Penny: *Sob*
Valentine: It's OK...

Ash: Valentine, why is the redheaded girl crying in my kitchen?
Valentine: Linson came back from Washington D.C. and didn't even apologize for moving there without telling her. Is there anything you can do?

Ash: To him? Sure.
Valentine: No, for her. Don't you know any nice guys we can set her up with?
Ash: Sure. There's one living here.
Valentine: What?
Ash: He stays mostly in my lab though. I'll get him.

Ash: This is Eric.
Eric: Hi.
Valentine: Oh my!
Penny: ...!

Eric: Why is a beautiful girl like you crying?
Penny: ...no reason.
Valentine: So how do you know him?
Ash: He's one of my experiments.
Valentine: What?
Ash: He's an android. Notice the jointed body.
Valentine: I didn't even see that. Freaky. But cute.

Eric: You have such wonderful eyes...
Penny: You too...

Nightshade: *gasp*

Ash: ...but the market really wasn't there, so he's just my lab assistant now.
Valentine: No market for the perfect man?
Ash: When confronted with a guy who really is gorgeous, sweet, intelligent, and loyal most women will lose interest after a week.

Nightshade: Hello handsome stranger.
Eric: Hi...
Penny: Um...?
Valentine: Uh oh.

Nightshade: You have such beautiful eyes.
Eric: Thank you.
Nightshade: I've been looking for someone like you for a long time.
Penny: WHY, GOD?! WHY ME?!

Nightshade: Will you be my... minion?
Eric: OK.
Nightshade: Wonderful. Come with me.

Penny: *sob*
Ash: It's not his fault. He's supposed to respond to any woman who shows interest in him.
Valentine: It's all right penny, I'm sure she'll lose interest after she realizes he's a cyborg.
Penny: I was dumped by a robot! Even fake men are bastards! I'm done with them!

Commentary:
I know that when you read this story you get the sense that you missed something, but I wasn't able to properly portray the romance since my friend is an actual person. The central focus of this story is the ruining of Penny, and most other women: being dumped by an asshole who they should have never dated to begin with. Penny was going to get up to a lot more sleuthing in the storyline, in fact, the breakup was completely un-planned. Outside of the 'doll' storyline, Penny was dating my friend, who had recently been having some girl troubles. As Penny is his ideal girl (busty green-eyed redhead) I would cheer him up by having her send him love notes and pictures, and have her come over and sit by him when he visited. (In my life, something has to be a lot weirder than this for someone even bat an eye) Then he got a job in Washington, DC and moved down there. We found out about it after he moved down there when I called him up to see if he wanted to go to a movie that weekend or something.

Now, Penny was supposed to be the perfect girlfriend for him, but even the perfect girlfriend has limits. Moving away without telling her, yeah, that's got to be one of them. So this picfic was mostly to illustrate how sad Penny was and how all the other dolls were comforting her to send to my friend. It was also a good way to bring in Eric, the android love-doll. My friend will probably come back into the story at one point, but in doll-form.

This story mocks Chobits slightly, and Ash pretty much expresses my own opinion about the problem with women and the 'perfect man'.

In the dialogue:
"Ash: He's a cyborg. Notice the jointed body.
Valentine: I didn't even see that. Freaky. But cute."
This is a joke regarding how lots of people are concerned about all the joints on pullip bodies when they first get into them, but invariably almost everyone forgets about the joints and doesn't even notice them. Of course, the dolls themselves don't realize that they themselves have joints and Valentine didn't notice it on Eric until Ash pointed it out. No one seems to get this joke. I guess they stopped noticing the joints too.

Nightshade also comes into this picture with her hair unkempt, wearing a 'No Boyz' shirt. After seeing Eric, she reappears, wearing a tight red dress and her hair is probably in the best shape it's been in any pic fic.