re_alignment | audio | backdated to after the Meet & Greet

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brave police: j-decker | kagerou

audio | backdated to after the Meet & Greet

[Coming to you from the Police HQ roof... is a groggy-sounding ninja bot. If he were human, one might say he sounded hungover...]

I don't think I like... high grade.

[A beat passes, metal scrapes -- someone pressing a hand to his face.]

For what it's worth... I'm sorry. To anyone I ran into.

And... the Chieftain? [He hesitates again, this time for different reasons.] My offer to you still stands. Regardless of how I acted... afterward.

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Think of it like this: I can build you new body parts, but I can't build you a ship. I know chemistry, but I could never engineer something like an energy efficient fuel. I know the inner workings of a mech and how they function, but not every nook, cranny, and detail of advanced technological equipment used in many non-medical tools and machinery.

I've patched up quite a handful of scientists whose work I still cannot fathom to this day.

You mean that... even though you're mechanical, you're different than something like a car? Or another machine?

Yes. There are many non-sentient machines and vehicles on my planet. Though that is not the case for everything. I've heard some spaceships have been known to possess a will or personality of their own.

Personalities...?

As in... AI?

AI, yes. Or something close to it.

Is that what you are, if you don't mind me asking?

Yes, that's what I am.

AI... nothing more.

[have a half-amused smirk]

Are all AI programmed to feel inferior on your planet?

Feel... inferior? What do you mean?

You just seem to have this attitude implying, as an AI, you are considered less of a "person".

You also seem capable of free will and agency, not a manually operated robot.

But I could be wrong. I don't know about your Earth tech, what makes you you.

[how very comforting and yet not at all]

I... am less than a human being. Less than a 'person'.

They made that very clear. I was disposable, to them. What else is that supposed to tell me?

What?

That tells you the humans who made you obviously intended for you to be a slave and of nothing of true value! That is more than wrong, it's disgusting!

A... a slave?

I don't... know what that is.

[There wasn't any need to upload that kind of data when he was only meant to be erased, after a few months.]

A slave is someone forced to work against their will. They are, as you say, considered disposable and often treated with little to no respect.

It is just... Again, I don't know if certain reactions you have are programmed, but... Certainly you've got a will of your own underneath all that slave-programming. Even if it's merely a sliver. Somehow, if you can expand, if you can really focus on any free thought... just. [sigh] I wish I could help you, but again, my medical knowledge is limited on your species.

But I wanted to do it. I wanted to train him --

[He pauses. This probably needs some explanation.]

I'm a prototype. I was made in order for another to be created... and then I was to train him. To test him. And I wanted to. He's important to me.

And, in the end... I chose to run away. When they told me it was time to be reformatted, I ran. That was my decision. I don't think I'm a slave.

[This just keeps getting sadder and sadder, golldamn.]

See? You made choices for yourself. As such, you should consider yourself on the same level as humans. Not something less.

Yes...

But humans have souls. So do you living robots. I'm only data -- programming. Memory files. It's different, isn't it?

Well, in your case, I guess a soul could be an accumulation of your emotions. Your will to survive. Your desires. It can all sort of come together. I'm not sure, to be honest, but I guess if you were to consider the following, it could work. [Placebo effect, but who cares.]

It...

Is that really possible?

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