re_alignment | voice | trion's temple

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brave police: j-decker | kagerou

voice | trion's temple

[This isn't where he was supposed to be. He was on the roof just a second ago. Why... why is he in the temple now? It doesn't make any sense.]

[And then the feeling of loss sets in. Considering he can no longer recall the events leading up to, and including the fight with Overlord, he can only assume this loss is of memory itself. The most important thing he has...]

[... needless to say, when it finally occurs to him to grab the Link and make a call, he sounds utterly frantic.]

Someone -- please. I don't know what happened. I...

[He actually needs a moment to calm down enough to speak.]

... My memory is... there is something missing. I can feel -- I can feel it!

Please. Help.

[This is the most distressing thing in the world... at least until someone tells him he was dead a minute ago.]

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That's my reality. That's why I can't... stand to lose even one memory.

[Ventus can certainly understand a lot better now. He rests a hand upon one of Kagerou's fingers.]

[He shrugs, a little helplessly, not sure what else to say. He's missing a part of himself now. It won't be able to be recovered...]

[What does he do now?]

...you can always make new memories.

[The boy seems to have been doing some thinking himself before he finally speaks up again.]

[His expression suddenly turns distant. Bitter.]

... 'New memories will take their place'.

He said the same thing.

[That expression, that tone. The boy shivers.]

...who..?

... The reason I exist.

The last time I spoke with him... while he tried to reassure me I didn't need to be afraid of being erased.

...well that's not what I meant when I said you could still make new memories. They don't have to replace anything. They build up with the memories you have.

That's living. Isn't it? Building and experiencing?

... I wasn't allowed that.

Yeah- [He nods, but then pauses as he looks up again.]

What? Why not?

I'm only a prototype.

[He smiles faintly, but there's no humor or warmth in it.]

A disposable unit, to them. Meant to serve my purpose... and be gotten rid of.

[A prototype..? The boy looks a little confused at that, but he's soon frowning again at the further explanation offered.]

Well whoever they are, they're wrong! No one should decide things like that for others!

To them... I'm not really alive. So what should it matter, what I would decide for myself?

Well it does matter! And they're not here, are they? So they can't make that kind of decision for you either way.

[Well, that's... not the answer he was expecting. He blinks down at Ventus.]

... You really feel so strongly about it?

[He nods, folding his arms.]

I can't see how anyone wouldn't treat you like you were alive. You may be a lot bigger than me and made up of different things, but you still think and make decisions- you have feelings!

And if I told you my emotions were... programmed?

I'm not sure I understand what that means.

My feelings... are programmed in. It's all a part of my Super AI.

Artificial.

So someone tells you when to be happy or sad? Angry? What about in choosing friends?

No... I... I feel what I feel. But it's different.

... I don't have a soul. Not like a human being. Or one of the alien robots.

Are you sure?

Yes. I'm sure.

Well... I don't care.

You... don't care?

[What is that supposed to mean, Ven.]

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