"I said some things to Max--the Max that's my roommate--while he was drunk. And then I heard myself saying them." It grabs a drone from its pocket, flicks it into the air to provide exact playback.
(there's the tiniest little rattling sound, because each of its drones now has googly eyes glued to it.)
The clips are modulated in volume, but it's clear the cyborg was yelling at the time. "That doesn't mean you have to live that here, too. You have choices. You're not there now, and you don't have to be what you were made!"
Max, audibly crying. "I don't want to be more! I... can't. I can't. I'm too scared. What if... what if I learn to be something else and then I just... lose it again."
"And what if you don't, Max? What's the point in holding so tightly onto this fear and pain, hard enough that you don't let yourself figure out how to live again? They made you less, made you small, broke you down, and they're not here and you are. We are. You have the space and time to find yourself again. You can choose your own name, build your own schedule, make friends, it's open to you now." A pause, and then an emphatic little "Fuck."
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Date: 2023-01-13 07:07 pm (UTC)(there's the tiniest little rattling sound, because each of its drones now has googly eyes glued to it.)
The clips are modulated in volume, but it's clear the cyborg was yelling at the time. "That doesn't mean you have to live that here, too. You have choices. You're not there now, and you don't have to be what you were made!"
Max, audibly crying. "I don't want to be more! I... can't. I can't. I'm too scared. What if... what if I learn to be something else and then I just... lose it again."
"And what if you don't, Max? What's the point in holding so tightly onto this fear and pain, hard enough that you don't let yourself figure out how to live again? They made you less, made you small, broke you down, and they're not here and you are. We are. You have the space and time to find yourself again. You can choose your own name, build your own schedule, make friends, it's open to you now." A pause, and then an emphatic little "Fuck."