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[So it seems you all haven't seen the last of Roy Garnette just yet. In spite of what happened at Erria, the Wagner, untouched since then, still rose to help save Hikari's friend. Now it's at least getting a proper repair job, with the AI inside now free to focus on his existential quagmire.]
So... yeah.
Boss man didn't just get me an awesome robot to pilot... that robot... was me. An' I guess the normal-size me was just a... drone or somethin'. Dan Man, you're probably right. My past an' living on the street... nights I went hungry, winters I spent freezing my butt off... even meeting boss man himself were all a buncha lies.
But when we were out there, that dude in the Megatank knock-off needed help. And like, I could hear it. Like I wasn't blown to bits and crap. And I had to ask myself if I could just let a guy get killed and not even try to save 'im.
I mean... even with boss man I tried...
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No.
No.
No.
No.
[Hooked up to a screen, Roy's been trying to get at least a digital image of himself re-established. Kinda hard when you're only just getting into the wonderful world of computer programming even though you are one. And worst of all, his efforts seem to be straying further from the mark.]
Not in a million years...
3.
[And afterwards the Wagner can be found, looking at a small data screen in the hangar, tendrils occasionally poking at it to cycle through reports about what happened at Erria and everything afterwards.]
SCCF...
... What a bunch of scumbags...
[So it seems you all haven't seen the last of Roy Garnette just yet. In spite of what happened at Erria, the Wagner, untouched since then, still rose to help save Hikari's friend. Now it's at least getting a proper repair job, with the AI inside now free to focus on his existential quagmire.]
So... yeah.
Boss man didn't just get me an awesome robot to pilot... that robot... was me. An' I guess the normal-size me was just a... drone or somethin'. Dan Man, you're probably right. My past an' living on the street... nights I went hungry, winters I spent freezing my butt off... even meeting boss man himself were all a buncha lies.
But when we were out there, that dude in the Megatank knock-off needed help. And like, I could hear it. Like I wasn't blown to bits and crap. And I had to ask myself if I could just let a guy get killed and not even try to save 'im.
I mean... even with boss man I tried...
2.
No.
No.
No.
No.
[Hooked up to a screen, Roy's been trying to get at least a digital image of himself re-established. Kinda hard when you're only just getting into the wonderful world of computer programming even though you are one. And worst of all, his efforts seem to be straying further from the mark.]
Not in a million years...
3.
[And afterwards the Wagner can be found, looking at a small data screen in the hangar, tendrils occasionally poking at it to cycle through reports about what happened at Erria and everything afterwards.]
SCCF...
... What a bunch of scumbags...
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*Bahamut just established a future computer-to-computer link to Wagner or whatever he call himself now. What kind of link? Beats me, it's the future. Some sort of internet link? Bluetooth? Wi-fi? Beats me, it's the future.*
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... Guess that chat we had about memories 'n stuff before just got a ton more important, huh?
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I still feel like I gotta.
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By the way, what are you doing?
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So now I gotta make it all myself! I can get the general look down with the blonde hair and red clothes, sure... but I'm not a freaking artist and it's like for everything I get right, I get a billion things off!
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*Bahamut link a forum page to Wagner.*
This is how I present myself in this discussion forum, for example.
*The avatar of the account is an anime girl with bunny ears.*
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But man...that was like who I am. It's not going on the net to be a dick or talk about random stuff... this is like, my body.
And I don't wanna be a bunny girl even if she's kinda cute. I want to be me.
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Like should I really? And just going at it right off the bat? I've got a lotta crap to try to figure out first. And just going "hey, let's get tons of lip rings and purple hair and a tail" might be my style, but maybe it's not. And mebbe I only think it's my look because of programming or something like that.
I just wanna get back to square zero for starters... and then I'll worry 'bout where to go after that.
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That's good. It doesn't matter if you are a robot... or where your sentience lives, in Wagner or in a more human like body.
All that matters is that you're back.
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... Still would've liked if boss man would've like... sat me down at some point and explained that crap to me. Or just... heck I dunno.
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Considering all the circumstances, I think you did all you could. No, even more than that.
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... Like... when I got out of the Wagner and saw what I was... how many seconds did I just toss away panicking and going "oh crap, I'm a robot"?
I could've maybe saved boss man in that time if I hadn't.
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Mr Dotrice was already dead by that time. That... thing he was strapped to, was rigged to self destruct. There was nothing that could've been done. I think your... boss, would be happy to know that you're still alive, still going despite everything.
[Setsuko said the word boss, but she can't think but consider Dotrice someone else in relation to Roy, after hearing it all...]
And now, you rescued that boy, even though you didn't even have a body of your own.
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[The Wagner looks down at one of its hands.]
I'm gonna stop them. The SCCF. I mean... I gotta now that they have Dakova, right?
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I'll be there with you. We will be there - I'm sure everyone here feels the same way.
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[Asagi pauses, looking at the screen.]
...What are you doing?
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[Says the blonde-haired, red-clad man on the screen who doesn't look at all like Roy at all.]
All the time I was showing an image to people of myself when I was piloting it was fake, and the damage to the Wagner made it lose that model for me!]
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'Specially one like my old one.
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[Aaaaaand Roy's got his look down this time, except as a girl instead.]
Gaaaaah!
[The Wagner goes to faceslap itself before stopping mid-strike. The digital Roy does it instead a few moments later.]
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If you really want to stay "looking" the same you did, you can just find yourself a digital artist to make you an avatar that looks like your old body did. There's plenty of photos of it in your Unity file for a fairly decent facsimile. Then you can just manipulate it onscreen. I can probably point you at some.
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[The Wagner snaps its fingers at Kagura's suggestion, but all that comes out of it is a soft grinding noise.]
Should be tons of security footage and whatever I could use for that!
Thanks a million!
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Also, the offer if you need someone to panic to about the whole existential doubt thing stands.
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[Eva sits down.]
You are alive.
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But they got everything they wanted, at least right now.
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[Jen's brought a bottle of champagne, which she pops open and immediately begins drinking from. Though she only brought one glass.]
To the "People who don't die" club.
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If it gets wrecked, then I'm dead.