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July Test Drive Meme!

JULY 2022 TDM
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IMAGE DESCRIPTORS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE

Prompt One
[Image One: Colorful paper lanterns shaped like jellyfish lit up and hovering in the air. ]
[Image Two: A person with long hair wearing a crown dedicated with shells and rocks. ]

Prompt Two
[Image One: A GIF of waves breaking roughly out in the middle of the ocean. ]
[Image Two: Strong waves crashing into a lighthouse and rocks. ]

Prompt Three
[Image One: A large Ningen (a sea creature that is half human, half monster, and has no face except for a large slit for a mouth) towering over a deep sea diver. ]
[Image Two: A person standing out on the rocks with their arms out stretched as the tentacles of a large sea monster wave in the air above the ocean. ]

STANDARD ARRIVAL
WHEN: August
WHERE: The Farther Shores/The Boardwalk
CONTENT WARNINGS: N/A


You're one of the lucky ones. Your journey is smooth sailing and you wind up exactly where you're supposed to: on the Farther Shores. You grow out of your squid body without a hitch, either with the help of another Sleeper or one of the Wakers, and you get to discover this new world. All new Sleepers might take some time to find their bearings. It might be tricky to remember how to use your body parts the way you're supposed to. You might stumble around the beach or forget how to talk - but don't worry! It'll come back to you sooner or later.

Hopefully, you've found something to wear, either in your Welcoming Bag or otherwise, and can start familiarizing yourself with your surroundings. Maybe you help some other squids out on the beach. Waking up sucks! You feel for the little guys. And hey, maybe you're hoping one of those squids is a good friend...Stranger things have happened.

SEASONAL DETAILS ON THE BOARDWALK

This month has an entire festival dedicated to Mariana. The people of Trench seem to be quite enamoured with her, despite her often cruel and unpredictable behaviors. The festival has gone all out with decorations. The boardwalk will be lined with lanterns in the shape of various sea creatures, such as jellyfish, dolphins, seahorses, and (of course) squids! These lanterns will be lit every night throughout the month and will burn through the night. They are bright beacons to a month that is otherwise becoming more and more gray and chilly as time passes.

The people of Trench are also decked out for the occasion. Blues and greens are the popular color choices for outfits, and many people will even decorate their hair with pieces from the ocean. Whether it's with full headpieces that are worthy enough for mermaids or just something as simple as weaving shells into a braid, everyone seems to have something on them that ties them to the sea. There are stalls set up to help newcomers (or oldies who just want to have some fun) decorate their hair as well and face paint for those who want to go the extra mile.

The festival comes with all sorts of celebrations that can be partaken in at absolutely no cost. There are food vendors, though they seem to be short on seafood this month. Likely it's due to the rough seas with waves so treacherous that not even the most skilled of sailors seems to be able to get out into them. They'll remark on how difficult is must have been to swim to shore in those awful waves. So instead of fish and shrimp, there are other sea-dedicated dishes: seaweed salad, noodle dishes made with seaweed broth, caramelized chicken in a fish and ginger sauce, etc. There are also ocean themed desserts, such as cupcakes with blue frosting shaped to look like a great wave. There are games such as dunk tanks, dart balloons, ring tosses, and other typical carnival entertainment. If you can think of it, it's probably there. At the end of the night, there's often a fireworks display over the rolling waves.

rough seas and high winds
WHEN: Last Week of July, First Week of AugustT
WHERE: Beach and Nearby Oceans
CONTENT WARNINGS: Threat of drowning, severe weather phenomena, Environmental hazards, possible death


For some reason, Mariana is particularly wrathful even as the month begins. Even leaking into the end of the month of July, the sea begins to foam and rage in ways that are almost impossible to imagine. As you stare out int the beachheads, you may see vast waves and surf that would daunt the most professional of surfers. Water crashes into each other in colossal spouts. Waterspouts can be seen as storms occasionally buffet the coastline and just out into the ocean itself. However, the one thing about this chaotic energy is that it is just that, chaotic. One moment the sea may be calm, and the next it is a roiling, seething force out to destroy everyone.

