#infriga

To be fair Chatgpt isn't the same kind of ai. It's not a simulated intelligence with thought processes or reasoning, it's just an extra detailed algorithm based around pattern recognition and replication. It doesn't truly think, it just acts. I think the term people use nowadays is "narrow AI", whereas the dbh androids are "general ai" which understand and reason and think like humans do. So chatgpt in a robot body wouldn't be the same thing as the androids in dbh.

first of all, chatgpt isn't an AI at all and has nothing to do with intelligence, and neither does any of these language models that people keep calling AI. all the science-fiction authors are rolling in their graves.

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Absolutely! It’s beautiful. 

And I think it actually brings up a really interesting contrast. When Fai speaks here he uses past tense.

(OOPS THIS POST HAS SPOILERS ALL THE WAY TO THE END OF SERESU, CASUAL EYES LOOK AWAY)

The past tense Fai uses makes it seem like his imprisonment is over, but it really isn’t. Though he’s no longer trapped in the ravine he has not been free a single moment of his life. Even after his rescue from Ashura, he’s been imprisoned by Evil Wolverine’s curses, and his plans, and Ashura’s manipulations to try break them. Every moment of Fai’s life has been railroaded for him by other people, including this journey right here. 

I think Fai’s “cage” finally comes to its final stage when the final curse triggers and Seresu collapses around him. The closing of the world is Fai’s final imprisonment, both literally and mentally, since it’s an actual trap that will kill him but it also matches his mindset that you mentioned. 

And, again like you mention, KUROGANE who breaks him out of this last cage. Kurogane cuts off his own arm to pull Fai out of his final prison once and for all - and at the same time, Kurogane’s love for Fai shows him that he is worth it, he deserves to be free, and he deserves to be loved for just existing without any greater design on his life. 

So in the LITERAL sense Kurogane ends up being “the one who would take me along” in more ways than one. 

No instances of calm I can find, amusingly!

Send me a flame to get my honest opinion on a topic. (No overt discourse, though.)

I am all about canon divergent AUs that split off from specific points. The “what if X happened instead” scenarios. Ahah, that’s probably evident in a lot of my stories. 

Beyond that, though, I just like to read/make stuff that is canon-compliant, but explores things that might’ve happened in between episodes, or things during episodes from a different perspective. I’m not sure I really gravitate towards any specific tropes, so much as I just like to see stories with good character work.

The amusingly timed good news is that mere minutes after I answered the last ask about this, my mother texted me letting me know this package had arrived! That’s incredibly reassuring, I’m glad to solidly know that it didn’t get lost in transit traveling such a far way.

2) Which scene was your favorite to write in Crack the Paragon?

One of my favorite scenes I’ve written is coming up soon, in chapter 14! :D

My other favorite scene is when Steven’s halves fuse back into one in chapter 6. I still am very happy with some of the description in that bit, and how it stands as a genuinely blissful, happy, self-love filled moment in an otherwise kinda emotionally “ooof” story, ahah. 

Oh goodness, the part I’m in the midst of writing right now XD

I’m at the de-escalating conflict, comfort part of this story and my brain has suddenly decided to shut down, as mean as it is. For whatever reason, it’s often so much easier to write pain and angst. The first chapter was by far the easiest to write.