While you wait for your next teammate, Ariane raves on how much she is exited about that new life that's offered to her. Apparently saying that her home-life wasn't a happy one before the mall changed her is quite an euphemism, if not the understatement of the month.
Seeing how her mood drop at her mere mentions of her old life, you decide to distract her by asking if there is anyone at school she has a crush on. A boy? Or a girl maybe? She blush and sputter, before a new arrival save her from more embarrassment.
"Miss Suzuki? Miss Delaroute? Sorry, I didn't want to interrupt you…" Flore Woodlife is a shy centauride who, after all those year still didn't register it's okay to call friends by their first name. (‘Centauride’ being the proper name for a female centaur.) Like Ariane, she wear an armor similar to yours, but adapted to her morphology. To your surprise, that include a rather comfortable-looking saddle. Her skin have a nice tan and she got light brown eyes, long dark brown hair she keep in twin, low ponytail so they're rest equally on each of her flanks, and a coat the same shade as her hairs.
While she is some sort of druid, her weapon of choice is a collapsible compound bow enchanted to shoot arrows of pure energy. Once collapsed, it can be used as some sort of energy blade. While energy weapons have the advantage to go through most armors as if they weren't there, they are practically useless against a magical barrier. Thankfully, such barrier are hard to cast and require lot of magic to maintain. And worst case scenario, Flore can still use her bow to shoot good old physical arrows. That's why, when fighting she sometime have a quiver on her side.
Also, she's a left-handed centauride.
Like all centaurides, her reproductive cycle is more akin to what you could expect from an animal than a sapient being, with a one weak of heat a year. Because of this, she is totally obvious to boys trying to court her most of the time, and totally sex-crazed when it's that time. It's a wonder how she still is cognizant enough to realize that doing it with boy would make her pregnant. (there is no condoms for centaurs, alas.) Instead, since her very first time, she come to her friend and Lieutenant of carnal pleasures, only cut by short pauses to eat and take small naps.
Honestly, she asked to upgrade your friendship to friendship with benefits, you weren't going to refuse. You are a succubus after all. Who would refuse a week long buffet? And god do she give you benefits! Seriously, if succubi could become obese you would have died suffocated by your own fat, and only after the first day. You only wish it wasn't the only time she call you by your first name…
But that's neither now or there.
No, right now there is only one question on your mind: "Say, why are you two in armor? We aren't on duty, are we?"
Ariane look at you strangely while Flore, embarrassed, say "Err… Our armors are linked to our magic, like our weapon. So being a natural shape-shifter, you can transform yours. But for the rest of the team, we rely on the same illusions that make us appear human to make it look like normal garments. And you know how it feel to wear anything else since we got our armors… Good thing we all have more sets at home."
You remember that, and know you only see armors because you know she's a Valkyrie, she is a member of your team. But… "Didn't we have… Someone? Our… The… Err… a teammate who found a way to make transformable armors for all of us?"
"I did make such armors," answered a new voice "but they're only prototypes. No way I'll let anyone wear them out of my lab until I'm sure they're as 100% safe and reliable as our current ones!"