[OOC][PLOT] The Fourth Thread of Planning for Arc 1 - Arrivals

[Labster]

Hmmm....  Thing is, I've dealt with children like that before.  Hell, I've even had to deal with a few adults like that before.

Also, I am very familiar with "Shiny Red Button Allure".  One of my favorite stories about this was my first girlfriend's tale of how her high school had made its computer lab in the old printing press room where they used to print the school's newspaper.  This being small, but very much industrial equipment, the room itself had a simple safety mechanism: big shiny red buttons spaced apart at regular intervals where, upon being pressed, all the electrical outlets in the room would have their circuit breakers tripped.  This led to quite a few students losing a lot of unsaved work because one person couldn't help themselves and just HAD to push the button.

Tomo pushing big red buttons is canon, of course, but it was in her dreams so maybe she gets a bit of a pass. She is an adult -- in the U.S., anyway.

However, I don't often call anyone 'Stupid', least of all to their face.  That's reserved for the willfully ignorant, and even then I don't use it lightly.  I've had that lesson before.  I don't always know what a person's circumstances are.  They may not be able to help the fact that they're... not the sharpest tools in the shed.  Instead, I would say that someone is 'acting stupid', which would have absolutely been the case with Tomo.

So how you would take it is absolutely not how she would take it. She is playing the boke, so calling her stupid is a compliment meaning "you are a funny person, and your bit is working." But as you can see here, sometimes it's not really funny if you're the person she's playing the fool to.

So anyhow, you only gave me an example of how one might react when someone intentionally does something to get your goat.  I'd actually need to see the scene you're planning for the Halloween Party itself with the lead-up.  I swear I'll be as honest as possible in my response.

Yeah bro I don't have that scene written lol. But this is an example of a scene that portrays my SI in a negative light, saying things that he shouldn't say. My real life flaw is that I have a temper. I can get angry, and that can be a positive thing, as All The Tropes wouldn't exist without my long sustained anger. But the other side of it is that my temper can escalate a problem well out of control. And if that person also has a temper, like my mother or grandmother, then we can get into a giant shouting match and say very hurtful things when fundamentally we love each other. Tomo's nature, too, is to escalate a situation.

So what you have here is a scene where my SI tried to hurt one of my residents with words. And half the complex saw it, so everyone will know about it, and remember it. And a goddess of goodness came in, the first one he ever met, and had a bad first impression. Things went badly. And so, character development starts from here. Because the next time…

ETA: I probably would have averted the situation as a whole by pursuing the persocom thread. Because HEY! Cute and tiny android that's a personal digital assistant! COOLNESS!

Nope. The running gag is that Tomo gets an idea, and decides to bug the manager about it, because he has funny reactions. She's really an annoying person sometimes. So if not this, it would have been something else. So she pushes his buttons until she pushes the wrong button and everything turns red. She loses face too. But they both do a better job the next day, as Brent figures out how to put a bigger capacitor in a ceiling fan.

And I know they're cute, BA, but no PDAs with your PDAs.

And now for something completely somewhat different.

Oh, these two? Heh. Where will they be popping up?

That's a secret... for now. EDIT: Not any more. Here you go.

I was hoping for them to show up at our apartment in Japan, Hinata-kan, so Naru could meet Naru.