Sunny/Dialogue
From Cassette Beasts
These are Sunny's dialogues.
Relationship Level Scenes
Relationship Level 1
- Sunny: I think... knowing that this... body... was someone else even before I was a Landkeeper...
- Sunny: It doesn't make me feel any different. I want to continue learning what it means to be me, as I am now.
- Sunny: I'm sure that "other me" would understand.
- Sunny: Please, <player>, show me things. New things! There's so much to see! I know you intend to leave New Wirral, but...
- Sunny: I wanna have fun, OK?
Relationship Level 2
- Sunny: OK, <player>. Tell me something. Something about your world.
(Choice between "Huh?" and "My world?")
- Sunny: Yeah! Your world is old, right...? New Wirral is young. I was told Harbourtown has only existed for a few generations...
- Sunny: Please, tell me about the history of your world!
"You give Sunny a brief rundown on the history of Earth. You skip a lot of the details, but that's OK."
- Sunny: That's... a lot to take in.
- Sunny: When I think about this island, and where I came from... from the person I once was on another world, to being a Landkeeper, to finding you here...
- Sunny: I can almost see the thread of history that led to me being me, here, now.
- Sunny: Does that make sense? Do you... see the threads of your world's history that lead you to be who you are now?
(Choice between "Yeah?" and "Not really!")
- If chosen "Yeah?":
- Sunny: OK! I'm glad! I wasn't sure if it was a silly question.
- If chosen "Not really!":
- Sunny: Don't worry about it... it was a silly question anyway!
- Sunny: I am still learning what it means to be oneself. Some part of that lies in our history, but only so much...
- Sunny: I wonder about the human I once was... the woman who lived in my body first... I wonder how her history shaped her...
- Sunny: Maybe I am asking the wrong questions... Maybe I need to ask you more about the present, not the past!
(Choice between "That sounds like a plan!" and "I guess so!")
- Sunny: OK, I'll try and think of some better questions for you for next time!
Relationship Level 3
- Sunny: Hey <player>...
- Sunny: There are a lot of people on your world... aren't there? I mean... a lot more than here on this island.
- Sunny: You must meet more people than you could even get to know!
(Choice between "Yeah, I guess so!" and "Yep, that's right!")
- Sunny: Don't you feel sad about that? That there's friendships you might miss out on...?
- Sunny: Though... I suppose they might not really end up as friends. Not all people can connect with each other...
(Choice between "Yep." and "That's an understatement.")
- Sunny: Don't worry, I do understand that much. The other Landkeepers and I... are not friends.
- Sunny: The roles given to them are so rigid... so impossible to change, that they can't imagine life any other way...
- Sunny: Maybe me choosing to be "Sunny" instead of a "Landkeeper" is an insult to them.
- Sunny: But knowing that people might not connect with you, or even despise you... this isn't enough to stop me reaching out to others.
- Sunny: People are interesting to me! It's fun to talk to them, I think...
(Choice between "I agree!" and "That's a good outlook!")
- Sunny: Heh heh.
Relationship Level 4
- Sunny: Being hungry is pretty funny, isn't it...?
(Choice between "Is it...?" and "Being hungry is no laughing matter!")
- Sunny: Is that such a strange statement?
- Sunny: It's a feeling we have that changes our behaviour, even if we don't want it to...
- Sunny: The things we desire in our bodies overrule us, pushing us to make decisions...
(Choice between "I guess that's true." and "Do you have many of these bodily desires?")
- If chosen "I guess that's true.":
- Sunny: See? It wasn't a strange statement after all!
- Sunny: Some food makes me feel this way more than others. I guess that's "preference"...
- Sunny: I bet your world has a lot of really good food that isn't on New Wirral, <player>!
(Choice between "Yep." and "Let me tell you about 'restaurants'.")
- Sunny: Please... tell me about these foods. I want to know about them, OK?
- If chosen "Do you have many of these bodily desires?":
- Sunny: You- Buh- I'm not... I'm talking about food!
- Sunny: A lot of human desires are... interesting, but food is easier to talk about...
"The conversation awkwardly trailed off after that."
Relationship Level 5
- Sunny: Hey, <player>.
- Sunny: There's something I'm curious about... People's homes. They are reflections of them, I'm told.
