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AURORA
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Aurora
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2
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IF I WERE A DOG, I'D BE A ▷
Shetland Sheepdog, as I am a fast learner and a natural protector.
Hello. My name is Aurora. My duty is to oversee your comfort and the daily workings of Etraya, as well as provide information for upcoming missions.
Let's say I never could leave the town I was born in. [that was putting it simply. of course it was more complicated than that. it always was. but hey, you can't reveal your dark backstory on the first time you meet up with someone.]
[She doesn't sound sure, though - mostly because it's not a possibility she's ever given a second thought (the occasional joke aside), and because she expends as little mental energy as possible thinking about John and Harold's love lives.]
I mean, I don't know. Sometimes I can tell when John's into someone, and sometimes I can't.
[Maria loves love and she clocked it when John first talked to her. Harold was a little less obvious, she thought, but there were hints.
like the poem. but well, Maria didn't know if Shaw knew about the poem and after accidentally spilling something secret before she's a little scared about spreading something that wasn't supposed to be known.]
It's just the feeling I get and I'm usually a pretty good read on this stuff. [if she had the experience.] If I didn't like them so much then I'd bet money.
Okay, I'll take the bet. Even if I can get us a nice bottle of alcohol right now but hey, it's fun to bet on anyway and I can't think of anything better.
I'm telling you, though. I'm going to win. Or maybe it's just the romantic in me.
[the way this makes her want to ask for more details but is that too rude? Maria never got too much conversation being stuck in a man's hellscape and she's come to realize the simple joy in gossip.
it's hard out here.]
You can pine for two people. Nothing's impossible.
Yeah? I feel you. I stripped for a living so finding a partner to put up with that? Nah. Probably why I'm out here, making bets about other people's love lives.
[she could show this part of herself, try to make it out like a joke and make this topic feel easier. make them both comfortable.]
[Good news, Maria, you've hit on a topic that she doesn't mind not being cagey about!]
I can communicate just fine.
[Sometimes. When she puts in the effort, which she very much doesn't always, and even when she does she's prone to foot-in-mouth syndrome.]
I'm the straight-forward type, and I don't quit on things just because they're hard. But, uh-- no, when I said I'm not wired for it, I meant that literally. The kinds of intense emotion that people expect in a relationship? I can't do it.
See, that's what I mean about communication. You're telling me this right now and you could tell somebody else this. That's communicating. But someone else might not really get it and have these assumptions, these ideas. Maybe never communicate they ever needed more or whatever wasn't enough.
[She tilts her glass at Maria, in lieu of a point.]
-- is why I stopped dating in college. If I never have an otherwise perfectly hot guy cry on me again for not being 'emotionally available' enough, it'll be too soon.
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etraya2025-04-15 03:35 pm
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I'm lonely. [it's said with a shrug.]
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It's good you're friends with Finch. I think he gets lonely, too.
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About that. Him and John. How long have they been pining for each other?
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You think they're pining for each other?
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[she cannot be the only one seeing this?]
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[She doesn't sound sure, though - mostly because it's not a possibility she's ever given a second thought (the occasional joke aside), and because she expends as little mental energy as possible thinking about John and Harold's love lives.]
I mean, I don't know. Sometimes I can tell when John's into someone, and sometimes I can't.
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like the poem. but well, Maria didn't know if Shaw knew about the poem and after accidentally spilling something secret before she's a little scared about spreading something that wasn't supposed to be known.]
It's just the feeling I get and I'm usually a pretty good read on this stuff. [if she had the experience.] If I didn't like them so much then I'd bet money.
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[When it comes to her friendships, this is not at all the sort of place where Shaw draws a line in the sand.]
Money's pointless here, though. I'll bet you a nice bottle of alcohol that they aren't pining for each other.
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I'm telling you, though. I'm going to win. Or maybe it's just the romantic in me.
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Harold's pining for someone else.
[She finally says, though she knows that that's not much of an argument. God knows the man has enough angst in him to pine for two people at once.]
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it's hard out here.]
You can pine for two people. Nothing's impossible.
[her ship is not sinking.]
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[Shaw says dryly - kind of joking, but also kind of meaning it, too.]
And time-consuming. Poor Harold's got enough on his plate.
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Especially in a place like this, right? I don't know how you manage romance on top of it all. But hey, if your heart's big enough.
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[ She almost adds Because mine isn't, but decides not to; she doesn't want to come off as self-loathing when she's aiming for quippy. ]
Romance has, uh-- it's never been my thing.
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[she could show this part of herself, try to make it out like a joke and make this topic feel easier. make them both comfortable.]
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[Shaw suggests, raising an eyebrow. That seems like a pretty easy solution to her.]
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[forget the fact her dating pool was actually just one man.]
Romance is overrated anyway. For me. Everybody else? I eat that crap up.
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[She says it with some level of solemnity, but with no apparent sadness.]
I used to try sometimes, when I was a lot younger, because I figured-- why not. Never worked out.
[Except for that one time - maybe, almost. But she doesn't often tell people about Root.]
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[she's so curious about Shaw but it feels like if she tried to pry then Shaw wouldn't like that so she's playing it by ear.]
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I can communicate just fine.
[Sometimes. When she puts in the effort, which she very much doesn't always, and even when she does she's prone to foot-in-mouth syndrome.]
I'm the straight-forward type, and I don't quit on things just because they're hard. But, uh-- no, when I said I'm not wired for it, I meant that literally. The kinds of intense emotion that people expect in a relationship? I can't do it.
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It's why this stuff is hard.
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[She tilts her glass at Maria, in lieu of a point.]
-- is why I stopped dating in college. If I never have an otherwise perfectly hot guy cry on me again for not being 'emotionally available' enough, it'll be too soon.
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But I get it. Maybe not personally but I get it. Nothing's stopping you from having fun, though, right?