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st_abilitylost ([personal profile] st_abilitylost) wrote2018-12-11 04:08 pm
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[Voice Test] Connor & Peter - Seasons Greetings

Of every face that Connor’s internal database failed to recognize since the beginning of his short stay, the only source of familiarity was found in the inanimate statues of Mr. and Mrs. Claus mounted in the lobby. He recognzied then as symbols of generosity and goodwill towards all humanity, but something about the way the sculptor chose to craft their features seemed...off.

He didn’t have any business lingering and passing judgements on the craftsmanship but there was no lieutenant to bark at him for “spacing out” and it all left him at, for lack of a better phrase, a loss.
st_arkintern: (Thinking about it.)

[personal profile] st_arkintern 2018-12-19 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah," Peter says without a moment's hesitation. "I do."
st_arkintern: (Mm.)

[personal profile] st_arkintern 2018-12-19 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
"What? You saying you don't think you're sentient?" Peter presses his lips together, thinking. "You know what it's like to be an android better than I do." That much is true. "But would you know what it's like to be sentient if you aren't actually sentient?"
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[personal profile] st_arkintern 2018-12-19 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Wouldn't giving the impression of sentience just make people feel bad for using you?" Peter asks. "I mean, you don't get paid, right? Do people treat you nice?"

Most androids were not treated nice. At least not in the popular media that Peter tended to consume.
st_arkintern: (Trying to be stealthy.)

[personal profile] st_arkintern 2018-12-19 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
Peter pauses and thinks about how best to word this so that he doesn't get a reaction from Connor akin to I don't have feelings.

"What do you think about those people?" he asks, finally.
st_arkintern: (Uncomfortable-awkward.)

[personal profile] st_arkintern 2018-12-19 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
"I always thought that, too." At least of the androids in media, anyway. "Are you allowed to protect yourself if a human attacks you?" It sounded like that was the case earlier. The follow-up comes before Connor can answer:

"Have you ever been attacked by a human?"
st_arkintern: (What's this?)

[personal profile] st_arkintern 2018-12-19 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
"How violent is violent enough to justify self-defense?"

Peter's already got this mental image of androids being shoved around and simply taking it. He hates to think that that kind of thing might be happening to Connor on the regular back home.
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[personal profile] st_arkintern 2018-12-19 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"You don't find that..." Peter pauses briefly to find the right word, but it doesn't come, so he settles another. "...disconcerting?"
st_arkintern: (Heartbroken.)

[personal profile] st_arkintern 2018-12-19 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, but you're not concerned now that you can't just be re-uploaded?" he asks.
st_arkintern: (Don't tell May.)

[personal profile] st_arkintern 2018-12-20 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
"That wasn't the question, though."
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[personal profile] st_arkintern 2018-12-20 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
"Mmmm."

Peter doesn't say anything for a moment.

"I don't think you're going to have any problem with the people here. Mia's an android, too, and everyone's nice to her." Not that Peter had had much of a chance to talk to her, least of all like this.
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[personal profile] st_arkintern 2018-12-20 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, I haven't really talked to her, but she's pretty and people say she's nice." Peter rubs the back of his head. He probably should have talked to her by now -- she'd been here for a few months, but there was something intimidating about her, even despite her approachable personality.

It was probably all in Peter's head, though.
st_arkintern: (Iron spider.)

[personal profile] st_arkintern 2018-12-20 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, it's mostly peaceful here," Peter agrees. "We had some creatures attack a few months back, but that's really been the only big trouble there's been at the inn since I arrived here."

Outside the inn, during the Other Worlds? That was a different story.

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