[Haha. She's known a Charlotte or two that could be a challenge to his words, and there was also the fact that dumb or not didn't have much to do with it, when it came to flesh golems like her and the others, but she'll spare him the semantics. He really should be so grateful for how much she's behaving tonight! Sigh, she's never as appreciated as she should be. If she was, he'd let her have her fun with a fake talisman that was really more of a pamphlet, if it was to explain why V was there.
The girl doesn't know enough to be afraid of the mask. She hasn't heard all that many stories of things that go bump in the night, despite her unsavory origins herself. It had usually been for the best that she think everything was exactly as it should be. That combined with the familiarity of his voice, even with an spooky interference, means she's no more or less upset than she was before she looks over at him and lets her hands fall.]
My...situation? [She can feel Q's unimpressed glare resting on her, which makes her want to shift uneasily, but she keeps still. Her situation... After thinking about it a moment more, V grimaces, and there's a tremor in her voice and hands that isn't purely keeping in line with what had been her timid nature before.] I'm just another puppet. One of the many. I want...to be loved. I have to be a --
' -- good girl. Because in order to be loved, I'm not allowed to make mistakes'. Oh, good. They kept that horseshit in the later models, hmm? It's fine and all for a dramatic speech, but it's not what I want~ No one cares about the sick thought process behind it.
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The girl doesn't know enough to be afraid of the mask. She hasn't heard all that many stories of things that go bump in the night, despite her unsavory origins herself. It had usually been for the best that she think everything was exactly as it should be. That combined with the familiarity of his voice, even with an spooky interference, means she's no more or less upset than she was before she looks over at him and lets her hands fall.]
My...situation? [She can feel Q's unimpressed glare resting on her, which makes her want to shift uneasily, but she keeps still. Her situation... After thinking about it a moment more, V grimaces, and there's a tremor in her voice and hands that isn't purely keeping in line with what had been her timid nature before.] I'm just another puppet. One of the many. I want...to be loved. I have to be a --
' -- good girl. Because in order to be loved, I'm not allowed to make mistakes'. Oh, good. They kept that horseshit in the later models, hmm? It's fine and all for a dramatic speech, but it's not what I want~ No one cares about the sick thought process behind it.