Amazing, thank you so much! This is very helpful. :)
Good point about the Spike warning. My Dreamwidth friends know that Spike is my fave and sometimes I overstate warnings, but I should reword or remove that by the time I crosspost to AO3, at the latest.
I took the circumstances of the cactus kitten demon's employment straight out of some folklore (though I may have interpreted it in a way that made it weirder), but that folklore was old enough that I think it might have been based on the idea that you're doomed if you don't confess your sins right before death, or something along those lines. Giving her more of an active choice sounds like a good idea, thanks for letting me know how the whole thing came across to you! :)
Hmm, I definitely struggled with how much of the Bot's programming to change and in what way, and this does sound like a problem I'd like to avoid: "how much of her old programming she was jettisoning without needing much of a push and that it was lining up relatively well with what a human would think made sense to throw out". It makes sense that the weirdness of her reasoning is part of her charm. I'll take another look at all that, thank you very much for such a detailed and clear response. :))
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Date: 2022-08-06 09:55 am (UTC)Good point about the Spike warning. My Dreamwidth friends know that Spike is my fave and sometimes I overstate warnings, but I should reword or remove that by the time I crosspost to AO3, at the latest.
I took the circumstances of the cactus kitten demon's employment straight out of some folklore (though I may have interpreted it in a way that made it weirder), but that folklore was old enough that I think it might have been based on the idea that you're doomed if you don't confess your sins right before death, or something along those lines. Giving her more of an active choice sounds like a good idea, thanks for letting me know how the whole thing came across to you! :)
Hmm, I definitely struggled with how much of the Bot's programming to change and in what way, and this does sound like a problem I'd like to avoid: "how much of her old programming she was jettisoning without needing much of a push and that it was lining up relatively well with what a human would think made sense to throw out". It makes sense that the weirdness of her reasoning is part of her charm. I'll take another look at all that, thank you very much for such a detailed and clear response. :))