It's worse when I'm within earshot and they try and cover it up by suddenly talking about car or sports. It's like they think they might be seen as perverts if I get what they're saying. I just call them perverts anyways and go about my day.
[Whereas she's getting tired of being seen as nothing but an object or a trophy.]
I think Ken is one of the few people here that I didn't feel the need to act like my idol self when I first started talking to him.
[There's a...tendency in Death City's society to treat a lot of women like objects, besides the literal sense with women that are weapons. Maka feels very strongly about it, though she exists as a "reject" of that ideal, because many of her friends have to go through it. There's so much more to them than the shape of their bodies, they're such wonderful people.]
Weird, isn't it? Not being scrutinized for every little thing about you.
[...It's not as weird as the people that look her straight in the eyes and say with all honesty that she's pretty, though, that's just surreal.]
Kinda makes you feel like you want to try harder just for the people that let you be yourself.
[The words don't exactly register with Maka until about three seconds later, then she realizes what was said and tugs on one of her pigtails, looking embarrassed.]
Aw, thanks Rise. I'm glad we started talking, too. I don't really get to talk to a lot of girls for some reason, and guys drive me nuts a lot of the time, so having a girl to talk to is nice.
Really? There's a lot of girls here.... but yeah, not a lot of them seem like the social type with other girls. I have a lot more guy friends here. There's gotta be some reason for that. I still haven't figured it out.
[It's really strange. One would think that girls would want to talk to other girls.]
[She tilts her head to the side in thought, what could it be? Is it that they have difficulties with other girls?]
Maybe it's age difference. There are lots of adult women here, it'd probably be weird for them to hang out with teenage girls...and maybe they feel like, "well I'm not interested in girly stuff, if I hung out with other girls I'd have to do girly stuff"?
Maybe we'd need to tell them we're not all about girly stuff? I actually like battling, and that's not very girly. Hmmm... I don't know how to go about that unless I just tell them. What do you think?
[She does have one other friend who is a few years older she can ask about this, too.]
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[Whereas she's getting tired of being seen as nothing but an object or a trophy.]
I think Ken is one of the few people here that I didn't feel the need to act like my idol self when I first started talking to him.
Video;
Weird, isn't it? Not being scrutinized for every little thing about you.
[...It's not as weird as the people that look her straight in the eyes and say with all honesty that she's pretty, though, that's just surreal.]
Kinda makes you feel like you want to try harder just for the people that let you be yourself.
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[One of them being Blake, but he's a whole different kind of interesting.]
Like you, Maka. I'm glad we started talking.
Video; sorry for the lateness on this!
Aw, thanks Rise. I'm glad we started talking, too. I don't really get to talk to a lot of girls for some reason, and guys drive me nuts a lot of the time, so having a girl to talk to is nice.
Video
[It's really strange. One would think that girls would want to talk to other girls.]
Video
Maybe it's age difference. There are lots of adult women here, it'd probably be weird for them to hang out with teenage girls...and maybe they feel like, "well I'm not interested in girly stuff, if I hung out with other girls I'd have to do girly stuff"?
Video
[She does have one other friend who is a few years older she can ask about this, too.]