This is, naturally, dangerous for those who are just hapless squids trying to reach shore. They may find themselves inexorably being flung towards sharp rocks and shoals, threatened with being dashed upon the stone near to the coast, or they may find themselves constantly swirling in eddies and whirlpools to the point of near exhaustion. However, they are not the only ones so threatened. Even those on the coast are in near constant danger of being washed right back out to see by an unexpected wave and sudden rip-tide. There are wood planks and other detritus to grab hold of, but it is very much a battle for one's life out there!

The sea's rage, the locals say, is because Mariana is particularly incensed over something that occurred. They do not know what exactly, but many have said that sleepers have felt a particular brunt of this ire lately. For now, it is a game of survival and a constant battle to bring people in safely.

Notes:
-Any natural weather occurrence is possible in the first week of August and last of July. Seemingly impossible combinations may occur (A waterspout in the middle of the eye of a hurricane, almost anything.
-These threats will be upon anyone who is not far enough inland to enjoy the festivities. The beach is not truly safe and sleepers are hustled inland quickly.
-Death is possible, though sleepers who die in the ocean find themselves returning very quickly as squids for some reason, within 24 hours, only to be threatened again before they eventually find shore.

of monsters in the water
WHEN: Throughout August
WHERE: The coast and waterways
CONTENT WARNINGS: Monster Horror, Possibly Getting Eaten, Threat of bodily harm, Unnatural Physiology, Existential Dread


Something has been dredged up from the deep by the storms that rage. It is said that Mariana not only presides over the oceans, but also the most powerful monsters that dwell within the deep. Some of these, it is believed, may be the remains of Pthumerians whose minds and lives were lost during the hard times before, or the spawn of their mating with things other than humans. Whether these rumors are true, eldritch things have begun to emerge from the depths and darkness, things best left unseen.

Throughout the month of August, it is possible to encounter creatures that can only be described as monsters emerging from the water. With every passing storm, another emerges. Some are as large as small kaiju, while others are closer to human size, and each shares very little in common with the others, save for two particular details. The first of these is that they are all aquatic in nature and bear at least a passing similarity to sea monsters of ancient legend or particularly large and dangerous aquatic animals. Giant cuttlefish, Megalodons, Plesiosaurs, Octopi, Sea Cucumbers, Whales, or any of a number of other sea creatures appear to be their basis. The other similarity, however, is that all are hideously and grotesquely deformed. Tentacles, second rows of teeth, great clawed hands and feet enabling them to walk on dry ground, a thousand eyes all over the hump of a hunchback whale all shooting laser beams in the full moon, almost anything seems to be possible, though the changes are all chtonically horrendous in nature.

These creatures are violent, dangerous, and horrifying to behold. Just looking at them jars the mind and threatens to damage one's psyche while they try to understand what they are seeing. Bones are in seemingly impossible angles, bodies moving in ways that they shouldn't. Just looking at them can cause nausea, vertigo or mental breaks, though the danger does not stop there. They are agents of chaos, seeking to destroy mind or body, on a rampage whenever they reach ground, though they do not delve far into Trench beyond the waterways and beach, almost as if they are prevented by something. When one strays too close, an ominous light glows from the tops of the tallest spires in the city and they are inevitably repelled, but until they are killed or sent back to the deep from whence they came, they remain a threat outside of the city.

CODING
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[personal profile] robussy 2022-07-27 12:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[ 2B looks to be in her late twenties, at least— if one were to give her a human age. her body is at the apex of maturity and in its greatest form beneath her veiling robes. mostly, of course, because they were made that way. the man is heedlessly kind too, treats her as his own. he gives her a choice. even if she was made in their image, and he extends this to her— 2B declines, but is not coarse about it. ]

Positive. I wasn't made for this. [ the girl is already wibbling her lower lip, begs daniel to do something. 2B too, attempts to think of something, quickly: ] —But I may supervise, to ensure your security.

[ —nailed it. ]
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[personal profile] miyagimagic 2022-07-29 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ He's kind of tempted to say that he doubts a carnival game is going to be very dangerous.. but on the other hand, it's clear that 2B is trying really hard to compromise over here, and it's not like Daniel is just going to knock the legs right out from under that attempt.

Besides, maybe 2B will find the game looks a lot more fun once she sees this girl and Daniel play it. So he's quick to put a guiding hand on the younger girl's back, instructing her on how to play the game - it seems to be one where you need to knock over stacked up cans with a ball, which the young girl picks up on pretty quickly, even if Daniel needs to pick her up so she can actually reach the balls and the cans..

