Oh, this again. I suppose it is a more normal mindset.
[his emotions are a little odd still - like they're not being processed correctly. there is a sense of almost amusement, but more than that a curiosity. distantly, very small, a quiet murmur of appreciation.]
That's right. Though more accurately, it would be me with all the memories just before arriving on this ship.
Because there shouldn't be two of me. I agree that protocol is to replace me so that I'm able to continue my work on the research to save the rest of the island. I wrote it myself.
However, Relivers were never meant to co-exist with the individual they're replacing. They should only be a last resort after death.
I don't know that much about how it started. The technology's supposed to be banned in the first place. But... a group of people tried to use it to make a replacement for an important person who was about to die without a successor. They did it secretly, so nobody would know he died.
[ she's trying not to show it, but there's a mixture of heavy emotions there. sadness, longing, frustration, grief. ]
And when a replica meets their original... it's not like there's a "protocol" for that. They work it out. Or they don't, and they fight about it like idiots.
It is a reasonable technology to be banned. [and because he's not polite enough to ignore the feelings that he gets from her (even though they don't quite process all the way for him, disappearing before they reach full strength)] You clearly have a personal investment in it.
Then I'll answer that the Reliver process was developed specifically because the residents of Arpéchéle all die by the time they reach age 23. I invented as a temporary measure until I discovered the cause of this so-called curse. Relivers cannot coexist with each other because the procedure is for the corpse to be brought to the Institute before we create the Reliver. This is to prevent, as you call it, 'fighting like idiots'.
My case is an exception, as the country would fall apart without me. I've been assassinated via abduction and murder before, after all. As such, a new Reliver may be created once I have disappeared for a long enough amount of time. The reason I cannot exist with another me is because the power struggle would be too annoying to deal with, and bystanders who have nothing to do with it could get caught in the mess. It is easier for myself to accept that, as the outdated vessel, I should die.
[i wish that he could have even the slightest flicker of emotion about this - about any of this. but no, there isn't so much as a ripple of uncertainty or anxiety]
[ anise, on the other hand, is having a lot of emotions, because she's slowly realizing just how much death that is. it's horrifying. it's sad. can it even be true? ]
[all of her emotions resonate with him - to a degree. when they enter his end of the connection, they do the same thing of that rise in crescendo until they suddenly falter and disappear.]
All my life, and then at least since my father and my grandfather's lives before me. Supposedly, hundreds of years.
Reliver technology is used to, at least slightly, delay the extinction of our population until a remedy is found.
[ . . . eugh there's so many emotions here and there's a vague sense of annoyance from him - mostly at just having to feel all of it. but even thee annoyance doesn't resonate quite right]
It won't last forever. I won't allow it.
Reliver technology is a temporary measure to grant us more time until we're able to discern the cause of the curse. Don't pity us, or overly worry.
But that is where we differ from fomicry. Don't conflate the two, when the circumstances of their origin were different.
[ not that she can actually control her feelings like that. but she understands that fretting doesn't fix anything. ]
I just can't stand the idea of people's lives being treated like something that's easily replaced. The way you were talking before, I thought you were taking this way too lightly.
[ and if she misunderstood, it's probably his own fault for sounding like that... ]
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Before, you were acting like it didn't matter if you died, because they'd just make another you. But even if they did that, you'd still be dead.
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[his emotions are a little odd still - like they're not being processed correctly. there is a sense of almost amusement, but more than that a curiosity. distantly, very small, a quiet murmur of appreciation.]
That's right. Though more accurately, it would be me with all the memories just before arriving on this ship.
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[and yet his emotions remain entirely even the whole time, not even a blip of concern]
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Why!?
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Because there shouldn't be two of me. I agree that protocol is to replace me so that I'm able to continue my work on the research to save the rest of the island. I wrote it myself.
However, Relivers were never meant to co-exist with the individual they're replacing. They should only be a last resort after death.
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They are two different answers.
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What was your fomicry technology developed for?
What do your replicas do when they are introduced to a world in which the person they were cloned from is still alive?
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[ so rude, to expect her to reciprocate. ]
I don't know that much about how it started. The technology's supposed to be banned in the first place. But... a group of people tried to use it to make a replacement for an important person who was about to die without a successor. They did it secretly, so nobody would know he died.
[ she's trying not to show it, but there's a mixture of heavy emotions there. sadness, longing, frustration, grief. ]
And when a replica meets their original... it's not like there's a "protocol" for that. They work it out. Or they don't, and they fight about it like idiots.
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It is a reasonable technology to be banned. [and because he's not polite enough to ignore the feelings that he gets from her (even though they don't quite process all the way for him, disappearing before they reach full strength)] You clearly have a personal investment in it.
Then I'll answer that the Reliver process was developed specifically because the residents of Arpéchéle all die by the time they reach age 23. I invented as a temporary measure until I discovered the cause of this so-called curse. Relivers cannot coexist with each other because the procedure is for the corpse to be brought to the Institute before we create the Reliver. This is to prevent, as you call it, 'fighting like idiots'.
My case is an exception, as the country would fall apart without me. I've been assassinated via abduction and murder before, after all. As such, a new Reliver may be created once I have disappeared for a long enough amount of time. The reason I cannot exist with another me is because the power struggle would be too annoying to deal with, and bystanders who have nothing to do with it could get caught in the mess. It is easier for myself to accept that, as the outdated vessel, I should die.
[i wish that he could have even the slightest flicker of emotion about this - about any of this. but no, there isn't so much as a ripple of uncertainty or anxiety]
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[ THAT'S A LOT TO TAKE IN. ]
... Everyone?
[ anise, on the other hand, is having a lot of emotions, because she's slowly realizing just how much death that is. it's horrifying. it's sad. can it even be true? ]
How long has it been like that? That... curse?
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All my life, and then at least since my father and my grandfather's lives before me. Supposedly, hundreds of years.
Reliver technology is used to, at least slightly, delay the extinction of our population until a remedy is found.
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[ it's sad. incredibly so.
... there has to be some hope in all of this, doesn't there? that's where her thoughts go to next, as he might be able to perceive. ]
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It won't last forever. I won't allow it.
Reliver technology is a temporary measure to grant us more time until we're able to discern the cause of the curse. Don't pity us, or overly worry.
But that is where we differ from fomicry. Don't conflate the two, when the circumstances of their origin were different.
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[ not that she can actually control her feelings like that. but she understands that fretting doesn't fix anything. ]
I just can't stand the idea of people's lives being treated like something that's easily replaced. The way you were talking before, I thought you were taking this way too lightly.
[ and if she misunderstood, it's probably his own fault for sounding like that... ]
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I don't particularly care to get into semantics. Everyone has their own relationship with life and death.
But this is my life and extended life's work, and my responsibility. That's all there is to it.