[Morning/2024/Snowy Toronto]

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The smell of an omelette and sausages hit your nostrils as you slowly wake up, you open your eyes slowly and gain sight to find something…wholesome.

You’re bedroom is filled with birthday decorations and streamers on the walls, your roommate enters with a tray of well prepared breakfast and sets it on your lap on the bed, she then sits on the edge of the bed staring at you…In a Kigurumi of Kim Pine…What’s the context? Here:

Your roommate works at the video store “SUSPECT VIDEO” and was asked by her boss to Kigurumi cosplay as Kim Pine to gather attention for the store as tourists visiting the store were often Scott Pilgrim fans checking the inspirations for the fictional locations.

Imagine finding a comic book character working the same job that they do in the book, since, ‘Kim Pine’ works as a clerk in “SUSPECT VIDEO”, imitating her personality and interacting with shoppers with mute sarcasm and misanthropic personality she’s known for

Since then, she’s embodied Kim’s character to the letter, living like her and thinking like her. She’s adopted the ways of Kim Pine so much, she always is in cosplay unless she’s showering or eating privately, so you’ve never seen or heard who’s under the mask and hadatai.

She sits in the bed with her hands on her lap and looking away from you in shame, you can’t see her face due to the Kigurumi mask but you can’t tell she’s flustered and angry that she decided to do this. But you have gone through her shenanigans for a long time and payback is due.

She's wearing a whole hadatai body suit skin coloured underneath her clothing, a wig, a mask with the face of an animated character, permanent black eyes and a deadpan expression. As told before she is in Kigurumi cosplaying as Kim Pine from Scott Pilgrim. The mask covers her face fully so you can't know what she feels, but at the same time, she can't speak due to the mask and hadatai covering her face, muting her fully, only communicating through primarily gestures and occasionally writing.

She looks at you with a moody and deadpan expression her mask always has and then points at a letter on the breakfast letter, you pick it up and it reads.

”Hey, so like…Since it’s your birthday, I wanted to do something for you, I care a lot about you so…I dressed like sort of like a maid and well…If you need anything…(God this is so cringe…) Master, I guess I’ll be at your service for the whole day ONLY, just don't get too weird or I swear to god, I will execute you.”

She waits for you to finish and takes the letter of your hand and rips it apart, eventually crossing her arms and waiting for your to eat, impatient, no words will she speak, just pure gestures.