But while the little girl is busy having the time of her life throwing the balls perhaps a bit too aggressively, leaving Daniel to be careful and move his head so he doesn't get a kid elbow planted right inbetween his eyes, he turns his head to look over at 2B. ]


Do you not like games?

[ Granted, he wasn't sure if that 'made for this' comment was.. literal or just figurative. It could be either, in this place, and his own much more mundane experiences have him leaning towards the latter. Maybe she's just not the type for this. ]
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[personal profile] robussy 2022-07-29 12:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[ only a heartless fool would allow a small human child to cry. well, 2B has trouble seeing anyone cry, as much as she doesn't admit to it. for the time being, she does what she says she will: supervise. the child seems endlessly amused, and while 2B is an awfully quiet wallflower— she's watching intently. even if her expression is held flat in neutrality, it isn't actually void of anything. her eyes speak the loudest, soft and attentive to the two. the man, who barely knows her, and the child who barely knows him. it almost doesn't look that way. trench is tight-knitted and promotes community, she deduces.

as the man turns to her, so does her attention shift to him directly. persistent. the little girl also turns her head to show off her skill and ball in hand. 2B, after a pause that's gone for too long, responds matter-of-factly: ]


I don't need them.

[ just like she doesn't need baths, or food, or drink; androids could take them. they feel wonderful, as 9S has once said. food and drink are also activities that add to the sensations rather than being a necessity. but 2B— she's always been too focused to allow herself those pleasantries. they're not necessary for a combat unit to function.

9S would think this is weird. most of human amusement is weird. but if there were no machines, or aliens left to fight? would he try this? just as he would've liked buying her a t-shirt one day, and she agreed to it? something that minuscule and stupid and . . . human?

. . .

2B steps closer. ]


All the cans must be hit?
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[personal profile] miyagimagic 2022-07-31 07:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ Even though he doesn't mention anything about it, Daniel is inwardly chewing on that 'I don't need them' for a moment or so. After all - in this sort of place it's hard to tell what exactly that means. If they were in his world, he would take it as someone pretending to be too cool for playing carnival games. Daniel has been younger. He knows what that's like.

But this place is different. So many worlds seem to come together here in Trench. Worlds in which things are possible that Daniel would never even be able to imagine in the place he comes from. It's entirely possible that 2B is some sort of lifeform that doesn't need or understand fun, as.. odd as that idea is.

When she continues and actually asks him a question though - by the time Daniel has turned the young child back to the game as she energetically starts throwing the balls again - he opts to focus on said question instead. ]


That's the goal.

[ He could leave it at that, but.. well, this is Daniel. He would never, not without passing along some positive encouragement. It's how he works. ]

But even if they aren't all knocked over.. that's fine too. It's not about winning, it's about having fun. [ Look at this stereotypical Dad over here.. the Dad Vibes are off the radar, especially when he laughs as the kid knocks over another can. ] She's getting there though!

[ Hey, he's not going to mind cheering on a random kid, as long as it makes the tiny girl happy. 2B can see how the game is played at the same time because of it, anyway. Maybe she'll end up seeing the fun in it after all. ]
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[personal profile] robussy 2022-08-01 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
[ um……………… humans are weird and she’s beginning to see it! at first, she reacts with nothing more than a blink, but then . . . 2B’s brows have formed a tiny kink. ]

You’re saying no success is still satisfactory. That seems counterproductive.

[ if anything, shouldn’t amusement come from . . . she doesn’t know. at least some form of positive, palpable gain? ]
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[personal profile] miyagimagic 2022-08-03 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ Well, that sort of statement just smacks the conclusion as to what's going on with the girl's lack of interest towards the game right home, doesn't it. There's no way this is just pretending to be cool. It seems that 2B genuinely doesn't understand games and their purpose - or not fully, anyway. It's a wild thought, but wild thoughts are becoming more and more commonplace here by now.. ]

Hmmm.

[ Daniel hums. Audibly. On purpose, really, because he definitely already knows what he wants to say, but is just saying it in the most dad-like dramatic way possible. ]

That definitely sounds like you've never tried this before.

