PC WITH AOI

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W1 POST TRIAL

[commedia]

[Oh, if it isn't Aoi in the rec room. Douman makes their way over to her, giving her a curious look.]

Did you like holding hands then, too?

[gamerbrain]

[ she nods! ]

It felt nice.

[commedia]

[A pause...]

[And then reaching out their hand for her to take.]

[gamerbrain]

[ she looks up at him first like she's checking that it's okay - but then takes their hand! ]

It did make doing stuff a little hard, at the trial.

[commedia]

[Just swinging it a little!]

It did, but... think it was alright. It wasn't like we were getting anywhere anyways.

[gamerbrain]

Aoi wishes we had learned more...

[commedia]

Yes, I agree. But that was a conundrum I do not think we would've fully figured out.

[gamerbrain]

And then people voted anyway. Even though we didn't figure it out.

[commedia]

Yes. Well, people had their guesses, but also wanted to remove others from this place. Nobody seems to be acting entirely for the greater good.

[gamerbrain]

[ the greater good is... a concept that has her looking thoughtful for a moment. but... ]

Aoi doesn't think we should vote. Whether we find someone or not.

[commedia]

...Why? Just to let them go free? Even if their hands are stained with blood?

[gamerbrain]

... They just want their wish really bad. Aoi doesn't want anyone to kill, but...

[ she can't judge... ]

[commedia]

But what if they killed you, Aoi> Surely that would put your wish to a stop. And you said to me yourself that you can't go back and reload yourself, can you?

[gamerbrain]

Aoi... Doesn't have a wish.

Aoi doesn't want to get removed from the story without being able to reload an old save, but...

[ but something...? she's not sure where she was going with that. ]

[commedia]

...What do you mean, you don't have a wish?

[They stare at her, a little surprised.]

And...but what? Are you alright with removal?

[gamerbrain]

Aoi doesn't have a wish.

[ just repeating it doesn't clear anything up? ]

Don't know. But it would help someone else get their wish...?

[commedia]

You would throw your own life away to help someone else? Ah, little doll...do you not value your own life?

[gamerbrain]

Aoi isn't alive. Aoi is a character in a visual novel.

[commedia]

[They reach out to boop her on the nose.]

As much as you might dislike to think it, you are alive right now.

[gamerbrain]

[ she does not react... ]

Aoi doesn't dislike it. Aoi has been having a good time.

[ well, she still doesn't believe that she's alive, though? oh well. ]

[commedia]

And you can't have a good time if you're dead or removed, right?

[gamerbrain]

[ ... ]

That's alright...

[commedia]

[Just...a pitying sort of look?]

Aoi...come now. Do you not know the meaning of valuing things? Your life is special, precious, irreplaceable. Would you really throw it away like its nothing but trash?

[gamerbrain]

Trash...?

[ she frowns at that, but mostly because... a lot of people's hard work went into making aoi. from God, to the writers, to the character designers, to the programmers...

but it's still hard to process this. ]

[commedia]

You don't like being called trash, do you? Even if you are a doll, you were created. You were given life to do something with it.

[And they move to squat down, before embracing her, stroking lightly over her hair. Its a comforting, warm gesture, but something about it seems a little too much, a little too overly sweet.]

...I knew a doll like you. I gave her life again, after she had been broken so thoroughly. [A beat.] You deserve to live a long life, Aoi.