[4th wall]

[miniworth]

[ The feed sputters on to one Miles Edgeworth giving the network the most confused face. ]

I woke up this morning and went outside for a walk... did the hotel in Olivine always have this wriggling piece of plywood outside its doors?

[ He pans the camera around to show a ragged-looking mascot dancing pitifully, on and on. ]

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[miniworth]

[ it's staring into your soullll but at least it doesn't have a sword. ]

An... imp? It doesn't really look like anything.

[bakaitoukid]

I dunno how else to describe it. Other than... er. Creepy.

[miniworth]

[ Miles just lets the camera record it dancing some more. ]

It's strangely pitiful.

[bakaitoukid]

It wasn't there yesterday.

[miniworth]

... Do you think it's alive?

[ If it's alive it could be like us. We appear out of thin air tooooo ]

[bakaitoukid]

I-- er. Has it talked?

[miniworth]

Not yet.

[bakaitoukid]

Then maybe it's not.

[miniworth]

It could be a robot. I knew someone here who was one..

[bakaitoukid]

I've talked to a robot here, too.

... 's a weird robot.

[miniworth]

It's been dancing nonstop...

[bakaitoukid]

[just. tilts his head. stares at it some more...]

[miniworth]

[ Does the Badger change its movement pattern?

Nope. But it looks like it's crying with that lopsided eye ;;

And Miles is staring at it too. It's oddly intriguing... ]

[bakaitoukid]

We should name it.

[miniworth]

Mm..? [ He blinks. ] What should we name it?

[bakaitoukid]

I dunno. [headtilt]

Something unique!

[miniworth]

Something unique.. [ He'd never been good at names. Kaito gets an eyeful of shota thinking very, very hard. ]

[bakaitoukid]

Dancin' Mannequin.

[miniworth]

[ :|a-face. ] Isn't that.. exactly what it is put in fancy vocabulary?

[bakaitoukid]

And it rhymes!

[miniworth]

[ a beat ] Dancin' Mannequin.

[bakaitoukid]

[:D?]

[miniworth]

.......

I guess it works.

[bakaitoukid]

We can call him DM for short.

[miniworth]

[ He's nodding! ]