[ It's fine, he figures, because the multicolored fish he's seen on his way to work were all Cybuddies: advertised as durable and nearly indistinguishable from the real thing, like the stray cats and dogs he's seen roaming some of the less friendly streets.
Like him, he figures that they must be comprised of code and wires; that even if he disappears someday (which he still thinks about, the impermanence of this place), someone will come clean up his space and take those fish with them, deprogram them and clear their memory bank. Good as new.
It's sad, he supposes. But most things are.
Oona's encouragement sits warmly against his ribs, though, and her accusation of him being serious and gloomy aren't wrong at all— case in point. He won't say anything about his prospective aquarium being filled with fake fish, because her consideration is important and she literally just called him out on being A Downer, so.
He lets his expression soften incrementally, dials back his melancholy about 10 points. ]
'Sometimes'. —Give me a break. [ That's a shockingly informal statement from him, but in reality, that's more of the real him showing through... ] I'm always this way.
[ A mild joke, delivered in deadpan. ]
If you have suggestions for which fish to get, I'm open to it.
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Like him, he figures that they must be comprised of code and wires; that even if he disappears someday (which he still thinks about, the impermanence of this place), someone will come clean up his space and take those fish with them, deprogram them and clear their memory bank. Good as new.
It's sad, he supposes. But most things are.
Oona's encouragement sits warmly against his ribs, though, and her accusation of him being serious and gloomy aren't wrong at all— case in point. He won't say anything about his prospective aquarium being filled with fake fish, because her consideration is important and she literally just called him out on being A Downer, so.
He lets his expression soften incrementally, dials back his melancholy about 10 points. ]
'Sometimes'. —Give me a break. [ That's a shockingly informal statement from him, but in reality, that's more of the real him showing through... ] I'm always this way.
[ A mild joke, delivered in deadpan. ]
If you have suggestions for which fish to get, I'm open to it.