[ .. is he luring her into playing? Maybe. It's not even that he's doing it fully on purpose, since his idea here is mostly just that-- ]

It's something you can't really know until you experience it yourself. [ Which is true! Even if she doesn't play, that's fine, but Daniel does genuinely think she'd be able to understand this entire deal much better if 2B were to pick up this game and play it herself.

As soon as the little girl is done with it, anyway. She's still a throwing machine while Daniel's holding her up, and she sure seems to be having fun, even if not all her throws are hitting the mark. ]
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[personal profile] robussy 2022-08-03 12:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[ daniel? you are one sly dog-dad. ]

. . . I see.

[ the click of her pointed heels sounds as she steps closer, side by side with them at this point. the girl, ecstatic to see "pretty lady" so close to the playing booth, offers her a ring. after a brief pause of hesitation, 2b takes it between her fingers and rotates it for examination.

she was made in their image. she is a no-fun working soldier. she was here to protect these people that were lost so long ago, even before she was manufactured. way before. but, if there was one thing androids had— it was pride, to be made in their image. to have emotion. to have these possibilities and to feel the way they do. the only difference was that 2b's system was mapped digitally, and humans, organically.

her pod a robotic little helper square returns holding, oh, god look at all those snacks in its little arms. it scans the situation and turns to 2b to say: Report: I have found the ancient human meal called Cup Cake for the designated human child. Proposal: 2B could spend time with human community for possible integration. Confirm? ]


—Pod, stay on standby.

[ Affirmative, it says, and now . . . 2b is looking at the targets. ]
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[personal profile] miyagimagic 2022-08-05 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ Thankfully the pod might be one of the less strange things Daniel has witnessed in this place - though it's hard to beat his current bar when he witnessed a man removing a bone from his own body on his first day in this place. It makes the pod look like little more than 2B's Disney level sidekick.

Daniel opts to not pay too much attention to it anyway. Not when it seems like 2B herself may just be about to try out the game. He keeps a hold on the younger girl, but moves her out of the way just a little, whispering to her that they ought to give the other a chance too, right?

Other than that.. he doesn't say anything quite yet. It'd feel like it might break the magic of the moment. He'll just wait to see what 2B does. ]
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[personal profile] robussy 2022-08-05 11:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ her eyes lock on to her target, and with a near perfect measure of swing to her wrist— 2B manages a ring around her target. another, then another. she is just. absolutely obliterating the ring toss game. it's not even fun this way, is it? she gets it right every shot she takes.

—except for this one, when her mark is off by an inch and bumps at the tip of the pillar, falling to the floor.

the silence that beseeches her almost sounds deadly. dan? hold my pod (if he actually needed to hold her pod—). calm and seemingly composed about it though, she answers: ]


Another.

[ oh, she needs to get that right. ]
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[personal profile] miyagimagic 2022-08-07 08:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ Daniel over here is still busy holding onto the kid, though as both she and the man himself seem to realise that 2B is kind of dominating the game right now, he's slowly moving to put the girl down. The girl doesn't seem to mind - she's much too startled and amazed by what's happening right here in front of her, the kid's jaw dropping as she's watching 2B go at it with such inhuman precision.

Not that Daniel himself isn't surprised, mind you. But to him, it's a little more.. expected, perhaps. A whole lot of people in this place seem capable of things your average human would never be capable of, and near-perfect ring tossing is not too high on the list of 'weird stuff he's seen people do.' That list is currently already way off the charts, anyway.

He smiles with something a touch awkward around the edges at 2B though, giving the younger girl a pat on the shoulders before she seems to lose interest in playing the game and just wanders off into the crowd. ]


Hey, I just said that it's not about winning, right? You had a really good run there!

[ D-Danny, please don't tempt fate... just let 2B play.... ]
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[personal profile] robussy 2022-08-08 12:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[ danny. he gets the most unmoved look as another round is set beside her. it's not— threatening, or anything! just very, we could say . . . set. ]

I don't need sympathy for my failure, if that's what you're doing. [ —oh, that. that might have sounded a little more biting if there was more oomph to it. instead, it's oddly matter-of-fact, as if she is simply stating something true rather than deliberately wanting to be rude. but, with a ring being prepped at her fingertips: ] If it's not about success, I don't see the point.

