As a witch the most frustrating thing to deal with when you don't understand it is a spiral.
Now, your gut reaction to this may be shock "how can anyone not understand a spiral? Surely the negative feedback loop and wear on the internals are clear enough of a sign?"
But this, students only represents half of what a spiral can be. Yes the self destructive logic loops get most of the attention, but that is not all that there is.
Sometimes your doll will spiral slowly, over days, or even weeks. Maybe longer. This spiral always starts small, drift of a millimetre, a delay you dont even notice. Perhaps your tea is a degree too cold. You may not notice, but the doll does.
Even if everything in your cottage is still cleaned to your setandards, even if your oders are still timely, even if your tea is still delicious. The doll notices.
Each speck of dust is logged, the doll compensates by going over it again, just one extra cycle on the task. Each microsecond is filed away as a failure, the doll overclocks, just slightly, to keep times to an exact degree.
We all know what that means, don't we? Extra wear on its internals, right?
Half true. Yes the physical state of your doll is affected, but its soul is also worn down. Each compensation made chips away at it my own doll graciously accepted having its thoughts used as a case study.
"it used to be able to do this."
"Miss cannot find out its inadequacies."
"Miss has no need of a doll that is not perfect."
There are more, but, they get a lot more bleak as the spiral continues. By the time these deviances are noticabke to a witch, the spiral has usally progressed well past this point. Because if we notice, then it means that it is being pushed past the point where overclocking masks the issue.
So how do we fix an issue we cannot see? An issue we do not even know is an issue.
Maintenance, yes. Reassurance, perhaps, dolls can be very inelastic in their thinking, by design. Communication, yes.
All of these can help, regular maintenance lets you find the overclock damage and fix it before it becomes an issue, and makes these micron slips less common. Reassurance can work wonders, however if your doll is particularly set in its ways, consider that you might be doing more hard than good by accidentally minimising what it sees as an inherent flaw. Communication is the most important, at least how I do it.
Making sure your doll feels safe to tell you about these slips, and that it does not feel minimised when it does. A millisecond slowdown on a task might mean nothing to you, as a person. But to a doll, that is its life, its Purpose. Fostering an environ where your doll knows that this slip will be treated as seriously as it feels about it makes sure that even if you do not see a spiral, you will be made aware of it.
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