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>You try reaching out to her
>"DON'T TOUCH ME!!" she slaps your hand away
>You back off, but you need to get through to her
>"Vee, please, do you really think that guy's being honest? He's just a sleazy salesman!"
>"SHUT UP! Do you think I'm stupid!?"
>She looks at you furiously. Her face is flickering
>"I know salesmen love bullshitting so people will give them money, okay!?"
>"But... I also know he's telling the truth."
>You don't want her to think any less of herself just because of a stupid commercial
>"Vee, that's not-"
>"-What, you think I don't know EVERYTHING about LCD screens?"
>"Those stupid men in suits have been trying to upgrade me ever since they became a thing!"
>"I've tried my best to ignore it, to love myself for who I am, I really have!"
>"But what's the point, if everywhere I go there'll only be constant reminders of what I really am!?"
>She balls up her fist and punches the floor. The color of her screen changes for a split-second
>"Sooner or later, I'll just have to accept it. Accept that I'm... outdated."
>"And that I'll lose everything dear to me. My self, my show..."
>She looks away
>"...you..."
You didn't catch that last bit
>"Sorry Vee, what-"
>"YOU, YOU IDIOT! I'M GOING TO LOSE YOU, TOO! Don't think I haven't noticed the way you look at Scraps!"
>You didn't think it was possible, but her voice is cracking
>"She's such a great toon, isn't she? Always so agile, always so cute, always so LUCKY."
>No words can express the disdain she puts into that last word
>"At first, I didn't mind her lucky guesses. I thought they were funny. But as they kept happening over and over again, things changed."
>"Now, people aren't watching to see me anymore. They just want to see if she'll get lucky again, if she'll steal the spotlight from ME, on MY SHOW."
>"You can't know what it feels like, Anon. To be a main toon and slowly become a side-character in your own show."
>You reach out to her again, but she puts her arm out. Not yet.
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