fried: (two)

[personal profile] fried 2025-02-27 07:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ ROOTIN TOOTIN HOT POT ]

I stay out of the way, sure.

[ he does a stupid little hat tip motion. he is not wearing a hat. ]

It's only that I don't need the spotlight. I'd just like to do my work and move on through the universe.
fried: (sixty-seven)

[personal profile] fried 2025-02-28 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
You're very sweet to do so.

[ gives her a smile. ]

But I do want to know more about you, Ellie, as you promised. So you can stand there first, hm?
fried: (ten)

[personal profile] fried 2025-02-28 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
There's so much to ask...

Hm. [ ... ] Then, forgive my rudest question - how is it that you're as old as you are?
fried: (ten)

[personal profile] fried 2025-02-28 06:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ well, he'd thought at first to make a joke - never ask a lady her age, and so on, but. this gives him pause. ]

A simulation? [ huh. ] Well... we're all made of memories, I'd argue, but I'm sure that's not what you mean.
fried: DNT (one hundred two)

[personal profile] fried 2025-03-01 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ he watches her for a moment. ]

It's hard to say that you aren't the real Elysia, in that case. Flesh and blood doesn't necessarily make up a person.
fried: (fifty-nine)

[personal profile] fried 2025-03-01 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
You are the only you I've ever known. So - yes. You are real to me.

[ a little smile. ]