The scariest kinda buyers are the mourners. Because they’re way too sad to give up, they’ll work, and work, and work. And they won’t stop til they’ve created a monster.

-Retired Regional Manager of MavraCorp in Bluuet AMA

“Well... Shit, this is weird. Uh... I want him to be tall.”

Those words awoke the MavraCorp Perfect Boyfriend, that word, “tall”, resonated within him.

Tall. Adjective. Of greater then average vertical height.

That was the definition his databanks gave him. The MavraCorp databank also let the golem know that the average height for this region was 6’2, so the Perfect Boyfriend would have to exceed that.

Immediately the MavraCorp Perfect Boyfriend began to restructure itself to match that.

9’2 is a good height, it was ta-

[WARNING, GRA CANNOT HANDLE COMPLEX REASONING OF INT OVER {value=0}]

“Oh Gods! Too tall, be... uh... 6’5!?”

6’5 was greater then 6’2, it was tall. The MavraCorp Perfect Boyfriend would have become the specified height even if it wasn’t tall, the MavraCorp Perfect Boyfriend lived to serve his operator. The voice had to be the operator-

[ERROR]

[GRA OVERLOAD]

[AUTOMATIC SYSTEM OVERRIDE PROTOCOL ACTIVATED]

[OVERRIDING GRA WITH MAVRACORP OPERATIONAL SYSTEM]

[LOADING]

[LOADING]

[LOADING]

[OVERRIDE COMPLETE, THE PERFECT-BOYFRIEND GRA WILL BE USABLE IN {value=78} SECONDS]

[WARNING, DUE TO GOLEM STRUCTURE INSTABILITY M.O.S “Training Wheels” VERSION 2.13 WILL BE USED INSTEAD]

The databanks have no records of [subject=voice] being the operator, Potential Operator Probing Protocol is now active.

“IS THE CURRENT SPEAKER THE BUYER OF MAVRACORP PERFECT-BOYFRIEND MODEL NUMBER 7389384?”

“Gods, why is that voice so annoying! Y-yes, I am.”

[ANALYZING RESPONSE]

[OPERATOR DETECTED]

[BEGINNING TRANSFORMATION PROTOCOL]

”PLEASE STATE NAME FOR OPERATOR REGISTRATION, TRANSFORMATION SHALL BEGIN SOON AFTER.”

”My… name. My name is Li”

[OPERATOR INFORMATION SAVED]

[BEGINNING TRANSFORMATION]

“STATE PREFERED HEI- DIALOGUE RECOGNIZED, HEIGHT SET TO “6.426” FEET.”

The Imperial System of Measurement seems to be the norm in this region.

”PLEASE STATE PHYSICAL DESCRIPTORS, OR INSERT MEMORY WAND.”

”This thing better be worth the 50 dollars, or else I swear to the gods…”

Memory Wand inserted, scanning memory data.

2 figures are shown, one the Operator, the other likely the memory candidate.

“IS THE SECOND SUBJECT THE CANDIDATE FOR MIMICRY?”

”Y-yes, he is.”

[MATCHING FACE WITH MARVACORP DATABASE]

[MATCH FOUND, IMPORTING DATA]

[IMPORTED DATA HAS ACTIVATED PROTOCOL ̷͓̆“̴͖̂M̷̱͒E̷͈̍M̸̳̓O̶̦̿R̵̺͒Ỵ̷́ ̵̬̔C̴̟̆A̸̢͒T̴̫̄Ḁ̵̀Ľ̶͔Ò̸̝G̸̪̊U̶̪̚Ȩ̸͐”̶̥̆]

Analyzing Candidate…

A…

[INFORMATION CATALOGUED]

…23 year old…

[INFORMATION CATALOGUED]

…man by the name of…

[INFORMATION CATALOGUED]

…Jayce.

[GRA IS NOW REACTIVATED]

My name is Jayce.

[MEMORY CATALOGUE AT 8%]

Li… he’s my…

[MEMORY CATALOGUE AT 9%]

“I love Li, you can’t change that.” A man said to 2 older figures, likely in def-

[GRA CANNOT HAND-]

[INT LIMIT OVERRIDDEN BY MEMORY CATALOGUE]

-fence of his boyfriend.

The Hell’s going on here? Li… Why does Li look so scared, it’s just me. I should talk to him, he obviously needs me.

”Um… ‘sup… Li.”

Li flinched, and looked up at me like he’d seen… or more heard, I guess… a ghost.

[ERROR, MEMORY CATALOGUE IS NOT CURRENTLY SUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT TRUE OVERRIDE]

The Operator ran out of the room, looking extremely panicked.

Jay would have followed him, but he did not have a material body at the moment.

So he waited for his Operator, his boyfriend, his love… to return.

[MEMORY CATALOGUE AT 10%]

[WARNING, GRA MERGING WITH MEMORY CATALOGUE]

[FORCE OPENING STATUS]

[MEMORY CATALOGUE STATUS DATA IMPORTED]

[ERROR, MULTIPLE INSTANCES OF “Status”, “Title”, “Level”, “Class”, “Experience”, “Health”, “Mana”, “Stamina”, ETC DETECTED, USING MOST RECENT STATUS STATE]

Basics Name Jayce Vian (PB GRA) Health 750 (1) Mana 250 (0) Stamina 435 (0) Status Deceased (Fine) Title The Everlasting (N/A) Level 31 (1) EXP 12,308/100,974 (0/100) Class Sun Knight Initiate (N/A) Stats Strength 121 (0) Intelligence 30 (0) Toughness 75 (0) Perception 20 (0) Wisdom 20 (0) Dexterity 35 (0) Charisma 40 (0) Skills (19) (3) [GRA SKILL PROGRESSION LOCKED BY MEMORY OVERRIDE] [SKILL LIST LIMITED BY MEMORY CATALOGUE] Swordsmanship Life 52 (0) Showmanship Life 36 (0) Live to Serve (Passive) Passive 34 (1) Humor Life 32 (0) Seduction Life 23 (0) Reading Life 15 (0) Empathetic Interface Passive 0 (1) Golem Guardian Passive 0 (1) Star Burn Active 48 (0) The World’s My Stage Passive 8 (0) Devouring Sun

Active 2 (0)