[Voice] Nightmare Clockwork Zero Disassembly

[phobophage]

What's with those particularly irritating robots? I was playing with some magic dirt to cheer myself up after that horrid time in the Labyrinth, and then they come along and begin pulling my stuff apart. I told them to stop but they don't understand me. And they're taking them apart so destructively they won't learn anything useful from them. At least they seem to be paying attention when I show them better ways to take things apart so they can at least learn how they work.

Now they're hanging around me, and I don't want to babysit a bunch of clueless robots. Someone take them off my hands. Find something to keep them busy so they don't keep bugging me. I don't have the time to keep making things for them to take apart and put back together.

Comments

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

And I'm guessing you can't scare them, either, right?

[phobophage]

They're so boring that way.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

I guess if that's your only entertainment... [Jessica can't conceive how trainable robots could possibly be boring, but some people just insist on remaining unenlightened.]

I'm not even sure what would scare a robot if it had the capacity to think. Lemonade, maybe.

[phobophage]

Oh, I'm sure they're be entertaining to figure out the workings of if they weren't so annoying.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

...unfortunately, the workings appear to make about as much sense as anything else here. They're still neat, though. And cute. [Jessica will defend the robots even from her own logic!]

[phobophage]

I still don't understand this whole 'cute' thing, but I just might investigate them more once I don't have them constantly underfoot.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

Given your, uh, background? I'm not sure it's even a thing for you. It'd probably be bad for a Nightmare to think of things as cute. Makes them harder to do not-nice things to.

[phobophage]

Yes, it wouldn't be very useful for us.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

How do you guys reproduce, anyway? Assuming you do.

[phobophage]

Oh, the Queen of Dreams just makes more of us.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

Out of stuff, or... like eggs or something?

[phobophage]

The Queen's our closest thing to a Creator God.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

I see.

...which just further supports my theory that the Queen is completely insane, since I'm assuming that without any sort of sexual reproduction you guys would have no real romance.

[phobophage]

The only Dreams who care about things like that are the ones created to.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

And it sounds like that sort of thing is definitely not your department, right?

[phobophage]

Indeed. Terror and curiosity're my primary interests.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

Curiosity's pretty cool. I'm, uh, not all about terror, but... I guess that's kind of a default for nightmare people, so I'm not going to argue.

I still feel weird talking to a dream-person. But then I feel weird talking to just about everyone here.

[phobophage]

This is a weird place.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

Understatement of the milennium.

Anyway, I'll just wait here for your delivery of adorable robotic pests.