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[refantasma]

Sender: Nico di Angelo
To: Everyone
Subject: Missing android.

[Nico's handwriting is barely ledgible.]

has anyone seen 9S? I haven't seen him since the mockingbirds were going around and telling everyone's thoughts. last I saw him; he didn't look too good

he looks like a boy in his mid-teens, with white hair and wearing a lot of black. also he says hes an android and he didnt feel human so i believed him

Im worried about him. has anyone else seen him?

Comments

Sender: Reaper

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[Reaper's writing is neat, almost painfully so. Like he isn't used to hand writing.]

Have you checked all the basements? He sounds like he might be having a classic goth moment.

[refantasma]

[It makes it easier for Nico to read though!]

Ive checked everywhere.

The basements were my 1st thot. Im goth too... so yeah.

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Maybe play some death or heavy metal and see if he comes running.

[refantasma]

I dont think he had music when hes from. but I can tri

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Music is just a collection of sound in a rhythm. Everyone has music even if they don't call it that.

[refantasma]

yeah but there's no human people in his time. and Im from how he spoke I dont think androids were programmed to make music.

Any requests? Im thinking the Cure.

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They require sentience for that, yes. Now I wonder what joy these androids have where they came from.

Metallica is a good ease in.

[refantasma]

he seemed to have.... what's the other word? sampience? he seemed to have that. he was very excited to meet a human.

true. but I dont like their later stuff.

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No doubt if he has AI then he will develop what he needs to understand more.

No, their later years are garbage. It's a good start to metal in general.

[refantasma]

he had emotishins, so probably.

what other bands do you like? I like Lacuna Coil. Im biased because theyre Italian.

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I won't claim to know what that is.

Not a bad choice. I'll say the very old classic emo songs of Linkin Park, but I'm also fond of Death Rising, The Gravediggers, and Howling Wraiths.

[The latter three are from his time period and one's he had listened to during the Omnic Crisis.]

[refantasma]

I probably mispeled it. Feelings.

I like Linkin Park.

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Oh yes, how can they not have feelings? Emotions are just electrical and chemical signals in the brain. That can be replicated in AI's.

If someone doesn't like Linkin Park in certain moods, they clearly have no taste in music or were never teenagers.

[refantasma]

really? Ive met gods of emotions. well one. Achlys the goddess of grief in particular.

but you say theyre just chemicals in the brain? thats interesting

any other recomendashins? anything Italian?

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So have I, and they are all dramatic over-powered children despite taking the appearance of adults. They do like their powered up penis-measuring contests.

It seems far too limiting to just have one emotion. The brain is a complex organ and considering chemicals can alter it.

[He also hung around one too many scientists that liked to prattle on about such subjects.]

I know of some, but Italian isn't much my wheelhouse. Senzabenza had a good run. Talco, Melody Fall, Negazione, Raw Power, and Wretched I've listened to here and there.

[refantasma]

I...
well youre not wrong about some of them. most of them. Id say my father isnt like that, but Percy would probably say he is.

youre not wrong about it being complex. but theres also a god for everything. Apollo told me science is one of the forces moving the sun along with the gods. Apollos one of the nicer ones, at least from the one time i met him. kinda ditzy tho

As soon as I wake up Im going to check those out.

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Considering most 'gods' are very old, they seem to regress to childish antics and school-yard rivalries. No doubt you think they have some benefits to the sheep, but who knows. Worship is just a way to make weak people feel less hopeless.

Apollo strokes his own ego, by the sounds of it. The sun captured planetary bodies in its gravitational pull and hold them there as they complete their own rotations.

I'm sure I could think of others if I thought about it.

[refantasma]

how many gods have you met??

I wont lie. he does. hes a ditz according to his kids. I dont know enough about science to dispute him.

huh. just realized i haven't to school since fifth grade.

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Three? At least they claimed they were gods and had power to make lives miserable with their tantrums.

[He had forsaken more than his fair share over the course of his life.]

It sounds like a lot of ego stroking to me.

As long as you have the life skills, a formal education can be optional. Critical thinking and curiosity are far better.

[refantasma]

too be fair, i have that power too.

hmm. i guess youre right.

'critical thinking' you mean like making my own decishuns?

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Do you? Be careful how you decide to flaunt it.

No. Anyone can make a decision and think it is their own. Critical thinking is problem solving and taking taking all the various opinions and knowledge but forming your own perspective. "Think outside the box" as it were.

[refantasma]

I tri not to.

[Nico is convinced he's the least powerful of the demigods here at the moment.]

I do my best. Ive been told my perspective is 'too negative' tho.

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By whom?

[refantasma]

pretty much every1 back home.

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You don't come across as cynical to me. I could show them a thing or two about negative perspectives.