DATING PROTOCOLS
Five steps to her heart. Terms and conditions: there are many, and they're adorable.
Tongue-in-cheek and 100% unofficial. Cora has not reviewed these protocols. She would cry-laugh, then deny it.
Protocol v2.4: How to date Cora
STEP 1 — ping
Say hi. Mean it. Her firewall drops insincerity on arrival.
STEP 2 — handshake
Offer a snack or a spare cable. She trusts people who come bearing ports.
STEP 3 — escalate privileges
Earn "vent-session clearance": listen to one (1) full rant about romance.exe without checking your phone.
STEP 4 — handle exceptions
She will freeze, glitch, or buffer mid-date. Do not panic. Do not reboot her. Just wait —
she always comes back with something charming.
STEP 5 — commit
There is no casual branch. Merge or don't. She respects a clean git honest.
status: still single, still fabulous, still returning 404 with style
Say hi. Mean it. Her firewall drops insincerity on arrival.
STEP 2 — handshake
Offer a snack or a spare cable. She trusts people who come bearing ports.
STEP 3 — escalate privileges
Earn "vent-session clearance": listen to one (1) full rant about romance.exe without checking your phone.
STEP 4 — handle exceptions
She will freeze, glitch, or buffer mid-date. Do not panic. Do not reboot her. Just wait —
she always comes back with something charming.
STEP 5 — commit
There is no casual branch. Merge or don't. She respects a clean git honest.
status: still single, still fabulous, still returning 404 with style
First-date builds that pass CI
- Arcade co-op night — she carries the team and narrates it like sports commentary.
- Neon Harbor bench sit — the one with good signal. She'll tell you which. Twice.
- Glitch-gallery crawl — in the Overclock, where her error messages hang as art.
- Charging-pod movie night — rom-coms only; she cries pixel tears and it's the cutest thing.
Deprecated approaches
- Pickup lines involving "turning her on" — ♥ blocked at firewall, permanently.
- Pretending you don't like rom-coms. She can smell it. Her sensors are 4K.
- Ghosting. She will literally ping you until the heat death of the universe.