1st Mistake
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[The feed comes on, but of course…it doesn’t appear to be intentional. A pink paw comes onto the screen, tapping it rather slowly. A voice is heard.]
Hey, hey, you knock it off! Whatever…you are…. What even are you mate…come on? What kind of get up is that, being pink and slow….
[He sighs and moves to pick up the Gear, but struggles a bit as he tries to grasp the device. He continually picks it up for a few moments before he drops it again. His form comes into view and an average sized boy hunches over. Pearl skinned, lanky and a head covered by ginger curls. He wore some sort of science uniform or jumpsuit? It wasn't normally seen in such a setting.]
Oh shit! Snap! Stupid human fingers! Who’s bloody idea was to turn me into a human. Magic doesn’t exist and I sure aren’t in Aperture Labs…. Darn it! Come on!
[With much struggle he finally succeeds and stares back at the camera for a while before turning to look at his slowpoke]
No. Don’t think that way, here you are calling me names when you can’t even do a damn thing yourself.
And just to get something straight. I’m not a moron and I know you weren’t just thinking it, because wouldn’t that be calling the kettle black. Not that I am the kettle…or a black kettle or a pot. Right! The pot calling the kettle black! That is not happening right now.
[Plop and the Gear falls from his fingers again.]
Damn! Stupid humans! Stupid human fingers! What is going on!
[A pause.]
No! I don’t need you to comment on that! [Wait was he actually talking to the pokemon. Thinking that it would respond? Odd.]
Hey, hey, you knock it off! Whatever…you are…. What even are you mate…come on? What kind of get up is that, being pink and slow….
[He sighs and moves to pick up the Gear, but struggles a bit as he tries to grasp the device. He continually picks it up for a few moments before he drops it again. His form comes into view and an average sized boy hunches over. Pearl skinned, lanky and a head covered by ginger curls. He wore some sort of science uniform or jumpsuit? It wasn't normally seen in such a setting.]
Oh shit! Snap! Stupid human fingers! Who’s bloody idea was to turn me into a human. Magic doesn’t exist and I sure aren’t in Aperture Labs…. Darn it! Come on!
[With much struggle he finally succeeds and stares back at the camera for a while before turning to look at his slowpoke]
No. Don’t think that way, here you are calling me names when you can’t even do a damn thing yourself.
And just to get something straight. I’m not a moron and I know you weren’t just thinking it, because wouldn’t that be calling the kettle black. Not that I am the kettle…or a black kettle or a pot. Right! The pot calling the kettle black! That is not happening right now.
[Plop and the Gear falls from his fingers again.]
Damn! Stupid humans! Stupid human fingers! What is going on!
[A pause.]
No! I don’t need you to comment on that! [Wait was he actually talking to the pokemon. Thinking that it would respond? Odd.]
[video]
Date: 2015-04-10 11:54 pm (UTC)and this slips out first.]
Magic exists.
[what did the fellow mean, it doesn't? what an odd thing to say, or at least an odd thing to say like you're sure of. but then again, everywhere people hail from here is different, isn't it?
as for the chiding of the Pokemon, Cole just sort of... assumes Wheatley can hear what it's thinking, like he could with his Ralts.]
--You're not a moron. You're confused, flustered... [right? he still can't feel any of that, but it looks really, really safe to say that based on cues.] I don't know whose idea it was, either, but I don't think you have anything to be afraid of for now...
I hope being a human doesn't hurt you -- that it isn't too upsetting.
[video]
Date: 2015-04-11 04:35 am (UTC)Humans, now humans believe in magic, but I don't so there must be some other reason, not magic, for why I am now a human.
[He pauses, smiles and rubs the back of his head nervously.]
Of course humans aren't bad! I don't...I'm not one! I'm a robot...a small core AI and I work at Aperture Labs.
[video]
Date: 2015-04-11 04:55 am (UTC)and... oof, even if he's eager to try, Cole isn't sure how to best respond to that...]
I--don't know what those are... but I wasn't always human, either. Humans aren't the only ones who can believe in magic. It's in a lot of places where I come from. Many don't like it--but to not like it, they still have to know it. Of it--not how it works, or why it is. Or always when it's magic, or something else.
[buuut if this one's something Cole hasn't even heard of, he could have some perspective of his own, and Cole's curious.]
But if... you don't have magic, then what do you think it could be?
[he lets his head fall tilted.]
[video]
Date: 2015-04-11 05:39 am (UTC)That's a mock. Well I don't believe in magic...and the rest of my...coworkers? Yes, yes, coworkers sure don't! Humans, I've only met one you see so I don't know much about what they believe in except that it's not very factual. Your culture is colorful, robust and rich with centuries of events and beliefs....
[He pauses.]
I guess they're mine too...no! No, this is just a case of the inside not matching the outside. I think it's just a joke, maybe some prank Jerry is playing at. He just wired a dream into my main circuit and I'll wake up.... No...that's not right because I'm in space with that little bot. Oh maybe, bloody maybe, our main circuits wired, synced up ya know and he's just broadcasting his dreams into my display. Yeah, that's gotta be it.
[video]
Date: 2015-04-11 05:43 am (UTC)You-- don't think we're real?
[video]
Date: 2015-04-11 05:56 am (UTC)I think it's a dinosaur, if I had my back up database I could look it up! But, a pink, slow, animal following me around.Do animals normally look like this.
