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“Mom gets around it by being in the military, but… me? I’m…” Controversial enough as it is; the product of a marriage between two women, and Driver and Blade, neither of which had been done in Mor Ardain and certainly not in the Imperial family. “... expected. To wear certain things. To look a certain way.”
“Your parents say all that?” Lanz asks, scowling.
“What? No, of course not - they’d never.” They *are* a stern pair. They insist that she stand still and ‘comport herself with proper decorum,’ yes, but they’d never… made her feel like she had to buckle to external pressure, or anything.
They’d never made her doubt that she was deeply loved.
“It’s just…” Sena sighs, “People say so many nasty things about my Mom and Mum already, Lanzy. I don’t want to make it worse, so I…”
Pretend to have no issue with the default, with what Imperial society expects of her.
Even though she hates it.
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- Part 3 of XC3 Modern "AU"