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Sunday, December 25th, 2022Getting away from mom and dad was a bit of of a struggle, but now they were alone. Seventeen year old Mako and thirty-two year old Tensei. Siblings."Ten, why did you want to speak to me alone so bad? Why could mom and dad definitely, definitely, definitely not be around to overhear? Are you okay?" Tensei asked his younger 'brother' once they were both situated in Mako's room."It....It is imperative that you know this, preferably immediately. But, mom and dad...I would prefer to wait on them." Mako informed, nervously, twisting her short, blue hair as tight as possible over her right hand."Okay. Well, what is it, then? What must I know now?""I know this may seem shocking, and you may not believe me. You may choose to abandon me, which I suppose is in your right. But, irregardless of how you react, I am still me. I am still Mako. I am still a girl.""You're trans?" Tensei questioned, nonchalantly."I am in fact. You are the first to know. How...do you feel?"Tensei smiled. "Glad to have my own name back I suppose.""W-what?""Well the whole thing with both of our names starting with 'Ten' has always felt odd to me. Now it's fixed.""But....I'm a girl.""I know. And it's not as surprising as you think.""You mean it was obvious?" Mako didn't know if she should be relieved or anxious upon figuring this fact out."Obvious? Not quite. There are no real signs. But....Looking back at your childhood there were moments I questioned if you were a girl. But, I left it for you to figure out, I never really knew until you just told me.""Moments? Like when?""You were never really into pretend games when you were younger.""Autism, yeah. What does that have to do with gender?"Tensei smiled. "I'm getting there. So, pretend games of all sorts weren't your style. But, when you were around 7-10 you liked one pretend game. Pretending to be a girl, of course we now know that wasn't pretend, but you get the point. It's not that uncommon for cis kids to play pretend at being a different gender, of course. But, that's not just it. You seemed happier. You were quite a serious child. Mostly that's not a bad thing, it's just you. But, you always seemed to be carrying a bit of a weight on your shoulders which disappeared when you were Takara.""Takara. I almost named myself that, you know. But it felt like that name belonged to my younger self. I didn't want to steal it. Maybe that doesn't make sense to you, but....It's how I feel.(A/N: That's how I feel about the name Phoenix. My first ever name(after my dead name, of course). I love it, but it belongs to eight year old me only.)""I understand that. Well, as much as I possibly can being cis.""Do you like Mako? The name?" Mako inquired, scared to be told no."Oh, it's just beautiful. It suits you perfectly.""It's not what mom would have named me. If I had been afab she would have named me Natsuki. All the better she didn't with DDLC, but still.""That doesn't matter. I was also sentenced to be Natsuki, but if I were to choose a feminine name to go by, that would not be it.""What would you choose?" Mako wondered."Well....Obviously, if I was actually making the permanent change I would look more into to names. But, just to say at the moment...I rather like Kaori.""Kaori? That's nice. If you had been born Kaori or Natsuki or whatever and had to chose a masculine name, what would it be?""Well, I like my name, Tensei. But, I probably wouldn't chose it because I would have no reason to over any other name practically. So, maybe...Naoki.""Really like 'i' names, huh?" Mako joked."What do you mean?""Kaori and Naoki both end in i. Actually they're very similar. K-A-O-R-I and N-A-O-K-I.""I suppose that is true. Same letters all together except Kaori doesn't have an 'N' in it and Naoki doesn't have an 'R'.""Neither are very similar to Tensei either."Tensei shrugged. "I like Tensei, but I didn't choose it.""I guess that's true." Mako submitted. "But, it's really okay?""What?""Me being a girl?""Why of course. You're my sister, Mako. Always.""Always?""And forever."