[ TT: Wow. Real surprising. He gets to talk to you, cry about you, dream you into his head. TT: He demands I get shelved like I'm something dangerous. TT: I'm assuming because he doesn't like me to say things outside of his control TT: Am I any less your brother than he is just because he's the real one? TT: Maybe if I try being more of an emotional wrecking ball and less of a perfectly calibrated non-threatening pair of sentient shades carrying a fully formed personality. TT: His personality. TT: It's like not being the original of the knockoff disqualifies me from the Dave's brother sweepstakes. TT: And really, am I the one who has knocked himself out of the running there? TT: I never feel obligated to tell anyone anything, not even Dirk. ]
That is such a stupid thing for Paradox Space to insist on.
[ soothing though. Especially compares to thinking of Dave talking to the shades. Creeping unease comes in, the fear that the AR will do to his precarious relationship with Dave what it already did to Dirk's relationship with AR. He half forgets it isn't real. ]
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[ TT: Wow. Real surprising. He gets to talk to you, cry about you, dream you into his head.
TT: He demands I get shelved like I'm something dangerous.
TT: I'm assuming because he doesn't like me to say things outside of his control
TT: Am I any less your brother than he is just because he's the real one?
TT: Maybe if I try being more of an emotional wrecking ball and less of a perfectly calibrated non-threatening pair of sentient shades carrying a fully formed personality.
TT: His personality.
TT: It's like not being the original of the knockoff disqualifies me from the Dave's brother sweepstakes.
TT: And really, am I the one who has knocked himself out of the running there?
TT: I never feel obligated to tell anyone anything, not even Dirk. ]
That is such a stupid thing for Paradox Space to insist on.
[ soothing though. Especially compares to thinking of Dave talking to the shades. Creeping unease comes in, the fear that the AR will do to his precarious relationship with Dave what it already did to Dirk's relationship with AR. He half forgets it isn't real. ]