"That last bit is hard. Sometimes I can do it with the right clothing, but people are more complicated than animals."
Ilphyl knows from observation that their own internal sense of gender and their outward presentation (to put it clinically) could alter how they held themselves and acted, but they had only tried that when leaning into a feminine presentation as opposed to their normal 'not really caring how others see them'.
(If they were honest about it, it was because they were still figuring out what an overtly masculine Ilphyl would look and feel like, other than the person they were when they ran away from home.)
"The last time I had to disguise myself, we dyed my hair brown and used a mask and some makeup to hide my skin color. Well, and a dress, because of my height -- other kinds of elves back home have taller men than women. That helped with reminding me to act different."
Re: Makeovers
Ilphyl knows from observation that their own internal sense of gender and their outward presentation (to put it clinically) could alter how they held themselves and acted, but they had only tried that when leaning into a feminine presentation as opposed to their normal 'not really caring how others see them'.
(If they were honest about it, it was because they were still figuring out what an overtly masculine Ilphyl would look and feel like, other than the person they were when they ran away from home.)
"The last time I had to disguise myself, we dyed my hair brown and used a mask and some makeup to hide my skin color. Well, and a dress, because of my height -- other kinds of elves back home have taller men than women. That helped with reminding me to act different."