all that though. She and Bridget had managed to get something accomplished and they were going to be working together to help his friend. That alone was enough to keep her feeling motivated.

She was glad the showers were fairly empty and gave the other girls plenty of room as she washed out her hair.

[Free for threading. Limit: any]

[himetsuru.livejournal.com]

"You and Kazuko are no longer allowed to shower together after what happened last time."

"The fuck we can't!"

"Rose! Language!"

"I don't give a fuck about you and your fucking rules. I will shower with whoever the fuck I want to. Just because you've got issues with what her and I do, doesn't mean it's wrong. Now fuck off and let me-- Wait a fucking moment. You're not going to stick me with that thing. Remember what happened last time..."

"Your threats have no affect on me, Rose. If you don't behave. we'll just send you right back to your room without a shower."

"..."

"I am done arguing with you."

"...but my hair--"

"I can help yo--"

"No. I'm not letting you fucking touch my hair. Fine. I'll leave Hok-- Kazuko to her own shower today."

"Language!"

"Whatever," Falis said as she shrugged the woman's hand off her arm and headed into the showers. She was glowering, clearly plotting the nurse's death, as she undid the thick band holding her hair back. Finding herself at a shower by Kagura, she nodded to the other girl.

"Hey."

[kagurazuki.livejournal.com]

The loud shouting near the entryway was enough to turn a few heads, including Kagura's. She recognized one of the voices straight away and hoped Alita didn't get into too much trouble. She couldn't stand to see her friends hurt or bullied.

"A-Alita-hime," she said quietly. "Is... is everything alright?"

[himetsuru.livejournal.com]

"No," Falis replied. "Fucking vultures have an issue with Hokuto and I showering together since last time Hokuto decided to distract me from my gloom by feeling me up."

Stepping under the spray of the water, Falis closed her eyes. "Fucking bitches. They need to butt out of peoples' relationships. Ain't nobody gonna tell me fucking another girl is wrong."

[thecamellia.livejournal.com]

_{[Reserved for Yukari. IDK what the limit is.]}

So now she knew for sure: Shito was no longer around anymore.

Tsubaki thought about how little she’d actually learned about him as she was ushered from breakfast and led to the showers. Bit by bit, she peeled off the uniform, folded it, and put it away in a locker, along with her elastic once she‘d taken her hair down. She’d only met Shito four days ago, and now he was gone… Should she put up a missing persons report along with Thursday’s when she was out of the shower, anyway?

On her way through the entrance, she sighed. Tomorrow would make it a week since she’d arrived. It’d been a long six days…

Taking a spot out of the way of the others, Tsubaki let the water warm up until it was a nice temperature, then stepped under the spray. Having the chance for a proper wash was so rare, she wanted to make it last, despite not being able to completely relax when there were always so many heavy thoughts circling in her head. Brushing her fingers through sections of her hair, she finally pushed the heavy veil behind her shoulders.

Time to get clean! There wasn’t much else she could do in the meantime.

[remedying.livejournal.com]

[i don't really care |D]

Well, breakfast was definitely kind of... depressing, though she didn't regret it. Yukari didn't know how well her words helped Renamon, if they had at all. But if they didn't, hopefully she'll be able to get standing again soon enough; it was difficult-- and a first-- to see her otherwise. As usual, breakfast eventually ended, and the nurses pushed them in opposite directions, insisting it was time she do this and that.

At least showers was something Yukari couldn't say no to. Soon enough the dull, grey uniform was removed, and after grabbing one of the smaller towels she wandered in towards the direction of an open shower head. Glancing by at the nearest figure, she noticed there was Tsubaki; a pleasant sight, given the girl had a cheerful disposition whenever they had talked before.

"Hey," Yukari greeted, giving her a nod in lieu of a wave of her hand. "Mind company?"

[thecamellia.livejournal.com]

_{[Me neither! XD]}

It there was one thing Tsubaki missed--in the long, long list of both important and obvious things--it was daily baths, even a daily shower. She was used to living rough in a variety of ways, but here washing was an indulgence. Heck, clean water was a privilege depending on the time of day; she hadn’t forgotten the feel and smell of the mess lurking in the pipes at night.

The shower might not have been enough to wash all her worries away, but it did a lot for her spirits.

Tsubaki was just beginning to lather shampoo into her hair when the shorter figure came up beside her. With her arms raised, she turned her torso slightly and smiled over her shoulder so that she didn’t flash Yukari openly. Public showers weren’t so embarrassing, but most often had dividers, and Tsubaki felt a sense of etiquette in that way. There was enough sex talk and violence in Landel‘s--out-and-out nudity didn’t need to be shown off.

“Not at all. How is everything today?” Actually, she remembered reading about Yukari and a bear that morning…

[remedying.livejournal.com]

"Better," Yukari replied simply, even if it wasn't entirely the truth. The morning hadn't started off too great, but if she could convince herself that it was, perhaps the day would be. She's had good days before-- well, the kind of good you could get here-- so they could definitely happen again.

