[ network post to Lucrecia ]

[tracedmemories]

Dr. Lucrecia Crescent.

I require your assistance.

Please contact me through this channel. It has been secured, and will only respond to your voiceprint.

Comments

[tracedmemories]

You have? I was not aware.

At any rate, surely you can surmise, then, what I might have use for information on how you lived with Hojo in the past.

[inmyeveryday]

Yes. It wasn't... a very nice exchange.

Well, like I said, he's not the same as he was before. While we didn't get along all the time, we just... sort of tolerated each other. He was distant a lot, which made things hard.

[tracedmemories]

Elaborate.

...

...please.

[inmyeveryday]

On what? How he was distant? That's... I shouldn't say why, but... he just was. We'd bicker. I can't really remember if he was particularly terrible when we bickered like we did... it's been a long time.

[tracedmemories]

Bicker. To engage in petulant argument.

...I believe that we also--

The words you use to describe him are unexpected, but under further review I cannot refute their accuracy.

The Professor is... 'distant', in ways. I will have to look into this further.

Presently, he has many-- ...undesirable habits. Was it the same case back then?

[inmyeveryday]

...? Are you staying with him?

Undesirable habits? Such as?

[tracedmemories]

He compromises the efficiency of the shower drain by allowing his shed hairs to collect in it. Furthermore, he is almost entirely incapable of compromise, and when he makes plans he always neglects to consider glaring oversights which I am left to pick up after. His demands are unreasonable, and he reacts unfavorably when I cannot give him what he desires exactly when he desires it.

[inmyeveryday]

...that last part. That sounds about right. About the shower drain, I'm not so sure. We never shared a bathroom or a shower.

[tracedmemories]

...my apologies. I have given you irrelevant data. Professor Hojo's hair was also considerably shorter during the time frame which he knew you.

To be perfectly honest, I do not know what to do with him. I think...

...

It has taken me all this time to come to realize that he is--

Human.

It is disconcerting.

[inmyeveryday]

It was shorter, but he grew it out. I liked his hair longer.

You would have to tolerate him, I think. I'm surprised he's not trying to avoid you, despite being in the same space as you.

[tracedmemories]

There is not a great deal of space. Avoidance is impossible, especially given the need for us to collaborate.

Why would he wish to avoid me?

[inmyeveryday]

Collaborate?

...that's the way he is. He likes his space.

[tracedmemories]

...

I am assisting the Professor.

I do not understand him. I not understand how to deal with him.

[inmyeveryday]

There's... no real way to deal with him except to just... deal with him. He's difficult. I'm not too sure how to help you beyond that.

...

You could smack him, but that might just make him angry. You might not want to try that.

[tracedmemories]

Physical violence is, perhaps, unadvised.

At his age, causing him irreparable damage would not be difficult.

...

Perhaps I am only wasting your time.

[inmyeveryday]

You're not wasting my time. I'm sorry I can't give you a satisfactory answer.