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It's not the fact that Mia uses a knife, takes up Mastermind with a vengeance, that bothers Seren. This is a part of the Chief designation that they can really get behind, actually. Would they ever identify Mia as a candidate for mastermind status? No, but if she wants to try, they'll never stand in her circuitous, bumbling, error-prone, accident-ridden way.

(Yeah, yeah, Mia's not, actually, on Mastermind, but c'mon, don't we have enough Psycorruptors around here already? Which is really the whole point.)

It's more just simply the fact that Seren's never seen a male mimeosome holding a knife - not cooking, not fighting. Yeah, girls can pop and sling a raygun, but if you want a Psycorruptor (so many, too many) to put you to sleep, she's gonna be feminist about it. No lullaby, no sweat.

Psycho Launcher wielders are also all women, plus L. Curators and Mediators? Womens' work. Harriers? Men, obviously. Manly ones, like Doug and Bozé. Phog uses dual guns, but he's not exactly the most masculine of dudes. Women and nonbinary autists dual wield, it seems. Not always the most worth-it of rules of cool, especially when the men are off sniping, out of the fire.

Besides the fact that it's all so gratingly true, by pure evidence of easy pattern, Seren is hard-pressed to find the reason for it. There are people, across universes, who buck tradition, but not many.

At least the assault rifle is gender-neutral though, so that's cool. Alexa, the most nonbinary of all nonbinary lesbians (seriously - no butch, no femme, no nothing; only a Doll so far as Skells are concerned), uses one, as does H.B., who's the opposite in terms of a double-ended spectrum of gender expression superiority. Gwin and Irina, paired forever. And every rookie Blade, except for, again, Mia.

Sure, yeah, anyone can shoot up, or else pistol-whip (not gonna say the other one, nope). But longswords must be too heavy for the poor wittle girls, right? No, girls can have javelins, if they must fling around a stick - no photon sabers, of course.

Well, but this is all circumstantial...what's the word, empirical? All qualitative evidence rather than quantitative. No, if Seren's going to do this right, they need a team.

And it can't be just any cast-standard non-amnesiac celebrity-tier BLADE. No, it's gotta be someone with a vested interest, and a taste for tabular vengeance.

It'll be Razor and Feru, or it'll be no one. Seren honestly can't think of anyone else likely to take them up on their silly little (surprisingly vast) project anyway.

Feru is thrilled, naturally, though in their own quiet way. They immediately begin scheming about the ramifications of such research and what the abstract of it should be, to guide their overarch. Razor receives the topic and recedes slightly into some introspection about it, likely pondering - and not for the first time - what made them choose the photon saber over the longsword.

"Will we survey everyone, or just gather the data from your comm screens, Seren?"

"Me? I'm in charge?" Seren doesn't say it because they're shaking nervous, but just because...isn't that what you get teammates for? So nobody has to be in charge?

"You know everyone the best," Razor puts in. "Not just your close teammates, but everyone."

And when he says everyone, he means everyone. Does Seren pay the best-fit attention to their affinity chart, and talk to everyone who's anyone, all the time? Perhaps not, but they're bold enough and bright enough to attract new friends around every block and segment.

Actually, Seren's better friends with Frye than Razor is. Might that not help put it into perspective?

So. When you're being exact, doing statistics, avoiding empirical results and calculations, you have to survey the largest population you can. Right. Seren knew that. Obviously.

And, that being the case, "Let's go talk to everyone!" they crow, slinging their arms through the unsuspecting Feru and Razor's. No such thing as boring science, this way.