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This is number 12 in A Grow Bug Tale, chapter 15, and it reads like this.
Hey there, who's your friend, Cinderstripe?
Timbertail asked.
We're calling him Hopper.
Say hello, Hopper.
Hopper hesitated a moment, then said, Hello Hopper.
A bit uneasily.
Good one.
Timbertail leapt off of her perch on WaveRex and drummed the ground with her palms.
Good what?
Hopper asked.
Good joke!
Timbertail tumbled.
Are you alright?
Hopper asked.
No.
The critter-bot monkey replied.
What's wrong with her?
Don't know, WaveRex replied.
I'm not alright.
Timbertail rolled and sprang to her feet.
I'm great.
I think I just got it, Hopper said to Cinderstripe.
Yup.
Got what?
WaveRex asked.
And that's all I wrote.
So I'm paying off the little bit from earlier where Cinderstripe was warning Hopper not to
take things seriously or personally from Timbertail because she was a jokester and I think I illustrated
it well.
And just because she's a jokester doesn't mean she's actually funny to the characters
in the story.
She amuses herself.
And that's what's important.
I want her to be light-hearted.
That's definitely part of her character that I wrote previously.
And I think Hopper being immune to her humor or charm or whatever is fine.
Everybody else kind of is.
Except for I think WaveRex might appreciate it a little bit more because he's like a simpler
guy.
Big softy.
Big gentle giant.
And I think I'm showing that as well here.
And I think I'm showing Cinderstripe to be like a serious, straightforward, straight-laced
kind of guy.
He's not against having fun, but he's also not, you know, going to be clown himself like
some other critterbots will.
And I think I showed that stuff.
So I'm pleased with that for now.
And yeah, I'm excited to push these characters' interactions further.
Pretty soon they have to basically accept that Hopper is not a threat or determine whether
or not he's a threat, and then if he's not, kind of accept him to keep him close to keep
an eye on him just in case something crazy happens with him down the line.
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