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Tv always felt so under appreciated, on every team he’s ever been on he’s barely ever been acknowledged or been recognized for his efforts.

Golfball always treated him like a tool and barely respected him, and others never even acknowledged his existence.

Hell, even back in BFDIA when he hosted he was barely appreciated and so easily tossed aside and forgotten

It was infuriating.

Everyone else seemed to fit into their little duos or groups, why didn’t he have anything that?
What made him so different?

Well he knew.

It was because he was a mechanical mind. Not viewed as a person like other people, but simply an object.

No one respected mechanical minds.

Last challenge had especially reaffirmed this for him with Tree’s blatant disregard of him, of course choosing to leave him behind in favor of helping himself and a “real” contestant.

He hated that leafy green bastard.

he acted like he was such a great guy~

but he knew the truth.

Tree only cared about himself, he made that quite obvious.

Tv was kindve just pacing around while having this whole monologue not really paying attention to his surroundings and accidentally bumped into- “ACK-! I HATE FALLING OVER! YOU- oh.. hi Tv….”

ah… Fanny.

She was not really what he wanted to deal with right now

“Uh sorry about that Fanny…”

“Eugh whatever… I was in a rush, I wasn’t really paying attention….you’re good.”

How did the one that made a whole personality of hating everything manage to be in the minority of people who showed basic etiquette towards him?

“Uh okay Fanny.”

Tv stayed quiet. He had never gotten this far into a conversation with her before, he didn’t know what to say…. She was probably about to leave now anyways…..

so it didn’t matter he supposed….

”wait Tv…. You’re like smart right?” Fanny looked up at his screen

he was reluctant to answer at first as Fanny was on the same team as that nasty, no-good, Tree…. But he loved being helpful….

ugh.

“Well I can scan many various databases for information, so I do consider myself to have a decent amount of intellect…. Why?”

Fanny looked around unsure how to approach this topic

“Well… GB and TB are busy right now and… uh maybe you can notice something they haven’t yet. Especially since you can like scan things…. I don’t know… just cmon-”

Tv was being dragged to wherever by Fanny…. Welp uh he supposed he didn’t really care.

But there was something he DID care about….

the third choice.

he was just the third choice.

because Golfball and Tennisball weren’t available….

he groaned at that

he never was respected… at most he was just a substitute for someone else

that made him feel REAL great….

this only added to his frustration with the other contestants

there weren’t any contestants left that appreciated him it seemed and he had no friends and oh my wiring he hated it…..

Fanny had eventually led him to Two’s room where they seemed… not in the best condition….

“Just ignore them, they don’t do anything…. “ Fanny gestured at the bed rotting Two

“Yeah….. makes sense….” Tv was wondering why they stopped hosting…. Hm. He supposed it wasn’t of his concern.

Fanny soon showed him a board…. A board that had some sort of ciphered information….

“this is what I wanted to show you! The others can’t seem to understand it. But… I dunno…. You getting any of this?”

Tv looked closely “hm…. Looked like some sort of cipher…”

“Really?”

“I’ll have to look closer into it but it seems decodable?”

“that’s actually pretty helpful to know atleast….” She shrugged

“I love helping people, thank you.” tv smiled

“Uh…. You’re welcome….?” She was a bit confused that he was thanking her….

“I feel that many don’t really appreciate me…. Feels nice to be useful!”

“oh…. Really…?”

“uh yeah….”

“oh I’m…. Im sorry Tv….”

“you don’t have to apologize.”

“Yeah I know…. that’s just tough, man…”

“Yeah I suppose it kinda is….” tv glanced around fidgeting awkwardly not knowing what to say at this point

He began to leave the room sensing the conversation had ended.

“WAIT!”

Tv spun back around “hm?”

“thank you Tv.”

Tv froze for a second

“I- wh- huh- I-…. What did you just say???”

“thank you?”

He looked down at her

he smiled.

“You’re welcome….”

he then left the room

She was a lot sweeter than sour…. Not what he would’ve ever expected from HER of all people honestly…..

he smiled at what she said…. She thanked him…… for once he felt a little seen….

By someone who wasn’t also a mechanical mind at that ….

maybe he just hadn’t found his people yet….

he felt a bit hopeful for once.

But….

after that nice conversation she’d run straight back to her repulsive little plant friend and she was just- okay with him?!? Despite how Tree disrespected him…. Who he was….. what he had no control over….

He hated that dumb plant.

how could a smart person like Fanny fall for that guys whims….

She should get better friends.

he hated Tree.

Tree didn’t deserve to have good friends when he was such a terrible guy….

he hated Tree….

Hm……

…

(some time later)

Tv spotted Tree about to approach Fanny

Tv made his way to the hateful fan before Tree could.

“Hey Fanny, I know all that research is probably stressing you out…. Wanna hang out?”

he said it…. Oh my circuitry…. He didn’t know how this would go….

She looked a bit suprised “oh uh…. Well TB and GB are still busy so I’m not making any progress anyways so… why not…? I’d be okay with getting to know you a bit more….”

