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HMM i think more than "playful and upbeat" Tamari's just,, really passionate. He's very expressive, extremely emotional, and bad at masking those features, so he often comes across as 'too much' to most people. He's got a lot of love to give, but feels as though he doesn't have anyone to give that love to, so he would attach really hard to people who show him any amount of kindness. Tamari definitely copes with humor / by not taking himself or his issues seriously, making jokes of his conditions and considering himself a parody of sorts. which makes things a lot worse actually I'll write abt the other characters in a bit sorry i just got done with work and i'm tiredd LMAO

At 3:58 the phrase "I'm scared" just repeats. At 4:03 it's a couple of phrases. In the background it reads "Why did you make me like this?" Over and over again, and in the foreground you get "I hate you" and "My lord, save them from me" and "I deserve better"

-> She's really good at poetry and anything that has to do with writing!! -> Her favorite story would be The Yellow Wallpaper -> I think Rafid would be really put-off by her at first due to her physical resemblance to Fayrouz, but as soon as he sees how kind she really is all that goes away -> Despite not really getting how it works she fucking KILLS at Mario Kart. She's a Pink Gold Peach main -> If she was a pokemon trainer her ace would be Starmie or Malamar -> She likes having long hair but it gets in the way so some days she puts it in a pony tail. Sometimes Tamari also braids her hair and she likes the look! -> She's tried to get into the same sort of nerdy stuff that Tamari's into but just doesn't get 90% of it, most of the time she tries just cuz she wants to spend some quality bonding time. When she DOES become engaged in something though it becomes 'their' show to watch or game to play -> She would rlly like the Tinkerbell movies methinks

HI this is a very good question!! Rafid's interests are the easiest to answer; he likes 80s and 90s anime, gundams, RC cars, legos, anything related to robots or super sentai shows, etc. Tamari would be more into niche / obscure disturbing internet rabbit holes i think. stuff like TempleOS, sad satan, etc. He'd also like gothic literature and any sort of moody, abstract art i believe. Fayrouz wouldn't be the type to get into fandoms or have big interests in the way other characters would, she spends all her time focusing on her career. Outside of that, I think she'd have an interest in True Crime. Mariyam's biggest interest is marine biology and ecology / nature conservation i think!! she'd really like learning abt deep sea creatures. The fucked up scary looking ones with the big teeth and translucent skin, those guys

yeah sure thing!! ppl make keychains / merch of their favorite characters all the time, as long as u don't claim them to be ur own, i don't see the harm in it :]

i think they would care a lot abt each other!! mariyam as a character has a very strong moral compass, one that she sticks to regardless of the consequences she could personally entail. That's part of the reason she broke away from Fayrouz and risked everything to help out Tamari; it would've been easy to ignore him, as Fayrouz would've wanted her to do, but doing what's easy isn't the same thing as doing what's right tamari, on the other hand, would feel very grateful for her intervention when he was at his lowest and worst, even though he hadn't been very kind to her in-turn. i think he'd feel guilty for everything he dragged her into, for putting her in the position to make that choice in the first place, so he'd try to compensate for it going forward by being extra extra extra nice to her LOL i know a lot of sibling relationships are characterized as playfully antagonistic bc, yeah, that's just what growing up with someone does to you. but considering neither tamari nor mariyam ever got to 'grow up' with one another, i think the nature of their dynamic would be a lot more tactful and sensitive. they were both victims of Fayrouz's abuse, just in different ways, and naturally, they bond over that with one another that being said, I think they both would get along well with one another outside of all the trauma. Tamari would buy gifts from all over the world for Mariyam, and Mariyam would remember important dates and anniversaries and stuff when he'd inevitably forget. Tamari would take Mariyam to an aquarium with a sea turtle encounter for her birthday, and Mariyam would thank him by buying him new gundams for him to build. Tamari goes on stream and Mariyam sticks around for the whole thing even if he doesn't get any other viewers. Mariyam vents to Tamari abt stress from her job and Tamari listens to her and offers his own support / perspectives regarding any issues. Tamari's very emotional and sensitive, Mariyam is very compassionate and sentimental. They balance each other out pretty well that way :)

Mariyam, on the other hand, I feel, is more secure in her humanity. Sure she may not be of flesh and blood like everyone else, but that doesn't stop the emotions she experiences and actions she takes from being real and having a real impact on the world around her. She resents the way she was coded by Fayrouz to be made easily-manipulatable, but she doesn't resent the nature of her existence as an android. To her, being an android is a completely neutral facet of her being, with it's own pros and cons, like everything else.

I've always been of the mind that once u put something out into the world, it stops belonging just to u, rather it becomes property of the larger internet. if I wasn't ok with that, I wouldn't have posted abt it.

Rafid - Faineant Girl

i've never heard of this person b4!! thanks 4 the recommendation :]

I'm not 100% sure what the person who'd answered that ask meant, I'm assuming this would've been back in 2023, and my memory of that time period is absolutely awful. My answer to this question isn't meant to speak for that specific person, it'll just be my recollected, biased perspective. Fayrouz chose to make Tamari and Mariyam therapy robots as a way to prove she was a 'good person'. Her husband left her for her abuse, tactlessness, and overall coldness regarding emotions and sensitivity. To Fayrouz, this wasn't about the fact she had hurt someone, but about the fact that she was inadequate, or 'imperfect'. She sought to make up for these deficits in her character in the only way she knew how, through robotics. The main principle behind Fayrouz is that everything she's had to do to survive, everything that made her a brilliant scientist, was also what made her horrible at maintaining meaningful bonds or relationships. She isn't innately evil, she isn't beyond redemption or undeserving of love, but the way she experiences reality is fundamentally incompatible with the way her society operates.