I am going over Murderbot's and ART's first interactions again and it's driving me crazy, so I really need to yell into the void about it.
Alright, so we have ART:
ART, a highly advanced deep space research vessel, who is very attached to its crew and seems to generally do what it's supposed to, especially when not doing so could endanger its mission - but ends up accepting a suspicious looking SecUnit that is lying about being a bot aboard itself. ART is evidently aware that it is directly breaking the rules in doing so. (Aside: How often does ART break the rules?) Why? All for that tempting media package that the SecUnit has to offer?
No.
It was sent off to do some work all alone and got bored and lonely. (I think there are different ways to intepret this, but looking at our super social raised-by-humans loving-its-crew never-shutting-up research vessel, I choose to think that is exactly what it was!)
Anyway, what does ART do now that it has this lying, potentially dangerous rogue SecUnit aboard? It
lets it know that it saw right through its lies and knows exactly what it is
intimidates and threatens it by showing off its own ridiculously extensive superiority (just to be on the safe side ofc)
gets bored after the SecUnit gets too scared to do anything interesting
asks the SecUnit to "stop sulking"
learns that the SecUnit has been through A Lot and seemingly understands how it made it feel and apologizes
gets bored again and starts lurking and harasses convinces the SecUnit to watch media about ships and their crews with it
[gets way too invested and agitated by the media, probably going through its first media-induced emotional crises (but gets through them with the support of the very patient SecUnit)]
tries to have a conversation with the SecUnit to get to know it better
gets offended that the SecUnit is not answering truthfully and won't share sensitive and very private information about itself
lets the SecUnit know it can see through its lies, calling it "inherently inferior" to itself and causing the SecUnit to sulkily shut down for four hours (lol)
immediately calls the SecUnit "unnecessarily childish" upon its awakening four hours later (referring to its own extensive experience with children to really get the point across)
And apparently all of this seemed to be a perfectly pleasant and normal interaction to ART, because:
That's how you make friends, isn't it?!
God, I love ART so so so much and this is SO funny to me! To be fair, I don't think anyone ever really prepared it for an interaction like this. (Probably because its crew did not expect it to pick up a stray rogue SecUnit and try to befriend it).
How we feelin?? We are on the eve eve of sleep token content!! I hope they rested well, were refreshed, drinks were well carbonated(lookin @ u ii) and all pillows were cool on both sides!!
"astarion would make sweeping romantic gestures astarion would get his partner flowers and chocolate and book a restaurant and-"
no. you want wyll or gale or karlach. astarion's sweeping romantic gesture would be " is that guy bothering you queen. want me to kill him. im killing him."
i feel like the most genuinely romantic things he'd possibly do is bring random shit that reminds him of his partner and dump it on their door. rip out someone's heart and hand it over. after drinking from it.
people associate traits and nicknames for käärijä's pink guys.
Jaakko is the short guy, great stage presence, always got bullied by Käärijä on stage. Jukka i feel like the most well known one, the tall guy with guitar, appears in Käärijä's stories saying "eiiiiiiii vittu......". now Allu. since he's mostly behind the set table, people maybe only know him maybe by "the dj", so i try to look for more stuff to associate him with
but as i was thinking about it, I've come to a devastating (for me at least) realization. not only that he's the guy who have an ":3" face, i just realized that he's also,
THE GUY WHO'S RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT FUCKING BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM CRASH CRASH GLASS SHATTER SOUNDBOARD EFFECT
Me, someone who really wants children at some point in life, any time I play a dating sim with an undead or inhuman love interest: I wonder if this character and my MC can make babies?
You’re losing your identity as a James fucker cause I genuinely asked myself which of the drivers you were thirsting over before I remembered it’s James and not either of the drivers
fuck you how fucking dare you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you blows up the world you're saying this to the person with da james vowles pfp fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you this ask did not find me well i was so pissed off last night my last thoughts before going to bed was this fucking ask and i felt such a hatred when seeing it i knew in the morning i would make a fancam because i was so mad i woke up with the fucking creative bug but the bug that makes u spiteful and hateful how do you feel about that erika alpinelogy what if i blew up the world because of this fuck you
(Is it an abomination to put these two in bright yellow and green? Yes. Did I do it anyway because I'm an aussie and wanted to see them in the Matildas colours? YEP.)