[ hello minako, are you hunting down your roomba today. because it seems not long after everything happens, she hasn't quite gotten cleaned off and changed out of their, uh, very messy everything just yet. the shuttershades and used up glow sticks are even still clinging to her scarf.
where are they, i don't know. wherever minako can hobble to. ]
By the rules we're supposedly playing with, I assume they're out of the competition.
That said, I don't necessarily think it's that simple. The castle had a setup that was apparently similar, but- the easy answer, eliminating one faction... It wouldn't have ended the way we want things to here.
That's the ending we want, but I'm pretty sure none of us have any idea how to achieve that yet.
[ you
didn't miss any plot stuff, it's fine ]
I meant, more... From what I heard of the castle, which was the one game I know to utilize a three faction setup like this one... Eliminating any faction in its entirety would have been wrong. Apparently, for their best ending that allowed everyone to go back and bring back their dead, they needed members from all three factions alive.
Of course not, but I don't expect that everyone will be able to maintain that faith. There is almost certainly more to things than any of us know, but whether or not we can hold it together long enough to find those things out...
[ it's more clinical than pessimistic, very levelly neutral in attempt at analysis. ]
Killing the ones with my face wasn't that hard. We just happen to share the same model specifications, though it seems they were even more defective than I am. And 9 has a terrible habit of trusting me unconditionally, so considering that trait made it through to these copies, it wasn't all that much effort to deal with her in the end.
[ ... ]
It's funny, though- she wasn't conventionally made. She shouldn't have been there at all.
The techs who worked on me complained endlessly about my limited storage space and memory. I'm not technically supposed to be a combat model- I came from a multi-purpose line that was then loaded up with electronic warfare, network protocols, and signal analoging software that left me with too little space left to install any actual combat programming.
[ she's 9s, except instead of owning the fact that they wanted a hackerbot, they then complained she wasn't as good at Fight as the actual fightbots. ]
It's an unorthodox configuration considering that we don't exactly have much left in the way of widespread networks, and when I was ostensibly created for the sake of combat the fact that my performance lagged behind dolls properly specced into it made me useless.
[ she
seemed to do all right for herself in the break in? ]
You're not useless! If you hadn't been there, Tonbokiri-san and I would've been totally screwed!
[ she'd almost suggest maybe switching out parts to make her more combat oriented but
that somehow seems insensitive. ]
Besides, everyone's good at different things. Just because you're good at different things than what those stupid technicians thought you should be isn't a bad thing!
Compared to other dolls, I am. No one wanted a T-Doll who had to learn how to perform her basic functions like a human, who barely has enough memory to even just run her normal processing.
[ mildly: ]
Ah, but it's not like build quality would have been on their minds, considering I was made to be disposable.
[ so the fact that she survived when so many others didn't is a bit of cosmic irony. a terrible joke, is what it is. ]
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Date: 2020-06-27 03:30 pm (UTC)where are they, i don't know. wherever minako can hobble to. ]
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Date: 2020-06-27 05:52 pm (UTC)w herever....? maybe she just runs into 45 on the path ]
Ah, 45-san! Wait up!
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Date: 2020-06-28 02:20 am (UTC)anyway, she glances back. doesn't say anything, but does slow her pace enough for minako to catch up. ]
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Date: 2020-06-28 02:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-06-28 02:28 am (UTC)That said, I don't necessarily think it's that simple. The castle had a setup that was apparently similar, but- the easy answer, eliminating one faction... It wouldn't have ended the way we want things to here.
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Date: 2020-06-28 02:40 am (UTC)this is what i get for being busy for a week ]
We have a planned ending? Besides "everybody lives and goes home with no bad side effects"?
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Date: 2020-06-28 02:44 am (UTC)[ you
didn't miss any plot stuff, it's fine ]
I meant, more... From what I heard of the castle, which was the one game I know to utilize a three faction setup like this one... Eliminating any faction in its entirety would have been wrong. Apparently, for their best ending that allowed everyone to go back and bring back their dead, they needed members from all three factions alive.
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Date: 2020-06-28 02:49 am (UTC)anyways ]
... So, were those your sisters...?
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Date: 2020-06-28 06:45 am (UTC)[ hm ]
If that's true, then combined with the supposed "only three" finale reward... This could get really vicious.
[ unless we're all to tired/traumatized to do so ]
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Date: 2020-06-28 02:27 pm (UTC)[ whether they exist is another thing entirely. ]
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Date: 2020-06-28 02:29 pm (UTC)[ ha ha so about that reject pile calling for help. or the knife to the final 9... ]
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Date: 2020-06-29 03:03 am (UTC)... Is it easier to think of it that way? It must have been hard when it happened.
[ apparently it's still hard ]
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Date: 2020-06-29 03:17 am (UTC)We can't give up though. Not when there's still so much we don't know. Unless we've turned over every stone, there still could be more we could do.
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Date: 2020-06-30 03:03 pm (UTC)[ it's more clinical than pessimistic, very levelly neutral in attempt at analysis. ]
That's the part I'm unsure about.
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Date: 2020-06-30 03:09 pm (UTC)[ ... ]
It's funny, though- she wasn't conventionally made. She shouldn't have been there at all.
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Date: 2020-07-01 08:41 am (UTC)[ she pauses, thinking that over ]
And why do you think you're defective?
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Date: 2020-07-01 10:32 am (UTC)[ endurance in the face of a devastating fate... what else can people do but cling to what they have? ]
If we start just abandoning each other, there really won't be any chances left.
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Date: 2020-07-01 03:19 pm (UTC)[ she's 9s, except instead of owning the fact that they wanted a hackerbot, they then complained she wasn't as good at Fight as the actual fightbots. ]
It's an unorthodox configuration considering that we don't exactly have much left in the way of widespread networks, and when I was ostensibly created for the sake of combat the fact that my performance lagged behind dolls properly specced into it made me useless.
[ she
seemed to do all right for herself in the break in? ]
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Date: 2020-07-02 07:57 am (UTC)But if you and others can keep their spirits up, it might be what we need to get through this.
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Date: 2020-07-02 08:26 am (UTC)You're not useless! If you hadn't been there, Tonbokiri-san and I would've been totally screwed!
[ she'd almost suggest maybe switching out parts to make her more combat oriented but
that somehow seems insensitive. ]
Besides, everyone's good at different things. Just because you're good at different things than what those stupid technicians thought you should be isn't a bad thing!
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Date: 2020-07-02 03:07 pm (UTC)[ mildly: ]
Ah, but it's not like build quality would have been on their minds, considering I was made to be disposable.
[ so the fact that she survived when so many others didn't is a bit of cosmic irony. a terrible joke, is what it is. ]
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Date: 2020-07-03 06:55 am (UTC)[ she blushes, embarrassed. pegged that easily, huh? ]
I'll do my best! So I hope you can count on me, 45-san.
w3, wednesday
Date: 2020-07-03 09:57 am (UTC)Oh, 45-san! How'd it go today?
w3, thursday, curfew
Date: 2020-07-03 10:10 am (UTC)Minako turns away from the cabin door, smiling tentatively at 45 ]
... It's locked.
[ they're stuck out here ]
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Date: 2020-07-03 10:31 am (UTC)[ ... ]
Is that... related to what happened back there? All those dolls, and 9?
[ oh god was that 45's manifested inferiority complex ]