This is where to go if you need to talk to Admin, Doll, or the other NPCs. Be sure to write who each message is for in the subject line! For example, VIDEO | ADMIN or TEXT | DOLL!
They may not answer right away or at all, but you never know until you try!
"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone," so it goes. I'm in no place to judge, but I doubt you are either. Please don't be unkind, would you? You might hurt my feelings...
[ oh, he doesn't like that. don't bring her into this. ]
It isn't. It's about you! Feel free to let that go to your head, I don't mind. But since you've brought her up, would you mind answering a question for me?
I suppose you can say I answered the question. I might allow myself to interact with you lot, and Doll gets to talk with You, but there's no place for fool around.
Doll's function is to ensure you have the supplies and make recommendations on your overall health. That's it. I indulge her because she means well and gets anxious easily.
Humans are inherently flawed, and I don't suppose you fathom yourself greater a creator than God, so it's to be expected. She is human, you know? In every way that makes one human, and it's cruel to treat her otherwise.
How can you take away her humanity when it's by your design she's this way in the first place? [ you knew what you were doing when you gave her a heart. ...it really is cruel. do the means really justify the ends? ]
Do you trust her so little? That girl is stronger than you give her credit for. She would complete her tasks without being stripped of basic rights, because she cares for others. That's who she is. One doesn't have to exist in stark contrast to the other.
As I said, Admin. Humans are inherently flawed... they have the capacity for beautiful and terrible things. Doll is no different. It doesn't make her any less deserving of a chance at life. No; if anything... it's all the more reason to give her one.
[ ... ]
And believe me when I say, I am most absolutely a fool.
A priest is a man who preaches the love of a God he will never see. Is it so hard to understand why I can have faith...?
[ he's disappointed. but, he can't say it is surprising. ]
...I see.
Someone who can say they're prepared to die for their cause isn't one of weak convictions. I want to believe you believe what you're doing is right. I want to believe there's a meaning in all of this and that we can trust you. And if I can help get the others through it, I will. You only have to ask. I'm just a fool, but even fools have uses.
...But if you won't free her, then all I ask in return is you don't do anything to hurt her human heart. [ he WILL free her. she just has to stay safe until then... he won't leave with this undone. ]
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upcyclingmod) wrote2020-10-01 07:09 pm
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[ oh, he doesn't like that. don't bring her into this. ]
It isn't. It's about you! Feel free to let that go to your head, I don't mind. But since you've brought her up, would you mind answering a question for me?
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Ask away.
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I realize you have no obligation to answer honestly. I'm asking anyway. In good faith, maybe.
Why won't you let her choose a name?
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But what an interesting question to ask...
Simply? It's unneeded. She can't get ideas of her having a life beyond her duties.
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I see.
And how about you? Are you permitted a name and life outside your function?
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My name can no longer be spoken or written. Once this is over, I expect I will die.
So, you can say my life is the mission. Isn't yours?
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[ ...expects to die, when this is through... ]
That isn't what I asked you. There's a distinction to be made between a mission you chose, and one chosen for you by others.
[ and what do you know of his mission, exactly? 'what do you really know?' ]
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I suppose you can say I answered the question. I might allow myself to interact with you lot, and Doll gets to talk with You, but there's no place for fool around.
Doll's function is to ensure you have the supplies and make recommendations on your overall health. That's it. I indulge her because she means well and gets anxious easily.
A flaw in her design, I suppose.
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How can you take away her humanity when it's by your design she's this way in the first place? [ you knew what you were doing when you gave her a heart. ...it really is cruel. do the means really justify the ends? ]
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But if you think it's cruel...I suppose she could use a reset. She would have to learn everything all over again, but she wouldn't hurt anymore.
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Do you trust her so little? That girl is stronger than you give her credit for. She would complete her tasks without being stripped of basic rights, because she cares for others. That's who she is. One doesn't have to exist in stark contrast to the other.
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She's also more dangerous then you realize.
Quite like you and your fools act, I suppose. No wonder you sympathize with her.
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[ ... ]
And believe me when I say, I am most absolutely a fool.
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Because you are, no doubt, being a fool, over a child you haven't seen with your own eyes.
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[ he's disappointed. but, he can't say it is surprising. ]
...I see.
Someone who can say they're prepared to die for their cause isn't one of weak convictions. I want to believe you believe what you're doing is right. I want to believe there's a meaning in all of this and that we can trust you. And if I can help get the others through it, I will. You only have to ask. I'm just a fool, but even fools have uses.
...But if you won't free her, then all I ask in return is you don't do anything to hurt her human heart. [ he WILL free her. she just has to stay safe until then... he won't leave with this undone. ]
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And...I am doing what I must, even if I must be a villain to others eyes. Even if it means hurting my child's heart.
Because like you said. I'm human.
And I may make mistakes.
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If you believe nothing else I say to you... I can swear to you, you'll regret it.
[ Abel doesn't want to ask how much he knows; he is afraid of the answer. but if he knows enough, he'll know this isn't empty idealistic chatter. ]
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...Please don't hurt your human heart, either.
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And you understand when I say...it broke a long time ago.
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his chest aches.
so he too, is already... ]
...I'm sorry. [ an apology isn't enough to convey this message, but words were hollow, and they both know it ]
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[Apologies only hurt at this point.]
Don't contact me again unless you need to.
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[ 'my child.' his words. ]
Please don't let her end up like us.
[ he sets his phone away for the night. he needs some air ]