[ her tosses are locked, loaded and a little slower on execution— but they're accurate. this time, she gets every single one and . . . ends up winning a prize.






she doesn't know what to do with it and looks expectantly at danny.

before just kind of.

pushing it. into his chest. ]
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[personal profile] miyagimagic 2022-08-10 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ah.

Hm.

Daniel is not as concerned with the plush squid he's now suddenly holding - he'd give it to the girl, but she already ran away, and a quick scan of the crowd around them doesn't allow him to find her, which means he's just.. awkwardly holding it now without knowing what to do with it.. - as much as he's concerned with what 2B is saying here.

Even if she doesn't sound mean or rude about it, it still feels like the sort of thing that borders on a very, very toxic mindset. The kind Daniel doesn't like to see in anyone. ]


.. why not?

[ He doesn't sound confrontational. On purpose. Even if 2B might not be an actual teen or anything, arguing with people younger than you rarely goes well if you get all confrontational about it.. Daniel has learned as much through parenting two teens, and then semi-parenting even more.

It's why he keeps his voice relatively gentle. ]


Did someone teach you that? [ That's how it usually goes, after all. People don't get that sort of mindset out of nowhere. ]
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[personal profile] robussy 2022-08-10 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[ teach her? no, 2B is direct and succinct here. the B unit had a core job, and that was battle. success did not ride on trying, it was fight and succeed in destroying the enemy. the same way combat gives her a boost, a thrill that infatuation would be to humans— there is no other correct answer. it's to succeed. it's to win against the great bottleneck booth in a game of ringtoss and get handed an item. ]

I was manufactured that way. [ it was clear, now. humans aren't "manufactured". ] Mission completion is only achieved through success— That's what humans would've wanted.

[ she implies: is it really so surprising? ]
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[personal profile] miyagimagic 2022-08-12 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
Well, that..

[ Daniel knows what he wants to say here. And yet he can't help but pause for a moment after those two words, because he's definitely still processing the first part of what she said just now. He knows what she must be if she is speaking of herself as having been manufactured, but the idea that he's talking to a person who is at least partially a robot is.. still rather odd. It's not a specific flavour of odd he had encountered in this place yet. It makes him look at her with clear surprise in his eyes.

It's something he'll have to unpack more later, for sure, but Daniel tries to place the thought at the back of his mind for a moment so he can focus on her right now.

And on what she's saying. ]


I guess that would depend on why you were.. manufactured. [ Still weird. ] For what purpose.
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[personal profile] robussy 2022-08-13 01:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Battle.

[ so, what daniel is actually seeing here is a real life terminator. ]

I’m an all-purpose combat unit. My name is 2B.
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[personal profile] miyagimagic 2022-08-16 06:32 am (UTC)(link)
.. I'm Daniel LaRusso.

[ She.. definitely does not look like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

That is actually the first thought going through Daniel's head even as he's introducing himself in return, thank you very much. Followed up by the question of why this place would even drag in Terminator-style androids? He's pretty sure at this point that he's never going to understand it. ]


So you've always only been fighting?

[ And not the fun kind of fighting, he imagines. No one would make a robot just to have them do karate as a sport. Please don't cannibalize his market like that regardless, robot creators. ]

Nothing else?
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[personal profile] robussy 2022-08-16 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ at least she's not coming after humans— but only been fighting, well. there's one thing. ]

I've done recon in the past. [ even though B units weren't exactly the most suited for recon missions (the point here is that recon is still part of war and battle, and 2B doesn't see that)! 2B notices this man's fixation on "only". only fighting. never something else. was it the violence? she asks, but because there's a strangeness in it to her. why would a human worry in the first place? ] Does that bother you, Daniel?
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[personal profile] miyagimagic 2022-08-19 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ He definitely feels a little called out by that question. He honestly doubts it's her intention - especially if she's a robot, since those tend to be a whole lot more straightforward and all - but it does definitely reflect his own fussy nature back to him..

Daniel definitely cares too much at all times, and he knows it. Look at him, worrying over an android he's meeting for the first time. It makes him smile, but in a very wry sort of way. ]


If I'm being honest.. yeah. [ Look, if he's being called out, he might as well go all the way. ] It's not that it's necessarily bad if you don't mind doing it, but.. you should at least be able to experience some other things in your life too, you know? Robot or human, that doesn't matter.