She focused more in what was in front of her rather than Tsubaki beside her, doing her part in common courtesy. Nothing about this really bothered her, but nobody wanted to be stared at, even if Yukari did notice the other girl was admirably tall and... probably was looked at often, with a figure like that. Turning the shower on, Yukari tested the waters with a hand until it felt comfortable enough to step under. "Mmm," she hummed, clearly pleased with how it felt. "Yeah, definitely better. I feel like I could stand under this forever."

[windstwilight.livejournal.com]

Well, that... had been something. Senna was still shaken up about it, enough to be silent in the follow-the-leader game with the nurse until she realized she wasn't anyway really familiar. "Hey, where...?" But then it was clear. A shower sounded good after spending the majority of the past week outside, and Senna washed herself down, giving extra care to working through her short hair. Even with that, she was done quickly, never being one to really spend time on things like this. She toweled off, got dressed, and marched to the sun room.

She could think later.

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[akarusa.livejournal.com]

[Stealing Utena!]

"Okay, okay!" Hokuto had been hoping the nurses wouldn't bring up what had happened the last time she'd showered; no such luck. Geez, it wasn't like she was stupid enough to molest Falis in here again.

As she got undressed, she noticed a girl with pink hair; wow, was that natural? And she had quite the body... Hokuto bit her lip to keep from laughing. Wow, she hoped none of the staff could read minds.

Maybe it was asking for trouble, but after she grabbed a towel, she went to join the girl who'd caught her eye. "Good morning," she said, a little dryly. Sure, this was a perfectly normal way to start the day... for here.

[revolutionise]

The showers were a little bit different from the ones back at the school; namely, there weren't any walls between shower heads, leaving every body in the room perfectly visible to everybody else. Still, Utena wasn't terribly fazed. She was used to being in change rooms and communal showers with other girls for gym and school sports clubs. There wasn't anything to get worried about in a situation like that, and she figured that there wouldn't be here either. Hopefully.

After reaching for some shampoo, she turned to face the person who had addressed her. "Morning," she said, giving the other girl a friendly smile, hoping that the smile would be catching. As far as Utena was concerned, it was important to find as many opportunities to keep smiling in a place like Landel's as possible. She was liable to go crazy if she didn't. "Funny place to meet somebody for the first time, isn't it?" she remarked with a chuckle.

[akarusa.livejournal.com]

Hokuto smiled back; yay, someone else who managed to stay cheerful. "Yeah, I guess," she admitted. Well, she had met Falis in here for the first time, so it worked out!

"Have you been here long?" She didn't remember seeing her before, but so many people came and went that she really couldn't know everyone.

"Oh, I'm Hokuto."

[revolutionise]

"I'm Utena Tenjou. Nice to meet you, Hokuto," said Utena as she turned on the shower. Then she shook her head, answering, "And no, this is my third day if you don't count the night I woke up during. Still not sure I believe this place, but I'm kind of used to weird stuff, so I guess it's a little easier for me to take than it is for some."

She started lathering the shampoo into her long hair. "How about you? Are you new-ish like me, or a . . . I guess 'veteran' is the right word?" Utena didn't like the idea of anyone having to call themselves a veteran of Landel's, but if there wasn't anything she could do about it, she was glad they were there. Otherwise adjusting would have been a lot harder on new patients like her.

[bewarethecute.livejournal.com]

Getting the chance to shower was nice, but Ururu washed very quickly. She didn't want to spend too long inside, because she needed to talk to someone from Lost and Found. She wanted to make sure everyone was okay, and to let them know that she was okay too. Plus, she had to tell them that she wasn't going to be with them this night shift, and maybe the next. Ururu felt bad about it, but making sure Ken was going to be okay was important to her too. And joining the boxing club sounded kind of fun. Maybe some of her other friends would want to come too. Kurogane especially seemed like he wanted to hit things, so maybe this would be a better way for him to do that.

Making sure to get as clean as she could as quickly as she could, Ururu hurried out of the showers once she was done and dressed again, not even waiting for her hair to dry.

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[fear-attachment.livejournal.com]

Though she had often made use of public bath houses in the past, Chidori was nonetheless horrified by the setup here. At least in a bath house one could wear a towel, have some kind of cover, and submerge in the water so that no one could really see anything. Here she was on display, and everyone could see her sickly body and judge and question and feel sorry for her.

Wanting none of that, Chidori instead washed her hair as quickly as she could without doing it damage, then scrubbed off and fled. It seemed as long as one got clean, the staff didn't care about how long it took. Good.

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[fencing-captain.livejournal.com]

Finally, a shower! Juri ignored the public aspect of the shower, except to vaguely note Utena was there and move to the opposite end of the area, and got right to business. She knew she nothing to hide about her body, and she was far too interested in the soap and shampoo to worry that there might be danger here. And at least until she had her hair washed, she wasn't talking right away either.

This felt deliciously good after two days of being dirty.

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[bullygeneraleva.livejournal.com]

Ugh, great. Shower time with the brats. Evangeline didn't exactly object to a chance to get clean, but she hated being split up by age. At least at Mahora there were an okay number of people who knew she wasn't really a kid. Sometimes that made it worse... but right now she really wished there was someone here who knew who and what she was. A little respect would be nice, and this shift seemed to have been designed purely to remind her that here she wasn't going to get a shred.