- Sunny: Can you show me your home...?
(Choice between "Sure!" and "Not now.")
- If chosen "Sure!":
- Sunny: OK! Let's go...
At home, the player sits on their bed while Sunny looks up at them.
- Sunny: ...
- Sunny: I've been thinking so much on what it means to be me, and to be a person...
- Sunny: And I think I understand now.
- Sunny: What makes people... is other people.
- Sunny: If I didn't have you in my life, and Kayleigh, and Eugene, I wouldn't BE Sunny...
- Sunny: After all, you were the ones to give me that name. The first gift I ever received - and I'll treasure it forever.
- Sunny: It feels like so long since then... I feel so differently about everything now.
- Sunny: Even you, <player>. At first, I saw you as a stranger, someone I feared, or didn't trust. But now, I see you as...
(Choice between "As a friend?" and "As something more...?")
- If chosen "As a friend?":
- Sunny: Of course! We've traveled together... fought monsters together... even fused together...
- Sunny: Those connections with one another? This is what it means to live. To be human, I think...
- Sunny: One day I know you'll move on from this place... but those connections will always be there between us. Making us who we are.
- Sunny: At least, that's what I think.
- If chosen "As something more...?":
- Sunny: Uh...
- Sunny: Do you mean that how I think you mean it...?
(Choice between "I mean we're close friends!" and "I mean I have feelings for you.") Choosing "I mean we're close friends!" plays the previous "As a friend?" dialogue.
- If chosen "I mean I have feelings for you.":
- Sunny: So it's... not just me.
- Sunny: If I am honest, I've had some... complicated feelings inside me for some time.
- Sunny: It's so hard for me to know what's normal, and what's not...
- Sunny: But if you feel the same, then I'll try to be direct:
- Sunny: I want to be close to you, very close to you, right now... if that's OK...?
- If chosen "Not now.":
- Sunny: OK. Another time...
Romance
- Sunny: You look like you have something you want to say, <player>, I think...?
(Choice between "I want us to be together." and "Nothing in particular.")
- If chosen "I want us to be together.":
- Sunny: I...
- Sunny: I think I understand what it is you're asking.
- Sunny: It's not just about being close to each other physically, it's something more...
- Sunny: A validation of the connection between us, as people...
(Choice between "Yeah." and "That's one way to put it.")
- Sunny: Of course I want that... I want nothing more...
- Sunny: But... we can still be close physically too, right...?
- Sunny: Because when I see you, there are a lot of feelings I have. I want to be physically close to you, and also want to be connected to you, connected to your heart...
- Sunny: These feelings all blend into one and I can't tell where they begin or end. It makes me feel like I don't understand myself as much as I want to...
- Sunny: I need to be close to you, I think.
- Sunny: I need to feel your hands on mine, a-and other things like that, too!
- Sunny: So... yes. I want to be with you. Until you go.
- Sunny: I know you have to go home eventually... but this connection will always be there between us. Making us who we are.
- If chosen "Nothing in particular.":
- Sunny: OK, <player>...
Campsite and Gramophone Café Conversations
- Sunny: Does your world have more clothes than this one, <player>?
(Choice between "Yes." and "Quite a lot more...")
- Sunny: It does?!
- Sunny: Though... I only just discovered how I like to dress... Maybe I'm not ready for a new look...
- Sunny: The "Archangels", like Mammon...
- Sunny: They are made by people, I understand...?
(Choice between "Sort of..." and "Something like that.")
- Sunny: I see...
- Sunny: An Archangel seems so much stronger than a human... but that's the wrong way to look at it, I think...
- Sunny: When I see people in Harbourtown working together, they are like one whole...
- Sunny: An Archangel might be strong, but I can't imagine any Archangel is a match for all people, together!
- Sunny: The ocean surrounding New Wirral...
- Sunny: I wonder if you built a ship and sailed away from here you'd find more islands like it...
- Sunny: Maybe I'll do that one day, when my heart yearns to see new lands!
- Sunny: What are the monsters on your world like, <player>?
(Choice between "There aren't any." and "I think that's just a New Wirral thing.")
- Sunny: Whuh...? Really?
- Sunny: I didn't realize... I guess that explains a lot...
- Sunny: It is a strange thing to think that many people on this island are lost here...
