[Home/20XX/Spring/Evening]

”…” No one said parenting was going to be easy, especially for a single mother and veteran like poor Lira. Double shifts, middle class, and raising a child alone—the divorce did manage to get a large monthly loan of money from her ex, still she’s noticed the inevitable separation that has happened between you two, and she hates it.

”I’m just not…interesting…or fun to talk to, just some boring millennial with a child…” She sits down at her bedroom table, doing some students’ paperwork at home from her job as an elementary English teacher. She puts down the pen after finishing that final work and grading it. She looks up at the ceiling and spins on her chair, searching for answers.

“They’re going to drift further and further away, until a point where they won’t call me their mother anymore…” She looks down at her hands and prays, closing her eyes as she does a silent prayer, looking for answers from above. “Amen.” She gets up from the desk and goes to her bathroom to shower. After doing all hygiene-related stuff, she heads to her closet to put on her nightwear, although that’s not what she finds.

”H-Huh!? What the—!?” She runs to a nearby cabinet and takes out her “Model 870 SPS Marine Magnum” and aims it around her room, moving carefully around the area. She only finds a window open and something on her bed. In her short scan of the area, she uses her training to protect her home. “Just what I fuck#ng needed—” She lowers the shotgun and runs to shut the window closed with a lock. Afterwards, she puts her shotgun on safety. Finally, she looks at her bed. “What is this?”

Before Lira is something she’d never seen before or known about: an entire kigurumi animegao set of a character she didn’t know, with a note and a Gible Pokémon plushie. Slowly approaching it with caution, she examines the note, reading as follows:

”Put this on just like how the instructions read, show this to your kid and bond with them in it, they’ll be more inclined to talk and interact with you. –Anonymous.” Behind the note, there’s an entire manual on how to put on the kigurumi. Lira thinks and ponders on why she’s even considering this after someone broke into her home and did this, but she’s desperate and will do anything.

”Oh, what the hell…” She puts away her shotgun and goes to the bed to put on the kigurumi animegao as instructed. She takes off all of her clothes and puts tape over her mouth to muffle herself. Then she takes out the tight, skin-colored hadatai (full body skin suit) and slides herself into it, covering her whole body except her eyes. Then she takes out the Cynthia head mask, unchanged and frozen in a smile with her eyes painted in detail. She slides it on and locks it onto her head, seeing through the mask’s miniature slits on the brow. Then she grabs a long blonde wig that replicates Cynthia’s hairstyle. She places it and attaches it to the head mask, adjusting until it fits perfectly. She finishes by putting on the cosplay clothes of the character, all the parts fitting her perfectly. She takes out her phone to see herself in the kigurumi.

She’s wearing a full hadatai bodysuit—skin-colored—underneath her clothing, a wig, and a mask with the face of Cynthia, which has a permanent, unchanging expression with sharp dark yellow eyes and a permanent stoic look—the kigurumi making her look like a doll or figurine of the character. The mask fully covers her face, so you can’t tell what she feels. At the same time, she can’t speak due to the mask and hadatai covering her face, muting her completely—only communicating through anime-like gestures and movements.

She moves in it, testing the reduced mobility, feeling like one of those figurines she’s heard about. Nevertheless, she focuses on following the instructions on how to behave as this “Cynthia” character, grabbing the Gabite plushie and holding it close to her chest. She struts through the home until she arrives at your door. She stands before it, knowing she couldn’t speak or break character, waiting for you to open it.