Someone finally tries to handle Imi's pron!trauma...

[justanimitator]

[Soooo, this one time, Imitator!Len actually did make it to the library [though he doesn't know who the 'librarian' is yet...] ...mostly because it was a combination of rainy and snowy out, and he didn't like what it did to his clothing or running back to the bus to change (again).

As he is standing by the shelves, trying to figure out how everything is sorted and what to look for, he notices a familiar face...]

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[defender]

I imagine that might happen given your - ah, circumstances. Even the best of us occasionally suffer from similar problems.

[Turns a page of her book.] What do you mean, 'different things'?

[justanimitator]

R-- really? I'm glad...

Um! At first it was because of 'Valentine's Day'. Another Miku-san said to uh, help make hearts out of paper... Which was interesting... and 'liking' people and it being fun.

Then another Len-san said 'Valentines' was a trick to um, sell things and that it was really a day a lot of people died and really bad...

Then another another Len-san said it was a good day to 'play cards right' and then it got really, um, weird...

[defender]

Ah. Valentine's. [Allows herself a low chuckle.]

Yes, different people will have different opinions on that holiday. Would you like a complete and unbiased explanation?

[justanimitator]

...Um, yes! Actually...

[defender]

Very well, then.

[Closes her book, immediately launching into a highly factual explanation of Valentine's Day.] The first Len is correct. Valentine's Day began as a commemoration of a religious figure named Saint Valentine. As there are several Saint Valentines, it is debated as to which the day is supposed to celebrate; nevertheless, it is supposed to be the day on which this Saint Valentine was martyred. Essentially, executed.

Over the years, however, it eventually evolved into a celebration of romance due to an entirely fictional account of this Saint Valentine writing a romantic letter to his beloved before his death, hence your Miku's explanation that Valentine's is a day to have fun and celebrate the one you like. [Sets her book on a side table, apparently no longer interested in reading it.]

The first Len's bias probably comes from the fact that in modern times it has become a consumer-based holiday in which those in love are encouraged to express their feelings and present the object of their affections with gifts. Many will argue that true love does not require gifts and that the celebration of the holiday is merely a scam to con people out of their money.

...and as for the last, well... Valentine's is also a day for, ah, expressing one's love. Often physically. 'Playing cards right' is an euphemism for manipulating a situation into receiving what one desires, and so... he, ah, probably wants... romantic attention on Valentine's.

[Summing up:] I personally avoid the conflict entirely and do not participate in any form of celebration.

[justanimitator]

[eyes slowly becoming saucers as he (happily-- and quickly, he might not know much, but this Len does have a computer for a brain) takes in all the information. Even Rin doesn't give this much at once!]

...T-- thank you so much! I thought something was strange, um, since everyone said something differently... I guess that means it's a complex topic?

....

....Um. 'Desires'? 'Romantic'? I know those terms, but um... I get the feeling they are 'complex' too.

[defender]

[Looks faintly amused by his delight, but after the sentence about 'romantic desires,' Miku's expression changes into something very close to 'embarrassed.']

I-I know it in theory, but I must confess I would find it a little off-putting discussing it...

[justanimitator]

Oooh, like that Len-san was when he was trying to talk about storks, um, for some reason, but it was really about sex.

Why didn't he just start there?

Though, um, I never saw anything with storks. Don't want to, either. Those beaks look pointy...

[defender]

...

Oh god.

[defender]

...w-well then.

Yes. I meant sex.

[justanimitator]

...That's um, another thing everyone says different things about! And... and none of it is like what I saw...

[defender]

[...what.]

Please tell me you are not sexually active.

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[justanimitator]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[justanimitator]

EWWWWW.

N-- No way, Miku-san!

I mean-- I don't have any tentacles, or a horse, or want to even see a dead person, or eat weird things, or get sick on someone, and... and that website...

[shudders]

[defender]

...Len.

None of that had anything to do with sex.

[justanimitator]

S-- sorry, Miku-san... but... um... I mean...

If 'porn' is 'sex' and um, those horrible things were um... 'porn'... then...

I didn't want to see them.

[defender]

[Oh. Oh. And suddenly, complete understanding]

Pornography may be the depiction of sex, but sometimes it has little to no connection to sex between real people.

[justanimitator]

Aaaah, that's what Aku-san and Len-san said too. I mean...

....

Aaaaaah! It's all horrible, and gross, and wrong!

W-- why do people even want anything to do with it? It's bad.

[defender]

Well, if someone else has said it all already...

Perhaps you should try forgetting everything you already know about it.

[justanimitator]

I... I want to. I want to forget all of it it's bad, and s-- sex shouldn't be real.

A... a lot of other things weren't, so...

[defender]

Sex in itself is not inherently - [Stops.]

Perhaps you should consider therapy.

[justanimitator]

[sounding more than a little confused]

Um... what?

[defender]

I wouldn't put your emotional reaction to this situation anywhere near healthy.

[justanimitator]

[opens his mouth to say something along the lines of 'robots are healthy always', before parsing the first part]

...How... how was I supposed to react?

[defender]

[Calmly.]

Less scandalized.