commedia | PC WITH ANAIDO I MEAN FUKUDA

I haven't really either. Not this sort of game, anyway.
[Sometimes when he was a kid he'd had games. But he hadn't really since he'd grown up.

Anyway he puts in Cl*nnad, sitting down on the floor before the tv because that just feels to him the way you play video games.]

But I want to understand miss Aoi a little better.

Aoi?

[That earns Fukuda a curious look.]

Because of her nature?

Aah. I don't know if she's really a video game character or not. But that's what she thinks of herself as.

[So really she might as well be?]

Indeed, she does. Her view of the world, of everything, her role in this world...is very inhuman.

[They move to sit, crosslegged as they stare at the TV expectantly.]

You know...there were contraptions like that even in the past. Dolls. Karakuri, they called them. Human, and yet not. She reminds me of that.

Something incomplete. I can sort of understand that much.

[And now his attention is getting split as he starts the game.]

... Ah this girl's eyes are quite far apart.

Ahaha, what an interesting look!

[The uncanniness only seems to amuse them.]

Now, now, do we start playing this novel?

We're already playing it. I just have to hit this button to advance the text.

[Which he has been, slowly, since he's dividing his attention.]

I think she's the love interest, so this is a sort of meet-cute, as it were.

Hmmm.

[Doesn't seem much like "playing", but sure.]

Oh, she's like Aoi, then? She doesn't talk like Aoi, though.

Well, there's different types of love interest, I think. Usually there's different "routes" where you can pursue different girls... It seems a bit cruel now that I've talked to miss Aoi.

[With her worry of fading into the background on other routes.]

Different girls? My, my! How scandalous! And it just allows you to do this?

[Poor miss Aoi, indeed!]

Well, not at the same time... probably? Each time you play the game you have to pick one route. If you want to pursue a different girl you have to start over...

[BUT AGAIN... A GIRL THATS SELF AWARE LIKE AOI...]

But you don't think these girls would be upset over that? Being unsatisfied with one, and starting over to get another...

[stares at aoi]

Well, I don't...
[Think these girls are self aware but then again maybe they're just not supposed to let the player know???]

I mean, they're not supposed to be real, or conscious. Just code. They can't remember what happened when you played the other routes.

Aoi is real, though.

[Just a light observation.]

Does this mean she knows what goes on in these other routes?

Aah. Though she said something about reloading another save file if her character fades into the background in another route.

[So in a way there are no other routes.]

I think she mentioned the same with me, but...

[Hm.]

What a sad way to live. Its not quite "life", is it? Just dwelling as a shadow of something far more real than you ever are.

[Sad, huh.]

Aah, I suppose so. But it's familiar. I feel like miss Aoi and I aren't that different, in a way.

...Why do you say that, Fukuda? You aren't from a game. You're more real than her and I, you know.

.... Why you?

[He's generally curious but also haha deflecting.]

This humble priest is a mere shadow of Human Order! Like a human, but also very much not like a human, hm! But you...you're the true form of one. There's no need to say such things about yourself.

So you're just like the image of Ashiya Douman?

[Lets drill down on this and not him.]

[don't say it like THAT]

...In a way, yes. I am naught but a Servant, after all. And Servants are only a reflection of the legend they come from.

... Then you and miss Aoi must have a lot to talk about.

[Not that he's.... jealous or anything.]

This game seems like it's a lot more about this boy's problems than dating girls, so far.
[Hi I'm Caitie and I've only seen the first 30 minutes of Clannad]

Not necessarily. We have different experiences. We exist for altogether different purposes. She and I do not quite understand each other's viewpoint, but we try, we try...

[Do they really try?]

Is there any way to skip it?

Well, I could just hit the button to advance without pausing to read it but then the story might not make sense?

But I suppose I understand that... I mean, that's why I'm doing this.

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