re_alignment | [Video | Location: Alpha Trion’s Temple]

[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.]

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Do humans keep other humans as pets?

No, they do not.

I am terribly sorry for the misunderstanding. I was not clear in my original message. I am not a human, but a persocom or personal computer.

You're hardware?

[She peers curiously at the image and lens of her comm.]

You don't look like a Sumdac model. Are you made by some foreign competitor? [Probably Japanese.]

Sumdac is not a company name that I am familiar with, but I was not manufactured by a company. I was custom built by Mister Kokubunji.

Sumdac is based in Detroit. In the States. The company produces "automatons" to help humans in their tasks. They're pretty basic programs. [If she looks irritated, it's because Sumdac reverse engineered Cybertronian technology to create his automatons, but she isn't willingly going to offer that information.]

Why did Kokubunji make you look like a human? Or female?

Generally speaking, I am familiar with most major manufacturing companies within the field of electronics, regardless of the country in which it is based... Though perhaps that is merely proof of the incomplete state of my knowledge.

All persocoms have a human appearance, as that is what our design was modeled from originally. As for being female, I act as his caretaker and most often it is female humans that fulfill that role in traditional family structures.

[There is more to her master's selection, but such a matter is not meant to be made public or shared with a new acquaintance.]

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There are many of these persocoms?

[PCs, in robotic chassis, that look like human servants, owned by humans?]

And you serve as interface for just any user?

Nearly every human where I come from has at least one active unit.

[Gently she shakes her head.]

I only serve Mister Kokubunji.

[This seems problematic to Slipstream.] But, you're interacting with others, now. You have to be at least semi-autonomous. You emulate personality.

[With a nod and a soft smile, she answers.]

You are correct. I am able to act independently without my master, but my capabilities become somewhat limited as a result. It does not however hamper the function of my personality programming.

You are an intelligence. Artificial intelligence. But, not living?

Due to my reliance on outside programming, my creator does not feel that I qualify as an artificial intelligence. But...

[She pauses briefly out of confusion. That term had not been applied to persocoms in her experience.]

Could you please define what you mean by 'living'?

Living?

[Well, this conversation quickly got philosophical. The best answer she can give is a scientific definition.]

You know? Convert fuels to energy, maintain internal functions, self-repair, sense and respond to the external environment, create, adapt.

Intelligent life kinda communicates; and is self-directed, autonomous.

Some would add that organisms have some 'spirit' or 'spark of life', if you believe in that sort of thing.

[She's not really saying if she's included in those believers or not.]

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