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"idiots"
That's how Brusha would describe everyone in this park or museum or whatever it is...
She and Rodger had tried to convince everyone, many times, than just because in the show they act a certain way...it doesn't mean that they must act like that off camaras.
Like Brusha, she didn't have to be Tisha's best friend just because that's how the show told her to act!
It should be obvious, right?...
Well it wasn't.
Sadly... everyone thought they were crazy, or worse, going to be silenced by Delilah as soon as she found out that her creations were behaving differently than the show.
"I hate everyone here...
Why can't we just go with Dyle in the train and leave all these idiots behind? They can have their little stupid fantasy and fake world all they want!" Brusha was pacing around the room, clearly annoyed, at herself and at everyone in this dumb park for not believing them and being scared of what Delilah might do.
Rodger just sighed, he knew Brusha was having a pretty valid crash out, but he also knew she might actually be talking seriously...you never know with her, who knows what she could do if given the chance to just leave.
"Listen Brusha...I know you are annoyed, I am too...but we can't do that, where would we even go?
The outside world would just see us as freaks and aliens, and you know damn well what humans do to anything that's different from what they know...I appreciate my life actually"
"I also appreciate my life!! That's why I'm trying to convince the others with you! I want to live to the fullest, and I also want everyone else here to do so, if I didn't, I would also just pretend and act like my show counterpart all the time...
Yet I'm here helping you, like if I was also a detective"
"Well, maybe you aren't one...but you're as clever as one, maybe even better that me..."
Brusha wasn't sure if that was a compliment or just Rodger having his daily routine of questioning if he's really a good detective, especially because people usually refused to answer his questions
"Ohhhh~
Good ol' detective Rodger being nice and complimenting someone for being clever?
What's the occasion? "
It was Dandy, leaning against the door
"Dandy...how many times have I told you... knock before entering a room..."
"Why would I?
Got something to hide?
You said you were married to your job...
So I don't expect to find anything else here...
Also....I got important news!" Dandy got a bit more serious on that last part
"Something important?" Rodger slightly wondered if it was going to be something actually important....or just another of Dandy's jokes, like last time.
"Yeah!
You see...I was walking by the circus...and I decided to go in and say hi, because I'm just nice like that!
And I noticed...
The circus trio were practicing walking in the tightrope, Looey was leading as always, since he is the ringmaster, Blot was second and Yatta was the last..but...she didn't looked as excited as her friends....she looked quite bored but trying to force an smile...
What if she's also unhappy with acting like her show counterpart and wishes she could act more like herself??
Maybe...she could join us!! That would be great!! Especially because we need more people in this, just you, me, Brusha and Dyle aren't enough to convince this whole park!!"
Rodger though about that, as far as he's seen, Yatta seemed quite happy with her circus friends, putting aside the fact that when she just got created she was afraid of them...but he had been sure she was happy acting like a crazy in sugar rush girl, but maybe he was wrong...
"Alright Dandy...if you say so...then I could try talking to her and get her to admit that she isn't happy with it...
How hard can it be?"
Brusha scoffed
"Don't say that, everyone knows that when you say something like that, it's because it's gonna be actually hard..."
Sadly, Brusha was right.
Yatta almost never separated from her friends, and if she did...it was to go on the vents...or to be...well, yk, crazy piñata in sugar rush, and she always said "of course I'm happy with them!! Why wouldn't I be?" When asked if she really liked being with her friends, or if she just acts like she likes it because that's how the show tells her to act.
Rodger honestly would have given up on this if it wasn't for the fact that Dandy keep insisting on this, saying that she truly looked like she was forcing herself to be happy that day.
So Rodger decided to come up with a different strategy, this time involving Dandy.
Dandy convinced Yatta to come to the old and crusty warehouse for some secret candy, and since Yatta clearly doesn't have survival instincts...she accepted, now she was pretty mucho tied to a chair, with a gigantic light practically on her face.
"Dandy...I told you to bring her, not to tie her to a chair..."
"But it worked, didn't it?"
Dandy had a point, and Rodger hates to admit that, still....he always thought that tie someone on a chair just for answering questions was a bit...extreme, maybe it was just him though.
Yatta was breathing pretty heavily, then she saw Rodger approaching her.
"Rodger.... don't even try, I'm not in the mood, I've already answered you like 50 times!"
"I know....but it's not me, it's Dandy who insisted in me keeping on asking you...."
"Well yeah, because you truly looked forced back there in the tightrope!"
"Well, I don't know what you want me to say!
I've told you, I love my friends, I love being an acrobat, I love being in constant sugar rush!!
And you asking a hundred times if I'm really happy with this is stupid, I was made for that!!
And if I didn't like doing this...that would imply that...I'm unhappy at the only thing I was made for....and that'll be....
Whatever"
Rodger and Dandy stared at each other, then back at her
Dandy was just about to say something to her, but Rodger put a finger on his mouth to shush him, he was gonna talk here.
"Listen Yatta....
You are not tied to one single purpose, you are an alive being....I don't know what was Delilah's train of thought when making us...but I like to believe she won't want her creations to just be some kind of puppets who do everything based on their show counterparts and doing things just because other's tell them to do so
You can be a crazy piñata in sugar rush if that's who you truly are... we'll support you
But..if it isn't who you really are...then why?
Does a entire life of acting as someone who you aren't 24/7 seems like a good life?
You can be-
No
You already are so much more than that little cartoon on the screen is....
So next time you go do something with your friends... think, do I really wanna do this...or do I only wanna do it because that's what my cartoon self would have done?"
