Maybe they're vacationing in one of the nicer worlds we have to offer...
[ whoops, that darn accidental eye contact. while she deals with a final boss, he gets a memory too.
the first few moments are hazy, audio filtering in from the outside as a boot sequence runs in the back of your mind. there's a data uplink running beside it, but even as you push your systems to full capacity as quickly as you can, forcing your consciousness back up to layer i, you speak up only after your sister does. (1:51 onwards)
well, ]
... a 'God born from the people's wishes,' was it?
[ that's a lot, but. well. start with one thing. ]
[it's strange, experiencing a memory of something not human from a first person point of view. Akira blinks owlishly as he tries to process all of the technical stuff that happened first, because his human brain is totally not used to. . . well]
... Sangvis Ferri has very interesting names for their Ringleader models. There's Executioner, Ouroboros, Hunter, Agent...
[ they're all chuunis, is what she's saying. ]
That operation technically wasn't ever supposed to go hot. We just got unlucky that a lot of factors we couldn't control for ended up complicating things by quite a bit.
[ spec ops always get sent on the messiest things. ]
I'm here and talking to you, aren't I? But yes, things were fine in that specific case. Destroyer ... isn't necessarily the brightest doll around, even if she'd gone and gotten herself a bunch of physical upgrades...
[ but what's the use of all that armor and firepower when you don't know how to use it. should've focused more on the ai, whoops. ]
I'm just concerned how I'm supposed to compensate them. I promised them a vacation after that, but we just got pulled into more trouble immediately after...
... Like I said. I do try to get them home. They can complain at me all they want about how cruel and sly I am and what I put them through in the meantime.
[ g11: five more minutes... 45: no, get up now. unless you want to nap forever in this field? ]
[ she strikes a bit of a pose, expression briefly going catlike. the design notes from their artist literally mention 9's kittyface specifically as one of the ways of telling them apart, so. ]
We're sisters in as much as dolls can have sisters, I suppose. Though we're still pretty unconventional as it is... You might say she's adopted?
[plus he remembers 45 mentioning sisters before, soooo]
"Adopted" is still family. [and for some reason he sounds firm about this, enough so she might get the feeling that he isn't just talking about her and 9] Can you tell me a little bit about her?
... Hm. We met when she tried to lure me into an alley, tase me, and scrap me to sell me for parts.
She learned a valuable lesson that night about not casually touching electronic warfare dolls. And actually making sure whatever it was she was trying to disable actually being down for the count.
Hmm, electronic warfare dolls are rarer than you'd expect. There's not much in the way of widespread networks left, so it's considered quite a niche specification for a tactical doll ... I was considered quite useless for how it ate up nearly all of my available memory and left no room for anything other than the most basic combat protocols.
[ sometimes, you're 9s, except your designers wanted you to be 2b at the same time. ]
But I'm sure it's not something she'll forget any time soon. In any case, she mostly did that because she was working for a bunch of thugs to scrape out her living in that shitty Yellow Zone city. They'd had her and 17 other dolls infected with a trojan that would make them susceptible to a kill command sent out via the gang's central server if any of them were ever caught disobeying or not making quota.
Someone to talk shop with, is that what you're saying?
[ she hums a little, a lilting note. ]
I'm not certain exactly how much overlap there'll be, considering I'm sure that systems architecture and infrastructure has to have changed over forty years, but if you think so, I suppose it can't hurt.
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Date: 2020-06-30 02:50 am (UTC)Spent a lot of time there, did you? Anyway, it's also up on the third floor, so it turns out we're still heading in the same direction anyway.
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Date: 2020-06-30 03:29 am (UTC)[soooooo yeah]
[up the stairwell they go!!]
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Date: 2020-06-30 03:41 am (UTC)[ or something. at least unlike the music room it never got messed up too much (rip plum)
anyway up they go! ... and up again. thank goodness this is only two floors, unlike (redacted). ]
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Date: 2020-06-30 01:37 pm (UTC)I hope she and her sisters and Blue are somewhere nice playing An*mal Cr*ssing now. . .
[he flashes 45 an amused look as he says that, accidentally catching her gaze with his]
[and that's when she gets a memory (27:10 onwards)]
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Date: 2020-06-30 03:19 pm (UTC)[ whoops, that darn accidental eye contact. while she deals with a final boss, he gets a memory too.
the first few moments are hazy, audio filtering in from the outside as a boot sequence runs in the back of your mind. there's a data uplink running beside it, but even as you push your systems to full capacity as quickly as you can, forcing your consciousness back up to layer i, you speak up only after your sister does. (1:51 onwards)
well, ]
... a 'God born from the people's wishes,' was it?