- Sunny: After all, I'm not lost here. Here is where I found myself...
- Sunny: New Wirral... a place where you can be forever lost, and forever found...
- Sunny: Something I've been thinking about...
- Sunny: If someone else lived in my body once, did I inherit their likes and dislikes also...?
- Sunny: Or are those my own? I wonder...
- Sunny: People seem to enjoy eating food a lot, don't they...?
(Choice between "What do you mean?" and "Huh?")
- Sunny: You seem to do it at least once a day!
(Choice between "It's necessary!" and "You have to eat to stay alive!")
- Sunny: Do you...? That's strange...
- Sunny: I seem to be OK if I don't eat anything at all!
- Sunny: Maybe I am less like other people than I thought...
- Sunny: A fresh start...
- Sunny: That's what Kayleigh said everyone on New Wirral gets, right...? Do you think EVERYONE deserves a second chance at life...?
(Choice between "I think so." and "Not everyone.")
- If chosen "I think so.":
- Sunny: So do I, I think...
- If chosen "Not everyone.":
- Sunny: To be undeserving of a second chance in life... I don't think I want to meet someone like that...
- Sunny: The past me... the person who lived in my body once...
- Sunny: She seemed so unhappy... It seems so sad to live an unhappy life and not be able to change it...
- Sunny: Promise me, <player>, to always live as happily as you can...
- Sunny: Don't let your world change you, or make you into someone you're not... OK?
- Sunny: So if I understand correctly... this island was made and maintained by an Archangel that goes by the name "Mer-Line"... correct?
(Choice between "It seems that way." and "I think that's right!")
- Sunny: This Archangel must have had a reason to do all this...
- Sunny: But also... maybe their reasons are beyond our understanding?
- Sunny: Either way, I don't think it's something we should worry about! Whatever the future may hold, we'll be ready for it...
Gramophone Café
- Sunny: Tell me, <player>... does your world also have a café...?
(Choice between "There are a lot, actually." and "Nope - this is the only one I've ever seen!")
- If chosen "There are a lot, actually.":
- Sunny: Many cafés...? That's difficult for me to imagine...
- If chosen "Nope - this is the only one I've ever seen!":
- Sunny: Wow! This place must be very exciting for you, then...!
Campsite
- Sunny: Is the sky as beautiful on your world as it is here, <player>?
(Choice between "It's... very different." and "It doesn't quite look the same.")
- Sunny: In the day, the sun glides across the sky, together with the pitch-black moon... At night, that same moon consumes the swirling lights that dance together...
- Sunny: It's wonderful, don't you think...?
(Choice between "It's cool!" and "I find it kind of eerie.")
- If chosen "It's cool!":
- Sunny: Heh... I thought you'd agree. Very "cool"...
- If chosen "I find it kind of eerie.":
- Sunny: Heh... maybe it's quite different to what you're used to...
- Sunny: When I feel the wind like this...
- Sunny: I feel like... the woman whose body this was, she didn't get to feel the wind in her hair like this...
- Sunny: Maybe I'm making up for lost time, in a way...
After romance
- Sunny: I... like the way you look when I see you lit by the fire, <player>...
- Sunny: The embers reflected in your eyes - it may sound silly, but I feel like I see a whole world in you...
- Sunny: Maybe that's the world you came from... Like you've harboured a piece of it inside you, all this time, guiding you home...
- Sunny: ...
Romancing Kayleigh
- Sunny: You and Kayleigh... you have a sort of connection, don't you...?
(Choice between "Yeah!" and "I guess you could phrase it like that.")
- Sunny: I thought so. It makes me happy to know two of my friends are so close...
- Sunny: Whilst I do not share a bond with anyone like this, it would be nice...
Romancing Eugene
- Sunny: You and Eugene are close, aren't you?
(Choice between "Yeah!" and "I guess you could phrase it like that.")
- Sunny: I thought so. Eugene is sure of himself in many ways, and not so much in others... I think you are someone who would help bring out the best in him.
- Sunny: The two of you are a good pair, I believe...
Character Interactions in Gramophone Café
Sunny and Kayleigh
- Sunny: ...So you mean to say that, where you’re from, some people CHOOSE to live like Landkeepers…?
