▌ ENTRY: week 0. tuesday. varian.

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[ whenever varian decides to come through the dorm common room, he might spot 2b just sitting in an armchair, reading a book. pod 042 is doing its thing of bobbing off to the side near her. how... strangely peaceful, all things considered.

clearly this is an invitation for her to be bothered??? ]

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[ she's gonna pretend she didn't hear that pause. (she did tho.) ]

Looks like we do.

[ she hasn't even looked up from the book ]

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Haha, it's kind of weird that you're in here. My partner's a skeleton? You could not get any further from an android, let me tell you.

[ and it's absolutely okay that she does not care because varian has noticed the pet robot and he is coming over]

Is this little guy yours? Wow. [ a low whistle as he walks around the poor pod in a circle #observe ]

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[ zia stop making me feel bad for being a jerk to your disney boy

while 2b continues to read, the pod turns its focus to varian. if it had eyes, it would be staring right back at him. ]

Pod 042 is the tactical support pod unit assigned to me, yes. Usually it can speak for itself, but that doesn't appear to be the case within this castle.

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[ no

varian hums in thought, staring right back at the pod ]

Could it be a problem with something in its mechanics? I know there's also this area of effect around that's messing with people's, uh, "abilities", but I didn't think it would affect technology like this too...

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[ this is actually really tragic bc pod would have an actual conversation with varian, rip ]

Beats me. It can still talk to me just fine, though, so it's still fulfilling its intended purpose.

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[ that's ok, to make up for it, Varian tentatively gives the pod a pat.

... what ]

It can? How? Are you linked through your mechanics?

[ i can't justify him knowing the word circuits ]

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[ not having a face on top of being effectively mute might make it hard for varian to tell what the pod's thoughts are, but... at the very least, it doesn't seem to take it negatively??? ]

No... more like, it still talks out loud, but I'm the only one who can hear it.

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[ good pod. have some more... pats?? varian stop ]

It might be speaking at a frequency human ears aren't able to hear. If I had the proper tools, I might've been able to make something that translates it into text...

[ a beat ]

But if I had the proper tools, I, uh, I probably should be focusing on finding a way out of here, huh. Well, at least you've got someone to talk to! I talk to Rudiger all the time, but he can't really talk back. [ rudiger chitters in offense ] ... Talk back in a way I understand.

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[ an led on pod's "face" starts pulsing gently the more varian pats. this is a good thing. probably.

meanwhile, 2b finally gives up on her book, because she can tell he's not going to leave her alone :/ ]

I wasn't aware animals could understand speech at all.

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Oh, well, yeah, speech is how you train them.

[ also in tangled animals just understand normal human speech w/o training but we're not going into that. ]

Are animals gone alongside humans too?

fuck u im still gonna tag this

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[ why is disney ]

No, some are still around. They've adapted to our current environment, and most machines don't see them as threats. Guess they're naturally more resilient than humans.

oh no.... Andie tags.... horrible

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Well, probably the part where they're not registered as a threat is a big help.

[ just... Sayin ]

Humans aren't that different from animals when you get down to it, it's, well, nature.