Well. You did it! Your pendants are yours to keep and you're able to reach out to anyone with a matching necklace. Maybe it's time to say hi? Or, you know...sometimes misfires happen.
[ ... mildly: ] Not even if I say that I haven't, and won't make any judgments about any of it?
—Besides. It's a little hard not to listen when it isn't as if these necklaces have a filter or off button anywhere on them. Or would you rather have me leave it lying around somewhere instead?
... No, don't just leave it around, just. I don't know, sometimes I fucking miss him when I get drunk and it's embarrassing. How am I supposed to know what you judge or not?
You're hardly the only person who misses him. But... Let me tell you something I've told others:
I am a Doll. My emotions are simulated, a module installed so that humans would be more comfortable interacting with Dolls like me. My thinking is simply a set of algorithms that, in their simplest form, really just boil down to 'if this happens, then do that.'
When you think of me as less of a person and more of just a decent mimic of one, that should make it easier, correct?
[ like talking to a mirror. that's not embarrassing, right? ]
[ no one from the house is going to let her get away with that, huh. ]
Well then, I guess the only thing left for you to do is to get over your embarrassment. That, or never call again- but you won't do that now, will you?
You are so fucking weird. [ but at least this time it sounds more - amused, than bothered? ] And a great motivational speaker, too. Just don't be embarrassed! Great advice.
[ a long pause, then a breathless sort of laugh. which, hm, she doesn't really need to breathe? ]
No one's dying, and we're not being put into impossible situations against ridiculous odds and numbers and being asked to produce miracles for once.
I would say that puts the current situation somewhere solidly 'above average.' ... Oh, and we're currently in a safehouse in the green zone, so on the off chance anyone just happened to show up out of the blue, they don't have to worry about any chances of ELID infection.
Eugh. Gross. [ a beat. ] Yeah, definitely... don't stay in a place where Hunter could catch that, maybe? [ y'know, since zombie trauma. ] Can you get infected by that?
War took out a lot of the global population. They weren't going to risk what was left by sending them out to the more heavily contaminated zones. In any case- I can't guarantee that we won't ever find ourselves in any red zones, just in case anything unexpected happens- but the interesting thing about being the leader of your own independent squadron? Is that you get to pick and choose which jobs you go on.
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Maybe? Or Anya. I guess it doesn't matter. Makes sense that it's you.
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otherwise isn't it nice that someone was listening who can relate them later on. ]
Why, Fräulein Beau, I'm flattered by your opinion of me. I hope this isn't a disappointment of any sort.
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No, disappointment isn't the word I'd use. I knew he wasn't going to pick up.
If I drunk call again, don't listen, though.
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—Besides. It's a little hard not to listen when it isn't as if these necklaces have a filter or off button anywhere on them. Or would you rather have me leave it lying around somewhere instead?
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... No, don't just leave it around, just. I don't know, sometimes I fucking miss him when I get drunk and it's embarrassing. How am I supposed to know what you judge or not?
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I am a Doll. My emotions are simulated, a module installed so that humans would be more comfortable interacting with Dolls like me. My thinking is simply a set of algorithms that, in their simplest form, really just boil down to 'if this happens, then do that.'
When you think of me as less of a person and more of just a decent mimic of one, that should make it easier, correct?
[ like talking to a mirror. that's not embarrassing, right? ]
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... Uh, no? Fuck that? [ she sounds offended. ] Simulated or not I'm not just not think of you as a person. That's not how I work, dude.
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[ no one from the house is going to let her get away with that, huh. ]
Well then, I guess the only thing left for you to do is to get over your embarrassment. That, or never call again- but you won't do that now, will you?
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You are so fucking weird. [ but at least this time it sounds more - amused, than bothered? ] And a great motivational speaker, too. Just don't be embarrassed! Great advice.
... Have you heard from him at all?
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[ pause. ]
... no, I haven't. How could I?
[ she's the one holding on to his necklace, after all. ]
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I don't know how, I just wondered if he'd somehow gotten a message to you. I'm sure he's fine.
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[ she hums a bit, though it's a neutral sound. ]
Well. All things considered, I actually have more than some. He has to stop by to pick this up, after all.
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[ a pause, and then: ]
What about you? Are you doing okay?
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No one's dying, and we're not being put into impossible situations against ridiculous odds and numbers and being asked to produce miracles for once.
I would say that puts the current situation somewhere solidly 'above average.' ... Oh, and we're currently in a safehouse in the green zone, so on the off chance anyone just happened to show up out of the blue, they don't have to worry about any chances of ELID infection.
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The fuck is ELID?
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Eugh. Gross. [ a beat. ] Yeah, definitely... don't stay in a place where Hunter could catch that, maybe? [ y'know, since zombie trauma. ] Can you get infected by that?
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[ robots can't catch radiation zombie, Beau, they're good. ]
War took out a lot of the global population. They weren't going to risk what was left by sending them out to the more heavily contaminated zones. In any case- I can't guarantee that we won't ever find ourselves in any red zones, just in case anything unexpected happens- but the interesting thing about being the leader of your own independent squadron? Is that you get to pick and choose which jobs you go on.
[ so yeah, no zombie trauma for Hunter. ]