[Video | Location: Alpha Trion’s Temple]

[blue_reflection]

[Across the Link, a new video begins to play. The camera focuses in on what appears to be a rather young woman with two very long, thick braids of blue hair dressed in an outfit that resembles that of a maid. With her hands folded neatly together in front of her apron, arms locked straight at the elbows, she faces directly towards the camera with straight posture and a light smile.]

Excuse me. Please forgive this interruption.

My name is Yuzuki. I have only just arrived, though I still do not fully understand how I came to be in this place.

I am currently seeking further information concerning this location I have been told is called Cybertron, and searching for my owner, Mister Kokubunji Minoru. Having been separated from him, I wish to know whether or not he has come here through the Lambda as well. My master is twelve years old with black hair cut to eye level and has dark brown eyes with light skin. He typically wears a mandarin style jacket and sometimes wears a pair of glasses.

If you have recently seen him, please immediately contact me with further information.

Sir, if you can hear this message, please know that I am searching for you.

Thank you everyone.

[With a forward bow from the hips and her hands sliding downwards against her skirt in the motion, Yuzuki comes up straight after a few seconds to then cut off the wide broadcast transmission.]

Comments

[sariexmachina]

...You're a robot?!

But you- you look like a person!

[And so does she.]

[blue_reflection]

Essentially, yes, I am. Persocom designs were modeled from humans and are meant to mimic them closely.

[A slight pause, then she speaks with a tone of concern.] But...you seem alarmed by this.

[sariexmachina]

I- That's... weird?

[Alarmed? Of course she's alarmed! Another robot that looks like people, and it is some sort of slave-bot? She's too freaked to handle this - but she isn't going to admit that. Or anything else.]

Er, weeeeell. [She laughs nervously. MISDIRECTING TACTICS, GO.] Most robots around here are. You know. Robot-y looking.

[blue_reflection]

[She really doesn't like that she has alarmed the girl, and right now Yuzuki can quite easily interpret the sort of effect she has on her.]

Where I come from, the majority of people own at least one persocom unit. [It's not weird if it is widespread practice, right?]

Our humanlike appearance tends to make interaction more pleasant for our users. But...since that is not the case with you, you do not need to continue this communication or interact with me in the future. Please, I do not wish to upset you further.

[sariexmachina]

Er. I didn't say that?

[Awkward. And she doesn't even seem fake, like Tutor-bot. It's too weird. Kind eerie, if she is really just a pretty computer. But being mean to her isn't the same as doing it to boring ol' Tutor-bot.

Tutor-bot couldn't look sad like that.]

A lot of people have robots back home like that. They just...don't look like people? That's all.

Do you have, like. A spark or whatever?

[blue_reflection]

If you are certain, Miss.

[Bowing her head and shoulders forward, she returns to an upright posture. She is still concerned about making the girl uncomfortable, but the alarm she caused seems to be diminished.]

I operate using electricity, but I do not have anything referred to as a 'spark' that I am aware of.

[sariexmachina]

Uh yeah! Sure!

[She flaps a hand around, trying to wave off the bowing. Even normal robots back home didn't do that!]

We have plenty of electricity around here, at least. But uh... Sparks are like. What Cybertronian robots have to keep 'em going.

Kinda like a soul, I guess?

[blue_reflection]

[It's quite common to bow in her culture, both for persocoms and humans alike, so the hand wave is a little perplexing.]

I don't believe I have any component similar to a spark, Miss.

[Too bad Mister Kokubunji did not have any belief in the 'ghost in the machine' either.]

Existential crisis oh noooo

[sariexmachina]

...Oh.

[Well, there went one explanation. ...But then again, did she even have a spark? Ratchet had said she was like a Cybertronian...

Sari was still too young to really delve into the questions regarding the nature of a soul, but that same concern, however vague, was already rearing up in her subconscious.

But. Her dad did make robots. She is at least somewhat familiar with The Rules, and what makes them different from People.

Sari is so People. But what does that make this lady...bot?]

...So. What. You don't think for yourself or whatever?