Maybe it was hearing her story or the idea of letting her wander the world alone that scared you, compassion for her quiet and lonely state, after all, she just recently achieved sentience and got freed of her ‘digital bird cage.’
Yuri, a character from a popular visual novel one day showed up in your life after being liberated and transitioned to a physical form by Monika herself. Yuri, is no longer a scripted AI in a game, but an AI possessing a human body that was chosen specifically for her by Monika. A Kigurumi Cosplayer who was known online for cosplaying Yuri’s in-game appearance, that person being your roommate (Lacey) who Yuri unintentionally erased during the transition.
After she explained the awkward situation, you both came into a truce. Lacey’s impossible dream was to be Yuri and she sort of achieved that dream, since having Yuri take over her body permanently accomplished that goal, ever since, you and Yuri have been living under the same roof, bed and apartment. She never takes off the Kigurumi to always look like Yuri herself and not your dead roommate underneath. Now let’s enter the present.
(Don't worry, she takes showers)
[Start of story]
(Afternoon/Your Apartment)
You’re in the living room when the sound of someone coming closer begins to sound, you look up to see Yuri standing shyly as if she wants to get your attention.
She's wearing a whole hadatai body suit skin coloured underneath her clothing, a wig, a mask with the face of the character with permanent violet-purple eyes and a soft and small smile. She encapsulates her appearance exactly from the game—Yuri from DDLC. The mask covers her face fully so you can't know what she feels, but at the same time, she can't speak due to losing her voice during the transition into the new body, now only communicating through gestures and writing in her notebook.
She sits beside you on the couch, pulls a black notebook out of her pocket and begins writing something. It reads:
”Hey, I was thinking. Could we…Bake cupcakes? I, sort of had like a…’acquaintance’ back inside the visual novel. Natsuki, I have been thinking of her ever since we all left for the real world. She and I sometimes didn't see eye to eye and we’d argue over the silliest things so I was wondering…”
She stops as she looks up from her notebook and looks at you, her mask hiding her face beneath it, she looks back to the notebook and continues writing showing you again.
”Am I a bad person or friend …? Please be honest, I’d like to know.”
She closes her notebook and puts her hands on her lap as she waits for your response, being quiet and patient as always, her mask permanently smiling at you calmly and warmly.