She edged over towards one of the older and less perturbed-looking bathers. Sure, she'd probably end up looking even younger by contrast, but she really didn't want to be around anyone who found the setup embarrassing, lest their reaction prove contagious.

[fencing-captain.livejournal.com]

When someone moved in next to her, Juri didn't desist until her hair was rinsed squeaky clean. The rest could be done more leisurely. She turned slightly toward the younger-looking girl beside her. "This is this dumbest place to meet, but hi." She wasn't the least embarrassed. "I'm Juri." She reached for the soap and started scrubbing her feet, lifting one foot at a time.

[bullygeneraleva.livejournal.com]

There was a sentiment Evangeline could bring herself to agree with. If she'd been in a really argumentative mood she could have thought up a few dumber places, or pointed out that the value of the meeting entirely depended on the meeting itself and not the location, or just gone with the usual and implied that it was even dumber because it involved Juri, but right now saving her abuse for the washroom in particular and Landel's in general was priority one.

"You can say that again," she said, halfway between plain old grumbling and wry commentary. "Evangeline."

Wasn't she just sociable today? Time for washing.

[trapdetected.livejournal.com]

The first shift ended unexpectedly soon, and Naoto was quite irritated about it. They hadn't finished talking! Kanji was here and she needed to finish explaining what was going on, and relay all the imperative information he needed to know, and--

But her nurse would have none of that. It would have been easy enough to accompany each other into whatever room they were being pushed to next, but this time, it was different. Mostly because, as the nurse decided to inform her, it was time to clean up in the showers. And not just any kind of showers, no; it was the open kind where everyone was in it at the same time with absolutely zero covering whatsoever, which meant anyone in it could see you, and...

It was impressive and record breaking just how quickly Naoto's face paled when she learned of this, making tiny steps backwards away from the showers and towards the exit. Ohhhh no, she wasn't doing this, she couldn't do this, it was utterly embarrassing amongst every other similar adjective she could think of. "I- I'll have to do this some other time," Naoto stammered at her nurse, unable to keep up with the usual low-pitch in her voice she used, complete with holding her hands up in front of her.

"Jaden, there isn't anything to worry about--"

"I absolutely cannot!" she insisted further, wrapping her arms around herself protectively.

"I'll help you get your bandages off, that way you can--"

"N- no, please." Naoto almost began to sound desperate and refused to budge where she stood, but her pleading went ineffective as far as convincing the nurse went. The hassling didn't last for very long, as somewhere between it and finally ending up underneath a shower head, Naoto cracked under the pressure with simply wanting out. But even once there, Naoto had frozen underneath the running water while covering herself the best she could with her arms alone, completely forgetting for a long while what she was supposed to be doing or that the sooner she did it, the faster she'd be out. She didn't even have the luxury of covering up with a towel, she had to be exposed for all to see, and while to most this would only be extremely humiliating, this was almost like walking into some terrible nightmare for Naoto.

Eventually, she got to what she deemed well enough clean while trying to be very hasty about it. The nurse seemed to frown at her actions some, but after replacing the bandages for the injury on her side, Naoto was able to get her clothes back on and exit right away.

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[gald_digger]

Anise was fuming when she left the cafeteria. It was unbelievable that anyone could be so weird, so rude, and so stupid! What was the guy's name? Kitamoto? Minamoto? Some foreign name that she couldn't be bothered to remember. Maybe he'd just get eaten on his first night, and she wouldn't have to think about him again.

After talking with a guy who had as many crumbs flying from his mouth as he did words, Anise felt more than ready for a shower. She felt dirty just thinking about it.

Once she was in the shower, Anise was less than graceful as she lathered shampoo in her hair vigorously. Despite making the process more forceful than was necessary, the girl's frustration soon subsided, and by the time she finished washing her hair, she had calmed down significantly. Right, there was no use getting worked up over something so stupid.

The girl finished washing up quickly, though she realized she was actually starting to get used to this whole public showering thing. Or maybe she was just becoming more confident? A subconscious result of her growing bigger recently? As she dried herself off, the girl paused to study herself in the mirror for a moment.

...Well, maybe not noticeably. Yet.

Not wanting to think on it any longer, Anise hurriedly put her clothes on, tied her hair back into its usual pigtails, and left for the Sun Room.

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[innovator-skuld.livejournal.com]

Skuld woke up exhausted; even she needed sleep, even at home, and the late nights were really taking their toll. A shower sounded good, though; she'd made her nurse take her when it wasn't scheduled a few times before, but it was such a hassle that she didn't bother very often.

She still hated being naked and exposed in front of a crowd like this, but... it was the only way to get clean, and if she protested until she got sedated (did that do that when a "kid" wasn't threatening violence?), she'd need help in here. Not happening.

So, reluctantly, she found an unoccupied shower a ways away from the others and turned it on. At least they didn't rush her in here on shower days.

[[Free!]]