AOI CATCHALL

[holeful]

(Insert a joke about putting things in holes)

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[holeful]

[Ough. That's a rough one.]

I don't know. The problem is that we can only vote for one person at a time, it seems.

[gamerbrain]

You want to vote for even more people?

[holeful]

... You wouldn't vote for someone to die, even if you knew for sure they'd killed someone else, Aoi?

[gamerbrain]

Aoi would need to know why they did it...

[holeful]

What if it was because they were trying to help, but the only way they knew how to help sometimes didn't work right? And people would die because of that?

[gamerbrain]

... If they were trying to help...

Then Aoi feels bad they were backed into that corner.

[holeful]

[Fukuda sighs, as if releasing some hidden tension.]
... You understand. I'm truly glad.

[Anyway, with that left unexplained;]

I don't know what other people's motives are, though. It would be better if the people we voted for didn't have to die.

[gamerbrain]

Aoi understands?

[ uh hey she's more interested in a follow up to that than the 2nd part... ]

[holeful]

[Truly I thought I could trick her into sliding on by that. Fukuda hesitates a moment, but then, it's Aoi, so;]

I... The only way I know how to help is the only thing that's helped me. All I can do is drill holes in people's heads.

That's why I can't protect Aoi.
[All he knows is drill hole in head, be bisexual, eat hot chip, and lie.]

[gamerbrain]

Would a hole in Aoi's head really help?

[ i hate this? ]

[holeful]

...

[Hm.]

It might. You're not the same as me, but it's hard sometimes to think, isn't it? About things you're not programmed to think about. A hole makes the world a lot clearer. But you said before your character design shouldn't change.

[I remembered just now that they did talk about this before. He just left out the part where he's murdered people in trying to do this.]

[gamerbrain]

[ she nods, because they did talk about this before... ]

That's true. Maybe when there's been more development of Aoi's character.

[ don't. talk about yourself like that aoi?? ]

[holeful]

Aah. I think with the pods in the medbay it could work well... Though, maybe it would just fill the hole back in. I'm afraid to test it and find out.

[gamerbrain]

[ hmm ]

How come you can't help in other ways?

Aoi always feels better when we talk and when we get zappy.

[holeful]

You do? Even when we talk?

[The latter makes perfect sense to him, though he wishes she wouldn't call it that because it reminds him of their problematic age gap.]

[gamerbrain]

[ at least she calls it that for `lore` reasons and not because she's shy? ]

Yep. Talking doesn't drain Aoi's batteries, and it's nice.

[holeful]

[I suppose that is better.]

You could talk to anyone, though?

[gamerbrain]

Aoi talks to people.

But Aoi doesn't want to distract anyone from the route they're pursuing.

[holeful]

I think you can talk to people outside of one route here, though?

[gamerbrain]

But they might not want to talk to Aoi.

[holeful]

No, but if they really don't want to, I think they just won't? People are good at that sort of thing.

[gamerbrain]

Boop boop...

[ she's struggling to process that because social cues are difficult. multiple people HAVE just up and walked away from her mid-interaction and she didn't really register what it meant...

hmmm... ]

[holeful]

[You know, he's sort of assumed this, but;]

Do you say that when you don't know what to say, Aoi?

[gamerbrain]

Boop...

[ ... ]

It's just a moe catch phrase.

[holeful]

...Aah.
[He doesn't believe you but that's fine.]

Are you... going to be alright? Here by yourself...