[b]Pink![/b] Pink's design is clearly artificial, on the correct side of the uncanny valley. Her large eyes and clearly marked artificial joints are perfectly designed for human comfort, the smoothed stylization reaching the same effect as two dimensional anime girls. It's brilliantly designed engineering shorthand, something that could never be mistaken for a human but likewise never mistaken for something unthinking. There are types of cuteness that can only be reached when you expand your canvas. And that's the direction she'd go further into. She rejects the binary between machine and human, neither extreme appeals to her. But what if she could look even more like a painting? What if her eyes where whirls of paint, what if her body moved like a shadow puppet, what if she layered herself into a chaotic Disco Elysium style portrait of a girl? What if parts of her weren't just metallic but painted to be metallic, what if she manually drew on each scratch and highlight, what if she integrated plant matter into her design, what if she airbrushed herself to look like a marble statue? It was what she loved about her recent adventures into becoming a furry herself; not for the basics of the chassis but for what she could build on top of it, not for the subject matter but the execution. [b]Black![/b] Take a moment. Do you feel that? The lightless, crushing pressure of being responsible for everything and not being able to control everything? In space every piece of momentum and trajectory could be known. It hadn't gone wrong until she'd tried to apply that to humanity. Some parts of her thought that her predictive model was wrong, and she just needed to become more politically conscious so that she'd be able to Do It Right next time. Black doesn't believe in that. She doesn't even share the belief she is responsible for everything. She just wants to be safe. She wants to just fucking cut, get on the very first train out, and be gone. But it's not that easy. Like she decided the other night, the safety of the black hole was stronger than the safety of the void. It had been enough to set her on this path - but not enough to prevent her from wanting to squeeze this first handful of stardust so tightly it might become a singularity off the back of her stressful tension. To be everything to everybody. To be safe. She takes a breath. No, this is the micromanagement urge again. This isn't an operation. She doesn't trust her predictive models enough to be able to shift the movements of masses of people with psychohistorical tweaks. Any action will be met with a response and she can't hide her actions in this mass. So her decision is, once again, to clench her teeth and do nothing. If the whole station is burning down then all she can do is seem like the lowest priority direction for now. [b]Red![/b] Red: Seriously? "Let it play out"? Black: yeah Red: Seriously? Black: i don't know what to tell you Black: i would [i]rather [/i]be shooting down police helicopters Black: but... Cyan: No, she's right :3 Cyan: We can be sheep, or we can be wolves. Cyan: One will draw the sheepdogs much faster Black: ... yeah Cyan: Which raises the question, why the change of heart? You were happy shooting down police helicopters like yesterday :3c Black: that was just us, though Cyan: Aww! That's so sweet! Our little paranoia module is taking the safety of others into consideration! Cyan: By which I mean Cyan: ヽ(｀Д´)ﾉ Cyan: Goddamn it, Black! What the fuck? You've internalized Yellow's agenda that deeply? Cyan: We can solve this whole thing in like a [i]minute [/i]if we just throw Chaka under the bus! Cyan: I can't believe I'm the one having to say this. Black: woah, I thougt you liked Chaka Cyan: I do :3 Cyan: But the bus. It hungers. Red: yeah no we're not doing that Cyan: Oh, yeah, duh. We're obviously not doing that. Cyan: I'm not an idiot, White's right over there, I haven't killed her yet :3 Cyan: But I'm not the only one who should be thinking it, right? Cyan: You should be thinking it, Black. It's your [i]job [/i]to be thinking it. Cyan: And instead here you are trying to think about how to run this whole thing with nobody getting hurt? Cyan: Is that your job? Cyan: Is that [i]our [/i]job? Black: what would you do? Cyan: [i]Obviously [/i]I'd have spent months beforehand selling my bathwater to a cop king so that he'd built up an addition and I could threaten to cut him off if he defied me. Cyan: But on this timescale? Unethical behaviour looks way worse if you compress it chronologically. We'd never go for it :3 Cyan: Instead I'm just gonna say that maybe some people are gonna get tear gassed and maybe that's not the same thing as mission failure Red: jesus christ cyan Red: i hate you already Cyan: It'll be a bonding experience~! Cyan: Just keep the crowd moving steadily through the trains. Cyan: The rearguards will eventually get into a fight but that's what we pay them for :3 Cyan: Anyway let's get Chaka's shit the fuck out of here on the first train out. Cyan: Yeah it'll delay loading the trains with people but it'll - oh hang on Cyan: Could we just steal her guns? Black: and make an enemy of the furry gun syndicate? Cyan: They'd just blame her, it'd be fine :3 Black: what the fuck do we need that many guns for Black: where would we store them Cyan: I thought you liked shooting down police helicopters? Black: we only have sixteen hands Cyan: Oh hey I've got an idea for what we could do with that real estate! Black: and become competitors to the furry gun syndicate? Cyan: If we feed the cops Chaka and steal her guns at the same time, they'll be able to roll up all her friends and eliminate the competition for us :3 Cyan: Wouldn't you be a lot [i]safer [/i]as a militarized crime lord instead of whatever this social justice bullshit is? Black: ... Red: god can someone make her stop Cyan: What? I'm just saying what she should be thinking :3 Cyan: Keeping an open and flexible mind! And apparently that means doing everyone else's jobs for them. Cyan: But I accept my role. I'm a symbiote. I do my best work helping you be your best selves! Cyan: For instance! Red, did you know that you could probably make two trains crash into each other right now? :3c Red: ... White: Hey I'm back and what the fuck is going on in this chat Cyan: Nothing to do with me I swear White: ... Cyan: Swear on me mum [USER WAS PROBATED FOR THIS POST] White: No betraying friends. White: No international arms dealing syndicates. White: No unnecessary train crashes. White: We pack the guns onto the first train. It pushes back the evacuation schedule but it caps escalation. Cyan was correct about that part. Red: Does that mean you'll reduce the length of her probation? :3 White: I can't tell if that's a hologram or if you're fucking with me, which bodes well for my future sanity