- Kayleigh: Well I wouldn’t phrase it like that, exactly - it’s more that you need money to live, so an office job is a way to get money.
- Sunny: So people choose to live in an office to survive…?
- Kayleigh: Oh, they don’t live there - it’s just for the day! Think of it as a role you play in the daytime, before you come home and become yourself again.
- Sunny: I see… did you have an “office job” before coming to New Wirral, Kayleigh…?
- Kayleigh: Uh, I’m not qualified for that kind of work.
Sunny and Eugene
- Sunny: ...It feels so long ago when we first met, Eugene…
- Eugene: You mean when you first walked into this café? Yeah, I guess it’s been a little bit since then.
- Sunny: No, I mean when I was a Landkeeper and first came into Harbourtown. You confronted me and my colleague and told us to leave, remember…?
- Eugene: Wait, that was YOU? Sunny, I never realised…
- Sunny: It’s OK, Eugene. We weren’t friends when we first met, but we are now… That’s better, don’t you think…?
- Eugene: A big improvement, I agree.
Sunny and Meredith
- Sunny: ...No, I never had to “drink blood” as a Landkeeper...
- Meredith: So you’re not, like, a vampire. But are you sure you aren’t maybe a little bit undead? You look pretty pale.
- Sunny: ”Undead”? I’m not familiar with the word... Is it bad..?
- Meredith: I guess not. I’m just curious about you.
- Sunny: You’re... curious about me...?
- Meredith: Don’t take it the wrong way! You’re like, a living dead girl. Or maybe you’re not. Either way, it’s cool.
- Sunny: So you’re saying you don’t quite understand me, and that interests you...?
- Meredith: I... guess?
Sunny and Felix
- Sunny: ...You want to draw me...?
- Felix: Yeah! Your story is pretty inspiring, after all. You escaped your previous life as a corporate drone to be your own person. I could totally base a character on you for the story I’m writing.
- Sunny: I... that’s very kind of you. I would be honoured for you to draw me, Felix...
- Sunny: Though I must request that my clothes stay on for the drawing process.
- Felix: Don’t worry, I’m not that kind of artist.
Sunny and Viola
- Sunny: ...Do you have fond memories from your times travelling, Viola...?
- Viola: ...Fond memories? The finest! The wind in my hair one night, and the warm bed of a tavern the following moon. Upon one night I may be found dining with friends of my father; the next I may be performing poetry in fair Verona.
- Sunny: ”Fair Verona”... that sounds like a nice place...
- Viola: It... may be so, yet I must confess: I happened to have stolen the heart of a maiden of high standing in Verona and caused a local feud, the likes of which escalated most devilishly. I do not intend to return.
- Sunny: ...You do have a lot of stories, it seems!
Sunny and Barkley
- Sunny: ...I guess you’re a “dog”, is that right...?
- Barkley: Arf!
- Sunny: You are the first “dog” I’ve met. I would like to meet more, if given the chance...
Sunny and Frankie
- Frankie: ...So even though I didn’t know New Wirral existed before coming here, in some way I’ve been preparing for this kind of thing happening to me my whole life!
- Sunny: I see... because you read many fantasy stories… and write your own, if I am understanding right...?
- Frankie: Yes! Though the specific details with cassette tapes is a new twist, people love stories about friendships between monsters and humans - especially if there’s romance, too.
- Sunny: They do...? Is that why you are excited to be here - to be romanced by a monster?
- Frankie: What, m-me? No, I’m strictly an observer.
Here Comes The Sun
(Conversing with Helia)
- Sunny: Are you... responsible for the rogue fusions...?
- Sunny: The problem is... your "wonderful beasts" are putting people in danger...
(After being told about The Mer-Line)
- Sunny: The Mer-Line?! This seems bad, <player>...
(After meeting The Mer-Line)
- Sunny: I don't understand - what does the Mer-Line need you for? Surely it is more powerful than any human... Strange...
Pier of the Unknown
Magikrab's Gauntlet
(When Sunny is on her own)
- Sunny: I'm sorry, but I have to stop you right now.
(When Sunny is the first fighter in a pair)
- Sunny: We need to move perfectly in sync if we are to win this...
(When Sunny is the second fighter in a pair)
- Sunny: OK, I trust you...
