Questionable Content: One time at the NRRD convention.

Two

"Oh wow," Hannelore muttered, having that slightly dazed look you got when you marathoned too much mind bending anime.

"So what did you think of Heroic Girl Usagi?" Marigold asked curiously.

"Beautiful, if a bit confusing," Hannelore admitted.

Marigold smirked, "That is actually a pretty good description."

"Hey, Marigold! Hannelore, I didn't expect to see you here," Dora noted, the manager of Coffee of Doom carrying a tray which was mostly empty. A few forlorn cups of coffee sat on it, looking ather forlorn really.

"Dora, what are you doing here?" Marigold blinked.

"Well, my girlfriend is running the yuricon panel, so..." Dora shrugged.

"Oh, that makes sense," Marigold started then blinked, "Girlfriend?"

"She's dating Tai. You didn't know?" Hannelore asked curiously.

"No, I did not know," Marigold complained.

"You need to hang out more at Coffee of Doom," Dora advised. She picked up a cup, "Have a coffee sample."

"So you're handing out samples too?" Hannelore asked curiously.

"It's my official reason for being here, and also a good excuse to leave Faye minding the store," Dora winked.

"Good coffee," Marigold admitted. A bit hesitantly she asked, "You were dating Martin, right? How did...?"

"Long story," Dora admitted, then sketched in the details.

"That's kind of romantic, really," Hannelore admitted.

"How's Martin doing?" Marigold asked predictably.

"I think he's okay," Dora admitted, "hopefully we can go back to being friends."

Up front Tai was announcing the next show, so everyone settled down into their seats.

"I think I could get to like yuri," Hannelore conceded as the two women left the show a little while later. As Marigold gave her a look Hannelore blushed, "Not the way you're thinking."

Marigold snickered. "They do a good job with plot and story," she agreed, "tho for some reason they're less popular than yaoi titles like Magical Love Gentleman. No idea why."

"Well, I think I wouldn't mind seeing a few others," Hannelore nodded. "Any suggestions?"

"There's Little Magi Matilda Magica," Marigold mused, "and Soldier Moon is good too. Let's se what we can find in the dealers room."

"Sounds good," Hannelore agreed.

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Meanwhile, back in the Yuricon room, Dora was relating her conversation with Marigold to Tai. "She took it pretty well, actually," she mused.

"Hannelore too, though I guess she hangs around Coffee of Doom enough to know about us," Tai nodded.

"They'd be kinda cute together," Dora noted thoughtfully.

"Oh no," Tai shook her head, "we are NOT trying to matchmake them. Besides, didn't Marigold have a thing for Angus?"

"Doesn't mean she couldn't be bi," Dora said knowledgably. God knew she knew what she was talking about. "Besides, have you seen how protective she is of Hannelore?"

"EVERYBODY does that," Tai noted. "Heck, even you do it at times."

"She's... I dunno, fragile. Kinda." Dora shrugged. "At least when she isn't pissed off."

"Oh?" Tai asked.

"Ask Marigold to tell you about it," Dora advised.

Tai pouted when Dora refused to tell her anymore about it. "Anyway," she changed the subject, "I thought we'd cosplay and pass out some yuricon fliers."

"No," Dora said as she saw the costime.

"Please?" Tai asked sweetly.

Dora shook her head, "No."

Tai gave her the puppy dog eyes look.

"Oh, all right," Dora conceded.

"Yay!" Tai smiled, looking forward to seeing Dora in the dress while she would be wearing a tuxedo. Gotta play up those butch/femme images, even though they often flipped in the sack.

"But you are going to owe me for this," Dora added.

"I'll look forward to it," Tai winked saucilly.

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Hannelore would willingly admit she was a bit odd. How could she not be, raised by a mad scientist and a evil corporate shark? Mind you, she loved her mom and dad, but she was also well aware of how strange they were. So that was why she decided to move into a ordinary apartment building and try to make some normal friends.

Though one wondered how 'normal' they were. Still, compaired to her family they were practically the Bradys. Anyway, meeting Martin and the others had enriched her life a reat deal, as well as leading her to meeting Marigold and discovering anime and manga.

"That was fun," Marigold noted as she flipped through a copy of a Magical Love Gentleman dojin. They had bought two copies, of course, one each. Not that she thought Marigold was contaminated or anything, but...

Hannelore firmly reigned in those impulses too. She was obsessive compulsive and had a germ phobia. These conditions had a effect on her life, but she did her best to keep it as background noise. " thought it was charming," she agreed brightly.

Marigold smiled wryly, "Who knew my lending you Magical Love Gentleman would spark such a love of yaoi?"

Hannelore blushed. "It's a good book!" she protested.

"You just like it for the gay sex," Marigold teased.

Hannelore fought back another blush. To be honest, she found the idea of actual sex to be rather disgusting... but reading about it didn't bother her, oddly. Especially yaoi, which dealt as much with romance and the build up as actual sex. Yuri, interestingly, seemed similar and she was looking forward into reading that too.

"Do you think we can head back?" Hannelore said reluctantly. "We're carrying a lot of stuff and my arms are getting tired."

"Sorry," Marigold was instantly apologetic, "I forgot you're not used to cons. I arranged with some friends to share a room at a local hotel for the con.. we could drop the stuff off then come back for a bit?"

"That sounds good," Hannelore agreed.

Returning to the con they saw two women running by, wearing shorts and t-shirts. "Damn, Combat Athletes cosaplay," Marigold noted.

"That was cosplay?" Hannelore had to ask.

"The hair colors were a hint," Marigold added. "In fact it's one of the yuri series Tai will be showing in her video room."

"I'll look forward to it," Hannelore agreed.

To be continued...

Notes: You know, it's VERY VERY tough to try to get into Hannelore's head-space. It doesn't help that we rarely get anything from her POV over in Questionable Content. Still, tried and hopefully it doesn't sound too horribly out of character.

One SLIGHT advantage of my faffing about so long with this story, is that QC has actually developed into having a yuri couple. So I worked Dora in with Tai. Heh.