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<a.dyer>
I have or may not have gotten my hands on a talking doll. Sometimes I think its fine, but I keep waking up to it breaking into my room and puttering around.
Three am tea parties are forever cursed.
<DoctorRobotnik>
Don't tell me you staged some kind of "kidnapping" during the stupid dollhouse adventure.
<a.dyer>
Also no. I was noticing my nightmares weren't letting up so I paid Mana for what I thought was going to be like, a nice wholesome therapy animal. Maybe a talking dog or something.
Instead, I get a three-foot tall doll who keeps floating random crap and asking for tea parties.
<DoctorRobotnik>
Looks like your options are either send it back or toss it in the lake and hope it doesn't swim. Does Mana take returns?
<a.dyer>
Also honestly I don't think she does. I don't want to risk getting turned into a frog if she thinks I'm ungrateful.
The other issue is the doll acts alive. My own sense of ethics won't let me just kill her. Have I locked her in a room? Yes. The doll unfortunately is about as smart as like, a really smart toddler or dog.
She doesn't seem to like my boyfriend.
<DoctorRobotnik>
So how's your *boyfriend's* sense of ethics?
<a.dyer>
Pretty sure he wants to kill the doll. He heard me scream when she showed up. He was down for murder.
Plus sometimes he has a very Heathcliff vibe.
<DoctorRobotnik>
Maybe you should just let your boyfriend and his ham helmet take care of the doll while you go hang out somewhere else. Then you're not an accessory to it.
<a.dyer>
What if she can be trained? She didn't mind being used for a small prank.