>>92003004because the gum thing, plus the cute useless wet cat ramblings. went into how she used to do extremely autistic shit like sitting on her room with a tootsie pop and count the licks until the center or how she liked gum so much as a kid that she would put it on her bedframe and sometimes take it off to re-chew it.
Jokes aside, i realized that the "wet cat charm" comes from the layers of helplessness she wraps herself around more than inherent clumsiness. I took a hard look at what little i had and went "yeah this would work better if she was capable of acing this acting stuff but it was her self doubt that consumed her"and before you ask it was a story where the highschool play is suddenly at danger because the male lead gets sick
some shenanigans and you step up...except the prince costume doesnt fit you at all since you are a manletso to both help nerissa get over her fears and to keep the play going, you dress up as the princess and Nerissa acts the prince she's taller than you and her boobs fill out the rest of the costume 