leo - < tortoiiseknight >:
“…I see.”
The play on words there was unintended, but it didn’t matter right now anyways. The whole camera eye thing… woo. That was still fucked up to him. So he was a “test run”? That was even more fucked up. He hopes he’s the only… human subject at least, because having cameras for eyes isn’t exactly fun, especially when you decide to do something as stupid as burn them out at the last minute. That hurt like a bitch, and was probably a dumb decision on his part, but, hey, do what you gotta do.
“So that whole thing was because they wanted to do a test run, huh? That’s even more messed up than I thought it was… I was hoping that I was the only one to experience, uh.”
“–This.”
<♮> “...If it makes you feel any better, that stunt you pulled at the last minute scared the crap out of them.” She distinctly remembered a day at the office where the storywriters and some of the, well, enforcement staff were called in for an emergency meeting. Something about the show in America having one problem right at the very end - their main “camera boy” had gone offline and by the time the backup cameras were active the remaining survivors had disappeared from view. There was that whole debate about whether or not they would have to look for the trio before they all just agreed to cut the losses and cover up their fates. ‘It was just one international game’, the higher ups reasoned, ‘won’t be too much of a loss even though they won’t survive out there.’
It was a horrible thing to think about that they’d be so callous about human life, even their own creations, like that. And it brought her a little solace every time they found survivors like this alive, free from the clutches of that twisted system, because it meant life could move on from the mess.
“They decided it was too risky to continue using the same method of all-seeing eyes and scrapped the project after you disappeared. So yeah, you’re the only one that I know of with that.” Like all other final designs, these eyes were a lot more aesthetically pleasing than she remembered, leaning in to take a look. They were probably worried they’d lose the appeal or coolness factor if they made those eyes strictly camera lenses.
“I’d say the closest alternative they got was with Kiibo, the robot from Season 53. Less variables they had to control.”












