... Not quite. I was very specifically built to be disposable, so they could trigger a self-destruct command and erase any evidence of wrongdoing after. I was only meant to last as long as it took to do what I was intended to.
If things had gone to plan, I would have died there in that factory with every other doll and human that day, and whoever was responsible would have been able to sweep it neatly under the rug.
[ ... ]
9 wasn't involved. She came after. A good while after.
The only one who can remember it, anyway. There was one other, since she was the cleanup they'd put in place for anyone who managed to make it outside ... but she doesn't seem to recall it. I suspect she was reformatted.
[ said matter of factly, like wiping dolls' memories and starting fresh from factory settings is just a normal fact of life.
9 wasn't made as a Tactical Doll. She was a civilian doll who went and paid an underground technician for a refit after running into me a couple of times.
[ so, she wouldn't be on that assembly line. not as 'ump9', anyway. ]
I don't want to know how much that cost, let alone the effort she put into specifically trying to match me, but it wasn't her money in the end.
... Admiration is certainly a word for the kind of pedestal she's put me on.
[ hm. ]
Long story short, I freed her and 17 other dolls who'd had a trojan installed and were tasked with carrying out a crime ring's dirty work under threat of a self-destruct order. In doing so, I apparently picked up a stray.
[ there is at least one parallel here that might be the obvious reason why she took action. ]
Bother? I wouldn't say that. I'd say she probably could do with a few more reminders of the fact that she did, in fact, promise me that she'll never be like me though.
[ it's chiding, exasperated.
... it's an older sister talking about a younger one, who knows there are things she can't control, but still thinks the younger is being stupid anyway. ]
Anyway, discarded probably isn't the right word for her either, considering the gang wasn't very happy to lose the Dolls they had in their employ.
She thinks it for the wrong reasons. She looks up to me because she thinks I'm strong, but I wouldn't wish the kind of 'strong' I am on anyone. On the contrary, in fact.
Besides, proper employ or not, the fact remains that they would rather not have lost them. Not exactly the kind of situation I'd apply the word discarded to.
I'm not sure what part of 'self-destruct order' wasn't clear, but more or less yes. [ ... ] It wouldn't have been too difficult for them to enforce compliance anyway. Dolls were made to follow orders.
Does it, when our programming and baseline operating principles are what bind us, and the vast majority of us can hardly grow beyond them?
[ but in regards to the second statement, the corner of her mouth twitches even as the rest of her remains blankly smiling. ]
... It wasn't real. The 9 there was as much 9 as all those 45 models were actually me. Besides, even with all the details it got wrong to keep from being too predictable, that part's about right, anyway.
[ a pile of discarded parts, pleading for mercy, going ignored. making your mirror image, who holds you in such high regard, into a tool for your own goals. it comes out matter of factly, mildly, like it hardly matters at all. ]
I'd throw anyone away to save my own self. It's not the first time I've made that choice.
[ maybe half a week later, this particular subject will come back with a vengeance. for now, it's her own wording and responses earlier that give her away. ]
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Date: 2020-07-03 03:40 pm (UTC)If things had gone to plan, I would have died there in that factory with every other doll and human that day, and whoever was responsible would have been able to sweep it neatly under the rug.
[ ... ]
9 wasn't involved. She came after. A good while after.
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Date: 2020-07-06 04:39 am (UTC)[ for a second, a moonlit bridge comes to mind... ]
I'm so sorry. That must have been so lonely.
[ ... ]
Can you tell me about her?
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Date: 2020-07-06 05:03 am (UTC)[ said matter of factly, like wiping dolls' memories and starting fresh from factory settings is just a normal fact of life.
... but eventually she sighs. ]
What do you want to know about 9?
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Date: 2020-07-06 05:55 am (UTC)Whatever you want to tell me about her is fine. It just seemed like she mattered a lot to you?
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Date: 2020-07-06 06:20 am (UTC)[ so, she wouldn't be on that assembly line. not as 'ump9', anyway. ]
I don't want to know how much that cost, let alone the effort she put into specifically trying to match me, but it wasn't her money in the end.
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Date: 2020-07-06 06:27 am (UTC)[ she's. praying that's what it was ]
Were you two friends?
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Date: 2020-07-06 07:07 am (UTC)[ hm. ]
Long story short, I freed her and 17 other dolls who'd had a trojan installed and were tasked with carrying out a crime ring's dirty work under threat of a self-destruct order. In doing so, I apparently picked up a stray.
[ there is at least one parallel here that might be the obvious reason why she took action. ]
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Date: 2020-07-08 09:02 am (UTC)[ 45, the freedom fighter ]
... Does it bother you? That she looks up to you so much?
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Date: 2020-07-09 07:25 am (UTC)[ it's chiding, exasperated.
... it's an older sister talking about a younger one, who knows there are things she can't control, but still thinks the younger is being stupid anyway. ]
Anyway, discarded probably isn't the right word for her either, considering the gang wasn't very happy to lose the Dolls they had in their employ.
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Date: 2020-07-12 03:26 am (UTC)[ she almost says 'aren't you her big sister' but. she can't discern that sort of relationship, even if she can tell that the ties are there. ]
I'm not sure that kind of situation can be called employing them, though.
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Date: 2020-07-12 06:08 am (UTC)She thinks it for the wrong reasons. She looks up to me because she thinks I'm strong, but I wouldn't wish the kind of 'strong' I am on anyone. On the contrary, in fact.
Besides, proper employ or not, the fact remains that they would rather not have lost them. Not exactly the kind of situation I'd apply the word discarded to.
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Date: 2020-07-14 07:52 am (UTC)[ and now she can say it, because that last exchange practically spelled it out. ]
You're a good big sister. I'm glad you were able to rescue her.
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Date: 2020-07-14 08:15 am (UTC)[ she is
not touching that 'good big sister' thing. ]
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Date: 2020-07-18 08:18 am (UTC)[ though some people do run into it, wholeheartedly... but that's more of a personality trait. probably. ]
... It must have been painful to destroy that duplicate of her the room made. Right?
[ she thinks it must have been, but... maybe 45 doesn't even acknowledge it. ]
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Date: 2020-07-19 06:33 pm (UTC)[ but in regards to the second statement, the corner of her mouth twitches even as the rest of her remains blankly smiling. ]
... It wasn't real. The 9 there was as much 9 as all those 45 models were actually me. Besides, even with all the details it got wrong to keep from being too predictable, that part's about right, anyway.
[ a pile of discarded parts, pleading for mercy, going ignored. making your mirror image, who holds you in such high regard, into a tool for your own goals. it comes out matter of factly, mildly, like it hardly matters at all. ]
I'd throw anyone away to save my own self. It's not the first time I've made that choice.
[ maybe half a week later, this particular subject will come back with a vengeance. for now, it's her own wording and responses earlier that give her away. ]