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🌧 Commisions open for July 🌧

thinking about hollow ground piercing u in that failed auction route and twirling my hair

hey guysss so unfortunately the rumors are true and im leaving the narrative. Buttt the good news is my absence will create such a gaping hole in your lives that it will become a sort of presence itself, and so in a way it will kind of be like i never left! But i am. Leaving just to be clear.

...I can't stop thinking about Ortega calling fakeself Sidestep a tool to their face. This really is one of those things that Sidestep is never going to be able to forget! Like, non-fakeself Sidesteps who tell Ortega what they are/are in a situation where Ortega finds out might wonder how much Ortega really believes Re-Genes are people versus tools and how much Ortega sees all Re-Genes as people versus just seeing Sidestep as an exception and that doubt is probably going to nag at them. But fakeself Sidesteps know for a fact that there is a line in the sand and if that line is crossed Ortega will just straight up dismiss their humanity! Even if fakeself is resolved (hell, even if it's resolved in the guilty ending; the fact that there's a variable for formerfake suggests that that's gonna come up again), I don't think "Ortega learned what I was and what I'd done and decided I was an inhuman copy of myself before even talking to me about it" is knowledge that's going to just go away! You can't just dismiss someone's personhood when they do something wrong (even if they legitimately aren't human by the strictest definition) and I can see so many ways that that can haunt Sidestep and come back to bite Ortega.