voicetesting for as-yet-undefined reasons

[starches]

Soo-oo-oo.

You've done this -- the girl-version this -- before, so I guess you're kinda good at it, right?  And it's not like I'm a total stranger for you, all things considered.  Don't look so nervous, mun-friend.  This is gonna work out just fine. 

(Or fine for you, anyway.  Yeah, I would have been okay not thinking about that part, but you weren't planning on going there anyway, so we're all good.)

Comments

[prefersmanreaction]

...All right.

Which house are you from?

[starches]

L.A.

Trust me, this is weird for both of us.

[scarred_identity]

... Hm. I can't say it's much of an improvement.

[starches]

Somehow, your ambivalence is.

Well, I was gonna say comforting, but let's go with expected instead. Fits better.

[scarred_identity]

Thank you.

[starches]

I'm not sure if "you're welcome" is at this point appropriate, but it's polite, and hey, I am Miss Manners.

[scarred_identity]

Why are you a "miss" at all?

[starches]

Because my mun is a sucker for someone handing her ideas and promising to play with?

[scarred_identity]

You above all people should know that gender makes no difference in our line of work.

[starches]

[...okay, that was deserved.] Yeah, well. [Hey, eye rolling can take place, right? That’s enough of a retort.]

[scarred_identity]

Has everyone else in your Dollhouse changed, or was it just you?

[starches]

Still kiiinda up in the air.

Bennett's a boy.

[scarred_identity]

Hm. [does not care]

[wasabi_peas]

My curiosity is piqued. What part, specifically, are you referring to? That you don't want to think about.

[King of the awkward turtles over here, that's right.]

[starches]

The completely terrible spoiler alert that should come with my life, nothing fancy.

[wasabi_peas]

Right. What happens long after I've been...well. Gone.

That doesn't help matters much, does it.

[starches]

As far as I'm concerned, the terrible spoiler starts then and ends, you know. A decade later.

It's a pretty big spoiler, but hey.

[wasabi_peas]

Perhaps we should stop discussing ah, spoilers and find something...else. To discuss.

[starches]

Yes. Yes, that's the smartest thing to do, definitely. Let's do it.

Do that. The discussing of other things.

[wasabi_peas]

[And now it's back in his corner and keeping a conversation going just isn't one of his strong suits.]

...What shall we discuss, then? I'm open to suggestions.

[starches]

I, uh.

[Flail, flail, flail.]

There has to be something not awful we could talk about.

[wasabi_peas]

Work? That might be acceptable. Though it could be debated that work also falls under something awful.

[MORE FLAILING AND HE HAS ONE LESS ARM TO IT WITH, OKAY.]

[starches]

Ye-ahhh, that... is kind of the punchline to the sick joke that is our lives, isn’t it?

[wasabi_peas]

I suppose that it is, yes. Something akin to a bad punchline.

[starches]

It's either a bad punchline or an epic tragedy. Maybe both. Although the second one sounds way better.

[aintjustwhistlin]

Ohh the girl-version-thing, I've got a few of your kind sharing a headspace with the mun. Not a bad bunch, really.

[starches]

Nah, I think we're pretty cool. I've got a couple of others to pal around with up here, even if they don't come out to play ever.

[aintjustwhistlin]

She's even got at least one boy-version of someone who's usually a girl. And the girl version too.

It's ... complicated.

[starches]

Oh, rock on. My mun-friend has this silly mental block when it comes to playing the guy-shaped ones, hence, you know, why I exist, but variety is fun if it doesn't make you all panicky.

[aintjustwhistlin]

She definitely ain't got a problem with that. Think it's an almost even split guys to ladies, but it hasn't always been.

[starches]

Variety, like I said. Commendable.