MINGLE OVERFLOW CATCHALL;

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[ pictured: me trying to juggle all these threads. i'm crying i thought i wouldn't have to do this anymore after subd and thots
no pressure to continue or anything, just lmk if we have to handwave anything specific ]

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I broached that theory once to one of the humans that I was with previously. They're not here with us now, but their first reaction was asking whether they should try to kill themselves to snap out of it.

I responded that a stunt like that would be as likely to induce brain death as it would actually wake them up, nevermind that if it wasn't actually a simulation in the end then it'd be a very bad idea for obvious reasons.

[ sometimes, babysitting humans is tiring. ]

That said, I couldn't say what it is that might be affecting them either.

[ so many of their powers are magic or magic adjacent that she's just ???? fine. whatever. ]

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Oh my yes, you certainly wouldn't want to suggest any scenarios which might cause undue stress for the humans. They're quite prone to emotional changes, particularly in unfamiliar environments.

Rather, my advice was simply not to participate wherever possible if one was uncomfortable. Or to try and determine what the person or program's intended objective was.

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Hmm.

[ filler noises of deliberation like that aren't strictly necessary for them, outside of verisimilitude in imitating human speech, but it does seem as if she is thinking something over during the process of vocalizing the sound. ]

I suppose this is why your specialization is in communications and diplomacy, then. I'll leave the handling of their emotional states to you; does this sound like a good arrangement, C-3PO? I've been told that the tendencies of my programming can sometimes lean more towards the logical side of things rather than the emotional one.

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[Some habits just stick; even Threepio is far chattier than he needs to be for pure information exchange.]

That seems like a perfectly suitable arrangement. Of course, the emotions of organic beings are hardly logically predictable, but I do have a built up database regarding such things.

Likewise, perhaps I could rely on you should the situation here devolve towards a more hostile direction?

[Roomba Uprising]