I really dislike this Tilly character

[james_davis_nicoll]

Smiling while you casually toss consent to one side doesn't make it less of a violation of consent.

Comments

[catlinyemaker]

I'm reading it with a great deal of trepidation and cringing at every page. I really hope the writer doesn't pull something like revealing Tilly to have a tragic backstory and bad circumstances (which obvs she's in a bad circumstance right now) and thus having the current cast feel sorry for them and accept them into their circle.

"You're not allowed behind the counter." made me cheer.

[movingfinger]

Yes, my suspicion is that Hannelore's mother is holding something over Tilly to compel her to serve/normalize Hannelore, some horrifying incentive. Then Hannelore, finding out, calls her mother and screams at her for abusing Tilly.

That still doesn't make it okay.

However, climbing over the counter is not normal human behavior, so possibly Tilly is a bot. But I'd have expected Winslow to rumble her, unless, as I said, she has a horrific sob story to justify behaving in the controlling way that Hannelore's mother would love to behave.

It's weird that Tilly was given no information like "client works in a coffee shop."

[dsrtao]

H's mother knows about this, and thinks it's horribly declassé and probably just a phase, so it's not important.

[naomikritzer]

I initially read Tilly as a robot, and was surprised when she got offered pancakes, since the robots don't eat. Possibly that was Windslow trying to suss out whether she was bot or human, and she foiled him by accepting?

[(Anonymous)]

Of the robot characters, only Bubbles seems to have the kind of sensor suite that would instantly detect if a person she is talking to is a human or a robot. We shall see if Bubbles and Tilly meet.

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NPH