[audio] backdated to the end of the de-aging event

[shadowsgambit]

[Fortuna begins a network call like normal. Well...sort of like normal. She sounds hesitant now, a little slower to speak and not quite so confident. Wherever she's standing, there's an echo.]

Hey Saeng Seong, you know what? [A beat.] ...no, never mind.

[There's a beep and a soft tap as she sets her commlink down. But the audio continues. She doesn't realize the button to end the call didn't register her touch.

She sighs heavily.]

Thought I'd convinced myself I wasn't ugly. But no, I had to go and look human again for a while. Didn't think I could pull a fast one on myself, but I guess I did. [Another sigh, softer, and a pause.] Now what? Now what... Keep telling myself other trolls have it worse? Right, like I'm gonna call all of them ugly. Living a double standard, that's what that'd be.

Drek...thought I was okay. I thought...

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[heismymission]

[He doesn't know if it's better or worse that it wasn't done by someone else and was just a genetic thing. ... It's not as if she can just cut her hair and go back to the way she was like he can. Then again, he's not even sure if doing that would be enough to go back to looking the way he was, arm aside.

But what is he supposed to say here? Should he try to reassure her or something?]

you don't have to be human for people to like you. you just have to be a person.

[She's ahead of him on that front, at least.]

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[shadowsgambit]

*Too bad it's really not an issue of other people liking her...*

Pretty sure there are some unlikable people out there. [unintelligible sound - please edit manually] Don't know what that's supposed to mean. We're all people.

*Sorry you don't recognize the world's most deflated laugh, commlink. She's not going to bother with that manual edit, no matter how tacky it looks.*