This vote isn't going to go over well....
It's a language she understands- all the other write-ins are not "empathy", they are "infantilizing/looking down on her". They are "Look how bad 'me who own you' are! we are alike!".
There's two write-ins that aren't like that: my own, which is partly a joke, and this one:
Except...it's not? It's a threat, that if she doesn't please us, we'll mistreat her. Aka, the exact thing she's trying to get us not to do.
Except that's not the issue? The issue is she's worried about mistreatment and abuse. The write-in not only fails to address that, it sounds like Little Bee will if she doesn't receive absolute obedience.
Explain why it's a threat?
How so?
That's why she is shivering in fear. She knows she is in deep shit and it's a bluff. The actual "pretend her plan worked" can also work, but if we don't go and do that, we then have to still play along with what she imagines we should do- in that case, we have to prove we aren't going to abuse her, hence that write in.
She is worried about mistreatment and abuse. And she deals with that by attacking us in our sleep and threatening our life. She really is a moron. Almost any "normal" noble would have her whipped severely, if not executed, for this type of behavior.
Reread what she says:
Notice the "good little toady" bit: she'll work and act out our whims, but in return, she want reassurance that we won't mistreat her or Rocky. That's her deal.
Let's break this down, shall we?
We're refusing to let her dictate the terms, aka we're refusing her deal.
This indicates that she's in on our shit-list, and will refuse to be nice to her, because of her actions.
She's already offered to be obedient in exchange for not being mistreated, and we refused that offer. Therefore, this indicates that if she wants anything, she'll have to above and beyond.
This only reinforces the above: that she's our plaything, to be abused at our will, unless she can please us.
Exactly: she's terrified. And the mere fact that she's doing this indicates she's terrified, feels trapped and is doing something stupid, because she sees no other option. Note what Quite Willow says after she acts out:
this is from a servant of the clan. And here is someone who may as well be a member of the clan that owns her, set to rule over the place like it's her own personal fief. More importantly, she was likely captured and enslaved from raid that destroyed her home, likely by Mu Clan.
No- Her deal is that if we "fuck with her" or "her toy", she is attacking us.
No, this indicate that these kind of actions would put her in our shit list, and she has to be good before she can ask for special favours.
No, no she hasn't, and we haven't.
No.
Exactly, hence why either the default responses or this write-in works. All the other write-ins are basically incredibly creepy for her.
Reread. Would it help if I clarify that the deal is "she's nice and obedient, but in return, she doesn't want us mistreating her or Rocky, and she'll attack us if we break the deal"?
That's what you mean. What she hears is completely different: she's working off the assumption that we'll be cruel and tyrannical as the default. Everything said and done will be filtered through that lens.
Yes, she did. That's what being a toadie means. And just because refusing is not the intention, doesn't mean she won't interpret it that way.
Again, that's what she's going to think.
Except this write-in is bad as well!
Reread.
Exactly. And her lens are "this language I can understand". I like this write-in because it's a language that tells her "If you respect me I won't fuck with you", and it's not playing on how she has been lied to all her life/etc. It's direct, and she'll like that.
No, that's not what it means.
This write-in is tailored for her to understand.
Basically, most of the other write-in are either interpreting her words in specific ways and are about trying to pretend that we are completely innocent (which she will never buy) or it's about trying to pretend we have it a third as bad as she has had it. E.G, "what would you do if you were in my place". Asking for a slave to "put herself in the palce of the mistress of the house" is... Well, you get it.
No, her lens is "I am a slave, who can expect nothing but abuse and mistreatment".
Toadie: a person who flatters and ingratiates himself or herself in a servile way; sycophant
But she already gave the terms: she's an obedient suck-up, in return for not being mistreated. We do so anyway, we die.
This seems I misunderstood you then, as I somehow didn't read it like that.
Isn't that currently the scenario though? E.G, Miren is currently thinking we are going to fuck with hers, so what we are seeing right now is her reaction to that. Anyway, my issue is less with 'social status', and more with "How dare this little princess compare herself to me?", which, yes, has to do with social status, but is more of a emotional thing.
Ahah, I am actually not lobbying, I just like talking about stuff I like too much <_<
Poor Rocky, he doesn't even have a specialty. I can see why Miten wants to protect the poor girly boy.
Poor Stone Soul, being releated to kitchen duty and losing all her hope for promotion.
