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[As busy as Rapunzel has been keeping herself, she has noticed the recent sadness and upset over the comms. Maybe she could do a little something to help, something to brighten up these bleak times. Ironically, the one thing that has been keeping her occupied is what she's going to offer.]

I know a lot of you have found your friends missing these past few days, and I'm so sorry for your losses. It really isn't much, but I do have something that might make coping a little less bitter. I, um... I've been working on collecting and mixing paints and finding painting tools. And well, I think I have plenty now, and I kind of already promised a portrait for someone, so that got me thinking... it might be nice if I offer to paint things for anyone and everyone. So um, here's my offer!

[She flips her comm around to show off the rather large collage of paintings on the wall of her temple room; there are numerous interlocking individual pictures, mostly of plants, animals, and the few people she knew back on Earth. The paintings aren't completely unlike what she had painted inside her tower.]

If you like my style at all, just tell me where and what to paint, and I'll go paint it. If you're good at describing things or have other pictures, I can paint those whom you've lost, so that they don't seem so far away. As fair warning, I haven't had any practice painting robots yet, but I'll definitely give it my best shot. But it doesn't even have to be portraits; I can paint just about anything that makes you happy.

...I don't know how much it will help, but it seems like the least I can do.

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Oh, you're more than welcome. I really can't do much else to help, so I hope my silly paintings will help.

And I'd be happy to do that! Is there anything specific you want me to paint?

Miss, don't sell yourself short. You have a lot of heart, and sometimes that's all someone needs. Good company and a sympathetic ear can go a long way.

And no, I can't really think of anything, but I will let you know if that changes.

[A warm, appreciative smile tugs at her lips. That definitely makes her feel much better about what she's doing.] Thank you... and that's a good point.

Alright. Until you do, I suppose I can plan on painting as many cheery things as possible. If you or anyone else is in there all day, it might help keep things from getting a little dull.

[a low chuckle]

The Decker Room could definitely use cheering up.

[Especially with McCrane getting more and more scarce these days. If he's . . . n-not gone already . . . Deckard's not really letting himself think about that.]

Is the room named after you?

[It's an honest question, given how similar sounding the names are.]

[That gets a slightly startled reaction and then really derpy, sheepish grin.]

Ah, n-no. Not exactly. More like my name and the room's come from the same source.

In the langu- . . . in my native language - [Really, just easier to put it that way than try to explain it as the language of the people who programmed him which makes it "primary", never mind that he's programmed with several.] - the word for detective is "dekka". We are robot detectives, my team and I, and I was the first one designed and built. So I was named "Deckard". Back home, our primary work space was dubbed the "Decker Room" for the same reason, it was to be used by the "dekka" or detectives.

When the police precinct was built, I wasn't here yet, but my teammate McCrane and a few others decided to model the bullpen – our primary office space – off the one back home. So it got dubbed the "Decker Room" too.

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