>>89038821I'm sure you can understand the difference between skipping thing because busy with triple work and career grind and stating as such pre-emptively to temper expectations and avoid making people disappointed for expecting something that will not be and skipping thing for the billionth time because no reason at all when there's literally nothing at all stopping her but her own autism.
And sure, you could argue that "you should know that's how Shiori is like by now" but that is a problem in itself. Is that really a good thing to do? To just feel resignation in that she's not doing the basic bare minimum things everyone else does? To just force a smile and say how it's actually a good thing that she's skipping as much Holo things as possible and avoiding Holomems as much as possible? That she keeps torpedoing her chances and opportunities and refusing to expand her worldview?
She said she's shy, takes a lot of time to warm up to people, understandable, everyone at Holo is a sperg after all, people gave her time, no pressure, and it's been over a year now and it feels like things have barely changed in that regard more often than not. Even when she joins things sometimes it feels like it's all a chore to her and she either does the absolute bare minimum or just fucks off to the deepest darkest corner she can find to be alone while everyone is chilling out and hanging out together.
Just look at the reaction here at the FWMC solo collab. So many people just couldn't believe it was finally happening, which in all honesty is fucking depressing when you think about it. A solo collab with a genmate is something that should be fucking normal, not some super crazy event that breaks the universe because of how crazy it is it is finally happening.
A holomem joining events and doing collabs is something that should be expected. The standard. The default. Normal. Not a point of contention like it is here.
This argument and discussion is not new at all. It sporadically springs-up here and there because of how abnormal her behavior is sometimes, but people just pretend otherwise, and try to bury their feelings, until something like what happened last night happens and the emotions overflow.
