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0213: How about ‘Sunshine’?
0213: Y’know, cuz you’re so bright.
0213: And sunny
0204: Is this your way of saying you’re tempted to stare at me?
0213: … I reserve the right to remain silent
Sunshine: And I reserve the right to be named Sunshine!
***
The moment 0204 sees you, he calls out and rushes to you.
“My love!”
Not one to be outdone, you call out as well with the sappiest voice you can muster, “Sunshine!”
5012 promptly does a film worthy spit take, made all the more impressive by the fact he has nothing to spit. He promptly starts choking, to which you and 0204 pause. He’s, ah, he’s coughing quite a bit.
You gingerly pat him on the back the same way you might gingerly touch an armed bomb. His muscles are certainly hard enough to qualify as steel, but that’s hardly relevant.
“There there…” You say, “Please stop choking now?”
5012 stops choking, probably from the shock of your sheer stupidity. He promptly stands to full height, and your hand falls away.
“I am fine,” He says, still grimacing, “0204’s name simply… shocked me.”
“What, because you’re like a vampire or something? Sun light burns you?” 0204 asks.
“That would be preferred,” 5012 hisses under his breath, so faint you nearly don’t hear it.
5012 speaks louder, “No. Sunshine is simply the name of someone I am not fond of. At the very least, you live up to their high standards of annoyance.”
“Wait wait wait,” 0204 holds up his hands, prepared to ask the really important question, “Does this mean I’ve been promoted to number one annoyance?”
5012, in the safety of his mind, screams, ‘why are there three of them?!’
It is a relief when 0204 chooses ‘Atlas’ over ‘Sunshine’.
It is not a relief when 0204 and 0213 begin to flirt harder.
Somewhere, somehow, Sunshine feels as if they have just been usurped. This must be remedied.