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Being Fiona Spoilers for the events of Saturday below

I’ve just storyboarded the strip where Fiona’s game character finally gets the dress she was shown wearing in strip 176, and I’m only a few more away before I reach the morning of “the big day” of Saturday where the story will go into more detail about Fiona’s in person meeting with Lisa beyond those two strips that showed their meeting way back in 177 & 178.

So, here is what I currently have in mind for that day, although as I write each character’s dialogue, the characters will often take things in other directions.

The day will start with Felix waking up at around 8 or 9, eating breakfast, and messaging Jess. Jess will invite Felix to join a private Sense Stream so that they can plan their morning.

Felix joins her stream to find Jess jogging home from the gym. Jess arrives back at her condo, and they maybe discuss whether Jess should jump in the shower and wash off her gym sweat (would Fiona being a smelly slob help sell her low self-esteem?).

They decide on the shower, Felix doesn’t notice Hugo still sleeping in Jess’ bed as they walk to the bathroom. They jump in the shower, Hugo wakes up, and decides to join Jess in the shower, not knowing she is streaming with Felix. Hilarity ensues.

(If they were to decide not to shower, Jess’ messy bedsheets hide Hugo’s presence while Jess is changing her clothes in her bedroom. Hugo, naked, embraces Jess from behind in attempt to resume the fun from the night before. Hilarity ensues).

After things settle down, Felix and Jess start discussing their plans with Hugo. Jess is now dressed in Fiona’s hoodie and sweatpants. Jess decides to skip her make-up but as she goes to finish up her hair, Hugo suggests that she not blow dry her hair and leave it messy. He then offers to take ‘Fiona’ out for the morning to get some more practice being Fiona and to help her pick up an old used phone with a “pay as you go plan” so that Fiona as a phone number.

Leaving Lucy at home, Hugo summons a taxi and he and ‘Fiona’ go out shopping. Hugo bombards Fiona with questions about her past, “where did you grow up,” “what did you do last summer,” “do you have any siblings,” “what shows do you like?”

They discuss how Fiona will tell Lisa that she is ‘moving away.’ What the reason will be, where she is going (preferably a similar time zone, but somewhere far enough away that she can’t come back to visit). They decide to settle on a location after determining if Lisa is from Seattle, or if she is from out of state.

Hugo buys a used phone for Fiona, saying that’s it’s a gift and costs him next to nothing.

They talk about how Fiona will make purchases (such as buying coffee) when hanging out with Lisa. She might just tap with her fake phone (attached to Felix’s credit/debit card) or pay cash when her phone can’t be used.

Then, after discovering that Fiona is big into the fantasy genre, Hugo brings Fiona to a comics & games shop and starts ‘nerding’ out with her about boardgames, figures, and games.

Hugo buys Fiona something from the store, a statue or figurine, a rulebook, possibly a piece of  elf-ear jewellery (in the strip where Lisa and Fiona meet, you can’t see Fiona’s ears, so Fiona could be wearing this when meeting Lisa).

But I want to be careful about how far I go with Hugo and Fiona. I think Jess will recognize that Hugo is, either purposefully or accidentally, is courting the ‘nerd girl,’ but at this stage it should be subtle enough that Felix just thinks that he and Hugo are just ‘guy friend bonding.’

Hugo pulls Fiona into a shop with costume supplies and puts a pair of fake glasses on Fiona’s face.

Not sure if I’ll include this, but I’m tempted to include Hugo playing an Augmented Reality game (similar to Pokemon Go, but not really) where players are spies/hitmen who get points for ‘shooting’ other players. A James Bond sort of game where you get an alert if another player has entered the area, you have to track them down, and then shoot them with your hand in a finger gun gesture. Jess thinks the game is dangerous, she heard about one player running into traffic and getting hit by a car, Hugo pulls Fiona into the game with him anyway.

At some point, Felix mentions he will need time to leave his apartment so that Craig thinks that he is going to meet with Lisa as Felix. Hugo and Jess ask Felix why he wants to keep his plan a secret from Craig. Felix is worried that Craig will be upset with his plan and prefers to ask Craig for forgiveness after the meeting.

Felix would then meet up with Jess and Hugo in person, and then reconnect to the Dreamband in Jess’ apartment?

I think I might have Hugo tell Jess he is going shadow her when Fiona goes to meet Lisa, just in case Lisa isn’t who she says she is.

Fiona and Lisa then hang out at the café, learn more about each other, Fiona tells Lisa she’s moving away, Lisa drags Fiona out for more shopping, and then at the end of the outing, invites Fiona to hang out with her again, after exams, but before Fiona moves away and to bring Craig along next time.