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WCDT Strips 3966-3970 (25th-29th March, 2019)

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A small perverse otter:

--- Quote from: JohnTheWysard on 25 Mar 2019, 22:38 ---As I was walkin' round Cambridge City,
'bout the hour of twelve at night
There I saw a fair pretty robot
Cutting her bangs by candlelight.
She had twenty, eighteen, sixteen, fourteen
Twelve ten eight six four two none;
Nineteen, seventeen, fifteen, thirteen
'leven, nine seven five three and one.

--- End quote ---
Yeah, but the difference is that when they come back to Cambrdige City, the AI will still be a 'pretty fair robot'. In the original, she's gone because she's aged along with him.

(Also, I think I'd modify l. 3-4 to read "There I saw a purple robot // Cutting her hairs by candlelight".)

shanejayell:
Well, glad Roko didn't do herself actual damage...  :-o

Is it cold in here?:

--- Quote from: TRenn on 26 Mar 2019, 01:08 ---While I'm sure Roko doesn't object to Melon's attempts to be helpful, I have to wonder if it isn't just a little bit problematic. Since Roko's issue is that she doesn't "feel like herself," the fact that Melon isn't acting 100 percent like herself either might be a distraction (and not a good distraction).

So in panel 4, I'm imagining Roko thinking "THERE is our adorable little cloudcookoolander. Never change, Melon."

--- End quote ---

What if that's exactly what Melon had in mind? What if she's doing the same thing as Elliot, offering Roko a predictable and orderly connection with the here-and-now?

A small perverse otter:
Melon appears to be a scatterbrained airhead -- but I wonder how much of that is obfuscation. She has a really good sense of what to do in an emergency, and she only does ridiculous things when it doesn't matter. Could it be that she's a clown, not an airhead?

Tova:
If only the consequences of real-life trauma could be resolved as simply as getting a new piercing or butt emblem...

Roko will need to investigate therapy options, as Lemon suggested.

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