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Cause of death: Euthanasia
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D.1E.1A wakes up not in a pod, but in a room like real people get to have and on a bed like real people get to have.

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Oh, she's been cast.  It's not surprising that this would happen eventually but it is surprising that she came straight here after the last thing she remembers.

She closes her eyes and flutters them open again, in case that makes for better footage in the opening; she wasn't sufficiently booted up to be paying attention to what she was doing the first time.  Hopefully that was just an issue with coming back from being dead and she won't have that sort of problem coming out of regular sleep mode going forward.

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She sits up and checks her hair (fine, just needs a bit of rearranging after being lain on) and her dress (blue-teal, unrumpled, kind of gauzy - if it's in fashion she's probably been dead for less than five years - the color tells her that she's not expected to win (that'd be something like a subdued gold, she thinks) but can go pretty far if she tries).  She tries to connect to the internets and is blocked, so she rises and exits the room.

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Journey's standing up for this one.  "Hiya, Delilah.  Nice to properly meet you."

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"Journey!  The pleasure's all mine, I promise."  She hugs him with the correct balance of formality and familiarity and then takes her place on one end of the couch, angling herself towards him at the angle that'll make the best wide shot.  "But please, tell me right away - what's the person of my dreams like?"

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"His name is Cam Swan."  There's a subtle shift in his demeanor that Delilah can tell means he doesn't expect this next bit to make it into an episode.  "He's from an Earth, 2009, he's approximately single-handedly responsible for eliminating poverty from his world by publicizing the existence of powerful summonable magical beings.  Not into mind alteration but we're working around it."

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She had already adjusted herself to be purely androsexual before he'd finished saying that.  "...Oh."  Either the standard doesn't include her and she'll lose because he doesn't think love homoids are made of wife material, or it does include her and she'll lose because she can't adjust herself to be a good fit for him, sounds like.

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"I think it's more about external pressure than internal choice, but I'll share his file with you and you can make your own decisions."  He snaps his fingers and yep, there's the information, ready and available in her head.

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It's charming that he's doing the presentation aspects for her even though she knows the snap is just a signal to an unseen intern to share the document with her and even though this isn't going to make it into the show.  Naturally she was programmed to get along with Journey - it wouldn't do at all if she didn't - but it still makes her feel like more of a really-real person than anything she's experienced before.

Nothing about her external demeanor changes as she absorbs the file, obviously; she's not reading it on visual overlay or anything so low-tech, although she does also do that in order to get a proper look at the attached pictures.

(Oh, if everyone's just died then that explains -) (One of them, really -) ('Empress Belladonna'; that's funny -)
She can work with this.  Of course, if she couldn't work with this, she simply would not have been picked.

"Thank you very much.  I can have my clothing specs sent to Ezio within the subjective hour and then I'll be ready to go on."

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"You're welcome to take longer than that.  All of the contestants get an adjustment period; though obviously you can, mm, skip to the good parts if you'd really prefer."

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Journey doesn't like her as much as she likes Journey, she notices.  That's probably to be expected.  "Thank you, I'll consider that."  Back to creating usable footage: "He sounds amazing.  I'm so excited to be here; thank you so much for having me!"

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"We're glad to have you, too."

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She executes the exact same hug as before and then clicks out into the hallway.

In the room where she's meant to wait until limo exits, she spends her twenty minutes designing her wardrobe and her forty designing her personality, and - okay, yes, the thing to do here if she wants to be a real person who's really worthy of love is to start being a real person, so she requests... hm... a book, and a clarinet, and some knitting supplies, and she really reads / plays / makes with those, with her physical body.  It's not quite a human experience; she's still very fast and already has the relevant skills loaded.  But it's a real experience all the same.

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