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srwug_alpha_rp2013-07-13 11:17 am
link_to_revival) wrote in srwug_alpha_rp2013-07-13 11:17 am
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Sixth Resurrection
[It's maintenance time for the VeHA, Lynn and R being as much a team with this as they are when actually piloting. The AI moves and shifts the machine's frame to let Lynn better reach trouble spots, and all the while they've been holding a rather pleasant conversation. Well... until-]
You know... I never realized it before now, but R... you're a Retroactive Existence, yes?
What of it?
Well, the point of the idea of those is to make them have an identity, personality, even memories all preset even before they're made! But you've never said much about your own identity. You got angry when that one goddess called you a "hag" though... were you meant to be a super-macho man then or-
[There's a very loud creaking as the VeHA turns to face Lynn... and even without facial features the woman's struck silent by the animosity radiating from it.]
I'm not going to talk about this. Not with you or anyone else.
R-R... I-
[Yeah, Lynn's realizing she's struck a nerve here.]
Regardless of my intended being, that is not who I am now, so what does it matter? I am what I choose to be, nothing more or less, and I have no lost love for Hans Wagner and his insane obsession with working to create me, ignoring the very work Britannia had hired him to do in the first place.
[The AI then realizes it's probably said too much. And now it's going to say very little.]
I'm going.
[And at that, the VeHA's eye dims and the machine slumps down again, R going off into the ship's systems to have some solitude. And as for Lynn, she's just left standing there, realizing just how little she really knows about R's identity...]
... I'm sorry...
(You can tag either Lynn or R in the aftermath of this conversation, just specify which when you post)
You know... I never realized it before now, but R... you're a Retroactive Existence, yes?
What of it?
Well, the point of the idea of those is to make them have an identity, personality, even memories all preset even before they're made! But you've never said much about your own identity. You got angry when that one goddess called you a "hag" though... were you meant to be a super-macho man then or-
[There's a very loud creaking as the VeHA turns to face Lynn... and even without facial features the woman's struck silent by the animosity radiating from it.]
I'm not going to talk about this. Not with you or anyone else.
R-R... I-
[Yeah, Lynn's realizing she's struck a nerve here.]
Regardless of my intended being, that is not who I am now, so what does it matter? I am what I choose to be, nothing more or less, and I have no lost love for Hans Wagner and his insane obsession with working to create me, ignoring the very work Britannia had hired him to do in the first place.
[The AI then realizes it's probably said too much. And now it's going to say very little.]
I'm going.
[And at that, the VeHA's eye dims and the machine slumps down again, R going off into the ship's systems to have some solitude. And as for Lynn, she's just left standing there, realizing just how little she really knows about R's identity...]
... I'm sorry...
(You can tag either Lynn or R in the aftermath of this conversation, just specify which when you post)
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But instead, and cringing at his own decision, he settles in to sit down beside her.]
I'm... sorry about before. That was... pretty dumb of me.
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You were probably just drunk or something.
[Or at least that's what she's going to believe.]
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... Just please don't say anything like that again, Richard. When I lost James, I gave up on loving anyone the same way as I had loved him. Some people can find love again when they lose it... but he was the one.
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[Richard cringes himself at what he's about to say... but dammit he fights gods and monsters, he can't get scared of something like this!]
You know you... kinda said something similar regarding your very life, once. That you spent over a decade thinking you wouldn't be able to move on from what happened... in the test and all...
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When I thought I wanted to die, I kept finding reasons why I didn't just jump off a cliff or shoot myself or... or anything else for that matter.
I haven't had situations like that when it comes to romance. At least not yet.
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...N-Not me though, that would be a terrible choice for you to make...
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I was about to say...
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... At any rate, you'll find someone else.
In the meantime... don't worry too much about my lovelife. All thing considered my life's getting back on track after a very long time... if things happen, well then they happen.
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[Richard smiles, about to eat, before realising something else.]
...Did something have you down before I turned up though? Today I mean.
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I asked R about what its intended identity was meant to be. It got rather angry when I asked that.
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