Circe led Krystal to a door in the back of the shop and opened it. Inside was a spacious beauty salon filled with rows of chairs equipped with hairdrier-like domes in front of mirrors and counters stuffed with bottles, sprays, creams, and other supplies. Sitting in the chairs were all manner of people being worked on: goths, emos, bimbos, hippies, nerds, jocks, preps, gangstas, girly girls, metalheads, BDSM fetishists, even punks and tomboys like her.
"Welcome to the Subculture Salon!" said Circe. "Here, our trained stylists will remake you into the subculture of your dreams. Good, there's a free chair." She walked Krystal to an empty chair where a pretty redheaded woman in a wine red dress straight out of a Renaissance fair.
"Krystal," said Circe, "this is Vivien du Lac, one of the most skillful witches in my employ. She'll be the one who carries out your transformation... which costs $49.99, by the way." Krystal laughed, handed Circe the money, and climbed into the chair. Circe strolled back to the front room. "See you when you're done!"
Vivien beamed at her new client. "So... Krystal is it?"
"With a 'K,'" Krystal added, "People always fuck it up when they try to write it down."
"Duly noted," Vivien smiled. "Now, what can we at the Subculture Salon do for you?"
"I wanna be a girly girl, Vivien," Krystal responded. "You know, the sweet, innocent kind that loves stuffed animals and princesses. I wanna ditch this stupid tough girl shit. It's just not me, but I don't have enough inner girliness or something to be anything else. It's like I'm... like I'm fucking transpersonality or something. I know I'm supposed to be this adorable girly girl, but I'm fucking trapped in this goddamn punk personality. I REALLY fucking need the salon's help I'm ever gonna be who I was meant to be. Make me the girl I was meant to be!"
"I think I can do that," Vivien giggled. "Just give me five minutes to fetch the supplies." She then took off.
While she waited for Vivien to return, Krystal glanced at the chair to her left and locked eyes with...