re_alignment | VIDEO

[ Guess who's back to shooting things in the junk pile?

This guy.

Hopefully he's being more careful, seeing as he's narrating this entry while staring down the scope of... Something. It looks like a fusion of his usual sniper rifle and a certain someone's plasma weaponry. ]

I'm rather fascinated with the abilities of those pages to create a working item from admittedly sparse notes. This particular weapon functions far better than I could have hoped, considering I did little more than jot down a few rough concept sketches. The accuracy is a little off at the moment, but with a few adjustments I feel it could be quite formidable in combat scenarios.

[ He pauses to line up a shot, humming thoughtfully as a bright blue blast obliterates something (that looks uncannily like a toaster) in the distance. ]

Hm, perhaps if I modified the scope...

Ah, Vandal, could you spare a moment or two? Seeing as the conceptual basis of this gun originates in your technology, I would appreciate your input on modifying it further.

To everyone else... Has anyone had any items or effects linger from the, mm, outbreak of oddities we experienced recently?

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Mm, I shouldn't be hard to spot.

[ Perceptor will just be lining up a shot while he waits for Kageoru. ]

[No, he's not hard to spot at all.]

[The 'bot finds him pretty easily, and lands far enough away that he hopes he won't distract Perceptor from shooting.]

[ Once he has Kagerou in his peripherals and knows where the robot is he feels safe taking the shot, neatly bisecting a piece of debris.

He lowers the rifle and turns to Kagerou, smiling. ]

Greetings, Kagerou.

[He smirks, faintly, in response. Partly because Perceptor's doing it, and partly because that was neat.]

[He steps forward, then.]

Can you always do that?

Shoot like that? Mm, it depends on the weapon I am using at the time. Inaccurate firearms require greater effort in compensating for their faults, but the majority of the time, yes, I am very accurate.

[ He tilts his head at Kagerou. ]

Do you have any experience with firearms, Kagerou?

It's very impressive... I've never seen anyone shoot like that before. You can do that with any gun?

[He looks embarrassed, then, and shrugs a shoulder.]

Only... when they were being fired at me.

Nearly any firearm.

[ He gives Kagerou an odd look. ]

Were you shot at often?

Are there a lot of them? Where you come from?

[Because that would just make Perceptor even more impressive, in his head. Good god, Percy you've got yourself a fan.]

A little. When I escaped... shooting was how they thought to deal with me.

[... At least until he took a kid hostage.]

There are. My species was particularly adept at creating weapons, and I was familiar with many of them.

[ He frowns slightly. ]

Where did you escape from, if I may ask?

The more I hear about your kind... The more I'm impressed. And the same is true of you.

[He shifts a bit. It sort of sounds embarrassing to say, in comparison to what he's learned.]

The facility I was built in. That I lived in... all my life.

I would not be particularly impressed with our history of warfare and what came of it. We have not... been the most peaceful of species.

[ Oh baby why is your history so sad. ]

Were you kept there against your will?

I... Yes. Others said you were fighting each other. But you're so much... so much more advanced than I am. Than anyone... You're alive. Not just data. That's what impresses me.

[Because reasons.]

Not at first. It was all I knew... and I had a good reason to stay. But in the end, staying would have meant being erased...

[even though that happened anyway haha...]

You seem quite alive to me, Kagerou, regardless of your origins.

[ O-oh. ]

Why would they erase you? That sounds... barbaric.

You're also a robot... it makes sense you would see it differently.

[He smiles faintly, but it fades.]

Because I finished my work. The only reason they brought me online... it was finished. There was no reason for me to continue.

To them... I'm nothing more than data. And what else is there to do with obsolete data?

You are hardly obsolete, Kagerou. What they attempted to do was completely inappropriate and unethical.

To them... I was. I'm not human. I don't matter to them...

I'm... glad you think differently. Thank you.

For what it is worth, I am glad they were unsuccessful in erasing you. I greatly value your presence.

I... yes.

I feel the same. About you.

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