productiveness is a scam

worlds most insecure hobby engineer: yeah i can only do the equivalent of robot surgery

I'm pretty sure we talked about before how Tori living drives home that no, programs aren't inherently evil and cruel just because of the purposes they were created for like Tori believes. She says she can never be or do better because the scientists "broke" her, but this is just an extension of that belief applied to herself. Tori viewing herself as innately flawed and irredeemable is part of the problem, even if she starts acknowledging the ways she's harmed FP about it.

On top of that, she has always relied on reboots to "get out" of situations and avoid dealing with difficult emotions. Death can't just be another out for her. It isn't effective, neither as a form of redemption nor retribution. Tori cannot just leave and move on and continue to ignore festering problems.

And if Tori can't die and fall into eternal inaction, then she has to make decisions and continue to live with herself no matter what. She was so afraid of loosing FP, but has now lost them regardless of them being alive. She was so afraid of causing harm, but has hurt everyone regardless. She has done things that she could never make up for or fix. But in the end, she still has herself, and she has to decide how she will continue to exist in a place where she has caused harm to many, where she can't escape the outfall of her actions, but where she also possesses the power to improve things.

This is my understanding of FP and Clover's relationship.

I think this one’s my favorite yet.. I haven’t done a lineless style in a while and I think it upped the cuteness factor on this one

I was inspired by the cutest screencap of them