deadtention | R1 DEADLAND

[He's started to mutter quietly to himself, holding his head.]

Could V have done this? If I wasn't good enough to protect RFA... Maybe none of it's real and I just got thrown away...

He's very talented, but he's not as good at creating AI. The one he made had a lot to learn.

[ First time for everything, right? Hank is sure he loses track of time just holding Connor's hand like this, but whether it's been a minute or an hour, it's good. He manages to stop crying and just kind of let himself be happy. God, it's been so long since he just let himself be happy. ]

Okay, I... We should probably do something besides hold hands.

[ He's blushing though, he doesn't really want to stop. And they're dead, right? They've got all the time in the world. ]

Gotcha, right.

[ The AI he made when he could've just asked Connor for help. Yeah, Hank remembers. ]

Guess Vivienne still has a lot to learn, too.

Well, I got thrown out a window. Don't gotta guess too hard about what happened between that and me hitting the ground.

[ That should answer his question... ]

Right??

[ THANK YOU for agreeing and not calling him a girl ]

Either kind is good, but I kind of like the sweet ones. Like strawberry, or... maybe chestnut cream or sweet potato since I guess we're technically coming up on autumn. I mean, if we could actually get the ingredients for those kinds, obviously.

What, really? How do you know?

[ He figured their surveillance technology would have been enough already. ]

Oh... Yeah. Yuuki Mishima. It's nice to meet you.

When you put it that way, food might be the only way we have to really 'feel' the seasons here... I'll definitely ask.

[Although, to be honest, strawberry would probably be safer? Yoosung is not an amazing cook, to know how to make complicated ingredients taste amazing.

But that's not going to stop him.]

Huh, I'm not sure where she gets all her ingredients from anyway... are there phantom grocers?

Oh. [ Oof. ] Sorry.

[ He'd kind of expected him to be the culprit since that other guy who was talking about the spider hat had seemed pretty sad and anxious in comparison... Unless it was seriously the hat that did it?? It seems like it might be kind of insulting to ask someone if they got killed by a hat, though. ]

Well... We've got a guild here where we all help protect each other and try to help anyone new who shows up here adjust to things, so you're welcome to check that out if you want? It's in the former faculty administration office.

[ Doesn't really seem like you need it, but gotta put out the good word to all victims. ]

If nothing else, you can grab a drink and throw some darts at Hale's face. It's pretty cathartic.

[Vivienne actually came here to deliver a message-- but the fact that they're all gathered makes it even better. So she'll be here for the meeting!

Likewise--]

Viral, I gave Rebecca your message. She told me to give you one as well from her.

"They better damn well keep themselves out of trouble...but raise as much hell as reasonably possible, if they can."

[...it's Rebecca.]

H-hey, come on. What are you talking about? You're definitely real, even if this might not be.

Did that V guy even have anything to do with the kind of technology they're talking about here?

W-wait, we can send messages to people on the other side??

[ THIS... seems kind of obvious in retrospect, actually, but... ]

Right now it's just through me, but-- I can take your messages to them for now, yes!

[ Nods!

And he will lean away a little bit so that he's not in the way of this one. Go for it! ]

Huh... Okay. Then...

[ He frowns and goes quiet, biting his lip. ]

...God, what should I even say to Kurusu?

closed to maya

[After... all of the shit that meeting ended up being it gave 2-D some time to think. Think with his fake brain and his fake feelings that felt so damn real it physically hurt. He.. knew that the stuff that happened while he was alive was real, and part of him honestly hoped it hadn't been as confusing and horrifying the idea of it was. Part of him hoped that his murder was just an error -- a virus in his coding that made him snap but it wasn't. It was real, human emotion that led to such a tragic event and that in itself was hard to swallow. It's been hard to swallow and he's lucky that some of the people here have been nice enough to give him the benefit of the doubt, like Hank and Yoosung.

And though he did apologize and explain his motives to Maya he still just felt... awful. He knew she didn't need to forgive him and he wasn't looking for that forgiveness, but he felt he needed to do more. Make more of an effort to show her how sorry he was, and how he wanted to make it up to her. Which got him thinking about home. About how Murdoc was the cause of their guitarist almost getting killed in a ball of fire, and how he apologizes to her every chance he gets. Makes her a cup of tea every single day since then. That's.. a start. It means nothing when it comes from a pathological liar but 2-D isn't Murdoc.

