Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus

I'm doing approximate times.   I'm also beyond 90 minutes, but I want to deal with some things that happen around here.   First of all, earlier on - but after my first update - Gigi thinks of herself as 'not a regular girl.'   Since it's from her POV, there's no way to be like 'she's still a real girl.'   This also ties into the anxiety she feels that no one will see her as a real girl, even if she tells.   I really wish there were something addressing this, but I understand why there wasn't.   This also feels like a bit of a nitpick: Gigi is shown as a kind, thoughtful character who is fully formed.   There is something so clear and shining and confident in how she thinks of herself that I can't help but let this cheer me up.   It just does; I don't, in fact, really let it do anything.  I just can't help it at all, even with nitpicks.

Her mother tells her it was cute when she dressed up in her mother's clothes when she was three, and not to do it anymore because it's not cute anymore.  (This is after she finds the girls/teen magazines Gigi has  accumulated - free from the library and so on - and yells at her, believing she's stolen the magazines.)   She tells her best friend she might be a girl and her best friend stops getting close to her, although her best friend has been cast as Charlotte - a character that has a lot of meaning to Gigi - in the school play so Kelly is also spending a lot of time with the cast.   This isn't really all that, though, because as much as Kelly tries to understand - I thought I was a boy when I wanted to be a fireman and thought they were all boys, is it like that? - she's having a hard time coping.   She smiles awkwardly and/or tightly at Gigi. 

So basically, I thought mother, best friend, and teacher would be allies.  I still think they might be, but it's hard because Kelly is young enough to not really know what to do, and the other two - mother and teacher - don't know.   I do hope they find out and help Kelly understand and accept, although I suspect that the bullying Gigi gets at school - for being too emotional, and too girly, and not fitting in - will spur Kelly to take action on her own.