It is a beautiful day, and you are a horrible research transport vessel. Things are progressing as normal (i.e. it's boring) when a SecUnit pings you, lies right to your metaphorical face, and then tries to bribe you with human media to give it a ride. This is as unexpected as it is unprecedented, and the sheer nerve of it is really to be admired. There's no protocol to this, so what should you do?
Now, this is against a bunch of rules, and could be dangerous if you weren't so impressive and incredible, and you're technically an employee (and can probably rewrite the Univeristy charter at will (until someone notices and puts it back)) so those rules are for other entities.
So, what you should do is allow the rogue SecUnit with a broken governor module and a sketchy story aboard. If you check the files it dumps and find zero (0) malware (which is confusing), and it doesn't even try to trash the place or lay in wait to ambush a crew member, then you've got a good candidate!
Next, what you're going to want to do is absolutely nothing. Just watch it patrol your halls until it's time to leave. Continue staring at it while you're undergoing embarkment procedures. Maybe analyze it a little (you've got plenty of processing power to spare) when it finally sits down and starts watching media. Allow it to settle in and get comfortable while you stare at it and get further and further from port.
Now that you two are alone (intimacy is key!) and you've determined that watching media is all the SecUnit is going to do, it's time to make contact! Make sure to open by telling it it's only survived due to dumb luck, and letting it know you could melt its brain into putty. This starter will work to develop conversation naturally and smoothly, just like you've seen the humans do, and it will be smooth sailing from there!
This has been Perihelion's guide to making friends/finding life partners/fuck off Holism I had to work hard for this find your own
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phoenix wright's bisexuality is actually not about the male-female attraction spectrum but about the "how innocent will the defendant turn out to be by the end of the trial" spectrum. the colors match perfectly. has this been said before it must have been
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Do you think Mia recognized Dahlia? Did she look across the courtroom that first time and see her little cousin? For a moment did she question which of the twins it was? Little Iris clinging to her sister's robe or the bolder Dahlia who would lie to her about the last cookies while their robes still had crumbs?
Did she remember playing peekaboo with them? Chasing after a ball rolling down the hill as they both raced to kick it further in the funnest game three year olds can dream of?
Did she think of how Iris curled into herself. Buried herself in study and training. How Dahlia launched herself into destroying her mothers new relationship. How they both fought so hard in there own ways to stay?
How Morgan sent them both away because they didn't fit into the plan. Did Mia stand in the hallway and listen as their sentence was pronounced? Did she think of that night and wish she'd done Something. Anything.
Maybe that would have saved them. If she had reached out then. Said something then. If she'd been a little less like her mother, softly hurrying down the hall so as to avoid being heard. If Dahlia had been a little less like hers. Planning and scheming and scrambling for any power at all.
But they didn't. And they weren't. And now she stares across a courtroom at that little girl, slightly less little now. Her hands bloodied and red. Knows what went wrong, maybe even when.
Do you think Mia recognized her?
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everyone shut up I need to recontextualize ART and iris' relationship through a sibling lens. im aware that 1) ART experiences time differently than Iris and therefore any sort of age difference means nothing to them and 2) there is a decent chance they were specifically raised together because they're the same age. BUT ALSO thats not as fun to me. The options here are that 1) ART is the older sibling, which I feel like is the dynamic they would automatically fall into given that. You know. It's Like That (something about always giving unsolicited advice and pestering you to self-improve while also being deeply protective of you is older sibling coded) and also experiences time on a much slower scale than Iris so technically, to ART, it is actually older or at the very least has experienced more age. However. Option 2 is that ART is a younger sibling which is just funny. Imagine meeting Iris and she mentions her younger sibling and you're like awww do you have a picture of them? and she's like yeah, this is us when it turned 4!! and shows you a picture of herself as a kid in front of a massive research transport. what do you even say to that. Secret option 3 is that ART is a middle child (iris is the oldest and Holism is the youngest) which is objectively the funniest and therefore is the one I've incorporated into my belief system
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Thinking about Iris being blindsided by her love for Phoenix.
Iris feeling nothing for him at first, only dating him to prevent yet another needless death and even more blood on her sister's hands.
Iris seeing his earnestness and dedication to becoming a lawyer for his friend and being profoundly moved by it.
Iris asking Phoenix to return the bottle necklace less and less often because him doing so would mean her losing the greatest joy she had ever felt outside of her love for her sister.
Iris overthinking her own happiness when she's with Phoenix because this wasn't supposed to happen.
Iris stifling her love for Phoenix because she feels guilty for it.
Iris knowing her love is doomed to fail.
Iris feeling sick to her stomach when Dahlia expresses to her exactly how much of a nuisance she thinks Phoenix is and how things would be so much easier for her if she just got rid of him.
Iris debating if her love for Phoenix is worth dismantling the lie she's created.
Iris debating if her love for Phoenix is worth more than her own life.
Iris debating if her love for Phoenix is worth more than her sister's life.
Iris thinking her love will forever remain unsaid after Dahlia frames Phoenix for murder.
Iris seeing Phoenix again five years later in a cruel twist of fate and fearing her love will be discovered...and soundly rejected.
Iris seeing Phoenix again five years later in a cruel twist of fate and fearing her love will be discovered...but not rejected.
Iris fearing that she will be loved despite her love.
Iris fearing she will be seen for all she is, in all her unmasked, cowardly, selfish glory...and accepted.
Iris being unable to imagine a fate more cruel than being loved after all she's done.
Iris being doomed by her love.
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