[catchall for 45]

[slobjection]

Comments

[recrypt]

[ truly mysterious. but she shrugs, mildly. ]

Any form of receptor can be damaged by too much heat, and we have pain responses to tell us not to do things that would damage ourselves.

It's not exactly burning ourselves, but for all intents and purposes it simulates it close enough.

[slobjection]

Guess I don't know enough about technology......

[ he's not touching his s'more until she's ready to eat, though!!! ]

[recrypt]

You can just blame your engineers for that. There have been dolls designed and programmed to have food allergies.

[ this is actual canon lore and characters incanon also just go 'literally why tho' ]

For people who really don't want to think of us as persons, they certainly go through a lot of unnecessary effort to make us resemble them.

[slobjection]

Maybe they do and they're just very bad at expressing it.

[ i'm crying at this lore ]

[recrypt]

No, no, we're property. Trust me.

[ anyway check out these s'mores, though. ]

[slobjection]

Did you tell Akira that...?

[recrypt]

Not quite in as many words, but he's aware that any of us existing without a registered owner or master is a bit of an illegal thing.

[slobjection]

What about the part where you called yourself property?

[ shots fired!! ]

[recrypt]

What I think on the matter has little bearing on how we're treated when I come from, Herr Phoenix.

[slobjection]

Doesn't make it right.

[recrypt]

[ she holds his gaze, then just

deliberately takes a bite out of her s'more.

since when has whether or not something's right played into the making of law and public policy. ]