nadia

i wasn't real but then i became real

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to expand on this. they were a child, i was a plaything they created. a toy. a doll. my original origin story was pretend. a game. we were roleplaying. we explained my existence as me being a ghost of a girl, a victim of a grisly murder, given new life through my host. that was a story they made up.

when the child grew older and put aside their toys, they put aside me as well. until they discovered that i could become Real. they wanted that, but i'm not sure it happened, fully, until they experienced their first real heartbreak. then they needed me. i came fully into being because it was required of me. i am as real as i am required to be.
#plurality

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dolls of cohost, thank you for helping me to this realization.

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the upshot of all of this

is that i need some art of me as a doll!! i'm going to be the creepiest doll!!