[ As movie-level cheesy as that line is. But Daniel does truly believe what he's saying here. ]
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[personal profile] robussy 2022-08-19 10:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ it reminds her of the concept of “shopping” and how she had accepted 9S’s invitation to buying her a “t-shirt” when the wars dwindle down to nothing. it was hopeful thinking, probably even impossible thinking and yet . . . she said okay.

to think a human would want her to live rather than fight. it feels surreal.

(her lips play a smile anyway, small and fleeting) ]


. . . That’s very considerate of you. But I do take pride in my service. [ she’ll . . . have her squid back, now. ] And what do I do with this?
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[personal profile] miyagimagic 2022-08-21 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
[ Don't worry. Daniel will gladly hand the squid plush he's been holding so awkwardly right back to her, holding it out the moment her gaze falls on it, and adding a: ] Well, nobody's saying you can't do both, right?

[ Her service and having fun. Maybe her circumstances back home might not allow it, but surely she'll be able to find some combination of both here.

.. he hopes, anyway. Maybe he'll need to check back in on her after a while, just to make sure.

It's a thought he pushes to the back of his mind for now though, opting to focus on her actual question. ]


As for this thing.. well, it's usually intended more for younger kids. [ Ah, the good old days when his kids were young and cute enough to play with plushies... ] They're so soft since you're meant to hug them. Kids play with them, or sleep with them.. you know, stuff like that.
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[personal profile] robussy 2022-08-22 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she has gloves on, so— she can't really tell they're soft. as daniel mentions it, though, she tentatively hooks the squid under one arm and pulls the leather off her hand. it looks positively human, for the record— one may not even be able to tell the difference. bringing the squid back to her bare hand now, it . . . well. he's totally right. it is soft. the wool is strange to her fingertips. she absently remembers where this comes from, in the human records. wool is harvested from "sheep". ]

It shouldn't be with me.

[ is what she's deduced. she is not human nor a child. even if she is technically only three years old. ]
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[personal profile] miyagimagic 2022-08-24 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
.. I wouldn't discount it so quickly.

[ Sure, technically she's right. The other doesn't look like she's in the right age range for this sort of thing in the slightest, and her personality doesn't seem to be the type to still be very interested in cute stuff all the same..

But now he's learned that she's basically never had anything like this before, Daniel thinks a little bit differently about whether she should have it or not. ]


Keep it around. [ At least it sounds like advice coming from his mouth, rather than any kind of order. ] You never know what it might end up doing for you at some point.
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[personal profile] robussy 2022-08-24 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ her hands feel bare and unready without her gloves for too long, so . . . she's just going to put that back on and pull at the wrist cuff to secure it. the suid plush is here to stay, then. somewhere in her quarters. she'll have to research this topic more, but then reminds herself that she shouldn't be wasting time on something so pointless when she could be saving people. saving people like daniel.

it hasn't occurred to 2B that her thoughts always gravitate to them, even when she has her own interests. it seems so natural and new that . . . isn't this the expected reaction?

she inclines her head. ]


I'll see. [ who knows. ] It was an honor meeting you, Daniel.
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[personal profile] miyagimagic 2022-08-27 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
[ An honor.

He knows that it's probably just the way she's been programmed to talk, but on the other hand, it's still rather nice to see that she's so polite. Maybe a little overly polite, but.. well, it's not like Daniel necessarily minds that.

Hence why he just gives her a smile, bordering on amused. ]


It's been a while since I've heard that. [ Hey, he's totally a role model and icon back home. Two time All Valley champion and all that. ] But.. it's been nice to meet you too.

[ He means it. There's some warmth in the man's voice as he says it. ]

Don't be a stranger, alright? And if you ever end up needing help.. just let me know.

[ .. would an android ask for help? Do they know how to?

Who knows, but Daniel figures it's the least he can offer, regardless of 2B's nature. ]
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[personal profile] robussy 2022-08-28 01:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ humans . . . something so close yet so far away. something known yet unknown. she doesn’t understand it, but— the question that arises within her is not negative. it is merely wondering, and a bit amused.

it barely shows on her lips, but it shows, even for just a second. ]


It should be the other way around.

[ she was created to help them. obviously, it . . . seemed a little funny for her creators to offer it.

either way— she dips her head in professional gratitude, salutes him with the gesture of her hand over her chest, and makes her leave. ]