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A bridal shop on the mainland- Sunday after the brunch

Next on the list of Things Jaina Never Thought She'd Actually Do: shopping for a wedding dress. It was probably early, considering there was no idea of a date yet, but she'd rather get this over with in case it came down to everything happening kind of fast. Plus, when the Jedi were currently being kind of terrible with their suggestions that she rethink her priorities and that maybe she couldn't be a Jedi and marry the Imperial Head of State, then kriff them, she was getting her karking wedding dress. It sucked that her mother wasn't even talking to her to be here, too, but at least Jaina did have actual support with her.

"It's going to be so weird to wear one of these when it's not just the island being insane," Jaina said as they stepped inside. There was a freakish amount of white in here, seriously. "Or when I'm not marrying a guy for his contributions to the Skywalker diamond mine."

[Seriously people are the worst to Jaina in this series. NFI, and for her shopping partners!\

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"Yeah, that'd raise some questions," Jaina snorted.

Don't even ask her how she planned on having a wedding with people from the GFFA and their Fandom counterparts, because she didn't know how that was going to work at all yet. Hair dye for everyone? It worked for Allana.

"And Jag and the Jedi know where I am, and they'll both cover for me for the weekend. The Jedi aren't happy with me, but I think they're okay seeing me not there for a little bit."

"I'm sure you mind getting a break from them, too," Rory said with a little roll of her eyes as she idly pulled at a dress that was mostly chiffon. (Total possibility for Cupcake Jaina, yes.) "It's okay, this is like a little vacation for you."

"It is. It's been a whole three days since anyone's yelled at me or made a passive-aggressive remark." The Jedi basically turned into 13-year-old girls a lot. "Should I be worried about that dress?"

"I prefer 'anticipatory,'" Rory tried, smiling at her. "You should be all excited and anticipatory about this dress!"

"As long as you do realize I'm not actually wearing something six times my size down the aisle?" Jaina said.

"Yeah, no, I got away with not doing that, you can too," Rory promised her. "What are we thinking in terms of an actual silhouette, anyway? Cupcake Jaina hilarity aside."

". . . I have missed out on a lot spending most of my life on rural planets, haven't I?"

Yeah, Tahiri was more or less lost here. But amused, at least, if not helpful.

"It's okay, I only know anything because I did research when I was bored," Jaina assured Tahiri. "I don't want anything too splashy. I like simple, anything with ruffles isn't even going to be considered, and it wouldn't hurt to be able to move in it just in case."

Because GFFA.

"So like the exact opposite of this?" Rory asked, holding it up. She glanced around the dress at Tahiri, and added, "And with talk like that, missy, we're going to get you into one of these before the end of the day." Because playing dress-up was fun!

Tahiri rarely got a deer-in-the-headlights look, but oh, was she ever rocking one now.

"Wait, me too?"

"Cupcake Tahiri," Jaina said, totally helpfully.

"I think I'm too tall to be Cupcake Rory, or I'd join you two." Oh, so sad. She'd never been so pleased to be the tallest one in a group, before. "But it'll be fun!"

"We won't make you," Jaina said, though she also wasn't going to discourage it because that would be kind of great. "Also, that particular dress is terrible and you can't kick anyone in it."

Well, Tahiri wouldn't object. She just hadn't expected it.

"Oh, I'll try it on if you want me to. But for the actual wedding, it seems like it would just be inviting trouble of the kind where it turns out you really did need to kick someone."

"That would happen," Jaina said, making a face.

"Yeah, no, we want something you can kick and run in," Rory agreed. "I had an A-line skirt?" She pulled one that was sort of similar to her own dress, at least in cut. "And I didn't have to kick anyone, but I probably could have?"

"Something like that isn't bad," Jaina considered. "That's still a little puffy for me, though."

What did it say about this family that these were things they actually seriously had to take into consideration? That they didn't lead dull lives, at least?

"I think it would look pretty good on you," Tahiri said, biting her lip in thought as she looked at the dress. "It's not as if you'll be wearing it every day, anyway. Besides, bet you of all people could figure out a way to turn the puffiness into an advantage in a fight."

Tahiri, stop inadvertently inviting trouble.

Jaina raised an eyebrow. "Puffiness as an advantage?"

"You could so hide your lightsaber under a skirt like that and no one'd see it," Rory offered.

See? Advantage: puffiness.

"...Okay, there's an advantage to puffiness," Jaina agreed reluctantly. "But not too much puffiness."

"Not that I don't think you could make it work somehow, but that would just be too weird," Tahiri said, "and you probably don't want your guests' brains dribbling out their ears at your wedding."

"People seeing me in the dress at all might do that," Jaina pointed out, poking at another dress. "This sort of thing must weigh fifteen pounds. Just of fabric."

"You could hide at least three lightsabers under that one," Rory said, helpfully.

"I might leave the multiple lightsabers to other people. This is my wedding, after all," Jaina said. "This one isn't bad."

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