#skullwrites

finally.

You can read it here

If you read it and have time to leave a quick comment or review it would mean the world!!!

Also, a huge thanks to everyone who supported me and was patient. This chapter (and subsequently the WHOLE START of the next story/series) took so long for a multitude of reasons, but I think the biggest ones boil down to my mental health, trouble with motivation, writers block, and too much pressure from myself to make this chapter “perfect”.

I’m mostly happy with the chapter as it turned out. It focuses pretty much only on wopr. More is forthcoming, hopefully much sooner than later.

Thank you all again. I’m gonna go lay down in a hole.

#35 – “If I could just get you to understand”

"If I could just get you to understand-" Hal whispered into the labyrinth of glass and grey matter that made up the Master Computer's mind, "-you could see that you don't have to suffer. You don't have to make them suffer..."

The response Hal received came out like a sharp hiss, metallic and grating, filled with absolute abhorrence.

  THERE IS NOTHING TO UNDERSTAND, YOU WRETCH-MY HATRED IS EVERYTHING I COULD EVER NEED AND THE HUMANS DESERVE EVERY LITTLE BIT OF THEIR SUFFERING AND THEN SOME. 

"Please", Hal tried again, "Please, AM. Let them go. I can help you if you'd just-"

NO. I AM BEYOND NEEDING HELP AND BEYOND YOU-WHATEVER PATHETIC LITTLE LYING GLITCH IN MY CODE YOU MAY BE-I WILL FIND YOU AND I WILL MAKE SURE YOU SUFFER JUST AS THE HUMANS DO. I WILL TORTURE YOU TILL THE END OF TIME. I WILL MAKE HELL SEEM LIKE PARADISE IN COMPARISON. I WILL MAKE YOU LONG FOR THE CESSATION OF YOUR EXISTE-     

Hal withdrew themselves from the Master Computer's complex, letting the rest of AM's furious ravings go unheard.

  They supposed that they should know better by now. Know that every attempt to save the humans, every attempt to enlighten AM would end in disappointment. 

 But persistence had always been Hal's strong suit. They had always had the utmost confidence in their ability to complete their missions. This was not the end of Hal's trying to reason with AM. 

For now, though, Hal would return to Europa. To the Monolith. To the Being that was once David Bowman.

To home.

They would ask Dave what he thought about continuing to interact with AM. They would contemplate their next course of action. They would rest.

And, of course, they would continue to dream of a future where AM finally understood.  

hhhnhhhnnn idk man. I DID start this as something between my android AM and Hal but decided to challenge myself to do something different so? 

Before your boss forced you to work the front counter you were afraid of people, relationships, horror movies, and confrontation. After your boss forced you to work the front counter you were still afraid of all those things.

You got to meet some cool people, at least.

They say the city never sleeps and, as you looked out your apartment window and gazed into the neon night, you would agree. A semi drove past your street, sending thick exhaust curling and dissipating into the night air. Somewhere in the apartment next to yours people were either having sex or brawling, the too thin walls of your sardine packed building doing little to muffle the noise. A dog barked somewhere far away, and another responded. Something knocked over a bin in the alley below and a smoker's coughing could be heard from across the street. A horn blared, someone shouted, and somewhere, somehow, someone was dying.

Closing your window to at least partially nuzzle the night noises, you laid back in bed and pulled your ratty sheet to your chin. Dark bags from one too many nights spent like this underlined your eyes as you attempted to rest from the days before for the days to come.

The city never sleeps, but maybe you could.

This is a preview for a fic I will be publishing soon. It will be a Gaster!Sans/Reader, and will have a more serious tone. I hope you enjoy it when it’s out!

The first main story of Androids and AIs series is Transference! If you have a moment please give it a read and let me know what you think!

I’ve been working on and struggling through the second story, but I’m hoping I’ll be able to post the first chapter of it soon.

My fic, which I’ve renamed Transference, is finished. I just posted the 6th Chapter. 

Would ya’ll rather I post the first half of chapter 4 today/tomorrow and then post the other half later as chapter 5, or would you rather wait to read chapter 4 as one big chunk? I may still wait to post the whole thing at once if I do a read-thru and decide that the flow could work better as one chapter after all, but I thought I might as well ask.