Tv stimmed out of pure joy

“THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU I- uh I mean….” He corrected himself realizing he sounded a little too excited

“nice!” He tried to sound calmer saying that… He grabbed her plug tail with his and he walked away with her.

As he walked away he turned for a second to see…. Tree just giving him the absolute nastiest look….. he seemed rather…. Upset….

Tv felt smug about this, he gave a teasing smirk at him before turning back to Fanny

heh…. He made Tree mad…..

it was all coming up Tv! Today was his day!

He should steal Tree’s friends more often this felt great!

Tree deserved to feel as alone as he was.

he felt a twisted satisfaction at the thought.

yeah….

he’d definitely try this again.

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It was the day after, Tv and Fanny actually had a nice time together honestly….

Tv kinda saw her as a friend now…..

But now that all of that was over he once again was focused on what Tree was doing!

He’s been watching him a lot lately honestly…..

ever since the challenge…..

he kinda liked watching him before that because he thought he was kinda cute-

but absolutely besides the point-

now he watched because he hated.

Tree was sulking.

Something that he found was common for him to do he always seemed to be annoyed or upset but whenever someone would come up to him he’d instantly brighten up…

what was with that…

but this felt different…

suddenly Marker skipped over to the clearly offset Tree.

“hey Tree, wanna play toss the dirt with m-“

Tree cut his green friend off.

“Not right now marker…”

he grumbled walking away.

Marker frowned.

Tv was a bit surprised by Tree’s uncharacteristic actions but now saw the perfect opportunity.

He came a bit closer.

“I’ll play with you marker!”

Marker faced towards him

“really? Wow… that’s so nice! We’ve never even talked before! That’s so nice!”

Okay this was working good.

“Of course I love helping people!”

Tv smiled at him trying to seem as friendly as possible.

Marker fidgeted.

“Would’ve been nicer with Tree though Y’know?”

Tv was slightly irritated…

Of course he just had to say that….

“Well he’s not here is he?”

“Yes… but like….”

Tv cut him off

“why are you so focused on that old tree then? I’m way more fun than that guy.”

“Well he’s my best friend!”

Tv rolled his eyes

“how do you know that?”

“Well like normally he always makes time for me-“

“he didn’t just then did he?”

“Yes… but that’s one time- and like he tells me everything-“

Tv once again cut him off.

“didn’t tell you why he was upset did he?”

Marker got quiet for a moment

“no…. But he probably just needs some time…”

“sureeeee”

Marker remained quiet.

…

“Uhm…. Let’s just play…”

“oh yeah of course marker, so uh…. How does this work-“

“pretty self explanatory you take the dirt than you toss it!”

“Ah. I see…”

Tv attempted to get a grip on some dirt but he found it to be difficult with his… lack of arms…. But he eventually managed.

“This is harder than you make it look”

“yeah… that makes sense considering you don’t have arms…. But hey atleast uh you’re trying! I tried to play with Fanny once and…. That was so much worse… I don’t understand why tree likes her she can’t do anything. She doesn’t even like any of my games!”

Tv was a bit disappointed by his immaturity.

He also felt slight defensive of his newly acquired friend…. He kind’ve enjoyed Fannys presence….

“you’re like what? 19? And you play these things with the expectation of your friends who are also adults to play with you and enjoy them?….like uhm yeah Tree’s still bad for ignoring you of course (hypocrite methinks) but Fanny shouldn’t instantly like be deemed boring by your standards or whatever also she’s great!- wait….”

Tv paused for a second realizing the part of that sentence he’d completely overlooked

‘I don’t understand why Tree likes her’

….. wait…

“wait Marker did you just say that Tree likes Fanny???”

“Yeah?”

That’s…. That definitely explained why he was so pissed at him yesterday…..

that made him feel…. He didn’t know what…..

the implications of that were interesting…..

he didn’t just steal one of trees closest friends…. He stole the girl he liked….

Oh my circuitry….

Tv thought for a moment. He hated Tree. He loved seeing him suffer. If he really wanted to upset Tree…. Should he…. Should he try to get with Fanny…..?

On one hand ohhhh how upset that would make Tree! He’d probably cry or something… but on the other hand Fanny was actually kind’ve his friend now… she respected him…. He wouldn’t use her like that…. He couldn’t…

The idea of holding hands with her infront of Tree or even-

his heart pounded…..

kissing her infront of him was extremely enticing….

But he couldn’t do that….

He felt oddly flustered by the thought however….

Tv never gave relationships all that much thought but oddly enough….. no. Stop. He needs to stop right now.

He felt weird thinking about this uh… he’d come back to this plan later… for now he should just focus on handling marker…

“wow tv! your so spaced out you starting playing a clip compilation of Tree dying-“

Tv instantly snapped out of his thoughts at that.

“Uh. Ignore that…”

“uh okay?” Marker seemed more confused than anything….

Tv started to think He was just completely oblivious to his disdain of Tree….

Whatever that was probably for the better anyways…

“let’s just continue…”

“Yippee!”