Open Gen Post

[mundaati]

OPEN POST



-my muselist is here
-mention who you want in the subject line
-leave me a prompt/picture/whatever
-???
-profit

Comments

[igniting]

So they tortured you. That's...

[She trails off, shaking her head in disgust. It's unthinkable.]

[epsilol]

They tortured Alpha. I'm just a byproduct.

[ Epsilon appears again just to shrug. He repressed the memories of the torture, picked at his own code until he could function properly again. ]

It was war, people do shitty things when they think it's justified.

[igniting]

Yes, they do, and that's what got us here in the first place.

[#TedFaroSucks]

[epsilol]

[ Epsilon hums a few bars from a song that's been forgotten for hundreds add years now. Something about war and what it's even good for. ]

So, are you always this cheerful?

[igniting]

Do you want me to be more cheerful while we're talking about something like this?

[Does she sound just a tiny bit defensive? Definitely not.]

[epsilol]

Uh-huh. You weren't exactly all smiles before we talked about AI torture. Come on, you can't have a stick up your ass all the time.

[igniting]

I don't.

[Rude, Epsilon.]

You just haven't said anything worth laughing at.

[epsilol]

How am I supposed to know what you'd find funny?

[ You'll learn to love his rudeness. Probably. ]

Do you even know any jokes?

[igniting]

[Aloy considers that as she heads out of the cleft in the mountains the ruins are in, towards the nearest road. This place probably looks utterly barren to Epsilon.]

What sort of jokes are you used to?

[epsilol]

Usually dark shit, but then again I was working with soldiers who knew they were gonna die sooner rather than later.

[ As they make their way across the landscape Epsilon catalogs the environment around and uses the data from the focus to supplement what he's seeing. A whole new world, huh? Weird. Still remnants from the old world poking up through the surface but the meaning is mostly lost. ]

You probably wouldn't like it. Gallows humor doesn't seem like your jam.

[igniting]

[Aloy doesn't respond immediately as she adjusts her focus on her ear. It's hard to know what to say, so she finally gives in to curiosity.]

What was it like? Before the swarm?

[epsilol]

I didn't really exist before the swarm. But everything I learned said even if it wasn't perfect, there were people trying to do something good. People usually do when they aren't being shit awful to each other.

[ Don't tell him about the Mad Sun King yet, Aloy. Let him have a little hope that the future is doing a little better on the shit awful behavior. ]

[igniting]

[She's not sure what answer she was looking for, but what he gives her is almost comforting, in an odd way.]

That's still true. Mostly.

[epsilol]

Sounds about right for humanity. There's always an asshole somewhere who wants to ruin shit for everyone else.

[ #fucktedfaro ]

85 years later

[igniting]

One? That would feel like a break. At least no one's managed to best Faro yet.

[epsilol]

And you jinxed it, thanks. I get pulled out stasis and now someone is going to go restart the apocalyp-

[ There was a whole bit he was planning, lots of snark. Except his passive scanning of everything around them finally pinged movement. ]

WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?

[ That was a fucking giant fucking robot... tiger? What the actual fuck! The future is fucking ridiculous!! ]