NOT just A ROBOT
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There's always a right tool for the job, be it as simple as a hammer for a nail or on up to the much, much more complex. In this, the near future, the new tool for the abstract, post-modern job is no longer from the humble tool box - it's robots. Robots have taken over most sectors, such as assembly, law enforcement, and even health care. Things run so much smoother when they're automated. Yet the most impressive factor is that robots have just recently begun to enter a sector previously believed to require human touch: the personal sector. From personal assistants to robo bodyguards to pleasurebots, most anyone who's anyone has a personal robot these days. Of course, humanity being the narcissistic charmers we are, all "companion" sector robots are made in our own beautiful image, or close to it.
But you know this. You have a personal robot, after all...or you are one.
Whether owner or robot, it's important to remember one key rule: robots, no matter how human they appear, cannot feel emotions. Any appearances thereof are programming in the AI.
Robots certainly, absolutely, cannot fall in love. Again, any appearances thereof are programming in the AI. If that's not the case, and "love" still seems present...
...well, a toll that no longer functions correctly may not be right for the job.
HOW TO PLAY ➟
- Comment with your character, preference, and whether you want to play a human or a robot.
- Reply to others.
- Use the RNG to choose a prompt or pick one yourself.
OWNER ➟
- Long Time Owner → You and your robot are a well-oiled machine, no pun intended.
- New Purchase → Congratulations, you have your brand new personal bot!
- Second Hand → Someone else owned this robot before you, but it can't be too damaged. There's no way you could afford a brand new one, anyway.
- For Science! → Your interests in robots are purely scientific. No matter how yours begins to act towards you, honest!
- Rescue → Whether you took them from the dump or from a bad owner, you brought this robot from the jaws of deletion.
- Reluctant → You never wanted a robot, but you've got one thrust on you anyway.
- Cruel → They're just a fancy computer, so you'll treat them however you like.
- See the Humanity → Even if you know it's all machinery and programming, you can't help but see the human side of your robot. They shouldn't have to be a servant.
- What's Real and What's Not → The lines are beginning to blur between real people and their emotions and your robot.
- Incompatible → You can't be with a machine, either romantically or sexually. You're simply not compatible.
- Too Engrossed → They say you've created a fantasy world. You're forgetting reality, or choosing to ignore it.
- Don't Care → You won't listen to what the others say; you know how you feel.
- Have to Pull Away → The close relationship you had with your robot has to be put aside for your own good.
- Live a Normal Life → As much as you can, you and your robot live like a normal couple.
- Bad End → Your robot is taken away, reprogrammed, or destroyed.
ROBOT ➟
- The Perfect Robot → You know what you and exactly what you were made to do. You will not stray.
- More Human than Human → Whoever programmed you made you to be just like a human.
- Conflicted → There is no way you could have what they call "feelings." But what is this stirring in your circuitry?
- Confused → Why do people treat you like a robot? You're a living thing, damn it!
- Damaged → Somehow, you've been corrupted. You're a blank slate and have to be cared for, though it should be the opposite. Or it could be that you're showing erratic behavior that no robot should...
- Shown Kindness → When you're treated kindly by a human, you are unsure how to process it. It makes you feel - content.
- No Longer Just a Program → Your "love" and "affection" may have been shades and imitations at first, but that's not the case any longer.
- Obsolete Model → You know you're old. Will you be forced to leave your master's side?
- Jealousy → A robot should not feel jealous. Still, you envy those close to your master.
- Job is Personal → You were programmed to protect or to serve, though you also do it because you...care
- Second Chance → Your old master tossed you aside and now you are wary. But you've been given another chance instead of being used for scrap.
- Rogue → There is no way you will be tied to the oppressive system. You refuse to serve the Living Things. Somehow, though, you've become aligned with one.
- One of a Kind → There are no other robots like you, and perhaps you are intended for a sinister fate. Rather than face your true duty, you have escaped to take refuge with a human.
- Specialty → You were created specifically for this one special person.
- Reprogrammed → Because of previous defects, you were taken back to factory settings before. However, that treacherous virus, "love," is bubbling back up.
- Android → You can't just forget the part of you that was - still is - organic.
- Learn to Be Human → Despite the odds and the prejudices you both will face, you have decided to live as a free, living person with the one you care for most.
- Bad End → You're to be junked, impacted, wiped clean, or taken away from your owner.
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bakerstreet2023-02-19 10:09 am
"elan ceres"* | msg: witch from mercury
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Not by choice, of course, but so few things have been since she first sat in the cockpit of her Sentinel. The bitter irony is, of course, that choosing to pilot No. 14 was something she decided for herself without any clue of what she was signing up for.
There had been twenty-five Sentinels to start with – twenty-five other lucky compatible ones hand picked for their ability to withstand high Permet scores and the destabilizing effects of the Sentinel's systems. She doesn't know what they're working towards, even for all the digging that she's done – just that twenty-five have been whittled down to thirteen and whatever progress is being made on the Sentinel research isn't anything Ryoko has access to. She just knows that the more tests they do, the more times she goes out into space and surveys asteroids and rocky debris, the more her head frays apart, the more her skin blooms with phantom bruises under the surface.
She's not a fool. She knows she's being used to the last, wrung dry of every drop of sweat and tears she can give. But she's stubborn, if nothing else, and even if the Sentinel ends up pulling her to shreds in the process of wringing out whatever data the Shikishima Group want from it, then Ryoko's determined to last longer than all the others. She'll be the last one standing, even if it rots her from the inside out.
But of course, that can't happen until they're down to the very last drop of blood.
And so, Ryoko Shinonome has a shadow. A hand-picked caretaker assigned to make sure she doesn't fall apart until Shikishima get their money's worth out of her. She'd objected at first, loudly and at length, but as time has passed, she's gotten... used to things. In her own begrudging way. ]
... you didn't have to wait for me.
[ The benches lining the walls outside the hangers are uncomfortable enough to seem like a joke, but here he is – like he's been sat there waiting for her to be done for the day since she walked into the hanger bay this morning.
She wrinkles her nose a little. She looks worn out and the dark circles under her eyes are stark against her pale face but... that's not the worst it's been. Not a good day, but not a particularly bad one, either. She'll take it. ]
If we're running tests all day, you can spend the time anywhere you like.
Himeno | Chainsaw Man
robot prompt prefs: 2, 7, 8, 14
owner prompt prefs: 1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 12, 14 ]
Hayden | Choices
Ross Hunt | Original
angel | csm
Maedhros | the silmarillion | ota
Tony Stark | MCU | Ota
rk800 "connor" | detroit become human
Techie | Dredd | OTA
Gabreel King | OC | OTA
The Tinker + Star Wars OC + OTA
The Other Mother ~ Coraline ~ F/F
weiss schnee . rwby . f/m
Jyn Erso / Rogue One / OTA
Ben Solo / Star Wars / OTA
Rey / Star Wars / OTA