[ that's a lot, but. well. start with one thing. ]
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Date: 2020-06-30 03:35 pm (UTC)[that]
. . . huh? [oh] Wait-- nevermind that.
Destroyer?
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Date: 2020-06-30 03:44 pm (UTC)[ they're all chuunis, is what she's saying. ]
That operation technically wasn't ever supposed to go hot. We just got unlucky that a lot of factors we couldn't control for ended up complicating things by quite a bit.
[ spec ops always get sent on the messiest things. ]
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Date: 2020-06-30 03:47 pm (UTC). . . you never know when something might go wrong.
[as a leader himself? he gets it]
It turned out okay in the end, right?
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Date: 2020-06-30 03:55 pm (UTC)[ but what's the use of all that armor and firepower when you don't know how to use it. should've focused more on the ai, whoops. ]
I'm just concerned how I'm supposed to compensate them. I promised them a vacation after that, but we just got pulled into more trouble immediately after...
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Date: 2020-06-30 03:56 pm (UTC)That's usually how it goes, isn't it? I'm sorry.
But I'm glad you and your unit were okay.
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Date: 2020-06-30 04:06 pm (UTC)[ g11: five more minutes...
45: no, get up now. unless you want to nap forever in this field? ]
But, right. There's really no end to trouble...
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Date: 2020-06-30 07:20 pm (UTC)[a pause]
That girl who said she wished she was as strong as you. . . was that your sister?
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Date: 2020-06-30 07:41 pm (UTC)[ she strikes a bit of a pose, expression briefly going catlike. the design notes from their artist literally mention 9's kittyface specifically as one of the ways of telling them apart, so. ]
We're sisters in as much as dolls can have sisters, I suppose. Though we're still pretty unconventional as it is... You might say she's adopted?
[ an adopted twin, fancy that. ]
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Date: 2020-07-03 05:58 pm (UTC)[plus he remembers 45 mentioning sisters before, soooo]
"Adopted" is still family. [and for some reason he sounds firm about this, enough so she might get the feeling that he isn't just talking about her and 9] Can you tell me a little bit about her?
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Date: 2020-07-03 07:24 pm (UTC)She learned a valuable lesson that night about not casually touching electronic warfare dolls. And actually making sure whatever it was she was trying to disable actually being down for the count.
[ ah, hm. ]
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Date: 2020-07-04 03:39 pm (UTC)Ah. . . I bet she appreciated that lesson, even if she couldn't do so until much later.
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Date: 2020-07-05 01:23 am (UTC)[ sometimes, you're 9s, except your designers wanted you to be 2b at the same time. ]
But I'm sure it's not something she'll forget any time soon. In any case, she mostly did that because she was working for a bunch of thugs to scrape out her living in that shitty Yellow Zone city. They'd had her and 17 other dolls infected with a trojan that would make them susceptible to a kill command sent out via the gang's central server if any of them were ever caught disobeying or not making quota.
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Date: 2020-07-05 03:11 pm (UTC)Did you manage to clear out the virus?
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Date: 2020-07-05 03:16 pm (UTC)It was a simple civilian server. I doubt anyone in that gang had ever learned how to build a proper firewall in their lives.
[ even if they did, she'd be able to get around it. ]
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Date: 2020-07-05 10:42 pm (UTC)It sounds so impressive when you say it like that, 45.
[now he's vaguely wondering how 45 and Futaba would get along if they met]
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Date: 2020-07-07 03:23 pm (UTC)It really isn't. Like I've said, I'm built for this kind of thing.
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Date: 2020-07-07 05:43 pm (UTC)I get the feeling you'd get along well with my-- sister.
[yes. his sister]
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Date: 2020-07-08 02:07 am (UTC)[ interesting pause there, akira, but go on ]
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Date: 2020-07-08 11:43 pm (UTC)[he only paused because she isn't his blood sister!!]
She's a pretty skilled hacker in her own right. I bet she'd love to share notes with you.
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Date: 2020-07-09 03:25 am (UTC)[ she hums a little, a lilting note. ]
I'm not certain exactly how much overlap there'll be, considering I'm sure that systems architecture and infrastructure has to have changed over forty years, but if you think so, I suppose it can't hurt.
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