Ninth Resurrection

[link_to_revival]

[And after coming back from the mission, at the first available opportunity R's going to make a public video... or well, textdump.  The skeletons in the AI's digital closer were dragged out into the open now... and, well...]

Some of you were out there in the city when you heard it being said.  For everyone else, I'll tell you now.

I was not merely made to prove the possibility of using Universal Alloy to create artificial intelligence on the same level as a human's.  No, for my creator, Hans Wagner, that was merely an afterthought.  All of the other applications of Universal Alloy were an afterthought.  He had intended it for just one purpose: to recover what he'd lost.

The name I chose for myself is R, the identity I live is one I made for myself.  But I was made for something else entirely: to be the recreation of his deceased wife Greta.  Hans couldn't let go; he refused to let death keep him separate from her.  And so he made me, my mind, my thoughts, my memories, my taste in music and art... everything that was Greta was put in me.  Universal Alloy served as the foundation for my mind, and also a body to house it.

The one thing Takeda couldn't change though... was the fact I was just an imitation.  And Greta -my former self- eventually put the pieces together.  It was then that I stopped being her, and rather my own person.  I rejected Wagner and everything about him, I didn't want to act in ways simply because I was programmed to, I wanted to become my own self.

That's why I blew up in Lynn's face before when she asked me about my original purpose... and also when I was called an 'old hag'.  Because I refuse to be Greta.  I reject that identity and all the baggage and characteristics it forces on me.

I am exclusively who I want to be: the AI named R.  And I'm here because of my own reasons, from helping friends to taking vengeance on those who took them from me.

Comments

[armored_runaway]

Well... Ah think the latter part might git hard. Yanno... someone might start usin the female pronoun witcha. But as far as I'm concerned, yer who you are now. Ya didn't do nothin evil or crazy before so Ah don't think we got anythin ta worry 'bout..

[link_to_revival]

Yes, in a way it's ironic.

Unike Typhon I don't go on murderous rampages or desire killing people, yet when we look at the intended purpose of a Retroactive Existence, I would be considered a "failure".

But so be it. All the more reason to not be like him.

[armored_runaway]

Ehhh, yer a rowbit that thinks fer itself. I don't think that's a failure at all... Who taught you what a failure was? It's not like ya just see rowbits every day walkin and talkin on their own.

[[A pause.]]

At least b'fore Ah got on 'ere.

[link_to_revival]

Of course I don't consider myself a failure. It's just from a purely technical outlook, I've failed in the thing Retroactive Existences are meant to fulfill: have a whole identity "filled in already". A person can be, say, a failure at being a housewife and at the same time be extremely good as a detective. It's a similar case here, I suppose.

[armored_runaway]

So... who cares if ya failed in somethin ya didn't wanna do. Yer succeedin in the stuff ya did want, right? Thas what's most important!

But it's good ya came clean missy. Do ya need a hug?