[ The frustration at being constantly, slightly misunderstood begins to build, but Robbie can't spot a way to clear things up without backtracking to go over the points again. That would feel like a lecture - and a public one. He doesn't want to go there. All she's done, he thinks, is brush him off. His feelings aren't bruised. ]
I'm not the joke police. I'm the one they're usually after.
[ That's enough to abate the urge to defend himself, and he managed to do it without referencing the Hamburglar, the Cookie Crook, or the monkey from Dora. After having to explain Hot Topic and Q-tips, Robbie thinks the jokes would only add to his frustration and her weird stiffness.
He thinks it's due to her recent arrival, some sort of conflict of universes, but she is strange. She jumps to the worst conclusions about men, turns mannequins into corpses for some bizarre challenge, chokes on the word human. It's like she's deliberately trying to agitate. ]
What assumption? You're the one assuming I'm human - I am, but I prefer 'superhuman'. The word around here is 'sentient beings', because a lot of the people that look human aren't.
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I'm not the joke police. I'm the one they're usually after.
[ That's enough to abate the urge to defend himself, and he managed to do it without referencing the Hamburglar, the Cookie Crook, or the monkey from Dora. After having to explain Hot Topic and Q-tips, Robbie thinks the jokes would only add to his frustration and her weird stiffness.
He thinks it's due to her recent arrival, some sort of conflict of universes, but she is strange. She jumps to the worst conclusions about men, turns mannequins into corpses for some bizarre challenge, chokes on the word human. It's like she's deliberately trying to agitate. ]
What assumption? You're the one assuming I'm human - I am, but I prefer 'superhuman'. The word around here is 'sentient beings', because a lot of the people that look human aren't.