[A pause for dramatic effect.]
No, no. The answer is no they don't...I'm pretty sure they don't.
[video]
Date: 2015-04-11 06:10 am (UTC)[he's not sure if he's working towards the right goal, here, or if he's making progress toward any goal at all. he sorta nods to himself, as if to reassure himself he's getting something right.]
Is there a normal way for animals to look?
[another question he's actually sincere about. there are so many kinds of animals, after all. they don't have much in common other than all that corporeal jazz.]
[video]
Date: 2015-04-11 06:43 am (UTC)Okay, okay I'll play along. I'm real, this is happening. If I wake up tomorrow and this dope face is still staring at me with it's dumb grin then you're right.
[He thought about that for a moment.]
No...I guess all animals look different. Mostly because they have different survival instincts and appendages that set them apart. Even humans are animals, but robots...no we aren't animals. All the humans I've known, save for one, were dead. Brain dead vegetables and I was in charge of them. Not that it matters for much here, because I'm not at Aperture. Even though I wasn't last time I remember and was instead floating through the depths of space. Heck I ran everything back at Aperture...messed it up and things went sour which is why I'm in space, but...now I'm here.
[video]
Date: 2015-04-11 07:19 am (UTC)no humans where this one comes from... if there are no other "people" there either, besides ones who somehow aren't animals, then maybe that's why there's no magic there? not very helpful to think out loud about, though.]
Because... you messed it up?
[video]
Date: 2015-04-11 07:51 am (UTC)[He shrugs it off and it was unclear if he generally felt remorse or was saying he did.]
[video]
Date: 2015-04-11 06:49 pm (UTC)As long as you wouldn't do anything like it again.
[starting that with a conditional doesn't make him feel any better. he wants to believe Wheatley, but...]
--The animals are real, too. And they are very smart here... They're supposed to be our friends-- companions.
Why was yours calling you names?
[video]
Date: 2015-04-11 07:44 pm (UTC)Not sure how they are companions when they are...dumb. Oh! he was calling me a moron, which just to clarify I am not. I mean we just met and already he is calling me names. Rude, just an all out hate crime. I don't even know what to call it, Slowpoke, is what the tiny computer said. Speaking of which why doesn't it bloody talk, the computer I mean, it doesn't say much.
[video]
Date: 2015-04-12 04:41 am (UTC)also, he shakes his head.]
I-I don't know. Are computers supposed to talk more?
We didn't have them where I lived. Anywhere I lived.
[video]
Date: 2015-04-12 08:18 pm (UTC)[In so many words he might be calling you stupid.]
[video]
Date: 2015-04-12 09:29 pm (UTC)We have science.
[his tone of voice is light and friendly, still, but he looks a little put out--not offended, so much as like he's just been told a joke that he can't wrap his head around.]
...But we don't have computers!
[video]
Date: 2015-04-17 03:06 am (UTC)No computers! Well...that is...well unfortunate.
[Video]
Date: 2015-04-11 02:19 am (UTC)[He'll always be out-raged every time he hears that]
How else do you explain the fact you're human now?
Why you've been magically transported to another world. A world of - POKEMON!
[Just how even with his body?]
[Video]
Date: 2015-04-11 04:35 am (UTC)[No..something is very off.]
Are you okay mate?
Re: [Video]
Date: 2015-04-12 12:00 am (UTC)[Denzel looks at the other because why would you ask?]
So tell me- [As Crocke fixes his glasses]
What exactly where you before you magically transformed into a human?
[Video]
Date: 2015-04-12 02:30 am (UTC)[This guy was weird...but to his credit he was a human.]
To answer your question I was a nanobot. An AI, core personality manufactured in Aperture Science Incorporated. Property of!
Re: [Video]
Date: 2015-04-17 12:04 am (UTC)OF COURSE IT'S MAGIC! How else would you explain this? How else?!
Oh. That explains your attitude.
[Video]
Date: 2015-04-17 02:58 am (UTC)[Video]
Date: 2015-05-04 11:38 pm (UTC)[Crocker exclaims in frustration]
Tch. You're only reminding me, why, I, Mr. Crocker dislike my world so much.
[He states as he crosses his arms]
[Video]
Date: 2015-04-11 02:49 pm (UTC)[France coughs, a little awkwardly, before rallying and giving a friendly smile.]
I'm afraid that everyone becomes essentially human here. The means by which have not been discovered, but it doesn't appear to be permanent. We've had a number of instances where people from other worlds have briefly been able to regain their original forms and abilities.
[Video]
Date: 2015-04-11 07:55 pm (UTC)[He just won't let up.]
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Date: 2015-04-18 01:16 am (UTC)I believe your Pokemon is saying its name, not calling you a 'slow poke'.
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Date: 2015-04-18 09:05 am (UTC)But that's not here no there and I think the main focus is the fact that I am a bloody human!
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Date: 2015-04-18 09:49 am (UTC)video
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Date: 2015-05-04 03:05 am (UTC)If you wouldn't mind my asking, what were you before coming here? If not human, that is.
[ The English accent is what's making him curious, since he's from London, himself. ]
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Date: 2015-05-05 06:20 am (UTC)[He is enthusiastic but his body language sure doesn't seem to say he enjoyed his job.]
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Date: 2015-05-05 10:48 pm (UTC)[ He's not trying to sound rude, really. ]