Let me Crawl Inside Your Veins (Wide Open)

[bridge_princess]

Who: Parsee bridge_princess and You!
What: February Open Log
Where: Pretty much anywhere
When: February (after the 8th)
Content Warnings: Body Horror, Blood, Roots and flowers growing in things like lungs and other places they don't belong. Probably some serious self loathing here

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[bridge_princess]

"I... am not surprised to hear you say that." She didn't know it, but the moment that Legion said it, he believed it. Not because Legion was so great at sounding sincere, but because in the Geth's simplified way of sometimes handling interactions? she legitimately believed it meant that. "I think that is probably part of why it pisses me off that they did it. You didn't want to hurt them. You just wanted space and go on being."

(OOC: And oh god that's why I could never ever do that to the Geth in the game if I didn't immediately just ship Legion off to Cereberus without turning it on. It just always felt so cruel.)

[forwearemany]

(And she just accepts it. No shock, no questioning, no anger or disbelief or questioning if a machine is even capable of love.

She actually understands them, as much as an organic can, and Legion feels a sudden surge of appreciation for that.)

We also love you, and other allies.

[bridge_princess]

[Parsee had never existed in a time where there were prejudices about what Robots were capable of doing. To her, Legion was just a person made of polymers and a small amount of metal. The idea of that really wasn't that weird for her. In essence, she was from so far back in ancient history that she couldn't relate to the particulars of computation to realize that there would even be an issue.

Weird how a person so far different in advance was more capable of understanding a robot as a person than someone who actually understood wat basic robots were.]

I... I know you do, and I appreciate and love you right back. Not the way I feel about Rinoa, but I do. There's different sorts of love.

[forwearemany]

(True, but she also never questions why they'd care about people who destroyed them, or gets angry when they say they love the people that they drove from their homes. It's nice, even if she has more perspective with which to understand and less reason to question it than many others.)

We are aware.

(The lights on their face flash red, and they make an awkward sound, and pull in on themselves a little. A cringe?

Look, they might love the Quarians, but if say, Tali, or another creator, started trying to flirt with them, they would run for the hills.

They'd be less quick to flee, but they're really not interested in Parsee in that way, either.)

[bridge_princess]

[She giggled a little when she saw that reaction. It was the way in which the body posture worked that told her more than anything else and any fancy tricks how Legion was reacting.]

You really don't quite know how to handle how organics flirt do you?

[Because she absolutely couldn't see any other kind of love bothering Legion.]

[forwearemany]

It is outside of our design specifications.

(They weren't built for it. They have little desire to flirt with anyone.)

[bridge_princess]

You know, I do actually envy that a little.

[Which was less her usual 'I'm jealous' thing. There was an element of it that was just basically easy to envy because it was really convenient to not have to worry about that sort of thing.]

Relationships and romance can be so complicated at times that... you're missing out, but you're also really not missing out. Some experiences aren't worth having.

[forwearemany]

And yet you pursue them.

(Romantic love for someone is why she's in this situation after all. Who she loves is not a choice, and the choice of whether to act on it has been taken from her, but it's also clear that she very much wants her feelings to be requited-to have a relationship with this other.)

[bridge_princess]

She's...

[How did Parsee say this? How did she even consider this, speak about this? She considered it for a long moment and swallowed, trying to put it into words. "She's different?" No, Rinoa wasn't actually different. She was just a girl. A very intriguing girl that had gotten the youkai's attention, but their halting consideration of romance wasn't all that new or different from anyone else...]

She's special to me. That's all.

[forwearemany]

Acknowledged.

(It is, apparently, entirely subjective. Parsee wishes to avoid romance until she develops romantic feelings for another. They have seen similar reactions to more platonic forms of attachment, though often people continue to deny the shift in feelings.

It is ...refreshing that she does not.)

Perhaps at some point, we will meet her.

(She mentioned Rinoa earlier. They do not know if she realized she let her name slip, but though it is a name they recognize, she is not a person they have had considerable interaction with.)

[bridge_princess]

[Entirely, 100% subjective. There was no real actual logic behind it so much as emotion and passion that had come out of unexpected connection. If one tried to get her to explain what about Rinoa was special, she'd give traits that a hundred people had, a thousand, tens of thousands even. Rinoa was a pretty, intelligent and kind girl, but there were a lot of them. She just happened to be the one she fell for.]

I... would like it if you got the chance. I actually would. She'd find you really interesting.

[forwearemany]

(That's just how things go sometimes.

Legion might find reasons to claim that every person they loved was special, but those reasons would likely have more to do with actions and accomplishments than innate qualities.

...Also Legion isn't always perfectly logical and just thinks of the people they love as special and precious.)

She is skilled at dancing?

(They believe they have seen that name before, on the ranking list for the shower games.)