He... he isn't like him at all. Right?

So he goes to Maya's room after the meeting, and knocks on her door lightly, a bouquet of freshly picked -- and not trampled -- flowers in his hand and a warm smile on his face. He'll try to make it right, he's got the second chance to.]

closed to viv

[After all that is said and done with Maya, 2-D retreats to his room.. er.. one of the rooms not being used for a little while. He heard at one point about Vivienne and Megumi, and that she passes between the living and the dead when she pleases and it got him wondering... if... maybe he could tell them something. There were so many things he wanted to say but couldn't at the time of his trial, and now that he's had so much time to reflect he tries to put it all together in a letter.

One that he re-writes, and re-writes, and re-writes until his wrist aches and the frustration of not being able to write anything out properly has him give up. He sighs and takes his stack of paper and pen and sets out to find Vivienne-- and when he does he looks quite troubled.]

Er, um.. Miss Vivienne, would you uh.. well. Would you mind helping me with writing a letter? I write lyrics all the time so I thought I'd be okay by myself but for some reason nothin' is coming out good on paper.

[He hands it out to her, most of it being scribbled to bits besides a few words like "sorry" "not your fault" and "miss you".]

[BIGEYESEMOJI.JPEG

Who would you like to examine more closely?]

[Honestly, he still doesn't quite understand it. He probably never will quite get there but being told that their memories are real visibly puts him a little at ease. It's one thing to have memories stolen from you, and then wake up after realizing you had fourteen years stolen.. it'd be another if all of those years were just numbers in a computer and didn't actually happen.]

O-okay.. okay. Thank you, Mister Anderson. I, uhh.. I-I don't really get all this computer stuff very well b-but as long as everything is real, well... I guess that's all that really matters.

[A pause.]

....I remember Feel Good Inc. now, by the way. N-Noodle was the one who played guitar in the video.

[ we are looking at the AI and CC codes. He’ll even let his robot plastic show on his hand so he can interface with this simulated tech and speed things up. We can do the AI code section first - what’s shaking with it? ]

[They appear to be the primary codes that the humanoids run on. There are others but-- the AI codes control personality. The coding here for all of them is highly advanced. For all that Vivienne lacks in making her robots say... capable of killing a man with a paper clip, she has put extensive, ground breaking work into their cognitive coding.

CC codes on the other hand appear to refer to "Control Center" codes. It's the portion that includes emergency commands; both physical and mental. They're not nearly as advanced and they're probably not as harshly set as other codes Connor may have seen, including his own. But then again-- what makes her robots exceptional is more in their heads. Looking at the blue prints well... most of you could take them easily if it was necessary.]

[Her e-mail inbox is actually fairly well cleaned and organized, compared to the way her things were physically when that office was hers. No spam-- in fact, most of the e-mails come and go to and from one particular e-mail address. s.gallivan@eic.net.

...even those though, she doesn't send a lot. Most of them are progress reports. Excited gabber about this or that which she completed with one of the robots. Some are questions. And even more rarely, she just shares excitement about things she's working on. But they all have to do with robotics.

...guess Vivienne really didn't have any friends.]

[ i'm sorry because ]

What's DNA?

[ Yeah that's definitely impossible hahaha... yeah. Hopefully not... Right... ]

Yeah, I'm not real great with computers, either. Honestly, just think of it as a... upgrade. Ehhh, kinda.

[ He shrugs. He really sucks at technology, compared to everyone else in 2038. ]

Aw, shit. Really? Shit, I'm a fake fan.

[ He's kidding, naturally. ]

[ It was the hat. Don't ask. It sucked... ]

A... guild, huh? That's cute. [ He snickers. ] I'm cutting back, but I bet Hale would love that shit.

[ The drinks and the darts, anyway. He's 50, all you kids are cute to him. ]

I'm actually a cop, so I wouldn't mind hearing whatever you guys have set up here. Wherever here is, at least. This sure ain't no afterlife like I was expecting.

[ Her whiskers twitch as it's her natural instinct to sniff the outstretched appendage, but.

Well... She did say she'd watch over these humans.

So she extends her front leg, albeit hesitantly, and moves it to give a gentle bop to Yoosung's palm.

High five? ]

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