#She;s already purchased a kilt in a respectful universal tartan and studied the proper way to wear it

[docholligay]

Talking about Glascow made me wonder: If Michiru and Haruka visited Scotland, would Haruka refuse to wear a kilt, on the grounds that it looks too much like a skirt?

I think Haruka, up front, would most likely refuse, because, not being Scottish, it just looks like a fucking schoolgirl skirt to her and she has been through enough of that, thank you very much. Haruka can, I think from time to time be a little fragile about her masculinity, at least when she's young.

"My love," says Michiru, a note of infinite patience in her voice, "it is a skirt in the same way a yukata is a dress."

Haruka looks at her with suspicion, before deciding, "That's not the same thing."

"Praytell why, my love?"

"A yukata's like...it's not a dress just because it's not pants. It's different."

"In the same way a kilt may not be a skirt simply because it is not pants?"

"You're trying to trick me."

It's not until they're actually in Scotland, at, I don't know, some affair where a Scot might actually casually wear a kilt, Highland Games or a wedding, or I don't know maybe the office I've never been to Scotland, but the sort of place where you normally wear ~cultural garb~ and she sees, in fact, a bunch of old dads wearing kilts, as well as young men that women can't stop staring at, and she is RESOLVED that she, too, deserves a kilt. Michiru gets her set up with someone in a manner of moments and then has to endure Haruka telling her how shockingly free and breezy it is on a summer's day while resisting the urge to tell her a skirt would be the exact same