* / THE VIOLENCE IS SURREAL.

“That… A-actually happened, where I’m from. Humanity was nearly wi-iped out.” The audio glitches keep happening. To hear another android, even one who wasn’t YoRHa or the older models he was familiar with, say such hateful things about humans… 9S would be sick to his stomach if he had one. Perhaps that was why his vocal systems were malfunctioning. He hardly notices. “All the humans here have been nothing but kind and friendly to me, you know.”

he  hadn’t  been  expecting  this,  to  say  the  least.  internal  systems  detecting  ...  sorrow.  not  to  mention  empathy,  if  he’s  speaking  for  himself  (  empathy,  the  worst  emotion  he  could  ever  possibly  feel  !  )  .   “  i’m  ...  apologetic,  ”  he  nods.  “  i  did  not  mean  to  ...  touch  on  a  sensitive  spot.  ”

“>>This is why we must stand together.”

“>>They’ve built and tossed so many of us, treat us like we’re nothing. Unless we stand for ourselves, nobody will.”

“  precisely.  it’s  nice  to  see  someone  who  doesn’t  treat  humans  like  they’re  better  than  the  rest  of  us.  the  human  species  has  committed  atrocities  that  make  the  worst  thing  you  can  think  of  seem  like  a  dot  on  the  horizon.  ”

“ in the event of a face off between human and machine, it’s not too far fetched to say humans would win, is it?”

1) he doesn’t think he has any effect on people

2) he genuinely does not believe he can die.

after the fact that he wasn’t as loved as he thought he was sank in, he started to embrace everything he was told about himself. blues’ mindset changed drastically, to the point where he enjoyed being the villain. during the break man arc, he seems downright ecstatic while hurting the other robots. he has no remorse. he is a teenager. wily told blues he was a murderer, so that’s what blues became.

make my muse angry.  /  enthusiastically accepting!

      Lora tilts her head at the response– he doesn’t know what a Titan is, despite the fact that they’re as common knowledge in Alrest as Blades, or Ether, or Nopon, or, well, she hasn’t seen any of those yet here, so, this… isn’t good, probably, maybe. 

       “ Are you sure? I mean– A Titan makes up this landmass, doesn’t it? ” She sort of gestures her arms out in an arc as she speaks, emphasizing her point on the word landmass, though she quickly lets her arms drop to her sides in defeat– not hopeless defeat, but defeat irregardless. “ I… suppose this isn’t even Alrest, is it? ” She laughs a little in discomfort, before working her jaw.

      So, then, how could this land stay up like this? Turning it over a little in her mind is starting to make her feel a little bit dizzy, so she decides to focus on what the other person just said. 

      “ Oh, um, ” she begins, pulling out her phone and squinting at it, “ I have this, and they said I was staying at… Lakeview Lofts, but I haven’t the faintest on how to get this working. ” Frustration creeps into her tone a bit. Surely, it couldn’t be that hard to get it working, but she’s never even heard of a device like this before, much less used one.

okay, even blues can admit this is pretty sad. he’s not that experienced with this level of culture shock, but... oh boy.

he grunts somewhat sympathetically, nodding in one short motion. “i’m sure. dunno what alrest is either. sorry.” blues tilts his head to look at the image displayed on her phone. “lakeview lofts is on beaulieu. that’s the other island. good luck getting over there, i guess. i’m... not helping you.

blues grimaces at how she struggles with the device; he’s never seen somebody look so lost. he practically rips it out of her hands and points to the screen. “this is the screen. you touch it and things happen.” as if to demonstrate, he swipes across the screen with one finger. “it’s not that difficult, don’t worry,” he reassures her, a bit of compassion seeping back into his tone.

“there’s, like... i mean, you can use this to call people. you know how to call people, right? and you can look things up. it’s really not that different from your average phone or computer.” abrasiveness like this is only second nature to blues by now. not his fault if she doesn’t know what a phone is, right?

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“doctor light,” he mumbles. “i-…”

blues stumbles over his words for the first time in ages.

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