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[constellationprize]

Hi! This is ☆radia! I'm really sorry I wasn't able to answer your call... Um, if you need anything, it's fine to leave a message here! I'll answer you as soon as I can!
 

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[constellationprize]

Um... Do I...

[notadrop]

Yes? You've been showing that for like this entire date?

[constellationprize]

[ how does she ]

Um... It's a little complicated...

[notadrop]

Nope. It isn't. Like, not at all? 0% complicated. There is actually a total lack of complication to be found.

[constellationprize]

It's like -

Um, think about a cup, maybe...? When it holds water, it's not really about whether it likes it or doesn't like it, is it...?

[notadrop]

Did you know you aren't a cup?

[constellationprize]

... Ruby, it's a metaphor...

[notadrop]

That somehow proves you're not a person?

[constellationprize]

I'm shaped like this, and I can talk to you like this, but if it's between being an object and being a person, you'd say I'm more like an object, wouldn't you?

[notadrop]

Do you like, know what objects are?

[constellationprize]

Um...

... What do you think an object is?

[notadrop]

The opposite of the thing you are.

[constellationprize]

... Maybe Doodle could explain it better than me...?

[notadrop]

Is he a witch? I thought he was a history rpg ghost.

[constellationprize]

He is, but our circumstances are kind of close. Um...

... I don't really know how to explain it if you don't like the cup metaphor, though...?

[notadrop]

Pretty sure the familiar's supposed to be the cup in your stupid cupaphor.

[constellationprize]

No, I'm the cup.

It's not about what I like or dislike - the way a cup doesn't really like or dislike holding things, because that's what it's made to do... that's what its function is. Like that, loving and assisting people is what I was made to do.

... So you don't have to worry about what I like or dislike, okay?

[notadrop]

Cups also aren't made with likes and dislikes in the first place so you're actually just being fucking dumb.

[constellationprize]

That's right! I don't have things like that!

[notadrop]

Wow guess it's time to call your husbands up and tell them you like, are just totally ambivalent towards them?

[constellationprize]

[ just kind of flinches like she was actually physically threatened ]

T-That's...

That's different...

[notadrop]

Yeah? What about you wanting to learn about dates? Or how you like your sister? Or how you like when things feel good, and people are happy, and don't like when those aren't happening?

Don't you have to have likes and dislikes to even do what you were made for, Dia? Come on, don't be a dipshit. Even robots know this garbo.

[constellationprize]

... I told you I wasn't very smart...

[ actually a little chastised now, pls no bully ]

I just - want to be good. That's all. Being a good witch, and being a good wife, and being a good sister and a good unitmate - I just want to make everyone happy. Even though I'm stupid, and weak, and irresponsible - even though I'm always causing trouble for everyone, and making them upset or worried...

[notadrop]

Wow, you did it. You're a person, congratulations Dia. I always believed in you.

Can we now agree you're like, totally allowed to have nice things, which you may even want?

[constellationprize]

I-I'll...

[ e. exhales ]

... I'll think about it, okay...?