[Reyoki]

With that last sentence, things were beginning to fall together in Mimi's thoughts. She glared at the floor for a moment before taking the papers and putting them on the table next to the door. Facing away from him, she let out a sigh of frustration and said, "Ya know, that kind of attitude is really annoying."

She spun around to look at him with a stern expression. "Of course you're different from everyone else! If everyone were the same, things would get really boring really fast! So what if you have a few more idiosyncrasies than other people? It's not a bad thing. From the stories I've heard about your dad, weird runs through your veins like mako runs through the planet.

"Why not flaunt what makes you stand out instead of hiding it? If you keep berating and beating yourself up like this, it's like giving everyone else a free pass to do the same. Take my first day at ShinRa as an example. I tried to make myself appear to others as plain and normal as possible, and you saw how that worked out. I was absolutely miserable and wound up destroying something in search of comfort. Then in you came after seeing my little trip of weirdness and didn't give a chocobo's tail feathers about it. That made me really happy, so I haven't held back around you since then.

"If you'll just let loose and be weird every now and then, maybe you wouldn't get the snot beaten out of you. You'll probably feel a lot better, too. Keeping yourself bottled up like this is really bad for you. I mean, come on, just look at the commander. He looks all pristine and perfect, but he's probably taking about a dozen different medications for stress, high blood pressure, insomnia, migranes, and a whole slew of other problems. Do you get what I'm trying to say?"

Instead of waiting for a reply, she went over to the containers of food and began to open them up and smell the contents. "Hey, this stuff smells really good!"