AOI

[aubins]

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[aubins]

You don't sound it?

[ aoi? hello? ]

Better than getting ... well. Whatever happened to Nathan'd, right?

[gamerbrain]

But that's what's supposed to happen to Aoi.

[aubins]

... What, vanishing?

[gamerbrain]

Yup.

[aubins]

...





..... [ he just


pinches her cheeks? ]

[gamerbrain]

[ she just lets that happens and. talks through it, though it obviously makes her voice a little? distorted? ]

Why do people keep doing this to Aoi?

[aubins]

Because sometimes you say some things that sound really, really off, Aoi.

[ also because bully. ]

[gamerbrain]

Aoi doesn't think that's a good reason...

Aoi doesn't mind it, though.

[aubins]

[ good, because he gives one more pinch. ]

You talk really casually about your wellbeing, you know that?

[gamerbrain]

So?

[aubins]

So-- it's a little weird. Most people are pretty attached to not dying, or vanishing.

[gamerbrain]

Aoi doesn't want to vanish, either.

[aubins]

[ he has stopped pinching her cheeks now. ]

But you talked about it like you just expected it to happen.

[gamerbrain]

[ that's very kind of him. ]

Yep. It's weird that it hasn't happened.

[aubins]

[ he's a delight ]

Why do you keep thinking it will?

[gamerbrain]

[ she has to think about it... ]

... It won't. Because this isn't a game.

But Aoi is used to it happening. So Aoi keeps expecting it to.

[aubins]

[ hm. ]

...

So you just keep expecting it to happen and then being surprised when it doesn't?

[gamerbrain]

Yep.

Aoi was created to fit into a specific setting and story. So Aoi has a hard time adapting to anything else.

[aubins]

[ ... oh. ]




Huh.

[ give him a moment here. ]

So you're just out there without any guidance for the first time, and it's this place you're having to figure it all out in? [ ... ]

Three weeks of not disappearing would be a pattern by this point, Aoi. I don't think you need to worry about it now. At least, not from whatever reason you'd normally be expecting.

[gamerbrain]

Yup. Aoi definitely would have disappeared by now if Aoi was going to. Either from not having enough zappy or from being too unimportant of a character.

So Aoi knows better... But it still feels strange.

[aubins]

[ .... unimportant? zappy? ]

You've made it this far. Is it getting easier week to week to realise you're not going to vanish?

[gamerbrain]

Little bit.

[ ... ]

What about you? Is there anything that's hard to adapt to for you?

[aubins]

[ he waves the arm aoi isn't snuggled under, just a little dramatically. ]

Modern technology.

Although some parts are much easier to adapt to than others.

[gamerbrain]

What parts are hard? Or easy?

[ she can't really imagine. ]

[aubins]

Constant hot water on demand? Wonderful. I'd like to take that back with me. The electricity thing is pretty useful too? Easier and more efficient that candles and flame.

[ ... ]

Not sure I understand everything in the kitchen, or all of the machines in the rec room, but maybe I'll get there.