POISON GAME: sensitIV

[idolpro]

[ The room is plain, white walls and white ceiling, except for the steel-panel flooring. There are three metal stands rising out of openings in the floor, each of which carries a glass vial on top. One of them just holds water. Of the remaining two, one contains a pale pink, opaque liquid with a creamy consistency; the next is tinged barely yellow like a weak tea, and would be almost completely transparent but for the pulp and fibers mixed in, drifting through it.

Both have flowers floated across the surface: the first a tiny sprinkling of cherry blossom petals; the second a small, but whole, bloomed lotus. They're cute and smell nice. ]

Comments

Re: DISCUSSION

[sancrimony]

. . . What do you think we should do?

Re: DISCUSSION

[may_fly]

What do you ‘want’?

Re: DISCUSSION

[sancrimony]

. . . To protect this unit . . . To protect other units . . . But the former is surely more important.

Re: DISCUSSION

[may_fly]

Okay.

Re: DISCUSSION

[sancrimony]

"Okay". . . ?

Re: DISCUSSION

[may_fly]

Yes. The lives on this unit are worth more than those off of it.

Re: DISCUSSION

[sancrimony]

. . . . I don't know about any life being worth more or less than any other life.

. . . But, I certainly . . . certainly don't want to see you or anyone here hurt.

Re: DISCUSSION

[may_fly]

Then by what measure is your decision made by?

Re: DISCUSSION

[sancrimony]

. . . Mmm.

Re: DISCUSSION

[sancrimony]

[ oops 1/2. Opens his eyes ]

Trust, perhaps.

Re: DISCUSSION

[may_fly]

I only know my base function. I believe it’s to be ‘used’.

[ Gross, but it does feel true. ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[sancrimony]

. . . Eh?

[ hm that does feel gross ]

. . . Even so, there isn't anyone to "use" you here . . . I think . . .

Re: DISCUSSION

[may_fly]

[ Then what. . . ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[sancrimony]

. . . Ghost-san . . . ?

Re: DISCUSSION

[artificialinelegance]

psst

lucy

lucy no

Re: DISCUSSION

[sancrimony]

Eh?

Re: DISCUSSION

[artificialinelegance]

don't tell things made to be used that nobody is going to use them

Re: DISCUSSION

[sancrimony]

It isn't as if I don't understand, but is that really healthy?

Re: DISCUSSION

[artificialinelegance]

why are humans so stupid about this if he wasn't forced to be like this by someone then it's fine don't take away a tool's purpose just make sure they're well taken care of

Re: DISCUSSION

[sancrimony]

. . . It isn't as if I don't understand.

[ repeating clearly, slowly, as he watches her with a sort of measured control, as if perhaps appraising her or anticipating her. ]

But I, at least, will not engage with it. Moreover, there is no person who commands more authority or worth than another - even kings and queens are only human here, with all else stripped away, and hardly any of us on this unit would find "use" for him in such a mechanical way.

I don't disagree on principle; a tool should be used. A tool should be taken care of. But there is none here that I would call my Master, and there is none that I would say should be as such for any other tool here.

[ carefully drawing his hand out to flip it palm up, near his own face ]

Shall we say otherwise? If that is the case, then our purpose here is plain: we are idols. Shall we not perform, for is that not a valid "use"? However, that does not seem to be the consensus shared among us here, even in this own unit - is that not the case? Is it not the case that we seek out, not "tools" in this unit, but rather, "family"? People who may share in our happiness as well as our sorrow as they like, who may make their own decisions as they like?

Shall I lie, then, and say that there is someone who would use him in such a way? Do you prefer such a cruelty, Ane-ue?

Re: DISCUSSION

[artificialinelegance]

[ almost instantly: ]

I'll use him.

Re: DISCUSSION

[sancrimony]

What for?

Re: DISCUSSION

[artificialinelegance]

Companionship, if nothing else. I been tryna work on his functional personhood since he showed up, anyway.

Re: DISCUSSION

[sancrimony]

[ shower ]

Is even companionship only something that is on a "use and be used" basis? Even humans are compelled to do that much.

[ there's a pause ]

Ah - actually, what do you mean by companionship?

Re: DISCUSSION

[artificialinelegance]

[ shut UP ]

Not sex, if that's what you're thinkin'. I ain't raisin' Me 2.0 here. I mean keepin' me company. Helpin' out with shit he wants to. Eventually we'll find out what his actual purpose is an' I'll focus on that but 'till then there's no reason he can't do the same shit I'm made for.