Well, then, let's see. It really wasn't for too long, and thanks to my brother coming along, people noticed who I was pretty quickly there after, but the experience still happened.
Let's see, it has happened multiple times, you see, I have a twin-brother, an almost identical twin brother, goes by the nickname Tito. He and I look almost identical, next to the fack that I have (small) boobs, a more girlish figure than him, and a slightly higher (almost in destinguishable ina crowd) voice than his, while he is more masculine, etc. We have the same length hair (ever since we were little we had something like a promise where we would try to look similar, because we were, and have been, so close), and we are just about the same hieght, give our take a few millimeters. I, also, tend to hijack his T-shirts, more as a comfort statement, and because I don't really like my girl shirts (they aren't as cool as his), and even sometimes his pants (what can i say, guy pants can be more comfortable than girl pants). Now to move on to the experiences.
The First Case
First time it happened, it was at our Local Game Store (LGS), where we usually play Warhammer 40K. I had come in with our my brother and I's Tau army, and I was wearing our signature Grey Jacket (it's more of a sweater, but we've labeled it our grey jacket). I was putting my army on the side, waiting for someone to come in and play, watching the others play their game of Fantasy, and that's when it started. "Hey, TITO, what's up." Came a voice from behind me. It was one of our friends, and Ork player, his name escapes me right now, but he had mistaken me for my brother Tito. It may have been the fact my hair was up in a pony tail (how he usually wears his), that I was wearing our grey jacket, hiding my figure for the most part (I'm not the most...well endowed, girl in my family, might I add) or that I was wearing his pants again, but he honestly thought I was him. Given that our voices sound pretty similar, I tried to play along, see what would come of this. Nothing really happened, he asked to play a nice friendly game of 40K, and we had some fun. Our conversation was different, to say the least. You see when I play with guys, they tend to be nice, laugh at the jokes I make about the game, give me lots of attention, and play 'nicer' to me, than they do when they play against Tito. Like one thing that stuck out was that he kept asking where I was, and I just gave the same reply, something along the lines of "Oh, she's a home, probably sleeping or drawing, like I always make her do." (Which he does, but that's a different story). It almost felt like he was looking for me for some reason. Sometimes I would make a silly crack, like how my Tau were shooting their guns *pyew, pyew* at the oncoming tide of green that would inevitably smash in their poor faces. Best I got from him was a brief snicker.
At the end of the game, I turned out to be the victor. This is where I noticed the biggest change from when I play men, he pretty much belittled his army, and took the game a little more seriously than I did, or any man did whenever I play with them. It felt like his pride was on the line, when in reality I was just playing to roll my dice and see what funny antics I could pull from the game. After that game, I didn't feel confident, or comfortable for that matter, "cross-dressing" or pretending to be my brother, so I packed my Tau and drove home. Told Tito, and he had a good laugh.
The Second Case
Right now, I can only remember one more instance of this, and it was at class. In between classes I like to go hang out with these guys who like to play Magic, and enjoy having discussions that eventually wikipedia from Dinosaurs to the physics of dropping pillars from space onto pirate ships would work. There I came in, Grey Jacket again, hair up in a pony tail, with a mission. See how long I could trick everyone into thinking I was Tito. I came with one of his Magic decks, in order to play anyone who thought I was him. It worked, at first, I managed to get everyone there to think I was him. There weren't very many people there, 5 guys and 2 girls. The girls were having a discussion, while two of the guys were having one of their wikipedia discussions, and the other three were either on laptops or reading some textbook. I said hi to everyone, and they were all like, "Oh, hello, Tito!" Score! It worked...for now. So I began to listen in on the wikipedia discussion, since the other 3 didn't seem like talking, and Tito tends not to just walk up to people and just ASK THEM what they're reading, like I tend to do. So they go on for a good 5 - 10 minutes, forget about what, but then another guy walks in and asks if anyone wants to play Magic. I try to act as timid as Tito is when people ask, and ask if I could play, and they go sure. So we start the game, and nothing much happens. There was only one visible difference, the fact none of them directly said anything to me, as they usually do to Tito, unlike myself, but then again, I wasn't doing what I usually do and get myself in the conversation (trying to act like timid ol' Tito, as opposed to my usual semi-extroverted self).
That's when the plan suddenly when down hill. In comes Tito with his girlfriend, all hey guys, what's going on, like. Then that's when everyone stared at me, then him, then me again. Everyone's like, "Who on Earth are you?" and Tito goes, "Luz, what are you doing?" I reply with a simple, "Just doing an experiment, FOR SCIENCE!" and everyone looks at me funny. Then the day went on as if nothing happened, although I think I got a few suspicious stares in there.
Those are the two instances this has happened, that I can recall. I'll try to remember more, but right now it's 1 AM and I still need to draw another page for Tito. Sorry if they are long, brought out, and full of random bits of info that may not be relevent, and sorry they aren't as neat as how Ultrajoe's were. Hope you enjoy reading them, I like telling stories of my life, makes me feel like a story teller...and important sort of, if you know what I mean...
