What The… Doll?

[aldersprig]

Written to Del's prompt to my new "WTF?" Prompt Call.  This Miiiiiight be Science! or Dragons Next Door universes - what do you think?



I suppose I had nobody to blame but myself.

I’m one of those compulsive “clickers” that likes to play with online dollies, you know ‘dress up Soldier Sapphire!  Make a Fashion Doll!”

It’s not a habit I really admit to people in real life, but the online world has always been different.

So when “make your mini-mi!” came up in the advertisements for one of the sites I like a lot - they have wings!  And some pretty funky skin colors! - I couldn’t resist clicking.

And then I spent an hour playing - maybe two hours - it could have been three.  All I know is that when I was done, I had a nice little character that looked “just like me.”

I mean, if me had blue hair. 

read on…

Comments

[kelkyag]

Awkward. And yet ... just ask it? It talks -- is it babbling incoherently, or holding up its end of a conversation, or what?

But definitely read the fine print next time. Go back and read this fine print now.

(Feels more like SCIENCE! to me, largely because it reminds me of the piece with the small-ish kauji and the phone app. Could be dragons, or fairy town, or ...)

[aldersprig]

Might be too autobiographical! “Just Ask” is like the hardest thing in the world :-)

[kelkyag]

And yet if it's sitting on the shelf talking coherently and reacting to you, ignoring it seems troubling. What sort of not ignoring is in order varies wildly with what it's saying ...

[aldersprig]

Yeah, I agree. Ignoring it does seem to be a bad idea.......

[sauergeek]

I think keeping track of what it's saying might be important, unless it really is just gibberish. But even that might change.

[aldersprig]

Oh, I agree, although the protagonist may not.

[sauergeek]

I suspect that this one is actually a WTFP — What's That Fine Print — somewhere buried in the terms & conditions on the site. "Only click the Accept button if you want your very own designed chibi to show up, under its own power, on your doorstep."

The talking bit is rather creepy, especially if it's intelligible, coherent English (or whatever language our nameless protagonist speaks). And extra-bonus creepy if it's autobiographical.