Andi is annoyed by all this not having alts she's doing. Bella comes in singlet, so maybe she does too. They should look. C'monnnn. It's not, like, urgent or anything, but she thinks she is pretty neat and there should be more of her.
"I'm not specifically interested in novelizing it, I just, I have no idea what you spent that time doing except that it was really horrible -"
"Well, partly I'm curious and partly I have this problem where aside from desperately flinging you at a therapist who is known to be able to make progress on cases strikingly similar, I don't know how to - look after you - and I don't know if asking you to tell me constitutes becoming more able to do that, or failing to do it in the course of asking, or both, or what."
"I'm - taken care of. You're not going to hurt me by accident, not compared to - well, not on a scale I'll even notice - I'm not helping -"
"I am probably fixed enough that eventually 'things could happen, other than you turning to be Maira, that would harm me' will - make sense. As an idea. But -
- not yet, and -
- I'm not fragile, just recalibrated -"
"I would like to exceed the standard of 'not harm'. Cauliflower routinely achieves 'not harm'."
"I want you to be happy. I want all of this to have not succeeded at fucking with you, no matter how irrevocably it fucked with me -"
Yep. Except Dwarves do have the underlying biology and just don't have baggage about it and role doesn't supervene on anything so concrete.
Oh look, Dwarves. Most of my alts like Aulë best on the basis of his design choices. I'd go with Ulmo but most Ulmos have fewer instances of making themselves useful than ours.