▌ ENTRY: week 1. sunday. steph.

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[ after the execution... 2b is going to watch steph struggle to get around for a bit. like, she personally understands what it's like to be stubborn and pretend everything's okay, but it's a whole other thing to watch someone else do it.

it's not long before she offers, ]

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[vigilantics]

Oh... hey, 2B, what's up?

[ is...

steph purposely ignoring the question? yeah. ]

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You're avoiding the question.

[ bnich, ]

[vigilantics]

I think I just...

[ she mumbles something. ]

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"You just..."?

[ speak up!! ]

[vigilantics]

I think they're inflamed...

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[ YTHINK? ]

You haven't finished recovering.

[vigilantics]

You're like a mom, you know that, right? A very disappointed mom who wanted better for her child.

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I wouldn't know. Androids don't have families.

[ regardless, she holds her arm out for steph to take. ]

[vigilantics]

[ she'll that the hand. ]

Oh... do you have friends? Where you're from?

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[ ... looks away as she shifts her weight to support steph's ]

Friendship is detrimental to performance in combat.

stop!!!

[vigilantics]

In my experience, it's actually the opposite!

[ god 2b sounds like fuckin batman. ]

HOW ABOUT YOU STOP GETTING HURT

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[ 2batman ]

Casualties are normal in war. Sometimes sacrifices are necessary in order to complete the objective, so befriending other units—... people—is inadvisable.

[ there's a particularly robotic inflection in her voice as she speaks, more so than normal. ]

[vigilantics]

Then what exactly are you fighting for?

[ this is... too mechanical. and while 2b is an android, that doesn't mean she's just a machine and god i cannot fucking do this, i feel david cage breathing down my neck ]

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[ look nier:a has so much more story and nuance about exploring what it means to be human than d:bh could ever dream of ]

For the future of mankind.

[vigilantics]

But what about your future? If you don't care about those are are dying around you, then what is that?

[ steph has been told that she gets too emotional about things. and maybe people are right, but it's better than the alternative. ]

"The future of mankind" is such a vague, abstract concept, 2B. You can't think of it as some big picture. It's the small ones that make up mankind. It's the people who are next to you, talking to you, who nod your head at you when you walk by and then you never see them again!

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You don't understand.

[ rather than react with indignation, 2b is calm as she responds to steph. ]

When I say "mankind," I mean humanity. They fled Earth to escape the war they created us androids to fight in. Our sole purpose has always been to ensure that humans could one day return to Earth. That's all.

[vigilantics]

So, are you going to tell me that you don't care for a single other person then in your war?

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We aren't people. We're units.

[ the stiff, stilted speech returns. ]

[vigilantics]

2B, where I'm from there are androids and cyborgs and all of that, and they're definitely people.

[ 2b is too judgey to not be a person. ]

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Then that's how it is in your world. Not mine.

[ she stubborn. ]

[vigilantics]

I dunno, cause from where I'm standing, I've now met androids from both my world and yours.