[ is this their most baffling conversation yet? Probably not, honestly, but it’s their newest baffling conversation, so it feels like it. ]
Seriously? Cath, we were the only two people on Earth, and if it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t be here. I carried your brain across the ocean to launch a computer full of human simulations into space. What are your criteria for being friends? You said you’d miss me if I wasn’t here.
[ because he’s still not certain it isn’t about him. Telling Simon he’s the one with low standards is something part of him knows must have something to do with the shy, withdrawn person 3D Catherine is, who’d call herself “not good with people” in a public conversation. But it still sounds backwards and ridiculous. Simon doesn’t consider himself to have any problems in that department, but he’s not, like, a literal robot martyr who can make digital planets. He was kind of the only sapient thing around. ]
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Seriously? Cath, we were the only two people on Earth, and if it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t be here. I carried your brain across the ocean to launch a computer full of human simulations into space. What are your criteria for being friends? You said you’d miss me if I wasn’t here.
[ because he’s still not certain it isn’t about him. Telling Simon he’s the one with low standards is something part of him knows must have something to do with the shy, withdrawn person 3D Catherine is, who’d call herself “not good with people” in a public conversation. But it still sounds backwards and ridiculous. Simon doesn’t consider himself to have any problems in that department, but he’s not, like, a literal robot martyr who can make digital planets. He was kind of the only sapient thing around. ]