Dot Dot Dot [Video]

[ghost_bait]

[ It’s been a very long week for Miku. The room behind her is spartan and bare, since she hasn’t found it in her to ask about decoration yet, trying to absorb her new status. She is very pale, with dark brown hair bundled behind her head in a massive bun, a face framed by thick fringe, and from the way her brown eyes keep looking away from the camera, quite nervous.

Introductions, after all, are always so scary.

Her hands are clasped together, thumb rubbing over the joint of her pinky over and over as she tries to think of what to say. The Legion ring catches the light, and she bites her lip for a moment before taking a breath and setting her narrow shoulders straight.]


Good evening, my name is Miku Hinasaki... but I’m told I should call myself "Recall" now. My abilities are... retrocognition, mostly. I look forward to working with you.

[She bows politely and straightens up again, then smiles a little.]

I’m... not sure what else I should say? [The feed turns off, after a little fumbling on Miku's part.]

Comments

[turntex]

well id bet the machine thing doesnt wanna be doing that shit either
its just a slave to its drama-hungry masters
im guessing anyway for all i know it could just be a coldhearted asshole that feels nothing about our suffering
do you think the robot people can talk to machines
would it be racist to ask

[ghost_bait]

...I have no idea what you're saying.

[turntex]

okay yeah thats kind of dumb
nevermind
anyway
so how does your whole deal work
do you just tap a baddie on the shoulder and suddenly understand that theyre just acting out because their daddy didnt hug them enough or what

[ghost_bait]

That's more empathetic, I think.


Though, it is a little bit like watching a horror movie.

[turntex]

alright well thats cool as long as you dont start working for fuckin legionwatch or anything
so whats up with you
what do you normally do
besides getting dumped into alterniate universes and pulling a netflix and chill with some randos life story i mean

[ghost_bait]

I was a photographer's assistant.


What do you mean, "netflix and chill?"

[turntex]

just chilling and watching netflix what else
anyway sweet photography is my jam
i used to mess around with a camera a lot
made a darkroom in my closet and everything

[ghost_bait]

Oh. I see.


We had a room in the house for it. The chemicals were a bit much, though. It doesn't seem like something you can safely use in a closet.

[turntex]

safety wasnt really a concern in my apartment when i was a kid

[That is putting it so, so mildly.]

a whole room for it would have been cool though
less probably toxic fumes and less tripping over random piles of clothes and snack hoards

[legionnpcs]

Can you talk to a sausage?

[turntex]

yeah technically
it just isnt gonna do much talking back

[legionnpcs]

Your average computer has about the same mental capacity.

[Unsaid is the 'you racist' but Dave can probably read it. Probably about the time someone rewrites the Legion roster to include 'Pajama Sausage' rather than 'Justin Time'.]

[turntex]

well shit
learn something new every day

[Let's be real, he'd just think it was hilarious.]

[turntex]

ive been informed that im being an asshole so
whoops
sorry

[legionnpcs]

I'd been wondering if you'd been born one or if you'd had to work hard to become that way.

[turntex]

i work hard at this shit
im like a goddamn world class athlete training for the asshole olympics
do roboticans get born or made i genuinely have no idea

[legionnpcs]

We start off as Lego concepts and get built up from there.

[the_civilian]

"Roboticans". Not "robot people".

[turntex]

yeah that

[the_civilian]

A lot of people treat them pretty poorly. It doesn't take a lot of effort to not be one of them.

[turntex]

woah hey im not trying to be an asshole
i mean i will be the first to admit that im kind of a dick most of the time but like not in the racist or speciesist or whatever ist way this particular situation would be
just figured "robot people" was befter than just straight up "robot" when i cant remember the actual fuckin word
like at least that is acknowledging that theyre people right
i always figured that was the logic behind a term like "little people" being considered less offensive than "midget" even though the former calls to mind like fairies and oompa loompas and shit
but hey whatever word they like best right
robotician it is

[the_civilian]

I didn't think you were trying to be an asshole, I just thought you might not have thought it through all the way. They get a lot of crap from a lot of people, and I feel like the least we can do as people who don't have to deal with it is take a few seconds and check ourselves, you know?

[legionnpcs]

[When the Robotican Resurgence happens, Tadashi will be spared.

Dave and Yuuri will be the first against the wall.]

[turntex]

wow okay chill mr rogers
message already receieved lets not turn this into an afterschool special

[the_civilian]

ATTACH1

[plz enjoy Tadashi's slightly off-key rendition of "Won't You Be My Neighbor?"]