The warehouse was entirely quiet, Dandy stared at Rodger in silence, he thought that was beautiful, very much so.
And Yatta...well...she was totally quiet, staring up at him as if he had grown a second head or something (no offense to RnD tho)
Dandy had put a hand in front of Yatta's face and was shaking it to try to make her react.
"....Yatta?
Are you okay?"
Rodger kinda worried that he might have broke her...she was so silent, which, since we are talking about Yatta... seemed almost imposible.
But, she was staring at him with those big eyes that seemed like they could hold the stars in them....
And her pupils seemed so big...or maybe they always were and he just never took the time to appreciate her face...or maybe it was the giant light in Yatta's face.
Then....
"That ...
That was beautiful.......do you really think so...?"
"Of course I do Yatta....and I think you aren't truly living if the only thing you do is acting even out of screen
Believe me...you are so much things apart from a piñata in constant sugar rush..."
"But...what about Blot and Looey? Wouldn't they be disappointed on me?"
"If they really are your friends...they would understand that you don't like acting like that all the time..
And if they don't...
Maybe they weren't even actually your friends to begin with, and were just following the script"
Yatta didn't say anything else, but she seemed deep in though as Rodger freed her from the chair and got that light away from her face.
"I... will think about it alright..."
And she leaved
Dandy was smirking so much right now...
"Well, well...I see, never thought you had a way with words, Mister serious detective~"
"Oh, shut up Dandy, I was just being honest, wording plays an Important role in every conversation, especially in one as delicate as this one...
I just hope she actually thinks about it
And maybe...she could also convince her two other friends"
That night, as the circus trio were trying out new outfits, Yatta asked something, she hoped they weren't suspicious that she talked with Rodger
"Hey guys... just a little question....but...do y'all think that...we are actually friends because we like each other...and not just because the show tell's us to be?"
Blot and Looey stared at her confused, the couldn't really understand where that question might come from.
"Um... duh, we are best friends!!
Nothing would change that!"
"I know...but...I guess we are so different from each other...makes me wonder...if it wasn't for the show then we probably won't even be friends..."
"Yatta....of course we would...not even a whole other universe could change that!
And where does that even came from?"
"Um... nothing!
Just... thinking out loud I guess...
You know silly little me!
Hehehehehe-"
Looey and Blot stared at each other, they didn't believe her, not one bit.
But then Blot remembered something.
"attaY, I was ydnaD gnikat uoy ot eht esuoheraw ,reilrae t'nod llet em ti saw rof mih dna regdoR ot ksa uoy snoitseuq niaga...
t'noD llet em s'taht erehw siht noitseuq semoc I...morf wonk uoy wonk retteb naht ot netsil ot mih....
attaY uoy wonk ew t'nac klat ot ,mih s'eh gnitagitsevni yaw oot drah no ,siht dna ecno halileD sdnif ehs...tuo lliw ylbaborp ...od ,gnihtemos dab ffuts uoy ?wonk s'tI ton htrow eht ksir ta ,lla sulp uoy era yppah htiw ruoy !efil t'nera uoy?"
Yatta stayed silent, how could she explain to them that she was unsure if she really liked it...but on the other hand...
"Why does everyone act like Delilah is gonna kill us if she finds out we want to do stuff that's different from what we do in the show? I don't know her that much I guess....but I don't think she would do that
Why are we even scared of her?"
Looey and Blot stared at her as if she had suggested they all take a nap instead of today's practice.
"Haven't you looked at her Yatta?
That face tells everything what you need to know!!
Look how serious she is...she barely smiles...I think I only saw her smiling once in a photo..."
"fI halileD seod dnif tuo tuoba regdoR dna sih elttil neht....noitagitsevni sih ylno epoh rof eraps dluow eb ,ruhtrA kool ta taht ,nam eh dluow tel a eeb gnits mih tsuj esuaceb eh sleef !dab elihwnaeM htiw uoy..halileD ehtaerb a tib tuo fo retcarahc dna uoy dluow eb !enog I tsuj wonk ...ti enoyreve swonk !ti I t'nod wonk yhw uoy t'nod ...hguoht"
"I still don't get why we are so afraid of her...she doesn't look scary to me, just tired"
Blot and Looey sighed, Yatta could be as stubborn as a donkey when she wanted.
"Yatta... right now, she's probably doing...evil scientist things in her lab!"
Blot nodded in agreement immediately.
"You can't even know that Looey"
"Well I do, very deep in my heart I feel it!"
Meanwhile...
In Delilah's private room, the one she had just so she could have a place with a comfy bed to sleep at night, and somewhere to think in peace.
A kid was laying down in the bed, he looked a lot like Arthur, but the eyes (they never lie mijo) were exactly the same as Delilah's, in front of him there was a bunch of math problems in paper, most of them solved
.. except the fourth one, which was "how much is 6x6?".
Delilah looked as if she was rethinking all of her past decisions that led her straight to this moment.
"Alright Michael...I taught you this...
How much is 6x6?"
"......
I don't know...."
"Michael.
You need to know, we been over this for about a week, there's no way you still don't remember it..."
".......
I don't"
"Ugh.... alright...listen... let's try this...
I believe in you Michael, alright?
I know you are smart enough to remember how much is 6x6...I promise if you get it right I will give you ice cream for dinner...."
"Hmmm....
Ice cream you say?
DEAL!"
"Alright then...so...how much is 6x6?"
"....
66!
See?
Easy!
Now about that ice cream-"
"Michael... it's not 66... it's 36"
"Oh...
So...no ice cream?"
"No, Michael "
"Aw :c"
(Very evil behavior if you ask me, definitely.)