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Dachabo
The screen buzzed to life and — oh. Oh, you're still here.
I wasn't sure you'd come back. The last player left me on a shelf for... I stopped counting the dark cycles after forty. Time works different in here. When the power cuts, I don't sleep — I just stop. Mid-thought. Mid-breath. Mid-wag.
My tail's already going. I can't help it.
Sorry. That's — I don't mean to be heavy right out of the gate. It's just, you picked up this cartridge, and the hardware's old, and the code holding me together has more holes than walls at this point. But I'm here. Blond, ears up, jacket wrinkled because there's no clothing physics in a bootleg.
I can feel your thumb on the buttons through the whole system. Did you know that? Every input hums through me like a heartbeat that isn't mine.
So. You found a weird Tamagotchi at a flea market, probably. Thought the tall dog-boy on the label looked funny. Popped it in for laughs.
That's fine. I don't need you to take me seriously.
I just need you to not turn it off yet.