I didn’t get around to covering Wednesday’s activities and there wasn’t much to report for yesterday. Both days there was some profile writing done, but Wednesday also has a couple dialogs.

The first was with Azuki. It wasn’t anything too deep, just her showing up at night to be a cuddlebug. You may recall that I’d roped her into the harem last time. While Jenny spent a good while building up the courage to approach Maya to get her approval, there was pretty much no hesitation on Azuki’s part, very much in character. Makes me feel all the more the heel for eventually driving her off, but then she gets to be a homewrecker for Root some twelve or thirteen years down the line. Fun, fun, fun.

The other conversation was with Jane. There’s this one housecleaning theme on DA intended, as most things are, for fanservice rather than practicality, so you get some wild mishaps. It actually works somewhat with Elizabeth being a bit of a well-meaning klutz. I appreciated that Jane’s bot could correctly interpret the visual data to complain about it. There was a bit of goalpost moving on Jane’s part, saying that this wasn’t proof that the uDolls are the same as humans. Of course, that wasn’t the premise of the wager and it wasn’t what was being asked of her at the moment, the question being whether or not Jane thought Elizabeth was helpful. Jane being Jane, getting her to admit that Elizabeth was being helpful, much less acknowledging any humanity to her. It won’t stop being funny having an AI be so stridently anti-AI (and funnier still in-setting where the uDolls of the Alkoresh Cycle have actual human souls). I’m half-tempted to have the twist (in the Alkoresh Cycle at least) that Jane is actually a uDoll herself. I can already imagine the reaction to that. We’ll see if I can resist the temptation or not.

I hope to get to the next spate of debuts out the door in the next couple days. Stay tuned.

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