Voice Testing

[strawberry_science]

Listen to me, because I'm only going to say it once. [ She points. ] THAT is not a hexagram! Can you even count? It's obvious that I'm going to be the one doing all the work around here, and I'm sorry to say that I have better things I could be doing right now.

So, if you'll excuse me. Chiruyi and I are—

[ She turns. ] Chiyuri?

CHIYURI!

Come out here this instant. We are leaving!

Comments

[princesstenko]

That's not what I'm saying at all.

In fact, you're completely off track.

[strawberry_science]

Oh? Then explain it more quickly. I'm a busy woman, you know.

[princesstenko]

The quick and dirty, hmm? Very well...

You are a creation of someone else's imagination.

[strawberry_science]

False! I was born to a mother through a natural biological process just like every other human...

Okay, most humans.

[ Clearing her throat. ] Try again.

[princesstenko]

And why is it that you believe that?

[strawberry_science]

That is very simple: it's a fact and thus, it is true.

[princesstenko]

Isn't it possible that those memories, those that you claim are fact, are not also part of the illusion of your existence?

[strawberry_science]

Do I look like Heidegger to you? [ Sigh. ]

Look, if I was a figment of someone else's imagination, why would they give me the ability to question my own existence? "I think, therefore, I am"? Please.

[ She thumps her chest. ] I am!

And, right now? My assistant is not—[ Turning away. ] Chiyuri!!!

[princesstenko]

You don't think. Even now, your every word, action, and thought is predetermined by a person outside your scope of understanding. Not like a god, but more like a puppeteer. And you are here to entertain. How else do you explain the very place we find ourselves in?

[strawberry_science]

I don't th—

I don't think so is more like it! [ Pointing. ] Who are you to tell me who I am?

[princesstenko]

I'm but a fox.

[strawberry_science]

You're not "but" a fox. Or "just" one, either. Anyone taking a good look at you can tell that much.

[princesstenko]

If you cannot except the possibility of your existence being the creation of something else, then why question at all if I am or am not simply a fox?

[strawberry_science]

I'm not questioning it, but you're understating it. No simple fox has nine tails and tries to debate existentialism.

[princesstenko]

And no person speaks as a muse to a writer.

[strawberry_science]

[ Crossing her arms. ] Okay Miss Smarty-pants. If I'm a figment of someone's imagination — and I'm not saying I am, this is just speaking hypothetically — what does that make you?

[princesstenko]

Another figment.

[strawberry_science]

Whose figment? Certainly not mine.

[princesstenko]

Of a mun.

[strawberry_science]

A what? Stop leaving off the context. This is your theory, not mine.

[princesstenko]

An author.

[strawberry_science]

Look, the only story I'm a character in is the autobiography of my life that they will write once I'm recognized for my greatness!