
The idea that Dirk Strider's auto-responder might not be joking about Dirk having the hots for Jake just sank in today. [Insert appropriate swearing here.] The idea of another incarnation of someone's brother/father having the hots for his brother's friend's grandpa is kind of disturbing. The are all of the same age now so it shouldn't matter, but I can't help but still finding it a little disturbing. Like, the author himself is pulling a canon crackpairing on us and made a canon in-multiverse AU where the shipping happens. Dude.
Anyway, loving the auto-responder now. Instead of Dirk/Jake somehow I like the idea of Auto-responder/Jake better. The entire conversation about wrestling with the brobot with words like (paraphrasing) "it was gentle, but..." "does it not satisfy you" made that dripping with interspecies romantic flirting. And how the auto-responder was always saying how Jake was hurting his feelings. Oh my. Love between an AI and a human. So forbidden yet meant to be. Best canon crackpairing ever.