Grrl Power #1385 - Do your thing - on the holoplinth (Patreon)

Thank you for the support! You guys and grrls are awesome!

Frix's mistake her is telling Sydney it's probably okay to mix and match. I mean, the pool of possible selections is already huge. Let's say there's 1,000 humanoid spacefaring species in the Milky Way, and Sydney could reasonably be disguised as maybe 350 of them, given they're trying to roughly match her dimensions and she requires cuteness and probably doesn't to pretend to be a child. Actually, let's say there's only 100 that match those criteria, especially on the cuteness front, like she doesn't want to be some plantigrade stick insect thing that has a reasonable amount of its population in the five-foot range. That's still SO MANY choices, because within each viable species disguise, there's a bunch of variation - I mean, she could just disguise herself as a different looking human woman. Given the things I've brought up about body language that different cultural or national backgrounds can impart and how that would add a layer of complexity to aliens trying to disguise themselves as humans and vice versa, a human disguising themselves as a different human is probably the smartest way to go. 

But then, they're not trying to fool people who know them, or even anyone who even knows who they are or are off-planet. They just need to be able to mingle in crowds 

Then on top of that, telling her she can add antlers or those moth-fern-antenna things as eyebrows or something? Frix, you might be a mighty space adventurer, but you do not have that kind of endurance. 

This is all assuming Sydney doesn't want to try being a guy for the next however long this trip is going to take. No really being a guy, of course. The haptic feedback of these glowbods isn't on that sort of level. But just for experimenting socially, it could be an option. Granted it adds a layer of complexity to a situation she hasn't exactly trained for in the first place. They're not trying to infiltrate a given species's society, but walking down the thoroughfare and someone who is of the species you've disguised yourself as walks past and taps three fingers to their chin, do you return the gesture? Tap your cheek? Forehead? Tap 4 fingers? Two? Again, they're not exactly trying to infiltrate German occupied France, but best to keep odd behavior to a minimum.