(For the first time meetings thingy) "You? This has to be a joke" (@squidsandcords)
Dipper had quite honestly forgotten the small blip of the summer that had been his encounter with Giffany. It had been... years-- the then 12 year old was now 21.
He had picked out this game in secret after being teased by Mabel for still not knowing how to flirt even as an adult, but the moment he saw WHO it was., he wished he hadn't.
"What??? How are you still-- um-- I-- oh God, you're not about to use the cords of my computer to strangle me for the Soos thing, are you?" He stood up out of his chair and backed slowly away a couple feet.
@squidsandcords
As her memory came back to the previous events of that frigging worst summer of her possible romance life, Giffany sent a patronizing glare at the boy-- Apologies, now the old guy that was one of those pesky little helpers of Soos' in avoiding her wrath
"Well, look who is speaking of the violent actions now!" - keeping her stance with arms crossed tightly to her chest, the pixel student glared at Dipper and hummed, - "I'm not a bad guy here, you know! Especially not after Soos being so cold hearted to melt my disc down, thanks to you two and that meat selling B̷̢̛̲̳͆͆̉̎́̿͠i̷̜̘̲̠̰̬͆̏̇̾̔̌͛̌̔̚̚̕͠͝͝t̴̢̨͕̖͙̩̠̠͍͙̄̅͂͂̇͆̀̏͜c̵̬̹͓̫̙̝͔̹̠̜̜̘͋́́̽̋ḩ̸̨̧̳̙͍͔̼̓̅͂̓͐͋̄ that BRAINWASHED him into loving that drastic made up Ş̴̢͚̝̖̲͉̣̼̫̦͖̘͚̝͋̈͌̅̈́́̌̾̕͝l̸̨͚͈̓͆̽̓̓̈́̒̓̋̈͋̓u̸̼̽̊̍̿̈̚͘t̵̡̨͓͈̫̰̹̦͖̖̼̬̮̀!!"
Feeling like she was getting way too overwhelmed by her own memories of the past encounter with those rascals, Giffany huffed under her breath, after which, getting calmer than before, casted yet another glance on the man
"Anyway... How come you ended up here with me again? Is it my curse to see your face every day from now on or did you decide to find the happiness through torturing me through the games yourself?"
Sheesh... clearly, Giffany had not forgotten the whole ordeal with Soos and Melody. There was no way Dipper could see anything good coming of this.
“Hey-- it’s not like he realized he was ACTUALLY agreeing to be your boyfriend, Giffany,” Dipper raised his arms in a defensive stance. “You-- you’re a dating simulator. Emphasis on simulator. Soos wanted the practice of talking to girls so he could, y’know, learn how to get a girlfriend.”
He took a breath. Dipper was glad that Giffany seemed to calm herself down? His face actually went a little red when she asked about his reasoning for being here with her right now.
“Ouch--” He said sarcastically. Are girls always this dramatic, Dipper thought as he folded his arms. “Mabel thought I needed a little push to start dating. She bought me this game and literally locked me in here until I decided to play it for an hour and learn how to talk to girls. Believe me, I’m about as happy to see you as you are to see me. As in-- not at all.” He huffed. “But? I’m stuck here until Mabel opens that door.”
Dipper went quiet for a moment, but after finding the silence to be more awkward than talking to Giffany, he continued.
“How are you even still-- er, alive? In existence? Didn’t Soos destroy the game your programming was on?”
"HE WOULDN'T NEED THE OTHER GIRLFRIEND IF YOU DIDN'T HELP HIM TO TRY AND GET RID OF ME!!" - here goes her cool yet again... Good job with talking with girls about their unsuccessful ex-crushes
"We should have had a merrily ever after, and you three just NEEDED to ruin it for us! I could make Soos happier than any other girl EVER could! But YOU stood in our way and now he may never be happy again!..." - suddenly, Giffany stopped all her screaming and took a pause... No, it's not the right time for attacking anyone like that after so many years. Especially not when she, more or less, has found her dream guy... Even though he did vanish to the real world after Weirdmageddon took place and didn't come back into the gaming machines ever since
"And besides, I'm not "just a simple simulator", as rude it was of yours to mention. My developed intelligence and lovable interface avail me of having an actual conversation and matching up with close to any male on this planet. It doesn't matter for me how much of a "game" you see in me, filled with useless coding and unneeded script data in the storage. I am still me. And I'm more than alive", - she took her glance on Dipper, as he told the story from his part, and let out a mechanical snicker, - "So, this time, it's not just me being stuck in my game with an unlikable player, huh? What a fun timing of events"
She proceeded to giggle, especially at the man's wish to be out of the room, that may, as Giffany saw by the state of things, not happen any time soon. Soon after cooling from her laughter, however, and finding out how needed it was for Pines to keep the conversation going, just not to be left in awkward silence, Giffany has risen her brows on the man, seemingly not expecting the question he gave to her
"Little secrets of the company, boy. Even with the ruined disquiet, the entity of the game can function for a little while until finding their new "home", so to say. And, fortunately, I found mine in that gaming room of the town Soos lived for his entire life. But, shamefully for my own curiosity, I decided to leave that boring place, travelling from one gadget to another, until I got... Here. With you" - the tone of her voice became lower... As obnoxious as the man was even in his 20s, Giffany didn't see any point of this, as she still saw him, "little rascal from Gravity Falls" attempting to train his dating skills on her, however, pixel student just might have some idea of how she could play with him, instead
"Anyway... You have got me for the "dating actual girls training", is that right? Despite the past inconveniences between us, it is forcefully coded in my program to help you proceed through the simulator and gain more skills in talking with the girls of your world. But for that... I may need you to open access for my game to load information from your computer. For me to get to know you and what kind of training would help you achieve your learning goals better. Would you allow me to have that? "
There was a pop-up that appeared on the screen, asking "Would you like the following application to get access to your files, documents and media?" with only two options available - "Yes" and "No". Unlike the other pop-ups, however, this one was pretty unique due to not having a "cross" button, which would allow Dip to close the window so easily. Instead, he was forced to either allow Giffany access to his contents on the gadget or face the consequences
"Oh-- um, yeah, no I know, believe me-- I was attacked by my favorite game once. I didn't mean to call you JUST a simulator", He started, "But um-- Soos is happy now. You helped him be happy by, um, by being there for him at his lowest, y'know? Even if it didn't work out. Sometimes... sometimes you need to be there for people even if what you see isn't what they see."
Dipper didn't know where the sudden deep thought came from. He could relate to Giffany in a sense-- he had obsessed over Wendy for the longest time without being able to see why they weren't a match, and...
"Oh um-- anyway-" As soon as Giffany began laughing, Dipper could feel his face turn red. Giffany was mocking him! He lowered his hat a bit and looked away, irritated by the other's teasing. Even the digital girl was laughing at him. When giffany finally lightened up on the teasing and asked to have access to his files, he remained tense.
"What?? This isn't even my MAIN laptop but-- but that doesn't mean I trust you with that! What happens if I say no?"
Luckily, Dipper had not used his main PC where he uploaded his ghosthunting content for this. Still... the young man did have some of his videos along with his own writings and pictures from his travels thus far on this one. He was also logged into several accounts and did not need Giffany hacking into them.
