RE: Only Human [Robot Girl Adventure]
06-12-2019, 12:06 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-12-2019, 12:10 AM by 2gihagi.)
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If I try to remember, I can see it… The time when I was created, at General Robotics.
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There were so many of me, all different, all the same. We were lined up like products, inhuman and foreign to others. Maybe we had a little bit of humanity, but 0.01 percent is nothing compared to the other half. We were but soulless husks compared to the real thing. But…
> Kara.
I remember being told my code. By someone with kind eyes and… what I assumed were warm hands. They looked like they were warm, I can’t tell. They looked down at me, pat me on the head, and told me that code… GR AH3- GL 5B-C45-n°755H58B. It was long. It was clunky. They thought for a moment, and dubbed me with a name I’m ashamed of forgetting.
Carolyn. Or Kara for short. They told me, Kara meant friend. And they finished it with… “You’re going to change the world.”
> Want .. .. need.... sounds like you've got some emotions, if only desire, loneliness and frustration for a start.
I know I have emotions, to a small amount. But they… I don’t remember how exactly I got them. I’ve been alone for so long, so maybe that’s how? But I’m still not sure.
My hand is lingering over the doorknob to the outside of my unit, and I look down at it with thought.
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I don’t think I can go outside yet. Maybe I should do something to pass the time.
If I try to remember, I can see it… The time when I was created, at General Robotics.
>
There were so many of me, all different, all the same. We were lined up like products, inhuman and foreign to others. Maybe we had a little bit of humanity, but 0.01 percent is nothing compared to the other half. We were but soulless husks compared to the real thing. But…
> Kara.
I remember being told my code. By someone with kind eyes and… what I assumed were warm hands. They looked like they were warm, I can’t tell. They looked down at me, pat me on the head, and told me that code… GR AH3- GL 5B-C45-n°755H58B. It was long. It was clunky. They thought for a moment, and dubbed me with a name I’m ashamed of forgetting.
Carolyn. Or Kara for short. They told me, Kara meant friend. And they finished it with… “You’re going to change the world.”
> Want .. .. need.... sounds like you've got some emotions, if only desire, loneliness and frustration for a start.
I know I have emotions, to a small amount. But they… I don’t remember how exactly I got them. I’ve been alone for so long, so maybe that’s how? But I’m still not sure.
My hand is lingering over the doorknob to the outside of my unit, and I look down at it with thought.
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I don’t think I can go outside yet. Maybe I should do something to pass the time.