Guess what those skimpy outfits looked like?
People buy lingerie and have sex independent of a 500 year old anime, y'know.
If they didn't, Tengku Fauziah Kyoko Perak-Kobuin wouldn't be as rich as she is (not to say that she wasn't rich before, but she likes being
richer, it's a good way to keep score, and the bedroom department of her fashion empire pulls in a
lot of profit
)
Like, I have mentioned this earlier, but there's a reason only the Great Houses still have maximum pure foxes, it's because the foxes were so thirsty that 500 years of inbreeding with humans means the average fox has lost her fluffy tail and only has her fluffy ears as proof of her foxness.
obviously the Great Houses are doing genescreening to ensure they keep their fluffy tails, but you know nobles, rules for you and not for me
Oh good, we can rely on loyal Marines to gleefully kick the tails of any rebellious nobles.
The IRG is a separate service from the Imperial Marine Corps*. I've talked about this before, earlier in the thread, but the IRG is basically what happens when the Secret Service has a baby with the USMC, Household Division, USN and JSOC, mixed in with 500 years of good ideas and mission creep. I mean, they've got
three dreadnoughts. The Navy only has
two. (And Sumeragi has none, which has just added to their butthurt.
)
*They do have a certain overlap in skillset, being the two services that train for orbital assault. Once upon a time, a couple hundred years ago, the IRG did a dickwaving excercise and deployed 2 RAGTFs to hit an objective, dropping down three overstrength combined arms battalions on the target along with copious fighter and gunship support. The Imperial Marine Corps took offense to that, and the next month did a dickwaving excercise dropping a Marine division onto the target. The IRG began planning for maximum dickwaving in dropping all 5 RAGTFs at once, the IMC and IA started talking about a 2 division drop with rapidly surging multiple Army divisions, at which point the Empress stepped in and slapped down everyone for excessive dickwaving, tailspreading, and wasting her Imperial Majesty's time and budget.
Oh thank the gods its back.
Now having looked at the options, we need to be Measured and while not Involved not distant as well. Quite frankly I'm not trusting the tutors if this is the level of education she has been getting, but we also cannot helicopter.
To be fair to Ahri (and this is something that Yui knows IC), the Late Empress is to blame for that. See, the Late Empress had this idea that she would be a good mom, kind and loving, more indulgent than her own monther, and she felt that there wasn't that much rush, she had time to get things do, and so instead of her own childhood which was utterly miserable and was basically nonstop cramming to become the next Empress, she decided let Ahri have a normal childhood. It was actually a fairly reasonable plan: let ahri live like a normal girl until graduating high school at 18, spend the next year with mom as a sorta gap year/ "take your princess to work" year, spend 20-23 at uni getting a degree, then come back to the palace and work with mom and begin her apprenticeship as future empress.
Unfortunately the late Empress did not put any contingency planning into the idea of "what if I die before Ahri's apprenticeship begins"
Contrast Prince Masatada, the late Empress' younger brother, who was born as a cinnamon roll and turned into a bitter burnt bun from the weight of expectation and cramming he had to do, and how he was never good enough for his mother, and so he rebelled by running off to join the Navy (which his mother tolerated because, alright fine he's useless to her as an Imperial ruler, he might as well do something useful in his life). (And then Ensign Masatada Akasha, fresh out of the Naval College's Short Commissioning Course, met Ensign Yonatan Chew, formerly Petty Officer 1st Class Yonatan Chew, fresh out of OCS, and a lifelong friendship was born.)
. And I would if only I could stop laughing so much. 
