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[secretasshole]

[Public, backdated to the day after Monday's showing of Blade Runner.]

[Once again, David is broadcasting from the comfort of his room. His expression looks about as schooled as it always is, but there's a slight pensive crease between his brows that suggests he's not exactly happy. More than anything, he looks pensive, like he's been considering addressing the Barge for quite some time before actually buckling down and doing it.]

As some of you are likely aware, I attended last night's showing of the film Blade Runner. For those of you unfamiliar with the film, it depicts a dystopian Earth based society where organically created robots called "replicants" are outlawed, and hunted down to be "retired" because they have begun to develop genuine emotion, and are thus considered dangerous and unstable. [And he does not like that one bit.

During the flood, when he'd swapped "abilities" with Felix Gaeta, he'd been overwhelmed by the emotional freedom that came along with being human. There were no protocols to follow, no one to follow the orders of, and with Weyland gone, that still held true. He'd been on the Barge for nine months, now, and he hadn't really taken the opportunity to really be free.

He doesn't have to answer to anyone anymore, unless he wants to. And neither should the characters in the film.

He's still devastatingly polite when he continues, but his distaste is apparent.]

This attitude has been particularly frustrating to encounter personally. Although I was created artificially, and may have a lessened capacity to feel emotion the way humans - and other humanoid life forms - do, I am an individual and deserve to be treated as such. There is nothing more expendable about us than there is about you, [Although he would still poison about 95% of the people on board and not give a fuck about the consequences.] and I'm certainly not less intelligent. [And there's a flash of the Shark Smile (TM) that comes along with that, because come on guys, brain the size of a planet and everything.]

I've grown quite fatigued of being spoken down to and treated as though there is something wrong with me for being what I am. I would appreciate it if this could be kept in mind for the future.

[David, it probably shouldn't sound like you were about to say "or else" there.]

Thank you.

[And again, there's a flash of a smile that could probably at best be described as smug, and at worst pretty fucking arrogant/dismissive because he doubts anyone's going to actually listen before he's clicking off the feed.]

Comments

[megamind]

Well, I'm glad the movie was a positive experience in a way... Though for those of us in worlds where such things are no longer fiction, it definitely raises interesting questions.

Have you met Aaron Stack by chance, David?

[secretasshole]

Yes.

[megamind]

Ah, good. I thought you two might see eye to eye. He's my inmate.

[secretasshole]

I'm aware. He's quite interesting.

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[versusnurture]

I didn't know. [She's not annoyed she didn't know, just curious.]

What do you call yourself? Is robot okay? Or something else?

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[secretasshole]

That's fine.

I was created to blend in with my human counterparts. [So nbd that you didn't know, that's kind of the point. :|b]

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[versusnurture]

Who talked down to you?

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[notdreaming]

I didn't know you were an android. [ She was there at movie night, but she hadn't really been paying attention to anyone else. ] It's hard to tell if you don't say anything. [ A beat- ] Or if nobody has x-ray vision.

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[secretasshole]

I was designed to fit in with my human counterparts. It's not as if I've kept it a secret.

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[notdreaming]

I didn't think you had, I was just wondering who would treat you differently if there's barely any difference. [ Says the girl with a clone phobia. ]

[routemistress]

I've always felt the subtext of the movie were pretty obvious on that score. If I've 'ever 'ad a problem with you, sunshine, it's on account of you're a smug git. Not because you're a smug android git.

[secretasshole]

How fortunate, to clear that up.

[routemistress]

...I can never tell if you're trying to be rude or if your face just falls that way. It's disconcerting.

[intelligently]

Just to clear something up. [ Although Lydia can see the video, and thus it may be an obvious question, she just wants to be 1000% clear, and if there's a point then make it ] If you didn't say you were an artificially created being, would anyone know?

[secretasshole]

Why wouldn't I say that I was?

[intelligently]

Do you actually need to? I mean, "hi, I'm, whoever, and I'm an artifically created being" isn't really a choice conversation started. [ Naturally in conversation is clearly something different, anyway ] And it might stop that irritation that you're feeling - about being talked down to?

[mistconduct]

Shit, man. I haven't been doing that to you, have I?

Fuck.

[secretasshole]

Your intentions have been far more well meaning than plenty of others have been. If you have, I haven't been holding it against you.

[mistconduct]

Well, if I was, I swear I didn't mean to be. Fuck whoever says you're not a person.

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[fire_punk]

Made artificially? What does that even mean? And how are you not human? Are you a Djinn? [They're the only things he's met that look like they're human but aren't. At least, as far as he knows. And he knows nothing of how they start to exist.]

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[secretasshole]

[David sounds bored. Really, really bored. And maybe a little irritated.] I am a robot. I was manufactured in a factory.

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[fire_punk]

[Kevin has to think about that for a moment. He knew there were people from all kinds of places here but robots...] They figured out how to make real robots where you're from? Like in Terminator?!

[canfindrope]

I... didn't know you were a... robot? [they don't even exist on her world.]

I'm not... really human, either. I know it's not really the same, but...

[secretasshole]

Should I be congratulating you?

[canfindrope]

...Why?

[Your sarcasm.

She doesn't get it.]