#spiderv

her lovely girlfriend and overall fashion partner, kim gajin, is on the right.

she designed veronicas first spiderman suit out of scrap fabrics and since then tried to upgrade her suit as much as possible. it isn't until amir, a friend who is much more experienced in tech, makes the suit which veronica keeps. gajin isn't insecure about it! not at all.. wink

she's a little older than veronica and she works in couture fashion and helps conduct runways funded by the school. she's overall much more of a fashion designer than a tech wiz and so be it, they had to be the perfect match!

gajin is korean, her parents immigrating to the u.s when she was super young. she of course can still speak her native language and frequently visits her mother to indulge in her homeland every now and then. she is also a motorcyclist! i like to think her dad got it for her after his own history with motorcycles but of course id like to fact check a little more about what that may look like.

they both met in highschool and came together for a stem project, gajin was failing out of the class and veronica had an a+, and created camouflage couture, the first fashion line that camouflaged with the background.

the prompt was "hide in plain sight." ofc one could say they were try hards, but gajin needed this grade or else she would've genuinely flunked the class. veronica on the other hand, "wow pretty girl telling me what to do" so that basically sums up that process.

veronicas main technology piece was a reader and it's job was to recognize the camo pattern and run certain amounts of code to "cover it up." to make this doable, i like to think veronica figured out a way to make thin sheets of film to cover the camo in, but doing so in a way that gajin can sew them with her machine and be able to iron it.

they spent ALLLLL year working on the project, and with their teacher's guidance, a few extra volunteers, they had a miniature fashion show in the school theatre room. when it was announced it was for stem, veronica clicked the button everyone has been waiting for: the hide button.

all of the models were covered up, their silhouettes practically melted into the back curtains. to demonstrate it's efficiency, the models walked around the stage before turning the feature off.

veronica's main purpose of making it this way was because "camo helps you hide when you need to stay still, but moving around is just as important. not to mention, the film used to create this can have many more purposes beyond just this."

sitting in the crowd is principal liv octavius, famous fashion designer and content creator. their teacher had invited her to see the future, or maybe had some other reasons. veronica and gajin finished the show, both receiving an a+. gajin's f finally went to a c-! SHE PASSED!!!

as they stepped down from the stage, people approached them bombarding them with questions about their future, where were they going? what was their plan?

in the year that they began to work together, they found themselves to be great partners. veronica wanted to pursue engineering to some extent, but knew her other class grades would affect her ability to get into a top notch school. gajin on the other hand, was going into fashion.

"excuse me, excuse me please," a lady, tall and slim, pushed through the posse of people surrounding the two. "veronica and gajeen right?"

"yes, that's us!" veronica nodded, a mumbled "my name is gajin.." came from gajin's mouth but her face still grew with excitement.

"you two are absolutely fantastic. truly the work of two future fashion designers!" she smiled.

"thank you miss!" veronica graciously said, "and you are?"

"don't you know?" gajin peered over veronica's shoulder, whispering intensely, "that's liv? famous fashion designer? has like 2 mil on instagram?"

"not ringing any bells, ill be real." veronica mumbled back.

"yes, im liv! principal and founder of LSFF, liv's school for fashion." she handed the two laminated business cards. "have you ever considered joining our tech course?"

"if ill be honest, im not really sure-" veronica stammered, face burning with gajin so close and all the people asking questions.

"v! come on, that's such a good opportunity." gajin's eyes lit up, her smile inching bigger and bigger.

"that sounds.. fun." veronica smiled, looking up at liv.

"yay!" liv grabbed the two girls around their shoulders and jumped excitedly. "you guys are getting a full free ride to LSFF, completely on me. it'd be an honor for you to participate in the programs we have to offer."

gajin squealed as she grabbed veronica herself, jumping up and down similarly to liv. "oh my gosh! yes, yes please! id love to attend!"

"what about you, veronica?" liv's eyes flickered with interest, her smirk growing deeper. "how would you like to join your friend?"

veronica looked at liv and at gajin. her heart was already racing and she felt like this was it, she was going to make it.

"yes, yes ill go!" veronica smiled, feeling a wash of relief and victory setting over her.

liv squealed, "amazing! okay, ill go ahead and make sure you two get your admission and dorm forms in the mail this week. ill talk to your principal and your wonderful stem teacher about this and ill see you next semester, yeah?"

gajin's face has been shining since the offer had been placed, and suddenly veronica's was too.

"yes absolutely, thank you so much!" veronica couldn't help but feel a bit jittery herself.

"alright ladies! ill see you very, very soon!" she turned on her heel and waved goodbye.

"see you!" gajin waved back. "veronica, is this not amazing?"

veronica nodded, feeling chills run up her arms. "yeah, yeah! this is absolutely amazing."

how sweet!

liv's heels click incessantly as she approaches the stem teachers empty classroom, sliding her credit card between the door frame and his locked door.

click!

she pushed the door open and found a yellow sticky note practically waving at her.

*check bottom left drawer*

"haha, antoine.." she bent down to open the drawer. she picked up the container, admiring the creature inside of it. "hello beautiful."